Alumni from 15 graduating classes return to Carnegie Mellon Qatar

More than 350 alumni from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, returned to campus to reconnect and network at a reunion for all graduates.There have been 15 classes to graduate from CMU-Q, beginning with the Class of 2008.A total of more than 1,100 students have graduated from the Qatar campus.CMU-Q dean Michael Trick congratulated the graduates on how they are shaping Qatar and the world around them.“At the CMU-Q, you learned to find the work that matters to you, and to transform that into work that matters for the world,” he said.CMU-Q graduates work at top organisations in Qatar and around the world, including multinational corporations, government institutions, service organisations, healthcare providers, and startups that they have created.Many CMU-Q graduates pursue further studies in fields such as healthcare, technology, science, business and the arts.Carnegie Mellon University president Farnam Jahanian also noted the impact that CMU alumni have made.“The CMU-Q community enriches our entire university with new ideas, new ways of thinking and an obvious passion for learning,” the official said. “You represent the kind of globally-focused innovation that is needed in the world today.”Alumni speakers included entrepreneur Asma al-Kuwari, a business administration alumna from the Class of 2011, and Dorde Popovic, a computer science graduate from the Class of 2022.To showcase how CMU-Q alumni are having an impact on Qatar and the world, the CMU-Q has created an online magazine of accomplishments, *Work that Matters, at alumni.qatar.cmu.eduThe current issue focuses on entrepreneurship.