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General Contact Information

Carnegie Mellon Media Relations
Alumni House
5017 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel: 412-268-2900
Fax: 412-268-6929
media-relations@andrew.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon News Services/Internal Communications
Alumni House
5017 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel: 412-268-1613
Fax: 412-268-6929
bg02@andrew.cmu.edu

The following media relations and news services officers work on a beat system, with each person specializing in a college or university division to learn its interests, issues and research. Feel free to contact the appropriate media relations or news services representative with any inquiries, questions or concerns you might have.

Central Media Relations

Teresa Thomas
Assistant Vice President for Media Relations
Official spokesperson for the university, oversees all Media Relations operations.
ts2h@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-2900

Ken Walters
Senior Media Relations Director
Provides direct support to the assistant vice president of media relations and assists with central media relations needs, including campus computing, student life and university-wide initiatives.
walters1@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-1151

Alyssa Mayfield
Media Relations Associate
Central Media Relations Liaison
amayfiel@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-2900

Central Media Relations and Student Life

Abby Houck
Media Relations Specialist
Works in central media relations and covers student news, monitors and prepares the daily news clips, and serves as a general point of contact for the media.
ahouck@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-4290

College of Engineering

Chriss Swaney
Director of Public Relations
Covers a variety of topics for the engineering college, including research and issues in biomedical, materials science, civil and environmental, chemical, electrical and computer, and mechanical engineering. She also covers topics like nanotechnology and cybersecurity.
swaney@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-5776

College of Fine Arts

Eric Sloss
Director of Media Relations
Promotes the events, projects and news within the college’s five schools: architecture, art, design, drama and music.
ecs@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-5765

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Kelli McElhinny
Director of Media Relations
Represents the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and writes on a variety of topics, including psychology, decision sciences, economics, education and literature.
kellim@andrew.cmu.edu  412-268-6094

Mellon College of Science

Jocelyn Duffy
Director of Media Relations
Covering the latest research and findings in biological sciences, chemistry, mathematical sciences and physics. Specialty areas include computational biology, neuroscience and imaging, tissue engineering, biosensors, computational finance and green chemistry.
jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu,, 412-268-9982

School of Computer Science

Anne Watzman
Director of Media Relations
aw16@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-3830

Byron Spice
Co-director of Media Relations
bspice@cs.cmu.edu, 412-268-9068

Anne and Byron promote the latest developments and research coming out of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science. Areas of expertise include computer science, robotics and information technology.

Tepper School of Business

Deb Magness
Director of Marketing and Communications
Covers research and activities in the university’s business school.
dmagness@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-8678

University Libraries

Cindy Carroll
Communications Coordinator
Informs campus and external audiences about library services, projects, archives, gifts and special collections.
stell@cmu.edu, 412-268-7260

Internal Communications/News Services

Bruce Gerson
Director
Oversees the Internal Communications effort to keep the university community informed through a weekly newsletter, a monthly newspaper, electronic bulletin boards, the Carnegie Mellon Web portal, online event calendars and the Carnegie Mellon news Web site.
bg02@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-1613