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What Does Privacy Look Like? Carnegie Mellon Professor Explores Public...

By Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / and Byron Spice / 412-268-9068                                    What is privacy? People sometimes have a hard time putting it in words. So Lorrie Cranor, a leading...

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Diversity and Social Justice

Artwork by Jarel Grant (A'17) While Martin Luther King Jr. Day is often a touch point to contemplate diversity and social justice, conversations on those topics are ongoing at CMU. "I feel like we...

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Carnegie Mellon President Subra Suresh, Researchers Develop New Way To Model...

A multidisciplinary research team, led by Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh, has developed a novel microfluidic device to assess cell-level processes influencing the pathophysiology of...

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Carnegie Mellon, Weizmann Institute Researchers Discover "Idiosyncratic"...

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                                    Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been studied for many years, but there are still many more questions than answers. For example, some...

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Carnegie Mellon Trustee and Business Leader Luis Ball To Discuss "Latin...

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                        For many Americans, the perception of Latin America has been heavily influenced by the 400-year rivalry between England and Spain. Venezuelan-born...

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James Rohr To Become Chairman of Carnegie Mellon's Board of Trustees

By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151                           James Rohr, the former chairman and CEO of PNC Financial Services Group, has been elected to succeed Raymond Lane as chairman of Carnegie Mellon...

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A Personal Journey

Chrystal Thomas (S'17) wasn't catching up on Zs during the final days of her winter break, nor was the biological sciences major conducting research in a lab. Instead, she was back at Carnegie Mellon...

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Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust To Launch Inaugural Pittsburgh...

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                        Carnegie Mellon University and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust are teaming up to bring new ideas and engaging conversation to the city with the...

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MIT's Ed Boyden To Receive Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094                        Carnegie Mellon University will award the third annual Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences to Ed Boyden, associate professor of...

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Carnegie Mellon Engineering Student Catherine Groschner Wins Churchill...

By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290  / and Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 Carnegie Mellon University senior Catherine "Kate" Groschner, a materials science and engineering major, has been selected as one of...

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Citadel Sponsors Redesign of Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Lab and Study...

By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068                                       Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will dedicate the new Citadel Teaching Commons — a lab and study space that...

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Deflategate: Could Physics Be at Fault?

By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 By now, most people in America have heard about "Deflategate," where the New England Patriots are alleged to have used underinflated footballs during the AFC...

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The Dream of Education

Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, recently challenged Carnegie Mellon University to focus its goodwill, brainpower and expertise in the science of learning...

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Carnegie Mellon Team Finds Individuals May Fail To Navigate Complex Tradeoffs...

By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 /  Shryansh Mehta / 412-268-5492 / Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 We leave a trail of data, both knowingly and unwittingly, with every swipe of a credit card, post on social...

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Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Ethicists Question Impact of Hospital Advertising

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 If you have ever "googled" illness symptoms and possible treatments, you are not alone. A national Pew Research Center survey indicated that 72 percent of adults searched...

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Game On

"Why is my heart broken?" asked Dani Belko, a producer at Schell Games, as she played a videogame called "A Plug's Life" on a large screen in Carnegie Mellon University's Hunt Library. Controlling a...

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College of Engineering Research Team Receives NSF RIPS Grant To Study Climate...

By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673                                       A team of Carnegie Mellon University engineering researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.44 million...

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Uber, Carnegie Mellon Announce Strategic Partnership and Creation of Advanced...

By Byron Spice and Ken Walters, Carnegie Mellon / Kristin Carvell, Uber Technologies, Inc. Uber and Carnegie Mellon University are announcing today a strategic partnership that includes the creation of...

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Michael Trick Elected President of the International Federation of...

By Mark Burd / 412-268-3486                        Michael Trick, senior associate dean for faculty and research at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to...

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Autonomous Drone Flies in Dark, Tight Quarters To Assist Firefighting Inside...

By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068                        In a demonstration aboard a former U.S. Navy ship, a small quadrotor developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and...

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