CMU Building Moonshot Mission Control for Upcoming Lunar Exploration
As their rovers explore unknown terrain on the moon's surface, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will watch from the familiar confines of campus, nearly 240,000 miles away. CMU's Moonshot...
View ArticleA Deeper Commitment to Carnegie Bosch Institute
For more than 30 years, the Carnegie Bosch Institute (CBI) has brought together industry and academia for research, education and collaboration in the areas of international management as well as...
View ArticleDisentangling Interactions Across Brain Areas
Exploring how brain areas communicate with each other is the focus of a long-standing research collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Champalimaud...
View ArticleBlanton Accepts NSBE Lifetime Achievement in Academia Award
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) hosted its 48th annual convention in Anaheim, California, where it awarded Shawn Blanton, Carnegie Mellon University professor of electrical and computer...
View ArticleCMU Research Takes Center Stage at Three Minute Thesis
Eight doctoral students explained their years of research and its importance in under three minutes during the finals of Carnegie Mellon University's Three Minute Thesis (3MT), held Wednesday in the...
View ArticleCMU's Girls of Steel Team Qualifies for World Championship
The Girls of Steel robotics team took home top awards at two recent regional competitions and qualified to compete with the best national and international teams this April at the FIRST World...
View ArticlePopular Spring Carnival Events Evolve Over Time
Spring Carnival. Ah, that time of year when Carnegie Mellon University's campus thaws and students celebrate warmer weather. Times have changed, and events have evolved, but the spirit of celebration...
View ArticleStudents' Ingenuity Automates Scientific Research
In a factory producing medical equipment, like the linear accelerators used in radiation therapy, a slew of automated tools drive production. However, in a lab researching gold nanoparticles' ability...
View ArticleSCS Ph.D. Students Selected for Amazon Graduate Research Fellowship
Amazon awarded its second round of research fellowships to five graduate students with ties to the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. They are Emily Black, Saurabh Garg, Natalia...
View ArticleTepper School Launches New Part-Time Accelerated MBA Program
Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business is expanding its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program this fall by adding a new two-year part-time MBA program. The Part-Time...
View ArticleAdding AI to Museum Exhibits Increases Learning, Keeps Kids Engaged Longer
Hands-on exhibits are staples of science and children's museums around the world. The exhibits invite children to explore scientific concepts in fun and playful ways. But do kids actually learn from...
View ArticleMoon Buddy Team Working with NASA on Spacesuits for Lunar Exploration
Students working on Carnegie Mellon University's Moon Buddy likely will not walk on the lunar surface as part of NASA's upcoming Artemis missions. But their technology could make its way into space as...
View ArticleUniversity Libraries Presents 'Nuts, Bolts, & Wheels: 100+ Years of Buggy'
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries is pleased to present its latest exhibition in the Hunt Library gallery, "Nuts, Bolts, & Wheels: 100+ Years of Buggy." On display from Monday, April 4...
View ArticleCMU Scopeathon Ties Data Science to Better Communities
412 Food Rescue knows about numbers. With more than 7,000 volunteers, the Pittsburgh nonprofit has redistributed more than 21 million pounds of food in the region that would have otherwise been sent to...
View ArticleThree CMU Students Chosen as Goldwater Scholars
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation named three Carnegie Mellon University students as recipients of its 2022 awards. Juniors Shweta Gudapati, Daniel Schaffer and...
View ArticleHebert, Hooker and Kraut Named University Professors
Three Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at CMU. The newly appointed University...
View ArticleCMU Projects Sleuth Secret Printers, Teach Shakespeare in VR
The study of the human experience, which is at the core of a humanities education, is being transformed by the emergence of big data, computational thinking and virtual reality. Two Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleNEH Fellowship Supports Dworkin's Project on Cuban Immigrant Theater
Twenty-five years ago, Kenya Dworkin took a walking tour of Ybor City in Tampa, Florida, and discovered the project that would set the stage for her research for decades to come. In the mid-19th...
View ArticleLessem Studies Policy Effects on Immigrants’ Economic Outcomes
In many nations today, opportunities, income, wealth and resources are unequally distributed among people. Inclusive economic growth, which creates employment opportunities and helps decrease poverty,...
View ArticleStellar Carnival Revives In-Person Tradition
Spring Carnival 2022 is in a wrap! Students, alumni, faculty, staff and families enjoyed a weekend filled with racing, events and rides. Here's a few of this year's highlights.
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