Carnegie Mellon University

In a situation where it is all too easy to feel hopeless, Tatyana Gershkovich, associate professor of Russian studies, and David Parker, assistant teaching professor of Russian Studies, found a small way to help people impacted by the…

The Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion is known to most people at Carnegie Mellon University as simply “the Center,” a place where students, faculty and staff of all backgrounds can find a place of belonging.Katterin White has…

Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in nerve density. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have exploited this latter characteristic to…

Broadway returned to its springtime tradition of announcing Tony Awards nominations in May ahead of the June 12 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.Four Carnegie Mellon University alumni were nominated for nine Tony Awards during a…

Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in nerve density. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have exploited this latter characteristic to…

Gustavo Silvera could see and hear traffic from his room in his family's Bay Area home. So, when two vehicles collided in front of his house, he heard the crash and looked out the window."I could see the aftermath of the frontal collision…

Strong Women Strong Girls (SWSG) has long focused on women's empowerment. Since the founding of Carnegie Mellon University's SWSG chapter in 2006, the organization has paired Tartans with elementary schools across Pittsburgh to mentor and…

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $7.5 million over five years to the Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) project, a next-generation system for awarding computing time in the NSF's network…

Twelve years ago, a group of women found themselves overwhelmed by work and endless to-do lists. They banded together to get their work lives under control and soon realized that the work that was making them miserable really wasn't core…

Research aimed at creating the spinning space stations common in science fiction received a recent boost from NASA.The space agency provided an additional $500,000 in funding to Carnegie Mellon University's Zac Manchester and the…