Neurohackathon Contestants Analyze Brain Data in New Ways
Five Carnegie Mellon University students won the third annual BrainHub Neurohackathon with their analysis of the interactions between two regions in the brains of mice as they reached for and moved a...
View ArticleCircuit, Heal Thyself
Many natural organisms have the ability to repair themselves. Now, manufactured machines will be able to mimic this property. In findings published this week in Nature Materials, researchers at...
View ArticleIt's Finally Tony Week!
Jacob Randall Holmes, a graduate student in the School of Music, lent his talent and voice to help Carnegie Mellon University celebrate Josh Groban co-hosting the 72nd Tony Awards as well as the six...
View ArticleTony Award Nominees Discuss How Theatre Education Teaches Empathy
Why is theater education important? Hear from Tony Award nominees and CMU alumni describe how theater taught them to be empathetic.
View ArticleIn the Spotlight
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama alumni will take center stage at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10. The live CBS broadcast, which honors the best on Broadway, will air at 8 p.m....
View Article"Today, We Work" Airs During Tony Awards
Andrew Carnegie famously said, "My heart is in the work." At Carnegie Mellon University, we think about work a little differently. This commercial aired during the the Tony Awards broadcast on CBS,...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Alumna Jamie deRoy Wins Three Tony Awards
Carnegie Mellon University and its School of Drama had many reasons to celebrate at the 2018 Tony Awards, including three awards alumna Jamie deRoy took home as producer. A member of the class of 1967,...
View ArticleAlumna Learned To Lead Through Understanding Others
Candace Matthews is a firm believer that leadership skills should be taught throughout one's life. Well-known in the business world as a transformational leader and innovator, Matthews is Amway...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Names Rosenfeld Head of Machine Learning Department
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science has named Roni Rosenfeld, an expert in epidemiological forecasting and spoken dialogue technologies, head of its Machine Learning Department,...
View ArticleInterfacing With the Brain
Chris Bettinger and his group have created a hydrogel material and fabrication process for electrodes that stick to the brain, matching its soft, squishy makeup in order to keep the body from rejecting...
View ArticleCMU Celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride
Carnegie Mellon University students, staff, faculty and alumni showed their support for the LGBTQ+ community on Sunday, June 10, in Pittsburgh People's Pride March 2k18 and the EQT Equality March....
View ArticleSeed Could Bring Water to Millions
The United Nations says 2.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Carnegie Mellon University Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering professors Bob Tilton and Todd Przybycien...
View ArticleCMU President Leads SelectUSA International Panel on Innovation
Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian led an international panel discussion on the innovation ecosystem titled "Growth Beyond the Bottom Line" for the 2018 SelectUSA Investment Summit...
View ArticleComputational Method Puts Finer Point on Multispecies Genomic Comparisons
A new computational tool will potentially help geneticists to better understand what makes a human a human, or how to differentiate species in general, by providing more detailed comparative...
View ArticleDriving Toward the Intersection of 3D Printing and Machine Learning
Applications of metal additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D printing, have primarily been confined to prototyping, but researchers are now pushing closer to developing metal 3D printing as a...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Neuroscientists Map Brain's Response to Cold Touch
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have mapped the feeling of cool touch to the brain's insula in a mouse model. The findings, published in the June 15 issue of Journal of Comparative...
View ArticleCMU, Howard University Offer Dual Engineering Ph.D. Degrees
Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering has announced a new partnership with the College of Engineering and Architecture of Howard University. This partnership will cover a wide range of...
View ArticleAward-winning Game Prism Explores Facets of Autism
Students from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center won the most honors in this year's International Serious Play Awards competition for games designed for use in education or...
View ArticleCohen-Karni Wins Young Innovator Award for Research on Heart Cells
Tzahi Cohen-Karni, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and materials science & engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named a 2018 Young Innovator by the Biomedical...
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