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Carnegie Mellon University Partners with Play Included® to Introduce LEGO® Brick-Based Interventions…
Brick by brick, Carnegie Mellon University is building a new way to transform children’s social and emotional learning in schools and community organizations throughout Pittsburgh and, eventually, across the country.
CMU has announced…
American Historical Association Recognizes Joe Trotter and CMU Alumna Jackie Wu with Prestigious…
During her sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon University, Jackie Wu registered for the course “African Americans, Imprisonment, and the Carceral State,” taught by Joe William Trotter, Jr.(opens in new window), the Giant Eagle University…
New AI Tool Empowers Managers with Practice for Performance Reviews and Job Interviews
A new artificial intelligence tool developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business(opens in new window) lets students practice conducting performance reviews and job interviews with AI agents based on large language…
Göttingen University Celebrates Recipient of the Humboldt Research Award
The physicist Professor Martin Schmaltz from Boston University in the USA has received a Humboldt Research Award, which is worth 60,000 euros, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Schmaltz has been a visiting researcher at the…
Urbanization Amplifies Seasonal Variances in Plant-Pollinator Networks, Study Shows
Increasing urbanization worldwide is a growing threat to biodiversity. At the same time, flowering plants are often more diverse in cities than in the countryside. This is due to flowering plants and agricultural crops, which are…
The Resilience and Success of Dreissenid Mussels: Understanding an Invasive Species
Zebra and quagga mussels, which belong to the Dreissenid family, are freshwater invasive species widespread throughout western Europe and North America. They present a significant danger to native ecosystems by competing for resources.…
Unlocking the Power of Cellular Dynamics: Small Changes Yield Big Impacts, Study Reveals
Tiny things matter – for instance, one amino acid can completely alter the architecture of the cell. Researchers at the Universities of Göttingen and Warwick investigated the structure and mechanics of the main component of the cytoskeleton…
Billion-Year Revelation: Complex Green Organisms Discovered in Earth’s Early History
Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists led by the University of Göttingen has taken a deep dive into the evolutionary history of…
Unveiling New Pieces of the Puzzle: Insights into the Origins of Life on Earth
Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. The clues are written in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks by geochemical and morphological traces, such as chemical compounds or structures that these organisms left behind. However, it…
Early Withdrawal from Excellence Strategy Competition Raises Questions and Concerns
It is an early departure from the Excellence Strategy for the University of Göttingen and its partners at the Göttingen Campus: in the "Clusters of Excellence" competition, the expert panel of the German Research Foundation and the German…