Campus Life & Student Tradition
This springtime campus concert has hosted stars like Childish Gambino and Kendrick Lamar.
What is Springfest
This 9-foot bronze statue near the library honors the university’s namesake
Who is Justice Brandeis?
Before it was retired in 1960, Brandeis had a varsity team for this high-contact sport.
What is football?
This medieval-style dorm, partially demolished in 2017, looked like a castle.
What is Usen Castle?
Because of a strong sense of _, when you are walking across campus you'll bump into someone you know.
What is community?
Every fall, students put on a full musical—with sets, costumes, and lines—in just 24 hours.
What is the 24-hour musical
This on-campus creative space features VR gear, 3D printers, and robotics.
What is the MakerLab?
Brandeis opened in 1948 on the site of this former medical school.
What is Middlesex University?
Students have turned this snowy slope into a sledding racetrack during winter.
What is Library Hill?
This event lets students of all backgrounds explore identity and expression in a non-academic celebration of culture.
What is Culture X?
This wet and wild event lets students perform choreographed routines covered in body paint.
What is the Liquid Latex Festival?
Designed in brutalist style, this museum on campus holds more than 9,000 modern artworks, including the likes of Picasso.
What is the Rose Art Museum?
The university's very first class had this many students and 13 faculty.
What is 107 students.
This library, built with a $1 million gift, was designed to hold 750,000 books.
What is the Goldfarb Library?
This public policy school at Brandeis was the first to unite policy with social work.
What is the Heller School for Social Policy and Management?
This late-night coffeehouse under Usen Castle has hosted surprise acts like Bob Dylan.
What is Chum’s?
Leonard Bernstein premiered an original opera at this annual arts celebration.
What is the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts?
Brandeis achieved this prestigious academic society recognition just 13 years after it opened.
What is Phi Beta Kappa membership?
This walk “feels” like 1.5 hours, but really only takes about 10 minutes.
The walk from Sherman to Rabb.
This long-running game night club celebrates fantasy, board games, and community each week.
What is the Brandeis Society for Creative Fantasy?
This multicultural show highlights student performance, poetry, and pride from over 16 groups.
What is Culture X?
Created by sculptor Chris Burden, this piece features Victorian lamp posts and welcomes visitors to the Rose.
What is the Light of Reason sculpture?
Brandeis joined this elite research university group in 1985.
What is the Association of American Universities (AAU)?
This science center complex opened in 2009 with modern labs, an atrium, and café for interdisciplinary research.
What is the Shapiro Science Center?
With over 270 student organizations, this debate team ranks among the top 10 nationally.
What is the Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (B.A.D.A.S.S.)?