NEWS & STORIES
M&T FOR LIFE BLOG
During this year’s M&T Summit, Garrett Reisman, M&T’90 sat down for a fireside chat with Faculty Director Gad Allon.
Garrett is a NASA veteran who flew on all three Space Shuttles. When he left NASA in 2011, he joined Elon Musk at SpaceX, where he served in multiple capacities, most recently as the Director of Space Operations. He’s currently a professor of astronautical engineering at the University of Southern California, and he is the ...Read More
Founders, Connor Chong, M&T’20 & Steffen Cornwell, M&T’20, discuss Keep.id which empower those who are experiencing homelessness to obtain, secure, and utilize identification
Lacking formal identification is a prevalent issue among homeless individuals, and it bars them from accessing many basic social and financial services in the United States – services that can help break the cycle of homelessness. Keep.id, which began as a senior design project, has evolved into a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is partnering with ...Read More
Founder of SQN Investors Amish Mehta, M&T’95 talks about his career path, how the M&T Program helped him get where he is today, and his advice for current students.
Q: What is your current role? AM: I’ve been an investor in or CEO of software companies for the last 25 years. My core focus is small- and mid-cap public software companies in North America. My investing approach combines my private equity and operating backgrounds. Today, I invest in public and private companies through my ...Read More
EXTERNAL NEWS
M&T Alums Make A Difference: Alan Cook (M&T ’95) Converts Business to Support Hospitals During Crisis
From Puppy Pads to Medical Masks: How A ‘Shark Tank’ Entrepreneur is Helping Fresno Hospitals. Read the full article on NPR. Read More
#215 | Clifford Asness (M&T ’88) co-founder of AQR Capital Management #354 | Larry Robbins (M&T ’92) founder and CEO of Glenview Capital Management listed in Forbes 400 2018
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
Zack Kirkhorn (M&T ’06) named as the new CFO of Tesla
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
PROGRAM NEWS
Arjun Neervannan (M&T ’24) on Combating Cyberbullying with AI and Winning one of the Regeneron STS Scholarship Prizes
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
Integration Lab Senior Design Winners 2019
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
Integration Lab Finalist S.S.MAPR wins the 2019 Cornell Cup
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