CMU Veterans in the News
The Carnegie Mellon University community includes students, faculty, alumni, and staff veterans leading and serving within the university and global community, and engaged in cutting-edge research to enhance society in meaningful and sustainable ways.
Students, Alumni, and Staff
- Scholarly Soldier - A documentary follows West Point's chief scientist and CMU alumnus John Graham while working in Afghanistan.
- Trucking Data - Army veteran and CMU alumnus Jason Cahill (TPR'14) develops an app to generate contact between truck drivers and shippers
- Saluting Our Veterans - alumni and students discuss CMU support of military and veteran students
- Honoring Veterans - CMU veterans remember comrades-in-arms on Veterans Day 2012
- Soldiers & Sailors Museum Honors Alum - Pittsburgh's Soldiers & Sailors Museum honors alumnus Hugh Porter Jr., (E '47, '48)
- Grad Student Co-Authors Report Offering Environmental Solutions - Heinz grad student and former Army Ranger, Bill Perkins advocates for climate change solutions
- CSI: Computers - former military and intelligence officers at CMU's Software Engineering Institute are national resource for cybercrime investigation
- Design to be Built in New Orleans - architecture student and Korean military veteran, Wui-Joon Ha designs award-winning, energy-efficient house for New Orleans
- Alumni Awards - LT Elizabeth (Higgins) Durika, USN (E'03) receives Alumni Award honor
- Remembering the Brave - LtCol Stephen Beck, USMC, NROTC unit executive officer, establishes foundation to honor fallen soldiers and their families
Faculty and Research
- Coming Home - JulieHera DeStefano (A’95) produces documentary about female veterans
- Restoring Vision - CMU scientist studying vision restoration receives U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs grant
- Erasing Pain for Amputees - CMU-led research team develops nanostructural polymer-based treatments to eliminate painful bone formation
- Saving Lives Abroad - Robotics Intitute researchers develop reconnaissance robot to aid in explosive ordnance disposal
- New Translation App for iPhone - CMU researchers develop app to translate between English and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic
- Flying Cars - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awards CMU's Robotics Institute contract to develop systems for a flying car
- Enlisting Help - CMU's Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics helps improve energy and environmental effectiveness of Army installations