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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.
Monday, November 03, 2025

Carnegie Mellon’s Children’s School Is a Caring Community for Groundbreaking, Interdisciplinary Research

Take a look inside CMU's Children's School, a laboratory school where thoughtful education and unparalleled research create an atmosphere like no other.
Thursday, August 28, 2025

An Alphabet For Hand Actions in the Human Brain

Like sounds building a word, the brain uses an "alphabet" of simple hand actions to build more complex motions.
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Laurie Heller Is Changing How We Understand, and Potentially Treat, Misophonia

A new study by Laurie Heller and Yuqi "Monica" Qiu provides new insight into how everyday sounds like chewing or clicking can trigger intense negative reactions in a small subset of people.
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Jessica Cantlon's 'Science Homecoming' Mobilizes Scientists to Advocate for Support

Jessica Cantlon, the Ronald J. and Mary Ann Zdrojkowski Professor of Developmental Neuroscience/Psychology, is helping experts across the country communicate the value of science to their hometown newspapers.
How a First-Year Seminar Shaped Alumni Career Paths
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

How a First-Year Seminar Shaped Alumni Career Paths

Courses that focus real-world problems have become a hallmark of Dietrich College. Recent alumni share how the courses have impacted their career growth.
CMU Neuroscientist Has Big Plans for Guggenheim Fellowship
Thursday, May 08, 2025

CMU Neuroscientist Has Big Plans for Guggenheim Fellowship

The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded Timothy Verstynen a prestigious fellowship to conduct an "exploration of exploration."
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.
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.
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