CMU Mellon College of Science

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

Star Student-Athlete is on Track for Medical Career

MCS Faculty Member Receives Sloan Research Fellowship

Students Attend Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Hitting a Home Run

Meet MCS’s Highland Ambassadors

Meet MCS's GSA Departmental Reps

‘Gamechanger’ in Natural Product Structure Determination Published in Nature Protocols

MCS Alumna and Emeritus Professor Receive Alumni Awards

MCS Dean's List Fall 2018

Dean Rebecca Doerge Named Chair-Elect of AAAS Statistics Section

Two MCS Students Win Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards

Dark Energy Survey Completes Six-Year Mission

Dark Matter on the Move

Molecular Converter Switches Genetic Information from Right- to Left-Handed

Oxygen Breathes New Life into Radical Polymerization

Sullivan Uses Nobel Prize Winning Technology to Study Airborne Particles

Mathematical Sciences Professor Appointed to State Commission on Redistricting

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Probe Hydrogen Bonds Using New Technique

Mathematician Entrepreneur Dives into the Start-Up World

MCS Faculty Named Among World's Most Highly Cited Researchers

Chemistry Graduate Student Wins Outstanding Poster Award

Preeminent Mathematicians to Speak at Abel in Pittsburgh

Barth Receives NIH Grant to Study Neurons in Alzheimer’s Early Stages

PSC Receives Six 2018 HPCwire Awards

Gaia Spots a ‘Ghost’ Galaxy Next Door

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Theory to be Offered Fall 2019

Synthetic Molecule Invades Double-Stranded DNA

Aryn Gittis Receives Society for Neuroscience Career Development Award

Jahanian Installed as Carnegie Mellon's 10th President

Physicist Randall Feenstra Wins 2019 Davisson-Germer Prize

Neurons Reliably Respond to Straight Lines

MCS Students Earn Early Induction into Phi Beta Kappa

Researchers Discover What Pneumococcus Says to Make You Sick

Carnegie Mellon Hosts Interdisciplinary Biophysics Workshop on the Structures of the Cell

Alumni Inducted into National Academy of Engineering

Matyjaszewski Wins 2019 ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials

MCS and CMU-Q Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars Announced

Yongxin Zhao Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Get to Know the MCS Student Advisory Council

NIH to Fund Mapping System for Human Tissues

Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey Maps Dark Matter in the Universe

CMU Tech Takes 3D Photo of Metal Microstructure

Bacteria’s Password for Sporulation Hasn’t Changed in 2.7 Billion Years

Graduate Student Grassroots Brings Career Development into Focus

NSF Funds AI Upgrade for PSC’s Bridges Supercomputer

Dannie Durand Receives NSF “Understanding Rules of Life” Grant

Po-Shen Loh Joins World Economic Forum's Young Scientists Community

CMU Workshop Will Seek to Translate 'Physics to Pharma' for Inhaled Drugs

Education App Uses Photos To Help People Form Proper Sentences

Mathematics Alumnus Receives Prestigious Sacks Prize in Logic

Low-level Exposure to BPA Unsafe, Says Panel of Experts

Two-Faced Molecule Could Lead to Huntington’s Disease Treatment

Alumna Apeksha Atal Awarded Fulbright to Teach English in Thailand

NSF Extends Funding for PSC's Bridges Supercomputer

Eclipse Chasers

Physics Alumnus McQuade Named Vice President for Research

Five Chemistry Alumni Named American Chemical Society Fellows

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Aryn Gittis Named Finalist for Science & PINS Prize

Qatar High School Students Learn About Careers, College Life at CMU-Q Summer Program

Students Learn How To Speak Up! About Their Studies

MCS Dean's List Spring 2018

U.S. Team Takes First in International Mathematical Olympiad

Gene Editing Technique Cures Genetic Disorder in Utero

The Gaia Sausage: The Major Collision That Changed the Milky Way Galaxy

Women and Mathematics Conference Held at Carnegie Mellon

Scientists and Engineers Converge on CMU to Talk Machine Learning

Obituary: Robert L. Kay

Faculty Symposium Discusses Metacognitive Strategies To Improve Student Learning

Joseph Briggs Receives Graduate Student Teaching Award

Mukund Bapna Receives Graduate Student Research Award

MCS Staff Recognized at Annual Staff Awards Ceremony

Kaleidoscope XX Showcase Celebrates 20 Years of Creative Student Work

Graduate Student Qi Li Receives Award from the International Precious Metals Institute

Neuroscientists Map Brain’s Response to Cold Touch

Alan Waggoner Wins Fulwyler Award for Innovative Excellence

Logan Plath Wins Travel Award to Attend Annual ASMS Conference

Zoe Wright Wins Best Presentation Award at Annual ACS Meeting

In a Race to the Finish, Neurohackathon Contestants Analyze Brain Data in New Ways

MCS Students Honored at Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony

Alison Barth Contributes to “Think Tank”

Second Annual Quantathon Attracts More Participants and Official Sponsorship

Senior Josh Brakensiek Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Fund His Studies at Stanford

Gold Nanoclusters Make Sharp Transition from Nonmetallic to Metallic

Flying High: Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command Soars in NASA Competition

Senior April Li Receives Fugassi and Monteverde Award

The Future of Science at CMU is Now

Stephen Garoff and Hael Collins Win Mellon College of Science Awards for Education

'A Quantum Age'

Senior Yasmene Elhady Wins Carnegie Mellon Women's Association Scholarship

Biological Sciences' Shorr Wins Third in Three Minute Thesis Competition

Junior Andrew Kwon Recognized as Goldwater Scholar

Physics Major Headed to Switzerland to Conduct Research This Summer

Robert Kirshner to Present 2018 Buhl Lecture "Exploding Stars, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Cosmos"

Carnegie Mellon Chemist Pioneers 'New Frontier' in Mass Spectrometry

Carnegie Mellon Students and Faculty Give High Schoolers a Real Lab Experience

Over Pizza, Students Share Their Research in a Nutshell

Turing Award Winner Goldwasser and Nobel Laureate Yonath to Receive Honorary Degrees

MCS Announces First Recipients of DSF Block Grants

Terry Collins and PGSS Campaign Win Carnegie Science Awards

COMPASS Alumni Panel Sparks Discussion about Career Paths, Diversity in Science

Farnam Jahanian Named President of Carnegie Mellon University

New Technique Speeds Up Production of Protein Nano-Armor

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham To Lead Carnegie Mellon's New Neuroscience Institute

Acetylcholine Wakes Silent Neural Network

Irene Fonseca Named Kavčić-Moura Professor of Mathematics

Skaters Show Off Slick Science

MCS Dean's List Fall 2017

Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies Day Proclaimed in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County

Senior Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship To Study in United Kingdom

Po-Shen Loh Authors TedEd Video on the Math of Coin Flips

First MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Three MCS Alumni Honored with Alumni Awards

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

Online Labs for Online Learning

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

Surya Aggarwal Receives Graduate Student Service Award

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