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New Conversion Kit Will Charge Your Car (And Wallet)

Posted 05.24.2012

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From Mother Nature Network's Jim Motavalli: PITTSBURGH — That old Honda in your driveway — maybe it's in need of a valve job? Transform it with...

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Urban Planning For The Social Networking Age

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.04.2012

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science have developed a program they're calling Livehoods, which organizes "check-ins" from the p...

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One Laptop Per Child

Ketaki Desai | Posted 04.13.2012

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"You don't have to change the world by yourself," is our advice to anyone interested in championing for a social cause, as a takeaway from our experience with the Hult Global Case Challenge.

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RIP

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 12.07.2011

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PITTSBURGH — William S. Dietrich II, a longtime steel executive who pledged gifts to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University...

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Carnegie Mellon Prof Sues Pittsburgh Over Hearing Loss

AP | JOE MANDAK | Posted 11.21.2011

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PITTSBURGH — A university professor says in a federal lawsuit against the Pittsburgh police that her hearing was damaged when officers used a gi...

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Carnegie Mellon To Open Campus In Rwanda

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 11.20.2011

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PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University and Rwandan President Paul Kagame announced plans Friday to open a branch campus in his country, making ...

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Carnegie Mellon's Massive Pledge

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 11.07.2011

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PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University has received a huge new pledge to expand its programs. The $265 million gift from former steel executiv...

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Data and Inference: They'll Drink Our Milkshakes

Christina Gagnier | Posted 10.08.2011

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In the privacy and data debate over the last two years, the movie There Will Be Blood has often come to mind.

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The NERDIEST Colleges

The Huffington Post | Lindsay Dittman | Posted 09.05.2011

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What is a nerd? A person that throws himself or herself into rigorous academics, stands in the corner at parties and tries to pick up potential mates...

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Obama Pushes Innovation to Fix Manufacturing Woes

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.24.2011

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Joking that "one of my responsibilities as commander-in-chief is to keep an eye on robots," President Obama on Friday announced a new public-private s...

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Obama To Announce A New High-Tech Manufacturing Effort

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 08.24.2011

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PITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama called on Friday for a "renaissance in American manufacturing" that would replace shuttered steel mills with...

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Carnegie Mellon University Recoups $40M In Alleged Swindle

AP | Posted 06.25.2011

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PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University is getting back $40 million, or about 83 percent of what it lost in an alleged investment swindle that t...

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HuffPost Review: White Irish Drinkers

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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A film of both nostalgia and emotional volatility, White Irish Drinkers also has a title that probably works against drawing in the audience that woul...

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Hedge-Fund Manager Allegedly Swindled Universities Out Of Millions Of Dollars

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Josh Keller | Posted 05.25.2011

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A former hedge-fund manager has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in an investment scam in which he bilked as much as $900-million from investors, in...

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What Obama Didn't Tell Us About Energy

Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011

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"According to the U.S. Department of Energy, when subsidies are measured according to how much electricity is generated, it's $.44 per megawatt ...

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Hens Spray-Painted In Apparent College Prank

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just how did farm chickens end up inside campus buildings at Carnegie Mellon University last weekend? And who decided to paint them? The university i...

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Social Security Numbers Cracked, Creates Identity Theft Risk

Robert Siciliano | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carnegie Mellon researchers were able to guess the first five digits of a Social Security number on their first attempt for 44% of people born after 1988.

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Try Catching a Few ZZZ's to Stop Catching Colds

Anne Dunev | Posted 11.17.2011

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Getting less than seven hours of sleep each night can make you three times more likely to catch a cold. And if you sleep restlessly, that makes you five times more susceptible.

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Northwestern's Qatar Campus

Chicago Tribune | Liz Sly | Posted 05.25.2011

On a vast, half-built campus rising from the desert sands of this Arab emirate, the Medill School of Journalism's newest freshman class is being schoo...

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