Town Hall with Dean Dammon: undergraduate Tepper comes together
It’s crazy how fast time flies by, and especially how it flies by while campus gets preoccupied by classes, extracurriculars, and socializing. It’s already been a week since Pittsburgh was struck by the tragic act of hate claiming 11 beautiful lives. While the many in the community are still taking things in, it was really […]
Getting a Taste of MBA Life – Saturday Eats In the Strip District
It’s not a secret. Pittsburgh is an incredible food town. Crowned Zagat’s top food of 2015, I was excited to see what Pittsburgh had to offer. It did not disappoint.
Tepper School Offers Hope During a Hopeless Time
It was a regular Saturday morning in Pittsburgh. Students were making their way across each of the city’s campuses, laughing and talking with their friends, planning what they would be wearing for the Halloween parties coming up.
Homesick? CMU Has the Solution for You!
In the first few months of their college experience, college freshmen experience a lot of change and freedom. For example, they live with friends, do everything by themselves, and escape their helicopter parents that are worried at home.
Find Your Oasis
When people told me that I would be busy during my MBA, my general response was, “Yeah, sure.” I mean, how bad could it be? I’ve been working for seven years on community outreach projects at an oil and gas services company in Houston. Many of my projects required me to be at events during […]
Coming out as an LGBT MBA
First and second-year Tepper students recently attended the Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) conference in Minneapolis. One student reflects on the power of LGBT spaces in MBA programs. On October 11, 2018, the LGBT community will mark the 30th anniversary of National Coming Out Day. While there have been some significant improvements in how LGBT people […]
Post-Chuseok musings from a Korean-American
“You sure you won’t mind kids making fun of your lunch?” my mom asks my sister when she asks if she can pack supper leftovers for her school lunch. “Mom, I’m Asian,” my 13-year-old sister cooly responds. When my mother told me this story over a video call, I laughed. My sister is easily the […]
Networking Route Tips!
Back when I was a freshman, I would walk by the TOC and see everyone dressed professionally. I remember feeling terrible and asking myself, “Why aren’t you dressed up today? I went earlier this week and I went once last week but am I trying hard enough?”
Tepper PhD Student INFORMS Award & Honorable Mention
2018 INFORMS Award & Honorable Mention were recently given to two of our Tepper PhD students! Operations Research PhD student Nam Ho-Ngyuen received Honorable Mention at the INFORMS Optimization Society Best Student Paper Prize for the paper “Online First-Order Framework for Robust Convex Optimization” (Other authors: Fatma Kilinc-Karzan). Operations Management PhD student Neda Mirzaeian received […]
Tepper Quad Grand Opening
Some pictures from the Tepper Quad Grand Opening! Very nice to see PhD students (past and present) represented by Courtney Williamson (PhD ’16) and Elizabeth Campbell!
Activities Fair Yesterday, Career Fair Today
A Haiku dedicated to recruiting season! Hand shakes, resumes Try hard to stand out from crowd Tiring but worth a shot! It’s peak recruiting time for many full time and internship positions. From the encompass career fair right now and Tepper meet up networking session yesterday to the Technical Opportunities Conference (TOC) and many company […]
Tepper Ice Cream Social & Club Fair
Students from undergraduate Business and Economics mingled outside the new Tepper building while the undergraduate Business advisors served up Millie’s ice cream and various student groups advertised their organizations to prospective members.
More than 300 campus and community organizations showcased at the Fair
This past Wednesday 9/5, SLICE (Student Leadership, Involvement, and Civic Engagement) hosted the annual Fair at Carnegie Mellon. What was previously known as the Activities Fair, the Fair is an extension to the Activities Fair with not only showcasing the 300+ Student Government approved organizations but also a broader selection of cultural and community partners […]
PhD Student/Faculty Picnic 2018!
The 2018 PhD Student/Faculty Picnic is a wrap! Full house! Thanks to everyone for coming out, and thanks especially to Lawrence, John, and Laila for making it a great success. This year’s picnic shirt, featuring the brand new Tepper logo on the front, and a classy, understated nod to CMU on the back, just below […]
CMU INFORMS 2018 YinzOR Student Conference
The INFORMS Student Chapter at Carnegie Mellon University held the YinzOR 2018 student conference on August 24-25, 2018 at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. Please visit their website for more information: YinzOR 2018 YinzOR 2018
