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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Alter Cancer Cells To Stop Them From Metastasizing
Contact: Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976 / stokes@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University engineers have demonstrated that they can prevent cancer cells from metastasizing by altering the cells'...
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Carnegie Mellon Students Take Stage To Share Funny, Touching Stories Behind...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Is there something funny about sea urchins dying amidst a polar vortex? Is there drama in establishing an Internet connection at sea?...
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Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Researchers Combine Mechanics With Biology To Make Key...
Contacts: Daniel Tkacik / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu Paul Kovach / University of Pittsburgh / 412-624-0265 PITTSBURGH—When the body forms new tissues during...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Research Team Awarded NSF Grant to Combine Biophysical and...
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Nathan Urban, interim provost and the Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz...
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Internationally Renowned Pianist and Conductor Barry Douglas To Conduct...
Contacts: Dana Casto / School of Music / 412-268-4921 / dcasto@cmu.edu Pam Wigley / College of Fine Arts / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's...
View ArticleCMU President, Two Alumni Attend Private Meeting With India's New Prime Minister
Contact: Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh and two alumni were among top Indian-American CEOs, venture capitalists and...
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Sergey Schepkin, Associate Professor of Piano, To Perform Bach's Six Keyboard...
Contacts: Dana Casto / 412-268-4921 / dcasto@cmu.edu Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Sergey Schepkin, pianist and associate professor of piano at Carnegie...
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Carnegie Mellon Research Shows Viral DNA Infects Cells by Changing from Solid...
Contact: Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Many double-stranded DNA viruses infect cells by ejecting their genetic information into a host cell. But how does the usually...
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Pittsburgh Business Leader Henry L. Hillman Provides $5 Million Gift for...
Contact: Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Just weeks after the launch of a global initiative to leverage its unique strengths to impact brain research, Carnegie Mellon...
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Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama Presents August Wilson’s "Seven Guitars,”...
Contacts: Erin Keane Scott / School of Drama / 412-268-2068 / ekscott@andrew.cmu.edu Pam Wigley / College of Fine Arts / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon...
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New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross To Speak at Carnegie Mellon on Phonographic...
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Event: Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker since 1996, will speak at Carnegie Mellon University on "Phonographic Music: Composers and the Early...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Experts Discuss Strategies For Closing the Gender Pay Gap on...
Contact: Abby Simmons / abbysimmons@cmu.edu / 412-268-4290 PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s Ayana Ledford and Linda Babcock will be among featured experts on “Closing the Gap: 50 Years Seeking...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Experts Discuss Strategies For Closing the Gender Pay Gap on...
Contact: Abby Simmons / abbysimmons@cmu.edu / 412-268-4290 PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s Ayana Ledford and Linda Babcock will be among featured experts on “Closing the Gap: 50 Years Seeking...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Leads New NSF Project Mining Educational Data To Improve...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University will lead a five-year, $5 million early implementation project sponsored by the National Science...
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Carnegie Mellon's Mary Shaw Will Receive National Medal of Technology and...
PITTSBURGH—President Barack Obama announced today that he has selected Mary Shaw, the Alan J. Perlis University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, as a recipient of the...
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Drop That Beaker: Online Games and Remote Experiments Could Reduce Scientific...
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—One way to combat the rising level of errors and fraud in life sciences research is through massive online laboratories, which use...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Alumni Association Honors 19 For Service and Professional...
Contact: Stephanie Williams / 412-268-2902 / saw1@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Alumni Association will honor 19 alumni, faculty and students during Cèilidh Weekend, Oct....
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Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh Celebrate 20 Years of Advancing...
Contacts: Shilo Rea / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Jocelyn Duffy / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@cmu.edu Anita Srikameswaran / University...
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"Neurons and Other Memories" Opens at CMU's Miller Gallery
Contact: Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Appreciating art may be something that comes from your heart, but there's another vital part of our bodies that relates to art....
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Snakes and Snake-like Robots Show How Sidewinders Conquer Sandy Slopes
Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—The amazing ability of sidewinder snakes to quickly climb sandy slopes was once something biologists only vaguely understood and...
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