Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
October 2020
Dietrich College News
Google.org Donates $1 Million, Personnel To CMU's COVID-19 Forecasting Project
Google.org has donated $1 million to CMU to support COVIDcast, the university's effort to track and forecast localized COVID-19 activity nationwide. The company is also providing a full-time, pro bono team of 12 Google.org Fellows to support CMU's Delphi Research Group for the next six months.
Elizabeth Rodriguez (DC 2023) spent her summer assisting Latinx and Hispanic families throughout Pittsburgh during her internship with the non-profit Casa San Jose. From translating documents between languages and leading a virtual summer camp to directly communicating with the very families Casa San Jose serves, each day presented an exciting new challenge.
Roshni Mehta, a 2020 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University who majored in Ethics, History, and Public Policy, has received Coro Pittsburgh’s Fellowship in Public Affairs. The mission of Coro is to advance leaders and to build a wider leadership base to construct more inclusive communities. The nonprofit focuses on experiential learning, whole-system thinking and nurturing future leaders and members for these communities.
As an undergraduate exploring in library archives, Carnegie Mellon University alumna Cassie Miller (DC 2011, 2016) fell in love. While digging up documents for research papers about the U.S. labor movement, class struggles and the fight for Black equality, she discovered a way to channel her passion for history into social justice change.
Learning Engineering in Action:The Simon Initiative will host a panel discussion on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 4-5 p.m. Join the event. 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 Sam Ventura (DC 2011, 2015), Serena Gillian (DC 2020), Shlok Goyal (DC 2020), Angela Nguyen (DC 2020) and Sam Gibson (DC 2022),s in Class Notes.
