"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/Education/Nonprofits
Deborah Bial (pictured), education strategist; founder and president, Posse Foundation (MacArthur Fellow)- Arthur 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)
- Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights; professor, Columbia Law School
- Jehuda Reinharz, president, Brandeis University
- Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Judith Shapiro, chair, Common Cents; former president, Barnard College
- Karen Uhlenbeck, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics, University of Texas-Austin (MacArthur Fellow)
- Michael Walzer, political theorist; professor emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
- Edward Witten, Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study (Fields Medal winner)
- Robert Zimmer, president, University of Chicago
Arts
Stan Brooks, producer, Once Upon a Time Films; chair, California Film Commission (Emmy Award winner)- David 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 (pictured), novelist ("Waiting")
- Michael Kaiser, president, 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, Engelhard Chairman, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York
Business and Industry
Leonard Asper, former president and chief executive officer, CanWest Global Communications Corp.- Mitch Caplan, adviser, Aquiline; former president and chief executive officer, E*Trade
- Jeri B. Finard (pictured), senior vice president and global brand president, Avon Products Inc.
- Ellen Gordon, chief operating officer, Tootsie Roll Industries
- Myra Hiatt Kraft, philanthropist, The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation
- Olaf Olafsson, executive vice president, Time Warner
- Peter Osnos, founder and editor-at-large, Public Affairs Books
- Robert F.X. Sillerman, chairman and chief executive officer, CKX Inc.
Government, Law and Politics
Sidney Blumenthal, former aide to President Bill Clinton; columnist and author- Naomi Reice Buchwald, U.S. District Court judge, Southern District of New York
- Angela Davis, political and social activist; former director, feminist studies department, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Geir Haarde, former prime minister, Iceland
- Otis Johnson, mayor, Savannah, Ga.
- Joette Katz, associate justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
- Dimitrij Rupel, minister of foreign affairs, Slovenia
- Stephen Solarz, former U.S. representative
- Shen Tong (pictured), student leader, 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising
- Nikolai Vassiliev, deputy prime minister, Bulgaria
Media
Mitch Albom, sports columnist, radio host, screenwriter, playwright and author ("Tuesdays With Morrie," "Five People You Meet in Heaven")- Allen Alter, senior producer, CBS News (Emmy Award winner)
- Paula Apsell, senior executive producer, "Nova," and director of WGBH-TV science unit (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, critic-at-large, 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
- Guy Raz, weekend host, "All Things Considered," National Public Radio
- Bill Schneider, senior political analyst, CNN
- Bob Simon (pictured), correspondent, CBS News (Emmy Award winner)
Sports
- Nelson Figueroa, pitcher, Philadelphia Phillies
- Jeffrey Lurie, owner, Philadelphia Eagles
- Tim Morehouse, Olympic fencer
