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
Teresa is the official spokesperson for the university and oversees all Media Relations operations.
ts2h@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-2900
Ken Walters
Senior Media Relations Director
Ken 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
Alyssa is the central Media Relations liaison.
amayfiel@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-2900
Central Media Relations and Student Life
Abby Houck
Media Relations Specialist
Abby 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
Chriss 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
Eric 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
Shilo Raube
Director of Media Relations
Shilo represents the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, including the areas of psychology, decision sciences, economics, education and literature.
sraube@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-6094
Mellon College of Science
Jocelyn Duffy
Director of Media Relations
Jocelyn covers 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
Byron Spice
Director of Media Relations
Byron promotes 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.
bspice@cs.cmu.edu, 412-268-9068
Tepper School of Business
Mark Burd
Director of Public Relations
Mark oversees the school's internal and external communications initiatives.
mdburd@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-3486
University Libraries
Cindy Carroll
Communications Coordinator
Cindy 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
Bruce 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 Campus News & Notes Web site.
bg02@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-1613
Heidi Opdyke
Associate Director
Heidi serves as managing editor and a contributing writer for the monthly newspaper called the Piper, and assists with other various internal communications operations.
opdyke@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-7521
Abby Ross
Assistant Director
Abby serves as managing editor of the weekly newsletter called the 8.5 x 11 News, and handles the news distribution to various Web sites and electronic bulletin boards.
abbyross@andrew.cmu.edu, 412-268-1609
