CMU Hacking Team Looks for Win at DefCon
At a time when cybersecurity pervades news headlines on a daily basis, a team of cybersecurity experts from Carnegie Mellon University may grab an unprecedented win this weekend in Las Vegas. Carnegie...
View ArticleComputer Game a Building Block for Engineers
Carnegie Mellon University engineering students are using the building blocks in a popular computer game to make materials. "When you make materials, it's like building things," said B. Reeja Jayan, an...
View ArticleAlumnus Devon Smullen is All About That Bass
Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Devon Smullen's works of art are made to be played. His handcrafted bass guitars are strapped on by bass players worldwide, including Demonterious Lawrence, who has...
View ArticleCMU Method Enables Telescoping Devices To Bend and Twist
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found a way to design telescoping structures that can bend and twist, enabling robots of various shapes to collapse themselves for transport, enter tiny...
View ArticleInternship Offers Goodwill Opportunities
Quinn Zsido, a Carnegie Mellon University junior, is spending the summer working as a strategy consultant intern at Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Zsido, who is majoring in business...
View ArticleMaking Educational Technology Work for Everyone
Carnegie Mellon University’s Amy Ogan is aiming to close the academic opportunity gap with technology. For the last nine months, Ogan has been leading a working group that is reviewing published...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs in Portugal Learn from CMU Experts
First responders in Portugal may soon benefit from wearable technology being tested and developed by a startup that taps the entrepreneurial expertise at Carnegie Mellon University. "Helping those who...
View ArticleStudents "Speak Up!" About Undergraduate Research
Discuss weeks of research in three minutes or less. That is the challenge 75 undergraduate Carnegie Mellon University students accepted for the Speak Up! presentation on July 12. Conceived as a...
View ArticleCMU Team Wins Fourth “World Series of Hacking" Competition
At a time when the need and demand for cybersecurity expertise is at its highest, Carnegie Mellon University's hacking team won its fourth "World Series of Hacking" title this weekend at the DefCon...
View ArticleMichael Trick Appointed Dean of CMU in Qatar
Michael Trick, the Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, has been appointed dean of Carnegie Mellon in Qatar,...
View ArticleMathematician Earns NSF CAREER Award
Ian Tice, an assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, was awarded a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award. He is working to develop mathematical...
View ArticlePast Provost Angel Jordan Helped Lead CMU’s Rise to Prominence
Angel Jordan, who played a pivotal role in establishing Carnegie Mellon University as one of the leading engineering, computer science and robotics institutions in the world, died Friday. He was 86....
View ArticleStudents Compose for Butterflies
Carnegie Mellon University students have created an ever-changing soundtrack for Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens' Butterfly Forest. It is the first time a sound installation has been a part...
View ArticleFive Projects Selected To UPLift Campus Life
The selected projects from Carnegie Mellon University's inaugural UPLift Challenge will offer ways to help the Pittsburgh campus community have fun, relax and recharge. Last spring, the Task Force on...
View ArticleCoal Storage Takes Toll on People Living, Working Nearby
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found unburned coal increases air pollution and can affect the communities where it is transported and stored. The results are the first to quantify the...
View ArticleChallenges, Adventure Empower Dropbox CTO
Aditya Agarwal is a leader in Silicon Valley. In December, the Carnegie Mellon University alumnus — one of the earliest employees at Facebook — was named chief technology officer for Dropbox, where he...
View ArticleCatalysts Developed at CMU Remove Toxic Chemical from Water
Carnegie Mellon University chemist Terrence J. Collins has developed an approach that quickly and cheaply removes more than 99 percent of bisphenol A (BPA) from water. BPA, a ubiquitous and dangerous...
View ArticleResearchers Look for Novel Ways To Deliver Diabetes Treatments
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are designing a novel drug delivery model that has the potential to one day offer an alternative to painful daily insulin injections for Type 1 diabetes patients....
View ArticleHeinz Student To Attend Economics Sciences Meeting with Nobel Laureates
Carnegie Mellon University graduate student Britta Glennon will be among 350 young economists from 66 nations who will join 18 Nobel Laureates for the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences in Lindau,...
View ArticleScott Dodelson Appointed Head of Carnegie Mellon's Department of Physics
Renowned physicist Scott Dodelson has been named head of the Department of Physics in Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science. Dodelson comes to Carnegie Mellon from the Fermi National...
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