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2018 Year in Review
Carnegie Mellon University is entering a new year in a bold, new era under President Farnam Jahanian and new Provost Jim Garrett. Looking back, many highlights marked 2018, from CMU's new centers and...
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Magnetic Materials Put More Power into Small Motors
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering are studying soft magnetic materials to make hard changes to motors. Through synthesizing metal amorphous...
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AI, Robotics To Change Artistic Production, Drama in 2019
Carnegie Mellon University art and drama experts say new technologies will create a sea change in artistic production in 2019, delivering new ways to bring magic to the theater and creating a more...
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CDC Says Carnegie Mellon's Flu Forecasts Once Again Most Accurate
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that Carnegie Mellon University's forecasts of national and regional influenza activity during the 2017-2018 flu season were the most...
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Carnegie Mellon Acquires Oakland Property from Pittsburgh...
Carnegie Mellon University has purchased 477 Melwood Avenue in Oakland, a property previously owned by Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PF/PCA). The property was the former home of...
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Students Create Products To Help Older Adults
Carnegie Mellon University students have bridged generations by producing work that matters to older adults. In an Introduction to Physical Computing class, six teams of students were paired with an...
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Auld Lang Syne Goes Underground
Each year, CMU rings in the New Year with a rendition of "Auld Lang Syne." This year, faculty and students involved with Exploded Ensemble and Activated Anamorphs from the College of Fine Arts, School...
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Can Kids Game Their Way to Better Health?
A team of researchers is conducting a global study to determine how mobile-virtual reality gaming might help kids develop a healthier diet and lifestyle habits. Rema Padman, a professor of management...
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From CMU to Capitol Hill: Alumna Heads To Washington
There were many stories that came out of the 2018 midterm elections, from the Democrats gaining the majority in the House of Representatives, the Republicans keeping the lead in the Senate, and a...
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Effective Science Communication Begins With Collaboration
Carnegie Mellon University’s Baruch Fischhoff says the key to communicating scientific research is simple: Collaborate. “Communicating science effectively can require an unnatural act: collaboration...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards Reaches 20 Years
For two decades, thousands of high school and college students have put their personal experiences with discrimination in the spotlight as participants in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards...
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Asakawa Named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
Chieko Asakawa, the IBM Distinguished Service Professor in the Robotics Institute and an IBM Fellow at IBM Research, is among 19 innovators who will be inducted this year into the National Inventors...
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NREC Building Its Largest Robot
A yellow, steel structure constructed this fall in front of Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) will become the largest robot ever constructed in the 22-year...
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Joshi Optimizes Computing Systems for IBM's Watson
Machine learning has grown dramatically in engineering and computer science in recent years with the explosion of interest in artificial intelligence. In machine learning, humans — engineers and...
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Carnegie Mellon Launches High School Computer Science Curriculum
Carnegie Mellon University, world-renowned for computer science and artificial intelligence, has launched a free, online curriculum for high school students that helps instructors teach programming...
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Model Aims To Predict the Future of Energy
Carnegie Mellon University's Cristiana Lara and Ignacio Grossmann, ExxonMobil and the National Energy Technology Laboratory have developed a new model to help plan for the future of energy. "We are...
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Engineers Aim To Lighten the Load for Manufacturers
As members of Carnegie Mellon University's NextManufacturing Center, Kate Whitefoot and Levent Burak Kara are using additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to reimagine what is possible when...
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Lorrie Faith Cranor Named Director of CMU's CyLab
Lorrie Faith Cranor has been named the next director of the CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University's security and privacy institute, effective January 15. CyLab, founded in 2003, brings together security...
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"The Phantom 52" Among Animated Shorts at Sundance
Geoff Marslett's film, "The Phantom 52," has been selected for the "Animated Short Films" category at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, which takes place Jan. 24-Feb.3 in Park City, Utah. Marslett is an...
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CMU Among World Leaders in Davos for World Economic Forum
A contingent of Carnegie Mellon University faculty and researchers, led by President Farnam Jahanian, will travel to Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22-25, for the 2019 World Economic Forum. The annual event...
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