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Many stars and galaxies including two spiral galaxies and three merging galaxies. — Rubin’s First Snapshots Launch a Decade of Discovery

Young woman taking photographs while standing on a boat in open water. — Studying Underwater Acoustics

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Oct 29, 2025

Quantum Meets Cosmos: Carnegie Mellon Hosts Global COSMO-25 Conference

Oct 29, 2025

Redefining Cosmic Speed

Eason Wang and Sofia Splawska lean against a green wall and look at the camera. They are in front of a sign that says "McWilliams Center For Cosmology and Astrophysics."

Oct 28, 2025

MCS Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

A hand holds a clump of dirt with a neural network in it. A plant grows out of the dirt.

Oct 27, 2025

Researchers Plant Seeds of Discovery

Olexandr Isayev and Gabe Gomes stand next to a screen as they talk to Robert MacKnight and Nick Gao.

Oct 24, 2025

NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis Creates Opportunities for Discovery

Two images from CERN. One is a room with many computers. The other is part of the Large Hadron Collider.

Oct 23, 2025

Kyungmin Park Accelerates CMS Trigger Work at CERN

Abhrojyoti Mazumder stands in a lab coat. In front of him is a range of lenses with a blue laser passing through them. He smiles at the camera.

Oct 22, 2025

Mazumder Turns Gold (Nanoclusters) to Tech Innovations

Tina Lin stands in a lab and stretches a polymer she created. She is wearing a lab coat, nitrile gloves and glasses.

Oct 22, 2025

Thread By Thread, Lin Rethinks the Fabric of Material Design

The 2025 cohort of Rales Fellows stand with Farnam Jahanian, Joshua Rales and Jim Garrett. All of them look into the camera and smile.

Oct 20, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University Welcomes Second Cohort of Rales Fellows

Three types of condensates are depicted, including condensates involved in producing messenger RNA (left), processing messenger RNA (middle), and producing the RNA component of ribosomes that synthesize all proteins in the cell (right).

Oct 20, 2025

Henninger Explores Targeting RNA in Cancer Prevention, Treatment

David Kinderlehrer stands in his office and holds up a rock. He smiles at the camera.

Oct 17, 2025

Kinderlehrer Uses Math to Build Bridges Across Disciplines

Oct 15, 2025

Amy Bastian to Receive Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

Oct 13, 2025

Victor M. Bearg Builds Legacy of Scientific Support

John Nash earns an honorary diploma from Carnegie Mellon University. He stands in graduation regalia and speaks with another person.

Oct 10, 2025

Nash's Game-Changing Idea Marks 75 Years

A digital image of the star Betelgeuse. This image is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2).

Oct 08, 2025

X-Ray Study Reveals New Details About Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

Sufei Shi stands in his lab with five people who work in his lab. They all smile at the camera.

Oct 08, 2025

Moore Foundation Awards Shi $1.3M To Advance Quantum Physics

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Oct 02, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Oct 02, 2025

The Long Game: Years of CMU Discoveries Drive New Parkinson's Treatment

An illustration showing biocatalysts interacting. Small particles are emitted by two larger spheres.

Oct 01, 2025

CATNIP for Chemists

Haoyong Lan stands in a hallway with floor to ceiling windows that look out at campus. He smiles at the camera.

Oct 01, 2025

Cultivating AI-Literate Researchers

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Sep 30, 2025

RNA Society Spotlights McManus

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Sep 30, 2025

10 CMU Alumni Honored for Impact and Achievement

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Sep 25, 2025

Elizabeth Lee Awarded 2025 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship

Mahmoud Maksoud, Anish Prasad Lohani, Mohamed Elosta, and Nimer Murshid posing together in a brightly lit hallway with a CMU Qatar banner visible in the background.

Sep 25, 2025

CMU-Q Students Co-author Nanotechnology Paper in Molecules

Frank Leibfarth from UNC Chapel Hill squishes a 3D printed cube made out of a new polymer.

Sep 22, 2025

Chemists Can Discover New Materials More Quickly With AI

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Sep 19, 2025

BioCDC Panel Brings Life Science Careers into Focus for Graduate Students

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Sep 17, 2025

CMU Welcomes First Career Consultant Dedicated to MCS Master’s Students

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Sep 15, 2025

MCS Names New Chief Advancement Officer

Deepti Aggarwal smiles at the camera.

Sep 15, 2025

Deepti Aggarwal Calculates a Future in Finance

Yuqing Lin sits outside of Hamerschlag Hall and smiles at the camera.

Sep 11, 2025

Lin Makes Quantum Leaps in Physics Research

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Sep 11, 2025

Unlocking the Universe: New Seminar Series Explores the Frontiers of Theoretical Physics

Aryn Gittis, Katelyn Breivik, Olexandr Isayev, Zheng Kuang and Huaiying Zhang

Sep 10, 2025

MCS Faculty Members Recognized With Chairs

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Sep 10, 2025

CMU Program Helps Students Incorporate Sustainable Learning Environment into Diverse Fields

Diana Parno - long-haired brunette woman standing at a podium

Sep 08, 2025

Parno Appointed Associate Head of Physics Department

Rachel Mandelbaum

Sep 08, 2025

Mandelbaum Appointed Head of Physics Department

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Sep 05, 2025

$5M Gift Establishes Trustee Head of the Department of Biological Sciences

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Sep 03, 2025

Opening Gambit

A small section of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster.

Sep 03, 2025

CMU Launches Data-Driven Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Alumnus Wu operates the computer system connected to near-infared spectroscopy (NIRS) devices, which control data acquisition and visualization during experiments.

Aug 27, 2025

Triple Alum Traverses Departments to Tackle Maternal, Fetal Health

Yasser Majeed, assistant teaching professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, stands smiling with his arms crossed in a brightly lit hallway.

Aug 25, 2025

CMU-Q’s Yasser Majeed Awarded Wimmer Fellowship To Enhance Immunology Education

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Aug 22, 2025

Simons Foundation Honors Ph.D. Student in Mathematics

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Aug 21, 2025

What Happens in the Brain When it Learns Something New

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Aug 20, 2025

Team Brings Lung Cancer Into Focus with 3D Imaging Innovation

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Aug 04, 2025

New NSF Institute at CMU Will Help Mathematicians Harness AI and Advance Discoveries

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Jul 31, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Jul 08, 2025

John Peoples Jr. Served as Third Fermilab Director

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Jul 07, 2025

Chemistry's Pollution Blind Spot: How CMU Researchers Are Filling the Gaps

Jul 01, 2025

Lorna Williams-Rolley Guides Chemistry Students to New Heights

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Jul 01, 2025

Gittis Awarded Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professorship of Life Sciences

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Jun 30, 2025

Team Provides a Roadmap for Large Language Models in Chemical Research

Alice Crafford and Anna Cappella smile in framed snapshots on a red background.

Jun 27, 2025

MCS Alumni Named Fulbright Scholars

Jun 25, 2025

Innovator Uses CMU Education To Combat Rare Diseases

Yisong (Alex) Guo sits in a lab and smiles at the camera.

Jun 25, 2025

CMU Researchers, Team Win Royal Society of Chemistry Prize

Many stars and galaxies including two spiral galaxies and three merging galaxies.

Jun 23, 2025

Rubin’s First Snapshots Launch a Decade of Discovery

An artist's depiction of a molecule with seven trophies.

Jun 17, 2025

Graduate Students Honored by Department of Chemistry

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Jun 13, 2025

Shinn-Cunningham Awarded Brown Medal

Young woman taking photographs while standing on a boat in open water.

Jun 13, 2025

Studying Underwater Acoustics

Riley Santiago sits in a biology lab and smiles at the camera.

Jun 09, 2025

Santiago Builds Bridges Through Health Care, Community

Yaning Wu delivers part of a capstone presentation as Sophia Kurz and Ananya Chembai watch.

Jun 06, 2025

Hands-On Data Analytics Program Builds Scientific Skills

An illustration of different configurations of molecules.

Jun 05, 2025

Enhancing Molecular Machine Learning with Quantum-Chemical Insight

Students tour the Carnegie Mellon Tech Spark labs as part of DASIE.

Jun 05, 2025

DASIE Opens Doors to Data-Driven Futures

Male graduate student presenting his research to an engaged audience at the Pittsburgh Biomolecular Condensates Conference.

Jun 03, 2025

Tiny Cell Droplets Offer Big Scientific Questions

Runqiu Ye and Katie Breivik.

May 30, 2025

Stellar Code, Simulations Help Ye Land Big Tech Internship

Camden Johnson stands outside of Mellon Institute in his graduation regalia. He smiles at the camera.

May 27, 2025

Researchers Target Tire Dust Threatening Salmon

Mellon College of Science Dean's List - Spring 2025

May 20, 2025

MCS Dean's List Spring 2025

Yunshu Li stands outside of a glass building and a brick archway, and she smiles at the camera.

May 16, 2025

Physics Powers Li's Neuroscience Discoveries

Stella Trickett stands in the lab and holds a pipette as she smiles at the camera.

May 16, 2025

Research Offers New Hope for Overdose Patients

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May 16, 2025

Setting the SCENE for Neuroscience Breakthroughs

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May 15, 2025

Class of 2025 Celebrates Commencement Weekend

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May 14, 2025

CMU Startup Helps Formulators with Complex Design Problems

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May 13, 2025

Startup Aims to Boost the Discovery of Antibody-Based Therapeutics

May 12, 2025

Logan McGregor Bridges Physics and Bagpipes

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May 10, 2025

CMU Neuroscientist Has Big Plans for Guggenheim Fellowship

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May 06, 2025

Meyer Honored as 2025 Richard Moore Education Award Recipient

Jason Howell sits at his desk in his office and talks to a student.

May 06, 2025

Jason Howell Earns Ashkin Award

Andrew Roberts, Patrick Lachance and Hannah Skobe smile at the camera.

May 06, 2025

Physics Graduate Students Honored for Teaching Assistantships

May 02, 2025

David Hill Pioneers Allergy Research for Healthier Childhoods

Maggie Braun and Ken Hovis.

May 01, 2025

Braun, Hovis Promoted for Their Support of Student Success

Two female students stand in a grassy area and pet a baby goat.

May 01, 2025

Animal Encounters Ease Exam Anxiety

Ben Koby stands in front of an out-of-focus whiteboard with chemistry formulas on it and smiles at the camera.

Apr 30, 2025

Koby Earns Biophysical Society Award, NIH Fellowship

Microscope images showing bacteria leaving a biofilm.

Apr 29, 2025

We’re Outta Here

A male teacher wearing eyeglasses engaged in a conversation, set against a vibrant green background.

Apr 29, 2025

Manfred Paulini Honored As CMU Educational Leader

Illustration showing a quantum material with out-of-plane spin current.

Apr 28, 2025

Physicists Put a New Spin on Reading Magnetic States

Byron Daniel stands in front of a blackboard with physics equations written on it. He throws an apple in the air as he smiles at the camera.

Apr 25, 2025

Byron Daniel Honored with Graduate Student Service Award

Emily Drill stands between two Carnegie Mellon in Qatar students as they take a selfie together.

Apr 24, 2025

Biological Sciences Faculty Exchange Encourages a Unified Learning Experience

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Apr 21, 2025

Chemistry Student Among CMU Goldwater Scholarship Recipients

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Apr 18, 2025

Matthew Rosenzweig Awarded NSF Career Award

Keerthi Kunnumkai leans against a railing outside of a glass building and smiles at the camera.

Apr 18, 2025

Keerthi Kunnumkai Earns Arnys Clifton Lilly Jr. Fellowship in Physics

Sangmin Park holds his award.

Apr 17, 2025

Sangmin Park Earns the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award

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Apr 17, 2025

Colin Martin Earns Hugh D. Young Graduate Student Teaching Award

Three men and one woman hold spherical wire sculptures on a stage. The background is blue and filled with flashes of light.

Apr 16, 2025

LHC Experiment Collaborations at CERN Receive Breakthrough Prize

Apr 16, 2025

Sydlik, Wang Use Expertise To Make Upcycling Plastic Easier

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Apr 15, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Spring Award Winners Announced

Ran Tao sits outside of Wean Hall and smiles at the camera.

Apr 15, 2025

Ran Tao Awarded FRQNT Fellowship

Evan Luo stands in front of Mellon Institute and smiles at the camera.

Apr 14, 2025

Chemistry's Lianshun (Evan) Luo Receives IPMI Student Award

The spectrometer for the Karlsruhe Neutrino Experiment, or KATRIN.

Apr 11, 2025

Precision Scale KATRIN Sets Record For Measuring Neutrino Mass

Student scientist working in a laboratory setting.

Apr 11, 2025

Research Rising Stars: SURF Students Take on Complex Biomedical Challenges

Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science Barbara Shinn-Cunningham gets doused with a wave of water as she sits in a star dress.

Apr 08, 2025

Carnival Rolls Out the Red Carpet

A woman stands between two men holding a broad silver cup with two handles.

Apr 07, 2025

Keen Mind

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Apr 02, 2025

Chase Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

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Apr 02, 2025

Go Inside Buggy with Apex Driver Maggie Blair

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Mar 28, 2025

The Unexpected Art: How Women in Math Combine Calculation with Creativity

Heidi Opdyke stands outside of Mellon Institute and smiles at the camera.

Mar 21, 2025

Opdyke Named Associate Dean of Marketing and Communications

Severance character Mark Scout, played by Adam Scott, walks through a stark white hallway with a bunch of blue balloons.

Mar 20, 2025

Popular Show Explores Work-Life Separation

Emily Drill stands between two Carnegie Mellon in Qatar students as they take a selfie together.

Mar 19, 2025

CMU-Q Micro Course Takes Macro Look at Neurological Disorders

Graham Hatfull stands in the front of a crowded room as he gives a Margaret Ottie Lecture.

Mar 18, 2025

Life Sciences Club Revives Margaret Ottie Lecture

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Mar 17, 2025

Wilson-Gerow Recognized With Aspen Center for Physics Honor

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Mar 14, 2025

Play Us a Song, π-ano Man

An image of a woman in a lab wearing safety gear and holding a hexagon tile.

Mar 14, 2025

Women in Science Highlight Mentorship, Outreach as Integral to Career Success

Image of Nimer Murshid.

Mar 13, 2025

CMU-Q Faculty Member Awarded GAITAR Fellowship

The pointed end of HIV’s outer viral shell, its capsid, helps it squeeze into host cells’ nuclear pore.

Mar 13, 2025

HIV Protein Switch May Help Virus Squeeze into Host Cell Nucleus

Valentina Dutta, an Indian woman with brown hair, smiles into the camera.

Mar 12, 2025

Higgs Boson, High-energy Particle Physics Spurs Dutta's Research

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Mar 12, 2025

Their Time to Shine

17 students stand in front of six foot high letters spelling out CMU.

Mar 12, 2025

Teaching Computational Neuroscience in Africa

Xiaolei Hu stands outside of Mellon Institute and looks into the camera.

Mar 10, 2025

Hu Awarded the John and Nancy Harrison Legacy Graduate Fellowship

Mar 05, 2025

From Doctor to Coroner

Samskrathi Sharma works in the lab and smiles at the camera.

Mar 03, 2025

Through 3MT, Doctoral Students Share Accessible Research

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Feb 28, 2025

Pittsburgh Youth Leaders in Sustainability Network Builds Community

A graph shows Carnegie Mellon University graduate theses and dissertations.

Feb 28, 2025

Data Visualization Mapped MS-DAS Graduate Research Project

Illustration of enzymes

Feb 25, 2025

Copper-Dependent Enzyme Catalyzes Unprecedented Reactions

3D models of the brain.

Feb 25, 2025

Researchers Propose Framework To Identify Food Selectivity Origins in the Brain

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Feb 24, 2025

Nicole Auvil Awarded Kwolek Fellowship

Aimee Dorney stands inside of Mellon Institute and smiles at the camera.

Feb 21, 2025

MCS Dean's Office Welcomes New Staff

A student from Carnegie Mellon, Alice Crafford, presents at the American Physical Society's Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities.

Feb 17, 2025

Physics Undergraduates Present at APS Conference

Karen Stump making a heart shape with her hands.

Feb 13, 2025

Unbreakable Bonds

Feb 12, 2025

From Spacecraft to Racecars: Physicist Pushes Vehicle Limits

Illustration of person in chemistry glassware climbing stairs.

Feb 10, 2025

Teachers Bring Introductory Chemistry to the Digital Age

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Feb 07, 2025

Math Researchers Awarded $2.5M Grant

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Feb 07, 2025

Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Map Language in the Brain

Curtis Meyer stands on the GlueX platform at the J-Lab Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia.

Feb 06, 2025

In a First, Physicists Set an Upper Limit in the Search for Hybrid Mesons

Fred Lanni holds up a vial of biofilm in a lab and smiles at the camera.

Feb 06, 2025

After 42 Years, Fred Lanni Changes Focus

A light bulb

Feb 04, 2025

From Idea to Industry

An image shows innervation, the process of supplying nerves to a specific part of the body. In the image the globus palladium (GPe) axon terminals appear in red, pre-synaptic terminals at the end of GPe axons are in green. Retrorubral field dopaminergic neurons appear in blue. Image courtesy of Maxime Vounatsos.

Jan 31, 2025

Neuroscientists Find New Pathways

Artist's impression of a tidal disruption event. Credit: ESA/C. Carreau

Jan 27, 2025

Shredded Star Launches Powerful Jet Toward Earth

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Jan 27, 2025

Study Offers Insights on Non-Invasive Deep-Brain Stimulation

Brain scan images

Jan 23, 2025

Neuroscience Institute Spurs Collaboration, New Discoveries

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Jan 21, 2025

CMU and Pitt Collaborate on Neural Pathway Experiments

Large Hadron Collider

Jan 21, 2025

CMU AI Algorithm Detects Anomalies in CMS Experiment

Image courtesy of Ali Stinchfield

Jan 17, 2025

Studying the chemistry of cloud formation at CERN

MCS News - red departmental icon pattern

Jan 15, 2025

Spirit of Discovery Motivates Rales Fellows at Confluences of Research Fields

Shaw Camphire, a Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, was honored with the Glen de Vries Fellowship for his outstanding research achievements and potential.

Jan 15, 2025

Shaw Camphire Receives Glen de Vries Fellowship

Jan 13, 2025

Giulia Martorana Engineers Opportunities

Dean's List

Jan 08, 2025

MCS Dean's List Fall 2024

Shannon Chou looks through a microscope

Jan 07, 2025

Shannon Chou Named 2024 Paul and James Wang - Sercomm Graduate

Kara Mathias works in the lab alongside a dog she is training to be a service animal.

Jan 06, 2025

Mathias Unleashes Advancements in Animal Care

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Jan 02, 2025

2024 Year in Review

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Jan 02, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Benchmark Beasts Team

Dec 18, 2024

PSC Interns To Represent U.S. at International Competition

Andy Park

Dec 17, 2024

Andy Park Earns Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship

Dec 16, 2024

From the Ballroom to the Bay Area

Event decor

Dec 13, 2024

Science of Creativity

Niraj Khare, Anthony Weston, Zelealem Yilma, Layan El Hajj, and Hasan Demirkoparan comprise the CMU-Q mathematics faculty.

Dec 13, 2024

CMU-Q Faculty Craft Questions for World Math Team Championship

Tuft cells

Dec 12, 2024

Tuft Cell Expression Changes with Sleeping, Eating Cycles

Artwork by Greg Dunn

Dec 12, 2024

Richard Ivry Receives Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

Brendan Mullan is an associate teaching professor and director of Undergraduate Laboratories in Carnegie Mellon's Department of Physics.

Dec 10, 2024

Mullan Offers Students Big Questions, Practical Experience

Clockwise from top left, Sangmin Park, Cat Raanes, Jeremy Beard, Tolson Bell and Jakob Hofstad.

Dec 10, 2024

Math Department Awards Graduate Students

Paul Middlebrooks and John Ngai at a talk with the community held in Mellon Institute.

Dec 10, 2024

BRAIN Initiative Director Visits CMU, Pitt

The CMS Phase-1 Level-1 Trigger system is responsible for taking the final decsion to keep a collision event or not based on physics critera. Image courtesy of Manfred Jeitler

Dec 09, 2024

CMU's Physics Department Joins CERN Trigger Project

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Dec 06, 2024

Carnegie Mellon is a Destination for NSF Postdoctoral Fellows

Four HPCWire 2024 awards sitting on a tabletop

Dec 06, 2024

HPCwire Awards Honors 4 PSC Projects

Joseph Peterman and Yeritmary Rodriguez Delgado are developing their research skills and preparing for their future careers through the Postbac Research Fellowship in Quantitative Biology.

Dec 05, 2024

Program Prepares New Researchers

Graphic of the brain-eye connection. Image courtesy of ARPA-H

Dec 05, 2024

Zhao Joins Project To Make Whole Eye Transplants a Reality

The CLOUD Experiment at CERN aims to study the potential link between cosmic rays and cloud formation. Image courtesy of CERN

Dec 05, 2024

Isoprene from rainforests drives new particle formation

Carnegie Mellon mathematics alumnus Jonathan Roberts, center, volunteers to lead a math club at his daughter Emily's school.

Nov 25, 2024

Roberts Finds Ways to Serve Via Mathematics

In most cases, Prader-Willi Syndrome is caused by a random genetic error — a section of the paternal copy of chromosome 15 is deleted. Several genes are in the missing section, and it’s not yet known how their loss contributes to PWS symptoms

Nov 25, 2024

McManus Awarded Grant To Advance Prader-Willi Syndrome Research

Jennifer Bomberger delivered the first keynote speech of the conference on November 7.

Nov 22, 2024

Exploring Breakthroughs in Microbiome Research

Nov 22, 2024

Erin Davis Unifies Processes for Departmental Success

Rokas Veitas

Nov 21, 2024

Rokas Veitas Earns McQuade Fellowship

Irene Fonseca has been elected a vice president of the American Mathematical Society.

Nov 21, 2024

Forbes Portugal Names Fonseca to Most Powerful Women in Business List

A team of researchers devised a way to use machine learning to rapidly identify potential crystallizable organic semiconductors materials. Polarized optical microscopy images show, from left to right: rac-BINAP, TBT and spiro-TAD crystallized as platelets, an ideal shape for future device applications. Organic semiconductors are used in devices such as displays, photo detectors, photoconductors for photocopiers and photovoltaic cells.

Nov 20, 2024

Researchers Discover Crystallizable Organic Semiconductors with Machine Learning

Tori Noquez holds up playing cards in hand

Nov 18, 2024

Noquez Shuffles Between Math, Magic

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Nov 15, 2024

AI Expands Potential for Discovery in Physics

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Nov 15, 2024

Di Matteo Selected as Astrophysical Journal Scientific Editor

Grace Kollman

Nov 13, 2024

Grace Kollman Awarded 2024 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship

Linda Addison

Nov 12, 2024

The horror!

Nicholas Boffi

Nov 04, 2024

Nicholas Boffi Brings Together Applied Math and Machine Learning

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Nov 01, 2024

Five CMU Researchers Receive Kaufman Foundation Grants

Philip E. Castle

Nov 01, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Honors 11 Alumni Making a Difference around the World

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Oct 29, 2024

From the Archives: Historic Physics and Mathematics Research Preserved

Christopher Eur

Oct 29, 2024

Christopher Eur Adds Breadth to Faculty with Algebraic Geometry

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Oct 25, 2024

NMR Pioneer Josef Dadok Dies at 98

Adrie Fells

Oct 25, 2024

MCS DEI Welcomes New Staff

A student in a lab setting used tweezers to hold a specimen from a small tray

Oct 24, 2024

Physics Launches New Master's Degree Program

A cartoon satellite emitting waves

Oct 23, 2024

Radio Telescopes' Earthbound Perspective Clouds Discovery of Fast Radio Bursts

Students volunteered across Pittsburgh during the Fall Day of Service.

Oct 22, 2024

Fall Day of Service Connects Students and Community

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Oct 21, 2024

Isayev Named Inaugural Carl & Amy Jones Professor of Interdisciplinary Science

Gabrielle Illava in a lab setting

Oct 21, 2024

Finding Answers in Extremes

Liberty Lapayowker (center) works as assistant stage manager for a production of “You on the Moors Now” during her sophomore year.

Oct 16, 2024

Drama Without Limits: BXA Reflects on Theater’s Value in Interdisciplinary Studies

Jonathan Henninger

Oct 14, 2024

RNA Intrigues Biologist Jonathan Henninger

Rachel Mandelbaum

Oct 11, 2024

Rachel Mandelbaum Named APS Fellow

Jonathan Simone

Oct 10, 2024

Low-Dimensional Topology Offers High Rewards for Simone

Lianshun (Evan) Luo

Oct 09, 2024

Luo Receives McWilliams Fellowship

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition has been expanding the field of cognitive neuroscience since its founding in 1994.

Oct 07, 2024

30 Years of Cognitive Shifts

Eric Parker II worked with Vietnamese artists to produce new music.

Oct 02, 2024

Processing New Sounds

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Sep 30, 2024

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Named Mellon College of Science Dean

world map on tartan background

Sep 25, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Catherine Armbruster in a lab coat in a lab setting

Sep 25, 2024

Armbruster Studies Biofilms in Diverse Environments

Robin Neumayer

Sep 24, 2024

Robin Neumayer Awarded NSF Career Award

Samskrathi Sharma

Sep 19, 2024

Samskrathi Sharma Named 2024 Quad Fellow

Graphic of cartoon fish and pharmaceutical pills

Sep 19, 2024

TAML Catalysts Efficiently Break Down Pharmaceuticals in Polluted Waters

Five Mellon College of Science faculty members

Sep 17, 2024

MCS Faculty Honored with Professorships

Irene Kaplow joined Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member at the start of the fall 2024 semester.

Sep 12, 2024

Kaplow Offers Innovative Approach to Evolutionary Studies

Felix Weilacher

Sep 11, 2024

Mathematician Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

Will Noll recently graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and biomedical engineering and a minor in statistics.

Sep 09, 2024

NSF Fellowship Opens Doors for Will Noll

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Sep 06, 2024

Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded Brazil’s Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis

John A. Pople

Sep 05, 2024

Pople Lecture Returns

While an individual S. pneumoniae bacterial cell is orchestrating how it is "talking," it is still "hearing" what the rest of the nearby bacterial community is saying.

Sep 04, 2024

Study Suggests Bacteria’s Internal Dialog Controls External Messaging

SUMO and DNA repair factors co-localize to telomeres in ALT cancer cells.

Aug 29, 2024

Research Reveals Underlying Mechanism that Renders Certain High-Risk Cancers Immortal

Anna Cappella

Aug 28, 2024

Anna Cappella Wins Niccolai-Fustanio Award

Mo Zhu

Aug 27, 2024

Brain Activity Changes During, After Learning, Researchers Find

From left, Anna O'Grady, Brendan O'Connor, Iganacio Magaña Hernandez and Nora Shipp.

Aug 23, 2024

Postdoctoral Fellows Shine at McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics

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Aug 22, 2024

A Greener Future through Sustainable Catalysis

Neuroscientists removed the motor cortex from mice to investigate the role of the motor cortex in conscious movement. Image courtesy of Mark Nicholas and Eric Yttri.

Aug 20, 2024

New Moves in Neuroscience

Anisha Gupta and Raman Bahal

Aug 20, 2024

Collaborators in the Lab and Life

Aug 14, 2024

Chemistry Students Awarded Beckman Scholarships

Gizelle Sherwood

Aug 14, 2024

Sherwood To Lead Undergraduate Studies for Chemistry

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Aug 14, 2024

$4.9-Million NSF Award Funds Major Enhancement to Bridges-2 System

An artistic representation of a magnetar surrounded by the nebula responsible for the continuum radio emission associated with some Fast Radio Bursts. Credit: US NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO S. Dagnello.

Aug 07, 2024

New Study IDs the Origin of the Persistent Emission of Fast Radio Bursts

Michael Young speaks to students taking part in Data Analytics for Science Immersion Experience.

Aug 06, 2024

Michael Young Honored by New Pittsburgh Courier

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Aug 06, 2024

$3.15 Million from NIH to Fund Operation of Third-Generation Anton Supercomputer at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Ben Nalevenko, who worked as an intern at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center explains his work at the Summer Scholars Program poster session in July.

Aug 01, 2024

MCS Summer Scholars Program Spurs Students’ Scientific Interests

Zach Baldwin in business attire sitting on the entrance stairs of a building

Jul 31, 2024

Baldwin Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship To Work at Jefferson Lab

Samantha Wang swinging a golf club

Jul 29, 2024

Physics Major Tees Up Early Success

Graphic of a scottie dog reading a paper

Jul 26, 2024

Hide and Seek: High Schoolers Tackle AI Challenges

Mathematical Sciences Professor Po-Shen Loh

Jul 25, 2024

Po-Shen Loh: An International Man of Math

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Jul 24, 2024

Gittis Receives Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award for Studying Parkinson’s Disease

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Jul 23, 2024

By the Numbers

During Parkinson's disease, dopamine depletion weakens the D1 neurons in the striatum, which alters the activity of the substantia nigra reticulata, leading toward changes in movement.

Jul 22, 2024

Researchers Find Changes in Pathway Strength for Parkinson's Disease Models

Four Ph.D. students and two fellows who were awarded Biological Sciences Departmental grants

Jul 19, 2024

Four Ph.D. Students, Two Fellows Awarded Biological Sciences Departmental Grants

Elizabeth Ransey

Jul 18, 2024

Elizabeth Ransey Examines, Rewrites Cellular Communication

Brett Wisniewski wants to share his passion for microbiology with Carnegie Mellon students.

Jul 18, 2024

Brett Wisniewski Joins Department of Biological Sciences

Pamela Bush

Jul 17, 2024

The Business of Life Sciences

The first place project went to Adel Fergatova, who investigated the relationship between cancer cells and fibroblasts. Fergatova published related research earlier this year in the leading international journal, Frontiers in Immunology.

Jul 16, 2024

CMU-Q Symposium Showcases Research

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Jul 16, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Images of organic nanoparticles and "hairy" organic nanoparticles

Jul 15, 2024

A New Class of Organic Nanoparticles

Carnegie Mellon University chemists demonstrate the first example of robust and efficient miniemulsion photoATRP under long-wavelength light, particularly red and near infrared lights.

Jul 12, 2024

New ATRP Approach Could Transform the Manufacturing of Specialty Plastics

Baylor University celebrated Rami Grossberg's (front, center) 70th birthday with the Workshop on Abstract Elementary Classes.

Jul 12, 2024

Baylor Hosts Rami Grossberg for AEC Workshop

TACC employees work on the network cabling above the racks of Frontera. TACC systems have always been built and maintained in-house by their dedicated staff. Image Credit: TACC

Jul 11, 2024

Construction Begun on Leadership-Class Computing Facility

Kevin Noonan

Jul 10, 2024

Noonan Named Associate Head of Chemistry

A group of Carnegie Mellon University professors standing on the stairs in front of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research site

Jul 08, 2024

CMU-Q Explores New Teaching Program To Enhance Instruction and Foster Community Spirit

Alexandra Grimes, a teaching assistant and residential counselor for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences, greets high school students.

Jul 03, 2024

Gifted Teens Explore the Sciences at Pennsylvania Governor’s School

Karen Stump

Jul 03, 2024

Karen Stump Honored with the Richard Moore Education Award

Ken Hovis

Jul 03, 2024

Ken Hovis Receives Julius Ashkin Award

Veronica Hinman holding a sea star

Jul 02, 2024

NIH Grants Echinobase $4 Million in New Funding

This summer, DASIE increased the number of participants to 36 students from 31 universities around the United States.

Jun 25, 2024

Planting Seeds for Data Analytics

Adviti Naik

Jun 24, 2024

CMU-Q’s Adviti Naik develops new course in precision medicine

Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command competed in NASA's Student Launch competition. They engineered a rocket, A&DREW, and a payload, the Airbender.

Jun 21, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command Competes in NASA Event

Grace Benkart

Jun 20, 2024

Grace Benkart Wins Carnegie Mellon Women's Association Award

Claire Phoneprasert in a cap and gown

Jun 17, 2024

Claire Phoneprasert Wins the Gilman Award

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Jun 13, 2024

Staff Awards Recognize Commitment and Service to MCS

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Jun 07, 2024

Sydlik Awarded Grant To Advance Clean Energy Research

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Jun 04, 2024

APS Particles & Fields Meeting Draws Physicists to Pittsburgh

K-12 teachers worked on developing classroom activities to make advanced mathematics more approachable during the Ignite Students’ Mathematical Identities workshop in February.

Jun 03, 2024

Program Aims To Ignite K-12 Students’ Relationship to Math

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May 31, 2024

Students Honored with Fulbright Scholarships

Dean's List

May 29, 2024

MCS Dean's List Spring 2024

Minerva Schafer wears a white lab coat in a lab setting

May 29, 2024

Minerva Schafer Aims for a Sustainable Life

Eugene Yoon and Aramchan "Chamy" Lee guess the number of Eppendorf tubes in a container during the Bio Lab Olympics.

May 28, 2024

Bio Lab Olympics Make Sport of Science

Alan Waggoner

May 26, 2024

Remembering Alan Waggoner

Payton Downey won the Fugassi and Monteverde Award for their work in and out of the lab.

May 23, 2024

Payton Downey Wins Fugassi and Monteverde Award

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May 22, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Ally Jump, Brianne Smalley and Emily Toal all joined the Mellon College of Science in 2023.

May 21, 2024

MCS Advancement Welcomes New Staff

Sungwon "Alex" Lee (left) used the skills he learned playing ice hockey to stay focused on his academic journey toward an M.S. in Data Analytics for Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Photo courtesy of Sungwon Lee.

May 20, 2024

Pivoting the Play

Rafael Guzman-Soriano in a lab coat poses in a lab setting

May 09, 2024

Rafael Guzman-Soriano Wins K&L Gates Prize

Mackenzie Riley in lab

May 08, 2024

Mackenzie Riley Wins Resnik Award

Zoe Wellner receives the Hugh D. Young Graduate Teaching Award.

May 07, 2024

Wellner Receives the Hugh D. Young Award

Ting-Wei Chao receives the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award.

May 07, 2024

Ting-Wei Chao Earns the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award

A graphic of a yellow lightbulb against a green background with purple dotted chains

May 06, 2024

A Bright Idea

Robert Schoelkopf, professor of applied physics at Yale University, gave the keynote address at the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Conference on April 17.

May 03, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Hosts Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Annual Event

Zhongyu Liu

May 02, 2024

Chemistry's Zhongyu Liu Receives IPMI Student Award

2024 MCS Graduates

May 02, 2024

2024 MCS Graduates

Amogh Ananda Rao graduated from the MS-QBB in December 2023, and Tina Ryu is a current student in the program.

May 01, 2024

M.S. in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics Creates New Opportunities

Lianna Huang has served as vice president of the Carnegie Mellon Tricking Club during her senior year.

Apr 30, 2024

Lianna Huang Teaches New Tricks, Orchestrates Opportunities

An illustration of a quantum emitter. Quantum emitters are essential resources for quantum communication, computing and sensing. The field of photonics-based quantum computing and cryptography requires the development of thermally stable, single quantum state emitters.

Apr 26, 2024

MCS Researchers Awarded Kaufman Foundation Grants

Over spring break, Carnegie Mellon students, including Grace Tang (bottom, third person from the left) and Maddy Burke (who took the photo), traveled to Guatemala with the Global Medical Brigades.

Apr 25, 2024

Guatemala Trip Serves Communities, Inspires Students

David Snoke and Benjamin Hunt are co-directors of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute.

Apr 24, 2024

David Snoke Named Co-Director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute

Human genome organized inside a single cell

Apr 23, 2024

Machine Learning Method Reveals Chromosome Locations in Individual Cell Nucleus

Alison Barth and Prasad Tetali of the Mellon College of Science

Apr 18, 2024

Barth, Tetali Elected 2023 AAAS Fellows

Interim Dean Curtis Meyer gets doused during Douse-a-Dean, which raised more than $16,000 for the Special Olympics.

Apr 16, 2024

Carnival All Fun and Games

Katherine Parry, a junior in electrical and computer engineering and physics, and Yunshu Li, a junior in physics, are two of this year's Goldwater Scholars.

Apr 15, 2024

Physics Students Yunshu Li, Katherine Parry Named Goldwater Scholars

The high altitude balloons captured images of the eclipse after they were launched. This image shows the shadow of the moon cast onto the Earth's surface from the perspective of the high altitude balloon.

Apr 15, 2024

Research During Solar Eclipse Could Shed Light on Shadow Bands

Shovels hit the dirt at the groundbreaking for the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences.

Apr 12, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Breaks Ground for Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences

Carnegie Mellon University alumni Cindy and Tod Johnson have committed $10 million to support public art on the university’s Pittsburgh campus.

Apr 10, 2024

Gift Will Expand Public Art at Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon University participated in Market Making Game on March 23, which was hosted by the Quant Club and sponsored by Optiver.

Apr 08, 2024

Market Making Game Gives Students Experience, Connections

Thomas Lam of the University of Michigan was one of four GSCC plenary speakers at the Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference 2024.

Apr 05, 2024

Mathematical Sciences Conference Finds the Right Combination for Success

The 2023 IAQF/Northfield Financial Engineer of the Year award will be presented to Professor Andersen at a celebration in June in New York City.

Apr 04, 2024

Leif Andersen Named 2023 IAQF/Northfield Financial Engineer of the Year

Carnegie Mellon University master’s student Gayatri Chabra wants to join the community of researchers studying cleft palates in utero.

Apr 04, 2024

MS-DAS Student Aims To Change the Face of Programmers

The U.S. Department of Energy has formally approved the production of components for the high-luminosity upgrade of the CMS particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo: CERN

Apr 03, 2024

U.S. CMS Collaborators Receive Approval for Massive Detector Upgrade

Tartans on the Rise

Mar 29, 2024

Innovator, Entrepreneur Carter Sharer Engineers Viral Content

An international team of scientists has discovered the faintest satellite yet orbiting the Milky Way. The left panel shows an image of sky centered on UMa3/U1, obtained using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The right panel shows light isolated from stars in UMa3/U1. Image credit: Simon Smith, University of Victoria.

Mar 28, 2024

Researchers Discover Dim Satellite Orbiting the Milky Way

The April 8, 2024 eclipse will pass over the United States. Pittsburgh is not in the path of totality, but over 97% of the sun will be covered by the moon.

Mar 27, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Prepares for Eclipse

Illustration of the structure of gold quantum rods of various sizes.

Mar 26, 2024

Chemists Create Gold Quantum Rods with Unusual Optical Properties

Tartans on the Rise

Mar 25, 2024

Arsema Thomas Acts with Others in Mind

The South African Large Telescope is one of the most recent instruments that researchers at the McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics have access to for collecting data.

Mar 22, 2024

McWilliams Center Name Change Reflects Expanded Research Scope

Undergraduate students enjoyed an evening with food, friends and fun at the MCS Ball.

Mar 22, 2024

MCS Ball Brings Students, Faculty and Staff Together

Drew Bridges and Martin Zhang both received Curci Foundation grants, which will help fund their research for the next two years.

Mar 20, 2024

Bridges and Zhang Receive Curci Foundation Research Grants

2024 3MT finalists (L-R): Benjamin Glaser, Waku Ken-Opurum, Kriti Kacker, Jeremiah Milbauer, Sampada Acharya, Vishnu Raghuraman, Wenzhuo Xu, Arish Alreja, Nicole C. Auvil.

Mar 18, 2024

Doctoral Researchers Shine in 3MT Championship

Visualization of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch by May 2027. The telescope will unveil the cosmos in ways that have never been possible before. Credit: GSFC/SVS

Mar 14, 2024

Readying for Roman

When V. cholerae sense the death or injury of any bacteria in the Vibrio genus, they clump together to form a protective biofilm.

Mar 14, 2024

Biologists Determine Bacteria Sense Damage to Relatives

Junior Claire Gist proposed CMU add a quantum track for physics majors. The track is now an option, thanks to her encouragement.

Mar 13, 2024

CMU Launches New Quantum Track for Physics

2024 Tartans on the Rise

Mar 12, 2024

Mellon College of Science Alumni Are Rising to the Challenge

A simulation demonstrates the reactions that the ANI-1xnr can produce. Courtesy of Shuhao Zhang.

Mar 07, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop New Machine Learning Method for Modeling of Chemical Reactions

CMU-Q Dean Michael Trick (right), CMU-Q Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Khaled Harras (left) and the LifeLines Hackathon organizing team.

Mar 07, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Qatar LifeLines Hackathon Fosters Ethical Innovation

Vishnu Raghuraman’s studies a class of alloy materials. He is one of nine finalists in Carnegie Mellon University’s Three Minute Thesis competition.

Mar 06, 2024

Doctoral Students Take On 3MT Challenge

Emma Gao, Deying Song and Sarah Oladejo volunteered to judge the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Regional Competition.

Mar 05, 2024

Scientific Methods

Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences first-year Kausthub Satluri consults with School of Computer Science first-year George Shao during Quantathon. They were part of Team Options Addicts along with Mellon College of Science first-years Eric Lian and Rohan Shukla.

Mar 04, 2024

Quantathon Competitors Harness Math Passion

Carnegie Mellon University and University of California at Berkeley researchers have found parts of the genome that have evolved and are associated with vocal learning across mammals. Courtesy of UC Berkeley

Feb 29, 2024

Similar Genetic Elements Underlie Vocal Learning in Mammals

William Rabon, captain of the Carnegie Mellon men's soccer team, plays during a game against Allegheny on Sept. 3.

Feb 26, 2024

Soccer Shapes CMU Experience for William Rabon

Map of North American with a dot on CMU and dotted line and dots connecting to other cities with a plaid background

Feb 23, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

An international team of researchers including Carnegie Mellon University's Eric Yttri and Alex Hsu have created an open-source platform that can learn and predict user-defined behaviors from video. A-SOiD can pick up on small movements and differentiate them, such as the difference between the movement of dropping a ball versus the movement of tossing one.

Feb 21, 2024

Neuroscientists Create AI Tool To Analyze, Catalogue Behavior

Samskrathi Sharma presented her work at the Sixth International Conference on Microbiome Engineering in December 2023.

Feb 19, 2024

Samskrathi Sharma Receives AIChE Fellowship

Mathematical Science Professor Po-Shen Loh has been appointed to advisory committee of $10M AIMO Prize.

Feb 14, 2024

Loh Appointed to Advisory Committee of $10M AIMO Prize

Students were initiated to Phi Beta Kappa on Jan. 25, 2024.

Feb 13, 2024

CMU Welcomes Early Phi Beta Kappa Inductees

Evgeny Gutkin, Ben Koby and Filipp Gusev created a method that allows for computational drug candidate discovery. Because of their work, they and their colleagues won the CACHE Drug Discovery Challenge #1.

Feb 12, 2024

CMU-UBC Team Wins Challenge To Advance Parkinson's Disease Research

Emily Lopez, Luz Andrino and Tomas Suarez hope to offer outreach events in the future.

Feb 08, 2024

Pathfinders

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Feb 06, 2024

New Methods Allow for Improved Molecular Monitoring

Reinhard Schumacher, who retired from teaching, will continue to be a presence in the Department of Physics.

Feb 05, 2024

For Reinhard Schumacher, Retirement Expands Opportunities for Research

A street vendor sells vegetables in India.

Feb 01, 2024

Increasing Crops Won't Ease Hunger if Supply Chains Don't Keep Pace

Wide shot of an empty UN meeting room

Jan 31, 2024

CMU Students Travel to Geneva for UN Meeting on Disarmament

Michael Young has been selected for TALI’s Executive Leadership Academy.

Jan 31, 2024

Michael Young Selected for TALI’s Executive Leadership Academy

Fernanda Pérez-Verdugo adapted a computational method to determine how epithelial cells form multicellular rosettes.

Jan 30, 2024

Dynamic Tension Model Sheds Light on Epithelial Tissue Architecture

Annie Meyer received the Glen de Vries Fellowship for her work investigating echinoderms.

Jan 29, 2024

Annie Meyer Receives Glen de Vries Fellowship

Neocortex

Jan 25, 2024

PSC's Neocortex Among Elite Artificial Intelligence Computers Selected for National AI Research Resource Pilot Project

Irene Fonseca has been elected a vice president of the American Mathematical Society.

Jan 23, 2024

Fonseca Elected Vice President of American Mathematical Society

Kriti Kapil received the Kwolek Fellowship for her work investigating polymers in the Matyjaszewski Group.

Jan 22, 2024

Kriti Kapil Receives Kwolek Fellowship

Two women holding up a quilt

Jan 19, 2024

Tartans Weave Through Loose Ends Project's Success

Manfred Paulini and Dejan Slepčev have been appointed associate deans.

Jan 18, 2024

Paulini, Slepčev Appointed To Associate Dean Roles

Fast radio bursts telescope

Jan 11, 2024

Study Suggests Primary Pathways to Fast Radio Burst Origins

Dean's List

Jan 09, 2024

MCS Dean's List Fall 2023

An example of a supernova discovered by the Dark Energy Survey within the field covered by one of the individual detectors in the Dark Energy Camera.

Jan 08, 2024

Dark Energy Survey Results Offer Insights to Universe's Expansion

Mia Carrarini works in the DeFranco lab at the University of Pittsburgh.

Jan 08, 2024

Mia Carrarini Researches Medical Solutions

Sayam Sen Gupta accepted the National Teachers Award 2024 in September 2023.

Jan 05, 2024

Causing Reactions

Marion Oliver standing outdoors on the Qatar campus.

Jan 04, 2024

Math Professor, Alumnus Retires after 20 Years at CMU-Q

Dec 21, 2023

Two Chemistry Faculty Named Among World's Most Highly Cited Researchers

Polina Aduvina and Zhen Liu look into the camera.

Dec 21, 2023

Chemistry Ph.D. Students Awarded Tata Consultancy Services Presidential Fellowships

Gabe Gomes stands in front of a whiteboard with writing all over it.

Dec 20, 2023

CMU-Designed Artificially Intelligent Coscientist Automates Scientific Discovery

Colin Martin runs past bystanders during a marathon.

Dec 19, 2023

Graduate Student Colin Martin Heads to U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials

Rozita Laghaei smiles at the camera.

Dec 15, 2023

Simulations Suggest that Muscle Disease Cause Is Complex, May Need Multiple Treatments

Image of Tom Ferguson and Marissa Parris as they smile at the camera.

Dec 13, 2023

Ferguson Gifts Support Future of Physics at Carnegie Mellon

Students from the 2022 cohort of PGSS.

Dec 11, 2023

Barry Luokkala Supported Generations of Scientists Through PGSS

Wide view of the telescope mount inside the dome of the Rubin Observatory.

Dec 08, 2023

Panel Issues Recommendations for Future of Particle Physics Research

Leenia Mukhopadhyay works under a lab hood as she mixes chemicals

Dec 07, 2023

Leenia Mukhopadhyay Awarded Steinbrenner Fellowship

Veronica Hinman stands inside of a lab and smiles at the camera.

Dec 05, 2023

Hinman Awarded International Kowalevsky Medal

an artist's depiction of a moiré superlattice

Dec 04, 2023

Researchers Discover New Uses for Moiré Superlattices

Matthew Rosenzweig smiles as he looks at the camera.

Dec 01, 2023

Analyzing Approximations

Johannes Wiesel sits outside of Wean Hall and looks into the camera.

Nov 30, 2023

Mathematical Finance Group Gains Johannes Wiesel

Matteo Cremonesi sits in front of a blackboard with writing on it, and he smiles at the camera.

Nov 29, 2023

Matteo Cremonesi Programs New Approaches for High Energy Physics

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov leans against his desk in his office and smiles at the camera.

Nov 28, 2023

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov Brings His Probability Expertise to CMU

View of Cupertino California

Nov 21, 2023

Susan Campbell and Scott Byer Reflect on Careers, Community

cloud lab equipment.

Nov 20, 2023

Experts in Automated Science Convene at CMU

Elisa Bellah leans against a stairway and smiles at the camera.

Nov 20, 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow Elisa Bellah Offers New Lessons

Illustration of a finger pushing a button that says "The Future of Science"

Nov 17, 2023

The Future of Research

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Nov 13, 2023

Scientists Flag Conflicts of Interest Ahead of UN Plastic, Chemical Talks

Rendering of a building

Nov 13, 2023

Carnegie Mellon Unveils Design for New Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences

Julia Ostrowski stands in front of an archway with reflective glass on either side. She smiles at the camera.

Nov 10, 2023

Julia Ostrowski Receives Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship

Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos crouches on stairs and looks into the camera.

Nov 09, 2023

Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos Explores Dynamics of Infinity

Janet Marnae stands against a blue background and smiles at the camera.

Nov 08, 2023

Tartan Takes Flight

Dylan Quintana leans against a railing with his arms crossed and smiles at the camera.

Nov 07, 2023

Alumnus Dylan Quintana Applies Engineering to Math Instruction

Image of hands working on a lab experiment

Nov 06, 2023

Carnegie Mellon Trustee Ray Lane and Stephanie Lane Invest $25 Million in CMU's Computational Biology Department

Map of North American with a dot on CMU and dotted line and dots connecting to other cities with a plaid background

Nov 03, 2023

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Audrey Sykes stands against a white background and smiles at the camera.

Nov 02, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University to Honor 11 Luminary Alumni

Rachel Rosen stands in front of the bookshelf in her office and smiles at the camera.

Nov 01, 2023

Rachel Rosen Weighs Importance of Gravity on Quantum Physics

The cast and crew of The Trouble With Dead Boyfriends poses together. Annie Pulsipher stands in the top left, and Alex Petti stands in the top right.

Oct 31, 2023

Slaying Off-Broadway

Woman running in a race

Oct 30, 2023

Biophysics Junior Lauryn McKenna Tracks Time for Balance

Picture of Robin Neumayer.

Oct 27, 2023

Robin Neumayer to be Awarded the 2024 AWM Sadosky Research Prize

Kristine Ferrone and colleague.

Oct 26, 2023

Planning for Life on Mars

Image of man in front of building columns.

Oct 24, 2023

Bridges Lab Looks to Unlock Secrets of Bacteria Communication

Nianyi Chen stands against a galaxy background.

Oct 23, 2023

Nianyi Chen Receives McWilliams Fellowship

Image of a woman in an office.

Oct 20, 2023

Recent Grad Applies Chemistry Lessons To Cosmetics Start-Up

Phu Nguyen and Wen Li stand in the Department of Physics hallway.

Oct 19, 2023

Wen Li and Phu Nguyen Receive Peoples Fellowship

David Staudinger presents on his team's SEMS research, showing the model his team built. Henry Siegel stands to the side.

Oct 18, 2023

SEMS Offers Research Experiences

Aleesha Kallil Tharayil adjusts a module for the HGCAL upgrade project.

Oct 17, 2023

Aleesha Kallil Tharayil Receives Pake Fellowship

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Oct 16, 2023

BES III Publishes 500th Paper

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Oct 16, 2023

McManus Lab Findings Upend Previous Research on Key Leukemia Gene

Image of a truck hauling equipment.

Oct 12, 2023

From the Archives: CMU Built Synchrocyclotron 75 Years Ago

archival photo, physicists and engineers replace the heart of the Large Hadron Collider’s Compact Muon Solenoid experiment.

Oct 12, 2023

DOE Awards High-Energy Physics Researchers Nearly $5M

Yunfei Niu poses in front of the Pittsburgh skyline.

Oct 11, 2023

Yunfei Niu Eyes Quality Control for Vaccine Advancements

Smiling men standing side by side in a physics lab, surrounded by scientific equipment and whiteboards filled with diagrams and formulas.

Oct 10, 2023

Benjamin Hunt Named Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Co-Director

Man wearing glasses and a blue shirt, standing in front of a blackboard covered with scientific formulas.

Oct 05, 2023

Sufei Shi Brings Department of Physics New Expertise

Image of a group of students posing on a sidewalk at night.

Oct 03, 2023

From Class to the Lab

Image of man standing in front of a building.

Sep 29, 2023

Carnegie Mellon Remembers Trustee Bruce McWilliams

Sep 27, 2023

$11M Bequest Will Advance Interdisciplinary Science at Carnegie Mellon University

Two men in the front of a conference room.

Sep 26, 2023

Event Fetes Prasad Tetali's Impact on Boundary-Crossing Math

Image of a man standing by sand colored building columns.

Sep 21, 2023

Researchers Find Unusual Feature in Enzyme

Woman sits in a construction site wearing a hard hat.

Sep 18, 2023

Just Say Yes

Young woman wearing glasses looking sideways, with a dramatic eclipse unfolding in the background sky.

Sep 14, 2023

Gina Chen Receives J. Michael McQuade Fellowship

Woman in a lab coat at a lab station with a hood.

Sep 12, 2023

Mueller Brown Studies How Pneumococcal Bacteria Communicate

Man sitting at a table with books and a piece of amethyst.

Sep 08, 2023

Physicist Looks to AI for New Answers to Universal Questions

Image of a male student standing in a rooftop sculpture garden.

Sep 05, 2023

Student-Built AI Tool Licensed for Workforce Development

A woman wearing a virtual reality headset moves her arms while a monitor shows the interior of an infected cell that she is navigating.

Sep 05, 2023

Researchers Zoom in on New Ways To View Biomolecules in Pathogens

An animation traces a hypothetical path of a particle entering the galaxy and how its trajectory is affected by both the sun and Jupiter.

Sep 01, 2023

Physicists Research Close Encounters of the Interstellar Kind

Young smiling student wearing glasses sits confidently in front of a background featuring illustrated solenoids.

Aug 31, 2023

Payton Downey Honored with Niccolai-Fustanio Award

Group photo featuring eight individuals arranged in two rows, all smiling and posed for a formal group portrait.

Aug 30, 2023

Chemistry Ph.D. Students Host ACS Symposium

Dean's List

Aug 29, 2023

MCS Dean's List Spring 2023

Two women watch equipment in a laboratory.

Aug 28, 2023

Chemists Test Museum Artifact To Identify Resin Ingredients

Seven headshots of graduate students and fellows.

Aug 24, 2023

Seven Ph.D. Students, Postdoctoral Fellows Earn Biological Sciences Departmental Awards

artist's depiction of atrp attaching to DNA

Aug 22, 2023

Emerging ATRP Technology Opens New Class of Biopolymers

Madina Kunakbaeva and Sarah Kang present on their research during the Summer Research Institute final presentations.

Aug 21, 2023

Students Hone Biological Science Skills

Young man wearing a light blue striped shirt poses confidently in front of large architectural columns.

Aug 18, 2023

New Advancements in ATRP Could Lead to Smart RNA Biopolymers

Man standing in front of a blackboard.

Aug 14, 2023

Shubhayu Chatterjee Explores Spin Properties in Materials

Image of a man swinging a weighted ball on a chain.

Aug 11, 2023

DiBianca Throws Physics, Self Into An Active Life

Six people stand in a row wearing similar mathematical phrases on their shirts.

Aug 10, 2023

Florian Frick Mentors Mathematicians Through Geometry REU

Clara Dou presents her research during the Sydlik lab's final presentations for the summer.

Aug 09, 2023

Summer Research Program Activates Chemistry Passion

Mulundano Machiya presents his research at the SSP poster session.

Aug 08, 2023

AI Planning Institute Sponsors Summer Undergraduate Research

Ian Alcox presents his research at the SSP poster session.

Aug 07, 2023

PSC Interns Program Tools for Research

Subha Das leads a tour of the Carnegie Mellon University Cloud Lab.

Aug 04, 2023

Immersion Connects Students with Data Analytics Opportunities

Image of a female student talking other students.

Aug 03, 2023

SUAMI Offers Students, Mentors Connections

People playing instruments and singing in a brightly lit space.

Aug 02, 2023

Science and Serendipity

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Aug 01, 2023

Meyer Named Interim Dean of MCS

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Jul 25, 2023

Smith Named Co-Director of CMU-Pitt Neuroscience Partnership

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Jul 24, 2023

Collection of Articles Reports Advances in Building Cellular Organization Maps of the Human Body

Jul 21, 2023

Alumna Champions Increasing College Graduation, Success Rates

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Jul 19, 2023

AI, Automation Aid Science Exploration

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Jul 17, 2023

Ashni Arun Pivots Engineering Background to a Biotech Future

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Jul 14, 2023

Summer Programs Create Reactions in Young Scientists

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Jul 12, 2023

Deep Mathematics and Simple Fun

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Jul 10, 2023

Three MCS Students Awarded ISURF Grants

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Jul 06, 2023

Mohit Bhardwaj Earns Gruber Fellowship

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Jul 05, 2023

The Multiplier Effect

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Jun 30, 2023

Researchers Develop Active Learning Workflow to Optimize Drug Design

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Jun 29, 2023

Jasmine Kwasa Named Fulbright U.S. Scholar

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Jun 28, 2023

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Jun 27, 2023

McDonough Assesses Environmental Exposure and Risk

Jun 23, 2023

Jacob Hoffman Synthesizes Medical Solutions

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Jun 22, 2023

Duane Palyka, Oral History Highlights

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Jun 21, 2023

Organic Path Led Graul to Teaching a Generation of Scientists

Zheng Kuang works in the lab with Jianglin Zhang.

Jun 20, 2023

Curci Foundation Grant to Support Tuft Cell Research

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Jun 16, 2023

Courses Explore Chemistry of Cosmetics, Clothes and Cuisine

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Jun 15, 2023

Isayev Ramps Up Chemical Discovery Through AI

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Jun 14, 2023

Graduate Mentors Guide Undergraduate Research

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Jun 13, 2023

East Palestine Train Derailment Lends Lessons for Courses

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Jun 12, 2023

CMU Hosts U.S. Physicists Working on CMS Experiment

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Jun 07, 2023

Blair Dong Honored with Fugassi and Monteverde Award

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Jun 07, 2023

Simon Named Executive Director for Master of Science in Computational Finance Program

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Jun 05, 2023

Fulbright Grantees To Embark on Adventures Abroad

Amanda Chisholm is inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Jun 02, 2023

Phi Beta Kappa Inducts MCS Students from Class of 2023

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Jun 01, 2023

Amy Germer Wins Gilman Award

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Jun 01, 2023

Veronique Wright Wins Gilman Award

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May 31, 2023

Markus Deserno Receives Julius Ashkin Award

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May 31, 2023

Yaron, Mackey Honored with Richard Moore Award

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May 30, 2023

Shinn-Cunningham Named President-Elect of Acoustical Society of America

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May 30, 2023

Organizing for Change

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May 22, 2023

Neuroscientists Gain New Understanding of Neural Pathway

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May 22, 2023

Workshop Addresses AI Ethics

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May 18, 2023

Ihab Younis Receives Meritorious Teaching Award 2023

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May 18, 2023

Tartan Scholars Program Graduates Its First Cohort

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May 17, 2023

Ray Appointed New Recent Graduate Carnegie Mellon Trustee

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May 15, 2023

ACS Awards Liam Dugan Summer Graduate Fellowship

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May 12, 2023

Claire Chiang Wins 2023 K&L Gates Prize

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May 11, 2023

Carnegie Mellon Qatar Celebrates 104 New Graduates

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May 10, 2023

CMU Hosts Event To Support Black Chemists, Chemical Engineers

Janvi Mirchandani, Megan Christy, Ashritha Eswaran, Yash Dugar, Kayla Frisoli and Cheyenne Ehman sit around a table and talk.

May 10, 2023

MS-DAS Students Compute Clinical Suggestions

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May 05, 2023

Poetry, Physics and Picnics

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May 05, 2023

Gutkin Honored with Lassettre Graduate Travel Award

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May 05, 2023

2023 MCS Graduates

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May 02, 2023

Carnegie Mellon Women's Association Honors Senior Mona Yuan

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May 01, 2023

MCS Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships

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Apr 28, 2023

Market Making Game Participants Trade Winning Strategies

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Apr 26, 2023

New Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Discovered

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Apr 25, 2023

Xuecong Fu Honored with Berry Graduate Research Award

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Apr 25, 2023

Samson Leung Honored with Young Graduate Teaching Award

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Apr 24, 2023

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Apr 20, 2023

Bill Hrusa Wins 2023 Robert E. Doherty Award

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Apr 19, 2023

Carnival Brings a Sense of Wonder

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Apr 18, 2023

A Tartan Tail

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Apr 13, 2023

Kawakami Receives Kwolek Fellowship in Chemistry

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Apr 12, 2023

Mathematician Theresa Anderson Receives NSF CAREER Award

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Apr 11, 2023

CMU Chemists Describe How Non-Heme Iron Enzymes Form Aziridine from Free-Standing Amino Acids

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Apr 06, 2023

Master's Students Get Outside of Classrooms and Onto Fields

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Apr 06, 2023

Biology Senior Liang Named to National Ultimate Frisbee Team

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Apr 05, 2023

Hubble Telescope Finds Double Quasar in Early Universe

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Apr 04, 2023

New Fluorescence Imaging Method Reveals Neural Circuits Altered By Learning

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Apr 03, 2023

Weak Gravitational Lensing Tests the Cosmological Model

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Mar 31, 2023

Student EMTs Answer the Call

Mar 30, 2023

Persistence in the Lab Pays Off for Chemistry Senior

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Mar 27, 2023

Tartans Place Among the Top 10 in Putnam Math Competition

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Mar 24, 2023

ASCEND Mentor Workshop Opens Opportunities

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Mar 23, 2023

Frieze Named Orion Hoch Professor of Mathematical Sciences

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Mar 20, 2023

CMU-Q Honors 149 Students for Academic Excellence

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Mar 17, 2023

Team Wins Air Force Research Laboratory AI Grand Challenge

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Mar 16, 2023

Mathematician Theresa Anderson Adds New Perspectives To Field

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Mar 16, 2023

Mellon College of Science Alumni Rise to the Challenge

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Mar 13, 2023

Quantathon Participants Flip their Ideas of Quantitative Finance

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Mar 10, 2023

Mellon Institute Named a National Historic Chemical Landmark 10 Years Ago

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Mar 10, 2023

Claim to Fame is Not a Stretch

Dean's List

Mar 09, 2023

MCS Dean's List Fall 2022

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Mar 07, 2023

Rachel Mandelbaum: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

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Mar 03, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar Hosts 500 Students for Pi Day Math Contest

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Mar 02, 2023

All Eyes on "Forever Chemicals"

Feb 28, 2023

Applied Studies: Tikhomirov Approaches Probability with an Engineer’s Mindset

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Feb 23, 2023

Alumna Named the 2023 AUA Gallagher Health Policy Scholar

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Feb 22, 2023

Carnegie Mellon, Rales Foundation Announce Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education

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Feb 21, 2023

Chemistry Outreach Catalyzes CMU Students To Share STEM Joy

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Feb 20, 2023

James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

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Feb 17, 2023

Education is a Family Tradition for Noha Abdelghany

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Feb 16, 2023

Undergraduate Office Welcomes New Staff

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Feb 15, 2023

Cosmologist Awarded J. Michael McQuade Fellowship in Physics

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Feb 13, 2023

Interdisciplinary AI Conference Brings Experts Together

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Feb 13, 2023

Sandholm Earns AI Award for Benefitting Humanity

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Feb 10, 2023

Alumnus Invites Readers To Contemplate Universe Via Numbers

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Feb 08, 2023

Tina Kahniashvili Searches for Clues from Universe's First Moments

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Feb 07, 2023

Staying the Course

Feb 06, 2023

Ph.D. Candidate Pivots from Modeling Earth to Galactic Ideas

Feb 03, 2023

Chagas Engineers Computing Solutions

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Feb 01, 2023

Research Covers How Masks Affect Listeners' Comprehension

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Jan 30, 2023

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Jan 25, 2023

MCS Alumna Wins Lou Guillette, Jr. Outstanding Young Investigator Award

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Jan 24, 2023

Prototype Particle Detectors Project Smashes Milestone

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Jan 23, 2023

Matyjaszewski Wins National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences

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Jan 20, 2023

Moroccan Service Trip Sets Senior's Sights on Medicine

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Jan 18, 2023

Jeremy Kubica's Books Explore Computer Science the Fun Way

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Jan 17, 2023

Kaufman Foundation Honors Singh With New Investigator Grant

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Jan 13, 2023

Oceans of Opportunities Abound for Physics Alumnus

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Jan 11, 2023

SUAMI Celebrates 30th Anniversary

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Jan 09, 2023

Emma Clarke Awarded Pake Fellowship

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Jan 06, 2023

Senior Folds Machine Learning into DNA Origami Research

Simulations showing the way coal can be changed to graphene and carbon nanotubules.

Jan 05, 2023

Simulations Transform Coal-Like Material to Amorphous Graphite and Nanotubes

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Jan 02, 2023

New Expansion Microscopy Methods Magnify Research's Impact

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