NEWS & STORIES

Tom Opdyke (M&T’91) is managing director of AIG’s Portfolio Solutions Group and an active member of the M&T Alumni Network, which he built from the ground up. At the 2026 M&T Summit, Opdyke will receive the Alumni Service Award in recognition of his role in creating and growing the alumni network – an initiative that ...Read More

Maghnus Mareneck (M&T’21) is co-CEO and co-founder of Cosmos Labs, where he leads growth, sales, and strategic partnerships for one of the world’s most advanced blockchain technology platforms. Cosmos Labs builds the foundational software that powers networks of blockchains, working with global banks, payment systems, governments, and Fortune 500 companies to help them experiment with ...Read More

Noah Ready-Campbell the founder and CEO of Built Robotics, a company that transforms heavy equipment into autonomous robots that help build large-scale renewable energy projects, including solar farms across the U.S. Built’s robots have helped build critical infrastructure across the United States and Australia. Ready-Campell will serve as the Barer Keynote Speaker at the 2026 ...Read More

From Puppy Pads to Medical Masks: How A ‘Shark Tank’ Entrepreneur is Helping Fresno Hospitals. Read the full article on NPR. Read More

Seemingly as inevitable as death and taxes, the rich once again have grown richer. For the first time since 1994, there is a new No. 1, as Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos breaks Bill Gates’ 24-year run at the top. Bezos is also the first person to appear in the ranks with a fortune ...Read More

Tesla ended its Q4 2018 earnings call with a bit of a surprise, albeit one we’ve heard before: CFO Deepak Ahuja will be retiring. In his place, Zach Kirkhorn, previously the company’s vice president of finance is taking over. Kirkhorn had only been the VP of finance for 2 months prior to today’s announcement. However, current CFO Ahuja ...Read More

Arjun Neervannan is a First Year student in the M&T Program from Irvine, CA studying Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and an Undeclared concentration in the Wharton School. Last May, he won one of the Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholarships. Each year, nearly 1,900 students submit original research in critically important ...Read More

  2019 SEAS wide senior design winners were our integration lab team of Emily Spencer M&T’19 and her team mate Gray Desimone SEAS’19. Their project Kirigami Architecture focused on creating sustainable building envelopes for energy conservation also won the most innovative award in the M&T Summit held in the Glandt Forum on March 30th. The project ...Read More

An interdisciplinary team comprised of Xiaoyi Chen, M&T’19, Fangyi Fa M&T’19, Quinn Wu M&T’19 along with their teammates Vanessa Howell, Yoonji Lee and Mia Masour, all SEAS’19, competed in the Cornell Cup Competition held over May 3-4 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. S.S. MAPR, a smart autonomous surface vehicle for river water sampling, ...Read More