Ye Named DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow
Joel Ye, a graduate student in the Neuroscience Institute’s Program in Neural Computation, has been awarded the Department of Energy’s Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). The...
View ArticleRobots Can Learn To Safely Navigate Warehouses
Robots have been working in factories for many years. But given the related safety concerns to the tasks they perform, most operate inside cages or behind safety glass to limit or prevent interaction...
View ArticleMachine Learning Gets Smarter To Speed Up Drug Discovery
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a self-supervised learning framework that leverages the large amounts of unlabeled data that other models can't. Predicting molecular properties...
View ArticleObituary: Ilsedore B. Jonas Was an Influential Teacher of German Language and...
Ilsedore (Barkow) Jonas, known as "Doris," professor emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Modern Languages, died Oct. 5, 2021, in Munich. She was 101. Jonas taught German studies at...
View ArticleUnlocking the Secrets of the Brain
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have explored the regions of the brain where concrete and abstract concepts materialize. A new study now explores if people who grow up in different cultures...
View ArticleRudenko Coaches U.S. Girls Team to First in International Math Competition
As a high school student in Ukraine, competitive mathematics puzzled Oleksandr "Alex" Rudenko. A top competitor, he would go back and read the solutions to challenging problems he was unable to solve....
View ArticleUkrainian Language Lessons Lend Immediate Support to Instructors in Need
In a situation where it is all too easy to feel hopeless, Tatyana Gershkovich, associate professor of Russian studies, and David Parker, assistant teaching professor of Russian Studies, found a small...
View ArticleXun Earns K&L Gates Award
Ruiran Xun's interests are as diverse as her experiences. The recent graduate left Carnegie Mellon University with a dual bachelor's degree in chemistry and computer science and a minor in...
View ArticleHur Recognized with Gretchen Goldsmith Lankford Award
Susanna Hur was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Gretchen Goldsmith Lankford Award. The award is given to a graduating senior in Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and...
View ArticleYenching Scholar Studies the Digital Divide
Carnegie Mellon University student Andey Ng has been named a 2022 Yenching Scholar by Peking University's Yenching Academy program. Ng is a master's student in engineering and public policy (EPP) in...
View ArticleThe Tony Awards and CMU Present the 2022 Excellence in Theatre Education Award
The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University announced today that drama teacher Roshunda Jones-Koumba of G.W. Carver Magnet High School in Houston will receive the 2022 Excellence in Theatre...
View ArticleNew Research Offers Recommendations for Integrating Autonomous Driving Tech...
Autonomous vehicle technology likely won't replace the workers behind the wheels of buses, vans and other vehicles shuttling people around cities and towns anytime soon, but mass transit authorities...
View Article$10.5M Army Contract to CMU Lab Will Expand Use of AI in Predictive Maintenance
When Artur Dubrawski and Carnegie Mellon University's Auton Lab began studying maintenance of the U.S. Air Force's F-16 fighter jets more than 15 years ago, they discovered unforeseen failures that...
View ArticleMoonArk Twin Joins Permanent Collection at the Smithsonian
A copy of the MoonArk, a cultural payload headed to the moon in late 2022, has just been added to the permanent art collection of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. A marker designed to...
View ArticleNSF Awards CMU Researchers $3M To Accelerate Next Generation Networking and...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science and College of Engineering will use nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help develop...
View ArticleCMU Researchers Develop Algorithm To Divvy Up Tasks for Human-Robot Teams
As robots increasingly join people on the factory floor, in warehouses and elsewhere on the job, dividing up who will do which tasks grows in complexity and importance. People are better suited for...
View ArticleSudoc Wins Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award
Sudoc, a startup co-founded by Carnegie Mellon University chemists Terrence J. Collins and Ryan C. Sullivan, is a winner of Fast Company's 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. Sudoc is developing and...
View ArticleCMU and Columbia Researchers Magnify Hidden Biological Structures with...
A research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University have combined two emerging imaging technologies to better view a wide range of biomolecules, including proteins, lipids and DNA,...
View ArticleJones-Koumba Named 2022 Excellence in Theatre Education Award Winner
Sensational. Nurturing. Inspirational. Admirable. Welcoming. Amazing. If there were more superlatives in existence, chances are they would be used to describe Roshunda Jones-Koumba, the Houston teacher...
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