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News Brief: Carnegie Mellon University Welcomes Jury Verdict in Patent Infringement Case
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

News Brief: Carnegie Mellon University Welcomes Jury Verdict in Patent Infringement Case

The following is a statement from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh regarding today's jury verdict of $1.169 billion in Carnegie Mellon's patent infringement case against Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and Marvell Semiconductor Inc.
News Brief: CMU Shines Among P-G’s “Best of Theatre” 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012

News Brief: CMU Shines Among P-G’s “Best of Theatre” 2012

The Post-Gazette recently released its "Best of Theatre" Top 10 for 2012. Every listing, plus some of the runners-up, included a School of Drama connection.
News Brief: James H. Garrett Jr. Named Dean of College of Engineering
Thursday, December 20, 2012

News Brief: James H. Garrett Jr. Named Dean of College of Engineering

The following message was sent earlier today to members of the Carnegie Mellon University community announcing the new dean of the College of Engineering.
News Brief: HCII Launches Master's Program in Learning Science
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

News Brief: HCII Launches Master's Program in Learning Science

The inaugural class of students in the Learning Science and Engineering program will begin in fall 2013. Applications are due Jan. 31, 2013.
News Brief: ACM Honors Wanda Dann As Distinguished Educator
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

News Brief: ACM Honors Wanda Dann As Distinguished Educator

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Wanda P. Dann, senior systems scientist in the Computer Science Department and director of the Alice Project, as a 2012 Distinguished Educator, one of just six ACM members so honored this year.
News Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Jendayi Frazer, Actor Ben Affleck and Others To Brief Congress on the Security Situation in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

News Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Jendayi Frazer, Actor Ben Affleck and Others To Brief Congress on the Security Situation in Democratic Republic of the Congo

The panelists will update the committee on the evolving security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the implications for U.S. National Security. The briefing will take place at the Rayburn House Office Building Room 2118 in Washington, D.C.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Product Development Program Plans Expansion
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Product Development Program Plans Expansion

The Tepper School of Business has officially joined the School of Design and the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a third partner in oversight of this interdisciplinary degree, underscoring growing interest in the program by traditional business professionals.
Press Release: Follow the Eyes: Head-Mounted Cameras Could Help Robots Understand Social Interactions
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Press Release: Follow the Eyes: Head-Mounted Cameras Could Help Robots Understand Social Interactions

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute have developed a method for detecting where people's gazes intersect. Those insights someday will be essential for robots designed to interact with humans.
News Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Reddy and Gibson Named ACM Fellows
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

News Brief: Carnegie Mellon's Reddy and Gibson Named ACM Fellows

Reddy was cited by the Association for Computing Machinery for pioneering the design and construction of large-scale artificial intelligence systems, and Gibson was honored for contributions to the performance and reliability of storage systems.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Alison Barth Receives Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award From McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Alison Barth Receives Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award From McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience

Barth will use her three-year, $300,000 award to support her study of how experience transforms neurons.
News Brief: Tiramisu App Wins FCC Chairman’s Award
Monday, December 10, 2012

News Brief: Tiramisu App Wins FCC Chairman’s Award

The Carnegie Mellon research team that created Tiramisu, a smartphone app that enables transit riders to create real-time information about bus schedules and seating, has won this year's Federal Communications Commission Chairman's Award for Advancement in Accessibility in the Geo-Location Services category.
News Brief: Carnegie Mellon Pipe Band To Play Chanukah Music for Inaugural Grand Menorah Lighting
Monday, December 10, 2012

News Brief: Carnegie Mellon Pipe Band To Play Chanukah Music for Inaugural Grand Menorah Lighting

Chabad of Carnegie Mellon University will hold its first Grand Menorah Lighting at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 12 on the Cut. CMU faculty members will light a nine-foot menorah followed by a Pipe Band performance.
News Brief: Jim Daniels’ Film, “Mr. Pleasant,” To Air on WQED Dec. 22
Monday, December 10, 2012

News Brief: Jim Daniels’ Film, “Mr. Pleasant,” To Air on WQED Dec. 22

The film that tackles how middle-class college students aspire to "get out" and break away from their roots to make it big, is getting a television premiere at 10 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22 as part of WQED's "Filmmaker's Corner."
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business Introduces New Online Format for its MBA Curriculum
Monday, December 10, 2012

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business Introduces New Online Format for its MBA Curriculum

The FlexMBA program creates a new model for online business education, combining in-person sessions, online classes and self-paced learning to deliver the same coursework, faculty, team interaction, personal leadership coaching and career services found in the school's highly-acclaimed full- and part-time MBA programs.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineers To Showcase Consumer Product Prototypes at Senior Design Expo
Friday, December 07, 2012

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineers To Showcase Consumer Product Prototypes at Senior Design Expo

Luggage with more space for all your travel needs and a bike light that helps riders peer around corners will be among the student innovations on display.
Press Release: International Collaboration of Green Scientists, Including Carnegie Mellon’s Terry Collins, Proposes Safety Testing System for Development of New Chemicals
Friday, December 07, 2012

Press Release: International Collaboration of Green Scientists, Including Carnegie Mellon’s Terry Collins, Proposes Safety Testing System for Development of New Chemicals

Collins is part of a group of scientists from North America and Europe that has developed a five-tiered testing system that manufacturers can use to ensure that the chemicals and consumer products they produce are free of harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals like BPA or DDT.
News Brief: INSA Honors Pfeffer With Drell Award
Thursday, December 06, 2012

News Brief: INSA Honors Pfeffer With Drell Award

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) presented its 2012 Sidney D. Drell Academic Award to Juergen Pfeffer, assistant research professor in the School of Computer Science's Institute for Software Research (ISR), at a Dec. 6 ceremony in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes Pfeffer's contributions to the intelligence community, particularly in the area of social and organizational network analysis.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Naval ROTC Unit To Honor World War II Veterans Killed at Pearl Harbor
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Naval ROTC Unit To Honor World War II Veterans Killed at Pearl Harbor

CMU Naval ROTC Capt. Tom Calabrese will toss a a wreath into the Ohio River from the deck of the USS Requin Submarine on the North Shore to honor those Americans killed during the surprise attack more than 70 years ago.
Press Release: IEEE Confers Prestigious Fellow Status on Four Carnegie Mellon Faculty Members
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Press Release: IEEE Confers Prestigious Fellow Status on Four Carnegie Mellon Faculty Members

David Garlan, James Hoe, Radu Marculescu and Brad Myers have been honored for their achievements.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s College of Fine Arts Offers Dec. 7 Events
Monday, December 03, 2012

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s College of Fine Arts Offers Dec. 7 Events

The public is invited to holiday concerts, arts open studios, drama productions and more.
News Brief: RobotRadar.org Seeks To Tell the Rest of the Story
Monday, December 03, 2012

News Brief: RobotRadar.org Seeks To Tell the Rest of the Story

A new website, co-founded by Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon, will share the insights of leading thinkers and experts in robotics regarding the popular news media's coverage of robotics.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s Joseph B. Kadane Urges Argentina To Stop Repressing Statisticians
Monday, December 03, 2012

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s Joseph B. Kadane Urges Argentina To Stop Repressing Statisticians

Kadane says it is time to figure out a way to prevent Argentina's government from prohibiting the independent reporting of statistics on the country's inflation rates. Kadane will brief Capitol Hill lawmakers on the situation in Argentina and its potential to disrupt the international economy on Thursday, Dec. 6.
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