Press Release: Flexing the Brain: Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Scientists Discover...
Contacts: Shilo Rea / Carnegie Mellon University / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Paul Kovach / University of Pittsburgh / O: 412-624-0265 / C: 412-427-9422 / pkovach@pitt.edu...
View ArticleNews Brief: Green Building Alliance Names Carnegie Mellon Among Founding...
Contact: Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University is one of 22 organizations named Founding Partners of the Pittsburgh 2030 District's expansion to...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon Receives $5.6M NSF Grant for Cybersecurity...
Contact: Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976 / stokes@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $5.6 million grant through the CyberCorps Scholarship...
View ArticlePress Release: Douglas Sicker Named Head of Carnegie Mellon's Department of...
Contact: Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Douglas Sicker (right) has joined Carnegie Mellon University as head of its Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP)....
View ArticlePress Release: Rock Star: Carnegie Mellon's David R. Shumway Explores the...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The musical icons of the past 60 years were not created overnight. Instead, many factors — from stage personas and outspoken political views...
View ArticlePress Release: Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery To Exhibit Works by More Than...
Contact: Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University offers many events and exhibitions this fall featuring local, national and...
View ArticleNews Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Arts in Society Launches...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Center for the Arts in Society (CAS), a research center in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social...
View ArticlePress Release: Social Support: Carnegie Mellon's Brooke Feeney Details How To...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Close and caring relationships are undeniably linked to health and well-being for all ages. Previous research has shown that individuals...
View ArticleNews Brief: Tzahi Cohen-Karni Receives a Grant from the Charles E. Kaufman...
Contact: Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976 / stokes@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Ph.D., and his team will share a 2014 Kaufman...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon's Smart Headlights Spare the Eyes of Oncoming Drivers
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—A smart headlight developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute enables drivers to take full advantage of their high...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon's Keith Cook Awarded $2.4M NIH Grant To Develop Artificial...
Contact: Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University professor Keith Cook has received a four-year, $2.4 million grant from the National...
View ArticleIntimate Strangers: Carnegie Mellon's Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Analyzes...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Immigrants to new countries bring expectations, experiences and a different set of values and customs with them, which often allows them to...
View ArticleThe Science of Science Communication: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Publish...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The public dialogue surrounding whether to vaccinate children is one example of how poor communication of science can cause confusion and...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Research Explains Why People Endure Discomfort for...
Contact: Mark Burd / 412-268-3486 / mdburd@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—No one likes to inflict pain or discomfort upon themselves, like dumping a bucket of ice water over their head,...
View ArticleHistory Course Inspires Carnegie Mellon Alumnus To Reproduce...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—When Carnegie Mellon University graduate Dean Putney (DC'11) saw his family for Thanksgiving in 2011, his mother showed him what she thought...
View ArticlePaul Glasserman To Present Carnegie Mellon's Nash Lecture in Quantitative...
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Paul Glasserman, Columbia University business professor and adviser to the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research, will...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology Receives...
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The DSF Charitable Foundation has given $3.1 million to Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Nucleic Acids Science and...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon To Host Shirley Brice Heath for Lecture on Benefits of...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Event: Carnegie Mellon University will host Stanford University's Shirley Brice Heath (right) for a lecture on "Learning Language the Meandering Way:...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery Opens New Section of Pittsburgh Biennial
Contact: Pam Wigley / 412-889-6238 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University debuts a new section of the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial, Sept. 20 - Nov. 30,...
View Article“Leningrad”: Carnegie Mellon Presents the Trauma of War and Art
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Event: Many people know the tragic and destructive story of the Siege of Leningrad as one of the longest military operations in history that left a...
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