The grant will allow the interdisciplinary team of researchers to advance their work aimed at providing innovative approaches for understanding and treating disease. These include the development of peptide nucleic acids (PNA), synthetic analogs of DNA and RNA that have extraordinary scientific and therapeutic potential.

He will succeed Kenneth Dunn, who stepped down as dean on December 31, 2010, after nine years at the post. Carnegie Mellon University Provost and Executive Vice President Mark S. Kamlet has served as acting dean since Dunn's departure.

The CRA, an association of more than 200 academic computer science departments, industry and government laboratories and affiliated professional societies, selected Wing in recognition of her national and international thought leadership with respect to computational thinking.

Carnegie Mellon University's Pradeep K. Khosla will moderate a distinguished panel of infrastructure experts and urban planners from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 31 at the sixth annual Washington Speakers Series at the Cosmos Club at 2121 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. in Washington, D.C.

Richard E. Purcell, the CAUSE postdoctoral fellow and an assistant professor of English at CMU, specializes in African-American literature, film studies and Cold War studies.

Famous for his large illustrative panoramas of Pittsburgh, muralist Doug Cooper, the Andrew Mellon Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, animated his local landscapes as a big pinball machine in his first short film.  The film, called “Pinburgh,” can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/15749259.

The CSMIC was first unveiled in May 2010 with founding members CA Technologies, a New York-based software company, and Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. New members include: Accenture, Cask LLC, City University London, Data Security Council of India (DSCI), International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), Mycroft, State of Colorado's Office of CIO, Stony Brook University, N.Y., TM Forum, and the University of Melbourne in Australia.    

Ilker Baybars will assume duties from interim dean G. Richard Tucker, who has been serving since August 2010. He will be Carnegie Mellon Qatar's second dean, following Charles E. "Chuck" Thorpe, who served in this role from 2004 to 2010.

Artists are Jesha Chen, Courtney Dow, Nicholas Sean Glover, Daniel Luchman and James Robert Southard, and the work on view includes sculpture, installation, video, audio and photography.

Through film, video, photos, dance and music, Carnegie Mellon University's annual Jill Watson Festival Across the Arts will highlight how the magnitude of velocity, whether fast or slow, can change our perception of the world.

David Tirrell will receive the award, which includes a medal and cash prize, before giving the Dickson Prize Lecture at 4:30 p.m., Monday, March 21 in the Mellon Institute Auditorium, 4400 Fifth Ave., Oakland. His lecture, titled "Reinterpreting the Genetic Code," is free and open to the public.

The gift will be used to endow the Vasantrao Dempo Reflective Chair, which will be held by a Tepper School of Business professor and support teaching and research on societal scale phenomena that are relevant to India. Vasantrao S. Dempo was the founder of the Dempo Group, and Shrinivas Dempo's grandfather.

In the latest issue of the journal PLoS Medicine, ethics experts Jonathan Kimmelman, associate professor at McGill University's Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of Social Studies of Medicine, and Alex John London, associate professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, argue that this pattern of boom and bust may be related to the way researchers predict outcomes of their work in early stages of drug development.

A Carnegie Mellon University project allows anyone with a GPS-linked cell phone camera and a Facebook account to take an active role in monitoring the constantly changing pothole environment.

The collaboration has received a $20 million grant over five years from the National Research Foundation in Singapore. This fund is managed through the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by Media Development Authority of Singapore. With SMU and CMU committed to cash and in-kind contributions, and third party funding, the $47 million center will establish Singapore as one of the world's pre-eminent centers of excellence in computational social science.

Frances Allen and Barbara Liskov, the first two women to receive the highest honor in computer science, the A.M. Turing Award, will share their insights at OurCS (Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science), a workshop for undergraduate women considering graduate study in computer science.

The collaboration has received a $20 million grant over five years from the National Research Foundation in Singapore. This fund is managed through the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by Media Development Authority of Singapore. With SMU and CMU committed to cash and in-kind contributions, and third party funding, the $47 million center will establish Singapore as one of the world's pre-eminent centers of excellence in computational social science.