MCS News of 2024

Benchmark Beasts Team

Dec 18, 2024

PSC Interns To Represent U.S. at International Competition

Andy Park

Dec 17, 2024

Andy Park Earns Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship

Dec 16, 2024

From the Ballroom to the Bay Area

Event decor

Dec 13, 2024

Science of Creativity

Niraj Khare, Anthony Weston, Zelealem Yilma, Layan El Hajj, and Hasan Demirkoparan comprise the CMU-Q mathematics faculty.

Dec 13, 2024

CMU-Q Faculty Craft Questions for World Math Team Championship

Tuft cells

Dec 12, 2024

Tuft Cell Expression Changes with Sleeping, Eating Cycles

Artwork by Greg Dunn

Dec 12, 2024

Richard Ivry Receives Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

Brendan Mullan is an associate teaching professor and director of Undergraduate Laboratories in Carnegie Mellon's Department of Physics.

Dec 10, 2024

Mullan Offers Students Big Questions, Practical Experience

Paul Middlebrooks and John Ngai at a talk with the community held in Mellon Institute.

Dec 10, 2024

BRAIN Initiative Director Visits CMU, Pitt

The CMS Phase-1 Level-1 Trigger system is responsible for taking the final decsion to keep a collision event or not based on physics critera. Image courtesy of Manfred Jeitler

Dec 09, 2024

CMU's Physics Department Joins CERN Trigger Project

Image courtesy of the National Science Foundation

Dec 06, 2024

Carnegie Mellon is a Destination for NSF Postdoctoral Fellows

Four HPCWire 2024 awards sitting on a tabletop

Dec 06, 2024

HPCwire Awards Honors 4 PSC Projects

Joseph Peterman and Yeritmary Rodriguez Delgado are developing their research skills and preparing for their future careers through the Postbac Research Fellowship in Quantitative Biology.

Dec 05, 2024

Program Prepares New Researchers

Graphic of the brain-eye connection. Image courtesy of ARPA-H

Dec 05, 2024

Zhao Joins Project To Make Whole Eye Transplants a Reality

The CLOUD Experiment at CERN aims to study the potential link between cosmic rays and cloud formation. Image courtesy of CERN

Dec 05, 2024

Isoprene from rainforests drives new particle formation

Carnegie Mellon mathematics alumnus Jonathan Roberts, center, volunteers to lead a math club at his daughter Emily's school.

Nov 25, 2024

Roberts Finds Ways to Serve Via Mathematics

In most cases, Prader-Willi Syndrome is caused by a random genetic error — a section of the paternal copy of chromosome 15 is deleted. Several genes are in the missing section, and it’s not yet known how their loss contributes to PWS symptoms

Nov 25, 2024

McManus Awarded Grant To Advance Prader-Willi Syndrome Research

Jennifer Bomberger delivered the first keynote speech of the conference on November 7.

Nov 22, 2024

Exploring Breakthroughs in Microbiome Research

Nov 22, 2024

Erin Davis Unifies Processes for Departmental Success

Rokas Veitas

Nov 21, 2024

Rokas Veitas Earns McQuade Fellowship

Irene Fonseca has been elected a vice president of the American Mathematical Society.

Nov 21, 2024

Forbes Portugal Names Fonseca to Most Powerful Women in Business List

A team of researchers devised a way to use machine learning to rapidly identify potential crystallizable organic semiconductors materials. Polarized optical microscopy images show, from left to right: rac-BINAP, TBT and spiro-TAD crystallized as platelets, an ideal shape for future device applications. Organic semiconductors are used in devices such as displays, photo detectors, photoconductors for photocopiers and photovoltaic cells.

Nov 20, 2024

Researchers Discover Crystallizable Organic Semiconductors with Machine Learning

Tori Noquez holds up playing cards in hand

Nov 18, 2024

Noquez Shuffles Between Math, Magic

AI in Physics graphic

Nov 15, 2024

AI Expands Potential for Discovery in Physics

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Nov 15, 2024

Di Matteo Selected as Astrophysical Journal Scientific Editor

Grace Kollman

Nov 13, 2024

Grace Kollman Awarded 2024 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship

Linda Addison

Nov 12, 2024

The horror!

Nicholas Boffi

Nov 04, 2024

Nicholas Boffi Brings Together Applied Math and Machine Learning

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Nov 01, 2024

Five CMU Researchers Receive Kaufman Foundation Grants

Philip E. Castle

Nov 01, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Honors 11 Alumni Making a Difference around the World

A historic photo of mathematician Richard Duffin in front of a chalkboard with calculations written on it

Oct 29, 2024

From the Archives: Historic Physics and Mathematics Research Preserved

Christopher Eur

Oct 29, 2024

Christopher Eur Adds Breadth to Faculty with Algebraic Geometry

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Oct 25, 2024

NMR Pioneer Josef Dadok Dies at 98

Adrie Fells

Oct 25, 2024

MCS DEI Welcomes New Staff

A student in a lab setting used tweezers to hold a specimen from a small tray

Oct 24, 2024

Physics Launches New Master's Degree Program

A cartoon satellite emitting waves

Oct 23, 2024

Radio Telescopes' Earthbound Perspective Clouds Discovery of Fast Radio Bursts

Students volunteered across Pittsburgh during the Fall Day of Service.

Oct 22, 2024

Fall Day of Service Connects Students and Community

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Oct 21, 2024

Isayev Named Inaugural Carl & Amy Jones Professor of Interdisciplinary Science

Gabrielle Illava in a lab setting

Oct 21, 2024

Finding Answers in Extremes

Liberty Lapayowker (center) works as assistant stage manager for a production of “You on the Moors Now” during her sophomore year.

Oct 16, 2024

Drama Without Limits: BXA Reflects on Theater’s Value in Interdisciplinary Studies

Jonathan Henninger

Oct 14, 2024

RNA Intrigues Biologist Jonathan Henninger

Rachel Mandelbaum

Oct 11, 2024

Rachel Mandelbaum Named APS Fellow

Jonathan Simone

Oct 10, 2024

Low-Dimensional Topology Offers High Rewards for Simone

Lianshun (Evan) Luo

Oct 09, 2024

Luo Receives McWilliams Fellowship

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition has been expanding the field of cognitive neuroscience since its founding in 1994.

Oct 07, 2024

30 Years of Cognitive Shifts

Eric Parker II worked with Vietnamese artists to produce new music.

Oct 02, 2024

Processing New Sounds

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Sep 30, 2024

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Named Mellon College of Science Dean

world map on tartan background

Sep 25, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Catherine Armbruster in a lab coat in a lab setting

Sep 25, 2024

Armbruster Studies Biofilms in Diverse Environments

Robin Neumayer

Sep 24, 2024

Robin Neumayer Awarded NSF Career Award

Samskrathi Sharma

Sep 19, 2024

Samskrathi Sharma Named 2024 Quad Fellow

Graphic of cartoon fish and pharmaceutical pills

Sep 19, 2024

TAML Catalysts Efficiently Break Down Pharmaceuticals in Polluted Waters

Five Mellon College of Science faculty members

Sep 17, 2024

MCS Faculty Honored with Professorships

Irene Kaplow joined Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member at the start of the fall 2024 semester.

Sep 12, 2024

Kaplow Offers Innovative Approach to Evolutionary Studies

Felix Weilacher

Sep 11, 2024

Mathematician Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

Will Noll recently graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and biomedical engineering and a minor in statistics.

Sep 09, 2024

NSF Fellowship Opens Doors for Will Noll

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Sep 06, 2024

Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded Brazil’s Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis

John A. Pople

Sep 05, 2024

Pople Lecture Returns

While an individual S. pneumoniae bacterial cell is orchestrating how it is "talking," it is still "hearing" what the rest of the nearby bacterial community is saying.

Sep 04, 2024

Study Suggests Bacteria’s Internal Dialog Controls External Messaging

SUMO and DNA repair factors co-localize to telomeres in ALT cancer cells.

Aug 29, 2024

Research Reveals Underlying Mechanism that Renders Certain High-Risk Cancers Immortal

Anna Cappella

Aug 28, 2024

Anna Cappella Wins Niccolai-Fustanio Award

Mo Zhu

Aug 27, 2024

Brain Activity Changes During, After Learning, Researchers Find

From left, Anna O'Grady, Brendan O'Connor, Iganacio Magaña Hernandez and Nora Shipp.

Aug 23, 2024

Postdoctoral Fellows Shine at McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics

Sustainable catalyst graphic

Aug 22, 2024

A Greener Future through Sustainable Catalysis

Neuroscientists removed the motor cortex from mice to investigate the role of the motor cortex in conscious movement. Image courtesy of Mark Nicholas and Eric Yttri.

Aug 20, 2024

New Moves in Neuroscience

Anisha Gupta and Raman Bahal

Aug 20, 2024

Collaborators in the Lab and Life

Aug 14, 2024

Chemistry Students Awarded Beckman Scholarships

Gizelle Sherwood

Aug 14, 2024

Sherwood To Lead Undergraduate Studies for Chemistry

Bridges-2 backdrop

Aug 14, 2024

$4.9-Million NSF Award Funds Major Enhancement to Bridges-2 System

An artistic representation of a magnetar surrounded by the nebula responsible for the continuum radio emission associated with some Fast Radio Bursts. Credit: US NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO S. Dagnello.

Aug 07, 2024

New Study IDs the Origin of the Persistent Emission of Fast Radio Bursts

Michael Young speaks to students taking part in Data Analytics for Science Immersion Experience.

Aug 06, 2024

Michael Young Honored by New Pittsburgh Courier

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Aug 06, 2024

$3.15 Million from NIH to Fund Operation of Third-Generation Anton Supercomputer at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Ben Nalevenko, who worked as an intern at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center explains his work at the Summer Scholars Program poster session in July.

Aug 01, 2024

MCS Summer Scholars Program Spurs Students’ Scientific Interests

Zach Baldwin in business attire sitting on the entrance stairs of a building

Jul 31, 2024

Baldwin Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship To Work at Jefferson Lab

Samantha Wang swinging a golf club

Jul 29, 2024

Physics Major Tees Up Early Success

Graphic of a scottie dog reading a paper

Jul 26, 2024

Hide and Seek: High Schoolers Tackle AI Challenges

Mathematical Sciences Professor Po-Shen Loh

Jul 25, 2024

Po-Shen Loh: An International Man of Math

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Jul 24, 2024

Gittis Receives Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award for Studying Parkinson’s Disease

Images of biological cells and number data

Jul 23, 2024

By the Numbers

During Parkinson's disease, dopamine depletion weakens the D1 neurons in the striatum, which alters the activity of the substantia nigra reticulata, leading toward changes in movement.

Jul 22, 2024

Researchers Find Changes in Pathway Strength for Parkinson's Disease Models

Four Ph.D. students and two fellows who were awarded Biological Sciences Departmental grants

Jul 19, 2024

Four Ph.D. Students, Two Fellows Awarded Biological Sciences Departmental Grants

Elizabeth Ransey

Jul 18, 2024

Elizabeth Ransey Examines, Rewrites Cellular Communication

Brett Wisniewski wants to share his passion for microbiology with Carnegie Mellon students.

Jul 18, 2024

Brett Wisniewski Joins Department of Biological Sciences

Pamela Bush

Jul 17, 2024

The Business of Life Sciences

The first place project went to Adel Fergatova, who investigated the relationship between cancer cells and fibroblasts. Fergatova published related research earlier this year in the leading international journal, Frontiers in Immunology.

Jul 16, 2024

CMU-Q Symposium Showcases Research

world map on tartan background

Jul 16, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Images of organic nanoparticles and "hairy" organic nanoparticles

Jul 15, 2024

A New Class of Organic Nanoparticles

Carnegie Mellon University chemists demonstrate the first example of robust and efficient miniemulsion photoATRP under long-wavelength light, particularly red and near infrared lights.

Jul 12, 2024

New ATRP Approach Could Transform the Manufacturing of Specialty Plastics

Baylor University celebrated Rami Grossberg's (front, center) 70th birthday with the Workshop on Abstract Elementary Classes.

Jul 12, 2024

Baylor Hosts Rami Grossberg for AEC Workshop

TACC employees work on the network cabling above the racks of Frontera. TACC systems have always been built and maintained in-house by their dedicated staff. Image Credit: TACC

Jul 11, 2024

Construction Begun on Leadership-Class Computing Facility

Kevin Noonan

Jul 10, 2024

Noonan Named Associate Head of Chemistry

A group of Carnegie Mellon University professors standing on the stairs in front of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research site

Jul 08, 2024

CMU-Q Explores New Teaching Program To Enhance Instruction and Foster Community Spirit

Alexandra Grimes, a teaching assistant and residential counselor for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences, greets high school students.

Jul 03, 2024

Gifted Teens Explore the Sciences at Pennsylvania Governor’s School

Karen Stump

Jul 03, 2024

Karen Stump Honored with the Richard Moore Education Award

Ken Hovis

Jul 03, 2024

Ken Hovis Receives Julius Ashkin Award

Veronica Hinman holding a sea star

Jul 02, 2024

NIH Grants Echinobase $4 Million in New Funding

This summer, DASIE increased the number of participants to 36 students from 31 universities around the United States.

Jun 25, 2024

Planting Seeds for Data Analytics

Adviti Naik

Jun 24, 2024

CMU-Q’s Adviti Naik develops new course in precision medicine

Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command competed in NASA's Student Launch competition. They engineered a rocket, A&DREW, and a payload, the Airbender.

Jun 21, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command Competes in NASA Event

Grace Benkart

Jun 20, 2024

Grace Benkart Wins Carnegie Mellon Women's Association Award

Claire Phoneprasert in a cap and gown

Jun 17, 2024

Claire Phoneprasert Wins the Gilman Award

MCS Staff Awards trophy graphic

Jun 13, 2024

Staff Awards Recognize Commitment and Service to MCS

An aerial shot of a large group of people on a lawn

Jun 04, 2024

APS Particles & Fields Meeting Draws Physicists to Pittsburgh

K-12 teachers worked on developing classroom activities to make advanced mathematics more approachable during the Ignite Students’ Mathematical Identities workshop in February.

Jun 03, 2024

Program Aims To Ignite K-12 Students’ Relationship to Math

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May 31, 2024

Students Honored with Fulbright Scholarships

Dean's List

May 29, 2024

MCS Dean's List Spring 2024

Minerva Schafer wears a white lab coat in a lab setting

May 29, 2024

Minerva Schafer Aims for a Sustainable Life

Eugene Yoon and Aramchan "Chamy" Lee guess the number of Eppendorf tubes in a container during the Bio Lab Olympics.

May 28, 2024

Bio Lab Olympics Make Sport of Science

Alan Waggoner

May 26, 2024

Remembering Alan Waggoner

Payton Downey won the Fugassi and Monteverde Award for their work in and out of the lab.

May 23, 2024

Payton Downey Wins Fugassi and Monteverde Award

Map of North American with a dot on CMU and dotted line and dots connecting to other cities with a plaid background

May 22, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Ally Jump, Brianne Smalley and Emily Toal all joined the Mellon College of Science in 2023.

May 21, 2024

MCS Advancement Welcomes New Staff

Sungwon "Alex" Lee (left) used the skills he learned playing ice hockey to stay focused on his academic journey toward an M.S. in Data Analytics for Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Photo courtesy of Sungwon Lee.

May 20, 2024

Pivoting the Play

Rafael Guzman-Soriano in a lab coat poses in a lab setting

May 09, 2024

Rafael Guzman-Soriano Wins K&L Gates Prize

Mackenzie Riley in lab

May 08, 2024

Mackenzie Riley Wins Resnik Award

Zoe Wellner receives the Hugh D. Young Graduate Teaching Award.

May 07, 2024

Wellner Receives the Hugh D. Young Award

Ting-Wei Chao receives the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award.

May 07, 2024

Ting-Wei Chao Earns the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award

A graphic of a yellow lightbulb against a green background with purple dotted chains

May 06, 2024

A Bright Idea

Robert Schoelkopf, professor of applied physics at Yale University, gave the keynote address at the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Conference on April 17.

May 03, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Hosts Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Annual Event

Zhongyu Liu

May 02, 2024

Chemistry's Zhongyu Liu Receives IPMI Student Award

2024 MCS Graduates

May 02, 2024

2024 MCS Graduates

Amogh Ananda Rao graduated from the MS-QBB in December 2023, and Tina Ryu is a current student in the program.

May 01, 2024

M.S. in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics Creates New Opportunities

Lianna Huang has served as vice president of the Carnegie Mellon Tricking Club during her senior year.

Apr 30, 2024

Lianna Huang Teaches New Tricks, Orchestrates Opportunities

An illustration of a quantum emitter. Quantum emitters are essential resources for quantum communication, computing and sensing. The field of photonics-based quantum computing and cryptography requires the development of thermally stable, single quantum state emitters.

Apr 26, 2024

MCS Researchers Awarded Kaufman Foundation Grants

Over spring break, Carnegie Mellon students, including Grace Tang (bottom, third person from the left) and Maddy Burke (who took the photo), traveled to Guatemala with the Global Medical Brigades.

Apr 25, 2024

Guatemala Trip Serves Communities, Inspires Students

David Snoke and Benjamin Hunt are co-directors of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute.

Apr 24, 2024

David Snoke Named Co-Director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute

Human genome organized inside a single cell

Apr 23, 2024

Machine Learning Method Reveals Chromosome Locations in Individual Cell Nucleus

Alison Barth and Prasad Tetali of the Mellon College of Science

Apr 18, 2024

Barth, Tetali Elected 2023 AAAS Fellows

Interim Dean Curtis Meyer gets doused during Douse-a-Dean, which raised more than $16,000 for the Special Olympics.

Apr 16, 2024

Carnival All Fun and Games

Katherine Parry, a junior in electrical and computer engineering and physics, and Yunshu Li, a junior in physics, are two of this year's Goldwater Scholars.

Apr 15, 2024

Physics Students Yunshu Li, Katherine Parry Named Goldwater Scholars

The high altitude balloons captured images of the eclipse after they were launched. This image shows the shadow of the moon cast onto the Earth's surface from the perspective of the high altitude balloon.

Apr 15, 2024

Research During Solar Eclipse Could Shed Light on Shadow Bands

Shovels hit the dirt at the groundbreaking for the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences.

Apr 12, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Breaks Ground for Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences

Carnegie Mellon University alumni Cindy and Tod Johnson have committed $10 million to support public art on the university’s Pittsburgh campus.

Apr 10, 2024

Gift Will Expand Public Art at Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon University participated in Market Making Game on March 23, which was hosted by the Quant Club and sponsored by Optiver.

Apr 08, 2024

Market Making Game Gives Students Experience, Connections

Thomas Lam of the University of Michigan was one of four GSCC plenary speakers at the Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference 2024.

Apr 05, 2024

Mathematical Sciences Conference Finds the Right Combination for Success

The 2023 IAQF/Northfield Financial Engineer of the Year award will be presented to Professor Andersen at a celebration in June in New York City.

Apr 04, 2024

Leif Andersen Named 2023 IAQF/Northfield Financial Engineer of the Year

Carnegie Mellon University master’s student Gayatri Chabra wants to join the community of researchers studying cleft palates in utero.

Apr 04, 2024

MS-DAS Student Aims To Change the Face of Programmers

The U.S. Department of Energy has formally approved the production of components for the high-luminosity upgrade of the CMS particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo: CERN

Apr 03, 2024

U.S. CMS Collaborators Receive Approval for Massive Detector Upgrade

Tartans on the Rise

Mar 29, 2024

Innovator, Entrepreneur Carter Sharer Engineers Viral Content

An international team of scientists has discovered the faintest satellite yet orbiting the Milky Way. The left panel shows an image of sky centered on UMa3/U1, obtained using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The right panel shows light isolated from stars in UMa3/U1. Image credit: Simon Smith, University of Victoria.

Mar 28, 2024

Researchers Discover Dim Satellite Orbiting the Milky Way

The April 8, 2024 eclipse will pass over the United States. Pittsburgh is not in the path of totality, but over 97% of the sun will be covered by the moon.

Mar 27, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Prepares for Eclipse

Illustration of the structure of gold quantum rods of various sizes.

Mar 26, 2024

Chemists Create Gold Quantum Rods with Unusual Optical Properties

Tartans on the Rise

Mar 25, 2024

Arsema Thomas Acts with Others in Mind

The South African Large Telescope is one of the most recent instruments that researchers at the McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics have access to for collecting data.

Mar 22, 2024

McWilliams Center Name Change Reflects Expanded Research Scope

Undergraduate students enjoyed an evening with food, friends and fun at the MCS Ball.

Mar 22, 2024

MCS Ball Brings Students, Faculty and Staff Together

Drew Bridges and Martin Zhang both received Curci Foundation grants, which will help fund their research for the next two years.

Mar 20, 2024

Bridges and Zhang Receive Curci Foundation Research Grants

2024 3MT finalists (L-R): Benjamin Glaser, Waku Ken-Opurum, Kriti Kacker, Jeremiah Milbauer, Sampada Acharya, Vishnu Raghuraman, Wenzhuo Xu, Arish Alreja, Nicole C. Auvil.

Mar 18, 2024

Doctoral Researchers Shine in 3MT Championship

Visualization of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch by May 2027. The telescope will unveil the cosmos in ways that have never been possible before. Credit: GSFC/SVS

Mar 14, 2024

Readying for Roman

When V. cholerae sense the death or injury of any bacteria in the Vibrio genus, they clump together to form a protective biofilm.

Mar 14, 2024

Biologists Determine Bacteria Sense Damage to Relatives

Junior Claire Gist proposed CMU add a quantum track for physics majors. The track is now an option, thanks to her encouragement.

Mar 13, 2024

CMU Launches New Quantum Track for Physics

2024 Tartans on the Rise

Mar 12, 2024

Mellon College of Science Alumni Are Rising to the Challenge

A simulation demonstrates the reactions that the ANI-1xnr can produce. Courtesy of Shuhao Zhang.

Mar 07, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop New Machine Learning Method for Modeling of Chemical Reactions

CMU-Q Dean Michael Trick (right), CMU-Q Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Khaled Harras (left) and the LifeLines Hackathon organizing team.

Mar 07, 2024

Carnegie Mellon Qatar LifeLines Hackathon Fosters Ethical Innovation

Vishnu Raghuraman’s studies a class of alloy materials. He is one of nine finalists in Carnegie Mellon University’s Three Minute Thesis competition.

Mar 06, 2024

Doctoral Students Take On 3MT Challenge

Emma Gao, Deying Song and Sarah Oladejo volunteered to judge the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Regional Competition.

Mar 05, 2024

Scientific Methods

Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences first-year Kausthub Satluri consults with School of Computer Science first-year George Shao during Quantathon. They were part of Team Options Addicts along with Mellon College of Science first-years Eric Lian and Rohan Shukla.

Mar 04, 2024

Quantathon Competitors Harness Math Passion

Carnegie Mellon University and University of California at Berkeley researchers have found parts of the genome that have evolved and are associated with vocal learning across mammals. Courtesy of UC Berkeley

Feb 29, 2024

Similar Genetic Elements Underlie Vocal Learning in Mammals

William Rabon, captain of the Carnegie Mellon men's soccer team, plays during a game against Allegheny on Sept. 3.

Feb 26, 2024

Soccer Shapes CMU Experience for William Rabon

Map of North American with a dot on CMU and dotted line and dots connecting to other cities with a plaid background

Feb 23, 2024

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

An international team of researchers including Carnegie Mellon University's Eric Yttri and Alex Hsu have created an open-source platform that can learn and predict user-defined behaviors from video. A-SOiD can pick up on small movements and differentiate them, such as the difference between the movement of dropping a ball versus the movement of tossing one.

Feb 21, 2024

Neuroscientists Create AI Tool To Analyze, Catalogue Behavior

Samskrathi Sharma presented her work at the Sixth International Conference on Microbiome Engineering in December 2023.

Feb 19, 2024

Samskrathi Sharma Receives AIChE Fellowship

Mathematical Science Professor Po-Shen Loh has been appointed to advisory committee of $10M AIMO Prize.

Feb 14, 2024

Loh Appointed to Advisory Committee of $10M AIMO Prize

Students were initiated to Phi Beta Kappa on Jan. 25, 2024.

Feb 13, 2024

CMU Welcomes Early Phi Beta Kappa Inductees

Evgeny Gutkin, Ben Koby and Filipp Gusev created a method that allows for computational drug candidate discovery. Because of their work, they and their colleagues won the CACHE Drug Discovery Challenge #1.

Feb 12, 2024

CMU-UBC Team Wins Challenge To Advance Parkinson's Disease Research

Emily Lopez, Luz Andrino and Tomas Suarez hope to offer outreach events in the future.

Feb 08, 2024

Pathfinders

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Feb 06, 2024

New Methods Allow for Improved Molecular Monitoring

Reinhard Schumacher, who retired from teaching, will continue to be a presence in the Department of Physics.

Feb 05, 2024

For Reinhard Schumacher, Retirement Expands Opportunities for Research

A street vendor sells vegetables in India.

Feb 01, 2024

Increasing Crops Won't Ease Hunger if Supply Chains Don't Keep Pace

Wide shot of an empty UN meeting room

Jan 31, 2024

CMU Students Travel to Geneva for UN Meeting on Disarmament

Michael Young has been selected for TALI’s Executive Leadership Academy.

Jan 31, 2024

Michael Young Selected for TALI’s Executive Leadership Academy

Fernanda Pérez-Verdugo adapted a computational method to determine how epithelial cells form multicellular rosettes.

Jan 30, 2024

Dynamic Tension Model Sheds Light on Epithelial Tissue Architecture

Annie Meyer received the Glen de Vries Fellowship for her work investigating echinoderms.

Jan 29, 2024

Annie Meyer Receives Glen de Vries Fellowship

Neocortex

Jan 25, 2024

PSC's Neocortex Among Elite Artificial Intelligence Computers Selected for National AI Research Resource Pilot Project

Irene Fonseca has been elected a vice president of the American Mathematical Society.

Jan 23, 2024

Fonseca Elected Vice President of American Mathematical Society

Kriti Kapil received the Kwolek Fellowship for her work investigating polymers in the Matyjaszewski Group.

Jan 22, 2024

Kriti Kapil Receives Kwolek Fellowship

Two women holding up a quilt

Jan 19, 2024

Tartans Weave Through Loose Ends Project's Success

Manfred Paulini and Dejan Slepčev have been appointed associate deans.

Jan 18, 2024

Paulini, Slepčev Appointed To Associate Dean Roles

Fast radio bursts telescope

Jan 11, 2024

Study Suggests Primary Pathways to Fast Radio Burst Origins

Dean's List

Jan 09, 2024

MCS Dean's List Fall 2023

An example of a supernova discovered by the Dark Energy Survey within the field covered by one of the individual detectors in the Dark Energy Camera.

Jan 08, 2024

Dark Energy Survey Results Offer Insights to Universe's Expansion

Mia Carrarini works in the DeFranco lab at the University of Pittsburgh.

Jan 08, 2024

Mia Carrarini Researches Medical Solutions

Sayam Sen Gupta accepted the National Teachers Award 2024 in September 2023.

Jan 05, 2024

Causing Reactions

Marion Oliver standing outdoors on the Qatar campus.

Jan 04, 2024

Math Professor, Alumnus Retires after 20 Years at CMU-Q