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"Alma Mater"

To thee, Alma Mater,
We'll always be true.
All Hail to thy standard,
The white and the blue.
Proclaiming thy future,
Recalling thy past.
Our hopes spring from mem'ries
Eternally cast.
With sorrows we'll leave thee,
New worlds to create.
May deeds of thy children
Make thee forever great!

Notable Alumni


Brandeis counts among its graduates Pulitzer Prize winners, Emmy Award winners, best-selling authors — even a Nobel laureate. But it doesn't stop there. Brandeis graduates occupy leadership roles in virtually every walk of life. Here are just a few:

Academia

  • roderick mackinnonArthur Levine, former president, Columbia University Teachers College
  • Roderick MacKinnon, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor, The Rockefeller University (Nobel laureate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator)
  • David Oshinsky, Jack S. Blanton Chair in History, University of Texas-Austin (Pulitzer Prize winner)
  • Jehuda Reinharz, president, Brandeis University
  • Judith Shapiro, president, Barnard College
  • Karen Uhlenbeck, Sid W. Richardson Regents Chair in Mathematics, University of Texas-Austin (MacArthur fellow)
  • Robert Zimmer, president, University of Chicago


Arts

  • debra messingDavid Crane and Marta Kauffman, co-creators, "Friends"
  • Loretta Devine, actor ("Dreamgirls," "Grey's Anatomy")
  • Marshall Herskovitz, director, producer and screenwriter ("The Last Samari," "Traffic") 
  • Ha Jin, novelist ("Waiting")
  • Michael Kaiser, executive director, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • Jonathan Landau, music producer and manager (Bruce Springsteen)
  • Debra Messing, Emmy Award-winning actor ("Will & Grace")
  • Theresa Rebeck, Broadway playwright
  • Gary Tinterow, curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Business and Industry

  • christie hefnerLeonard Asper, president and chief executive officer, CanWest Global Communications Corp.
  • Mitch Caplan, former president and chief executive officer, E-Trade Group
  • Ellen Gordon, chief operating officer, Tootsie Roll Industries
  • Christie Hefner, chairman and chief executive officer, Playboy Enterprises
  • Myra Hiatt Kraft, philanthropist, The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation
  • Jeffrey Lurie, owner, Philadelphia Eagles
  • Olaf Olafsson, executive vice president, Time Warner
  • Robert F.X. Sillerman, chairman and chief executive officer, CKX Inc.


Government and Politics

  • geir haardeSidney Blumenthal, former aide to President Bill Clinton;  columnist and author
  • Angela Davis, political activist 
  • Geir Haarde, prime minister, Iceland 
  • Stephen Solarz, former U.S. representative
  • Shen Tong, student leader, 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising

  
Media

  • margo jeffersonMitch Albom, sports columnist, author ("Tuesdays With Morrie")
  • Allen Alter, producer, "48 Hours Mystery" (Emmy Award winner)
  • Paula Apsell, executive producer, "Nova" (Emmy Award winner)
  • Joe Conason, political columnist, The New York Observer, Salon.com
  • Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist, The New York Times (Pulitzer Prize winner)
  • Margo Jefferson, theater critic, The New York Times (Pulitzer Prize winner)
  • Walt Mossberg, technology columnist, The Wall Street Journal (Loeb award winner)
  • Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief, The New Republic
  • Bill Schneider, senior political analyst, CNN
  • Bob Simon, correspondent, CBS News (Emmy Award winner)