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Monday Mailer July Schedule

The Monday Mailer will be on a bi-weekly schedule for July. Publication dates will be July 13 and July 27.

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Ritivoi Reappointed Head of CMU’s Department of English

Carnegie Mellon University has reappointed Andreea Deciu Ritivoi head of the Department of English. English has been an academic program since the early days of Carnegie Tech and recently marked its 100th anniversary. The department offers programs in professional, technical and creative writing as well as rhetoric and literary and cultural studies.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Shaping the Research That Informs Inclusive Policy

Ironman grad student combines machine learning, statistics and engineering to increase representation for underserved populations.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Undergraduate Economics Students Hack COVID-19 Policy Restrictions on Immigration — And Win

A team of current undergraduate economics students and a recent alumnus won top honors for their public policy proposal in the international COVID-19 Policy Hackathon, sponsored by Stanford University and MIT. The hackathon took place on June 12-14, 2020.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The Rabbit Goes Around the Tree

Robert Mason and Marcel Just’s new research at Carnegie Mellon University has decoded the step-by-step processing that takes place in the brain when various knots are tied.

Friday, June 26, 2020

New Study Examines Recursive Thinking

A multi-institutional research team found the cognitive ability to represent recursive sequences occurs in humans and non-human primates across age, education, culture and species.

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