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COVID-19 Treatments: A Call for Rigorous Clinical Research
Ethicists from Carnegie Mellon and McGill universities are calling on the global research community to resist treating the urgency of the current COVID-19 outbreak as grounds for making exceptions to...
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CMU Team Supports Local School Districts
Carnegie Mellon University experts are helping local school districts be more successful in their transition to remote learning as students and teachers remain at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
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CMU's Ydstie Named Finalist in DOE's American-Made Solar Prize
The U.S. Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory selected 10 finalists in Round 2 of the American-Made Solar Prize on March 30. In mid-March, 20 semifinalists from 14 states...
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Crossing Blades: CMU's Fencing Club Learns To Strategize with Swordplay
Early one Saturday afternoon in February — before the COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone all to stay at home — students shuffled into the Arena Room at Skibo Gymnasium on the campus of Carnegie Mellon...
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Fragkiadaki Earns NSF CAREER Award
Katerina Fragkiadaki, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science's Machine Learning Department, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)...
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Hammer Earns NSF CAREER Award
Jessica Hammer, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has received a National Science Foundation...
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Nico Slate to Head Carnegie Mellon’s History Department
Nico Slate has been selected to head Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of History, effective July 1. Slate, a professor of history, succeeds Donna Harsch, who has led the department since 2015....
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Niche Helps Students Choose the Right College
When Luke Skurman was a high school junior in the San Francisco Bay Area, he started searching for information about colleges. He found plenty of possibilities, but very little first-hand insight....
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New Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality
Today’s virtual reality systems can create immersive visual experiences, but seldom do they enable users to feel anything — particularly walls, appliances and furniture. A new device developed at...
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FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet
Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many people trying to improve their diet often track what they eat. A new wearable from researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of...
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Carnegie Mellon Tackles the Digital Divide, Connects High-Need Students to Wi-Fi
When Kristopher Hupp started teaching high school social studies in the Cornell School District in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, his classroom had a chalkboard and a PC with a floppy disc drive. Twenty...
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Dynamic Source Imaging the Brain
Marking a major milestone on the path to meeting the objectives of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN initiative, research by Bin He advances high-density electroencephalography (EEG) as the...
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Yağan Receives Emergency NSF Grant To Help Fight COVID-19
Osman Yağan, an associate research professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Princeton’s Vincent Poor were awarded a one-year National Science...
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A Big Comeback for a Little Switch
Researchers Maarten de Boer and Gianluca Piazza in Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering are investigating how to develop reliable, nanoscale mechanical switches, also called nanorelays....
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CMU Team Produces Face Shields for Essential Workers
Carnegie Mellon University has partnered with Global Links, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to community organizations that need them during the COVID-19...
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Sawyer Series: "Bread and Water," Food Insecurity and Sickness
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation granted Carnegie Mellon University $225,000 for a 2019-2020 Sawyer Seminar on "Bread and Water: Access, Belonging and Environmental Justice in the City." The seminar...
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IDeATe Students Adapt To Remote Learning
Students in the Carnegie Mellon University's Integrative Design, Arts and Technology (IDeATe) Program have been working are adapting their skills as makers as classes wrap up in virtual environments...
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A Dramatic Shift
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama's transition to remote learning is opening up new opportunities to connect students with industry professionals and providing fresh approaches to courses that...
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New AI Enables Teachers to Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creating these computerized systems is difficult and laborious. Now,...
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Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Researchers Launch Ventilator Project
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are developing a new, low-cost ventilator they say will address the ventilator shortage, both now and in...
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