CMU Mellon College of Science

Hands-On at Home

IDEAs for Change

Researchers Urge the Scientific Community to #StopPandemicBias

Panel Urges Government Regulators to 'Reassess the Safety' of BPA

Carnegie Mellon Physicists Help Solve 'Scientific Mystery' about Beta Decay

Biological Sciences Department Celebrates Award-Winning Ph.D. Students and Fellows

Ph.D. Students To Enhance STEM Diversity Through Podcast and Outreach

Chemistry Students Create Hazardous Materials Guide To Help Protesters Stay Safe

Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Award from the International Precious Metals Institute

Chemistry Alumnus Receives Prestigious Award from Chinese Government

Two Generations of Musical Passion

Unlocking the Power of Stem Cells

NOVID Is the Most Accurate App for Contact Tracing

New Physics Faculty Member Left in Limbo Overseas by COVID-19

Virtual Classes Allow Physics Professor to Invite Distinguished Guest Speakers

Chemistry’s Danith Ly Receives Grant to Develop Global Pathogen Surveillance System

Schwartz Named Head of CMU's Computational Biology Department

Mathematical Sciences Department Holds Virtual Poster Competition

NSF Funds Neocortex, a Groundbreaking AI Supercomputer, at PSC

MCS Staff Recognized at First Virtual Awards Ceremony

Two MCS Graduates Awarded Fulbright Grants to Teach English Abroad

Chemistry Professor Honored as One of World's Best Young Scientists

Two Seniors Win 2020 MCS Gilman Award

Isabel Yoon Receives Fugassi and Monteverde Award

Eli Workman Wins K&L Gates Prize

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Discover New, Rapid Mechanism for Atmospheric Particle Formation

Chemistry Senior Alexis Hoane Receives Judith A. Resnik Award

Defending by Zoom

Senior Zhiyao Li Receives Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association Scholarship

Making Data Lemonade

Biological Sciences Faculty Recognized with Carnegie Mellon's Teaching Innovation Award

Barry Luokkala Receives Carnegie Mellon's Ryan Award

Zhang Reflects on CMU, Build Week’s Peaceful Chaos and Giving Back

Gizelle Sherwood Receives Julius Ashkin Teaching Award

Amy Burkert Honored with Carnegie Mellon Doherty Award

Christopher Cox Receives Graduate Student Research Award

Antoine Remond-Tiedrez Receives Graduate Student Teaching Award

Chemistry professor uses artificial intelligence to model potential COVID-19 antiviral inhibitors

CMU Professor Creates Innovative App to Anonymously Trace Exposure to COVID-19

Yerzhanova Aims to Keep Carnival Spirit Alive

Junior Noah Stevenson Selected as Goldwater Scholar

Neuroscience Student Shiv Sethi Earns Goldwater Scholarship

Junior Cassie Bishop Selected as Goldwater Scholar

Chemistry Professor Sheds Light on Mechanisms of Key Enzyme Reaction

Carnegie Mellon Physicists' Superconducting Material Holds Promise for Quantum Computing

Deliveries to Your Door

Meet MCS's GSA Departmental Reps

Online Labs for Online Learning

Carnegie Mellon To Develop Molecular Circuit that Acts as Transistor for Immunotherapy

Surya Aggarwal Receives Graduate Student Service Award

STEM Gels Act Like Stem Cells for New Materials

Using Chemistry as a Lens to Aid in Diagnosing Diseases

Students Log On for First Days of Remote Instruction at CMU

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Resources Available for Urgent COVID-19 Research

Quant Club and Citadel Host Market Marking Game

Researchers Donate Equipment to Allegheny County Health Department

Po-Shen Loh Gives Free Daily Math Lessons

CMU Co-Hosts Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

Mathematical Model Shows Heterogeneous Approach Might Be Best for Reducing COVID-19 Deaths

Ryan Sullivan Wins Carnegie Science Award

Intralipid Improves Efficacy of Chemotherapy Treatment

Remembering Beverly Clayton

Commemorative Journal Issue Honors Krzysztof Matyjaszewski's Pioneering Career

New Research Shows Promise of Tunable Two-Dimensional Materials for Light Detection

Crossing Orbits

Staff Spotlight: Sebastian Lacy Energizes Staff Through Engagement

Chemist and Advocate Geraldine Richmond Awarded Dickson Prize in Science

BRAIN Initiative Highlights Aryn Gittis' Parkinson's Research in Video

Isabel Yoon Wins Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Award

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

MCS Dean's List Fall 2019

The Future of Human Healing Lies in the Brain of a Starfish

Carnegie Mellon Chosen to Host Beckman Scholars Program

From Neuroscience to Novels

A Rising Star

Aerosol Optical Tweezers Advance Understanding of Chemical Evolution of Airborne Particles

Achievement in Athletics and Academics

Tiziana Di Matteo Awarded NASA Grant to Study Black Holes and Gravitational Waves

Murphy Named 2020 IEEE Fellow

Carnegie Mellon Invention Among The Scientist’s Top Innovations of 2019

Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop High-Throughput Fluorescence Technique for Synapse Analysis

Service at Sea

Four MCS Faculty Named Among World's Most Highly Cited Researchers

Gilman Elected 2019 AAAS Fellow

Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate Finalist for International Prize

Shinn-Cunningham Receives Cowan Professorship in Auditory Neuroscience

Biological Sciences Professor's Research Sheds Light on the Regulation of Gene Expression

MCS Dean's List Spring 2019

A Runaway Star Ejected from the Galactic Heart of Darkness

Aryn Gittis Awarded Grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation

“All-Purpose” Platform for Exosome-Mediated Delivery

Carnegie Mellon University Announces Landmark $2 Billion Campaign

“Jeopardy!” CMU Champions for $600, Alex

Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Green Science Part of New $100M DOE Water Desalination Innovation Hub

Newell Washburn Recognized by Covestro for Scientific Excellence

Shawn Brown Selected as the Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Chemistry Professor Receives Grant to Develop Algorithm for Designing Better Concrete

Markus Deserno Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society

New Faculty to Join Department of Chemistry

Archives Digitize Decades of Mellon Institute Records

CMU and Yale Receive NIH Grant to Further Gene Editing Technique

Eric Yttri Awarded Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant for Study on Value

Physics Ph.D. Candidate Yang Huang Wins Pake Fellowship

MCS Welcomes Its First Tartan Scholars

Suzanne Staggs to Present 2019 Buhl Lecture “Looking Backwards with the Cosmic Microwave Background”

Ph.D. Candidate Sayan Mandal Wins Bruce McWilliams Graduate Fellowship

A Summer Abroad

Merging Medicine

CMU Professor Assists International Experiment in Pinning Down Elusive Neutrino Mass

Ph.D. Student Nianyi Chen Wins John Peoples, Jr. Research Fellowship in Physics

MCS Faculty Honored with Professorships

MCS Students Seek to Make an Impact as Fifth Year Scholars

Huaiying Zhang Receives Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Award

3D Printing Nanoparticle Neural Probes

Runaway Mitochondria Cause Telomere Damage in Cells

Undergraduate Explores Mysteries of the Universe

A Meeting to Remember

Feeding the World, Feeding Ourselves

Erin Kavanagh Researching Artificial Lungs in Germany as Fulbright Scholar

Jessica Jue Awarded Fulbright to Teach English in Taiwan

Siddharth Annaldasula to Study Genomics in Germany as Fulbright Scholar

Carnegie Mellon’s Jyoti Katoch Receives DOE Early Career Grant to Probe Quantum Matter

Ph.D. Candidate Zoe Wright Wins Kwolek Fellowship in Chemistry

Jason D’Antonio Selected to AMCAS Advisory Committee

Veronica Hinman Appointed Head of Department of Biological Sciences

Molecular Sensor Scouts DNA Damage and Supervises Repair

U.S. Places First at International Mathematics Competition in U.K.

Cleaning Our Water with Groundbreaking 'Bioinspired' Chemistry

NSF Funds Bridges-2 Supercomputer at PSC

Carnegie Mellon Research Identifies New Pathways for Sensory Learning in the Brain

Po-Shen Loh Honored with Presidential Early Career Award

Scientists Weigh the Balance of Matter in Galaxy Clusters

CMU Conference Convenes International Crowd to Discuss AI and Data

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

New App Aims to Teach Special Relativity Hands-On

Carnegie Mellon Hosts International Subatomic Physics Conference

MCS Staff Recognized at Annual Staff Awards Ceremony

Carnegie Mellon Physicist Rachel Mandelbaum Named 2019 Simons Investigator

Startup Focuses on Developing Catalysts for Industry

Microscopy and VR Illuminate New Ways to Prevent and Treat Disease

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Semi-Liquid Metal Anode for Next-Generation Batteries

MCS Undergraduates Present Their Research at the Meeting of the Minds

Physics Professor's Research Sheds Light on the Mass of Sound

Conference Aims to Save the Sky from Light Pollution

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create Soft, Flexible Materials with Enhanced Properties

Two Seniors Win First MCS Gilman Award

Mark Foundation Brings World-Renowned Researchers to CMU to Talk Cancer and AI

MCS Students Honored at Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony

Three MCS Seniors Named Fulbright Scholars

Mathematical Sciences Graduate Emily Zhu Receives Judith A. Resnik Award

Study Finds Direct Oxidative Stress Damage Shortens Telomeres

Ian Tice Receives Julius Ashkin Teaching Award

Junior Jung Joo Suh Recognized as Goldwater Scholar

Giovanni Leoni Honored with Richard Moore Award

Sophomore William Fahy Recognized as Goldwater Scholar

Physics Professor Awarded Simons Fellowship

Senior Nan Zhang Awarded Fugassi and Monteverde Award

Shinn-Cunningham Earns Silver Medal from Acoustical Society of America

Neil Donahue Named University Professor

Senior Lauren Nazzaro Receives Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association Scholarship

Matyjaszewski Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Sipei Li Receives Graduate Student Research Award

Giovanni Gravina Receives Graduate Student Teaching Award

A Global Lens

Physicist Benjamin Hunt Named 2019 Cottrell Scholar

Carnegie Mellon Chemists Manipulate the Quantum States of Gold Nanoclusters

CMU Computer Simulation Shows How Dynamin Releases Vesicles from the Cell Membrane

Graduate Student Tatsuya Higaki Receives Award from the International Precious Metals Institute

Professor Selected to Give Distinguished Lectures

Quantathon Hits Third-Year Milestone, Attracts Largest Participants to Date

Bioengineering the Future

Carnegie Mellon Team’s Creation Reveals How Mechanical Forces Control Genes

Mandelbaum Elected Spokesperson for LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Five MCS Students Receive ISURF Awards to Fund Research Abroad

Dunlea Named Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

SuperKEKB Starts Physics Run

Physics Graduate Student Lands Internship with Atlanta Braves

Biological Sciences Senior Presents at Two Major Neuroscience Conferences

MCS Announces Recipients of DSF Block Grants

'Using the Power of Chemistry' to Heal Our Broken Bones

Abel Committee Selects Prize Winner in Pittsburgh

Do Perfect Circles Exist? Maybe.

Nystrom Named PSC Chief Scientist

PPG Foundation Recognizes Two Chemistry Graduate Students with Prestigious Fellowship

Symposium at Mellon Institute Highlights Advantages of 'Open Science'

Alan George Named Interim Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Duo Selected as Finalist for NFL's Inaugural Big Data Bowl

You will hit the ground running

Our close-knit community and active citizenship

Freedom to explore many fields

Our outstanding career counseling and comprehensive advising

Signature Course: EUREKA!: Discovery and Its Impact

Chemistry Professor Assisting COVID-19 Vaccine Effort

PGSS Adapts to COVID with All-Virtual Program

Graduate Students Receive Fellowships to Support their Research

Biological Sciences Professor Receives Grant to Study the Genome

Science Fiction During a Science-Fictional Moment

Hands-On at Home

IDEAs for Change

Researchers Urge the Scientific Community to #StopPandemicBias

Panel Urges Government Regulators to 'Reassess the Safety' of BPA

Carnegie Mellon Physicists Help Solve 'Scientific Mystery' about Beta Decay

Biological Sciences Department Celebrates Award-Winning Ph.D. Students and Fellows

Ph.D. Students To Enhance STEM Diversity Through Podcast and Outreach

Chemistry Students Create Hazardous Materials Guide To Help Protesters Stay Safe

Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Award from the International Precious Metals Institute

Chemistry Alumnus Receives Prestigious Award from Chinese Government

Two Generations of Musical Passion

Unlocking the Power of Stem Cells

NOVID Is the Most Accurate App for Contact Tracing

New Physics Faculty Member Left in Limbo Overseas by COVID-19

Virtual Classes Allow Physics Professor to Invite Distinguished Guest Speakers

Chemistry’s Danith Ly Receives Grant to Develop Global Pathogen Surveillance System

Schwartz Named Head of CMU's Computational Biology Department

Mathematical Sciences Department Holds Virtual Poster Competition

NSF Funds Neocortex, a Groundbreaking AI Supercomputer, at PSC

MCS Staff Recognized at First Virtual Awards Ceremony

Two MCS Graduates Awarded Fulbright Grants to Teach English Abroad

Chemistry Professor Honored as One of World's Best Young Scientists

Two Seniors Win 2020 MCS Gilman Award

Isabel Yoon Receives Fugassi and Monteverde Award

Eli Workman Wins K&L Gates Prize

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Discover New, Rapid Mechanism for Atmospheric Particle Formation

Chemistry Senior Alexis Hoane Receives Judith A. Resnik Award

Defending by Zoom

Senior Zhiyao Li Receives Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association Scholarship

Making Data Lemonade

Biological Sciences Faculty Recognized with Carnegie Mellon's Teaching Innovation Award

Barry Luokkala Receives Carnegie Mellon's Ryan Award

Zhang Reflects on CMU, Build Week’s Peaceful Chaos and Giving Back

Gizelle Sherwood Receives Julius Ashkin Teaching Award

Amy Burkert Honored with Carnegie Mellon Doherty Award

Christopher Cox Receives Graduate Student Research Award

Antoine Remond-Tiedrez Receives Graduate Student Teaching Award

Chemistry professor uses artificial intelligence to model potential COVID-19 antiviral inhibitors

CMU Professor Creates Innovative App to Anonymously Trace Exposure to COVID-19

Yerzhanova Aims to Keep Carnival Spirit Alive

Junior Noah Stevenson Selected as Goldwater Scholar

Neuroscience Student Shiv Sethi Earns Goldwater Scholarship

Junior Cassie Bishop Selected as Goldwater Scholar

Chemistry Professor Sheds Light on Mechanisms of Key Enzyme Reaction

Carnegie Mellon Physicists' Superconducting Material Holds Promise for Quantum Computing

Deliveries to Your Door

Meet MCS's GSA Departmental Reps

Online Labs for Online Learning

Carnegie Mellon To Develop Molecular Circuit that Acts as Transistor for Immunotherapy

Surya Aggarwal Receives Graduate Student Service Award

STEM Gels Act Like Stem Cells for New Materials

Using Chemistry as a Lens to Aid in Diagnosing Diseases

Students Log On for First Days of Remote Instruction at CMU

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Resources Available for Urgent COVID-19 Research

Quant Club and Citadel Host Market Marking Game

Researchers Donate Equipment to Allegheny County Health Department

Po-Shen Loh Gives Free Daily Math Lessons

CMU Co-Hosts Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

Mathematical Model Shows Heterogeneous Approach Might Be Best for Reducing COVID-19 Deaths

Ryan Sullivan Wins Carnegie Science Award

Intralipid Improves Efficacy of Chemotherapy Treatment

Remembering Beverly Clayton

Commemorative Journal Issue Honors Krzysztof Matyjaszewski's Pioneering Career

New Research Shows Promise of Tunable Two-Dimensional Materials for Light Detection

Crossing Orbits

Staff Spotlight: Sebastian Lacy Energizes Staff Through Engagement

Chemist and Advocate Geraldine Richmond Awarded Dickson Prize in Science

BRAIN Initiative Highlights Aryn Gittis' Parkinson's Research in Video

Isabel Yoon Wins Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Award