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
