Carnegie Mellon University

Yin Luo, Helen Zhang, Aimin Kozuma, Alex Zheng and Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon outside of the Dream Big Studio at UPMC Children’s Hospital

January 17, 2025

CMU Students Create Inclusive Programming for UPMC Children’s Hospital

Stefanie Johndrow

Students in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics are using their foreign language and cultural competency skills for good in a new collaboration with UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP). Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon, an assistant teaching professor of Japanese studies, and her students are among those creating content for UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s closed-circuit television channel from the hospital’s Dream Big Studio. The television programs air throughout the hospital for patients, their families and loved ones during their stays at CHP. See the students in action and learn more about this partnership: