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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Wright |John Joseph Chin |Carnegie Mellon
In what’s been called a “Friday night massacre” at the Pentagon, President Donald Trump removed six top generals or admirals on Feb. 21, 2025, including Air Force General C.Q. Brown and Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti. Trump also fired military lawyers who advise senior officers on the legality of their behavior in combat and at home. Over at the FBI, the president has tapped loyalists Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to direct the executive branch’s largest internal security agency.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Carnegie Mellon
A recent editorial calls for a significant change in how laboratory alcohol studies are conducted. Published in the journal Addiction, the editorial emphasizes the urgent need for experimental research that incorporates social drinking contexts to more accurately reflect typical alcohol consumption and better understand the development of alcohol use disorders (AUD). "Drinking is inherently a social activity for most people," said Kasey G.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
myscience.org | Carnegie Mellon
A recent editorial by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign calls for a significant change in how laboratory alcohol studies are conducted.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
pressreleasepoint.com | Shannon Musgrave |Carnegie Mellon
Submitted by CarnegieMellon on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 14:55 Share on X (opens in new window) Share on LinkedIn (opens in new window) In May 2024, a group of soon-to-graduate students from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama production, design and directing programs visited Warner Bros. Studios for a sneak peek at the set of “The Pitt,” the newest production from CMU alumnus and executive producer John Wells. “The Pitt” is a 15-episode drama that premiered Jan. 9 on Max.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
myscience.org | Carnegie Mellon
In May 2024, a group of soon-to-graduate students from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama production, design and directing programs visited Warner Bros. Studios for a sneak peek at the set of "The Pitt," the newest production from CMU alumnus and executive producer John Wells. "The Pitt" is a 15-episode drama that premiered Jan. 9 on Max. Set in Pittsburgh, the show examines the challenges facing health care workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
biorxiv.org | Michael Leone |Chengcheng Huang |Brent Doiron |Carnegie Mellon
AbstractSynaptic physiology is highly stochastic in the neocortex: immediately following an action potential, individual synapses release neurotransmitter unreliably, sometimes even failing to release any vesicles. However, theoretical models of neuronal networks typically neglect this well-established feature of biology, especially recurrent networks.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Carnegie Mellon |Ashley Deal |Tamar Krishnamurti |Raelynn O'Leary
Biographies Raelynn O'Leary is Partner and Co-founder of Dezudio, a women-owned design firm in Pittsburgh. Her practice is focused on research and design for decision making and support tools and communications, largely in the realm of women's reproductive health. Raelynn is Special Faculty in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Ashley Deal is a Partner at Dezudio, and Special Faculty in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
myscience.org | Carnegie Mellon
Three first-year master’s degree students chosen as part of the inaugural cohort of the Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellows Program saw opportunities for research and innovation where traditional fields meet. Their work aims to pioneer 3D printing techniques that can aid in disaster relief, explore new battery materials to contribute to decarbonization technologies, and apply machine learning techniques to accelerate drug testing and discovery.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
academic.oup.com | Carnegie Mellon
As imaging surveys progress in exploring the large-scale structure of the Universe through the use of weak gravitational lensing, achieving subpercent accuracy in estimating shape distortions caused by lensing, or shear, is imperative for precision cosmology. In this paper, we extend the Fourier Power Function Shapelets (FPFS) shear estimator using fourth-order shapelet moments and combine it with the original second-order shear estimator to reduce galaxy shape noise.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Seth Wiener |Carnegie Mellon |Timothy Murphy |Lori L. Holt
Introduction An adult second language (L2) learner faces at least two problems related to L2 speech perception. First, the learner must adapt a perceptual system attuned to first language (L1) input (Cutler, 2012). Second, a learner must receive enough L2 input to make meaningful new sound-to-meaning associations (Colantoni et al., 2015). To overcome these problems, researchers and instructors have traditionally drawn the learner's attention towards novel L2 speech sounds.
