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Jahanian Appointed Interim President of Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University’s Board of Trustees has appointed Farnam Jahanian, currently provost and chief academic officer, to serve as interim president of the university, effective July 1. James E....
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Science and Art Unite at Invisible Jazz Labs
By Emily Payne Science and performance art come together in an improvisational tango at the Invisible Jazz Labs in the Space Upstairs, a warehouse gallery loft in Pittsburgh. The labs, a collaboration...
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Smell Something, Say Something
By Byron Spice Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab are rolling out new features in Smell PGH, a smartphone app that helps Pittsburgh area residents collectively report foul odors and...
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"Mind Field" Aims To Raise Awareness of Subtle Racism
A student-created interactive film explores the potential for subtle racism in questions as commonplace as, "Where are you from?" Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate and graduate students...
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Carnegie Mellon's RoboTutor Advances to Global Learning XPRIZE Semifinals
An estimated 250 million children around the world cannot read, write or do fundamental arithmetic, and many of these children are in developing countries without regular access to schools or teachers....
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CMU Drives Smart Mobility Challenge
Municipalities within the 10-county Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) region are encouraged to identify mobility needs affecting citizens and businesses and to apply for funds via a brief...
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CMU Delegation at World Economic Forum in China
By Heidi Opdyke Robotics Professor Illah Nourbakhsh leads a discussion on Asia’s Industrialization using visualizations created by his CREATE Lab from Landsat imagery in 2015 at the World Economic...
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Carnegie Mellon Solidifies Leadership Role in Artificial Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has launched a new initiative, CMU AI, that marshals work in artificial intelligence (AI) across the school's departments and disciplines,...
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Tepper School of Business Ranked #8 in Financial Times Ranking of Global MBA...
The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University was recognized as the eighth best MBA program for entrepreneurship in the 2017 Financial Times global rankings. The ranking is based on...
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Laurie Weingart Appointed Interim Provost of Carnegie Mellon University
Laurie Weingart, a faculty member since 1989 and senior associate dean of education in the Tepper School of Business, has been named interim provost of Carnegie Mellon University, effective...
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Making Good on "Ideas for Good"
What began as a marketing campaign for an automobile company has turned into a passion project for Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute staff members, who are creating a solar-powered...
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Computer Reads Body Language
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time — including, for the first...
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Math Olympians Develop "Intellectual Fearlessness" at CMU
For the third consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon University hosted some of the world's best high school math students for the annual Mathematical Association of America's (MAA's) Mathematical Olympiad...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops Landmark Achievement in Walking Technology
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering are using feedback from the human body to develop designs for exoskeletons and prosthetic limbs. Published in Science, their...
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Chodos Named Director of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery
Elizabeth Chodos has been named the director of Carnegie Mellon University's Regina Gouger Miller Gallery. Chodos joins CMU from Ox-Bow, school of art and artists' residency in Saugatuck, Michigan,...
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Researchers Find New Vehicle Emissions Deceptively Clean
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that newer gasoline vehicles emit less particulate matter, but vapors in the "cleaner" exhaust form particulate matter long after exiting the...
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Ph.D. Graduate Collaborates Internationally on Microscope Research Techniques
Carnegie Mellon University's Madeleine Kelly recently spent two weeks at the University of Manchester in England, where she collaborated with top scientists in materials science and engineering on the...
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CMU Launches $20M Classroom and Learning Spaces Renovation Project
Carnegie Mellon University is embarking on a multi-year, $20 million renovation project that will provide a dramatic upgrade for central teaching and learning spaces across the Pittsburgh campus. The...
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Carnegie Mellon Math Professor Po-Shen Loh Featured on CBS Weekend News
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences Po-Shen Loh is "no-ordinary math teacher" according to a story that aired on the CBS Weekend News. CBS correspondent Jim Axelrod came to CMU to interview...
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14 Alumni Earn 17 Emmy Nominations
Fourteen Carnegie Mellon University alumni have earned 17 nominations for eight Emmy Awards. The Television Academy’s 69th Emmy Awards will air live at 8 p.m. Sept. 17 on CBS from the Microsoft Theater...
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