Arts & Culture + Engineering Quality Recording April 29, 2015 For Nick and Kimi Vlahakis, the sound of music is the right and left brain working in harmony
Engineering + Arts & Culture Built to Last December 27, 2014 The cramped airplane rattled through 20 minutes of turbulence while Mounir Sheikh anxiously awaited landing in Nepal for the first time.
Engineering + Technology Engineering Success December 26, 2014 The business and technology news website Business Insider set out to find “22 of the most powerful women engineers in the world.” When the dust settled, two Carnegie Mellon alumnae were prominent on the list: Merline Saintil and Carolyn Duran. Both are role models for women and men.
Technology + Engineering Text Alert! September 10, 2014 In what has become a smartphone world, there may be no better way than a text to let people know about emergency situations—everything from dangerous fires to missing children to imminent severe weather conditions. CMU-SV’s Martin Griss is working to make sure those text messages get through to the right people.
Engineering + Innovation Chemical Attraction June 23, 2014 The director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Macromolecular Engineering has developed a way to slow down and control a chemical process that happens so fast, it’s like catching bullets. With potential applications from smart materials to gene delivery, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski’s innovative atrp process is changing the world.
Arts & Culture + Engineering Journey through the Center of the Earth June 23, 2014 Gathered in the apartment of architecture student Matthew Ho (A’15), four CMU classmates are brainstorming, but no one is saying anything.
Education + Engineering High-Energy Relationship June 23, 2014 Dan and Karen Swanson have done much more than carve their initials in a campus tree
Arts & Culture + Engineering What's Past is Prologue December 16, 2013 The quote is from The Tempest. But it’s also the story of the students who compete annually for a spot in the School of Drama’s incoming class. This year Benjamin Mathews dreams of embarking past his prologue. by Nicholas Ducassi (A’10)