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Experts Project Top 10 “What’s Hot in 3-D Printing Out of Metal”
By Daniel Tkacik / 412-268-1187 / dtkacik@andrew.cmu.edu In conjunction with the inaugural National Maker Faire and the White House Week of Making kicking off this week in Washington, D.C., Carnegie...
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Catalysts Safely Remove Dangerous Compound from Wastewater
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 Catalysts created by Carnegie Mellon University chemist Terrence J. Collins effectively and safely remove a potent and dangerous endocrine disruptor from wastewater. In...
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Learning in the Real World Tops Learning From a Tablet
By Susie Cribbs / 412-268-4482 / cribbs@cs.cmu.edu You see it in headlines with more and more frequency: "Local School Provides Tablets for All Students." But though screen technologies are ubiquitous...
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CMU Featured During White House “Week of Making”
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 Responding to President Obama’s 2014 call to action to create a “Nation of Makers,” Carnegie Mellon University has put Maker education at the heart of its strategies to...
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Concrete Science
Newell Washburn and colleagues are using polymer chemistry techniques to transform one of nature's most abundant macromolecules into a material that could improve widely available commercial products,...
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Obituary: Hilary Masters Was an Acclaimed Writer and Beloved Professor
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Hilary Masters, an acclaimed writer and beloved professor at Carnegie Mellon University, died Sunday, June 14. He was 87. Masters joined CMU’s Department of...
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Keith Webster Named Director of Emerging and Integrative Media
Provost Farnam Jahanian has appointed Dean of Libraries Keith Webster director of Emerging and Integrative Media Initiatives, effective July 1. In taking this additional responsibility, Webster will...
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From Shakespeare to Torture Memos
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 A new book by Carnegie Mellon University’s Christopher N. Warren discloses how a Bush Administration lawyer misinterpreted cultural history to justify War on Terror...
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Conflicting Histories Harm Negotiations, Researchers Say
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu The role of history in negotiations is a double-edged sword. Although different sides can develop trust over time, there are also countless instances of...
View ArticleBlended Learning To Boost Capacity of Computer Science Course
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University will begin adding online instructional tools and targeted study groups to a popular introductory computer science course...
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Floating an Idea
Ask a bunch of kindergarteners if they're artists, and all of them will boom "YES!" Ask adults, though, and the story changes dramatically. Maybe one or two people assert their creativity while...
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Farnam Jahanian Receives Computing Research Association Distinguished Service...
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University Provost Farnam Jahanian, who has been instrumental in the creation of numerous federal computer science initiatives, was...
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Ariel Procaccia Wins Computers and Thought Award
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) has named Ariel Procaccia, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie...
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Responsible Impact
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar alumna Dana Haidan (TPR'09) is committed to making a difference. "Companies can do a lot more than just make profits," said Haidan, the head of corporate social...
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Hybrid Semis
An interdisciplinary team of Carnegie Mellon University students has developed a way to make tractor trailers into hybrid vehicles. They say it could cut trucking fuel costs by 30 percent. The company,...
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Top Scientists Call for Improved Incentives To Ensure Research Integrity
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 Scientific controversies, from problems replicating results — such as with the now debunked association between autism and MMR vaccines — to researcher misconduct and...
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Do It Yourself
With her company Teknikio, Deren Guler (S'09, A'12) isn't just proving that girls are good at math and science - she's proving they can have fun doing it. Teknikio features do-it-yourself project kits...
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Linda Babcock To Head Department of Social and Decision Sciences
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Linda Babcock, whose research intersects economics and psychology, has been selected to head Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Social and Decision...
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Curci Foundation Provides Funding for Research in Neuroscience
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu The Shurl & Kay Curci Foundation has given $200,000 to an interdisciplinary research team at Carnegie Mellon University to support...
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Chemists Characterize 3-D Macroporous Hydrogels
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 Carnegie Mellon University chemists have developed two novel methods to characterize 3-dimensional macroporous hydrogels — materials that hold great promise for...
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