President Obama and President Suresh toured demos outside the Cohon University Center.
Obama, Top Scientists Explore Five Frontiers
President
Barack Obama joined national thought-leaders on campus last week for The White House Frontiers Conference to explore how innovations in science and technology could improve the quality of life on five frontiers - personal, local, national, global and interplanetary.
Among the range of topics discussed were precision medicine and health care, smart cities, artificial intelligence, robotics, climate change mitigation and space exploration. Eight CMU faculty and alumni were among the conference speakers and panelists.
The Late Show's
Stephen Colbert was on campus last week to offer President
Barack Obama some job-hunting tips after he leaves office in January. The skit was filmed after the White House Frontiers Conference's plenary session last Thursday. The piece aired Monday.
At the invitation of
President Subra Suresh, members of the CMU community gathered at The Fence last Friday to reflect on and informally discuss global issues of concern, including race relations, inequality, xenophobia, hate crimes, sexual violence and the current nature of U.S. political discourse.
LaunchCMU, a CMU showcase of cutting-edge research, innovations and startups by students, alumni, faculty and staff under the theme of "Smart Cities," will officially open the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship this Tuesday, Oct. 25. The center is a new CMU hub for entrepreneurial programs and activities made possible by alumnus and entrepreneur
James Swartz.
More than a million children worldwide will die this year from pneumonia, approximately 20 percent of them in India. Alumnus
Amit Srivastava is working to change that by bringing an affordable pneumonia vaccine to the developing world by 2020.
