Brandeis University
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The Brandeis University (or simply Brandeis ) is a private university in Waltham, east of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. In the year 2005 5.000 students were enrolled at the university. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.
History
Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a non-denominational University under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community. Was named the university after Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is open to students of all nationalities, religions and political orientation. Still today, but about 50 % of the students are Jewish.
Divisions
Sports
The sports teams Brandeis University call themselves the judges. The University is a member of the University Athletic Association.
Famous graduates
- Kathy Acker - writer
- Mitch Albom - journalist and writer
- Elliot Aronson - Psychologist
- Tyne Daly - Actress
- Loretta Devine - Actress
- Thomas L. Friedman - Journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Tony Goldwyn - actor, director and film producer
- Geir Hilmar Haarde - Prime Minister of Iceland
- Dorothy Iannone - artist
- Ha Jin - author and winner of the PEN / Faulkner Awards
- Marta Kauffman - producer of Friends
- Deborah Lipstadt - historian
- Gates McFadden - Actress
- Dimitrij Rupel - first Foreign Minister of Slovenia
- Edward Witten - Theoretical physicist, mathematician (winner of the Fields Medal )