Alumni-Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University

Alumni stories and successes inspire the MCS community. We welcome your visits to campus and news of your professional successes.

MCS alumni have diverse careers leading them to many disciplines, countries, and industries. Here we share the most recent profiles from Science Connection magazine and stories of alumni in the news. We hope you'll return to campus to reconnect with past mentors and current students to share your story as well. If you have news that you'd like to share, or would like to find out what's going on with your fellow MCS alumni, visit our News & Notes page.

William Magwood

Nuclear Force
William Magwood's Path to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Carnegie Mellon Today, October 2011

photo of Michael McQuadeMichael McQuade Uses Physicist's Acumen to Tackle Global Energy Challenges
Science Connection, vol 3 no 1, November 2010

photo of Aaron Mitchell

Biological Sciences Professor Aaron Mitchell Comes Home
Science Connection, vol 3 no 1, November 2010

Hugh Young

Forever Young
Carnegie Mellon Today, October 2010

The Carnegie Mellon professor is teaching Mathematical Methods of Physics, an abstract, junior-senior level course not intended for the timid. In the middle of the lecture on poles and residues, and what may seem like a wild and impractical mathematical tangent, he sees a hand go up...read more

photo of Dietrich Stephan

Navigating Your Genes to Health
Alumnus Dietrich Stephan Makes It Personal
Science Connection, vol 2 no 1, November 2009

photo of Catalina Achim

A Chemist's Journey
Catalina Achim makes her way from Communist Romania to Carnegie Mellon
Science Connection, vol 2 no 1, November 2009

Kristine Ferrone

NASA staffer, a Carnegie Mellon alum, shares dream of going in to space
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 21, 2010

When Kristine Ferrone was 4 years old, her grandfather gave her a calendar illustrating the cycle of the moon. The young Ferrone memorized the moon's phases and announced to her family each night which phase the moon was in or which it would be entering...read more

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MCS Ice Cream Social at Spring Carnival

Meet MCS alumni and reminisce with faculty over ice cream sundaes and sodas

Friday, April 20, 2012
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Baker Hall Terrace Tent (on Frew St.)

RSVP to swainer@andrew.cmu.edu

event

  • Douglas W. Jones (S’73) has coauthored a book with Barbara Simons, “Broken Ballots -- Will Your Vote Count,” that covers the history and politics of the use of technology in elections.
  • Jonathan L. Lustgarten (S’04) received the 2011 Student Inspiration Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
  • Frank Millero (S’64’65) won the Geochemical Society's 2011 V. M. Goldschmidt Award and the 2011 Florida Award from the American Chemical Society.
  • More alumni news

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