Alumni News & Features

IT team under CIO Phill Miller ’00 M’01 enhances remote learning capabilities in 26 classrooms.

When Covid-19 forced RMU students and professors to leave campus this March, the university’s IT staff had several challenges to face. As they worked hard to shift the last half of the semester to online teaching, they also had to devise a better way…

Former Colonial heads the WPIAL, which is facing a high school sports season with no fans — and maybe no games.

If you are still getting adjusted to sports without crowds, imagine what it’s like for the athletes. Amy Williams Scheuneman ’03 is thinking about that more than most. The new executive director of the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic…

Her team has helped with a new Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis method that recently won FDA approval.

A team of RMU alumni led by Shelby Landis Goughneour ’13 has played a significant role in a new FDA-approved method for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease with brain scans.

Shelby is senior manager of image management for Avid Radiopharmaceuticals…

First in his family to finish college, Adam next got a law degree and now works for PNC Wealth Management.

A few years ago, Adam Etzel ’16 became the first person in his family to earn a college diploma. Then he was the first to graduate from law school and pass the Pennsylvania bar exam. And soon the fiduciary closing officer at PNC Wealth Management will…

A Colombia native, Fernando stayed close after graduation and recently brought food to stock Colonial Cupboard.

Family was a big reason Fernando Acevedo ’02 came to Robert Morris University. But not in the way that usually happens.

The Hopewell Township resident works as an IT professional at the Moon Township offices of Radian Group, a major mortgage…

We’ve picked a few of our favorite beach experience for anyone dreaming about spending some days in the sand and surf this summer.

Honeymoon Island, Fla.
A state park accessible by causeway in the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa, Honeymoon Island is a beautiful spot for swimming, fishing, shelling, hiking and bicycling, and is flush with nature. Walking trails…

Sports fan is CFO of the video company that shot last month’s golf showdown between Peyton, Tom, Phil, and Tiger.

For golf fans desperate for televised competition, the charity match featuring Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning versus Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady the weekend before last came as a blessing and a relief. But few of them could have been more delighted…

Both members of this Colonial Couple have important work to do in healthcare management to stop the spread of Covid-19.

For Joanna and Daniel Hughes, healthcare managers and recent graduates of RMU’s online master’s degree program in health services administration, coronavirus has created new challenges.

Joanna is a clinical integration specialist at St. Clair…

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…