Language and Learning Lab Helps Develop Researchers
In Erik Thiessen's Infant Language and Learning Lab, Carnegie Mellon University students are taking their first steps into research. The studies are simple and fun for the subjects. While babies sit on...
View ArticleCMU President Reflects on Life and Legacy of Andrew Carnegie
This week marks the 100-year anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's death. His passing, on August 11, 1919, came 19 years after he designated $2 million to create the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon/Oregon State Robotics Team Prepares For Subterranean Challenge
A pair of wheeled robots and a pair of drones, assembled by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Oregon State University, will work together to autonomously map and search an underground mine...
View ArticleAllegheny Valley Inspires CMU Artists
The black shirts of siblings Samuel and Isabel Horgan contrast the stark, white walled critique space in the basement of Doherty Hall. Their multimedia installation "Down in the Valley, Up and Out of...
View ArticleCMU’s Class of 2023+ To Experience Early “Breakthroughs”
“Aha!” moments come early at Carnegie Mellon University. From the first day, students will find unexpected opportunities to gain insights into themselves and the world at large as they join a unique...
View ArticleGraduate Student To Operate Base Station in Subterranean Challenge
Kevin Pluckter clicks his computer mouse while sitting in front of dual monitors at a base station just outside the entrance to the Tour-Ed Mine in rural western Pennsylvania. The mine has served as a...
View ArticleDietrich College Students Take On Transformational Summer Internships
A city at the forefront of healthcare, education, technology and financial services, Pittsburgh offers broad opportunities for college students. In its second year, the Dietrich College of Humanities...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Wins Fifth “World Cup” of Hacking
Carnegie Mellon University’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), continued its dominance in computer security by winning its fifth hacking world championship in seven years...
View Article#MeToo Media Coverage Sympathetic to but Not Necessarily Empowering for Women
The #MeToo movement has encouraged women to share their personal stories of sexual harassment. While the movement amplifies previously unheard voices, a Carnegie Mellon University analysis of #MeToo...
View ArticleUndergraduates Take Steps Toward 3D Printing Artificial Lungs
Madeline Evans knows the importance of a properly functioning set of lungs. As a member of Carnegie Mellon University's cross country and track and field teams, Evans, a junior, relies on her lungs to...
View ArticleUndergraduate Explores Mysteries of the Universe
Nihar Dalal often loses himself in his work, and he likes it that way. The rising sophomore spent his summer modeling the number of galaxies expected to be seen by the yet-to-be-launched James Webb...
View ArticleReady, Set, Move-In!
Carnegie Mellon University is thrilled to welcome the class of 2023+ to Pittsburgh. Move-In Day 2019 marks the start of Orientation week, with orientation counselors, resident assistants and university...
View ArticleCMU President Encourages New Students To Explore & Dream Big
As families prepared to say farewell to the members of the class of 2023+, Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian greeted them and challenged the incoming students to venture outside...
View ArticlePiano Day Pittsburgh Takes Music to the Streets
A flatbed trailer carrying a grand piano will become a stage on wheels, filling downtown Pittsburgh plazas with music from Carnegie Mellon University students, alumni and staff, and several jazz...
View ArticleCulture on Display at Community Collage
Community Collage is an Orientation event where upper-class students put on performances and weave narratives, highlighting the diversity of Carnegie Mellon University's campus. The high-energy mix of...
View ArticlePlayfair: The Ultimate Icebreaker
Playfair brings the class of 2023+ together for the first time for a series of icebreaker games. First-year students get to know their fellow classmates as the sun sets over The Cut on Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleNew Model Shows Fire Emissions Pose Health Threats Hundreds of Miles from the...
A new model by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering shows that health hazards from fires go beyond the burned areas, and fire emissions can contribute to cardiovascular...
View ArticlePennsylvania's Solar Future Is Sunnier Thanks to Heinz College
The Green New Deal has dominated the environmental conversation in 2019, but that doesn't mean the debates around climate change and renewable energy only happen at the federal level. State and local...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Robotics Team Wins Initial DARPA Event
Team Explorer from Carnegie Mellon University and Oregon State University deployed robots to autonomously map and search underground mines and outscored 10 competing teams at the initial scored event...
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