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Nobel Prize Winner, Carnegie Mellon Alumnus Nash Dies at 86
Carnegie Mellon University extends its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of CMU alumnus John F. Nash, Jr. (S'48), who died along with his wife in a car accident on Saturday, May 23. Nash...
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CHIMP Robot Gets Ready for DARPA Finals June 5-6
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu “Faster” is the byword for the Tartan Rescue Team from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) as it makes final...
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New $20M National Center for Forensic Science Launched
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a five-year, up to $20 million grant to establish a Forensic Science Center of...
View ArticleTool Helps States Meet New Emission Standards
By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.edu Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an easy-to-use but technically detailed interactive tool to help states decide how to meet the...
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Driving Dreams
When Ford wanted innovative ideas for the future of transportation, they reached out to Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design. What they got was moving. "At Ford, we're inspired by our work...
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Mobile App Educates Teens On Risky Sexual Behavior
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Teenagers, parents, educators and clinicians will have a new tool to help adolescents make more informed decisions about their sexual behavior. “Seventeen...
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Backstage Education
Center stage and close-ups are just two career paths for students who attend Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama. Countless opportunities exist for talented graduates who become experienced...
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Columbia 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...
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Don’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...
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Unexpected 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...
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Improving 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...
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The 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...
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CMU, 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...
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Carnegie 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...
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Teaching 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...
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Neuron 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....
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Researchers 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...
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Brain 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...
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NEH 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...
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