Alumni News & Features

Which Star Wars characters would be the best — and worst — at handling the coronavirus crisis?

Best Prepared for Coronavirus

• Darth Vader: His mask meets N-95 standards.
• Han Solo: Carbonite is impenetrable to viruses.
• Luke Skywalker: He takes social distancing…

After 30 years in banking, he decided it was time for a new challenge. Now Dennis is a top executive at RIDC.

If you’re feeling a bit stir crazy from enforced isolation and social distancing, spare a thought for Dennis Joyce ‘79. The chief operating officer of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation, or RIDC, tore his quadriceps tendon back in March…

RMU is one of only 37 universities offering a dedicated mainframe computing course.

New Jersey’s governor recently announced that the state desperately needs COBOL programmers to help its unemployment office process an avalanche of new claims. The programming language COBOL was developed in 1959, but it is still widely in use…

The women’s basketball team dominated the NEC until Covid-19 shut down the tournament. Plus hockey and other season summaries.

All but one of RMU’s winter and spring sports seasons were ended prematurely by the Covid-19 virus. The NCAA and individual conferences halted winter sports during postseason play and spring sports before they reached their tournaments. But athletes…

The former president of RMU’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers will earn his Ph.D. at CMU.

Since he was young, Nolen Keeys has planned to become a doctor and pursue a career in medicine. Now he’s one step closer to achieving that goal — though in a slightly different way than he once imagined.

Nolen, who earned his degree in…

In case Clue is getting stale, we suggest some fresh board, card, and dice games for your home, including solo play options.

Quarantine may have you feeling some cabin fever, but there are plenty of games out there to get your mind off your isolation. We’ve got some new game recommendations to keep you and your family busy.  Here are a list of some of our favorite…

The retired event planner caps her successful career by sponsoring a conference room in the new UPMC Events Center.

When Helen J. Goodman ’74 came to Robert Morris to study, she brought her prize possession, a 1968 yellow Austin-Healey two-seater convertible. It was a great car to have for college, she says. Her friends certainly agreed.

“We would see how…

The income tax filing deadline is now July 15, but Jacob Peng says don’t wait if a refund would come in handy.

The list of disruptions caused by coronavirus includes the income tax filing day, which has been pushed back to July 15. But if you’re expecting a refund, now is still an opportune time to file, especially if some extra funds would be helpful to your…

Fulbright Scholar and immigration historian John McCarthy and his wife and three children relocate to Slovakia.

When history professor John McCarthy won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach a semester at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, he asked his wife and three school-age children to come with him. McCarthy, who is an expert on immigration, says…

The Wyoming AD joins the College Football Playoff Selection Committee as President Howard’s term ends.

The College Football Playoff Selection Committee has another Colonials connection. Tom Burman, athletic director for the University of Wyoming and an alum of the M.B.A. program, was named to the ranking committee in January just as RMU President Chris…