Alumni Gift Animation Platform to ETC
As a student at Carnegie Mellon University, Zach Rispoli wanted to teach his younger sister how to design video games. A class project he and Luca Damasco developed did just that. "Our prototype was...
View ArticleStudy Finds Toxicity in the Open-Source Community Varies From Other Online...
Trolls, haters and other ugly characters are, unfortunately, a fact of life across much of the internet. Their ugliness can taint social media networks and sites like Reddit and Wikipedia. But toxic...
View ArticleMother's Milk Cells Key to Novel Infant Disease Therapy
Breast milk has long been considered an ideal way to feed a growing baby. Full of nutrients that are easily digested, it assists in brain growth, improved eyesight and the development of the infantile...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Exosome Engineering Tech Licensed to Coya Therapeutics
Carnegie Mellon University has licensed a proprietary platform for bioengineering exosomes for drug delivery to Coya Therapeutics, Inc. Through the agreement, Coya has optioned the exclusive worldwide...
View ArticleOptical Microphone Sees Sound Like Never Before
A camera system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers can see sound vibrations with such precision and detail that it can reconstruct the music of a single instrument in a band or...
View ArticleBailey Bowers Wins Rath Award
Bailey Bowers, a Ph.D. candidate in the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Chemistry, has received the 2022 Bhakta and Sushama Rath Graduate Award for her research in environmental chemistry. The...
View ArticleDecarbonizing the Grid with Flexible Buildings
Elvin Vindel, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, led the creation of a model that can help cut emissions from buildings and improve the overall...
View ArticleDrinking Alone Foreshadows Future Alcohol Problems
A new study from Carnegie Mellon University found that drinking alone during adolescence and young adulthood strongly increases risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) later in life. This risk is...
View ArticleCMU Alumni Recognized with 20 Primetime Emmy Nominations
Nominations for the 74th Emmy Awards were announced July 12, with 14 Carnegie Mellon University alumni and two honorary degree recipients receiving a total of 20 nominations for their work. Alumni from...
View ArticleDrop by Drop: MXene in Complex 3D Device Architectures
Despite being only a few atoms thick, MXene packs a powerful punch. This class of single layer, two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials exhibits desirable properties like excellent thermal and electrical...
View ArticleHCII Students Seek To Increase Workplace Gratitude With Co-Orb
Thanking co-workers online is a nice gesture, but it doesn't measure up to saying it in person. Remote work has cut into the time employees spend together, making the pat on the back, handshake or...
View ArticleRoboticists Go Off Road To Compile Data That Could Train Self-Driving ATVs
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall grass, loose gravel and mud to gather data about how the ATV interacted with a challenging off-road...
View ArticleCMU To Lead Alliance To Explore Equitable Career Advancement In Higher Education
Carnegie Mellon University will lead an alliance to develop a new career advancement model, Project ELEVATE, through the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), with Johns...
View ArticleEngineering Art
Sophie Paul is among the hundreds of students who graduated from the College of Engineering this spring. In addition to earning a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering, she was one of...
View ArticleHey Siri: How Much Does This Galaxy Cluster Weigh?
It's been nearly a century since astronomer Fritz Zwicky first calculated the mass of the Coma Cluster, a dense collection of almost 1,000 galaxies located in the nearby universe. But estimating the...
View ArticleModern Languages Launches Online Language Courses
The Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University is proud to announce the launch of its new online language programs for Chinese, French and Spanish. Offered as part of CMU’s Open...
View ArticleMurphy and Pathak Named 2022 DARPA Risers
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Carnegie Mellon University's Max Murphy and Deepak Pathak as part of the 2022 class of DARPA Risers. Each year the agency selects a...
View ArticleCMU Team Designs the Airports of Tomorrow
A team from Carnegie Mellon University won NASA’s Gateways to Blue Skies: Airports of Tomorrow competition with their project, "Sustainability and Connected Autonomy: A New Era for Aviation." The new...
View ArticleRobots Learn Household Tasks by Watching Humans
The robot watched as Shikhar Bahl opened the refrigerator door. It recorded his movements, the swing of the door, the location of the refrigerator and more, analyzing this data and readying itself to...
View ArticleSloan Foundation Funds New Office to Support Open Source Activities
Carnegie Mellon University’s Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries Keith Webster has received a grant of $650,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to establish the Carnegie...
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