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Investing in innovation can benefit communities by creating jobs and improving quality of life on the national, state and local levels. Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh and The Brookings Institution hosted a collaborative event to explore how regional and local economic development opportunities and public policy affect the potential for innovation in the context of the 2024 election.

Lenore Blum, a foundational researcher in computer science and tireless advocate for women in math and science, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 👏 Blum served as a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, as well as founding director of Project Olympus CMU and co-director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Committed to a sustainable future for all, Carnegie Mellon University is among the foremost universities championing #sustainability at the local, national and international level. The broad definition of sustainability is captured in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which encompasses social and economic justice, health, education and equality.

Carnegie Mellon's K&L Gates Initiative in Ethics and Computational Technologies convened experts at Georgetown University to discuss "Evaluating Generative AI Systems: the Good, the Bad and the Hype." The event presented the chance to explore the challenges and opportunities in evaluating generative #AI: characterizing the state of the technology, the needs of policymakers and civil society, and the gaps between the two.

Carnegie Mellon University, the exclusive higher education partner of the Tony Awards, celebrates six alumni nominated for 11 #Tonys this year. Carnegie Mellon alumni have won 60 Tony Awards to date. CMU’s School of Drama is the first degree-granting drama program in the United States and celebrates its 110th anniversary in 2024. #TartanProud

Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering are packing up fossil-inspired paleobionics, robotic hands and autonomous aerial vehicles for a demonstration to members of Congress at “Robotics for a Better Tomorrow: Robotics Showcase and Demo Day.” 🤖 Representing CMU in Washington on April 30 will be Carmel Majidi, the Clarence H. Adamson Professor of Engineering and leader of the Soft Machines Lab; Ph.D. students Richard Desatnik and Nathan Zimmerer; and Wennie Tabib, RI systems scientist and director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab. #TartanProud

What if artificial intelligence could help speed up and improve experiments, leading to quicker discoveries or previously impossible answers to questions about some of the world’s greatest problems? Join us for a conversation on automated science with Carnegie Mellon professors Subha Das and Andreas Pfenning. 🎧Listen at ai.cmu.edu

The art of welding dates back to the ancient Egyptians. Today, the rise of robotic welding systems and advances in high-strength alloys is expanding welding applications. At Carnegie Mellon, researchers are developing a new way to train welders using extended reality and machine learning. A team of researchers led by professors in the Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design and the School of Architecture created an extended reality (XR) welding helmet and torch system to help welders acquire the embodied knowledge they need to master the challenging skill.

This spring marks ten years of the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program, where CMU students make Washington, D.C. their classroom in the only nongovernmental building on Capitol Hill. The program, sponsored by Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology, continues to provide opportunities for undergraduate students to take courses while gaining professional experience in the heart of the nation. #TartanProud

Carnegie Mellon partnered with Virginia Tech, Penn State University, Rhode Island School of Design and the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities to host "Creativity, Empathy and AI: A National Summit on the Human-AI Creative Partnership" in Washington, D.C. The summit brought together arts educators, arts practitioners, researchers, technologists, policymakers, funders and industry experts from across the country to address #AI as it relates to creative fields.