December 4, 2002 Carnegie Mellon Students to Develop New Web Site to Help Tissue Engineering Companies Streamline FDA Applications. Read more... October, 2002 NSF Awards $9 Million to Support Understanding of Proteins in Cells. Read more... New Biomedical Engineering Department Established in CIT. Read more... September 19, 2002 Carnegie Mellon Business School Offers Program on Commercializing Technology and Biotechnology. Read more... September 16, 2002 Carnegie Mellon to Showcase Medical Robotic Research at Biomedical Engineering Forum. Read more... September 9, 2002 Carnegie Mellon Creates Biomedical Engineering Department To Meet Demands of a Growing Biotechnology Industry. Read more... September 6, 2002 Carnegie Mellon's Rick McCullough Receives Award from American Chemical Society. Read more... September 4, 2002 Carnegie Mellon's Engineering Department To Host Dow Chemical Co. Research Expert. Read more... July 9, 2002 Carnegie Mellon University Receives $2.2 Million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Read more... July 2, 2002 Carnegie Mellon University, Dickinson College Partner on Project to Develop Cancer Categorization. Read more... June 28, 2002 Carnegie Mellon's Jeffrey Hollinger Named Associate Director For Web-Based Research at Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative. Read more... May 7, 2002 Carnegie Mellon's Bothner-By Wins Prize For Experimenting With Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Read more... May 1, 2002 Carnegie Mellon Plays Host to Leading Researcher In the Engineering of Synthetic Gene Delivery Systems. Read more... Summer, 2002 Carnegie Mellon and Pitt Center Works Toward Growing Bones With the nation aging and bones crumbling from use, a Pittsburgh multi-disciplinary team of researchers reaches for the not-so-elusive: lab-grown bones. Read more... April 3, 2002 Greenhouse Attracts First Company; Gets $33.33 Million in State Funding The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, Inc. (PLSG), a partnership to put the region's life sciences industry on a fast track for growth, has attracted its first company-Renal Solutions, Inc.- and has secured $33.33 million in seed funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Read more... Victor Weedn Leads the University's Biotechnology and Health Initiatives The computer is the indispensable tool driving this new century's revelations of life's biological mysteries. Read more... March 8, 2002 Multidisciplinary Bone Tissue Engineering Center Aims to Advance Regenerative Medicine Carnegie Mellon researchers are engineering bone constructs in labs that one day may be used to repair bone loss caused by a gunshot wound or car accident, or to repair the common wear and tear caused by old age. Read more... March 8, 2002 Intel Opens Software Development Lab Near Carnegie Mellon Campus Professor Mahadev Satyanarayanan Leads Efforts in Creating Proactive Computing Environments Intel Corp., the world's largest producer of computer chips and a leading manufacturer of computer, network and communication products, has officially opened Intel Research Pittsburgh, a new laboratory focusing on software development for data storage. Read more... February 5, 2002 Economic Development Expert to Coordinate Efforts for Both Carnegie Mellon and Pitt The Mellon Pitt Carnegie Corporation (MPC), a joint venture of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, has appointed Donald F. Smith Jr. to the newly created position of vice president of economic development. Read more... December 12, 2001 BioVenture/Life Sciences Greenhouse Aims to Develop Bioscience Industries Leaders of the Pittsburgh region's health care and bioscience industries, economic development organizations and local government have united with Pittsburgh BioVenture, a biotechnology planning effort launched by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh last spring, to release a 10-year strategic plan to position the region as a global leader in the bioscience industry. Read more... December 5, 2001 Behrmann Cited for Her Research into the Mind's "Eye" When visual scenes contain multiple objects and people, we take it for granted that we can recognize them all with ease and accuracy. But just how the brain gathers and interprets raw visual material remains something of a mystery. Read more... September 6, 2001 McCullough Leads MCS Richard D. McCullough, a chemistry professor known for his work in creating novel conductive materials, became dean of the Mellon College of Science (MCS) on Aug. 1. He replaced Susan Henry, who resigned in July 2000 to become dean of Cornell University's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Read more... July 2001 Researching Medical Robotics Imagine if surgeons could rely on new tools to minimize invasive medical procedures, reduce medical errors and help to improve how patients recover. Medical and technological advances are bringing us closer to such tools, and Carnegie Mellon is just the place for this discovery. Read more... June 2001 Why do Brakes Squeal and Violins Sing? Better cooking sprays, house paint, toothpaste and complex, life-saving medical drugs have all resulted from the study of colloids, polymers and surfaces. Read more... May 10, 2001 New Science Labs for Doherty Hall Construction has begun on an eight-story addition to Doherty Hall that will house new undergraduate interdisciplinary science labs for the Mellon College of Science (MCS). The estimated cost of the project is $26.4 million. Read more... April 18, 2001 Carnegie Science Center Rewards Excellence The Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers earlier this month had a distinctive Carnegie Mellon flavor, as three university scientists were honored for their outstanding work in the Scientist/Engineer category. Read more... March 2001 NSF Awards $4.3 Million to Engineering The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) in Carnegie Mellon's college of engineering has received a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read more... January 2001 The Quest for Artificial Blood To the four million Americans who receive transfusions annually, a shortage of blood is a matter of life and death. Read more...

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