Recent Corporate Philanthropy

Carnegie Mellon has historically enjoyed mutually productive relationships with corporations. Below is a list of highlights of recent corporate gifts made to the university over the past six months.

IBM gave $75,000 to support Language Technologies Institute Professor Eric Nyberg, recipient of an IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award. (November 2008)

Accenture gave $75,000 to be designated as an Accenture Graduate Fellowship in computer science and language technologies. (November 2008)

Alcoa gave $65,000 to support recruiting and student initiatives in the Tepper School of Business and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. (November 2008)

Microsoft gave $60,100 to support Eric Chung, recipient of a Microsoft Ph.D. Fellowship award for 2008-2009. (November 2008)

Bosch gave $50,000 to support the research of CyLab Professor James Herbsleb in the area of distributability of software architectures. (November 2008)

Bank of New York Mellon gave $125,000 to support research at the Language Technologies Institute in the area of web information extraction. (October 2008)

Hewlett-Packard donated equipment valued at $116,701 to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse Electric Company. (October 2008)

IBM gave $161,388 to support computer science Ph.D. students Jun Yang ($53,724), Stephen Hanneke ($53,832), and Jingrui He ($53,832). (October 2008)

Seagate gave $80,000 to support DSSC post-doctoral researcher Adam Wise in the area of TEM characterization of advanced recording media and advanced heads. (October 2008)

Intel gave $68,000 to the university as part of the Intel Undergraduate Research Program. (October 2008)

Bayer gave $68,907 to support Bayer Fellowships in chemistry and chemical engineering. (October 2008)

Microsoft gave $57,404 to support Andreas Kraus, recipient of a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship. (October 2008)

Bosch gave $50,000 to support computer science professor James Herbsleb's work in the area of distributability of software architectures. (October 2008)

Samsung gave $50,000 to support Mr. Bonghyon Cho of Samsung UI Research during his visit to Carnegie Mellon's School of Design. (October 2008)

U.S. Steel gave $200,000 as part of a $1 million pledge to support the United States Steel Corporation Scholarship Fund, which is used in support of dedicated dual-major business and engineering students. (September 2008)

Yahoo! gave $130,000 to support the research of computer science graduate assistants Abhimanyu Lad ($65,000) and Andrew Carlson ($65,000), recipients of Yahoo! Ph.D. Fellowships for 2008-09. (September 2008)

Intel gave $56,582 to HCII graduate student Karen Tang, recipient of an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship. (September 2008)

Google gave $675,000 to support the research of Robotics Institute Professor Illah Nourbakhsh ($450,000), ECE Professor Greg Granger ($75,000), and Computer Science Professors Todd Mowry ($80,000) and Stephan Vogel ($70,000). (August 2008)

PPG Industries Foundation gave $200,000 toward a pledge of $1 million to purchase a Titan 80-300 microscope. PPG also gave $60,000 to support the research of Ignacio Grossmann, professor of chemical engineering, in the area of enterprise-wide production flow optimization technology development. (August 2008)

Seagate gave $89,000 to support the Data Storage Systems Center Professor Jim Bain in the area of HAMR recording physics. (August 2008)

Motorola gave $50,000 to support the Summer Academy of Math and Science. (August 2008)

Intel gave $154,172 to support the research of Computer Science Professor Scott Hudson ($95,000) and Marius Leordeanu ($59,172), recipient of an Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship. (August 2008)

Motion Picture Labs gave $71,624 to support the research of Professors Jon Peha and Julie Downs in the area of "Media File Sharing, Monitoring, Education, and Enforcement," in collaboration with Illinois State University. (July 2008)

Hyperion gave $50,000 to support the Alice Fund. (July 2008)

Seagate gave $50,000 to support the Data Storage Systems Center and the research of Professor Jim Bain in the area of MEMS rotary actuator for HDD track following and skew correction. (July 2008)

Intel gave $63,000 to support the research of ECE Professor Jeyanandh Paramesh in the area of spatial processing based multi-antenna radios. (July 2008)

Microsoft gave $500,000 to support the Center for Computational Thinking. (June 2008)

Bombardier Transportation gave $100,000 to support research in the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance. (June 2008)

The Bank of New York Mellon Charitable Foundation gave $100,000 to support Tepper School professor Chester Spatt as the Mellon Professor of Finance. The gift is part of a five year, $500,000 commitment. (June 2008)

Google gave $110,000 to support computer science professors William Cohen ($60,000) and Illah Nourbakhsh ($50,000). (June 2008)

Falconwood Foundation, Inc. gave $75,000 to support Robotics Institute professor Jeff Schneider and the Auton Lab. (June 2008)

Microsoft gave $70,000 to support HCII and design professor Jodi Forlizzi's work on Snackbot: A Service Robot. (June 2008)

GM gave $75,000 to support professor Jodi Forlizzi and her work on navigation ethnography at the GM-Carnegie Mellon Information Technologies Collaborative Research Lab. (June 2008)