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Recreational Facilities Re-open - With Restrictions
As Carnegie Mellon University prepares to welcome faculty, staff and students to campus for the fall semester, indoor and outdoor recreational and athletic facilities will re-open with a staggered and...
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Free Kits for Students Put the ‘Well’ in Welcome
Carnegie Mellon University is providing a free Wellness Kit to each student living on or off campus in preparation for the fall semester. The Wellness Kit contains two CMU-branded cloth facial...
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Save Me A Seat
When the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' locations reopen for the fall semester, visitors will encounter many new changes, including modified seating arrangements, plexiglass barriers, restricted...
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Amateur Drone Videos Could Aid in Natural Disaster Damage Assessment
It wasn't long after Hurricane Laura hit the Gulf Coast Thursday that people began flying drones to record the damage and posting videos on social media. Those videos are a precious resource, say...
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Carnegie Mellon Named NSF Planning Institute for Artificial Intelligence in...
Carnegie Mellon University has received a $500,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work toward creating a National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Physics....
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Four Doctoral Students Earn Steinbrenner Fellowships
The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon University has selected four Ph.D. students as Steinbrenner Research Fellows. The graduate fellowship program...
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Makers Use Facial Coverings as Creative Outlets
Life on Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus will be a little different this fall. Everyone must wear a facial covering (sufficient to cover the nose and mouth) at all times — both inside and...
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Welcome Class of 2024+
Each year, the incoming class at Carnegie Mellon University gathers during First-Year Orientation for a class photo. CMU is continuing this tradition with a twist during remote Orientation by creating...
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For Community Well-Being, Whole Equals Sum of Its Parts
Since March, Maureen Dasey-Morales has co-led Carnegie Mellon University’s response to the pandemic. Now, as we approach the start of the fall semester, the associate vice president for Community...
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CMU Partners with U.S. Army To Grow Data Science and AI Expertise
Carnegie Mellon University welcomes students from the U.S. Army amid the cadre of others starting classes this fall, expanding educational pathways for the Army to grow their expertise in data science...
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What Will Community Well-Being Look Like This Fall?
Carnegie Mellon University students are living and learning across the globe this fall, taking advantage of a hybrid model of education that blends some in-person opportunities with remote learning....
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A Year of Challenge and Opportunity
Dear Members of the CMU Community, Welcome to the new academic year. Addressing the Incident at the Fence Let me start by saying this is not the fall semester welcome that I originally prepared to send...
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100 Maps From CMU's EarthTime Chart Humanity's Greatest Challenges
EarthTime, the innovative data visualization technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, takes center stage in a new book addressing some of the greatest challenges facing...
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Student Studies State Pandemic Policies, Consumer Behaviors
As state governments managed their own responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Tony Xu was watching. Xu, a senior in economics and mathematical sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, studies how U.S....
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SURF Study Explores the Question: What Makes Someone Attractive?
Dominique Powell wants to broaden the understanding of what a person looks for in a mate, in particular when it comes to gender and sexual minorities. "My research seeks to include the LGBTQIA+...
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Dining Services Transforms for Fall Semester
Familiarity has returned to Carnegie Mellon University eateries and coffee shops. The Underground is again flipping all-day pancakes. The inviting aromas of coffee and lattes and cappuccinos are...
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INTERSECT@CMU To Share COVID-19 Lessons for Future Action
As all things adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, so has Carnegie Mellon University's third annual INTERSECT@CMU Conference. The event, which brings together CMU professors, researchers, students and...
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Google.org Donates $1 Million, Personnel To CMU's COVID-19 Forecasting Project
Google.org has donated $1 million to Carnegie Mellon University to support COVIDcast, the university's effort to track and forecast localized COVID-19 activity nationwide.The company is also providing...
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Altgold Helps Build Silk Scaffolding for Tissue
Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate Tahlia Altgold makes biomedical research using silk run more smoothly. "Silk is a really incredible biomedical material that's been used for a long time in...
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Pandemic Spawns 'Infodemic' in Scientific Literature
The science community has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with such a flurry of research studies that it is hard for anyone to digest them all. This conundrum underscores a long-standing need to...
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