CMU-Developed Microneedle Patches Ready for COVID-19 Fight
As health care professionals battle the COVID-19 pandemic on the front lines, engineers are working behind the scenes with innovative technologies to tip the scales in this global fight. Carnegie...
View ArticleJian Ma Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Jian Ma, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department, is one of 175 scientists, writers, artists and other scholars awarded 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships by the...
View ArticleCMU Selected by U.S. Army to Lead Artificial Intelligence Innovation Framework
PITTSBURGH, Penn. (April 10, 2020) – Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has been selected by the U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) to lead a five-year contract to support research and development of an...
View ArticleThe Future of AI is Female
Carnegie Mellon University has shaped artificial intelligence (AI) from the field’s very beginning. Today, researchers from all seven colleges across CMU continue to define AI as the next frontier in...
View ArticleChildren’s School Shares Resources For At-Home Learning
The Carnegie Mellon University Children’s School is sharing its resources with the public as a way to help families who are home with preschoolers or kindergarteners, as well as educators who are...
View ArticleSmartphone Videos Produce Highly Realistic 3D Face Reconstructions
Normally, it takes pricey equipment and expertise to create an accurate 3D reconstruction of someone's face that's realistic and doesn't look creepy. Now, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have...
View ArticleAnne Lambright Appointed Head of Modern Languages
Anne Lambright, dean of academic affairs and professor of language and culture studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, has been named the next head of Carnegie Mellon University's...
View ArticleCMU Career Center Adapts to Help Students Facing Uncertain Summer
Around mid-March, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) polled its members about their response to the coronavirus epidemic. Ninety percent of responding employers expected to...
View ArticleGelfand Center Pivots To Support Parents, Prospective Students
In the first week of Pennsylvania's school cancellations ordered by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Carnegie Mellon University’s Leonard Gelfand Center had...
View ArticleCreativity Would Allow More Americans to Return to Work, Soon
Jonathan Caulkins doesn't know when America will return to work. Whenever it happens — when social distancing guidelines are eased — he knows it won't be normal. And he's fine with that. "I think it's...
View ArticleGreenhouse Gas Emissions From Pittsburgh's Food System
A first-of-its-kind study by a team of 19 Carnegie Mellon University students has estimated the carbon footprint of the entire food system of Allegheny County. Their study tabulates the emissions of...
View ArticleCMU Professor Creates Innovative App to Anonymously Trace Exposure to COVID-19
As the world continues to focus on slowing the spread of COVID-19 and determining how to safely restart the world economy, a team of designers, mathematicians, computer scientists and physicists led by...
View ArticleRemembering Paul O'Neill's Legacy of Impact
Paul O'Neill, former secretary of the Treasury, head of Pittsburgh-based aluminum giant Alcoa Corp., chairman of RAND Corporation, and dear friend and advisor to Carnegie Mellon University, passed away...
View ArticleSelf-reported COVID-19 Symptoms Show Promise for Disease Forecasts
Self-reported descriptions of COVID-19-related symptoms, which Carnegie Mellon University researchers are gathering nationwide with the help of Facebook and Google, correlate well with test-confirmed...
View ArticleBalcan Receives ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
Maria Florina "Nina" Balcan, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science's Machine Learning and Computer Science Departments, has received the 2019 Association for...
View ArticleAdmoni Earns NSF CAREER Award
Henny Admoni, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development...
View ArticleCMU Spinoff Uses AI to Address COVID-19
Cameras monitor stores, hotels, hospitals, airport terminals, public parks and parking lots. When computer vision technology company Zensors spun out of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer...
View ArticleNever Remote: Libraries Continue to Connect Community with Resources
Working on her dissertation in Mexico City, Sofía Bosch Gómez, a doctoral student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design, needed access to the book, "Historia del diseño en América Latina y...
View ArticleCMU Dashboard Will Help Inform State Decision-Makers During Pandemic
Carnegie Mellon University is playing a key role in Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's planning efforts to re-open the state's economy. There is no single dashboard tool that states can use to determine...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Unveils Five Interactive COVID-19 Maps
Carnegie Mellon University today unveiled five interactive maps displaying real-time information on symptoms, doctor visits, medical tests and browser searches related to COVID-19 in the United States,...
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