MCS News of 2025

Jenny Quan stands outside of Mellon Institute. She holds a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube as she works to solve it.

Oct 31, 2025

CMU Math Student Charts a New Path with Rubik’s Cubes

A view of The Fence painted a blue green color with COSMO 25 in white paint.

Oct 29, 2025

Quantum Meets Cosmos: Carnegie Mellon Hosts Global COSMO-25 Conference

Ariel Amsellem leans against a railing in front of a green piece of art depicting the logo for the McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics. He looks into the camera.

Oct 29, 2025

Redefining Cosmic Speed

Eason Wang and Sofia Splawska lean against a green wall and look at the camera. They are in front of a sign that says "McWilliams Center For Cosmology and Astrophysics."

Oct 28, 2025

MCS Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

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Oct 27, 2025

Researchers Plant Seeds of Discovery

Olexandr Isayev and Gabe Gomes stand next to a screen as they talk to Robert MacKnight and Nick Gao.

Oct 24, 2025

NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis Creates Opportunities for Discovery

Two images from CERN. One is a room with many computers. The other is part of the Large Hadron Collider.

Oct 23, 2025

Kyungmin Park Accelerates CMS Trigger Work at CERN

Abhrojyoti Mazumder stands in a lab coat. In front of him is a range of lenses with a blue laser passing through them. He smiles at the camera.

Oct 22, 2025

Mazumder Turns Gold (Nanoclusters) to Tech Innovations

Tina Lin stands in a lab and stretches a polymer she created. She is wearing a lab coat, nitrile gloves and glasses.

Oct 22, 2025

Thread By Thread, Lin Rethinks the Fabric of Material Design

The 2025 cohort of Rales Fellows stand with Farnam Jahanian, Joshua Rales and Jim Garrett. All of them look into the camera and smile.

Oct 20, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University Welcomes Second Cohort of Rales Fellows

Three types of condensates are depicted, including condensates involved in producing messenger RNA (left), processing messenger RNA (middle), and producing the RNA component of ribosomes that synthesize all proteins in the cell (right).

Oct 20, 2025

Henninger Explores Targeting RNA in Cancer Prevention, Treatment

David Kinderlehrer stands in his office and holds up a rock. He smiles at the camera.

Oct 17, 2025

Kinderlehrer Uses Math to Build Bridges Across Disciplines

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Oct 15, 2025

Amy Bastian to Receive Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

Victor Bearg stands in front of the Acropolis in Greece and smiles at the camera. He's wearing a plaid shirt, a hat and sunglasses.

Oct 13, 2025

Victor M. Bearg Builds Legacy of Scientific Support

John Nash earns an honorary diploma from Carnegie Mellon University. He stands in graduation regalia and speaks with another person.

Oct 10, 2025

Nash's Game-Changing Idea Marks 75 Years

A digital image of the star Betelgeuse. This image is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2).

Oct 08, 2025

X-Ray Study Reveals New Details About Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

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Oct 02, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Oct 02, 2025

The Long Game: Years of CMU Discoveries Drive New Parkinson's Treatment

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Oct 01, 2025

CATNIP for Chemists

Haoyong Lan stands in a hallway with floor to ceiling windows that look out at campus. He smiles at the camera.

Oct 01, 2025

Cultivating AI-Literate Researchers

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Sep 30, 2025

RNA Society Spotlights McManus

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Sep 30, 2025

10 CMU Alumni Honored for Impact and Achievement

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Sep 25, 2025

Elizabeth Lee Awarded 2025 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship

Mahmoud Maksoud, Anish Prasad Lohani, Mohamed Elosta, and Nimer Murshid posing together in a brightly lit hallway with a CMU Qatar banner visible in the background.

Sep 25, 2025

CMU-Q Students Co-author Nanotechnology Paper in Molecules

Frank Leibfarth from UNC Chapel Hill squishes a 3D printed cube made out of a new polymer.

Sep 22, 2025

Chemists Can Discover New Materials More Quickly With AI

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Sep 19, 2025

BioCDC Panel Brings Life Science Careers into Focus for Graduate Students

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Sep 17, 2025

CMU Welcomes First Career Consultant Dedicated to MCS Master’s Students

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Sep 15, 2025

MCS Names New Chief Advancement Officer

Deepti Aggarwal smiles at the camera.

Sep 15, 2025

Deepti Aggarwal Calculates a Future in Finance

Yuqing Lin sits outside of Hamerschlag Hall and smiles at the camera.

Sep 11, 2025

Lin Makes Quantum Leaps in Physics Research

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Sep 11, 2025

Unlocking the Universe: New Seminar Series Explores the Frontiers of Theoretical Physics

Aryn Gittis, Katelyn Breivik, Olexandr Isayev, Zheng Kuang and Huaiying Zhang

Sep 10, 2025

MCS Faculty Members Recognized With Chairs

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Sep 10, 2025

CMU Program Helps Students Incorporate Sustainable Learning Environment into Diverse Fields

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Sep 08, 2025

Parno Appointed Associate Head of Physics Department

Rachel Mandelbaum

Sep 08, 2025

Mandelbaum Appointed Head of Physics Department

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Sep 05, 2025

$5M Gift Establishes Trustee Head of the Department of Biological Sciences

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Sep 03, 2025

Opening Gambit

A small section of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster.

Sep 03, 2025

CMU Launches Data-Driven Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Alumnus Wu operates the computer system connected to near-infared spectroscopy (NIRS) devices, which control data acquisition and visualization during experiments.

Aug 27, 2025

Triple Alum Traverses Departments to Tackle Maternal, Fetal Health

Yasser Majeed, assistant teaching professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, stands smiling with his arms crossed in a brightly lit hallway.

Aug 25, 2025

CMU-Q’s Yasser Majeed Awarded Wimmer Fellowship To Enhance Immunology Education

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Aug 22, 2025

Simons Foundation Honors Ph.D. Student in Mathematics

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Aug 21, 2025

What Happens in the Brain When it Learns Something New

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Aug 20, 2025

Team Brings Lung Cancer Into Focus with 3D Imaging Innovation

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Aug 04, 2025

New NSF Institute at CMU Will Help Mathematicians Harness AI and Advance Discoveries

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Jul 31, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Jul 08, 2025

John Peoples Jr. Served as Third Fermilab Director

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Jul 07, 2025

Chemistry's Pollution Blind Spot: How CMU Researchers Are Filling the Gaps

Lorna Williams-Rolley stands against a yellow background and smiles at the camera.

Jul 01, 2025

Lorna Williams-Rolley Guides Chemistry Students to New Heights

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Jul 01, 2025

Gittis Awarded Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professorship of Life Sciences

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Jun 30, 2025

Team Provides a Roadmap for Large Language Models in Chemical Research

Alice Crafford and Anna Cappella smile in framed snapshots on a red background.

Jun 27, 2025

MCS Alumni Named Fulbright Scholars

Jeff Milton sits in a lab and smiles at the camera.

Jun 25, 2025

Innovator Uses CMU Education To Combat Rare Diseases

Yisong (Alex) Guo sits in a lab and smiles at the camera.

Jun 25, 2025

CMU Researchers, Team Win Royal Society of Chemistry Prize

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Jun 23, 2025

Rubin’s First Snapshots Launch a Decade of Discovery

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Jun 17, 2025

Graduate Students Honored by Department of Chemistry

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Jun 13, 2025

Shinn-Cunningham Awarded Brown Medal

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Jun 13, 2025

Studying Underwater Acoustics

Riley Santiago sits in a biology lab and smiles at the camera.

Jun 09, 2025

Santiago Builds Bridges Through Health Care, Community

Yaning Wu delivers part of a capstone presentation as Sophia Kurz and Ananya Chembai watch.

Jun 06, 2025

Hands-On Data Analytics Program Builds Scientific Skills

An illustration of different configurations of molecules.

Jun 05, 2025

Enhancing Molecular Machine Learning with Quantum-Chemical Insight

Students tour the Carnegie Mellon Tech Spark labs as part of DASIE.

Jun 05, 2025

DASIE Opens Doors to Data-Driven Futures

Male graduate student presenting his research to an engaged audience at the Pittsburgh Biomolecular Condensates Conference.

Jun 03, 2025

Tiny Cell Droplets Offer Big Scientific Questions

Runqiu Ye and Katie Breivik.

May 30, 2025

Stellar Code, Simulations Help Ye Land Big Tech Internship

Camden Johnson stands outside of Mellon Institute in his graduation regalia. He smiles at the camera.

May 27, 2025

Researchers Target Tire Dust Threatening Salmon

Mellon College of Science Dean's List - Spring 2025

May 20, 2025

MCS Dean's List Spring 2025

Yunshu Li stands outside of a glass building and a brick archway, and she smiles at the camera.

May 16, 2025

Physics Powers Li's Neuroscience Discoveries

Stella Trickett stands in the lab and holds a pipette as she smiles at the camera.

May 16, 2025

Research Offers New Hope for Overdose Patients

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May 16, 2025

Setting the SCENE for Neuroscience Breakthroughs

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May 15, 2025

Class of 2025 Celebrates Commencement Weekend

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May 14, 2025

CMU Startup Helps Formulators with Complex Design Problems

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May 13, 2025

Startup Aims to Boost the Discovery of Antibody-Based Therapeutics

Logan McGregor stands outside and plays the bagpipes.

May 12, 2025

Logan McGregor Bridges Physics and Bagpipes

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May 10, 2025

CMU Neuroscientist Has Big Plans for Guggenheim Fellowship

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May 06, 2025

Meyer Honored as 2025 Richard Moore Education Award Recipient

Jason Howell sits at his desk in his office and talks to a student.

May 06, 2025

Jason Howell Earns Ashkin Award

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May 06, 2025

Physics Graduate Students Honored for Teaching Assistantships

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May 02, 2025

David Hill Pioneers Allergy Research for Healthier Childhoods

Maggie Braun and Ken Hovis.

May 01, 2025

Braun, Hovis Promoted for Their Support of Student Success

Two female students stand in a grassy area and pet a baby goat.

May 01, 2025

Animal Encounters Ease Exam Anxiety

Ben Koby stands in front of an out-of-focus whiteboard with chemistry formulas on it and smiles at the camera.

Apr 30, 2025

Koby Earns Biophysical Society Award, NIH Fellowship

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Apr 29, 2025

We’re Outta Here

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Apr 29, 2025

Manfred Paulini Honored As CMU Educational Leader

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Apr 28, 2025

Physicists Put a New Spin on Reading Magnetic States

Byron Daniel stands in front of a blackboard with physics equations written on it. He throws an apple in the air as he smiles at the camera.

Apr 25, 2025

Byron Daniel Honored with Graduate Student Service Award

Emily Drill stands between two Carnegie Mellon in Qatar students as they take a selfie together.

Apr 24, 2025

Biological Sciences Faculty Exchange Encourages a Unified Learning Experience

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Apr 21, 2025

Chemistry Student Among CMU Goldwater Scholarship Recipients

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Apr 18, 2025

Matthew Rosenzweig Awarded NSF Career Award

Keerthi Kunnumkai leans against a railing outside of a glass building and smiles at the camera.

Apr 18, 2025

Keerthi Kunnumkai Earns Arnys Clifton Lilly Jr. Fellowship in Physics

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Apr 17, 2025

Sangmin Park Earns the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award

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Apr 17, 2025

Colin Martin Earns Hugh D. Young Graduate Student Teaching Award

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Apr 16, 2025

LHC Experiment Collaborations at CERN Receive Breakthrough Prize

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Apr 16, 2025

Sydlik, Wang Use Expertise To Make Upcycling Plastic Easier

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Apr 15, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Spring Award Winners Announced

Ran Tao sits outside of Wean Hall and smiles at the camera.

Apr 15, 2025

Ran Tao Awarded FRQNT Fellowship

Evan Luo stands in front of Mellon Institute and smiles at the camera.

Apr 14, 2025

Chemistry's Lianshun (Evan) Luo Receives IPMI Student Award

The spectrometer for the Karlsruhe Neutrino Experiment, or KATRIN.

Apr 11, 2025

Precision Scale KATRIN Sets Record For Measuring Neutrino Mass

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Apr 11, 2025

Research Rising Stars: SURF Students Take on Complex Biomedical Challenges

Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science Barbara Shinn-Cunningham gets doused with a wave of water as she sits in a star dress.

Apr 08, 2025

Carnival Rolls Out the Red Carpet

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Apr 07, 2025

Keen Mind

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Apr 02, 2025

Chase Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

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Apr 02, 2025

Go Inside Buggy with Apex Driver Maggie Blair

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Mar 28, 2025

The Unexpected Art: How Women in Math Combine Calculation with Creativity

Heidi Opdyke stands outside of Mellon Institute and smiles at the camera.

Mar 21, 2025

Opdyke Named Associate Dean of Marketing and Communications

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Mar 20, 2025

Popular Show Explores Work-Life Separation

Emily Drill stands between two Carnegie Mellon in Qatar students as they take a selfie together.

Mar 19, 2025

CMU-Q Micro Course Takes Macro Look at Neurological Disorders

Graham Hatfull stands in the front of a crowded room as he gives a Margaret Ottie Lecture.

Mar 18, 2025

Life Sciences Club Revives Margaret Ottie Lecture

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Mar 17, 2025

Wilson-Gerow Recognized With Aspen Center for Physics Honor

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Mar 14, 2025

Play Us a Song, π-ano Man

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Mar 14, 2025

Women in Science Highlight Mentorship, Outreach as Integral to Career Success

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Mar 13, 2025

CMU-Q Faculty Member Awarded GAITAR Fellowship

The pointed end of HIV’s outer viral shell, its capsid, helps it squeeze into host cells’ nuclear pore.

Mar 13, 2025

HIV Protein Switch May Help Virus Squeeze into Host Cell Nucleus

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Mar 12, 2025

Higgs Boson, High-energy Particle Physics Spurs Dutta's Research

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Mar 12, 2025

Their Time to Shine

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Mar 12, 2025

Teaching Computational Neuroscience in Africa

Xiaolei Hu stands outside of Mellon Institute and looks into the camera.

Mar 10, 2025

Hu Awarded the John and Nancy Harrison Legacy Graduate Fellowship

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Mar 05, 2025

From Doctor to Coroner

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Mar 03, 2025

Through 3MT, Doctoral Students Share Accessible Research

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Feb 28, 2025

Pittsburgh Youth Leaders in Sustainability Network Builds Community

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Feb 28, 2025

Data Visualization Mapped MS-DAS Graduate Research Project

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Feb 25, 2025

Copper-Dependent Enzyme Catalyzes Unprecedented Reactions

3D models of the brain.

Feb 25, 2025

Researchers Propose Framework To Identify Food Selectivity Origins in the Brain

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Feb 24, 2025

Nicole Auvil Awarded Kwolek Fellowship

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Feb 21, 2025

MCS Dean's Office Welcomes New Staff

A student from Carnegie Mellon, Alice Crafford, presents at the American Physical Society's Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities.

Feb 17, 2025

Physics Undergraduates Present at APS Conference

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Feb 13, 2025

Unbreakable Bonds

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Feb 12, 2025

From Spacecraft to Racecars: Physicist Pushes Vehicle Limits

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Feb 10, 2025

Teachers Bring Introductory Chemistry to the Digital Age

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Feb 07, 2025

Math Researchers Awarded $2.5M Grant

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Feb 07, 2025

Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Map Language in the Brain

Curtis Meyer stands on the GlueX platform at the J-Lab Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia.

Feb 06, 2025

In a First, Physicists Set an Upper Limit in the Search for Hybrid Mesons

Fred Lanni holds up a vial of biofilm in a lab and smiles at the camera.

Feb 06, 2025

After 42 Years, Fred Lanni Changes Focus

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Feb 04, 2025

From Idea to Industry

An image shows innervation, the process of supplying nerves to a specific part of the body. In the image the globus palladium (GPe) axon terminals appear in red, pre-synaptic terminals at the end of GPe axons are in green. Retrorubral field dopaminergic neurons appear in blue. Image courtesy of Maxime Vounatsos.

Jan 31, 2025

Neuroscientists Find New Pathways

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Jan 27, 2025

Shredded Star Launches Powerful Jet Toward Earth

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Jan 27, 2025

Study Offers Insights on Non-Invasive Deep-Brain Stimulation

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Jan 23, 2025

Neuroscience Institute Spurs Collaboration, New Discoveries

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Jan 21, 2025

CMU and Pitt Collaborate on Neural Pathway Experiments

Large Hadron Collider

Jan 21, 2025

CMU AI Algorithm Detects Anomalies in CMS Experiment

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Jan 17, 2025

Studying the chemistry of cloud formation at CERN

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Jan 15, 2025

Spirit of Discovery Motivates Rales Fellows at Confluences of Research Fields

Shaw Camphire, a Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, was honored with the Glen de Vries Fellowship for his outstanding research achievements and potential.

Jan 15, 2025

Shaw Camphire Receives Glen de Vries Fellowship

The Carnegie Mellon University chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers traveled to the annual SHPE conference. Under Giulia Martorana's leadership, the group has grown over the past four years.

Jan 13, 2025

Giulia Martorana Engineers Opportunities

Dean's List

Jan 08, 2025

MCS Dean's List Fall 2024

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Jan 07, 2025

Shannon Chou Named 2024 Paul and James Wang - Sercomm Graduate

Kara Mathias works in the lab alongside a dog she is training to be a service animal.

Jan 06, 2025

Mathias Unleashes Advancements in Animal Care

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Jan 02, 2025

2024 Year in Review

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Jan 02, 2025

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

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Dec 10, 2024

Math Department Awards Graduate Students

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Jun 07, 2024

Sydlik Awarded Grant To Advance Clean Energy Research

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