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News and Stories

Carnegie Mellon alumni around the world are asking important questions, breaking barriers, making discoveries, solving problems and doing work that matters. Read more about these amazing Tartans.

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How CMU alumni turn football into best-selling video games

As the NFL Draft comes to Pittsburgh, we look at how Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) alumni bring the sport to gaming through NFL Madden ’26.

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May 14, 2026

Patrice Gopo uses an engineer’s approach to award-winning writing

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May 07, 2026

Quentin Auster scales safety and efficiency with data science at the FDA

Paul and a horse

May 01, 2026

Genetic testing offers answers — and hope — for horse owners

Megan Neese and autonomous car

Apr 30, 2026

Megan Neese’s career is driving her back to Pittsburgh

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Apr 28, 2026

Shaun Ranadé pursues the art of medicine

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Apr 14, 2026

Greg Polansky’s creative estate planning is leaving a legacy of love and support

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Apr 14, 2026

Getting more done is way of life for the Home Depot’s Ted Decker

Still from NFL Madden ’26

Apr 02, 2026

How CMU alumni turn football into best-selling video games

Theater masks happy and sad on a red tartan background

Mar 26, 2026

From public policy to performing arts, Julie DeSeyn leads with a problem-solver’s mindset

Mar 20, 2026

CMU recognizes the 2026 class of Tartans on the Rise

Jesse Schell

Mar 16, 2026

Schell Games creates fellowship to remove barriers for aspiring game designers

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Mar 12, 2026

Vishwas Prabhakara builds a business helping flummoxed homeowners

Tartan Wave Images

Feb 18, 2026

CMU alumnus Todd Wilson wants to help you get around

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Feb 05, 2026

Jennifer Stephan has spent decades in higher education guiding others to the right path

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Jan 27, 2026

Rosie Diegnan believes the best ideas often come from unexpected places

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Jan 26, 2026

A chance meeting grows into a Carnegie Mellon family affair

Isaac Fisher

Jan 15, 2026

Comic artist Isaac Fisher continues to write his story

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Dec 18, 2025

Return to the stories you loved in 2025

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Dec 16, 2025

Pianist Mark Burnell gives the performance of his life while undergoing brain surgery

Books on a tartan background

Dec 08, 2025

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett has built a career on revealing the human stories behind policy and data

Campus in fall

Nov 27, 2025

Wishing you a happy holiday season

Nov 17, 2025

Mapping it out

Duolingo

Nov 13, 2025

CMU alumnus Luis von Ahn gamified language learning and revolutionized an industry

Cosmos

Nov 04, 2025

Victor M. Bearg builds legacy of scientific support

Red River Starion storyboard drawing

Oct 29, 2025

Catching up with David Crank

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Oct 23, 2025

Perfecting the Pivot

Oct 20, 2025

A professional promise

Book

Oct 16, 2025

Recognizing emerging voices

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Oct 15, 2025

Engineering the next success story

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Oct 15, 2025

Shaped by CMU

The Conovers at the Makerspace

Sep 29, 2025

Building Makerspace Momentum Brick by Brick

Sep 22, 2025

10 CMU Alumni Honored for Impact and Achievement

Sep 11, 2025

Solving Big Business Problems

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Sep 11, 2025

Finding Confidence

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Aug 25, 2025

Alumni Help Class of 2029+ Prepare to Make History

Aug 04, 2025

Boosting Broadway

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Jul 14, 2025

Tell me a story

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Jul 10, 2025

Protecting Red Pandas

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Jul 04, 2025

CMU Trustee Endows Department of Biological Sciences Headship

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Jun 12, 2025

Studying Underwater Acoustics

Lucia Aguirre

May 27, 2025

Breathing life into buildings

Sarah Jordan

May 27, 2025

Tepper alumna Sarah Jordan reinvents metals manufacturing

Students pet goat at petting zoo

May 13, 2025

Easing exam anxiety

Cameron Brown in front of the NYC skyline

May 01, 2025

Looking ahead

Apr 29, 2025

Network Connections

Mar 26, 2025

Regulating AI in the UK

Tepper Building

Mar 21, 2025

Funding the future

Library

Mar 21, 2025

Posner Foundation Commits $8 Million to CMU Libraries Special Collections

Tartans on the rise 2025

Mar 11, 2025

Their Time to Shine

Tori Noquez Heashot

Mar 04, 2025

Math Is Magic

Feb 25, 2025

Celebrating Make Possible: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Janine Snetter Darby

Feb 25, 2025

From Doctor to Coroner

Ken Meyer Professional Studio Development Award recipient Petra Floyd

Feb 25, 2025

Growing Pittsburgh’s Art Ecosystem

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Feb 25, 2025

Tartans Top the Leaderboard

Members of the Order of The May

Feb 25, 2025

A Lifetime of Giving

A robotic arm

Feb 25, 2025

Opening the World

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Feb 25, 2025

Alumni Show the Class of 2028+ What It Means to Be a Tartan

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Feb 25, 2025

‘I Wish I Had Known as a First-Year Student...’

CMU Campus building

Feb 25, 2025

Speaking Up About Giving Back

Feb 25, 2025

A Heart for Hamburgers

Feb 13, 2025

Writing with Faith

Images of Pat Meyer and Steve Miller

Feb 03, 2025

Around the World in 40 Years

Seunghyun Lee and students

Jan 28, 2025

Bug Bounty

Jan 24, 2025

Fascinating faculty

Jan 21, 2025

A Taste of Home

CMU Letters on campus on a sunny day

Jan 01, 2025

Happy Birthday from the CMU Alumni Association

Dec 16, 2024

Bringing down the house

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Dec 09, 2024

The Science of Creativity

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Dec 04, 2024

Simplifying Capitol Hill

The ARC Interview Room

Nov 25, 2024

Three’s never a crowd in The ARC

Nov 20, 2024

Game On

Nov 07, 2024

Revising the Intel on Intelligence

Nov 07, 2024

What the Eyes Can’t See

Oct 30, 2024

The horror!

Oct 22, 2024

Feel the Noise

Oct 17, 2024

Unlearning the Future

Oct 09, 2024

A Welcoming Place

Oct 08, 2024

Giving Since the Beginning

Oct 02, 2024

The World is Her Oyster

Sep 30, 2024

Emergency Manager

Sep 25, 2024

Brewing Sustainability

Sep 17, 2024

A Reason to Smile

2024 CMU Alumni Award recipients images

Sep 10, 2024

Carnegie Mellon to Honor 11 Alumni Making a Difference around the World

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Sep 05, 2024

Painting with Purpose

Aug 20, 2024

The Goofy Euph

Aug 20, 2024

Painting the Bard’s Birds

Aug 08, 2024

A Math Magician

Jul 30, 2024

A Philosophy Major Walks into a Newsroom

Jul 29, 2024

Living to Save Lives

CMU Campus buildings

Jul 25, 2024

Building Resilience

Jul 18, 2024

Advancing A-Eye

Sahrona Jacobs

Jun 17, 2024

Exposing a Subject

VentureBridge Program participents

Jun 13, 2024

2024 Summer Accelerator Cohort Announced

Jun 06, 2024

5 Questions for J Houston

May 28, 2024

Raising a Glass

May 16, 2024

Following Their Heart

May 13, 2024

Dual Recognition

May 06, 2024

Shifting Focus

May 03, 2024

Giving What Feels Good

Apr 23, 2024

Brand Builder

Apr 18, 2024

Leagues of Love

Tomas Aftalion

Apr 16, 2024

Planting the Seeds

Mar 25, 2024

Changing the Face

Jerry Cohon

Mar 18, 2024

Honoring the Memory of Dr. Jerry Cohon

Tartans on the rise 2024 recipients

Mar 12, 2024

Rising to the Challenge

Thomas Ferguson sitting next to Marissa Parris

Mar 08, 2024

The Future of Physics

Alan Eaton Standing in between two flags

Feb 29, 2024

The World Traveler

Feb 25, 2024

Using her Voice

Feb 22, 2024

Causing Reactions

Feb 14, 2024

Advancing Equity

Feb 01, 2024

Changing the Narrative

Jan 25, 2024

Endurance Engineer

Jan 23, 2024

Amplifying Unheard Voices

Jan 18, 2024

Feeling Supersonic

Jan 11, 2024

Riding the Inflection Point

Jan 04, 2024

An Energizing Appointment

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Dec 19, 2023

The Year’s Most Read

Dec 06, 2023

From Treasury to Tech

Dec 01, 2023

Pioneering Drug Discoveries

Bikulege Family

Nov 17, 2023

Tartan Teamwork

Francis and Erin Collins

Nov 14, 2023

Equal Access to Creativity

Nov 08, 2023

Tartan Takes Flight

Frank DiBianca performing a hammer throw

Nov 02, 2023

Hammering Ahead

Oct 31, 2023

The Human Element

Rosalyn Richman and mother Selmar Yave

Oct 30, 2023

Returning the Favor

CMU Tepper School of Business

Oct 24, 2023

Friendship, Fellowship and Fundraising

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Oct 19, 2023

Urban Art Galleries to Rural Islands

Oct 13, 2023

Public Policy Pro

Oct 11, 2023

A Producer at Heart

Oct 10, 2023

From SCS to San Jose

Oct 05, 2023

Products With a Purpose

CMU 2023 Alumni Award Honorees Pictures

Oct 02, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University to Honor 11 Luminary Alumni

Sep 20, 2023

Triple Threat

Sep 14, 2023

Just Say Yes

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Sep 07, 2023

Tartan Teachers in Their Second Acts

Aug 31, 2023

Driving Change

Aug 23, 2023

A Smarter Way to Shop

Aug 14, 2023

Boundless Bouncing

Aug 10, 2023

Leading by Listening

Aug 08, 2023

CMU Mechanical Engineering Student Works on Tiny Bio Robots

Aug 02, 2023

A Career Grows in Pittsburgh

Jul 26, 2023

Oceans of Opportunities

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Jul 21, 2023

Sky of Dreams

Jul 18, 2023

Growth for All

Jul 12, 2023

Neil Druckmann Goes for the Heart

Jun 27, 2023

Crafting a Better Future

Jun 22, 2023

Repairing What’s Broken

Jun 13, 2023

Taking Chances and Giving Back

Jun 06, 2023

Raising their Voices

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May 31, 2023

Partnering for the Beautiful Sustainable

May 25, 2023

Organizing for Change

May 11, 2023

Flower Power

CMU Tepper School of Business Building

May 09, 2023

Bellwether of Support

May 02, 2023

People-Centered Policy

May 01, 2023

Timber Technologist

Apr 27, 2023

Telling Universal Stories

Steve Feyer with Dean Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou

Apr 27, 2023

Never Too Early

Apr 19, 2023

Investing in Clean Energy

Paul and Ria Jacob

Apr 17, 2023

Building Fairness

Apr 11, 2023

The Communications of Change

Apr 03, 2023

Opening Hearts and Minds

Mar 28, 2023

Her Heart Is in the Work

Goil Amornvivat Standing with people from AMMOR firm

Mar 23, 2023

A Home Away From Home

Mar 21, 2023

Exploring Gravitational Lensing

2023 Tartans on the Rise headshots

Mar 14, 2023

Rising to the Challenge

Mar 08, 2023

Evolving with Business

Mar 06, 2023

Paying It Forward

Mar 02, 2023

A Passion for Human Rights

Feb 27, 2023

Paving Executive Paths

Logos from various Venture Bridge program

Feb 20, 2023

From Seed Stage to Successful Startup

Feb 10, 2023

Winning Gold

Feb 09, 2023

Advocating for HBCU Students

Feb 06, 2023

All Signs Pointed to CMU

Jan 26, 2023

Accelerating Change

Kiran Bhat Standing at a podium

Jan 19, 2023

Robotics Magician

Jan 18, 2023

Cleaning Up Antibiotics in Wastewater

John Shaffner and Joe Stewart

Jan 18, 2023

Designing a Legacy

Jan 12, 2023

From Economics to Comic Books

Jan 04, 2023

Beyond the Grind

Feb 08, 2022

The Rise of Carter Redwood

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Jan 18, 2022

The Impact of 112

Nov 06, 2020

Moving from Wall Street to Main Street

Block Center Announcement

Feb 22, 2018

Carnegie Mellon Launches Block Center to Examine Societal Impact of Emerging Technologies

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