Physicist Seeks To Understand Dark Matter with Webb Telescope
The much-anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will usher in a new era of research on our universe. Among the many researchers planning to take advantage of the data from the Hubble...
View ArticleWiley and CMU Sign Agreement To Make Research More Widely Accessible
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a three-year open access agreement with Carnegie Mellon University. The agreement will give Carnegie Mellon researchers the ability to publish...
View ArticleLeading the Way
In a move to strengthen Pennsylvania's leadership in the autonomous vehicle industry, Sen. Wayne Langerholc, Jr. (R-35), chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, and Yassmin Gramian, secretary...
View ArticleData-frugal Deep Learning Optimizes Microstructure Imaging
Deep learning is often recognized as the magic behind self-driving cars and facial recognition, but what about its ability to safeguard the quality of the materials that make up these advanced devices?...
View ArticleETC App To Augment the Reality of Pittsburgh's Steel Past
Walking through the remnants of the massive Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark you get a sense of the scale, but it's hard to imagine what happened on the site just a few miles from...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Biologists Awarded Grants from Pittsburgh Foundation's...
Three Carnegie Mellon University Department of Biological Sciences faculty members have received grants from The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation, a supporting organization of The Pittsburgh Foundation,...
View ArticleTransit Inequity Increased During Pandemic
For many essential workers, public transit provides a vital connection to their workplace in a world otherwise on lockdown. Yet the risk of infection for these workers, who are more likely to be from a...
View ArticleCMU Community Mourns Trustee Emeritus Jim Walton
The Carnegie Mellon University community is mourning the loss of Trustee Emeritus James M. "Jim" Walton (right), who passed away on Jan. 2, 2022, at age 91. Walton served on CMU's Board of Trustees...
View ArticleETC Project Creates Immersive Art Therapy Space in VR
In most art therapy sessions, the clinician offers a client art supplies and a prompt to respond to. The in-person experience is limited to location, available craft materials and the arrangement of...
View ArticleCMU-Led Research Team Selected To Develop Robotics Technology To Service...
There are 6,500 satellites in orbit, but only about half of them are functional. Once a satellite breaks down or runs out of fuel, it is essentially useless. Repairs, maintenance and upgrades are...
View ArticleGupta, Mason Named 2021 ACM Fellows
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Carnegie Mellon University's Anupam Gupta and Matthew T. Mason 2021 ACM fellows. The ACM recognized Gupta, a professor in the Computer Science...
View ArticleDesign Students Envision New Ways to Provide Relief in a Water Crisis
Jackson, Mississippi, faced a dire water crisis earlier this year. After two major storms brought freezing temperatures to the state capital, its aging water system couldn't take it and pipes burst....
View ArticleBXA Introduces New Engineering Studies and Arts Degree Program
In response to student requests and as part of an expansion in areas of study at Carnegie Mellon University, a new degree program is being introduced that's tailored to students with a solid math and...
View ArticleFaculty Projects Awarded DURIP Funding
Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Marc De Graef, Anthony Rollett and Rebecca Taylor have been selected to receive funding for their projects through the Defense University Research...
View ArticleFour CMU Faculty Named AAAS Fellows
Four Carnegie Mellon University faculty have been named 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This lifetime distinction includes 564 scientists, engineers and...
View ArticlePrecision Rehabilitation May Prevent Osteoarthritis
Athletes and sports fans know that a torn ACL knocks a player out of the game, requires surgical repair and involves a long recovery. But for many injured athletes, being temporarily sidelined is only...
View ArticleSatellite Designed at CMU Launches into Low-Earth Orbit
The Tartan-Artibeus-1 Satellite, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, was aboard SpaceX's successful Falcon 9 launch of Transporter-3 to orbit on Jan. 13. It was deployed to low-Earth orbit as part...
View ArticleBiden Delivers Passionate Call To Action To Invest in American Innovation
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden visited Carnegie Mellon University's advanced manufacturing research facilities at Mill 19 in Pittsburgh on Friday, where he engaged with faculty and students to learn...
View ArticleThe Mind's Edge
This February, the world's top athletes will gather in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, striving to surpass what's possible in human performance. While a lifetime of training the body is required...
View ArticleJournalist Soledad O’Brien To Give MLK Keynote Address Feb. 8
Award-winning broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien, host of the nationally syndicated television talk show “As a Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien,” will give the keynote address for Carnegie...
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