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Eureka!
By Jocelyn Duffy / jmduffy@andrew.cmu.edu Soon after arriving on campus, first-year students in the Mellon College of Science (MCS) found something new in their schedule. Every Monday evening the...
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World Economic Forum Young Scientist
By Susie Cribbs / cribbs@cs.cmu.edu A patient walks into a doctor’s office, complaining of a sore throat. After an initial exam, the doctor orders a culture and a few blood tests that she uses — along...
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Flight Paths
By Pam Wigley / pwigley@andrew.cmu.edu People making their way through busy airports have one thing on their minds: their destination. But at Pittsburgh International Airport, travelers are stopping to...
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Moneyball Nation
By Elizabeth Jeffries / elizjeff@andrew.cmu.edu What does medicine share with baseball and the law? Moneyball, according to Christopher J. Phillips, a new assistant history professor in the Dietrich...
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"The Rambling Irishman"
By Kelly Saavedra / ksaavedra@cmu.edu When John Carson was introduced as the new head of the School of Art at his welcome reception in 2006, instead of making a few remarks, he sang a song. He sang...
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A Hunger To Serve
By Abby Simmons / 412-268-4290 / abbysimmons@cmu.edu Partners Allied in Civic Engagement (PACE) hoped to recruit 400 volunteers as it led CMU in becoming the first university to host a Stop Hunger Now...
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Distinctively CMU
By Bruce Gerson / bgerson@cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon’s strategic plan is unlike any other. It’s not bound. And it’s not in a slick and glossy publication. Instead CMU’s Strategic Plan 2025, the result of...
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Voices Heard
By Bruce Gerson / bgerson@cmu.edu The university’s new strategic plan has the CMU community’s fingerprints all over it. Strategic Plan 2025 was developed in large part from issues, concerns and...
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City’s Counting on CMU
By Bruce Gerson / bgerson@cmu.edu With more dedicated bicycle lanes and its new Healthy Ride bicycle-sharing program in place, Pittsburgh has become much more bike-friendly. But are bike enthusiasts...
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Giant Steps
By Bruce Gerson / bgerson@cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon is walking the walk, says David Tepper. The largest expansion on campus since the university’s founding in 1900 officially got underway on Oct. 30,...
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Construction Ahead
By Bruce Gerson / bgerson@cmu.edu The Tepper Quad is one of seven prominent construction projects — five along Forbes Avenue — that are either nearing completion, in progress or just getting underway....
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Rebuilding Communities, Restoring Lives
By Kelly Saavedra / ksaavedra@cmu.edu A new workspace at Construction Junction in Pittsburgh’s East End is giving materials — and people — a second chance. The 10,000 square-foot area, which features a...
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Picking Up the Pace
By Kelly Saavedra / ksaavedra@cmu.edu Robb Myer was just a guy waiting in line at a San Francisco restaurant when the idea occurred to him: an app that lets you get on a restaurant’s waitlist — or...
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Pumped Up
By Daniel Tkacik / danieltkacik@cmu.edu Heart pumps, which assist more than three million Americans with congestive heart failure each year, lead to a staggering number of infections — many of which...
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Record Breaker
By Chuck Finder / cfinder@andrew.cmu.edu Sam Benger scored a school-record 22 touchdowns this season. Carnegie Mellon’s newly named Academic All-American and the second-leading rusher in all of NCAA...
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Inside the Lines
By Kelly Saavedra / ksaavedra@cmu.edu Keeping the pace in today’s modern tech world has left many longing for a simpler time, or at the very least, a “time out.” To unplug and recharge, an increasing...
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First Class
By Leigh Kish / lkish@andrew.cmu.edu Larry Whiteherse, mailroom distribution services supervisor, scans a package before handing it over to its owner. The hustle and bustle of the holiday season will...
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In It To Win It
By Kelly Saavedra / ksaavedra@cmu.edu When Elon Musk first made public his idea for the Hyperloop — an ultra-high speed ground transportation system that would rocket passengers hundreds of miles...
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In It To Win It
By Kelly Saavedra / ksaavedra@cmu.edu When Elon Musk first made public his idea for the Hyperloop — an ultra-high speed ground transportation system that would rocket passengers hundreds of miles...
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Money Matters
By Shilo Rea / shilo@cmu.edu It is estimated that roughly seven million Americans each year — or 25 percent of those eligible — fail to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the primary channel...
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