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CMU School of Design, Eat'n Park Launch Partnership To Fight Childhood Obesity

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

During those five weeks, or while supplies last, families at Eat'n Park can request a free Fitwits Memory Game and Recipe Cards. In addition, families can participate in Fitwits' first-ever text-messaging game called "Road Trip with Elvis."

World's Top Linguistics Students To Compete at Carnegie Mellon July 24-30

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Working in four-person teams, they will tackle a series of brain-teasing written problems that force them to identify similarities and patterns across a range of languages, potentially including both ancient and make-believe ones.

CMU's Bielak Elected As Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Those elected to this highest grade of membership have attained acknowledged eminence in some branch of engineering or in its related arts and sciences. Out of the 120,000 members, only about 200 currently hold the distinction, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Obituary: CMU's Arlo-Costa Was an Acclaimed Logician and Philosopher

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Arló-Costa, professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, died July 14 at age 54. A renowned logician and philosopher, Arlo?-Costa's innovative research crossed many different fields, including formal epistemology, artificial intelligence, behavioral decision research and cognitive neuroscience.