Iris Rainer Dart
Celebrated author of Beaches
CFA BFA 1966
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Cindi Dennis
First Carnegie Mellon woman Rhodes Scholar winner
MCS 2000
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Dina Dublon
Repeatedly named one of Fortune magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business
Tepper MS Industrial Administration 1979
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Jennifer Elisseeff
A 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
MCS Chemistry 1994
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Laura Goldberg
COO of Napster, an online music subscription service
Tepper BS Industrial Management 1989
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Mindy Hebert
Second Carnegie Mellon woman Rhodes Scholar winner
MCS 2002
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Holly Hunter
Academy Award winning actress for The Piano. Other notable films include The Incredibles, Thirteen and O'Brother Where Art Thou?
CFA BFA Drama 1980
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Cherry Jones
Tony Award winning actress for The Heiress and Doubt, Films include Signs and Erin Brockovich
CFA BFA Drama 1978
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Elaine Konigsburg
Author of children’s literature, two-time Newberry Prize winner
Margaret Morrison College 1952
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Stephanie Kwolek
Inventor of Kevlar ® used in bulletproof vests; National Medal of Technology
Margaret Morrison College BS General Sciences 1946, MCS Honorary Degree 2001
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Mary Wells Lawrence
Broke ground for women in the advertising industry and was responsible for many famous campaigns
Margaret Morrison College 1951
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Judith Light
Emmy award winning actress for her role in One Life to Live and co-starred in Who's the Boss? with Tony Danza
CFA 1970
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Nancy Marchand
Golden Globe winner for her performance as Livia Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos
CFA 1949
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Angela Molloy
Program development manager for TLC, a top 10 cable network owned by Discovery Communications, Inc.
H&SS BA Professional Writing & French 1997
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Gela Nash-Taylor
Co-founder of Juicy Couture, casual wear for Hollywood's A-list actresses
CFA BFA 1978
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Stephanie Palmer
Director, Creative Affairs
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Inc.
CFA BFA 1997
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Judith Resnik
2nd woman in space, astronaut on Discovery and Challenger space shuttles
CIT BS Electrical and Computer Engineering 1970
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Ann Roth
Academy Award winning costume designer for The English Patient; Other notable films include Closer, The Hours, The Birdcage, The Village, The Stepford Wives
CFA BFA 1953
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Laura San Giacomo
Film and television actress: Just Shoot Me, Pretty Woman
CFA 1984
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Candace Sheffield Matthews
President, SoftSheen-Carson, a consumer products division of L'Oreal USA, Inc. (and Carnegie Mellon Trustee)
CIT BS Metallurgical Engineering and Administrative & Management Science 1981
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Ming-Na
Award winning film & stage actress: Joy Luck Club, ER, Voice of Mulan
CFA BFA Drama 1986
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