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Good Reference, Great Match
[l-r] Hank Hwang and Kartik MandavilleYour resume may impress employers, but referrals gain their trust. A resume from a trustworthy source is likely to go to the top of the stack. Kartik Mandaville...
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New Drama Season Proves Laughter Is Best Medicine
By Erin Keane Scott The School of Drama kicks off its 2016-2017 season with a mixture of old and new plays that reflect on gender politics and social systems through several distinct lenses. “This...
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Computer Out-Plays Humans in "Doom"
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu An artificial intelligence agent developed by two Carnegie Mellon University computer science students has proven to be the ultimate survivor in the...
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CMU Welcomes Families and Friends
Families and friends wondering what life is like for their favorite student at Carnegie Mellon University will have an opportunity to experience it for themselves this weekend, Sept. 30-Oct. 2....
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Run a mile, eat a half dozen donuts, and run a second mile. It's all in the name of charity. The Eighth Annual Donut Dash, hosted by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at Carnegie Mellon University,...
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Andy Award Winners Reach for the Stars
By Kelly Saavedra Each year, Carnegie Mellon’s staff recognition program honors individuals and teams who go the extra mile to make a real and lasting impact at the university. This year’s Andy Award...
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School of Drama Raises the Curtain with “The Playboy of the Western World”
By Erin Keane Scott / 412-268-2068 / ekscott@andrew.cmu.edu and Pam Wigley / 412-268-1047 / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu “The Playboy of the Western World,” by Irish playwright laureate John Millington...
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The Economics of Arts and Entertainment
Michael Cunningham / 412-268-7298 / mcunningham@cmu.edu Kathryn Heidemann walks with her son during a preview tour of "Mirazozo", an inflatable installation that was part of the 2012 Pittsburgh...
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School of Computer Science To Offer Computational Biology Major
Br Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will launch a new bachelor’s degree program in computational biology next fall, complementing...
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On the Ball: Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Has Just Two Moving Parts
By Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice@cs.cmu.edu More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a...
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CMU, ANSYS Break Ground for New Maker Hub
By Julianne Mattera / 412-268-2902 / jmattera@cmu.eduand Kelly Saavedra / 412-268-5395 / ksolman@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University and ANSYS broke ground Tuesday for a building that will become...
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Chase Wins NSF CAREER Award To Discover Neural Mechanisms of Skill Learning
Hannah Diorio-Toth / 412-268-1208 / hdiorio@andrew.cmu.edu Most people can swing a hammer, but most people can't swing it with the speed and precision of a master carpenter. The difference is thousands...
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Hillary Clinton’s Memoir Writing Styles Linked to Her Public Perception Problems
By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop at Carnegie Mellon last spring. Political memoirs rarely reveal anything new or noteworthy. However, Carnegie Mellon...
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Rebecca Doerge Installed as 7th Dean of Mellon College of Science
By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 / jhduffy@andrew.cmu.edu In keeping with the university's Scottish tradition, President Subra Suresh presents Rebecca Doerge with a quaich (pronounced quake), a...
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Obama, CMU, Pitt Host White House Frontiers Conference
President Barack Obama visited the National Robotics Engineering Center in 2011. President Barack Obama will host the White House Frontiers Conference, a national event co-hosted by Carnegie Mellon...
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Whittaker To Discuss “Moon Shot”
William “Red” Whittaker has been dreaming of the moon. Whittaker, the Carnegie Mellon University Fredkin Professor of Robotics and director and founder of CMU’s Field Robotics and National Robotics...
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Carnegie Mellon Featured on CBS's "60 Minutes"
Andrew Moore shows Charlie Rose CMU's disaster response robot CHIMP. When CBS's "60 Minutes" decided to do a two-part report on the state of artificial intelligence (AI), correspondent Charlie Rose...
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Wing Is a Global Leader in Computer Science
Jeannette M. Wing has helped shape conceptions of what computer science is and what it can be. The former head of Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department is an international leader in...
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Smith Drives for Smarter Traffic Signals
Steven F. Smith wants to keep people moving. The research professor and director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute is working...
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Teller Celebrates the Unexpected Benefits of Failure
As captain of Moonshots at X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory, Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Astro Teller is working on bringing audacious ideas to reality through science and technology. “We use the...
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