Alumni News & Features

When he’s not shooting or editing news video for WPXI, Jordan is jamming with his band or wrestling in the ring.

For Jordan Allen ’14, each workday begins at 3 a.m. That’s when he gets up for his morning shift as a photographer and editor for WPXI-TV. Once he leaves his house in Carnegie and hits the Parkway West, it’s go, go, go.

“I put videos to stories…

An education specialist for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Tauna helps her coworkers to advance just as she has.

Monday through Friday, Tauna Cypher Rafferty Perenovich ’97 is a textbook example of a goal-driven, Type A leader. A training specialist with the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Tauna starts her day at the gym at 5 a.m. and rarely slows down. Her…

An 8th degree black belt, Kevin is a world taekwondo champion as both competitor and coach.

For Kevin Kaminski ’93, the gold medals are almost too plentiful to count. The owner of Kaminski’s ATA Martial Arts Academy in Allison Park has racked up an impressive collection of titles, including 28 American Taekwondo Association World…

First in her family to earn a diploma — and a Ph.D — Kim is now a state official helping others do the same.

Success in college depends on a few things, Kim McCurdy D’18 believes. A student needs self-efficacy, or the determination to persist, she says, plus individual attention and support from a professor or mentor.

That has been…

Living the dream he’s had since childhood, Joe is a stats guru for the Pirates who gets paid to watch baseball.

Since he was in fifth grade, Joe Douglas ’13 dreamed of joining the big leagues. Now the assistant director of pro player valuation for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Joe is living his dream. 

His office is at PNC Park, so Joe figures he watches…

Brian Cleary '98 was a player for Walton’s championship Colonials, then a coach on his staff, and finally a friend.

By Brian Cleary ‘98

Sometimes we look back at dates and we don’t realize how they impact an individual’s life. July 27, 1993, was the date Robert Morris named Joe Walton to start the Robert Morris football program from scratch. He…

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers director of team operations saw his work pals win a Lombardi.

While Tom Brady was leading the Tampa Buccaneers to a 31-9 victory in Super Bowl LV, Tim Jarocki ‘02 was busy loading bottles of champagne into the players lockers and helping to set up the post-game meal. As director of team operations for the…

With a name like his, you know August loves the sun, especially since it powers his solar plant.

When August Seibel ‘19 has to catch a flight out of Pittsburgh International Airport, he drives past a gleaming hillside. Its slope is covered by almost 10,000 solar panels that he manages, part of a new microgrid to power the airport independently…

She sells lasers to factories of all types and counsels high schoolers about careers in manufacturing.

Manufacturing is often much more innovative and high-tech than some might imagine, including the assembly lines on the factory floor. Kendra Slis '17 M'17 knows about this firsthand.

After earning both a B.S. in engineering-biomedical…

As the manager of Allegheny County, he oversees an annual budget of more than $2 billion.

The $2.3 billion annual budget that Allegheny County Manager William McKain '82 ‘92 oversees touches residents every day. They or someone they know cross one of the county’s 535 bridges, travel on its 408 miles of road, or visit one of its nine parks…