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Monday, December 22, 2025

GIS Day Unites Community Around Data Access

Students from the Grand Challenge Seminar "Reasoning with Evidence: Using Data to Inform Scientific Discovery and Public Policy" present at GIS Day.
Friday, December 19, 2025

Faculty Spotlight: Mejgan Massoumi

Mejgan Massoumi's research and teaching interests are focused on connective histories of media, sound and popular culture, with a specific focus on Global South cultural circulations in poetry, music, memory and artistic resistance.
Friday, December 19, 2025

Mixing Lab Rigor with Real Life, CMU Researchers Craft New Recipe for Groundbreaking Alcohol Studies

By creating a social drinking environment that mimics real life, Kasey Creswell is able to study why alcohol affects each of us differently.
Friday, December 19, 2025

Alcoholism Study Grants SURF Student Entry Point Into Psychology Research

Solomon Wechter's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship provided hands-on psychology research experience through a federally-funded alcoholism study.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Carnegie Mellon Students Win National Prize for Freedom of Speech Simulation Game

A Carnegie Mellon University team took home the Best Student-Developed Game award at a national competition for “Speak Your Heart,” an interactive game exploring freedom of speech and academic freedom on a college campus.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Using LLMs to better identify market gaps for innovation

A new large language model-powered tool from Dietrich College's Vince Sha and the College of Engineering's Jon Cagan converts consumer wants and needs into succinct product attributes and requirements to help product designers think more strategically about solutions.
Monday, December 15, 2025

Sports Collect More Data Than Ever. The Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference Asks, What Can We Do With It?

CMU hosts one of the industry's premier sports analytics conferences, and this year's event was bigger than ever.
Monday, December 15, 2025

Blending Humanistic Inquiry and Technology, Carnegie Mellon Leads a New Era of Cultural Study and Research

Carnegie Mellon University will introduce new academic programs and resources for students and researchers to blend traditional humanistic inquiry with computational methods.