2013 Press Releases
Monday, June 24, 2013
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) prize recognizes the best Ph.D. theses in the chemical sciences as described in 1000-word essays. Qian is one of five students to receive the award. MORE
Chemistry Alumnus Huifeng Qian Wins 2013 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Mingjiang Zhong, a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, has received the 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. MORE
Mingjiang Zhong Receives Prestigious 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
Friday, May 31, 2013
Developmental biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have identified the gene regulatory networks (GRNs) responsible for the creation and organization of neurons in starfish. The findings, published in the May 21 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide a better understanding of how genes are regulated in order to form complex patterns of neurons. MORE
Carnegie Mellon Biologists Find Regulatory Networks Responsible for Neuron Development in Starfish
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Students preparing for final exams might want to wait before pulling an all-night cram session — at least as far as their neurons are concerned. Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have discovered a new intermediate phase in neuronal development during which repeated exposure to a stimulus shrinks synapses. MORE
Carnegie Mellon Neuroscientists Discover New Phase of Synaptic Development
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
MCS Staff Awards, 2013
On May 3, faculty, staff and administrators gathered in the Mellon Institute to honor MCS staff members for their dedication and service to the Mellon College of Science.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The Mellon College of Science (MCS) presented its awards for education and research during the college’s annual faculty meeting on Monday, May 6. Winners included Wendy Li, Brendan Sullivan, Mingjiang Zhong, Yu Feng and Saumya Saurabh. MORE
MCS Students Earn Education and Research Awards
Monday, May 6, 2013
National NMR Center in Czech Republic Named for Carnegie Mellon Emeritus Professor Josef Dadok
The Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) in Brno, Czech Republic has named their national NMR center after Carnegie Mellon University Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Josef Dadok. The Josef Dadok National NMR Centre, one of the most advanced centers of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, focuses on using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study the atomic structure of biologically significant molecules. The Dadok National NMR Centre was dedicated in a ceremony held in Brno earlier this year. Dadok will be celebrated in Pittsburgh at the 2013 Pittsburgh Conference Lecture on Thursday, May 9 at 6 p.m. at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. Dadok will give a lecture titled “My 50 Years in Scientific Instrumentation – Mostly NMR.”
Monday, May 6, 2013
Unique Wave Flume Facility Allows Scientists To Study How Sea Spray Seeds Clouds
A great deal of attention has been paid to the environmental impact of what humans put into the oceans and release into our air. But as waves crash, the ocean itself is releasing tiny particles that can impact cloud formation and climate. Using a 33-meter wave flume, scientists have for the first time accurately recreated sea spray aerosols in a laboratory setting, which allowed an international group of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University's Ryan Sullivan, to study the chemistry of sea spray aerosols.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
John Mackey Wins William H. and Francis S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching
What could cause majors and non-majors alike to pack a mathematics lecture hall? Or recruit the best young mathletes to attend Carnegie Mellon? Or contribute to the number of math majors at CMU to almost doubling in 10 years? “Call it the ‘Mackey Effect’.”
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Gregg Franklin and Giovanni Leoni—winners of this year’s Mellon College of Science awards for education—will be recognized at the University Celebration of Education ceremony on April 30. Their accomplishments will be further celebrated at the Mellon College of Science annual meeting on May 6. MORE
Gregg Franklin and Giovanni Leoni Win Mellon College of Science Awards for Education
Monday, April 29, 2013
This past weekend teams from the National Football League used statistics like height, weight and speed to draft the best college players, and in a few weeks, armchair enthusiasts will use similar measures to select players for their own fantasy football teams. Neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University are taking a similar approach to compile “dream teams” of neurons using a statistics-based method that can evaluate the fitness of individual neurons. MORE
Carnegie Mellon Neuroscientists Use Statistical Model To Draft Fantasy Teams of Neurons
Friday, April 26, 2013
Mathematical Sciences Professor Steven E. Shreve, has received the elite distinction of University Professor, the highest academic accolade a faculty member can achieve at Carnegie Mellon. The rank of University Professor recognizes a faculty member for representing the intellectual leadership of Carnegie Mellon through their expertise and accomplishments in their respective fields of study. MORE
Mathematical Sciences Professor Steven Shreve Named University Professor
Monday, April 22, 2013
Catherine Byrd, a senior biological sciences major with a history minor, received a Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association Scholarship, which recognizes outstanding senior undergraduate women. MORE
Biology Student Receives 2013 Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association Scholarship
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Norbert Holtkamp, associate laboratory director for the accelerator directorate at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will present Carnegie Mellon University's annual Buhl Lecture at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 23 in the Mellon Institute Auditorium, 4400 Fifth Ave., Oakland. His lecture "Particle Accelerators: Ships of Discovery - Tools for a Better Life - Technologies for the Future" is free and open to the public. MORE
Associate Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory To Deliver Carnegie Mellon's 2013 Buhl Lecture April 23
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University has placed fifth in the Mathematical Association of America's 73rd William Lowell Putnam Competition, the premier mathematics contest for undergraduate students. This marks the second consecutive year that a Carnegie Mellon team has placed among the top five teams. Only 15 other universities have placed in top five more than once since 1990. MORE
Carnegie Mellon "Mathletes" Place Fifth in 2012 Putnam Competition
Friday, April 5, 2013
Governor Tom Corbett and Carnegie Mellon University today announced that 56 Pennsylvania high school juniors have been selected to attend the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences (PGSS) summer program. MORE
Governor Corbett, Carnegie Mellon Announce Acceptance of Students into the Governor's School for the Sciences Summer 2013 Program
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
For his major research contributions to the field of magnetic resonance in biomedical sciences, Chien Ho, the Alumni Professor of Biological Sciences in Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science and director of the Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research, has been awarded the 2013 Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). MORE
Chien Ho Awarded Gold Medal From International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
ACS To Recognize Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon Institute for Landmark Contributions to Chemistry
Cellulose hot-dog casings, World War I gas masks, silicone rubber and investigations into air pollution. While they don't appear to have anything in common, these and numerous other developments are products of research conducted at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, an internationally renowned nonprofit research laboratory that operated in Pittsburgh for more than 50 years. Established in 1913, the Mellon Institute merged with Carnegie Tech in 1967 to form Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). CMU and the American Chemical Society (ACS) will celebrate the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of its numerous research accomplishments and legacy of scientific training. A ceremony will be held at 3:30 p.m., March 28 in the Mellon Institute Conference Room.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Graduate students Yu Feng and Saumya Saurabh have been awarded the Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Fellowships in the Mellon College of Science in recognition of their outstanding creativity, dedication and commitment to carrying out leading-edge research. MORE
Graduate Students Receive Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Fellowships
Thursday, February 28, 2013
The next time you try to catch a snowflake on your tongue, just think that the particle at the core of that snowflake may have traveled thousands of miles from a desert in Asia before it fell from the sky above the United States. A new study published online in Science Express by an international group of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University’s Ryan Sullivan, has found that airborne dust and biological particles from the Sahara Desert in Africa and deserts in Asia can form the nucleus of ice-induced precipitation in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range. MORE
Asian Desert Dust Causes Californian Snowfall
Friday, February 22, 2013
Two MCS faculty members, mathematician Gautam Iyer and physicist Rachel Mandelbaum, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships. They are among 126 scientists and scholars, and two of four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, to be honored this year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. MORE
Two MCS Faculty Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowships
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Carnegie Mellon Astrophysicists To Participate in European Space Agency’s Dark Energy Mission
NASA has named Carnegie Mellon University astrophysicists Shirley Ho and Rachel Mandelbaum to a 40-member U.S. science team that will participate in the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid mission. A space-based telescope, Euclid will be used to investigate the greatest mysteries of the universe — dark matter and dark energy.
Monday, January 28, 2013
CMU Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski To Receive Inaugural AkzoNobel North America Science Award
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science, has been named the first recipient of the AkzoNobel North America Science Award for his cutting-edge polymer chemistry research. The award is given by AkzoNobel, the world’s largest paints and coatings company, and the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Dahlia Haynes, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of chemistry, will be recognized as a rising star on the 34th Annual UNCF An Evening of Stars. The nationally televised variety show is scheduled to air at 10 pm EST, Sunday Jan. 27 on BET, and on other channels Saturday, Jan. 26 (check local listings for stations and times). MORE
MCS Postdoctoral Fellow Dahlia Haynes to Appear on UNCF An Evening of Stars
Monday, January 14, 2013
Fifty-six of the state’s brightest incoming high school seniors will spend five weeks at Carnegie Mellon University this summer learning about biology, chemistry, computer science, math and physics from some of the area’s leading science professors as the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences (PGSS) returns to the university’s Pittsburgh campus. MORE