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3 unusual facts about Carnegie Institute of Technology


Dorothy Maharam

She earned her B.S. degree at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1937 and her Ph.D. in 1940 under Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler from Bryn Mawr College with a dissertation entitled On measure in abstract sets.

Hans Huitfeldt Riddervold

He then studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1954.

Harold Iddings

Iddings was also the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky (1910–1911), Simpson (1911–1914), Otterbein (1916–1917), and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1920–1921).


Jayge Carr

She studied physics at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Wayne State University, and Case Western Reserve University, which she left before achieving her doctorate to raise a family and write.

Jenny O'Hara

She spent a year at Carnegie Tech (now part of Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh and a summer playing in stock theater, and then came to New York to study with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner.

Lester Trimble

Encouraged by Schoenberg, who had seen some of his scores, Trimble entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).

Phyllis Love

Following her graduation in 1948 from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology (which later would merge with Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University), Love made her way to New York, where, in short order, she would gain entry into the recently formed Actors Studio.


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