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

March 2018
Dietrich College News
First-year students are examining different demonstrations of inequality as part of the Dietrich College’s Grand Challenge Seminars.
 
The seminars are designed to tackle complicated societal problems from multiple angles and perspectives. Paul Eiss , Mark Kamlet , Kody Manke and Kathy M. Newman are coming together to explore inequality across their areas of expertise.

The English Department’s David Shumway and Christopher Warren participated in the events aimed at advocating for federally funded humanities programs.
 
Their involvement highlights CMU’s strong standing in the humanities. And the advocacy seems to have worked.


The advent of systems such as Google, YouTube and Wikipedia has made it seem as if all types of information are accessible at all times.
 
Yet, for people who study spoken language in realistic conversations, none of those resources really help. Psychology Professor Brian MacWhinney has spent the past three decades addressing this gap.

Sanjay Patel is a serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of GuestBook, a hospitality enablement software platform. Since receiving his degree in information systems, Patel has proven to be able to foresee opportunities new technologies have in business.
 
He returned to CMU's campus for a lecture in the Dietrich College Entrepreneurship Series.

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