Carnegie Mellon University


Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) was founded in 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. CMU has approximately 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students. CMU has seven colleges and schools. Most notably is the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Mellon College of Science, School of Computer Science and John Heinz III College. CMU is ranked in the top 200 univerisities world-wide and rated in the top 25 of USA research centers by U.S. News & World Report.

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Alumni House
5017 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

News Office

Email

amayfiel [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu

Phone

412-268-2900

Fax

412-268-6929

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Researchers customizing electric cars for cost-effective urban commuting

Technology / Energy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have converted a 2001 Scion xB into an electric commuter vehicle that will serve as a test bed for a new community-based approach to electric vehicle design, ...


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Dreams may have an important physiological function

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (27) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dreams have long been assumed to have psychological functions such as consolidating emotional memories and processing experiences or problems, but according to a Harvard psychiatrist and sleep ...


Health care accounts for 8 percent of US carbon footprint

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American health care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint.


Researchers to develop probes to study cellular GPS

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant ...


Researchers link health-care debate to risk of dying in US and Europe

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

The current health care debate in the United States is complicated. Trade-offs between heath care expenditures, lifestyle choices and life expectancy have been suggested but seldom clearly demonstrated. The U.S. spends on ...


Chronically ill may be happier if they give up hope, research shows

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Holding on to hope may not make patients happier as they deal with chronic illness or diseases, according to a new study by University of Michigan Health System researchers.


New initiative to automate discovery of astrophysical phenomena

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Automated methods for discovering astrophysical phenomena by sifting through massive amounts of cosmological data are being developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University and the University ...


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


Researchers save electricity with low-power processors and flash memory

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more ...


Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...


Berkeley's Oliver Williamson shares Nobel Prize in economics

Berkeley's Oliver Williamson shares Nobel Prize in economics

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley's Oliver Williamson, a professor emeritus of business, economics, and law, has been named a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, cited along with Indiana University's ...


Technological devices offer glimpse into future

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nancy Lan-Lan Ma, a student at Keio University in Japan, demonstrates her product, Cheeron++, at the UbiComp in Orlando, Fla. Sorry, Elmo, the dolls of the future are not just for tickles.


NY publisher releases Deveraux novel as video book (AP)

NY publisher releases Deveraux novel as video book

Technology / Internet

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The latest novel from best-selling romance author Jude Deveraux isn't exactly a book. "Promises" is a reading and viewing experience, a digital text in which videos not only complement the narrative ...


The Long and the Short of Acrylate Polymerization

The Long and the Short of Acrylate Polymerization

Chemistry / Polymers

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Used in such diverse applications as adhesives, detergents, and super-absorbent disposable diapers, polyacrylates are key polymers, but the mechanisms of their formation are complex and have ...


Highest GigaPan Panoramas Taken On Earth's Surface

Highest GigaPan Panoramas Taken On Earth's Surface

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On May 20, 2009, former NASA astronaut and Ames employee Scott Parazynski became the first person to have been to space and to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. On his way to the summit ...