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...
View ArticleCarnegie 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...
View ArticleRemembering 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...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleTeam 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...
View ArticleFinding 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...
View ArticleTuning 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)...
View ArticleJahanian 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...
View ArticleSURF 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...
View ArticleLegacy 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...
View ArticleVentureBridge 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...
View ArticleAlumni 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...
View ArticleCarnegie 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...
View ArticleCarnegie 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...
View ArticleRecovering 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...
View ArticleWilliamson 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...
View ArticleTeam 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...
View ArticleCarnegie 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...
View ArticleDark 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...
View ArticleActing 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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