Events

Hygge Hideaway

Monday, April 28, 1 to 4 p.m., Well-being Lab (Room 104), Highmark Center

Take a break and experience some coziness and comfort by sipping a beverage, enjoying a snack and engaging in crafts and conversations.

BXA Kaleidoscope: Student & Alumni Showcase

April 28 to 30, 6:30 to 7:30, Hall of the Arts, Second Floor

BXA students and alumni will showcase a variety of creative, interdisciplinary work at the 27th annual Kaleidoscope exhibition. Guests are welcome to enjoy refreshments and join the reception celebration.

BXA students have prepared a diverse array of visual, auditory and experiential work for the community to view including virtual reality, video games, installations, 2-D and 3-D art, digital pieces, photography, poetry, zines, social practice, design, musical performance and so much more. The projects featured in the show highlight the integration of students’ artistic and academic disciplines across BXA’s degrees​.

In addition, BXA seminar II and III will display their final course projects. BXA alumni digital submissions will be projected during the event as well as shared on BXA’s YouTube channel.

Meeting of the Minds: Undergraduate Research Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Cohon University Center and Gates-Hillman Centers

Join us to celebrate the extraordinary undergraduate research and creative inquiry taking place in every discipline across the university!

Undergraduate research is a key aspect of the Carnegie Mellon experience. It gives students the ability to become active participants in intellectual and creative communities, explore topics in greater depth, and grow as scholars and leaders. Undergraduate researchers make real contributions to faculty-led projects, helping to advance knowledge in crucial areas such as climate change, biomedicine, mathematics, arts and culture, and cutting-edge technologies.

This year, Meeting of the Minds turns 30, and we are thrilled to continue this celebrated Carnegie Mellon tradition! The students’ in-person presentations will once again be complemented by the virtual symposium platform, where their posters, slide decks, videos and other presentation materials can be viewed by audiences beyond campus, including loved ones, alumni and our generous donors who do so much to make undergraduate research possible at Carnegie Mellon.

Cohon University Center: Main location for poster and oral presentations, art exhibits and prototype demos; event check-in and information; morning coffee and afternoon popcorn in Kirr Commons; IDeATe Meet Me @ Exhibition in the Studio Theater.

Gates-Hillman Centers: SCS thesis presentations.

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholar Development

Dietrich VOICES Community Study Hall

Wednesday, April 30, 4 to 7 p.m., Posner 145

Dietrich VOICES students are invited to come study in community (and with snacks)!!!!

The first 30 students to arrive will receive a finals survival kit.

Let us know you can make it by RSVPing!

Panel: A Policy Agenda for AI

Thursday, May 1, 5 to 6 p.m., PNC Room (2nd Floor), Tepper School of Business

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming industries, economies and societies. Join the Tepper School for a panel that will explore how AI is reshaping international labor and financial markets and the implications of these changes for global policy.

Join us on Thursday, May 1 from 5–6 p.m. in the PNC Room (2nd Floor, Tepper School of Business) for a panel discussion on “A Policy Agenda for AI.”

The discussion will also include how governments should set priorities for regulating AI use in society.

Hosted by Laurence Ales, Senior Associate Dean for Education.

Panelists include Fabio M. Natalucci, CEO of the Andersen Institute and former Deputy Director at the IMF; Elad Roisman, former Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the SEC; and Chester Spatt, Tepper School professor and former Chief Economist of the SEC.

This event is open to the CMU community. Registration is required.

School of Art Senior Exhibition: Rapid Eye Movement

May 2 to 9, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tomayko Foundation, 5173 Liberty Avenue

“Rapid Eye Movement” showcases ambitious final artworks and research from Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Intercollege Degree (BXA) students — marking the capstone of their undergraduate journeys at the School of Art.

This year’s exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Tomayko Foundation.

Opening Reception: Join us for the opening reception on Friday, May 2, 2025, from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public.

American Allies for Indian Independence: Taraknath Das, Jabez Sunderland and South Asian American History

Neilesh Bose is this year’s speaker for the annual Kedia-Tayur Distinguished Lecture in South Asian American History.

Register for this online-only event

Modern histories of Indian migrations in North America have advanced in recent years beyond frameworks of assimilation and highlighted surveillance, anticolonialism, and the global context of Indian diasporic histories. Following such contributions, scholars have begun to investigate lesser-known relationships between American allies and Indian independence activists in the early 20th century.

In this presentation, Bose will explore the life and times of Taraknath Das, who traveled to the U.S. in 1906 and lived, worked, and studied in various places in the U.S. and Europe until his death in 1958. Known in the United States primarily for the Taraknath Das Foundation, established in 1936 and lasting until 2021, Das worked with the Ghadar party, the Friends of the Freedom of India, and most American organizations focused on Indian independence in the United States. This talk will explore Das’s politics as well as highlight his relationship to prominent American supporters of Indian independence such as the theologian Jabez Sunderland, a Unitarian Christian writer and public intellectual, author of India in Bondage, and lifelong friend of Das. Sunderland maintained a lifelong interest in Indian culture, religion, and politics as well as a commitment to Indian independence, comprising a notable yet rare American ally for Indian independence in the early twentieth century.

Neilesh Bose is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair of Global and Comparative History at the University of Victoria. His book Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (Delhi and Oxford, 2014) explores late colonial and early postcolonial histories of East Bengal and Bangladesh. Other publications include the edited volumes India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization (Leiden and Delhi, 2022) and South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives (London, 2020). He is currently working on a book about Taraknath Das, tentatively titled Lands of Liberty, Countries of License: The Itinerant Nationalism of Taraknath Das (1884–1958).

Sponsored by the Department of History.

Commencement Weekend

May 9 to 11, CMU Main Campus (Various Locations)

Congratulations to our 2025 graduates!

During the weekend, we will honor the hard work and dedication of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree candidates.

• Beginning Friday, May 9, CMU’s colleges, schools and departments will host diploma and doctoral hooding ceremonies for their graduates.
• On Saturday, May 10, doctoral candidates will celebrate their achievements during the President’s Doctoral Candidate Reception.
• On Sunday, May 11, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree candidates will come together for a full commencement ceremony in Gesling Stadium on CMU’s campus.

Visit www.cmu.edu/commencement for more information.