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Billy Porter Gets Back-to-Back Lead Actor Emmy Nominations
Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Billy Porter will be defending his historical Emmy win at the 72nd Emmy Awards. In 2019, Porter became the first openly gay black man to win Outstanding lead actor in...
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Researchers Urge the Scientific Community to #StopPandemicBias
While there is little doubt that COVID-19 will have lasting impacts on health and the economy, a group of researchers is bringing attention to the effects the pandemic could have on the careers of...
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Self-Isolation May Increase Susceptibility to COVID-19
Months of self-isolation and social distancing have taken their toll. Sheldon Cohen, the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, has produced a body of research that...
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Science Fiction During a Science-Fictional Moment
A deadly virus rages around the world, emptying workplaces, restaurants and movie theaters. After weeks and months in isolation, civilization begins to emerge. Many of those venturing outdoors continue...
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CMU Alumnus Tommy Oliver Works for Change
Tommy Oliver's personal and professional life are hitting high notes right now, but he is not one to stand on the sidelines and rest on past accomplishments. And he would be the first to tell you he...
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CMU-Q Students Take Top Spots in Qatar Sports Tech Virtual Hackathon 2020
Student teams from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, took first and second place in the Qatar Sports Tech (QST) Virtual Hackathon 2020. The event...
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Carnegie Mellon University and CCDC Army Research Laboratory Announce...
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory (ARL) have entered into a $3.5 million cooperative agreement that supports machine...
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Music's Effect on the Aging Brain
Jennie Dorris stood behind her marimba calling out the name of each musical note as she struck its corresponding wooden bar with a rubber mallet, “C! E! F! … Now, roll the G!” Half a dozen older adults...
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Chautauqua Invites CMU Professors to AI and Humanity Panel
Each summer, 100,000 philanthropists, artists, politicians and community leaders gather at the Chautauqua Institution for a nine-week season of lectures, courses and interactive programming. Invited...
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Live-Streamed Game Collects Sounds To Help Train Home-Based Artificial...
From yawning to closing the fridge door, a lot of sounds occur within the home. Such sounds could be useful for home-based artificial intelligence applications, but training that AI requires a robust...
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Scrubbing Up for Fall
Spring cleaning has never ended at Carnegie Mellon University. It has continued this summer and will extend through the fall. Facilities Management and Campus Services (FMCS) is leading a massive...
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If the Shoe Fits: CSAFE Study Improves Shoe Print Forensics
Detectives in a fictional TV series investigate a crime scene. They call over to the forensic tech to take shoe imprints. This will be the evidence that could crack the case. You have seen this...
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Unlocking PNA’s Superpowers for Self-assembling Nanostructures
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (γPNA), a synthetic mimic of DNA. The process has the...
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Tome' Cousin Awarded Career Achievement Top Honor
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama Associate Professor of Dance Tome' Cousin has been named the 2020 winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's (ATHE) prestigious Ellen Stewart...
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Signature Courses Lead the Way
In the 2020 spring semester, faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, Carnegie Mellon University faculty moved more than 4,900 course-sections to remote instruction in a matter of weeks. Faculty rushed to...
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Outside the Classroom
The engineering schools Tahlia Altgold visited as a high school senior all emphasized academic rigor, but didn't talk about student activities or life on campus. "In engineering, a lot of the rhetoric...
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Signature Course: EUREKA!: Discovery and Its Impact
As they make the transition from high school to college, students in the Mellon College of Science (MCS) need to start seeing themselves as scientists and mathematicians. EUREKA!: Discovery and Its...
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“Every Day is a Tuesday” as Facilities Management Prepares Campus for Fall
In the early days of COVID-19, when Carnegie Mellon University was emptied and even less was known about the virus, Steve Guenther repeatedly found himself undressing in his garage. As the university...
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Tartans, Ready
Campus will look and feel different in the midst of this global pandemic, but all of us at Carnegie Mellon University remain committed to offering our students a transformative educational opportunity....
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CMU Names K&L Gates Presidential Fellows
Three Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. candidates — one each from the School of Computer Science, Dietrich College and Heinz College — have been chosen as the 2020 K&L Gates Presidential Fellows....
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