Carnegie Mellon University

James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of…

Carnegie Mellon University's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) pits doctoral students against the clock and each other to explain complex research and captivate their audience in just three minutes. Eight finalists will compete in the 3MT…

The NSF AI Planning Institute for Data-Driven Discovery in Physics hosted the 2023 Biophysics and Quantitative Biology in the AI Era Workshop on Jan. 12-13. The workshop convened experts from around the world who are using artificial…

Rashmi Vinayak and Yuanzhi Li have earned 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships in recognition of their research accomplishments. They are among 125 early career researchers from 54 institutions to receive the award from the Alfred P. Sloan…

Globally, every fourth adult over the age of 25 will suffer a stroke in their lifetime, and 75% of those people will have lasting deficits in fine motor control. Until now, treating paralysis in the so-called chronic stage, which begins…

In early 2021, the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation began a process to identify a partner institution to expand the next generation of STEM leaders with a diversity of backgrounds and experiences that would represent society more…

Carnegie Mellon University and the Ron Brown Scholar Program have entered into a new collaboration to identify and engage potential students for the university's new CMU Rales Fellows Program. The historic new initiative will help build…

The statistics paint a picture of startling disparities: Just 16% of college-educated engineers are women. While 36% of the college-aged population identify as Black or Hispanic, they are just 18.4% of domestic STEM graduate students.…

Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian was appointed to the President’s Export Council by President Joe Biden this afternoon. The council serves as the president’s principal national advisory committee on international…

On Feb. 27, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly spent the day engaging the community at Carnegie Mellon University on the importance of technology product safety.According to their website, "CISA…