Doha, Qatar – December 13, 2023: One of the original faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), Marion Oliver, is retiring after two decades at the Qatar campus. Oliver is a teaching professor of mathematics and has taught or advised the majority of CMU-Q’s 1,221 graduates.
Oliver has a long history with Carnegie Mellon University. He was a graduate student at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania campus, earning a PhD in mathematics in 1971. He continued to work at CMU until 1979, when he left for other teaching opportunities.
“When the opportunity came in 2003 to help start the Carnegie Mellon campus in Q