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CMU's Counseling Center, CaPS, Expands Services, Doubles Clinical Staff

Nationally, the Center for Collegiate Mental Health reports that counseling center utilization has increased by over 30% since 2009. Today’s students, it would seem, are more likely to ask for support...

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Faith, Truth and Forgiveness: How Your Brain Processes Abstract Thoughts

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts, like...

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Carnegie Mellon Endowment Reaches $2 Billion Milestone

Carnegie Mellon University's endowment reached $2 billion as of June 30, marking $116 million of growth during fiscal year 2019. Gifts and other additions contributed $59 million, while investment...

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CMU Shambles To Trace George Romero's Steps

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Carnegie Mellon University Announces Landmark $2 Billion Campaign

Carnegie Mellon University today announced a $2 billion comprehensive campaign —the largest in its history — that will accelerate the institution's leadership at the critical intersection of technology...

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Carnegie Mellon and Northrop Grumman Enter Into Master Sponsored Research...

Carnegie Mellon University and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation entered a new five-year master agreement to expedite funding of science and engineering research projects at the university.The...

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A Celebration of Collaboration

Three years ago, Carnegie Mellon University and ANSYS, a global leader in engineering simulation, announced a partnership to elevate the skills of the next generation of engineers and accelerate...

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Pittsburgh City Council Declares Oct. 31 "Tony Awards Day"

Pittsburgh City Councilperson Erika Strassburger sponsored a proclamation in City Council today declaring Oct. 31 "Tony Awards Day" in Pittsburgh, in recognition of Carnegie Mellon University's unique...

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Pittsburgh Celebrates Arts Education with "Tony Awards Day"

The power of arts education has been a part of Carnegie Mellon University since its earliest days, but Carnegie Mellon University's founder Andrew Carnegie never intended to create a drama school or...

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Neuro Week: Celebrating Innovation in Brain Research at CMU

It’s Neuro Week at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Neuroscience Institute is sponsoring several thought-provoking events to celebrate the innovative brain research conducted across CMU's Pittsburgh...

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Tony Awards Leaders Talk Opportunities, Careers

Being a theater artist involves all the things that people typically consider — creativity, tireless practice, inspiration — but it also requires industry know-how. It's hard to imagine a better team...

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Mathematicians' Work Helps Change How People Vote

As U.S. courts debate gerrymandering — the process of carving up electoral districts to disproportionately benefit one political party — Wes Pegden's work is helping to shape redistricting maps more...

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In Hunting for Cures, Ethics Can Strengthen Clinical Trials

Clinical trials provide the cornerstone for evaluating the safety and efficacy of new drugs and therapies to treat disease. While trials are designed to follow established ethical and regulatory...

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Aviation Innovation

Carnegie Mellon University's research partnership with Allegheny County Airport Authority began six years ago where most trips start: in the parking lot. In 2013, School of Computer Science Research...

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Highmark Health and Carnegie Mellon University expand longstanding...

Highmark Health and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced a $35 million grant from Highmark Inc. to support the construction of a new student health, wellness and athletics center at CMU....

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Neural Network Fills In Data Gaps For Spatial Analysis of Chromosomes

Computational methods used to fill in missing pixels in low-quality images or video also can help scientists provide missing information for how DNA is organized in the cell, computational biologists...

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Study Finds Brains of Girls and Boys Are Similar, Producing Equal Math Ability

In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was released with the controversial voice fragment, "Math class is hard." While the toy's release met with public backlash, this underlying assumption persists, propagating...

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Shinn-Cunningham Receives Professorship

Carnegie Mellon University's Barbara Shinn-Cunningham received the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professorship in Auditory Neuroscience at a ceremony Nov. 6. The event was part of CMU's first Neuro...

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Study: Conflict of Interest Disclosures Don’t Alter the Recommendations of...

The majority of high-quality medical and science journals require disclosure of possible conflicts of interest (COI). However, a new study suggests that such disclosures have no impact on journal...

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Two Professorships Support Computer Science and Electrical and Computer...

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced that Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CDNS) and its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, have made significant gifts of $3 million each to support faculty members...

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