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Showcase Cabaret Brings To Life the David Yazbek Songbook
He was mesmerized by every song he heard, moving to the rhythm of the music, eyes closed as he absorbed the performances and mouthed the lyrics. Yes, this man knew every song by heart but, then again,...
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CMU Team Uses AI to Help Machines Play Nice with Humans
Three Carnegie Mellon University researchers — the lead investigator, Anita Williams Woolley at the Tepper School of Business, along with co-investigators Cleotilde Gonzalez at the Dietrich College of...
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CMU, AAU Report Findings from Sexual Assault, Misconduct Survey
Results from the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct, a study of 33 universities including Carnegie Mellon University, have been published...
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Computational "Match Game" Identifies Potential Antibiotics
Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a software tool that can play a high-speed "Match Game" to identify bioactive molecules and the microbial genes that produce them so...
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Eve Marder To Receive Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University will award the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Science to renowned neuroscientist Eve Marder of Brandeis University. Marder is known for pioneering studies of neural...
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Shawn Brown Selected as the Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Shawn Brown has been selected as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Brown, whose...
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Study Shows Regulators Are Allowing Utilities Higher Returns
For many years, all electric utilities in the U.S. were regulated monopolies. Although some states deregulated electricity generation over the past 20 years, electric utility companies in other states...
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Inventive Design Illuminates Neurons Deep in the Brain
An interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has produced a new type of neural probe with an innovative design, improving the way researchers study neurons deep...
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Research Illustrates Legacy of Latin American Comics
Aliens, lethal snowflakes and a resistance movement, and a family separated by time travel could describe a sci-fi film. It's the setting of "El Eternauta," a serial comic published in Argentina during...
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CMU Celebrates Buggy Tradition of Skills and Thrills
It’s quirky, it’s different, and it’s so Carnegie Mellon University, where the college experience is a little buggy. Sweepstakes, better known as the Spring Carnival Buggy Races, will celebrate its...
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Direct Current Can Amp Up Existing Transmission Lines
The U.S. energy system has seen sweeping changes in the past two decades. Natural gas replaced coal as the dominant fossil source of power generation, and wind and solar energy now contribute roughly...
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New Tool Determines Threats to Networked 3D Printers
In the rising era of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) devices, factories are being upgraded. Devices, such as networked 3D printers, can now interact with other machines and be controlled remotely...
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Students Offer Green Twist to Twizzler Production Process
If one of your top products is known for its bright red color, you need to think creatively about how to make it green. Twizzlers — especially in the original strawberry flavor with their signature...
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Department of Energy Awards Rollett $2.4 Million To 3D-Print Heat Exchangers
A team of researchers has received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E) to create high temperature heat exchangers using new...
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Teaches Helps Students Heal Through Theater Arts
There are likely few teachers who have witnessed how the arts can help to heal wounds that little else can. One of those teachers, Melody Herzfeld, saw firsthand how tragedy can be overcome through the...
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Hate vs. Understanding: Start the Conversation Forum on Hate Crimes
A year ago, the Pittsburgh Federal Executive Board (FEB) formed a hate crimes working group, with more than 25 members from various governmental organizations. A main objective of the FEB is to be a...
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Obituary: David William Miller Was an Acclaimed Scholar of Irish and...
David William Miller, an internationally recognized scholar of Irish and religious history at Carnegie Mellon University, died Sunday, Oct. 20. He was 79. A professor emeritus in the Department of...
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Surtrac Allows Traffic To Move at the Speed of Technology
Artificial intelligence is giving more Pittsburgh drivers the green light. Developing and deploying the technology to keep the traffic flowing took a team of researchers and roboticists from Carnegie...
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CMU Residency Artists Create Performance Exploring Control, Empathy
Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Institute for Contemporary Art will present a "Bearance," a performance by Matty Davis and Ben Gould at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, the Braddock Carnegie Library,...
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ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept
Amelia Li is threading wires into bits of hardware scattered on a table. As she alternates between red, yellow, blue and green, the master's student of entertainment technology at Carnegie Mellon...
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