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Carnegie Mellon Students Celebrate Inauguration
While pageantry and tradition marked the official investiture ceremony today for Carnegie Mellon University's new President Farnam Jahanian, fun and festivities colored the student Watch Party to make...
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Researchers Reinventing the Wheel for Vehicles of the Future
Wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain — or even does the driving at times — are technologies that...
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Campus Community Gathers To Grieve, Unite, Heal
The Carnegie Mellon University community gathered Monday to honor the victims at the Tree of Life Synagogue, to reaffirm its values of inclusion, diversity and respect, and to support and comfort one...
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Crane Receives Packard Fellowship
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Keenan Crane, assistant professor of computer science and robotics, is one of 18 recipients of 2018 Packard Fellowships for Science and...
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Shaping Technology for the 21st Century
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are looking to use technology that detects shapes to help smart cities, the clothing and gaming industries, and more. Jingxian Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in...
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New President’s Postdoctoral Fellows Bring Critical Perspectives to CMU
Kathryn Roeder, vice provost for faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, has announced six new President’s Postdoctoral Fellows. The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program started in 2017, when CMU...
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Zhao Receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Yongxin (Leon) Zhao, assistant professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has received a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award is part of the NIH's...
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New Algorithm Efficiently Finds Antibiotic Candidates
If you're looking for a needle in a haystack, it's best to know what hay looks like. An international team of researchers has applied this idea to the search for new pharmaceuticals, developing a...
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Heinz College Students Identify Weaknesses in Election Security
A team of Carnegie Mellon University students examined historical election data in Allegheny County and determined that by compromising 10 percent of the votes in Pennsylvania, an attacker could...
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CSD's Sandholm, Brown To Receive Minsky Medal
Computer Science Professor Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, are the second recipients of the prestigious Marvin Minsky Medal, presented by the...
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Lyme Disease Predicted To Rise In U.S. as Climate Warms
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in North America and its incidence has risen sharply in the last decade. Since its progression depends on environmental factors, increases in daily...
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BXA Celebrates Silver Anniversary
The BXA Intercollege Degree Programs have been pioneering higher education with interdisciplinary undergraduate degrees for 25 years. In celebration of their milestone anniversary, BXA will host a...
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Engineers Use Machine Learning To Help Find Renewable Energy Sources
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are paving the way to total reliance on renewable energy as they study both large- and small-scale ways to replace fossil fuels. One promising avenue is...
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Carnegie Mellon University Salutes Veterans
On Nov. 11, 1918 World War I came to an end on Armistice Day. On what is now known as Veterans Day, Carnegie Mellon University thanks the members of the CMU community and all veterans for their...
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Escaping From Heat Islands
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton are working to provide cities with a tool to help understand how urban heat island effects with dangerously high temperatures can cause heat...
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Gindroz Travel Prize Inspires New Student Works
Graduate students Rebecca Lefkowitz and Ramin Akhavijou received competitive study abroad scholarships earlier this year from The Marilyn and Ray Gindroz Foundation. They have returned to Pittsburgh...
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Electronic Tattoos Add Power to Wearable Computing
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering and the Institute of Systems and Robotics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, have developed a simple, efficient method to make...
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Neurons Reliably Respond to Straight Lines
Single neurons in the brain's primary visual cortex can reliably detect straight lines, even though the cellular makeup of the neurons is constantly changing, according to a new study by Carnegie...
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