Alumni News & Features

Recent engineering alumna Jessica Sales won a Rotary Global Grant to fund her graduate studies in water and waste engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

One of three southwestern Pennsylvania recipients of a Rotary International global grant for graduate study abroad, Jessica Sales had hoped she would be in Sydney by now.

As things stand, she is starting her two-year master’s degree program in…

The top financial executive at PPG Industries has been named 2020 CFO of the Year in Pittsburgh.

When Vince Morales ’88 first moved into the PPG corporate headquarters as a college intern, he was excited just to have a cubicle in a shiny new Downtown skyscraper. After more than three decades at the corporation, Vince has worked his way up to a…

A bachelor's degree in RMU's new financial planning major leads to an exciting new job.

His senior year did not play out the way he imagined it, but Mitchell Mroczkowski ’20 believes the new job he starts this month will help to start 2021 off in the right direction.

After recently passing the 6-hour exam to become a certified…

The new chief financial officer at Michael Baker has had a surprising variety of career experiences.

As the new chief financial officer of Michael Baker International, Amy Henley Davis ’97 can bring to bear not only her expertise in accounting, but a wealth of experience from several different career situations. That includes not one, but two jobs…

Think your 2020 has been busy? This retired Air Force vet also got his doctorate and a new job working with the Space Force.

When Martin Edwards D'20 looks back on this unbelievable year, he will be able to give it a more positive spin than most. For the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, 2020 is when he got his doctorate and took a new job helping to build up the new U.…

Emmy-nominated journalist comes home to Pennsylvania for the evening news anchor slot at WTAJ-TV Altoona.

After 15 years working in TV in stations across the country, Matt Alvarez ’05 has made it back to his home state of Pennsylvania just in time to see the leaves turn.

Matt became the co-anchor of the evening news broadcast at WTAJ-TV in Altoona…

Radiation oncology resident for Allegheny Health Network named to Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30.

Dr. Stephen Abel ’09 says his parents always encouraged him to be the first in the family to go to college and supported his aspirations of becoming a doctor, even before he knew what kind he wanted to be.

Now the fourth-year radiation oncology…

After a year running his own consulting business, Paul now looks to make an impact in the corporate world.

You never know when you might meet an important link in your career network. For Paul Spradley ’03 M’06, the moment came during his last week working as director of the RMU Center for Student Success.

It happened in the early spring of 2019.…

Some things to consider to increase your child’s ability to succeed in today’s hybrid school environment.

To help contain Covid-19, many schools this fall are offering remote instruction instead of or in combination with in-person education. Here are some tips for parents to help support their child’s success. Remember Just by showing an interest in their…

Starting her own construction inspection business wasn’t easy, but Rochelle never shies away from a challenge.

Rochelle Stachel ’91 credits her father for an entrepreneurial spirit that led her to leave a stable corporate job and start her own quality assurance inspection company. The founding of her company, as we will learn, was neither whimsical nor…