Press Release: Facebook Study Did Not Breach Research Ethics, Says Carnegie...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The Facebook study that unknowingly put nearly 700,000 of the social networking site's users in a psychological experiment was not ethically...
View ArticlePress Release: Infosys Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan Donates $1.8 Million to...
Contact: Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Global technology leader and Infosys co-founder Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan has donated $1.8 million to Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleNews Brief: Ramayya Krishnan Reappointed Dean of Carnegie Mellon's H. John...
Contacts: Shryansh Mehta / shryansh@andrew.cmu.edu / 412-268-5492 Abby Simmons / abbysimmons@cmu.edu / 412-268-4290 PITTSBURGH—Ramayya Krishnan (right), the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F....
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Department of Energy Announces Quadrennial Energy Review...
Contact: Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu Event: Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis will hold a public...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Combines Hundreds of Videos To Reconstruct 3D...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed techniques for combining the views of 480 video cameras mounted in a two-story...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon and University of Warwick Announce $10 Million...
Contact: Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Warwick have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a $10 million...
View ArticlePress Release: Using New Statistical Tools, Carnegie Mellon's Kathryn Roeder...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Using new statistical tools, Carnegie Mellon University's Kathryn Roeder has led an international team of researchers to discover that most...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Kathy Newman Reflects on 60th Anniversary...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu The Story: "On the Waterfront," the Academy Award-winning film about an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman who stands up to his corrupt union bosses,...
View ArticleNews Brief: Pittsburgh is Hosting ASCE Shale Energy Engineering Conference
Contact: Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) first Shale Energy Engineering Conference is taking place from July 21 to July 23 in...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Scott Sandage Helps "Modern Family's" Jesse...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The second season of TLC's genealogy documentary series "Who Do You Think You Are?" will feature "Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson...
View ArticleNews Brief: James Duesing Appointed Director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University has appointed James Duesing director of its Center for the Arts in Society (CAS), a research center in the...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Will Partner With Duolingo To Evaluate English...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University will partner with Duolingo, a CMU spinoff company that provides free online language education, to evaluate...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon University in East Africa Graduates First Class
Contacts: Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976 / stokes@cmu.edu Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's first class in East Africa graduated on...
View ArticlePress Release: Gene Changes in Breast Cancer Cells Pinpointed With New...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, working with high-throughput data generated by breast cancer biologists at Lawrence...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Physicist Shirley Ho Wins Outstanding Young...
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Shirley Ho, assistant professor of physics and a member of the McWilliams Center for Cosmology at Carnegie Mellon University,...
View ArticlePress Release: Weighing the Milky Way
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Does the Milky Way look fat in this picture? Has Andromeda been taking skinny selfies? It turns out the way some...
View ArticlePress Release: Students at Carnegie Mellon's Integrated Innovation Institute...
Contacts: Olivia Goodman/Jennifer Robinson / gabbegroup / 212-220-4444 Olivia.Goodman@gabbe.com / 732-2477-5625 (cell)...
View ArticleNews Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Jay Apt To Testify at EPA Hearing on Clean...
Contacts: Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu Mark Burd / 412-268-3486 / mdburd@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jay Apt (right) will testify...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Chemists Create Nanofibers Using Unprecedented...
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a novel method for creating self-assembled protein/polymer...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Erica Fuchs Discusses How Global...
Contact: Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Location, location, location. That old real estate adage also applies to the manufacturing industry, says Carnegie Mellon...
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