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 three months.

IBM selected Jim Herbsleb, Eric Nyberg, and Bonnie John to receive 2009 Open Collaborative Faculty Awards, totaling $225,000. (August 2009)

QinetiQ North America gave $225,000 to establish fellowships for graduate students in the Robotics Institute. (August 2009)

Bombardier gave $100,000 to support faculty research and education initiatives in the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems. (August 2009)

Intel gave $100,000 to support Professor Jose Moura and his Spiral Project. They also donated $159,390 worth of equipment to Greg Ganger to establish an OpenCirrus site at Cylab. (July 2009)

Google gave $620,000 to support Illah Nourbakhsh and his Global Connection Project, and Professors Garth Gibson and Bhiksha Raj. (July 2009)

Motorola gave $101,400 to support the Summer Academy for Mathematics and Sciences (SAMS) and the Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) programs. (June 2009)

IBM gave $262,500 to computer science professors Mahadev Satyanarayanan and Guy Blelloch, recipients of the 2009 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award. (May 2009)

Bayer Foundation gave $141,259 as part of the Bayer Graduate Fellows Program to support Ph.D. students in chemistry and chemical engineering. (May 2009)

Boeing gave $110,000 for student scholarships and curriculum enrichment across campus. (May 2009)

Emerson Process Management gave $62,500 to support the Emerson Center at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. (May 2009)

PPG Industries gave $200,000 to Carnegie Mellon's Center for Nano-enabled Device and Energy Technologies for the purchase of a Titan 80-300 microscope. (May 2009)

Intel gave $95,000 to support the research of computer science professor Scott Hudson in the area of enhancing the value of mobile computing platforms with techniques for inattentive and inexact interaction. (April 2009)

Disney gave $890,000 to support the work of Professors Hodgins, Sheikh, Stancil, and Narasimhan at the Disney Research, Pittsburgh lab ($566,000) and to establish the Disney Memorial Pausch Fellowship in support of Carnegie Mellon graduate students in animation ($324,000). (February 2009)