Alumni News & Features

Working at a North Hills auto service software company, Quinton meets other RMU alums often.
 

Quinton Perry earned two degrees at graduation last year – management and marketing – with the plan that those would cover a lot of territory in business. Pretty soon his job with a Fortune 500 company required Quinton to cover a lot of territory — on…

Selling a product or an idea depends on the same basic principles, says marketing prof Dean Manna.

Selling is about persuasion. Convincing someone to make a commitment — to choose one product, one service, or one person over another — depends on the same basic principles. First you establish a relationship, then you effectively communicate the…

The BNY Mellon executive never misses a Colonials men’s basketball game.

Colonials basketball games are a family affair for Jared Thomas ’08. The former social science major started attending games his freshman year with his dad. They kept it up after graduation, witnessing many big games together,…

Earning a master’s degree made a difference for Kenya — not just as an assistant VP for PNC, but also as a mom.

Raising four children while working full time is plenty for anyone to have on their plate, but Kenya Matthews wanted more. She wanted to lead. She wanted to better herself. And she wanted to show her children what it means to commit to something.…

As an officer in the Army Nursing Corps, Zac has a prestigious posting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Like a lot of online students, Zac Calamante is a working professional who has had to balance his day job with pursuit of an advanced degree. Unlike most online students, Zac’s day job is at the White House.

Zac is an officer in the Army Nurse…

Professor Carianne Bernadowski is an expert in children's literacy and knows the best ways to get kids to love books.

Literacy research over the last 30 years has been very clear: Reading to very young children has a profound effect on later reading development. If you want your kids to be good readers, follow these basic steps to support their literacy journey.…

The two-time former U.S. ambassador and member of the RMU Board of Trustees is this fall’s Rooney International Visiting Scholar.

Ambassador Robin Sanders D’10 will have a new title when she attends the Concordia Summit at the United Nations this month. The former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria and Republic of Congo and CEO of a Washington advocacy initiative focused on Africa will…

Professor Frank Hartle shares his fundamental principles for defending yourself against email schemers.

Most of us can’t imagine functioning without email or online calendars. We have become so accustomed to communicating and organizing our lives using these tools that we rarely think about clicking links or invitations from people we know or work with…

As a residential advisor at MHY Family Services, Taylor comforts kids who have had a rough start to life.

When girls and boys come to the Mars Home for Youth, they need both sympathy and a strategy. Sympathy for the problems they are dealing with, and strategy for how to cope and move forward.

Taylor Bable is eager to help with both. “I love it,”…

Professor J. Brian O’Roark shares tips from his new book about the economic principles behind superhero stories.

In the world of movies, superheroes are at the top of the mountain. Five of the top ten movies in terms of gross receipts are superhero flicks. While the money earned tells us superhero films are an economic marvel, the screenplays provide economics…