Carnegie’s profound belief in the transformative power of education leads him to found the Carnegie Technical Schools with a $1 million endowment. He quickly added another $1 million to the endowment.
May founds the Annual Fund and contributes to it every year until his death in 1998. CMU’s Order of the May is named in his honor.
The school is founded thanks to a grant from physician and philanthropist W. L. Mellon. It later becomes the Tepper School of Business.
President Stever announces the formation of Carnegie Mellon University from the merger of Carnegie Institute of Technology and Mellon Institute.
The Richard King Mellon Foundation funds the launch of the School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA), now Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, to wrestle with the challenges of modern society.
Together with the University of Pittsburgh, CMU opens the Pittsburgh Super Computing Center — one of the original five National Science Foundation supercomputing centers — providing advanced scientific computing to cutting-edge research.
With a $55 million gift from David Tepper, the largest gift in CMU history at the time, the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA) becomes the Tepper School of Business.
Funded by the R.K. Mellon Foundation, the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition supports a coordinated cross-university research and educational program of international stature.
In 2004, Carnegie Mellon received a gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund construction of a new building dedicated to expanding the horizons of computer science. The Henry L. Hillman Foundation followed suit in 2008 with $10 million for a research building in the new computer science complex.
Dietrich pledges $265 million to Carnegie Mellon, the largest single gift from an individual in its history. H&SS is renamed the Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences after his mother.