Alumni
By virtue of its small enrollment, the number of alumni that Deep Springs has produced in its entire history (about 1000) is surpassed by many other colleges or universities in a single year. Most continue their studies at other universities (most commonly, Harvard, the University of Chicago, Yale, and Brown; and frequently Columbia, Oxford, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and Stanford). Two-thirds go on to earn a graduate degree, and over half eventually earn a doctorate.
Deep Springs alumni have been awarded Rhodes and Truman Scholarships, and two have been awarded MacArthur “genius grants”: geophysicist Raymond Jeanloz and sinologist Erik Mueggler. One has been awarded the U.S. government's E. O. Lawrence award: mathematician Gustavus Simmons.
Other prominent alumni include:
- Robert B. Aird, neurologist
- Nathaniel Borenstein, computer scientist
- Mark Boulos, artist and filmmaker
- Barney Childs, composer
- Charles Collingwood, journalist
- John D'Agata, writer and author
- Norton Dodge, economist
- Sean Eldridge, gay marriage advocate
- Thomas E. Fairchild, politician and federal judge
- Glen Fukushima, businessman and public servant
- Philip Hanawalt, biologist
- David Hitz, computer engineer
- Walter Isaacson, biographer and former CEO of CNN and Managing Editor of Time
- Raymond Jeanloz, professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy
- Benjamin Kunkel, novelist, founder of n+1 magazine
- Jim Olin, U.S. Congressman
- Roy Pierce, Political Scientist
- Herbert Reich, electrical engineer and inventor
- Peter Rock, novelist
- Gustavus Simmons, mathematician and cryptographer
- Robert Sproull, physicist and educator
- Julian Steward, anthropologist
- William vanden Heuvel, diplomat
- William T. Vollmann, novelist
- Silas Warner, computer programmer
- David Wax, musician in David Wax Museum
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