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Inaugural Excellence in Theatre Education Award Reinforces the Power of the Arts

The Tony Awards® and Carnegie Mellon University celebrate teachers who create the next generation of theatre artists through the Excellence in Theatre Education Award program. Applications for 2020 are now open.

Monday, September 16, 2019

CMU Computer Science Academy Releases New Curriculum

CMU’s Computer Science Academy has released a free curriculum for teaching programming tailored for use in informal settings like camps.
Friday, September 13, 2019

Theatre Education Award Scholarship Winners Attend Drama’s Pre-College Program

Tanzil Philip and Ryan Senatore were the recipients of scholarships to Carnegie Mellon School of Drama's Summer Pre-College program.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

GymCam Tracks Exercises That Wearable Monitors Can't

A vision-based system, called GymCam, detects repetitive motions. By doing so, Rushil Khurana and Karan Ahuja, both Ph.D. students in CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), found that they could detect exercises in a gym. Moreover, they could recognize the type of exercise and reliably count repetitions.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Chi Explores Essence of Big Data

CMU's Yuejie Chil earned a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

CMU Expert Discusses Post-9/11 Al Qaeda, Security Issues

Colin Clarke, assistant teaching professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy, talks about Al Qaeda, white nationalist terrorism and recent events in the following Q&A.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Do As I Say: Translating Language Into Movement

CMU researchers have developed a model that can translate text describing physical movements into simple computer-generated animations.
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