Alumni News & Features

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 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,”…

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…

The videography lessons he learned at RMU now help Nazari shoot dramatic drone footage of the Golden Triangle and all around the world.

From the moment Nazari Dorosh first picked up a video camera as a 12-year-old, he knew he wanted to work behind the lens. It was Robert Morris University that sharpened his focus.

“From the second you walk in the door, they’re not holding your…

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…

After 20 years at Neville Chemical Company, Denise Butler ‘95 M’03 knows every unit, tank, and production process of the plant that backdrops her office.

The company’s new chief executive officer and president also knows a lot about the 150 employees, many of whom have been there longer than she has. Some of them even trained her. “We’ve seen each other grow up and grow older,” says Butler. “I feel as…

Tyson Klukan ‘15 M’15 is proud to have been involved with starting six different local businesses in his hometown of Ford City over the past two years. Since being elected to city council in 2016, Klukan has become the vice president…

Mary Gerard M’05 

If you’ve been to a Robert Morris University alumni event in the past 20 years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Mary Gerard M’05 welcoming guests or speaking at the podium. As director of the RMU alumni relations office, Mary has served as liaison…

Janene Szpak M‘11 D‘11

With Nicaragua’s civil protests deeming the country unsafe for travel, Janene Szpak M‘11 D‘11, associate professor of nursing, was unable to take RMU nursing students there for their annual medial mission trip. Instead, Szpak and Carl Ross, university…