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Monday, September 30, 2013

Press Release: New Search Tool for Large Gene Expression Databases Could Uncover Therapeutic Targets, Biological Processes

Developed by a team of U.S. and Israeli scientists led by Carnegie Mellon University's Ziv Bar-Joseph, the tool, called ExpressionBlast, enables searches based directly on experimental values, rather than keywords. The researchers already have used ExpressionBlast to uncover intriguing clues about SIRT6, the first gene shown to extend lifespan in mice and thus a potentially important drug target.
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Master of Arts Management Program Launches New Research Initiative

The Arts Management & Technology Laboratory (AMTLab) will explore topics at the intersection of arts, management and technology through a biannual series of student-authored white papers published online at http://www.amt-lab.org. Throughout the year, the online forum will host a blog featuring research updates from AMTLab contributors, case studies of arts organizations employing innovative technological approaches, and news summaries of developments affecting the field.
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama Presents Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," Oct. 3-12

"The Crucible," which won the Tony Award for "Best Play" in 1953, is set in the 1600s during the infamous witch trials of Salem, Mass.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon University To Present Alumni Awards During Céilidh Weekend, Sept. 26-29
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon University To Present Alumni Awards During Céilidh Weekend, Sept. 26-29

CMU honors 13 alumni and students for their distinguished professional achievements and service to the university.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute Receives Federal Funding for Cybersecurity Scholarships
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute Receives Federal Funding for Cybersecurity Scholarships

Seventeen graduate students were awarded scholarships in cybersecurity from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program and the Department of Defense's Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP).
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Chemical Engineering Department To Dedicate Lab in Memory of Late Faculty Member Gary J. Powers
Monday, September 23, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Chemical Engineering Department To Dedicate Lab in Memory of Late Faculty Member Gary J. Powers

Powers, who died in 2007, was an excellent educator and researcher dedicated to teaching his students the importance of safety and process synthesis, and the relevance of chemical engineering.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute To Showcase New Book About Students Working in Developing Countries
Friday, September 20, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute To Showcase New Book About Students Working in Developing Countries

"Geeks On A Mission," authored by Distinguished Service Professor Alex Hills, reveals the challenges students faced as they worked on technology projects in developing countries in the university's Technology Consulting in the Global Community program.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Jon Klancher Authors Book On How Romantic Era Transformed Arts and Sciences
Friday, September 20, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Jon Klancher Authors Book On How Romantic Era Transformed Arts and Sciences

Published by Cambridge University Press, "Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age" offers an original study of how new research and educational organizations reconstructed the idea of knowledge, revealing a more complicated history between the arts and sciences than previously thought.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley Campus To Participate in California Emergency Preparedness Event
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley Campus To Participate in California Emergency Preparedness Event

Students and researchers will showcase novel technologies, including their Survivable Social Networks, for emergency preparedness at the 2013 Palo Alto Quakeville, an event designed to help coastal communities better prepare for earthquakes.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Names Neil M. Donahue New Director of its Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Names Neil M. Donahue New Director of its Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research

Donahue is an internationally recognized expert in atmospheric chemistry and air-quality engineering. His research focuses on the behavior of organic compounds in the atmosphere, ranging from fundamental quantum chemistry to the way chemistry forms molecules that stick to particle pollution, such as wood smoke and diesel emissions.
Press Release: Frankel Announces Two State Grants To Combat Underage Drinking in Oakland
Monday, September 16, 2013

Press Release: Frankel Announces Two State Grants To Combat Underage Drinking in Oakland

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has awarded $30,000 to Carnegie Mellon's Police Department for a two-year alcohol education and enforcement program.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering Boasts Record Draw for Student-Run Technical Opportunities Conference Career Fair
Monday, September 16, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering Boasts Record Draw for Student-Run Technical Opportunities Conference Career Fair

More than 200 companies have signed up to participate in the 2013 Technical Opportunities Conference (TOC), which enables Carnegie Mellon students to network and learn about job and internship opportunities.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Kelvin Gregory To Speak at Prestigious Conference in China
Monday, September 16, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Kelvin Gregory To Speak at Prestigious Conference in China

Gregory, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, will discuss water management strategies for hydraulic fracturing at the 7th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry, Sept. 19-25 in Guiyang, China.
Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Authors To Hold Events in Pittsburgh and D.C. To Launch "Counting Civilian Casualties" Book
Friday, September 13, 2013

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Authors To Hold Events in Pittsburgh and D.C. To Launch "Counting Civilian Casualties" Book

"Counting Civilian Casualties: An Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict," co-edited by CMU's Jay D. Aronson and Baruch Fischhoff and Pitt's Taylor B. Seybolt, is a new resource for policymakers, military officials, journalists and human rights activists who want to be more informed - and skeptical - consumers of civilian casualty counts.
News Brief: Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
Friday, September 13, 2013

News Brief: Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars

Jason Richard Koenig, Anuj Kumar, Gabriela Marcu, Ishan Misra, Mrinmaya Sachan were chosen based on outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership. On average, Siebel Scholars rank in the top 5 percent of their class, many within the top 1 percent. Each receives a $35,000 award for their final year of study.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's School of Music Announces 2013-2014 Season
Friday, September 13, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's School of Music Announces 2013-2014 Season

The new season begins at 8 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 15, with the Philharmonic's Concert at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland under the direction of Maestro Andrés Cárdenes, the newly appointed Artistic Director of Orchestral Studies for the Carnegie Mellon School of Music.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Gary Fedder Named Associate Dean for Research in Engineering
Friday, September 13, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Gary Fedder Named Associate Dean for Research in Engineering

Fedder called the new post a wonderful opportunity to continue the ongoing goal of developing novel technologies for the future and for promoting the growth of knowledge workers to create enduring innovation for the region and the global marketplace.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Appoints Marlene Behrmann New Co-Director of Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Appoints Marlene Behrmann New Co-Director of Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

One of the foremost experts in the cognitive neuroscience of visual perception, Behrmann succeeds Michael J. Tarr, who is stepping down to become head of CMU's Psychology Department. The CNBC is a joint project between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh devoted to investigating the neural mechanisms that give rise to human cognitive abilities.
Press Release: Michael J. Tarr To Head Carnegie Mellon's Department of Psychology
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Press Release: Michael J. Tarr To Head Carnegie Mellon's Department of Psychology

Tarr, currently the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), succeeds Michael Scheier, who has served as department head since 2003. CMU's Department of Psychology is a pioneer and world leader in cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and social, developmental and health psychologies.
Press Release: International Structures Needed for Equitable Access to DNA Identification After Disaster or Conflict, Say Carnegie Mellon and Pitt Experts
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Press Release: International Structures Needed for Equitable Access to DNA Identification After Disaster or Conflict, Say Carnegie Mellon and Pitt Experts

The April 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza Factory Building in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,130 people were killed, is only the latest in a long line of events that has made plain the plight of the families whose loved ones go missing after conflict and disaster.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Say Twitter Analysis Can Help Gamblers Beat the Spread on NFL Games
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Say Twitter Analysis Can Help Gamblers Beat the Spread on NFL Games

What they found was that their analysis of tweets didn't help much when it came to predicting winners or the over/under score. But when it came to winning with the spread, the researchers said their method was 55 percent accurate.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Students Create New Web Tool To Help Classmates Save Time and Money in the Marketplace
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Students Create New Web Tool To Help Classmates Save Time and Money in the Marketplace

Innovative engineering students have created the perfect app for even the most finicky shopper by allowing consumers to tap into the used goods market.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Startup Loans 1,000 Robots To Students During Computer Science Education Week
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Startup Loans 1,000 Robots To Students During Computer Science Education Week

BirdBrain Technologies, a Pittsburgh startup that commercializes projects developed by Carnegie Mellon's CREATE Lab, will loan its Finch robots to up to 20 school districts or educational organizations.
Press Release: Employers Invited to Recruit, Network With Carnegie Mellon Students at Business Opportunities Conference, Sept. 19
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Press Release: Employers Invited to Recruit, Network With Carnegie Mellon Students at Business Opportunities Conference, Sept. 19

The program, organized by CMU's Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC), connects employers with undergraduate students interested in business-specific fields such as analytics, banking, consulting, finance, marketing and operations.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Erica Fuchs Named to Top 40 Under 40 by Prestigious World Economic Forum
Monday, September 09, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's Erica Fuchs Named to Top 40 Under 40 by Prestigious World Economic Forum

Fuchs, whose work focuses on the role of government in technology development and the effect of location on the competitiveness of new technologies, will be honored Sept. 11 in China at the forum's Summer Davos.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s “Mind-Reading” Research To Be Featured on PBS’ “Brains on Trial with Alan Alda”
Friday, September 06, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon’s “Mind-Reading” Research To Be Featured on PBS’ “Brains on Trial with Alan Alda”

Carnegie Mellon's seminal neuroscience research that combines brain imaging with machine-learning techniques to identify a person's thoughts and emotions will be featured in part two of the series, "Deciding Punishment," on Sept. 18.
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Creates Practical Self-Driving Car Using Automotive-Grade Radars and Other Sensors
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Creates Practical Self-Driving Car Using Automotive-Grade Radars and Other Sensors

The self-driving car demonstrated for transportation officials that it could negotiate congestion and highway traffic while safely changing lanes and merging during a challenging 33-mile drive from Cranberry, Pa., to Pittsburgh International Airport.
Media Advisory: The Social Change Semester ... and the Future of Global Education at Carnegie Mellon
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Media Advisory: The Social Change Semester ... and the Future of Global Education at Carnegie Mellon

Last spring, Nico Slate and Emily Mohn-Slate led a group of students on a trip to Qatar and India for the first Carnegie Mellon Social Change Semester with a goal of making positive changes in the world. They will share their experiences from 4:30 - 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10.
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