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Carnegie Mellon Announces Inaugural Presidential Fellowships and Scholarships...
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.eduCarnegie Mellon President Subra Suresh welcomes the inaugural class of Presidential Fellows and Scholars during a reception held in their honor....
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Carnegie Mellon Receives $5.5M Gift from Uber for Professorship and Graduate...
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University has received $5.5 million from Uber, a leading technology firm, to support a new faculty chair and three new...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon, City of Pittsburgh Help Create New Network To Address...
Carnegie Mellon University and the City of Pittsburgh are founding members of the MetroLab Network, a new national alliance among 20 metro areas and more than 25 neighboring universities to research,...
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CMU Provost, Pittsburgh Mayor To Speak at White House Smart Cities Forum
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University Provost Farnam Jahanian and City of Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto will be among the featured speakers at a White...
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By Ken Walters /412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University and the City of Pittsburgh are founding members of the MetroLab Network, a new national alliance among 20 metro areas...
View ArticleDepartment of Education Renews PIER Grant for $3.6 Million
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Eleven years ago, Carnegie Mellon University received a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to train the next generation of...
View ArticleCMU and Its Entertainment Technology Center Host Themed Entertainment...
By Pam Wigley, Carnegie Mellon University / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu,Judith Rubin, TEA Communications / judy@teaconnect.org Carnegie Mellon University and its Entertainment Technology...
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Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Free — or very inexpensive — online courses have become quite a trend in education. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers currently offer thousands of...
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CMU Inventor Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize For Creating First...
By Tara Moore, Carnegie Mellon University / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.eduMolly Owen, Cone Communications / 617-939-8445 / mowen@conecomm.comStephanie Martinovich / Lemelson-MIT Program /...
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Software Helps Create Sign Language Dictionaries, Voice-activated Games for...
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Erik Pintar, Minnar Xie, Maya Lassiter and Amal Nanavati (left to right) are CMU students and 2015 iSTEP interns. Carnegie Mellon University’s...
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Bosch Group, CMU Announce $3.5M in Total Gifts for Tepper Quadrangle, New...
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu The Bosch Group, a German-based global supplier of technology and services, and Carnegie Mellon University announced two investments in the...
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Celebrating 20 Years of CAUSE and Black Urban Life Scholarship
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Workers dig up the street in downtown Pittsburgh, c. 1947. (Photo by Charles "Teenie" Harris © 2015 Carnegie Museum of Art) The color of a person’s skin or...
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Media Advisory: CMU Hosts Back-to-School Bus Tour With U.S. Education...
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu The "Ready for Success" bus stops at CMU on Friday at 3:30 p.m., Sept. 18. Carnegie Mellon University will host U.S. Secretary of Education Arne...
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67th Primetime Emmy Awards
Carnegie Mellon University alumni have been honored with more than 100 Emmy Awards. So it's no surprise that seven alumni and two honorary degree recipients were nominated this year for Creative Arts...
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Bright Minds, Big Ideas
Ten faculty members of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, School of Computer Science, Dietrich College and the Tepper School of Business have received the Summer 2015 Google Research...
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Researchers Determine How Groups Make Decisions
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu From Beats headphones’ rise to prominence or a political candidate’s surge in the polls to how ants and bees select a new nest site, decisions emerging from...
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Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Receives Next Step of Approval from DOE
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has reached its next major milestone — Critical Decision-2 approval from the U.S. Department of...
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“AFTERSOUND: Frequency, Attack, Return” Opens Miller Gallery’s Fall Season
By Margaret Cox / 412-268-4754 / mc94@andrew.cmu.eduand Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu Homemade electronics by Michael Johnsen is one of the pieces featured at the Miller Gallery....
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Child's Play
Six year-old Ava gives a whoop and pumps her arms in the air after the plastic puzzle piece her small fingers fit into place directed her avatar on the screen to victory. Digital Dream Labs, a startup...
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Unorthodox Approach to Drug Delivery Research Lands CMU Professor on Popular...
By Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976 / stokes@cmu.edu Kathryn Whitehead, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named by Popular Science as a 2015 Brilliant...
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