Success Through Interaction

Whether it's pairing an expert in mechanical engineering with a top-ranked fine arts professor to deliver a new technology to musical students, or it's fostering collaboration across engineering, economics and policy leaders to study the challenges of today's energy industry, Carnegie Mellon students, faculty, alumni and staff are working together to solve problems. These stories of Carnegie Mellon's interdisciplinary collaboration prove success is possible only through interaction.

Summer 2008

• Aneurysm Research: Ender Final Receives Grant
  
• Test-Drive: What College is Really About
  
• Breaking the Mold: Engineers Head for Wall Street
• SnakeBots: Safer Rescues, Easier Surgeries
  
• Solar Splash: Team Refines Craft
  
• What Are You Thinking? Breaking the Brain's Code 
  

Spring 2008

• RoboCup U.S. Open: Carnegie Mellon Takes Top Spots
  
• Best of Both Worlds: All University Orchestra
  
• Active-Adventure: A Revolutionary Way to Wiixercise
  
• Chairman's Award: Carnegie Science Center Honors
  
• Spongecell: A Venture into the Future
  
• Green Solutions: Chemists Clean Up the Water
  
• BYOBags: Student Posters to Sway Shoppers
  
• Beloved Bots: Four More Join Robot Hall of Fame
  
• Gilman Appointed: Physics Leader New Dean of MCS
  
• Build a Bone: Kids Try Hand at Engineering 

Winter 2008

• Blimey, That's Brilliant: Particles Get 'Invisibility Cloak'
  
• Engineering Undergrads: Taking Breathalyzer to New Heights
  
• Ask the Pros: Technology Delivers Answers
• Robotics Education: Carnegie Mellon, HBCUs Team Up
  
• Rising Star: Michalek Wins Early Career Award
  
• In the Service of Others: Student Honored for Outreach
• Sniff...Sniff... What's That Smell?
• Spotlight on Change: Sierra Publishes Student Posters
  
• Hop To It: Student Creates Robot Leg
  
• Interactive Images: Studio Art Meets Comp Sci
  
• Cancer Research: International Team Finds Clues on How Disease Develops 

Fall 2007

• Opportunities Abound: An Undergrad's Experience in Neuroscience
  
• First-Year Research: Students to Explore Life Sciences
  
• TechBridgeWorld: Building Technology Bridges
  
• Neural Stem Cells: Offering Hope for New Drug Therapies
  
• Stressed Out? Measuring the Daily Grinds Effects
• Teaching Cyber Safety: Interactive Game Unveiled
  
• Hug Machine: Award-Winning Device Helps Autistic
  
• Designing the iPhone: Alum Helped Create Visionary Product
  
• Solar Decathlon 2007: Sustainable Solar Design
• Aussie Invasion: Robyn Archer, Australian Festival in the 'Burgh
  
• How Cool Is That: Introducing the Gigapan Camera
• To Spot a Scam: Anti-Phishing Game Teaches Cybersecurity
  

Summer 2007

• Finding a Cancer Cure: Lanes Establish New Center
  
• Monkey Business: Chiropractic Meets Primatology
• Making Connection: Discovery Could Help Patients
  
• Jolts 'n' Volts: Catapulting Kids' Minds into Science
  
• Origin of the Cosmos: Simulation Provides Best Pics to Date
  
• The Creativity Project: Local Artists Get Support
• A French Nod: Recording Wins Diapason Award
  
• Outsourcing Pollution: Rising U.S. Trade May Increase Carbon Emissions
  
• Growing Theater: Drama Program Plants Seeds of Confidence, Courage
  
• New Linguistics Major: Students To Benefit from Breadth of Program

Spring 2007

• On Location: Immersing Heinz Students in the Entertainment Industry
• Ask For What You Want: Web Game To Teach Girls Negotiation
• Jared L. Cohon Reappointed President: Will Lead Carnegie Mellon Through Next Five Years of Growth
  
• Robot Hall of Fame: Inductees Announced for 2007
• Meeting of the Minds: A Celebration of Student Research
  
• Making of a Microphone: Students Find Recording Studio to be Interdisciplinary  Hub
• Five for Five: Award-Winning Engineering Profs
  
• Look! Up There! Student Art on Pittsburgh's Billboards
  
• Awarding Excellence: Glover, Drummond Honored with Grad Student Awards
  
• Putting the Patient First: Surgeons Apply Engineering Principles

Winter 2007

• Art Meets Biology: Sculptor Inspired by Science
  
• Combating Climate Change: Expert Collaboration is Key
  
• Improving Health Care: Program Yields Better Outcomes, Lower Costs
  
• Top of the Heap: Alum Shines in 'Friday Night Lights'
• Improving Ethanol Production: New Design Boosts Efficiency
  
• Building Virtual Worlds: Audience Leaves Wanting More
  
• Fifth-Year Scholars: Distinguished Student Program Enhances Campus Community
• Traffic-Stats: Motorists Get Improved Risk Information
• Happy = Healthy: Research Suggests Defense Against Common Cold
  
• Humanities Scholars: Unique Program for H&SS Students
  
• A State-of-the-Art Destination: A Fine Arts & Mechanical Engineering Production
• House of the Future: Solar Competition Inspires Students, Visitors 

Fall 2006

• Kitchen Design on the Menu: An Integrated Focus on Design
• Powering Up: Researchers Focus on Power Grid Vulnerabilities
• An Interdisciplinary Diversion: Short Film, Big Talent
• The Business-Minded Mathematician: Grads in High Demand