Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's José M.F. Moura Receives Dowd Professorship...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's José M.F. Moura has been awarded the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professorship of Engineering in...
View ArticlePress Release: College of Fine Arts Presents Open Studio Day Friday, Dec. 6
Contact: Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The College of Fine Arts (CFA) will host a celebration of its schools and programs through Open Studio Day on Friday, Dec. 6. If...
View ArticlePress Release: Students Can Create Animations of Garfield the Cat With New...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Children who love Garfield, the feline star of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, now can make their own computer...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Students Build Software Solutions for Nonprofits
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Event: Software systems are typically very expensive, putting them out of reach for many nonprofit organizations. But seniors majoring in information...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Scheme Uses Shared Visual Cues To Help People...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—It turns out that the way to keep track of your many passwords to online accounts is the same as how to get to Carnegie Hall —...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering Students To Host...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu Event: Carnegie Mellon University biomedical engineering students will get a taste of improvisational acting with members of the...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Brand Associations by...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The images people share on social media — photos of favorite products and places, or of themselves at bars, sporting events and...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Burcu Akinci Co-Leads Team Developing...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Inspecting bridges and other critical infrastructure may soon become a lot safer and more efficient. Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Jendayi E. Frazer Reflects on Nelson Mandela
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Jendayi E. Frazer, Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Developing Tools To Make Buildings...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University is ground zero for researchers developing tools to make buildings and homes more energy efficient....
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineering Students Showcase...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu Event: Everyone deserves clean water. Some 3,000 children die daily in Africa from disease spread through drinking contaminated...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering Names Jelena...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering has named Jelena Kovačević to head its Department of Electrical and Computer...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Chris Bettinger and Jay Whitacre Find Novel...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The squirmy marine cuttlefish may be the next best source of electrode materials for batteries to power edible medical devices....
View ArticleNews Brief: Three CMU Innovators Named 2013 National Academy of Inventors...
Contact: Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Raj Reddy and President Subra Suresh have been elected...
View ArticleNews Brief: Garlan Named ACM Fellow
David Garlan, a professor in the Institute for Software Research, is among 50 innovators from the world's leading universities and corporations named by the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) as...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Eswaran Subrahmanian Earns Distinguished...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Eswaran Subrahmanian has been named a Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Receives $10 Million from The Heinz Endowments...
Contacts: Abby Simmons / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu Carmen Lee / The Heinz Endowments / 412-338-2628 / clee@heinz.org PITTSBURGH—Just weeks after announcing...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's CHIMP Robot Prepares For DARPA Robotics...
Contact: Byron Spice / Office 412-268-9068 / Mobile 412-559-8501 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—It's only been a few weeks since Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC)...
View ArticleNews Brief: CMU Roboticists Join Team WRECS for DARPA Robotics Challenge
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The Tartan Rescue Team and its CHIMP robot will be Carnegie Mellon University's most visible presence at the DARPA Robotics Challenge...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Diana Marculescu Leads Team Developing Novel...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Making electricity from water is getting a facelift. Instead of creating large amounts of power in one place — from large dams...
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