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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...

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CMU 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...

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Carnegie 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...

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Allegheny 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...

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CMU’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...

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Graduate 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...

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Dietrich 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...

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Carnegie 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...

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#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...

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Undergraduates 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...

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Undergraduate 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...

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Ready, 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...

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CMU 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...

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Piano 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...

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Culture 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...

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Playfair: 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...

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New 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...

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Pennsylvania'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...

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Carnegie 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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