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Haunted Hotel
A circus. A mental hospital. A New Orleans mansion. A hotel. Setting the stage for horror comes down to the details. Mark Worthington (A 1991), a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of...
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Women in Computing
Carnegie Mellon University women in computing are furthering innovation across the globe. They gathered from all four corners for the advancement of women technologists at the annual Grace Hopper...
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Mental Maps: Route-Learning Changes Brain Tissue
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Photo credit: Bloomua/Shutterstock.com Fifteen years ago, a study showed that the brains of London cab drivers had an enlargement in the hippocampus, a brain...
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Creative Costuming
Ever since her award-winning turn as a production designer and costume designer for Danny Boyle's conception of the London Olympics Opening Ceremony, Suttirat Larlarb, associate professor of costume...
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Carnegie Mellon To Break Ground on David A. Tepper Quadrangle
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu /and Chuck Finder / 412-268-3486 / cfinder@andrew.cmu.eduAn artist's sketch of the Tepper Quad. Carnegie Mellon University will break ground on the...
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Improving Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu The effects of new technologies and discoveries — from nuclear power to medical treatments — often must be inferred long before they are experienced, forcing...
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Carnegie Mellon Fur-bricates Hair With Inexpensive 3-D Printer
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu 3-D printers typically produce hard plastic objects, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a way to produce hair-like strands,...
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Breaking New Ground
Nearly 500 members of the CMU community gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking for the David A. Tepper Quadrangle, marking a new chapter in the university's history. "Of the many projects announced...
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SpeckSensor App Compares Air Quality Locally and Nationally
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu A new smartphone app called SpeckSensor allows users to get up-to-date Air Quality Index (AQI) numbers for their current location and for other locales...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon, PSC Part of NSF’s “Big Data Brain Trust”
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.eduand Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Today, the National Science Foundation announced the funding of four regional Big Data...
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Strategic Plan 2025
After a yearlong, campus-wide conversation about our shared aspirations, Carnegie Mellon University is on a path forward for the next decade. The Strategic Plan 2025, approved last week by trustees,...
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Emirates Group Debuts Silicon Valley-Based Innovation Lab in Partnership with...
By Tara Rae Moore / 412-268-9673 / tararaemoore@cmu.eduCMU's Jonathan Cagan (left) and Gary Chapman of the Emirates Group finalize the partnership. Emirates Group, comprising of the global businesses...
View ArticleMartin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards Accepting Entries Through Nov. 20
By Emily Stimmel / 412-268-1788 / estimmel@andrew.cmu.edu Since 1999, Carnegie Mellon University has hosted the Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards as part of its campus-wide celebration of Dr....
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A Recipe for Fighting Hidden Hunger
By Abby Simmons / CMU / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.eduJudy Sapos / The Kraft Heinz Company / 412-585-1434 / Judy.Sapos@kraftheinzcompany.comChristina Misch / HAVAS PR / 412-456-4301 /...
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Commanding Presence
In December 2014, Alysa Ambrose (DC 1995) took command of the USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer equipped with the Navy's latest combat capabilities. With a crew of 300, the ship is set to deploy...
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System Recognizes Objects Touched by User, Enabling Context-Aware Smartwatch...
By Byron Spice / Canegie Mellon / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.eduand Jennifer Liu / Walt Disney Imagineering / 818-544-6130 / Jennifer.C.Liu@disney.com A new technology developed by Carnegie Mellon...
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System Helps Novices Design 3-D-Printable Robotic Creatures
By Byron Spice / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.eduand Jennifer Liu / Walt Disney Imagineering / 818-544-6130 / Jennifer.C.Liu@disney.comDigital designs for robotic creatures are shown...
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Self-Rated Health Predicts Immune Response to the Common Cold
Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu It turns out that we may be the best forecasters of our own health. New research from Carnegie Mellon University psychologists shows that a simple self-rating...
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School of Architecture's "Project RE_" Focuses on Reusing, Recycling and...
By Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu John Folan, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture had a vision about 10 years ago to help improve urban communities in...
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Web Tool Helps People Visualize, Make Sense of Large Complex Datasets
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Datasets for everything from gene expression to employment demographics are growing so large and complex that automated methods sometimes seem the only...
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