New Associate Deans Join University Libraries
A.M. Salaz and Brian Matthews have been named associate deans for University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, effective Dec. 1. A.M. Salaz Salaz, a senior librarian at Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon's Miller ICA Presents "Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI"...
Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Institute for Contemporary Art will present "Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI," an exhibition curated by Miller ICA Director Elizabeth Chodos. The exhibition...
View ArticleScheier Honored by American Psychological Association for Distinguished...
For groundbreaking work to understand the self-regulation of behavior, longtime Carnegie Mellon University Psychology Professor Michael Scheier has been awarded the American Psychological Association's...
View ArticleShine Registry Gives Entrepreneurs Way To Ask for Supplies, Services, Support
Carnegie Mellon University alumna Emily Wazlak wants to change the way society celebrates women while helping to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship and fundraising. Through the Shine Registry...
View ArticleCMU Alumna Uses Tech To Disrupt, Democratize Art Collecting
When Messay Derebe first moved to Washington, D.C., after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, she wanted to start an art collection of her own. But rather than collecting beautiful paintings...
View ArticleCMU Historians Awarded Andrew W. Mellon Grant To Host Yearlong Seminar on...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted Carnegie Mellon University $225,000 for a prestigious 2019-2020 Sawyer Seminar on "Bread and Water: Access, Belonging and Environmental Justice in the City."...
View ArticleLow-level Exposure to BPA Unsafe, Experts Say Experts
In a recent Grand Rounds webinar on bisphenol-A (BPA), the FDA dismissed research findings that showed low levels of BPA exposure caused serious health effects in an animal model. In a webinar...
View ArticleEducation App Uses Photos To Help People Form Proper Sentences
Students in the Carnegie Mellon University chapter of Design for America (DFA) have developed a free mobile app that uses visual cues to help children and adults — particularly those with language...
View ArticleCMU Delegation at "Summer Davos" Discusses Role of Education, Creativity on...
Carnegie Mellon University sent a delegation of faculty, students and alumni led by College of Engineering Dean James H. Garrett to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of New Champions, Sept....
View ArticleAtal Awarded Fulbright To Teach English in Thailand
Recent biological sciences and English graduate Apeksha Atal has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. In just a few weeks, the Carnegie Mellon University alumna will begin her year...
View ArticleTwo-Faced Molecule Could Lead to Huntington’s Disease Treatment
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Biomolecular Design and Discovery (IBD) and Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology (CNAST), Chemistry Professor Danith Ly and...
View ArticleFormer Classmates To Play Music from the Future
Carnegie Mellon University is hosting the “Ultimedia Concept, Music From the Future,” a concert that will combine contemporary and computer sounds at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28 at Kresge Theatre on...
View ArticleResearchers Explore New Frontiers in Neuroscience
Building on groundbreaking research that identified the brain representations of elementary physics concepts, Carnegie Mellon University's Robert Mason and Marcel Just have received a $549,000 grant...
View ArticleCMU Plays Prominent Role in Grace Hopper Celebration
Carnegie Mellon University is growing its presence at the Grace Hopper Celebration, the world's largest gathering of women technologists, set for Sept. 26–28 in Houston. Faculty, staff, alumni, current...
View ArticleInnovators Convene for First ProductCamp Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh hosted the first ProductCamp Pittsburgh Saturday, Sept. 22 at the Tepper Quadrangle, where more than 260 attendees from around the region...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Will Help Build 3D Cellular Map of Human Body
Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists are helping the National Institutes of Health build a 3D map of the human body showing how tissues differ on a cellular level and providing deep insights...
View ArticleShenoy To Receive Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University will award the sixth annual Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brian Sciences to Krishna V. Shenoy, the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor of Engineering at Stanford...
View ArticleCMU To Co-Host Women in CyberSecurity Conference
The sixth annual Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Conference will be co-hosted by WiCyS and Carnegie Mellon University March 28-30, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The WiCyS Conference brings together women in...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Team Dives Into DARPA Subterranean Challenge
A team from Carnegie Mellon University will compete in the systems track of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean Challenge, a multi-year robotics competition with a $2 million...
View ArticleMitchell Named CMU’s Interim Dean of School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University has named Tom Mitchell, the E. Fredkin University Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Science, interim dean of the School of Computer Science. Mitchell is a pioneer in...
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