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After meeting in 1977 through mutual friend Paul Ziffren, Brandeis’s founding president, Dr. Abe Sachar, and Lew Wasserman developed a friendship, visiting and corresponding with each other often. In 1978, recognizing a growing need, and modeled after a similar gift made by the Wasserman Foundation to CalTech, Lew and Edie Wasserman decided to make a four-year grant to Brandeis University to provide scholarships to students from middle-income families. In 1983, after witnessing the profound success of the program, Mr. and Mrs. Wasserman decided to endow their scholarship fund at Brandeis, ensuring that students from middle-income families would continue to benefit from their gifts in perpetuity. Since that time, the Lew and Edith Wasserman Endowed Scholarship Fund at Brandeis has grown to a value of more than $1.1 million, and, with recent commitments from the Wasserman Foundation as of 2005, will receive an additional $500,000 over the next several years.

On average, the Lew and Edith Wasserman Endowed Scholarship Fund at Brandeis provides generous scholarships to 5-10 outstanding undergraduate students from middle-income families each year.

For information on how to become a Wasserman Scholar, you must contact the school’s admissions office directly.