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.

Alma mater may also refer to:

[edit] Academia

• Alma Mater (Illinois sculpture), a sculpture on Green Street and Wright Street in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Alma Mater (New York sculpture), a sculpture in the center of the campus of Columbia University.
• Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia, the complete student government of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
• Alma Mater Society of Queen's University, the central undergraduate student government of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
• Alma Mater (Dartmouth College), the official school song of Dartmouth College.
• "Hail Alma Mater", a formal school song of McGill University.
• Alma Mater Studiorum ("Nourishing mother of studies"), the name of the University of Bologna.
• Alma Mater, a Polish academic publication, produced by Jagiellonian University.

[edit] Culture and entertainment

• Derived from the above usage, the official song or anthem of a school, college, or university.
• "Alma Mater", the title of various songs, by such artists as Chicago, Moonspell, Alice Cooper, and Victor Berkovsky and Dmitri Sukharev
• "Alma Mater", the title of an album and a song in it by Portuguese artist Rodrigo Leão ([1])
• "Alma Matters", the title of a 1997 single by Morrissey
• "Alma Mater", a 1971 BBC 'Play for Today'.
• Alma Mater (film), a 2002 American film

[edit] Papal documents

• "Alma mater," the title of a Papal bull issued by Pope Clement V on April 4, 1310.