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Dean Ramayya Krishnan Honored With 2015 Nayudamma Award
By Shryansh Mehta / 412-268-5492 / shryansh@andrew.cmu.edu Ramayya Krishnan, dean of the H. John Heinz III College and the William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information...
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Chemists Develop Bright, Fluorescent Bottlebrush Polymer Probe for Cell...
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu The brighter probes will allow scientists to detect very low levels of protein expressed in cells. Fluorescent probes, glowing tags that can be...
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"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
Carnegie Mellon University's special collection of books featuring a classic holiday poem has a new addition this year: "Olaf's Night Before Christmas Book and CD," a reimagination of a Christmas Eve...
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Iconic Images
Courtesy of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. Americanjewisharchives.org. This is the only known image of Einstein with a variant of his famous equation,...
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CMU Alumnus, Trustee Jonathan Rothberg To Receive National Medal of...
By Kenneth Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University alumnus and trustee Jonathan Rothberg (E '85), whose groundbreaking work on DNA sequencing greatly increased the...
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Year in Review
New buildings. Historic gifts. Advances in robotics. Big data. Small business. The year has been filled with news about Carnegie Mellon University faculty, staff, students and more than 100,000 alumni....
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Pop Art
Burton Morris (A 1986), an alumnus from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design, is the real thing. Best known for his bold, graphic pop art depictions of modern icons, his latest project takes...
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Students Helping Students
Graduate student Christin Danchi listened to Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music Head Denis Colwell talk at the school's annual convocation ceremony. She focused on one point: He outlined the...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops New Method for Analyzing Synaptic Density
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Electron micrograph of stained somatosensory cortex synapses that were identified using a machine-learning algorithm. Image credit: Saket...
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Young Writers To Showcase Their Work at Carnegie Mellon’s Martin Luther King,...
By Emily Stimmel / 412-268-1788 / estimmel@andrew.cmu.edu Seventeen Pittsburgh-area high school and college students will be recognized for their poetry and prose at Carnegie Mellon University’s 2016...
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International Team of Scientists Led by Carnegie Mellon Chemistry Professor...
By Amy Laird / 412-268-8619 / apavlak@andrew.cmu.edu The seventh row of the periodic table of the elements is finally complete. The Joint Working Party for the Discovery of New Elements, chaired by...
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Religious Beliefs Don’t Always Lead to Violence
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu From the Christian Crusades to the Paris attacks, countless conflicts and acts of violence have been claimed to be the result of differing religious beliefs....
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Ken Walters / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Pam Wigley / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu Shawn Purdy / Tony Awards / 212-235-6813 /...
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Miller Gallery Hosts “MAXIMUM MINIMUM IN UNUM,” Jan. 23 – Feb. 28
By Margaret Cox / Miller Gallery / 412-268-4754 / mc94@andrew.cmu.eduand Pam Wigley / College of Fine Arts / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu Peter Coffin, Untitled (Ribbons), 2012 Carnegie Mellon...
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Educational Engagement
Educational computer games are evolving from nose-to-the-screen experiences. Using research, artificial intelligence and data, new teaching models are giving instructors feedback on their students'...
View ArticleBetter Design Improves Understanding of Online Privacy Notices
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Privacy policies for websites, smartphone apps and, especially, components of the emerging Internet of Things are usually ineffective or ignored by...
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Environmental Science
From the neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica, to the labs of Carnegie Mellon University, to the halls of Christiana Albertina University of Kiel, Germany: Adam Simpson's passion for clean water action...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Sets Tuition and Fees for 2016-17
By Ken Walters / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University’s tiered undergraduate tuition rates will increase by 3.2 percent for the 2016-17 academic year. Graduate tuition...
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Sutherland’s "Trojan Cockroach" Celebrated in Posner Center Exhibit
By Byron Spice 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.eduIn this photo from the early 1980s, Ivan Sutherland pilots the six-limbed Trojan Cockroach he created at the Robotics Institute. A six-legged walking...
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Winning in Life
Student-athletes at Carnegie Mellon University set the bar high for themselves in sports and the game of life. Their performance in the classroom has been a significant point of pride for the...
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