Posted on May 15, 2013 by shilo_rea
For Immediate Release Event: Carnegie Mellon University will award the first Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences to Leslie G. Ungerleider, chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The …
Posted on May 3, 2013 by admin
For Immediate Release UNDAUNTED: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory is a one-hour documentary that tells the surprising stories of the Pittsburghers behind the birth of astrophysics and the invention of flight. The film will air on WQED-TV Pittsburgh on Thursday, May 9th …
Posted on April 8, 2013 by Edgar Snyder & Associates
Program Exposes Students to Dangers of Drinking and Driving April 8, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA – Prom and graduation celebrations are just around the corner for many local students, but these gatherings meant to celebrate bright futures can end tragically when …
Posted on April 3, 2013 by shilo_rea
For Immediate Release – This summer, six alumni from the Department of English’s Creative Writing Program are teaming up for a unique poetry tour throughout the U.S. The goal: to help libraries and community centers create and sustain poetry programming. …
Posted on April 1, 2013 by admin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Indiana, PA – March 28, 2013 – The Indiana University of Pennsylvania School of Graduate Studies and Research is currently holding a Facebook contest titled “IUP Graduate Studies Madness,” a March Madness-inspired tournament. During this contest, the …
Posted on March 22, 2013 by admin
For Immediate Release – The Art of Writing Comedy – Screenplays is a 90 minute four-week course at the Third Street Gallery 220 3rd Street, Carnegie, PA 15106, Wednesdays in June, 5, 12, 19, and 26 at 7:00 p.m. Students …
Posted on March 12, 2013 by shilo_rea
If you thought 2013 was just the year of the snake, you were mistaken. 2013 is also the International Year of Statistics. Created by the American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometric Society, International Statistical Institute (and the …
Posted on March 11, 2013 by admin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – March 8, 2013 – The Allegheny County Library Association (ACLA) is teaming up with the Computer Science Student Network (CS2N) for a student video animation competition titled “Character Drop!” The competition asks students, “What …
Posted on February 28, 2013 by admin
Created by the American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometric Society, International Statistical Institute (and the Bernoulli Society), and Royal Statistical Society, Statistics2013 is designed to showcase how “statistics have powerful and far-reaching effects on everyone, yet most …
Posted on January 15, 2013 by shilo_rea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – PITTSBURGH, PA – For the 14th consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon University invited Pittsburgh-area high school and college students to compete in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards. The contest, which encourages students to explore personal …
Posted on January 10, 2013 by admin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Natalie Phillips, assistant professor of English at Michigan State University, specializes in 18th-century literature, the history of mind, and cognitive approaches to narrative. Her first book project, Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature (in progress) …
Posted on January 9, 2013 by admin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – This talk features the work of Carnegie Mellon University’s 2012-2013 Humanities Center Senior Research Fellow, Leshu Torchin. In this talk, Professor Torchin will be discussing the ways in which films about the global economy have been contributing …
