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CMU Shines at Grace Hopper 2019

Jessica Shirley Media Contact: Jason MadererCarnegie Mellon University is expanding its presence at the Grace Hopper Celebration, the world's premier event for female technologists. Faculty, staff,...

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New Biological Approach Helps Robots Sense Chemicals

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are one step closer to creating biological-mechanical hybrid machines as they work to develop soft robots that can sense and respond to chemical signals. "A...

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HCII's McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile

Bruce McLaren believes the moment is right to raise the status of educational technologies in Chile.The South American nation is an advanced country with a solid educational system. Its Ministry of...

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Dietrich College Launches the Humanities@CMU Initiative

Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences is launching an initiative that will promote and advance the university's strengths in the humanities. Among its many...

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CompBio's Mohimani Going Big To Find New Antibiotics

Hosein Mohimani has a knack for finding ever-faster ways of searching giant databases in search of potential therapeutic drugs. Now, the computer scientist is trying a new approach in which the size of...

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Suzanne Staggs To Present 2019 Buhl Lecture

Astrophysicist Suzanne Staggs will present Carnegie Mellon University’s annual Buhl Lecture at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8 in the Mellon Institute Auditorium. Her lecture, “Looking Backwards with the...

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CMU’s Miller ICA Presents "This Skin of Ours" Oct. 12-Nov. 17

Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present "This Skin of Ours," an exhibition guest-curated by Liz Park, curator of Exhibitions at University Buffalo Art...

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Carnegie Mellon's Miller ICA Presents "Intersections: Frank-Ratchye STUDIO...

Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Intersections: Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry 30th Anniversary Exhibition." This 30th anniversary...

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One-Dimensional Objects Morph Into New Dimensions

A line is the shortest distance between two points, but "A-line," a 4D printing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, takes a more circuitous route. One-dimensional, "line"-shaped plastic...

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CMU and Yale Receive NIH Grant To Further Gene Editing Technique

A research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University will advance their innovative, synthetic nucleic acid-based gene editing technique under a new grant from the National Institutes of...

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Tran Overcomes Setback, Engineers Final Year of Football, Master's Degree

Heart surgery couldn't sack Long Tran. Tran, a defensive end for the Carnegie Mellon University Tartans, returned to the starting lineup last year after sitting out the 2017 season following heart...

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Carnegie Mellon Faculty Awarded Grants To Advance the Field of Public...

Two Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, Christopher Goranson and Yulia Tsvetkov, have each received grants of $90,000 from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN).Goranson,...

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CDC Funds Carnegie Mellon's Flu Forecasting Center

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named Carnegie Mellon University as an Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence, a five-year designation that includes $3 million in research...

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Archives Digitize Decades of Mellon Institute Records

Carnegie Mellon's University Libraries have organized and preserved 347 boxes of records from the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, one of the nation's premier independent research centers,...

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Inside the Enigma Machine

Researchers had a rare opportunity to peek "under the hood" of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' two Enigma machines, opening the World War II-era machines to photograph their carefully-crafted...

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Using the Arts as a Pathway to Empathy

Rachel Harry of Hood River, Oregon, flew under the radar for 30 years and then, one day, it all changed. The theatre arts educator from Hood River Valley High School was named the third Excellence in...

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And our winners are ...

In 2014, Carnegie Mellon University became the first, exclusive higher education partner of the Tony Awards, a partnership created to recognize the 100th anniversary of CMU's School of Drama, the first...

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SURF Recipient Deciphers Prison Data

It all started with a spreadsheet of raw data from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.Since this spring, Carnegie Mellon University senior Ben Klingensmith has been digging into this data,...

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Carnegie Mellon Engineering Deanship Endowed with $15 Million Gift

Carnegie Mellon University alumnus William Strecker and his wife, Nancy, have made a transformational $15 million gift to endow the dean's chair of the College of Engineering. The gift provides...

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Taking the Scenic Route to CMU

As rain poured on a frigid Georgia day, Eva Gerstle saw her first white blaze, a painted rectangle marking the passage of the Appalachian Trail. One of her two moms and her cousin had accompanied her...

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