The Urban Design Build Studio is a design collaborative involving students, professors, community members and contractors all working towards making socially-conscious urban architectural interventions for the betterment of Pittsburgh communities.
Surrond Haptics, an innovative technology in the works by researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Disney Research, Pittsburgh, allows video game players and film viewers to feel a wide variety of sensations, like road imperfections, braking and acceleration.
Students in professor Kiron Skinner's International Relations and Politics class had two Q&A sessions with 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and two former congresswomen.
Award-winning poet and Department of English professor, Terrance Hayes, has been chosen to serve as a panelist for President Barack Obama's new National Student Poets Program (NSPP), the country's highest honor for young poets presenting original work.
In 2011, Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts alumni were honored with 10 Emmy nominations – three were awarded. Our alums are a tough act to follow on stage and screen with six Academy Awards, 97 Emmy Awards and 22 Tony Awards to date.
Don Wadsworth, Carnegie Mellon professor of voice and speech, has coached the voice work for actors on Broadway, in feature films, TV, regional theater and video games. Matt Bomer (CFA '00), star of White Collar, considers Wadsworth his lifetime teacher.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first visit to Carnegie Mellon in November 2011, primarily to recruit future employees from Carnegie Mellon.
Nicholas Gammell (TPR'04), is the co-founder of GAIN Fitness, a free web and mobile app that customizes your fitness profile, equipment and available time.
Carnegie Mellon researchers and Astrobotic Technology Inc. are ready to deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon. In 2014 the solar-powered spacecraft will broadcast high-def video to Earth while exploring the moon as part of the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize.
In 2011, businessman, scholar, philanthropist and longtime Carnegie Mellon University trustee William S. Dietrich II announced a plan to provide a record-breaking gift of a $265 million fund to support Carnegie Mellon.
Students at Carnegie Mellon collaborated with the Andy Warhol Museum to develop a mobile app that lets you create your own work of art while learning about Andy Warhol's (A'49) process.
Two Carnegie Mellon undergrads—a computer science major in Qatar and an electrical and computer engineering major in Pittsburgh—field tested and improved the unique Braille Writing Tutor developed by CMU's own TechBridgeWorld.
Carnegie Mellon alum, Rob Cochran, CEO of #1 Cochran Automotive, the leading auto retailer in Western Pennsylvania, has drawn on skills he learned at Carnegie Mellon and has grown the company into a $450 million enterprise employing nearly 600 people.
Carnegie Mellon researchers are adjusting the cell mechanics of certain leafy vegetables in Africa to make them more palatable for malnourished infants and children, and recently won a Grand Challenges Explorations Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dreamworks
film studio bought Carnegie Mellon computer science and robotics alum Daniel H. Wilson's debut novel,
Robopocalypse
. Steven Spielberg is on board to direct the big screen version anticipated to release in 2013.
Born in the dorm room of a Carnegie Mellon student, ModCloth.com is an online clothing, accessories and decor retailer that uses social media to allow customers to provide feedback and even vote on potential inventory.
Conflict Kitchen, developed by Carnegie Mellon professors and alumni, is a take-out restaurant that serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. This concept creates an ongoing platform for discussion of international conflict, culture and politics.
Bulletproof. In 1965 polymer scientist and CMU alumna, Stephanie Kwolek, made a discovery that led to Kevlar® fiber. Today Kevlar® is used in bulletproof vests, protective clothing for firefighters and more than 200 other applications.
Rebecca Bortman, an '06 Carnegie Mellon School of Design graduate, is only one of three visual designers at YouTube. Her CMU education taught her to design for any experience and she is now responsible for improving site-wide YouTube visuals.
When Apple first conceived the making of the iPhone, Freddy Anzures, '99 industrial design grad, was there. Anzures was one of the select few who helped design this revolutionary product.
A team of students interested in the environment are investigating the feasibility of a bio-gas digestion unit on campus. This research project is just one of many that was presented by more than 400 students at Carnegie Mellon's 16th annual Meeting of the Minds.
In April, German music and language will come together in a Liederabend, or evening of song, made possible by the unique collaboration between Carnegie Mellon's School of Music and the Department of Modern Languages.
Carnegie Mellon has a history of driving innovation, helping to greenlight more than 300 companies and 9,000 jobs in the past 15 years. Companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, Intel and Lockheed Martin have taken notice and opened space on or near campus.
Dedicated mentor and professor of Economics and Social Science, Steven Klepper, won the prestigious 2011 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.
CollegeProwler, founded by Luke Skurman (TPR '02, HNZ '04), produces college guidebooks - in print and online - that give high school students the "inside scoop" on colleges and universities from student's voice.
