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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Kim Piatt Receives Mark Gelfand Award for Educational Outreach

Kim Piatt, Dietrich College's director of experiential learning, has been named the recipient of CMU's award for educational outreach.
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Nicole Tanquary Receives CMU Graduate Student Teaching Award

Nicole Tanquary, a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric in the Department of English, has been named the recipient of the Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Student Teaching Award
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Larry Heimann Receives William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching

“Prof H” — as he’s known to his students — has been an integral member of the Information Systems (IS) program’s faculty since its founding in 2000.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Eunji Jo Receives Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Award

Eunji Jo, a Ph.D. candidate in literary and cultural studies in the Department of English, has received the 2025 Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Gordon Weinberg Receives Elliott Dunlap Smith Award

The Department of Statistics & Data Science's Gordon Weinberg has received the Dietrich College's distinguished teaching award.
Monday, April 07, 2025

Dietrich Students Use Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Projects To Examine Past, Create Future

Two Dietrich College students received funding through the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to conduct research for 8-10 weeks over the summer.
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

First Person: Dietrich College Students Take Inaugural Humanities Career Trek to D.C.

A group of Dietrich College students studying the humanities went on the first-ever career trek to Washington D.C. to network and learn about different options for working in a humanities-based profession.
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Take On Accessibility and Quality of Life Questions

Learn more about four undergraduate students, including three from Dietrich College, who received funding to complete undergraduate research with a faculty advisor during the summer.
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Coty Gonzalez Elected AAAS Fellow

AAAS is recognizing Gonzalez for “distinguished contributions to the field of cognitive science, particularly the development of Instance-Based Learning Theory."
Faculty Spotlight: Atoosa Kasirzadeh
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Faculty Spotlight: Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Atoosa Kasirzadeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy whose research sits at the critical intersection of AI development and ethical governance.
Cloaked in Color: Some Female Hummingbirds Evolve Male Plumage to Dodge Harassment
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Cloaked in Color: Some Female Hummingbirds Evolve Male Plumage to Dodge Harassment

Some female hummingbirds are mimicking colorful males, resulting in reduced aggression from other hummingbirds and increased access to nectar resources.
Obituary: Carl Olson Advanced Our Understanding of the Neural Basis of Cognition
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Obituary: Carl Olson Advanced Our Understanding of the Neural Basis of Cognition

Read more about Carl Olson’s life and legacy in an obituary recently published in the journal Neuron.
Women at the Forefront of Technology, Policy and Society
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Women at the Forefront of Technology, Policy and Society

Learn more about the research of Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology’s Audrey Kurth Cronin and Nadiya Kostyuk, as well as the work of CyLab’s Virginia Smith.
Experts Tackle Generative AI Ethics and Governance at 2025 K&L Gates–CMU Conference
Monday, March 17, 2025

Experts Tackle Generative AI Ethics and Governance at 2025 K&L Gates–CMU Conference

Thought leaders from industry, academia, government and civil society gathered March 10–11 at the K&L Gates-Carnegie Mellon University Conference in Ethics and Computational Technologies.
Fields-Black Receives Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for ‘COMBEE’
Friday, March 14, 2025

Fields-Black Receives Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for ‘COMBEE’

History Professor Edda Fields-Black has been awarded a prize for her 2024 book that highlights Harriet Tubman's Civil War service.
Exploring the Spread of Misinformation in War and Conflict with Daniel Silverman
Friday, March 14, 2025

Exploring the Spread of Misinformation in War and Conflict with Daniel Silverman

Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST) assistant professor Daniel Silverman has published a new book about misinformation during wartime through University of Cambridge Press.
Carnegie Mellon University Recognizes the 2025 Class of Tartans on the Rise
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University Recognizes the 2025 Class of Tartans on the Rise

Three alumni from Dietrich College — Meela Imperato, Sasha Cohen Ioannides and Shaun Ranadé — have been named to the Tartans on the Rise class for 2025.
Women in Science Highlight Mentorship, Outreach as Integral to Career Success
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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

Rebecca Nugent of the Department of Statistics & Data Science and Coty Gonzalez of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences discuss the importance of mentorship and outreach in career development.
Faculty Spotlight: Carl Kubler
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Faculty Spotlight: Carl Kubler

Carl Kubler, assistant professor in the Department of History, is a scholar of China’s global past.
Is It Human, or Is It AI?
Friday, February 21, 2025

Is It Human, or Is It AI?

A new study from CMU researchers identifies differences between human and AI written text.
Researchers Propose Framework To Identify Food Selectivity Origins in the Brain
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Researchers Propose Framework To Identify Food Selectivity Origins in the Brain

A Carnegie Mellon University team recently published a paper outlining how visual and nonvisual signals contribute to the brain's cortical responses when people were shown images of food.
A Statistical Bridge to Scientific Advances
Monday, February 10, 2025

A Statistical Bridge to Scientific Advances

Launched this academic year, the STAtistical Methods for the Physical Sciences Research Center (STAMPS) bridges gaps between researchers in the physical sciences and their colleagues in statistics.
Developmental Psychologists and Statisticians Come Together To Ensure Research Tools Measure Up
Friday, February 07, 2025

Developmental Psychologists and Statisticians Come Together To Ensure Research Tools Measure Up

Faculty across two Dietrich College departments developed a way to test a spatial arrangement task that can help researchers understand how connections are formed in children’s brains.
Trench Chess: CMU Sophomore Uses NFL Data To Examine Pre-Snap Play
Thursday, February 06, 2025

Trench Chess: CMU Sophomore Uses NFL Data To Examine Pre-Snap Play

Abhishek Varadarajan, a statistics and machine learning major, is a semifinalist in the NFL’s 2025 Big Data Bowl.
Learning by Doing in the Nation's Capital
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Learning by Doing in the Nation's Capital

Undergraduate students from across Carnegie Mellon University spent fall 2024 learning and interning in the nation's capital through the CMU Washington Semester Program.
Fall 2024 Dietrich College Dean's List Announced
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Fall 2024 Dietrich College Dean's List Announced

Congratulations to all of the students named to the Dietrich College Dean's List for fall 2024!
Dietrich College Prepares Students with Grand Challenges
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Dietrich College Prepares Students with Grand Challenges

Faculty co-teach courses for first-year students that explore complex issues like environmental justice and race and identity.
Neuroscience Institute Spurs Collaboration, New Discoveries
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Neuroscience Institute Spurs Collaboration, New Discoveries

The Neuroscience Institute brings together interdisciplinary expertise to understand and improve brain function in both healthy and diseased brains, invent and apply the next generation of neural technologies and tools, and educate the next generation of neuroscience leaders.
Ramdas Receives Presidential Early Career Award
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Ramdas Receives Presidential Early Career Award

Aaditya Ramdas, who holds joint faculty appointments in the Statistics & Data Science and Machine Learning departments, has received the highest accolade bestowed by the U.S. government on early career scientists and engineers.
CMU Students Create Inclusive Programming for UPMC Children’s Hospital
Friday, January 17, 2025

CMU Students Create Inclusive Programming for UPMC Children’s Hospital

Through classes in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics, CMU students are creating programs to air throughout UPMC Children's Hospital for patients, their families and loved ones during their stays at CHP.
Faculty Spotlight: Shihong Huang
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Faculty Spotlight: Shihong Huang

Shihong Huang, teaching professor in the Information Systems Program, uses software engineering to improve how humans and systems cooperate symbiotically to carry out tasks with mutual adaptation to optimize performance.
CMU Expands Korean Studies Program
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

CMU Expands Korean Studies Program

Housed in the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics (LCAL), the new Korean studies program reflects CMU's commitment to preparing students for global careers through language and cultural education.
Researchers Urge Shift To Social Context in Alcohol Studies
Friday, January 03, 2025

Researchers Urge Shift To Social Context in Alcohol Studies

New editorial highlights the need for multi-participant alcohol administration studies to reflect real-world drinking behavior and better understand addiction risks.
Obituary: Edith Balas Was A Survivor and Art History Scholar
Thursday, January 02, 2025

Obituary: Edith Balas Was A Survivor and Art History Scholar

Edith Balas, an emeritus professor of art history at Carnegie Mellon University, died on Saturday, Nov. 16. She was 95.
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