Alma mater (disambiguation)

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Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother". In many modern languages it is principally heard as a term of academia. It may also refer to the school or college from which an individual has graduated or which they have attended.

Alma mater may also refer to:

Academia

• Alma mater (song), the official song or anthem of a school, college, or university
• Alma Mater (Illinois sculpture), a sculpture on Green Street and Wright Street in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States
• Alma Mater (New York sculpture), a sculpture in the Columbia University campus center in New York City, New York, USA
• Alma Mater Europaea, an international university founded by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, with headquarters in Salzburg, Austria.
• Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia, the complete student government of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Alma Mater Society of Queen's University, the central undergraduate student government of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• "Alma Mater", the official school song of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
• "Alma Mater", an official song of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
• "Hail Alma Mater", a formal school song of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the informal title of "Marquette University Anthem," a formal school song of Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA
• Alma Mater Studiorum ("Nourishing mother of studies"), the name of the University of Bologna, Italy
• Alma Mater, an academic publication produced by Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
• Alma mater (Papal bull), the title of a Papal bull issued by Pope Clement V on April 4, 1310
• Alma Mater (Munch painting), a painting in a 1909-16 series by Edvard Munch for the University of Oslo

Entertainment

• Alma Mater (ballet), a 1934 ballet composed by Kay Swift for George Ballanchine
• Alma Mater (play), a 1971 BBC Play for Today
• Alma Mater (role-playing game), a 1982 role-playing game
• Alma Mater (film), a 2002 American film directed by Hans Canosa
• "Chuck Versus the Alma Mater", season 1, 2007 episode 7 of the television series, Chuck

Music

• "Alma Mater", a song on the 1972 album School's Out by Alice Cooper
• "Alma Mater", a song on B-side of the 1972 single Saturday in the Park by Chicago
• "Alma Mater", a song from Carrie (musical) (1988)
• "Alma Mater" ("Альма-матер"), a 1991 Russian song by Victor Berkovsky
• "Alma Mater", a song on the 1995 Portuguese album Wolfheart by Moonspell
• "Alma Matters", a 1997 single by Morrissey
• Alma Mater, a 2000 Portuguese album and song by Rodrigo Leão
• Underdog Alma Mater, the 2008 debut album by pop-rock band Forever The Sickest Kids
• Alma Mater (album), a 2009 album of modern classical music featuring prayers recited and sung by Pope Benedict XVI