At the meeting of the Board of Trustees last month, Chairman Malcolm Sherman announced the appointment of the Presidential Search Committee that will seek President Reinharz’s successor. He noted that the search committee would proceed carefully and deliberately, cognizant of the Brandeis values and mission that must be protected.

Reinharz, 65, who has served as president of Brandeis University since 1994, announced Sept. 25 his intention to resign. The second-longest serving Brandeis president, he will continue in role until successor is named, up until June 30, 2011.

Trustee Meyer Koplow ’72, managing partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York, will chair the search committee. Other Trustee members of the committee will be Allen Alter ’71, senior producer at CBS News and President of the Alumni Association Board of Directors; Jack Connors, civic leader and former chairman of Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc.; D. Ronald Daniel, director of McKinsey & Company; Stephen B. Kay, former chair of the Brandeis Board of Trustees and senior director at Goldman, Sachs & Company; Myra Kraft ’64, philanthropist; and Barbara Mandel, philanthropist. Also serving on the committee will be Michael Sandel ’75, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University; and Thomas Friedman ’75, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times.

Brandeis faculty members on the search committee are Gregory Petsko, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacodynamics and of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center; Leonard Saxe, Professor of Jewish Community Research and Social Policy; Gina Turrigiano, Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems.