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Carnegie Mellon Philosophy Department Partners With Pitt To Maximize Data...

Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—If used correctly, "big data" and data science have enormous potential to revolutionize many fields. To maximize its benefits for biomedical...

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Carnegie Mellon To Host Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter

Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Event: Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter (right) will be the 2014 speaker for Carnegie Mellon University's John and Mary Lou Lehoczky Lecture...

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Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama Presents Cabaret Evening Featuring...

Contacts: Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu                 Erin Scott / 412-268-2068 / ekscott@andrew.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Acclaimed composer and songwriter Andrew Lippa, best known for...

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Carnegie Mellon Researcher Shares Hidden Side of Energy

Contact: Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Is it possible to run the entire country on wind power? Stephen Rose, a post-doctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper...

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Carnegie Mellon's Venkat Viswanathan To Develop Electrolyte Genome Search...

Contact: Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu PITTSBURGH—Venkat Viswanathan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is developing a search engine that...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Mark Roth To Receive First Friend of the Center for...

By Carnegie Mellon's Shilo Rea and Pitt's Anita Srikameswaran PITTSBURGH—Mark Roth, an award-winning senior staff writer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will receive the 2014 Friend of the Center for...

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Mellon College of Science Professors to Discuss 2014 Nobel Prizes on Oct. 20

By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 Event: The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry and Physics are considered by many to be the most prestigious award available in science. The awards...

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Carnegie Mellon President Subra Suresh To Be Inducted into Institute of Medicine

By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh will be inducted into the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Sunday, Oct. 19 in Washington, D.C., making him the...

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CMU To Host Second Annual Nationwide High School Computer Security Contest,...

By Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University Professor David Brumley and two student teams will host the second annual PicoCTF competition, a nationwide online computer...

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CMU Research Shows Highly Competitive Elections Create Extremely Polarizing...

By Mark Burd / 412-268-3486 PITTSBURGH—Close elections fuel extreme ideological differences in party nominees. And that appeals to voters, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School...

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Unifying the Mind: Carnegie Mellon’s David Danks Outlines New Cognitive...

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                        PITTSBURGH—Everyday thinking — like reading this sentence to deciding which shirt to wear — requires an astounding range of brain activity, yet...

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Information Networking Institute Student Receives Full Scholarship To Study...

By Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976                        PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute (INI) and the Alta Associates Executive Women's Forum (EWF) on...

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Big Factories Won't Solve High Cost of Electric Vehicles, Carnegie Mellon...

By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673                        PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that the cost savings associated with manufacturing a high volume of batteries for...

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards Data Science Grant to Carnegie...

By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068                        PITTSBURGH—The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has announced the selection of Carl Kingsford, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's...

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Carnegie Mellon I-Corps Site Chooses Teams for Inaugural Cohort

By Mark Burd / 412-268-3486, Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 PITTSBURGH—Fifteen teams have been chosen to work at the Carnegie Mellon University Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site, designed to create an...

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Carnegie Mellon Student Writing Awards Seek Entries From Pittsburgh-Area High...

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                        PITTSBURGH—From violence to discrimination, teenagers and young adults are not immune to the ugly side of humanity. For some, writing provides a...

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Carnegie Mellon's Inflatable Robotic Arm Inspires Design of Disney's Latest...

By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068                       PITTSBURGH—When Don Hall saw a robot arm made of balloons while visiting Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute several years ago, he knew...

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Carnegie Mellon Becomes Affiliate of Joint Center for Energy Storage Research

By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673                            PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University has received affiliate status with the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an energy...

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Research Team Identifies 33 Genes That Contribute to Autism Risk

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                       PITTSBURGH—The list of genes identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by deep DNA sequencing has expanded from nine to 33, according to a new...

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Carnegie Mellon's Anna V. Fisher Wins James S. McDonnell Foundation Cognition...

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                        PITTSBURGH—It comes as no surprise that adults have much more advanced cognitive abilities than children. What remains less clear is how the advanced...

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