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Late ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ alumnus Glen de Vries, co-founder and president of Medidata, donated $10 million to endow the chair of the dean of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½'s Mellon College of Science, now held by Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.

Two regional foundations created by the late Jack G. Buncher gave $5 million to support ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s School of Music, endowing the Jack G. Buncher Chair, which is currently held by Milton Rubén Laufer.

This partnership with the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation aims to address the shortfall of students pursuing advanced degrees in STEM fields, particularly those from underresourced backgrounds.

The Tartan Scholars program works to meet the unique needs of high-achieving students from limited resource backgrounds through a rich network of academic, social and financial support, addressing opportunity gaps for these ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ student leaders.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ dramatically increased the accessibility of its educational programs by meeting more of the financial aid needs of current and future undergraduates thanks to a landmark commitment from two of its alumni.

Made possible by a lead gift from Highmark Inc. and the support of more than 300 alumni, parents, faculty and staff, the new center is a destination that offers a holistic approach to well-being through robust services and educational programs supporting body, mind and spirit.

A unique facility rising at the corner of Forbes Avenue and Craig Street, the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences will be the new home for departments from the Mellon College of Science and School of Computer Science as well as the Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and the Mastercard Foundation, in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda, are working to catalyze opportunities for African young people to engage with emerging technologies and lead the digital transformation of the continent.

A groundbreaking initiative funded by alumnus Keith Block and his wife, Suzanne Kelley, the Block Center for Technology and Society researches the economic, organizational and public policy impacts of technology to promote access to the benefits of technological change for all.

Funded by the single largest gift to the College of Fine Arts, the Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion creates a formal presence of design expertise and outreach at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and serves as a central hub for design courses, executive education, sponsored projects and collaborations, and design research.

Once serving as the location of the Pittsburgh region's most productive steel mills, Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green is a new hub for manufacturing collaboration and innovation, anchored by the nonprofit Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) and ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½'s Manufacturing Futures Initiative (MFI).

The Alan Magee Scaife Hall and Gordon E. Moore Engineering Quad brings energy and vibrancy to the heart of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s College of Engineering and provides state-of-the-art facilities to transform engineering research and education.

Reflecting a new model of higher education that connects teaching, learning and innovation, the 315,000-square-foot David A. Tepper Quadrangle serves as the new home of the Tepper School of Business while intersecting with ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s other six colleges and schools.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Trustee Ray Lane and his wife, Stephanie, made a transformation gift to support the boundary-breaking computational biology department, which uses algorithms, data and computer models to increase our understanding of life and develop tools to diagnose and treat disease.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Mellon is reimagining the scientific process by harnessing its strengths in AI, automated technologies, machine learning and foundational sciences to rapidly conduct background research, identify new hypotheses, accelerate experimentation, replicating results and leveraging data in groundbreaking new ways.