Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University

May 2019
Dietrich College News
Faculty Honored for Research Excellence
Faculty members and a scholar-in-residence received a host of awards over the past two months. Read more about the honorees on the Dietrich College's news page.

Acoustical Society of America's Helmholtz Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics and Speech Communication
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Marlene Behrmann
Clark Glymour
Joe W. Trotter, Jr.

Association for Psychological Science's James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award
Roberta Klatzky

Guggenheim Fellowship
Edmund Russell

National Academy of Science
Kathryn Roeder

Pulitzer Prize
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, led by David Shribman
Nine Honored for Teaching, Mentoring
The Dietrich College was well-represented at CMU's annual Celebration of Education. Award recipients included:

Joel Greenhouse
Gabriele Maier
Robin Mejia
Casey Roark
Kasia Snyder, James Wynn and Peter Adams (College of Engineering)
Raja Sooriamurthi
Randy Weinberg
Bonnie Youngs

Alumni Spotlight: Redefining Retirement with Erica Baird
Erica Baird ( DC  1970) is a retirement trailblazer. Defying ageism and stereotypes, she offers professional women a fresh model for retirement that challenges them to live ― and even work throughout ― these years without restrictions on how they want to contribute, regardless of their age.

Video: CMU Climbing Team Ascends to New Heights
Upcoming Alumni Events
CMU Alumni Awards
5:30 p.m. Eastern, May 17
Location: College of Fine Arts
Pre-registration has closed. Walk up registration on a space-available basis.

CMUConnect Webinar: From Awkward Encounters to Real Connections - Networking 101
Presented by Juan Carlos Acosta (DC 2015), Senior Consultant, EY
1 p.m. Eastern, June 6

Executive Program in Behavioral Economics
Presented by the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
July 28–Aug. 2 on CMU's campus
CMU alumni are eligible for a 10 percent discount on tuition.
Dietrich College in the News
Class Notes
Find out what's new with Dietrich College students and alumni, including Anna-Jameison Beck , William Dunstan and Maggie Mertz in Class Notes .


Network with other alumni in the Dietrich College Alumni LinkedIn Group .
Personal Mentions
Read about news and accomplishments from the college's faculty and staff, including Jim Daniels, Michal Friedman and Alex John London in this issue's Personal Mentions .

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