Recent News
Mandelbaum Receives Department of Energy Early Career Award for Dark Matter and Dark Energy Research
Carnegie Mellon University physicist Rachel Mandelbaum was awarded a five-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study the elusive dark matter and dark energy that make up the majority of the universe.
MCS Postdoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. student Receive UNCF-Merck Fellowships
Dahlia Haynes, a post-doctoral research associate in the department of chemistry, and Elizabeth Ransey, a doctoral student in the department of biological sciences, have received fellowships from the UNCF-Merck Science Initiative. The prestigious UNCF-Merck fellowships are given to approximately 10 post-docs and 12 doctoral students nationwide each year.
Carnegie Mellon University Researchers Use New Fluorescent Biosensor To Reveal Mechanism Critical to Immune System Amplification
Using a new fluorescent biosensor they developed, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how a key set of immune cells exchange information during their coordinated assault on invading pathogens. The immune cells, called dendritic cells, are harnessed by cancer vaccines and other therapeutics used to amplify the immune system. The finding marks the first time that scientists have visualized how antigens are transferred in the immune system between dendritic cells.
MCS Students Earn Education and Research Awards
The Mellon College of Science (MCS) presented its awards for education and research during the college’s annual faculty meeting on Monday, May 7. Winners included Lisa Alexander, Brian Kell, Duff Neill, Udom Sae-Ueng and Mingjiang Zhong.
What’s CO2 Got To Do With It?
Carnegie Mellon boasts another fence that’s attracting some attention. But instead of being locked in the middle of campus, this one spans a stretch of real estate along Forbes Avenue and has recently been transformed into a timeline going back hundreds of thousands of years into the Earth’s past.
