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Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
The number of CMU statistics undergraduate majors has roughly doubled since 2010 and has grown twenty-fold since 2005.
Carnegie Mellon’s Top-Rated Statistics Department Among Fastest-Growing
The number of CMU statistics undergraduate majors has roughly doubled since 2010 and has grown twenty-fold since 2005.Thursday, February 12, 2015
CMU Psychology Professor J. David Creswell and graduate student Emily K. Lindsay have developed a model suggesting that mindfulness influences health via stress reduction pathways. Their work, published in “Current Directions in Psychological Science,” describes the biological pathways linking mindfulness training with reduced stress and stress-related disease outcomes.
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Reveal How Mindfulness Training Affects Health
CMU Psychology Professor J. David Creswell and graduate student Emily K. Lindsay have developed a model suggesting that mindfulness influences health via stress reduction pathways. Their work, published in “Current Directions in Psychological Science,” describes the biological pathways linking mindfulness training with reduced stress and stress-related disease outcomes.Thursday, February 12, 2015
“Song from the Forest,” a German film about a musicologist from New York City who spends 25 years in the Congo, will be shown at 6:30 p.m., Feb. 27 in McConomy Auditorium.
Catch a Sneak Preview of Carnegie Mellon’s International Film Festival Feb. 27
“Song from the Forest,” a German film about a musicologist from New York City who spends 25 years in the Congo, will be shown at 6:30 p.m., Feb. 27 in McConomy Auditorium.Monday, February 9, 2015
A new mathematical model and experimental results on "haptic illusions" could one day lead to flatscreen displays featuring active touchback technology, such as making your touchscreen’s keyboard actually feel like a keyboard.
Bringing Texture to Flat Touchscreens: Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern Researchers Provide New Insight Into How Brain Understands Data From Fingers
A new mathematical model and experimental results on "haptic illusions" could one day lead to flatscreen displays featuring active touchback technology, such as making your touchscreen’s keyboard actually feel like a keyboard.Monday, February 9, 2015
The award is given to higher education institutions that demonstrate standards of openness to humanism and are inclusive in their acceptance of the freedoms of expression and religion. The award will be presented at 5:30 p.m., Feb. 12 as part of CMU's Darwin Day celebration.
Carnegie Mellon To Receive American Humanist Association Award for Philosophical Diversity
The award is given to higher education institutions that demonstrate standards of openness to humanism and are inclusive in their acceptance of the freedoms of expression and religion. The award will be presented at 5:30 p.m., Feb. 12 as part of CMU's Darwin Day celebration.Thursday, February 5, 2015
Edda Fields-Black, associate professor of history, will use the project — a modern take on "Verdi's Requiem" — to bring the records, stories and lives of Africans enslaved on low country rice plantations to life.
Center for the Arts in Society Selects "The Requiem for Rice" as Final Performance Initiative Project
Edda Fields-Black, associate professor of history, will use the project — a modern take on "Verdi's Requiem" — to bring the records, stories and lives of Africans enslaved on low country rice plantations to life.