Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon President Subra Suresh Invited to White House...
Contacts: Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh is among a...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's J. David Creswell Receives American...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The American Psychological Association (APA) has selected Carnegie Mellon University's J. David Creswell to receive the 2014 Distinguished...
View ArticleNews Brief: CMU's Vice Provost for Design, Arts and Technology To Speak On...
Contact: Abby Simmons / abbysimmons@cmu.edu / 412-268-4290 PITTSBURGH—Thanassis Rikakis, vice provost for Design, Arts and Technology at Carnegie Mellon, will represent the university on a...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Novel Tools To Make Mobile...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH-Mobile devices are now so ubiquitous that they outnumber the human race, but most remain expensive to operate, consume gobs of...
View ArticlePress Release: Bio-Inspired Robotic Device Could Aid Ankle-Foot...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—A soft, wearable device that mimics the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the lower leg could aid in the rehabilitation of patients...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Music Professor Reza Vali To Premiere Work for...
Contacts: Dana Casto / School of Music / 412-268-4921 / dcasto@cmu.edu Pam Wigley / Media Relations / 412-889-6238 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—"Ravân," an orchestral work...
View ArticlePress Release: As Dungeons & Dragons Turns 40, Authors Update Their Account...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—As the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) turns 40 on Jan. 26, Carnegie Mellon University's ETC Press is...
View ArticlePress Release: Nothing To Declare: Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown Researchers...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and financial advisers, face conflicts of interest (COIs) when they have a personal, and often...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Study Says Electric Vehicles Could Be Cheaper...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Electric vehicles may offer a path to a more sustainable transportation future. But they also might drive up electricity prices...
View ArticlePress Release: White House Privacy Officer Is Keynote Speaker for Carnegie...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Nicole Wong, a veteran of Google and Twitter who last year became the White House's first chief privacy officer, will be the keynote...
View ArticlePress Release: A Psychology Breakthrough: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Priming, an unconscious phenomenon that causes the context of information to change the way we think or behave, has frustrated scientists as...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Timothy Verstynen Earns NSF CAREER Award To...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Timothy Verstynen has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Novel Tools To Improve...
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—For the next 18 months, Carnegie Mellon University researchers will work with industry to develop methods to make the...
View ArticlePress Release: Crowdsourced RNA Designs Outperform Computer Algorithms,...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—An enthusiastic group of non-experts, working through an online interface and receiving feedback from lab experiments, has produced...
View ArticleNews Brief: "Winter Morning Walks" Album, Based on Carnegie Mellon University...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Composer Maria Schneider dominated the classical music categories at the 2014 Grammy Awards for her album "Winter Morning Walks," which is...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Roberta Klatzky To Receive Queenan...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Roberta Klatzky will receive the Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology in recognition of her...
View ArticlePress Release: Renowned Neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth To Receive Carnegie...
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University will award its 2013 Dickson Prize in Science to Karl Deisseroth, the D.H. Chen Professor of...
View ArticleNews Brief: Carnegie Mellon Announces Tuition Rates for Undergraduate...
Contacts: Ken Walters / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu / 412-268-1151 Abby Simmons / abbysimmons@cmu.edu / 412-268-4290 PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University will increase undergraduate...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Faculty and Ph.D. Student Named Winners of...
Contacts: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University President Emeritus Jared L....
View ArticleNews Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Daniel S. Nagin Named a 2014 Fellow of the...
Contact: Abby Simmons / abbysimmons@cmu.edu / 412-268-4290 PITTSBURGH—The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) has named Carnegie Mellon University's Daniel S. Nagin a 2014 fellow...
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