Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Carnegie Mellon University dean who resigned amid questions about a degree awarded to a student is still at the university as a nontenured lecturer.
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The dean of Carnegie Mellon University's public policy school has resigned after the school questioned a master's degree awarded to a student in 2004.
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Mark G. Wessel has resigned because of his role in the inappropriate granting of a diploma. Wessel's resignation is the third case nationally in which school officials have lost their jobs for awarding unearned degrees.
Open Source (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Zhou is an active member of the Red Hat Fedora community, working on the group's web site and infrastructure. He has also worked on localizing the project Web site.
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
A $500,000 gift from The Richard King Mellon Foundation has increased money raised for a McKees Rocks arts center to $3.4 million, a nonprofit planning the project said.
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are urging companies to embrace new methods for following the trail of dangerous carbon emissions that are responsible for much of the world's global warming threats.
Black and White (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
The Walt Disney Company, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich announced that they would establish new research centers in a joint venture. The move from Disney positions it with top high tech firms in an ever-growing Collaborative Research Center effort hosted by Carnegie Mellon University.
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Disney announced a major Research and Development initiative to engage top technology universities to conduct research and development for its Parks & Resorts division, Disney Media ...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Carnegie Mellon University purchased a three-story building at 4626-28 Forbes Ave., adjacent to its Oakland campus, and plans to demolish the building to make way for future development.
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
The administration at Carnegie Mellon University was praised after handling the situation in which a dean helped a student get a master's degree that he didn't earn.
Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are urging companies to broaden their carbon footprint calculations with a new method that estimates the amount of GHG emissions across all tiers of the entire supply chain for all industries. Carbon footprints are typically reported in “tiers.” Tier one includes emissions by the company’s own activities. Tier two expands to [...]
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
At the Mellon Arena Monday night, Neil Diamond put on a concert awash in nostalgia; the fans who came to hear the hits got them, from "I Am ... I Said" to "Sweet Caroline."
Dr Penna (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Hyaluronic hydrogels developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers may provide a suitable scaffolding to enable bone regeneration. The hydrogels, created by Newell Washburn, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Jeffrey Hollinger, have proven to encourage the growth of preosteoblast cells, cells that aid the growth and development of bone. Currently, physicians are able to treat patients with damaged bone...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Reed Smith put up for sale the nine-story building at 435 Sixth Ave. on the heels of the firm's decision to relocate its Pittsburgh hub to the $179 million Three PNC Plaza under construction at Fifth Avenue and Market Street.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Officials at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh say one of its deans has resigned because of an error in judgment involving a graduate student.Mark Wessel stepped down last week as dean of the university's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy after more than five years on the job, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday.The newspaper said students were told in an e-mail message last...
