Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
August 2020
Dietrich College News
Dietrich College Graduates Forge Forward
Graduates of Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences leave the university with more than just a diploma — they carry with them new possibilities and opportunities as they embark on their separate paths.
View a slideshow highlighting the post-graduation plans of nine members of the Class of 2020.
Ritivoi Reappointed Head of CMU’s Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University has reappointed Andreea Deciu Ritivoi head of the Department of English. English has been an academic program since the early days of Carnegie Tech and recently marked its 100th anniversary. The department offers programs in professional, technical and creative writing as well as rhetoric and literary and cultural studies.
Professional sports are crafting strategies to deal with the absence of crowd noise during sporting events. "It's easy to overlook the importance of the auditory experience with something like a sporting event," said Laurie Heller, a professor of psychology at the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. "You don't think about the crowd noise until it isn't there."
Project Courses Provide Key Skills, Faculty Engagement
In a bold experiment, more than 30 Experiential Learning Project courses are serving nearly 450 graduate and undergraduate Carnegie Mellon University students this summer.
Dietrich Dialogue. Join Dean Richard Scheines on Thursday, Aug. 13 at 12 p.m. Eastern for another virtual open alumni forum. He will provide an update on how COVID-19 will impact the fall semester, and he will share initiatives that are being implemented to help meet Dietrich’s goals in diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism. There will be time for questions at the end, after his update.Register here.
Alumni Community. The new community can be found at community.cmu.edu.
Online events. A number of online events are planned. Register here. The archive of past webinars is available at any time.
Social media. Follow university channels to connect and view news. A directory of many channels can be found at community.cmu.edu/s/cmu-social.
Find out what's new with Dietrich College students and alumni, including Kent Haina Jr. (DC 2004), Charles Mansfield (DC 2023), Cassie Miller (DC 2020) and Meredith Schmehl (DC, S 2018) in Class Notes.
Read about news and accomplishments from the college's faculty and staff, including Joel Greenhouse, Edda Fields-Black and Jeffrey Williams in Personal Mentions.
