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Proud of our Alumni

The college's alumni body is 130,000 strong and includes eight Nobel Laureates and six Pulitzer Prize winners.

Molly Melching Molly Melching spent more than 25 years in Senegalese villages promoting literacy and education.
General Curriculum '71, French '79

Ed Cupp Ed Cupp developed an environmentally safe, successful method for controlling the spread of river blindness, a parasitic disease that affects millions of people in Africa and Central America.
Entomology '69

Robert Novak Robert Novak is the nation's longest-running syndicated political columnist. He has shared his insights on prominent television programs such as The McLaughlin Group, Meet The Press, The Capital Gang, and Nightline.
English '52

Roxanne Decyk Roxanne Decyk is a top executive at Shell Oil Company who is shattering the metaphorical glass ceiling for women in corporate America.
English Literature '73

Phillip A. Sharp Phillip A. Sharp shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for research that was important in understanding RNA splicing and the biology of tumor causing viruses.
Chemistry '69

Eugene Hamilton Eugene Hamilton is renowned for accomplishments as chief judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in reducing domestic violence and streamlining adoption. He is also father to nine children and foster parent to more than 40.
General Curriculum '55, law '59

David Donald David Donald won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography. He received the first in 1961 for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and the second in 1988 for Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe.
History '42, '46

John Micetich John Micetich is a successful owner of a financial investment firm. He returns to campus each January to teach an eight-week course in financial planning-pro bono-as one of his ways of giving back to his alma mater.
Psychology '69

Jean Driscoll Jean Driscoll won the Boston Marathon eight times and a gold medal at the 2000 Paralympic Games.
Speech Communication '91, Rehabilitation '93

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Rolando Hinojosa-Smith earned Latin America's highest award for fiction, the Premio Casa de las Americas, and is a recipient of the National Award for Chicano Literature. He is one of the few U.S. citizens to be named a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for Spanish Language.
Spanish '69