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.

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)

Cisco gave $100,000 to support Professor Scott Fahlman's development of the open-source Scone knowledge-base system. (May 2008)

Accenture gave $50,000 to support the research of Professor James Herbsleb. (May 2008)

Google gave $50,000 to support the research of computer science professor Avrim Blum in the area of 1-pass learning algorithms. (May 2008)

Equitable Resources gave $50,000 to establish the Thomas A. and Eileen A. McConomy Scholarship for engineering students. (May 2008)

Nokia gave $50,000 to support the research of computer science professors Norman Sadeh and Jason Hong in the area of user controllable security and privacy. (May 2008)

GM gave $788,985 to support the GM Collaborative Research Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon, which produces innovative vehicle information technology. (April 2008)

DENSO gave $125,000 to support the research of Professor Takeo Kanade in the area of robotics and computer vision and systems. (April 2008)

Microsoft gave gifts totaling $160,000 to Jessica Hodgins, professor of computer science and robotics, and Kevin Pelphrey, associate professor of psychology, in support of their project "Exploring the Uncanny Valley," ($100,000) and computer science professor Lorrie Cranor ($60,000). (April 2008)

Bayer gave gifts totaling $131,252 to be designated as Bayer Fellowships in chemistry and chemical engineering. (April 2008)

IBM gave $83,300, a 2008 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award, to support the research of Professor Guy Blelloch (SCS). (April 2008)

Intel gave $130,000 to support the research of ECE professors Jose M.F. Moura ($75,000) and Adrian Perrig ($55,000). (April 2008)

Meaningful Machines gave $50,000, a graduate student fellowship, to support Chenmin Liang's research in Chinese-to-English machine translation at the Language Technologies Institute. (April 2008)