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Alumni Spotlight

You will find our 72,000 alumni working in every field imaginable, changing the world around them every day. Take a look at what some of our alumni are working on now and where they started:

Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT)

Candace Sheffield Matthews

Chief Marketing Officer Amway Global
BS Metallurgical Engineering & Administrative & Management Management Science, 1981
Alumni Award Recipient 2003

Red Whittaker

Inventor and robot wildcatter
MS & PhD Civil Engineering, 1975 and 1979
Carnegie Mellon Faculty

Judith Resnik

Second woman in space, Astronaut on Discovery and Challenger space shuttles
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1970
Alumni Award Recipient 2005
College of Fine Arts (CFA)

Keith Lockhart

Conductor, Boston Pops
MA Music, 1983
Alumni Award Recipient 2004

Andy Warhol

Art and pop culture icon
BFA Art, 1949

Ming-Na

Award winning film and stage actress, Joy Luck Club, ER, voice of Mulan
BFA Drama, 1986
College of Humanitites and Social Sciences (H&SS)

Ralph Guggenheim

Academy Award Winning Producer, Toy Story and Toy Story 2
BS Student-Defined Major, 1974
MS Computer Science, 1979

Paul Smith

Editorial Director and Director of Musical Content for Nickelodeon.
BA Creative Writing, 1983

Angela Molloy

Director of Programming TLC, a top 10 cable network owned by Discovery Communications, Inc.
BA Professional Writing and French, 1997
Mellon College of Science (MCS)

George Cowan

Nuclear chemist, The Manhattan Project, Enrico Fermi Award
PhD Chemistry, 1950 & CIT Honorary Degree, 2002
Alumni Award Recipient 2001

Mindy Hebert

Rhodes Scholar 2002
BS Biological Sciences, 2002

Jennifer Elisseeff

Leader in the field of biochemical engineering, named one of the country’s top 100 innovators under the age of 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review
BS Chemistry, 1994
Alumni Award Recipient 2003
School of Computer Science (SCS)

Charles Geschke

Co-founded Adobe Systems
PhD in Computer Science, 1973
Alumni Award Recipient 1995

James Gosling

Co-author of Java, the universal language of cybertechnology
MS & PhD Computer Science, 1983
Alumni Award Recipient 2000

Michael Mauldin

Founder of Lycos internet search engine
MS & PhD Computer Science, 1983 and 1989

Tepper School of Business (Tepper)

Dina Dublon

Repeatedly named one of Fortune magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business
MS Industrial Administration, 1979

Larry Kurzweil

President and Chief Operating Officer of Universal Studios Hollywood theme park
BS Industrial Management & MS Industrial Administration, 1977 and 1978

David Tepper

President and founder of Appaloosa Management, a $3 billion hedge fund investment firm; he and his wife donated $55 million to the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, which was renamed the David A. Tepper School of Business.
MS Industrial Administration, 1982