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Honoring the Remarkable Life of CMU Trustee Linda Dickerson
The Carnegie Mellon University community lost one of its most passionate, resilient members this week with the passing of alumna and trustee Linda Dickerson. As a child, Dickerson was diagnosed with a...
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Busy Pictures Hinder Reading Ability in Children
Reading is the gateway for learning, but one-third of elementary school students in the United States do not read at grade level. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how the design...
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COVID, Politics Could Divide This Year's Thanksgiving Table
Differences in politics and beliefs in pandemic precautions could literally divide families this Thanksgiving or make it downright toxic, according to Carnegie Mellon University experts. Debating...
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Student Studies Movement in Fashion's Future
Carnegie Mellon University senior David Perry contemplates how fabric will move in the future. Not just the way clothing can drape a body or how curtains billow in a breeze, but how technology and...
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CMU's MoonRanger Will Search for Water at Moon's South Pole
MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by Carnegie Mellon University and its spinoff Astrobotic, has completed its preliminary design review in preparation for a 2022 mission to search for...
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AMD Providing Computing Resources To Support CBD's COVID-19 Research
AMD has donated access to high-end computing to two Carnegie Mellon University Computational Biology Department faculty members, Christopher Langmead and Min Xu, to assist them in research projects...
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Servant Leadership Helps Senior Empower Others
Kai Huizenga came to Carnegie Mellon University knowing they wanted to serve as a resident assistant (RA). Their older sister had been an RA at her university a few years prior, and Kai saw how she...
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Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
The Siebel Scholars Foundation announced that five Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science graduate students — Brandon Bohrer, Rogerio Bonatti, Megan Hofmann, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung and Lijun...
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CMU Scientists Solve 90-Year-Old Geometry Problem
Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists and mathematicians have resolved the last, stubborn piece of Keller's conjecture, a geometry problem that scientists have puzzled over for 90 years. By...
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Crunching Numbers for Regenerative Medicine
As a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University, Sean Pereira took a seminar with biomedical engineering professor Rosalyn Abbott. Despite Pereira's focus on the computational aspects of biology, he was...
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SURF Student Translates East German Sci-Fi
Wilson Ekern opens the PDF copy of the 1984 East German collection of short science fiction stories "Windschiefe Geraden" on his laptop side-by-side with the translation he's been working on all...
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Students 'Flush Away 2020'
To call 2020 challenging puts it mildly. Between the pandemic, a tense presidential election and, for some reason, murder hornets, the American populace has endured a strenuous trip around the sun. One...
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COVIDcast Now Monitoring Daily U.S. Mask Use, COVID-19 Testing
Nationwide trends in mask use, access to COVID-19 tests, and test results are now being monitored by Carnegie Mellon University and shared publicly as part of a symptom survey distributed daily to...
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Data Is A Journey, Not A Destination
Data provide the hard facts to explain anything, from a cat's behavior on catnip to election dynamics to how climate change will affect a given region. While data provides a way to explore the natural...
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Libraries Use Computer Vision to Explore Photo Archives
An internal web application built by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries faculty and staff leverages computer vision to improve the discoverability of archival photos by allowing archivists to quickly...
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Experts Discuss Combating Disinformation One Month from the Election
Disinformation spreads more than ever before, sowing falsehoods, increasing political polarization and potentially infringing on the democratic process. Experts say disinformation campaigns not only...
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Three Carnegie Mellon Alumni Nominated for Six Tony Awards
Three Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama alumni received a total of six Tony Award nominations today for their accomplishments on Broadway. This marks the 12th consecutive year that at least...
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Carnegie Mellon Heads New Center for Studying Structure of Cell Nucleus
Carnegie Mellon University will direct a new multi-institution research center funded by the National Institutes of Health to develop a better understanding of the three-dimensional structure of cell...
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CMU Children’s School Celebrates Unique Place in Education
Since 1968, Carnegie Mellon University's Children's School has been educating some of the smallest members of campus, 3-6 year-olds. This unique educational institution nurtures young children to...
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