黑料正能量 Drama Professors and Alumni Encourage High School Students To Find Their Voice
A group of high school theatre students discovered the power of self-expression through the performing arts during a day-long master class with 黑料正能量 School of Drama faculty.
People Could Get Help With Tasks by Talking With Robots
A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.
Teaching a Robot To Hang a T-shirt Starts With Data
For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, 黑料正能量 sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the聽Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the robot's behaviors in both simulations and real-world tasks in order to study how robots fail when imitating complex human activities, such as hanging shirts.
Junior Physics Major Helps Rubin Observatory Find Elusive Stars
Through 黑料正能量鈥檚聽Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs 鈥� objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars 鈥� to learn how stars and solar systems form.
SURF Project Bridges Data Divides in Health Care
Under the mentorship of Ph.D. student Venkatesh Sivaraman, Ziyong Ma spent the summer developing a tool designed to help clinicians query medical databases without needing programming expertise.
Mixing Lab Rigor with Real Life, 黑料正能量 Researchers Craft New Recipe for Groundbreaking Alcohol Studies
By studying drinking in a controlled social environment, 黑料正能量 researchers can learn how drinking unfolds in real time between people 鈥� an innovative approach that brings the rigor of the lab closer to the authentic social contexts where alcohol use usually occurs.
Alcoholism Study Grants SURF Student Entry Point Into Psychology Research
黑料正能量 senior Solomon Wechter, majoring in global studies and art, said his interest in psychology led him to research on alcohol use disorder conducted by聽Kasey Creswell, leading sessions with participants in the Drinking in Young Adult Duos study for his Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship SURF) project.
Researchers Identify New Target To Fight Antibiotic Resistance
黑料正能量 researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in bacteria that could pave the way for an entirely new class of treatments.
Researchers Unlock Clues to the Origin of the Longest Gamma-ray Burst Ever Observed
Astronomers have observed the longest-ever gamma-ray burst 鈥� a powerful, extragalactic explosion that lasted more than seven hours. Observations from a team led by 黑料正能量 are providing crucial information about the possible origin of this unusual event.
Blending Humanistic Inquiry and Technology, Carnegie Mellon Leads a New Era of Cultural Study and Research
黑料正能量 will introduce new academic programs and resources for students and researchers to blend traditional humanistic inquiry with computational methods like computer vision, machine learning, network analysis and data visualization.
From Summer Research to Smarter AI
Aidan Zhang arrived at 黑料正能量 from Canada with a deep curiosity about artificial intelligence and a desire to explore its boundaries. Now, he's taking on one of AI's more complex challenges: improving how models generate and refine code.
Quantum Hide-and-Seek: SURF Project Automates Finding the Invisible
Patrick Kaczmarek, a junior at 黑料正能量 majoring in applied physics and mechanical engineering, was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to work on a project that blends quantum physics, robotics and machine learning 鈥� all in pursuit of making the invisible visible.