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CMU-Q Summer Program Teaches Coding to Youth Around the World

Students around the world learned to code this summer through Code in Alice, a new program for pre-college students offered through Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q). Code in Alice is the...

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Carnegie Mellon Receives $10 Million for Future of Science Initiative

Carnegie Mellon University Trustee Frank Brunckhorst has given $10 million to the university to support its boundary-breaking initiative for the future of science. The gift will be split between two...

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Remembering Sept. 11, 2001

Tomorrow marks 20 years since the attack on our nation on September 11, 2001. The events of 9/11 are forever etched in the minds of anyone old enough to remember the day, and two decades later, we all...

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U.S. News & World Report Ranks Carnegie Mellon University No. 1 in Six...

In the newly released 2022 Best Colleges rankings of undergraduate programs, U.S. News & World Report announced today that Carnegie Mellon University is ranked No. 1 in six different specialty...

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Team Explorer Prepares for Final Round of DARPA SubT Challenge

A fleet of robots will venture into the unknown darkness of a cave in Carnegie Mellon University's attempt to win $2 million in the final round of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. The robots will...

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Finding Inspiration To Rebuild Human Heart Muscle

Advances in cardiac tissue engineering offer hope for an array of useful applications — from heart repair to disease modeling. As part of active, ongoing research related to bioengineering functional...

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Tuning Collagen Threads for Biohybrid Robots

The idea of incorporating actual muscles or neurons into a robotic system might sound like some sort of science fiction, but researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Mechanical Engineering (MechE)...

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Jahanian honored with GEM Consortium Academic Leadership Award

Since 1980, Carnegie Mellon University has enjoyed a strong partnership with the National GEM Consortium, an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of underrepresented groups at the...

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SURF Research Tests Durability of New Probes

Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Mihir Lovalekar always nursed an interest in health care, particularly neurology, but until late last year, he wasn't sure how to marry medicine to his...

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Legacy of American Sign Language StuCo Course Rocks On

Erik Pintar taught his friends a bit of American Sign Language over a meal at Carnegie Mellon University's Resnik House. A first-year student in computer science at the time, Pintar guided the table...

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VentureBridge Showcases Alumni StartUps

Entrepreneurship can be hard. Small teams start with a crumb of an idea that they build and shape over time into something impactful — something they can scale. But they need funding, access to...

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Alumni Bring Home Four Prime Time Emmy Awards

It was a trophy night for several Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama alumni during the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards/Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The winners were announced at a two-evening ceremony...

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Carnegie Mellon Receives $20 Million to Establish Hoskinson Center for Formal...

Entrepreneur Charles C. Hoskinson has made a $20 million gift to Carnegie Mellon University to establish the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics, the university announced today. The center will...

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Carnegie Mellon Alumni Abound as Broadway Curtains Rise Again

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, the longest in its 74-year history, the Tony Awards return Sunday, Sept, 26, to celebrate honorees spanning the 2019-2020 seasons. The awards ceremony will air live...

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Recovering the Past: Dworkin Talks Hispanic Heritage

Kenya Dworkin, an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, is part of an international effort to locate, preserve and disseminate writings related to Hispanic culture of...

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Williamson Seeks Path Forward for Inclusive Education

The lockdown of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the education system with schools physically closing and switching to online learning, some for more than a year. Special-needs...

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Team Explorer Places Fourth in DARPA SubT Challenge

Members of Team Explorer stood in an open cavern deep into DARPA's final course of the Subterranean Challenge. They had already walked through a mine, a cave and an abandoned subway station, all built...

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Carnegie Mellon Alumni Win Two Tony Awards

Broadway is back, and so are The Tony Awards. During a live ceremony at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City tonight, the American Theatre Wing's 74th Annual Tony Awards honored performances and...

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Dark Skies Ordinance To Dim Pittsburgh's Light Pollution

For decades, the stars in our night sky have been blotted out by artificial light — from streetlamps, residential houses, businesses, construction sites, vehicles, billboards and so on. The glow they...

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Acting Professors Act as Professors

Earlier this year, Don Wadsworth and Randy Kovitz of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama put aside their syllabi as faculty members and practiced what they teach: acting. Both have recurring...

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