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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

CMU Researchers Identify How Learning and Decision-Making Share a Common Underlying Brain Mechanism

In a pair of recently published papers, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, along with local and international collaborators, shed light on how specific circuits in the brain can simultaneously make decisions and learn from their outcomes.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

More Than 50 Seniors Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa Society

Fifty-six seniors were inducted into Carnegie Mellon’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Celebrating the Class of 2019

The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences honors our 2019 graduates.
Two Promising Educators Recognized With the Gretchen Goldsmith Lankford Award
Friday, May 17, 2019

Two Promising Educators Recognized With the Gretchen Goldsmith Lankford Award
Four Fulbright Scholars Share Dietrich College Connection
Friday, May 17, 2019

Four Fulbright Scholars Share Dietrich College Connection

Four seniors with majors or minors in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences have been named Fulbright Scholars.
Tatyana Gershkovich Wins Prestigious Berlin Prize, First Fellow from CMU
Friday, May 17, 2019

Tatyana Gershkovich Wins Prestigious Berlin Prize, First Fellow from CMU

The American Academy in Berlin has awarded the Department of Modern Languages’ Tatyana Gershkovich a prestigious Berlin Prize for fall 2019.
Undergraduates Showcase Research at Meeting of the Minds
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Undergraduates Showcase Research at Meeting of the Minds

Dietrich College students were among undergraduates giving poster sessions, interactive demonstrations and oral presentations at Meeting of the Minds.
Carnegie Mellon Launches Executive Program in Behavioral Economics
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Carnegie Mellon Launches Executive Program in Behavioral Economics

The inaugural Executive Program in Behavioral Economics will be offered July 29-Aug. 2.
Program for Deliberative Democracy Explores the Issue of Abortion in America
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Program for Deliberative Democracy Explores the Issue of Abortion in America

CMU’s Program for Deliberative Democracy recently presented results from its Deliberative Forum on the Issue of Abortion in America to Pennsylvania lawmakers.
RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Result
Monday, May 13, 2019

RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Result

Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have spent years developing open-source software that children can use to teach themselves basic reading, writing and mathematics — are anxiously awaiting the results of the Global Learning XPRIZE competition.
Green Energy Nudges Come With a Hidden Cost
Monday, May 13, 2019

Green Energy Nudges Come With a Hidden Cost

New research from the Department of Social and Decision Sciences finds popular green energy “nudges” can decrease support for policies with far greater impact.
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Thursday, May 09, 2019

Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

A new book from CMU’s Joe Trotter draws upon several generations of African American history that started during the early 20th century.
CMU Climbing Team Ascends to New Heights
Wednesday, May 08, 2019

CMU Climbing Team Ascends to New Heights

Learn about the CMU Climbing Team and Head Coach Erika Giuse, a junior information systems major.
Dataset Bridges Human Vision and Machine Learning
Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Dataset Bridges Human Vision and Machine Learning

Neuroscientists and computer vision scientists have created a new dataset of unprecedented size to help researchers better understand how the brain processes images.
Shinn-Cunningham Earns Silver Medal from Acoustical Society of America
Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Shinn-Cunningham Earns Silver Medal from Acoustical Society of America

Renowned auditory neuroscientist Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has been named the 2019 recipient of the Helmholtz Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Speech Communication.
CMU Launches Undergraduate Program in Film and Visual Media
Monday, May 06, 2019

CMU Launches Undergraduate Program in Film and Visual Media

The program, based in the Department of English, will focus on the critical study of screenwriting an don films as cultural and political texts.
Suicide Rates Spike Nationally Among Youth After "13 Reasons Why" Release
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Suicide Rates Spike Nationally Among Youth After "13 Reasons Why" Release

A new research study by Professor of Statistics Joel Greenhouse and collaborators reports the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" was associated with a significant increase in monthly suicide rates among U.S. youth aged 10 to 17 years.
Roeder Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Roeder Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Kathryn Roeder, UPMC Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Roberta Klatzky Honored by Association for Psychological Science
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Roberta Klatzky Honored by Association for Psychological Science

Carnegie Mellon’s Roberta L. Klatzky, a world-renowned expert in cognition, has received the 2019 APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award.
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