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Enrichment Programs Help Children Build Knowledge
How humans organize information plays an integral role in memory, reasoning and the ability to acquire new knowledge. In the absence of routine education programs, the pandemic is exacerbating the...
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Fulbright Grantees' Dreams on Pause, but not Forgotten
At a time when most people are staying close to home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Carnegie Mellon University graduates are looking to future travel as Fulbright Student Grantees. Katelyn Croft, who...
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Students Past and Present Start Food Delivery Service
Social distancing and quarantine have led to the increased usage of services like GrubHub and DoorDash. However, students living in Pittsburgh without a steady source of income may find themselves...
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Experimental Course Captures Students' Experiences
Cathryn Ploehn, a master's student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design, put her friends' hearts in her work. For an assignment earlier this semester in the Experimental Capture (ExCap)...
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CMU Elects 5 New Trustees, Including Entertainer Tamara Tunie
Award-winning actor, director and producer Tamara R. Tunie was unanimously elected to Carnegie Mellon University’s Board of Trustees at their most recent meeting on May 15. The 1981 alumna of Carnegie...
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Prescribed Burns May Introduce New Atmospheric Toxins
In many of the world’s forested regions, wildfires are an unavoidable fact of life. From the forests of Portugal, to the woods of California, to the recent devastation of the Australian bushfires,...
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The Pittsburgh Packers
Jaime Rzepecki moved every year as a student at the University of Pittsburgh. Dorm to dorm. Apartment to apartment. Several years later, she finds herself back in a residence hall, loading up boxes,...
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Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing 'Reopening America' May Be Bots
Encountering a bot account while scrolling through Twitter is more likely to occur in the era of COVID-19. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the...
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Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut
A "smart" polymer cast that automatically seals itself around a broken arm, a membrane that can sense where it has been cut and pneumatic actuators that can be cut and reconfigured into different...
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Learning from vaccination’s history
With the ongoing speculation around the development of a viable COVID-19 vaccine, there’s no better time to revisit the history of vaccination. One foundational text of modern immunology and...
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Innovation Scholars Prepare To Forge New Paths
During past Orientation weeks at Carnegie Mellon University, incoming students have the chance to meet and connect through activities like Playfair, House Wars and the Craig Street Crawl. As Awa Ndiaye...
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As COVID Slows Hollywood Pipeline, Future Tech Could Help
A lengthy coronavirus pandemic could limit film and television production while opening up opportunities for new forms of entertainment. But technological advancements could help reduce future...
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Confronting Racism in Our Society
Dear Members of the CMU Community, Even as our nation struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to bear witness to the reality that systemic racism and injustice pervades our...
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CMU Faculty Join WEF's Community of Young Scientists
Two Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as part of the 2020 Community of Young Scientists. Stephanie Sydlik, an assistant professor of...
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Carnegie Mellon Tool Automatically Turns Math Into Pictures
Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of...
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Rising Junior Awarded Critical Language Scholarship
Roni Sosis, a rising junior at Carnegie Mellon University, has won a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). In a normal year, Sosis would be heading abroad for eight to 10 weeks...
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Art Meets Tech in Born-Digital Artist's Book
A project created by a recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate dares to challenge the traditional definition of an artist's book, and you can find it in the University Libraries' catalog. Unlike a...
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Mapping How the Brain Regulates Stress
As the weeks of self-isolation tick by, people are seeking ways to manage stress in the absence of normal interactions. Previous studies have shown the value of self-affirmation in lowering and...
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Elizabeth Dickey Named Head of Materials Science and Engineering
Elizabeth Dickey, a leading researcher in the field of materials science and engineering, has been named head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University...
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PLOS, CMU Announce APC-free Open Access Publishing Agreement
Carnegie Mellon University and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced a two-year open access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS' suite of journals without incurring...
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