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Oct 3

Energy & Environment

CMU team wins Best Presentation Award at NASA competition

A group of Engineering and Public Policy graduate students took home the award for Best Presentation on behalf of the NASA’s Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy Competition.

By studying energy-limiting behavior related to both heating and cooling in vulnerable households, policies can be modified and developed to address inequities.

Understanding energy behaviors for a more equitable future

Sep 27

Artificial Intelligence

Cagan presents future of AI-human teaming at congressional briefing

Jon Cagan participated in a congressional briefing on AI in the workforce, focusing on the future of AI-human teaming.

Sep 26

Health & Biomedicine

ARPA-H fast tracks development of new cancer implant tech

ARPA-H has awarded $45 million to a multi-institutional team of researchers to rapidly develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could slash U.S. cancer-related deaths.

Sep 22

Robotics

Tricky tangles: Robots learn to navigate vine-like vegetation

CMU researchers develop technology that enables four-legged robots to walk through vine-like vegetation.

Sep 20

Energy & Environment

Albert Presto named director of CAPS

Albert Presto has been named the director of the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS) at Carnegie Mellon University.

Sep 18

Artificial Intelligence

Sanders participates in briefing at the UN about CMU-Africa

College of Engineering Dean Bill Sanders, with CMU-Africa student Choukouriyah Arinloye, participated in a briefing about how artificial intelligence can accelerate progress for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Recent study reviews challenges associated with electricity-system planning and suggests how systems could balance eliminating carbon emissions, affordability, and system reliability.

Modeling energy storage for a decarbonized future

Sep 8

Health & Biomedicine

Relationships are key to the research and the researchers

Zeynep Ozkaya’s work in Jana Kainerstorfer’s biophotonicslab has helped her to better understand the signal processing principles she is learning in her electrical engineering courses.

Sep 5

Artificial Intelligence

USDOT Deputy Secretary meets CMU transportation researchers

Carnegie Mellon is working closely with the USDOT to transform the U.S. transportation system through research that focuses on safety, economic growth, climate and sustainability, and equity.

Sep 1

Health & Biomedicine

Branching out: Modeling neurons in new ways

Predicting neuron cell growth just got a little bit easier, thanks to CMU researchers.

Aug 29

Cybersecurity

Scalable manufacturing unlocks potential of soft electronics

New research from Burak Ozdoganlar, Carmel Majidi, and Kadri Burga Ozutemiz seeks to develop a scalable manufacturing method that combines the best of quality and quantity on a miniature scale, with the potential to reimagine how wearable medical devices are made.