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Press Release: Roboticize Your World: Educational Kit Can Turn Artwork and...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Almost anything that can be made with paper, paint and cardboard can be animated with an educational robotics kit developed at...
View ArticleNews Brief: Grid Outages Prompt CMU Professors to Rethink Sustainable Solutions
A cache of summer grid outages from storms and intense heat prompted some savvy Carnegie Mellon researchers to explore ways of rethinking the solution to sustaining electric power even when the high...
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News Brief: HCII Ph.D. Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
The team of Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, both Ph.D. students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of eight U.S. groups selected to receive 2012 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships. The...
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Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Urban Design Build Studio Partners with Ford...
Contact: Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—A new student project offers filtered fun for city neighborhoods. PURIFLUME, a mobile water system with spray park features, not...
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Press Release: Carnegie Mellon University’s David A. Dzombak Named Fellow of...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s David A. Dzombak has been named a fellow of the Water Environment Federation (WEF) for exceptional...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Launches CISO-Executive Education and...
Contact: Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III College, in partnership with the CERT Program of the Software Engineering...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon University's Biometrics Center Selected To...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Identity science takes a giant leap forward with a new discipline in biometrics. Carnegie Mellon University researchers at the...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon’s George Loewenstein Documents Pitfalls of...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH— As an old proverb goes, “before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” New research from Carnegie Mellon University’s...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Statement on PCAST Advanced Manufacturing Report
Contact: Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has released a game plan for the U.S. to seize the potential of...
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Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Names Kiron Skinner University Adviser on...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University has named Kiron Skinner as its adviser on national security policy. In this role, Skinner, a renowned expert in...
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Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s John Kitchin and Luis von Ahn Earn...
Contacts: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—U.S. President Barack Obama today named Carnegie Mellon University’s John...
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Press Release: Robotics Institute's Dias Wins Borg Early Career Award
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—M. Bernardine Dias, associate research professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and the founder and director of...
View ArticlePress Release: Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Loneliness in Older Adults,...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—For older adults, loneliness is a major risk factor for health problems — such as cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's — and death....
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Approach To Improve...
Contact: Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Emergency medical services in emerging economies can be improved by using phone data records and service logs to better allocate...
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Press Release: US High School Students To Compete at International...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—As athletes gather in London for the Summer Olympic Games, eight U.S. high school students are preparing for their own, very different...
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Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Senior Awarded Prestigious Pickering Fellowship
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University senior Ema D. Woodward has been awarded a prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. The...
View ArticlePress Release: Succession of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Carnegie Mellon...
Contact: Mark Burd / 412-268-3486 / mdburd@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—David S. Mawhinney, assistant teaching professor of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, has...
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Press Release: Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery Presents US...
Contact: Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University’s award-winning and critically acclaimed contemporary art gallery, presents the...
View ArticlePress Release: Public Can Explore Time-Lapse Videos of Earth With New Tool...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, working with colleagues at Google and the U.S. Geological Survey...
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Press Release: Three Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Teams To Appear in NYC...
Contact: Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama has a proven track record of producing stars of stage, film and television, and three...
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