Alumni News & Features

For three generations of the Morrow and Veitch families, Robert Morris University serves as more than just a common thread. It’s a family tie that binds.

This branch of the family tree begins with John Morrow ‘73, links to his daughter, Susan…

When Dean Manna says he loves being in the classroom, he means it. This year is the marketing professor’s 46th at Robert Morris University, 30 of which he spent as department head.

Manna has been drawn to marketing and sales since his own…

A few months after her promotion this summer to chief executive of the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Bobbi Watt Geer M’05 was asked what it’s like to sit in her new chair. As it turns out, she doesn’t really know.

“I never sit there…

Jiabi He traveled halfway around the world so she could study social sciences at Robert Morris University.

The native of China hoped to expand her knowledge and civic engagement more than she felt possible at home, where the overwhelming focus…

The sounds of Robert Morris hockey star Luke Lynch can be heard everywhere. And anywhere. Whether in the dressing room, at practice, or on game days — especially on game days — the senior center chatters like a seasoned auctioneer.

Wise and…

Tim Friez ‘08 still remembers his family’s first computer. He was in third grade, and his dad — a butcher by trade — was working toward an IT degree. As his father began tinkering with the machine, Friez started tinkering too.

Before long he…

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,…

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…

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.…