Audio and Video Highlights

Carnegie Mellon University is pleased to provide multimedia (video and audio) to members of the press. In this area, we'll offer short segments of popular content members of the press can use on their own sites. For full-length videos that can be linked or embedded on websites, please see Carnegie Mellon on YouTube. Questions? Email Ken Walters or call 412-268-2900.

Featured Video

Student Honored

Carnegie Mellon University's Ricardo Taborda received the 2009 Excellence in Civil Engineering Award on Wednesday, Nov. 4, from his alma mater EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia. Taborda, who accepted the award via a special virtual video, received his alma mater's highest alumni honor in civil engineering for his leadership and impact on the overall development of Colombia and Latin America. Watch a video in which Taborda, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, talks about the honor and his time at Carnegie Mellon.

Featured Podcast

Health Care Reform

Health care reform has been a major topic on many people's minds lately, from town hall meetings to the congressional hallways of Washington, D.C. Martin Gaynor, the E.J. Barone Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, has studied health care markets for nearly 30 years and has specific thoughts on health care reform and health care markets, which he shares in this podcast.

Pittsburgh G-20 Summit Podcast Series

Listen to interviews with the following Carnegie Mellon experts on topics relevant to the Pittsburgh Summit in this iTunes U Podcast Series.  

	Lee Branstetter Associate Professor of Economics "Doha Round Negotiations" [2:52] Download a transcript here. "Agricultural Trade & Climate Change" [7:12] Download a transcript here. "Compromise?" [3:55] Download a transcript here. "Changing the WTO, World Bank and IMF" [7:56] Download a transcript here.
	Donald Carter David Lewis Director of Urban Design and Regional Engagement of the Remaking Cities Institute "Pittsburgh's Transformation" [11:22] Download a transcript here.
	Jared L. Cohon President, Carnegie Mellon University "Carnegie Mellon's Role in Pittsburgh" [17:00]
	Beatrice Dias, Anthony Velazquez and Sara Belousov TechBridgeWorld "iSTEP Tanzania 2009" [18:42] Download a transcript here.
	Baruch Fischhoff Howard Heinz Professor of Social and Decision Sciences "Exploiting Information" [5:52]
	Pradeep Khosla Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dean, College of Engineering "The Importance of Globalization & Innovation" [5:13] Download a transcript here.
	Deborah Lange Executive Director, Steinbrenner Institute "Community Revitalization" [5:53]
	Lester Lave Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics and University Professor "Learning From the Pittsburgh Experience" [9:14]
	Stephen Lee Head, School of Architecture "Sustainable Architecture" [14:15]
	David McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Information Technology, Public Policy and Management "What is the G-20?" [9:55] Download a transcript here.
	Robert Miller Professor of Economics and Strategy "Executive Compensation" [7:39]
	Susan Polansky Head, Department of Modern Languages "The Value of a Humanities Focused Education" [7:32]
	Joel Tarr Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy "Pittsburgh: Then and Now" [6:32]