RAND presents first Victor Fuchs Research Award to economists at Carnegie Mellon University
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PITTSBURGHIn the current Fox television adventure series, "24," a terrorist explodes a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. In the May 2007 issue of the journal Health Physics, Carnegie Mellon researchers Keith Florig and Baruch Fischhoff offer simple, practical advice that ordinary citizens can use when faced by such threats. ... Specifically, the two scientists address the foll...Carnegie Mellon researcher wins prestigious career award for NSF
PITTSBURGHCarnegie Mellon University's C. Fred Higgs III has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for new faculty members, the Faculty Early Career Development award. ... Higgs, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, will receive the five year $400,000 grant to develop sophisticated computer models that can predict wea...Study by Children's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon explains crucial deficit in children with autism
... Previous research has shown that young children...Carnegie Mellon receives NIMH/NSF grant to examine mechanisms that underlie neuronal synchronization
PITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Nathan Urban has received a $979,000 grant as part of a joint National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) program to elucidate how cellular and molecular changes in neurons lead to their synchronized firing. Ultimately, this work is critical to understanding brain disorders, such as schizophrenia, which...Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State get grant to study link between antidepressants and suicidality in teens
... In 2004, the FDA performed a meta-analysis of th...Carnegie Mellon study demonstrates that lower income, education lead to greater stress levels
PITTSBURGH--People with low incomes are more likely to be under stress than their wealthier peers, according to a study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, the journal of the American Psychosomatic Society, by Sheldon Cohen, the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. ...... Researchers measured the income and years of education for 95 men and 98 women, and then...Carnegie Mellon researchers say use of switchgrass could solve energy woes
PITTSBURGH-- Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the use of switchgrass could help break U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and curb costly transportation costs.... "Our report indicates the time is right for America to begin a transition to ethanol derived from switchgrass," said Scott Matthews, an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. A...Carnegie Mellon receives grant to study security issues
PITTSBURGH-- Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) received a five-year, $2 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support a variety of security-related research projects.... Granger Morgan, head of EPP, said the grant will support a wide range of research projects on issues related to security and engineered civil systems...Teens unaware of sexually transmitted diseases until they catch one, Carnegie Mellon study finds
Most sexually active teenage girls know relatively little about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) until it is too late, according to a paper by Carnegie Mellon University researchers that will be published in the January edition of the Journal of Adolescent Health....... "For the most part kids learn about sexually transmitted diseases when they are getting diagnosed with them," said Julie Dow...Carnegie Mellon, Pitt demo technology to help elderly at CAST exhibition in Washington
In conjunction with the once-in-a-decade White House Conference on Aging, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers will demonstrate new technologies to enhance the lives of the elderly at the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) exhibition, Dec. 1214, in Washington, D.C....... The researchers will showcase their technologies at a booth in the Imagine Technology...Carnegie Mellon psychologist receives NIH grant
PITTSBURGH--Sheldon Cohen, the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, has received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his cutting-edge research into the connection between physical health and social factors, such as relationships and family upbringing....... Cohen is one of the world's leading health psychologists and one of the...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
PITTSBURGH--Recognizing faces is effortless for most people, and it's an ability that provides great evolutionary and social advantages. But this ability is impaired in people who have suffered brain damage or in those with a rare congenital condition, and research by Carnegie Mellon University psychologists reveals startling insights into how the brains of those individuals operate.... ...Psycho...