Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science is a leader in diverse fields of scientific research and prepares students to become 21st century scientists.
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Neurosicientist Aryn Gittis and colleagues show Parkinson’s symptoms like tremor and slowed movement arise from different brain circuits, a finding that could lead to more targeted, personalized treatments. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Aryn Gittis and colleagues suggest the most recognizable symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from disruptions in different motor circuits of the brain, an insight that ...
Chemistry faculty member David Yaron has long term involvement with the exciting program explored in this article: usprogram.gatesfoundation.org/news-and-ins...
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REAL CHEM is helping reimagine one of higher education’s most important gateway courses: first-year chemistry. In this latest installment of his Doubling Down series, Allan Golston explores how facult...
Recent CMU graduate Jingjing Xu investigates how communication shapes patient care. Her research highlights how listening, trust and lived experience can improve health outcomes. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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CMU alumnus Calvin Hoffman brings physics to the ballpark. He applies physics and data science to MLB draft strategy, using analytics and modeling to evaluate talent and support real-time decision-making in baseball.
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Recent graduate Ashley Hackney investigated antimicrobial peptides as new tools against antibiotic resistance, contributing to work with real clinical potential and advancing global health solutions. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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CMU startup Pierogi Therapeutics uses AI and advanced chemistry to accelerate cancer drug discovery, enabling faster screening of drug candidates and expanding possibilities in pharmaceutical treatments. 🧪 #ChemSky
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Recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate Jingjing Xu earned the Mellon College of Science Gilman Award.
CMU Ph.D. student Kyungmin Park is advancing particle physics at CERN, developing real‑time machine learning tools and new strategies to search for elusive dark matter signals. 🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM
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Recent graduate Mahitha Chaturvedula’s genetics research is uncovering how bone-forming processes work, with potential applications in tissue engineering and disease treatment. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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Chemistry Professor Carrie McDonough shared the dangers of PFAS — also known as forever chemicals — in @us.theconversation.com. 🧪 #ChemSky #WomenInSTEM
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Calvin Hoffman, who graduated in 2024 with a major in physics and a minor in computer science, is the Kansas City Royals amateur draft analyst, a role at the intersection of scientific problem solving...
A Carnegie Mellon University startup is using advanced chemistry and artificial intelligence to help speed up the search for new cancer drugs. Pierogi Therapeutics’ AI accelerated computational models...
Recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate Ashley Hackney earned a Gilman Award for her commitment and growth over her time in the Mellon College of Science.
Irene Kaplow has been named a 2026 Searle Scholar for her work using machine learning to uncover how gene regulation shapes evolution, with implications for understanding health and disease. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM
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Graduate student Kyungmin Park earned the Mellon College of Science's Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award for her work in experimental particle physics.
Irene Kaplow, an assistant professor in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department and the Department of Biological Sciences, has been named a 2026 Searle Scholar, joining a class of ...
