Carnegie Mellon Gets $150M Grant for Science and Robotics
The largest grant ever given by the Richard King Mellon Foundation will be split between a new science building at the university, a robotics center in an old steel mill and a new manufacturing-focused institute.
May 27, 2021 • Spurred by the largest single grant ever given by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a cutting-edge science building on its Pittsburgh campus and a robotics center in the city’s burgeoning Hazelwood Green district.
According to a news release last week, the foundation has approved a $150 million grant, of which half will go toward a $210 million science building on Forbes Avenue, $45 million will go toward a $100 million Robotics Innovation Center at Hazelwood Green and $30 million will create a sustainable endowment for the Manufacturing Futures Institute, which will support the de
Colleges Return to In-Person Graduations for Class of 2021
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One year ago, the
campuses of American colleges and universities were empty. Most students were sent home in March and did not return for months.
The new coronavirus forced schools to teach using the internet and video call. But it was not just teaching that changed. The
graduation ceremony, or commencement, changed, too. Students who had spent four years taking classes together watched the ceremony on their computers from home.
There was no throwing of hats in the air to celebrate the completion of four years of study. There were no group photos or shared tears while saying goodbye to friends and professors.
If there s one thing Stephen Harvey enjoys almost as much as jazz, it s superhero stories.
“Outside of music, I live and breathe superheroes,” Harvey, a Rochester-raised composer and bandleader said. “It had been a long-time idea to combine these two passions into a project.
Harvey has written nine original compositions, all inspired by comic book/popular culture superheroes, archetypes and tropes.
More specifically, the compositions are influenced by the personas, powers and stories, and what I think would best represent them in the jazz orchestra format, said the 2010 Rochester High grad who now lives and teaches in Salisbury, Md. For example, the title piece, Smash, contains a lot of dark, chromatic harmonies that are accented by the full band. This would represent those big drag-out fights between two super-strength brutes. Each punch by the big band would be a smash from that battle. Or maybe a piece based on the power of flight? The piece “Zephyr” mo
Grammy-winning musician Jason Mraz is hitting the road on his “Look For The Good Live!” tour. Announced Friday, Pittsburgh is the final stop on the schedule which kicks off July 30 at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin, Texas. He’ll perform Aug. 28 at the “Rock, Reggae and Relief” festival,