Showing Work As Passion, Carnegie Mellon’s International Film Festival Runs...
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 Focusing on both the body and soul of workers worldwide, the 2015 Carnegie Mellon University International Film Festival will run March 19 — April 11 at various locations...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon and IBM Launch First Cloud-Based Analytics Partnership for...
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu / and Holli Haswell / 720-396-5485 / hhaswell@us.ibm.com IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new smarter buildings partnership with Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Students Will Flight Test Sensor Package Designed To Model...
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu A team of Carnegie Mellon University undergraduates is heading to California’s Mojave Desert this spring to flight test a sensor package they developed...
View Articlewats:ON? Festival Features Visual, Sound, Performance and Tactile Arts That...
By Katie Ellis / 412-268-1047 / kellis@andrew.cmu.edu / and Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu The 2015 Jill Watson Festival Across the Arts (wats:ON?), celebrating the creative...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition Opens March 27 at Miller Gallery
By Lauren Goshinski / 412-268-1533 / laurengo@andrew.cmu.edu /and Pam Wigley / 412-889-6238 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu A purposefully untitled show, only identified by a vague set of glyph-like...
View ArticleColumbia Neuroscientist Larry Abbott To Deliver Carnegie Mellon’s 2015 Buhl...
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Larry Abbott, the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and co-director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia...
View ArticleDon’t Let a Robot Take Your Child’s Future Career: Roboticist’s Book Offers...
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Illah Nourbakhsh says robots and artificial intelligence will increasingly displace people from many conventional jobs. The professor of robotics at...
View ArticleUnexpected Gamma-Ray Emission From Dwarf Galaxy May Point to New...
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu / and Kevin Stacey / 401-863-3766 / kevin_stacey@brown.edu A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has offered up a surprise...
View ArticleU.S. News & World Report Ranks Graduate Engineering Program No. 4
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu U.S. News & World Report has named Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering fourth in its 2016 Best Graduate Schools Rankings, the...
View ArticleImproving the Human Experience
Carnegie Mellon University understands that strides in technological advancements alone are not enough. The real opportunities lie in designing smart, seamless technologies that meet pressing societal...
View ArticleThe Future of Health Care is in the Data
A new alliance is uniting Carnegie Mellon University's unrivaled machine learning capabilities with the University of Pittsburgh's world-class health sciences expertise. Funded by UPMC, the Pittsburgh...
View ArticleCMU, Pitt, UPMC Form Alliance To Transform Health Care Through Big Data
By Ken Walters / Carnegie Mellon / 412-480-4396 / walters1@andrew.cmu.eduWendy Zellner/ UPMC / 412-586-9777 / ZellnerWL@upmc.eduKen Service / Pitt / 412-624-2795 / kservice@pitt.edu Today’s health care...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Spinoff Introduces Speck, a Personal, Wi-Fi-connected Air...
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Speck, a personal air pollution monitor introduced today at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, will enable people to monitor the level of...
View ArticleTeaching Science to the Brain: Carnegie Mellon Scientists Discover How the...
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 /shilo@cmu.edu When you learn a new technical concept, something happens in your brain, but exactly what has been a mystery until now. For the first time, Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleNeuron Bracketology: BrainHub Researchers Pit Teams of Neurons Against Each...
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu As March Madness descends on most of America, neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University are engaging in a little bracketology of their own....
View ArticleResearchers Propose Solutions To Reduction in Revenue from Gasoline Tax
By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / trmoore@andrew.cmu.edu Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have found that an increased adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) would result...
View ArticleBrain Awareness Week
The human brain is responsible for so much, yet so little is known about how it works. Twenty years ago, the Dana Foundation established Brain Awareness Week to highlight the importance of brain...
View ArticleNEH Chair William Adams To Share Fresh Perspectives on the Humanities
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu William Adams, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), believes that government support for the public humanities is critical to our...
View ArticleResearchers Show Forest Fragmentation from Shale Development Could Be Reduced...
By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / trmoore@andrew.cmu.edu A team of researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering found that forest fragmentation from natural gas development in...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Presents “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks”
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu The popular image of Rosa Parks, often called the “first lady of civil rights,” is that of a quiet seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus...
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