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A Toxic Truth: Lead Exposure Problems Linger In Soil, Air
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan — which began in 2014 but to this day has not been completely resolved — brought the public health and economic costs of lead exposure into sharp focus. The crisis...
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Convocation: The Start of a Transformation
The Class of 2023+ attends Convocation, the formal academic ceremony marking the start of their Carnegie Mellon Universty experience.
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Self-rolling Sensors Take Heart Cell Readings in 3D
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an organ-on-an-electronic-chip platform, which uses bioelectrical...
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Leading the Charge at House Wars
Chants and cheers can be heard from blocks away as two playfully rival groups gather to trade barbs in Carnegie Mellon University's Morewood Lot next to the David A. Tepper Quadrangle. The first group,...
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Carnegie Mellon Qatar Welcomes Class of 2023
The Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) community gathered to formally welcome the new students who will begin their first year of studies next week. The Class of 2023 is comprised of more than...
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Craig Street Crawl Introduces Students to Community
Each year as part of Carnegie Mellon University's Orientation activities, students are introduced to community businesses through the Craig Street Crawl. The event features music, dancing, givewaways...
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First-Year Students Give Back on Service Day
David Park's appetite for helping others led him to a newfound talent - making Rice Krispie treats. Park, a first-year student at Carnegie Mellon University, discovered his sweet culinary skill during...
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CMU Interns Apply Skills, Find Kinship at Salesforce
Long summer breaks offer unlimited opportunities for Carnegie Mellon University students to relax, travel, study and intern. There’s something special about the experience if a student returns to the...
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Exoskeleton Research Takes Steps Forward, Thanks To Personal Connection
John Mangual grew up watching his mother limp. Amy Mangual had broken her leg, and lived with ligament and tendon problems that lead to chronic ankle instability.Mangual was exposed to all kinds of...
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Strawberries May Be Key To Developing an Insulin Pill
More than 30 million Americans suffer from diabetes and must inject themselves with insulin two to four times daily. Researchers have been looking for ways to administer the drug orally, and...
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Dammon To Step Down as Dean of Tepper School of Business
Robert M. Dammon, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's nationally ranked Tepper School of Business, has announced he will step down from the position. Dammon will serve as dean until a successor is in...
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Rayid Ghani, Pioneer in Applying AI to Social Issues, Joins Carnegie Mellon
Rayid Ghani, a pioneer in using data science and artificial intelligence to solve major social and policy challenges and the former chief scientist for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, will...
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CMU-Africa Taking Big Step Forward
Technology companies, biotech firms and world-class universities sit side-by-side in an area of gently rolling hills. That could describe Silicon Valley or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it could soon...
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Study Finds Big Benefits in Embracing Vehicle Safety Tech
Alerting drivers to potential threats through "driver-assist" warning systems has been shown to reduce the odds of a crash. Using cameras or radar, each tool detects potentially dangerous anomalies,...
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Climate Change Is Causing More Landslides, Machine Learning Can Help Predict...
Christoph Mertz, the principal project scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, started taking pictures of the hills overlooking Pittsburgh's West End on his smartphone. "Every...
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Mill 19 Opening Signals New Era of Manufacturing
Carnegie Mellon University researchers and robots will soon occupy a state-of-the-art facility at the newly constructed Mill 19 building on the 178-acre site known as Hazelwood Green. The first...
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Faculty Receive NIH Grant To 3D Print New Class of Nanoparticle Neural Probes
Carnegie Mellon University's Rahul Panat and Eric Yttri have received a R01 grant of $1.95 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use a low-cost, rapid additive manufacturing method to...
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Modern Musicking Show a Big Hit with Students
Carnegie Mellon University's Lance LaDuke has struck a chord with students when it comes to a modern music education. LaDuke's title is as broad as the skills he helps his students develop. As an...
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Do As I Say: Translating Language Into Movement
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computer model that can translate text describing physical movements directly into simple computer-generated animations, a first step toward...
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CMU Expert Discusses Post-9/11 Al Qaeda, Security Issues
Despite Al Qaeda’s weakened state from post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts, the fight isn’t over.As the terrorist organization works to regroup in Syria, the United States’ limited access and oversight...
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