Following Their Dreams Through Summer Pre-College
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama Summer Pre-College Program offers classes in a variety of areas, including ballet/jazz, acting, song coaching, audition, acting for the camera and dramaturgy.
MCS Expands Research Pipeline Through Undergraduate Programs
High-performing students spend summer in laboratories while learning more about graduate school and professional options.
Summer Researchers Offer Emerald Cloud Lab Optimization Ideas
The Mellon College of Science and Emerald Cloud Lab provided undergraduate mathematicians a taste of operations research.
CMU President Jahanian Joined U.S. President at Signing of the Historic CHIPS and Science Act
Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian joined President Joe Biden today for the signing into law of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.
Physicists Switch Magnetic State Using Spin Current
CMU researchers were able to show proof of concept that running an electrical current through a novel two-dimensional material could control the magnetic state of a neighboring magnetic material without the need of applying an external magnetic field.
NBC News Goes 'Inside the Metaverse' at CMU
NBC’s Gadi Schwartz got a first-hand look at some of the sensations that users can feel in virtual worlds when he visited the Future Interfaces Group (FIG) at Carnegie Mellon University.
PNC Foundation Grants $3 Million to CMU, Expands Access to Pre-college Programming
CMU has been awarded a $3 million grant from the PNC Foundation that will enhance and expand access to the university’s summer pre-college programs.
Sloan Foundation Funds New Office to Support Open Source Activities
Carnegie Mellon University’s Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries Keith Webster has received a grant of $650,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to establish the Carnegie Mellon University Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Robots Learn Household Tasks by Watching Humans
CMU faculty members in the Robotics Institute developed a new learning method for robots called WHIRL, short for In the Wild Human-Imitated Robot Learning.
CMU Team Designs the Airports of Tomorrow
A team from Carnegie Mellon University won NASA’s Gateways to Blue Skies: Airports of Tomorrow competition with their project, “Sustainability and Connected Autonomy: A New Era for Aviation.”
Murphy and Pathak Named 2022 DARPA Risers
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Carnegie Mellon University’s Max Murphy and Deepak Pathak as part of the 2022 class of DARPA Risers. Each year the agency selects a cohort of outstanding early-career researchers to be recognized for their work and participate in a symposium.
Modern Languages Launches Online Language Courses
The Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University is proud to announce the launch of its new online language programs for Chinese, French and Spanish.