Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a small, private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, 14 miles west of Boston.

Notable alumni

• Mitch Albom: Sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press, author of Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• Paula Apsell: Executive Producer of Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight Emmy Awards
• Bonnie Berger: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sidney Blumenthal: Presidential adviser and journalist
• Arthur L. Caplan: Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Bernard Coard: Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop
• Tyne Daly: Actress
• Arthur Levine: President of Columbia University Teachers College
• Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Radical activist
• Loretta Devine: Actress
• Thomas L. Friedman: Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York Times, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting and a National Book Award.
• Tony Goldwyn: Actor and Director
• Rob Hand: notable astrologer
• Christie Hefner: Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of Hugh Hefner. Hefner has also served on the University's board of trustees.
• Marshall Herskovitz: Director and Producer of the movie Dangerous Beauty, Producer and Screenwriter of Last Samurai, Producer of I Am Sam, and Traffic.
• Abbie Hoffman: Social and political activist, Co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies")
• John Hopps: Physicist, Politician
• Margo Jefferson: The New York Times Sunday theater critic and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
• Ha Jin: critically acclaimed Novelist, winner of the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award.
• Michael Kaiser: President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
• Marta Kauffman: Executive Producer and cocreator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Friends, and Cocreator of the comedy series Family Album, Dream On, and The Powers That Be
• Suk-Won Kim: Chair of Ssangyong Business Group, one of the largest companies in the Republic of Korea
• Mark Leyner: Novelist
• Leslie Lamport: Computer scientist
• Osman Faruk Logoglu: Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Turkey
• Roderick MacKinnon: Head of the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• Gates McFadden: Actress, best known as Dr. Beverly Crusher on the television series
• Fatema Mernissi: Leading authority on Qur'anic studies in the Arab world
• Debra Messing: Actress Will & Grace
• Barry Newman: Actor
• Martin Peretz: Editor in chief of The New Republic
• Katherine Ann Power: Anti-war activist and former fugitive
• Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
• David Ian Salter: (B.A. in English, 1988), Film editor of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo
• Bill Schneider: CNN's senior political analyst
• Eli J. Segal: Assistant to the President of the United States from 1993 - 1996
• Stephen J. Solarz: Former U.S. Representative and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Shen Tong: Student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
• Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
• Edward Witten: Physicist, Recipient of the Fields Medal in 1990