CMU President Subra Suresh, Collaborators Create Device That Extracts Rare...
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu A simple blood test may one day replace invasive biopsies thanks to a new device that uses sound waves to separate blood-borne cancer cells from...
View ArticleCMU’s School of Drama Presents ‘Three Sisters’ by Anton Chekhov
By Erin Keane Scott / 412-268-2068 Spring has arrived in Pittsburgh, which means the School of Drama’s 2014-2015 season is coming to a close at Carnegie Mellon University. The final production of the...
View ArticleNew Gallery, Art Space 616, Features Work by Carnegie Mellon Art Professor...
By Stephanie Magulick / 412-268-2902 / smagulick@cmu.edu A new gallery of contemporary art in Sewickley, Pa., is opening its doors Friday, April 10, with the premiere of Carnegie Mellon University Art...
View ArticleClimate Ribbon
Rendering of Solar DataDowntown Miami's 5.4-million-gross-square-foot mixed-use Brickell City Centre, slated to open in phases at the end of 2015 into 2016, wanted an innovative design — an open-air...
View ArticleCMU Spring Carnival Celebrates 101 Years, April 16-18
By Stephanie Magulick / 412-268-2902 Event: Carnegie Mellon University’s Spring Carnival enters its second century, April 16–18. The following is a sample of events that are free and open to the...
View ArticlePittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Lorna McGhee To Join Carnegie Mellon School...
By Dana Casto / 412-268-4921 Lorna McGhee, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) principal flute, will join the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music faculty this fall as an artist lecturer....
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Researchers Call for Broader U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard
By Tara Moore / 412-268-9673 In a paper recently published in Environmental Science and Technology, a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers argue for a broader renewable fuel...
View ArticleObituary: Acclaimed Physicist Lincoln Wolfenstein Had Passions for Science,...
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Lincoln Wolfenstein, an internationally acclaimed theoretical particle physicist, particularly in the area of weak interactions and elementary...
View ArticleCMU Chemists Create Tiny Gold Nanoparticles That Reflect Nature’s Patterns
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 Our world is full of patterns, from the twist of a DNA molecule to the spiral of the Milky Way. New research from Carnegie Mellon chemists has revealed that tiny,...
View ArticleCourt Hears Appeal of Disk-Drive Patent Infringement Case
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu A Federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments this week in a landmark patent infringement case that had been brought by Carnegie...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Scientists Question Representation of Women in International...
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 Three leading cognitive scientists from Carnegie Mellon University are questioning the gender representation of invited contributors in the special February 2015 issue, “The...
View ArticleCMU Researchers Discover How Pain Fine-Tunes Pain Relief
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 At the cellular level, pain and pain relief are caused by two different signaling pathways. But the two pathways aren’t necessarily independent of one another, according...
View ArticleThree Minute Thesis
Garrett Stack's single 3MT slide, "Damming the Romantics"Describe more than a year's worth of in-depth, doctoral research. Make it understandable, compelling and engage a non-specialist audience — and...
View ArticleSending a Message to the Future
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu If you were to leave a message for someone in the far distant future about what you think is important about Earth, what would your message say?...
View ArticleCarnival 2015: The Next Chapter
From "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," your favorite childhood books will come to life on the Midway at this year's Spring Carnival, "Living Library." From April...
View ArticleCelebrating 25 Years
Hooman Radfar (E'04) aspired to become a CEO. When he came to Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a master's degree at the Information Networking Institute (INI), the university swelled his ambition....
View ArticleEvent Honors CMU Alumnus and Fallen Marine, Raises Funds To Provide Service...
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University’s Student Veterans & Family Association (SVFA), in coordination with the family of the late U.S. Marine Corps Lt....
View ArticleCarnegie Corporation of New York Grants Carnegie Mellon $1 Million To Support...
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu and Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $1 million, two-year...
View ArticleBeyond the Touchscreen: Carnegie Mellon, Disney Researchers Develop...
By Byron Spice / CMU / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu / and Jennifer Liu / Walt Disney Imagineering / 818-544-6130 / Jennifer.C.Liu@disney.com As people find ever more inventive uses for...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Scientists Appear in “Fastball”
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu / and Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University’s newest movie stars aren’t classically trained actors, they’re...
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