Ann Marie Petach never worried about a glass ceiling hampering her career. Instead, the Tepper School of Business graduate learned a valuable lesson on the job that led to some surprising twists. Along the way, she also was forced to find balance between her personal life and her profession.   

They come from different worlds. West Coast. East Coast. Teenager. Senior citizen. They’ve never met, either. But they have something in common—the hope that the research of Carnegie Mellon’s Shawn Kelly can restore for them a precious gift: the ability to see each other if and when they ever meet.

There is an old saying that you can’t go home again. When the chance came for Clara Pratte (HNZ’04) to go home again, it involved more than just a return to her family. It meant going home to a nation. It meant being a leader—a Nat’’aanii—for Navajo Nation.

Most college students have an idea about what they want to pursue once they earn their undergraduate degrees. For Jimmy Koppel, not only did he know what he wanted to do, he didn’t want to wait to get started any longer than necessary. His endeavor could change software programming forever.