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82-536: Squirrel Hill Tunnel construction began in 1946 and opened to traffic on June 5, 1953. The tunnel consists of two bores that pass through Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh, carrying two lanes of one-way traffic in each direction for Interstate 376 (Parkway East). At a cost of $ 18   million, it was the most costly single project built by the State Highways Department and completed the last link in

164-463: A photovoltaic array and geothermal bore field . The center was certified as LEED Platinium the next year. The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy operates the center in collaboration with the City of Pittsburgh. The eastern park boundary is Nine Mile Run, a formerly heavily polluted stream which was restored between 2003 and 2006. The addition of 2.2 miles of Nine Mile Run extended Frick Park nearly to

246-464: A $ 2 million trust fund ($ 35.1 million today) for long-term maintenance for the park, which opened on June 25, 1927. Frick had not wanted to create the maintenance fund but had promised to honor his daughter Helen's debutante wish. Henry Clay Frick's son, Childs Frick , developed his lifelong love of animals in the woods and ravines of the park. Childs Frick went on to be a renowned American vertebrate paleontologist , major benefactor and trustee of

328-620: A Robotics Innovation Center at Hazelwood Green, in addition to new dormitories and other buildings in the coming years. On February 5, 2013, Carnegie Mellon announced the selection of Subra Suresh , Director of the National Science Foundation and Dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering , as its ninth president effective July 1, 2013. Suresh stepped down in June 2017 and

410-476: A campaign which seeks to raise $ 2 billion to advance the university's priorities, including campus development. Alongside the Tepper Quad and Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon finished construction in 2020 on TCS Hall, an innovation center made possible with a $ 35 million gift from Tata Consultancy Services . Carnegie Mellon plans to collaborate with Emerald Cloud Lab to construct the world's first cloud lab in

492-609: A founding member of the University Athletic Association . Carnegie Mellon fields eight men's teams and nine women's teams as the Tartans. The university's faculty and alumni include 21 Nobel Prize laureates and 13 Turing Award winners and have received 142 Emmy Awards , 64 Tony Awards , and 13 Academy Awards . The Carnegie Technical Schools were founded in 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by

574-701: A nearby hill that was leveled to build the College of Fine Arts building. The northwestern part of the campus (home to Hamburg Hall, Newell-Simon Hall, Smith Hall, and Gates Hillman Complex) was acquired from the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1980s. Carnegie Mellon has been purchasing 100% renewable energy for its electricity since 2011. The campus began to take shape in the Beaux-Arts architecture style of George Carnegie Palmer and Henry Hornbostel of Palmer & Hornbostel, winners of

656-881: A part of the University of California, Washington Center . Carnegie Mellon also established the Integrative Media Program at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn , New York. Carnegie Mellon also maintains the Carnegie Mellon Los Angeles Center in North Hollywood, California where students in the Master of Entertainment Industry Management program are required to relocate to Los Angeles in their second year and attend classes at this facility. Frick Park Frick Park

738-413: A university setting. The Carnegie Mellon University Cloud Lab is planned to be completed by the spring of 2023. Carnegie Mellon also plans to construct a new mechanical engineering building by fall 2023 (Scaife Hall), a new $ 105 million athletics center by fall 2024 (Highmark Center for Health, Wellness and Athletics), a $ 210 million Science Futures Building (R.K. Mellon Hall of Sciences) by 2026, as well as

820-589: A welcome center which serves as a public gateway to the university. In April 2015, Carnegie Mellon, in collaboration with Jones Lang LaSalle , announced the planning of a second office space structure, alongside the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center, an upscale and full-service hotel, and retail and dining development along Forbes Avenue. This complex will connect to the Tepper Quadrangle,

902-461: Is a division of the School of Computer Science and is considered one of the leading centers of human–computer interaction research, integrating computer science, design, social science, and learning science. Such interdisciplinary collaboration is the hallmark of research done throughout the university. The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is another unit of the School of Computer Science and

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984-854: Is a university-wide research institute that was founded in 2018 as a successor to an earlier effort, known as Brainhub. Combining research in computer science , engineering , machine learning , statistics , and cognitive science with basic neuroscience , NI aims to promote research that will improve the human condition. Devices developed by the institute have been designed to enable communication for locked-in patients, treatments for Parkinson's disease , improved brain imaging technology using artificial intelligence , and electrodes that work with coarse, curly hair. NI includes over 30 faculty and 100 trainees from four colleges and oversees two PhD programs (the Program in Neural Computation and

1066-533: Is an applied science research institute composed of a partnership of institutions from around the globe, led by New York University with a consortium of universities including Carnegie Mellon, the University of Warwick , the City University of New York , the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , and the University of Toronto . In September 2012, Carnegie Mellon announced the construction of

1148-415: Is constructed on caissons and has a series of chambers that comprise its basement. The rear portion of the building basement has no floor and is, in effect, a set of bridges that carry I-376 East and West above it. The east portal building is built on a series of variable-depth spread footings and contains no basement. Otherwise, the portal buildings have identical geometry. The facades and exterior surfaces of

1230-491: Is famous for being one of the leading research centers in the area of language technologies . The primary research focus of the institute is on machine translation , speech recognition , speech synthesis , information retrieval , parsing and information extraction . Until 1996, the institute existed as the Center for Machine Translation that was established in 1986. From 1996 onwards, it started awarding graduate degrees and

1312-769: Is known for its Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), which identify essential elements of effective system and software engineering processes and can be used to rate the level of an organization's capability for producing quality systems. The SEI is also the home of CERT/CC , the federally funded computer security organization. The CERT Program's primary goals are to support secure requirements and development of computer systems and ensure that appropriate technology and systems management practices are used to resist attacks on networked systems and to limit damage and ensure continuity of critical services subsequent to attacks, accidents, or failures. The Human–Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)

1394-707: Is known for its advances in research and new fields of study, home to many firsts in computer science (including the first machine learning , robotics , and computational biology departments), pioneering the field of management science , and the first drama program in the United States. Carnegie Mellon is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". Carnegie Mellon competes in NCAA Division III athletics as

1476-933: Is located in Doha 's Education City which is home to multiple other U.S. universities all of which are funded by the Qatar Foundation . The Qatari campus has been the subject of controversy, as Islamic cultural values and laws in Qatar differ greatly from the core values of Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, Carnegie Mellon and other U.S. universities in Education City have been criticized for being essentially complicit in Qatar's corruption, connections with Hamas and their questionable human rights record by continuing to operate there. It also has graduate-level extension campuses in Mountain View, California in

1558-575: Is one of 66 elected members of the Association of American Universities and one of 29 members (one of 13 American members) of the World Economic Forum Global University Leaders Forum . U.S. News & World Report rates admission to Carnegie Mellon as "most selective". For the class of 2026 (enrolling in fall 2022), Carnegie Mellon received 34,261 applications and admitted approximately 3,873 (11%), with 1,736 enrolling. The acceptance rates of

1640-443: Is popularly known as Blue Slide Park. Nearby are basketball courts and a baseball diamond. Sledding on a nearby hill that slopes down from Beechwood is a popular winter pastime. Sledders sometimes crash into the trees at the bottom or collide because two approaches down the hill – one shallow and one steep – intersect at the bottom. As a result, in 2010 the city posted "no sledding" signs for liability reasons. Frick Park also has

1722-478: Is the largest municipal park in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States, covering 644 acres (1.006 sq mi). It is one of Pittsburgh's four historic large parks. The park began when the industrialist Henry Clay Frick , upon his death in 1919, bequeathed 151 acres (61 ha) south of Clayton, his Point Breeze mansion (which is now part of the Frick Art & Historical Center ). He also arranged for

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1804-525: Is the leader in developing computational methodologies to advance biomedical research. Carnegie Mellon is also home to the Carnegie School of management and economics. This intellectual school grew out of the Tepper School of Business in the 1950s and 1960s and focused on the intersection of behavioralistm and management. Several management theories, most notably bounded rationality and

1886-420: Is thought to be affected by butternut canker , a fungal disease lethal to plants . The park includes several playgrounds. Frick Park Playground on Beechwood Boulevard near Nicholson Street, opened in the early 1960s, features an unusual cement slide set into a hillside. Originally painted red and bordered by cobblestones, it is today painted blue and surrounded by rubberized playground surfacing. The playground

1968-580: The American Museum of Natural History . Over the years, the park grew from the original land in Point Breeze and now includes Squirrel Hill to the border of Edgewood . In a city that Frick helped to industrialize, it is one of the few areas of steep ravines and mature woods that remain relatively undisturbed, forming a nature reserve of native plants and abundant wildlife. Owls, amphibians, wild turkey, fox, and many mammal species are found in

2050-740: The College of Engineering , the School of Computer Science , and the Tepper School of Business . The university has its main campus located 5 miles (8 km) from downtown Pittsburgh . It also has over a dozen degree-granting locations in six continents, including campuses in Qatar , Silicon Valley , and Kigali, Rwanda ( Carnegie Mellon University Africa ) and partnerships with universities nationally and globally. Carnegie Mellon enrolls 15,818 students across its multiple campuses from 117 countries and employs more than 1,400 faculty members. Carnegie Mellon

2132-773: The Henry L. Hillman Foundation . The Gates Hillman Complex and the Purnell Center for the Arts are connected by the Randy Pausch Memorial Footbridge. On April 15, 1997, Jared L. Cohon , former dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies , was elected president by Carnegie Mellon's board of trustees. During Cohon's presidency, Carnegie Mellon continued its trajectory of innovation and growth. His strategic plan aimed to leverage

2214-635: The Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences after William Dietrich's mother. On April 23, 2012, New York's Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York University 's President John Sexton announced an agreement between New York City, New York's MTA, and a consortium of academic institutions, and private technology companies that led to the creation in New York of a Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). The Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)

2296-627: The Mellon family . The Institute began as a research organization that performed contract work for government and industry, initially as a department within the University of Pittsburgh . In 1927, the Mellon Institute was incorporated as an independent nonprofit. In 1937, the Mellon Institute's iconic building was completed on Fifth Avenue. In 1967, with support from Paul Mellon , the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with

2378-549: The Monongahela River . Restoration efforts in 2017-18 involved the removal of about 2.6 acres of bush honeysuckle , an invasive plant that had affected the park for some 20 years, displacing native plants. Following the clearance of the honeysuckle, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy discovered ten healthy butternut trees . This was a significant discovery since every other tree in the park

2460-599: The Rand Corporation have established a presence on or near campus. In collaboration with Intel, Carnegie Mellon has pioneered research into claytronics . In addition to its Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon has a branch campus in the Middle East, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar , which offers a full undergraduate curriculum with degree programs in computer science, business administration, biology, computational biology, and information systems. The campus

2542-609: The Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , who wrote "My heart is in the work", when he donated the funds to create the institution. Carnegie's vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers, many of whom worked in his mills. Carnegie was inspired for the design of his school by the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York , founded by industrialist Charles Pratt in 1887. In 1912,

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2624-533: The 1904 competition to design the original institution and later the founder of the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture . There was little change to the campus between the first and second World War . A 1938 master plan by Githens and Keally suggested acquisition of new land along Forbes Avenue , but the plan was not fully implemented. The period starting with the construction of the Hall of

2706-629: The 1930s. It came late to the Carnegie Mellon campus because of the hiatus in building activity and a general reluctance among American universities to abandon historical styles. By the 1960s, the International Style was adopted to accomplish needed expansion quickly and affordably with the swelling of student ranks in the aftermath of the GI Bill in 1944. Each building was a unique architectural statement that may have acknowledged

2788-437: The 2000s, Carnegie Mellon solidified its status among American universities, consistently ranking in the top 25 in the national U.S. News & World Report rankings, and in the top 30 (ranking 28th in 2022) amongst universities worldwide. Carnegie Mellon is distinct in its interdisciplinary approach to research and education. Through the establishment of programs and centers outside the limitations of departments or colleges,

2870-599: The 2021 fiscal year, the university spent $ 402 million on research. The primary recipients of this funding were the School of Computer Science ($ 100.3 million), the Software Engineering Institute ($ 71.7 million), the College of Engineering ($ 48.5 million), and the Mellon College of Science ($ 47.7 million). The research money comes largely from federal sources, with a federal investment of $ 234.9 million in 2021. The federal agencies that invest

2952-952: The Arts building (former home of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration) in 1952 and ending with Wean Hall in 1971 saw the institutional change from Carnegie Institute of Technology to Carnegie Mellon University. New facilities were needed to respond to the university's growing national reputation in artificial intelligence , business, robotics and the arts. In addition, an expanding student population demanded improved facilities for student life, athletics and libraries. The campus finally expanded to Forbes Avenue from its original land along Schenley Park . The buildings of this era reflected contemporary architectural styles. The International Style , with its rejection of historical tradition and its emphases on functionalism and expression of structure, had been in vogue in European settings since

3034-559: The Arts), business school building ( Tepper School of Business ), and several dormitories. Baker Hall was renovated in the early 2000s, and new chemistry labs were established in Doherty Hall soon after. Several computer science buildings, such as Newell-Simon Hall , also were established, renovated or renamed in the early 2000s. In 2006, Carnegie Mellon Trustee Jill Gansman Kraus donated the 80-foot (24 m)-tall sculpture Walking to

3116-543: The City's Environmental Education Program and for many years hosted ecological and other programs related to the park. A fire in 2002 rendered the building functionally unusable. Demolition at the site was completed and construction began in late-2014. The current, 15,500-square-foot Frick Environmental Center opened to the public in 2016, following a $ 16 million construction project. The site includes indoor and outdoor classrooms, public restrooms, and other facilities, and has various energy-efficient and green features, include

3198-544: The Department of Biomedical Engineering. Further, in November 2013, Carnegie Mellon announced a $ 67 million gift from David Tepper , who previously donated $ 56 million, to develop the Tepper Quadrangle on the north campus. The Tepper Quad includes a new Tepper School of Business facility across Forbes Avenue from a renovated and expanded Hamburg Hall (home to Heinz College) as well as other university-wide buildings and

3280-661: The Department of Defense. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh , and Westinghouse Electric Company . PSC was founded in 1986 by its two scientific directors, Ralph Roskies of the University of Pittsburgh and Michael Levine of Carnegie Mellon. PSC is a leading partner in the TeraGrid , the National Science Foundation's cyberinfrastructure program. The Neuroscience Institute (NI)

3362-672: The Heinz College, the Tata Consultancy Services Building, and the Gates-Hillman Center to create an innovation corridor on the university campus. The effort is intended to continue to attract major corporate partnerships to create opportunities for research, teaching, and employment with students and faculty. On October 30, 2019, Carnegie Mellon publicly announced the launch of "Make Possible: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University",

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3444-670: The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become Carnegie Mellon University. In 1973, Carnegie Mellon's coordinate women's college , the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, merged its academic programs with the rest of the university. The industrial research mission of the Mellon Institute survived the merger as the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute (CMRI) and continued doing work on contract to industry and government. In 2001, CMRI's programs were subsumed by other parts of

3526-583: The Program in Systems Neuroscience) that have received support from the National Institutes of Health . Numerous philanthropic gifts help support NI research. NI also provides direct administrative and monetary support for the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, a long-running collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh . The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science and considered to be one of

3608-475: The Purnell Center for the Arts, Doherty Hall, Newell-Simon Hall, Smith Hall, Hamburg Hall , and the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center. It contains 318 offices as well as labs, computer clusters , lecture halls, classrooms and a 255-seat auditorium. The Gates Hillman Complex was made possible by a $ 20 million lead gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and an additional $ 10 million grant from

3690-548: The School of Drama 3rd in the world among undergraduate drama schools. In 2015, the same publication ranked the MFA program at the School of Drama 5th in the world. Carnegie Mellon's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences was ranked 55th for social sciences and 60th for humanities in the world by Times Higher Education for 2020. Dietrich College is also ranked 20th for social sciences among Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world's top 100 universities. Carnegie Mellon

3772-793: The Sherman and Joyce Bowie Scott Hall on the Pittsburgh campus. The new building is situated between Hamerschlag Hall, Roberts Hall, and Wean Hall and houses the university-wide Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, the Bertucci Nanotechnology Lab, the Engineering Research Accelerator (formerly known as the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems), the Disruptive Health Technologies Institute, and

3854-548: The Sky , which was placed on the lawn facing Forbes Avenue between the Cohon University Center and Warner Hall. The sculpture was controversial for its placement, the general lack of input from the campus community, and its (lack of) aesthetic appeal. The Gates Hillman Complex opened for occupancy on August 7, 2009. It sits on a 5.6-acre (2.3 ha) site on the university's West Campus, surrounded by Cyert Hall,

3936-584: The Top 10 nationwide and 16 in the Top 5 nationwide., including three programs ranked first: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, and Information and Technology Management. In particular, the CMU School of Computer Science has been consistently ranked the best in the nation, tied with MIT , Stanford , and UC Berkeley . Globally, Carnegie Mellon is ranked 28th by Times Higher Education and 52nd by QS World University Rankings . Carnegie Mellon

4018-788: The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, the Neuroscience Institute , the Simon Initiative, and the Disruptive Healthcare Technology Institute. Carnegie Mellon has made a concerted effort to attract corporate research labs, offices, and partnerships to the Pittsburgh campus. Apple Inc. , Intel , Google , Microsoft , Disney , Facebook , IBM , General Motors , Bombardier Inc. , Yahoo! , Uber , Tata Consultancy Services , Ansys , Boeing , Robert Bosch GmbH , and

4100-476: The behavioral theory of the firm , were established by Carnegie School management scientists and economists. Carnegie Mellon also develops cross-disciplinary and university-wide institutes and initiatives to take advantage of strengths in various colleges and departments and develop solutions in critical social and technical problems. To date, these have included the Cylab Security and Privacy Institute ,

4182-488: The building was dedicated in 1996. In 2014, Carnegie Mellon re-dedicated the University Center as the Cohon University Center in recognition of the eighth president of the university, Jared Cohon . A large grassy area known as "The Cut" forms the backbone of the campus, with a separate grassy area known as "The Mall" running perpendicular. The Cut was formed by filling in a ravine (hence the name) with soil from

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4264-411: The center of student life on campus was Skibo Hall, the university's student union. Built in the 1950s, Skibo Hall's design was typical of mid-century modern architecture but was poorly equipped to deal with advances in computer and internet connectivity. The original Skibo Hall was razed in the summer of 1994 and replaced by a new student union that is fully Wi-Fi enabled. Known as the University Center,

4346-493: The center, two fire extinguisher niches, two fire extinguisher cabinets, and emergency indicator lights at each end. Additionally, each cross-passageway contains a hose valve for use by emergency personnel. The tunnel portal buildings, at each end of the tunnel, house the maintenance garages, office space for department maintenance personnel, and the exhaust and ventilation fan equipment for the tunnel. These buildings are constructed of cast-in-place concrete. The west portal building

4428-536: The entire length of the tunnel. The original roadway was also replaced with cement concrete pavement at the entrances and bituminous overlays through the remaining portion during the 1980 rehabilitation. Beginning in June 2013 the ceiling plenum was removed to raise the height of the ceiling in the tunnel because large tractor trailers were crashing into it. The tunnel has eight cross-passageways that connect bores and are spaced at approximately 503-foot (153 m) intervals. These cross-passageways have one fire door near

4510-450: The existing campus in its placement, but not in its form or materials. During the 1970s and 1980s, the tenure of president Richard Cyert (1972–1990) witnessed a period of growth and development. The research budget grew from roughly $ 12 million annually in the early 1970s to more than $ 110 million in the late 1980s. Researchers in new fields like robotics and software engineering helped the university to build its reputation. One example

4592-413: The faculty at Carnegie Mellon. On July 1, 2003, Carnegie Mellon launched "Insp!re Innovation", a $ 1 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign. Half of the campaign goal is intended for the endowment to provide long-lasting support for faculty, students and breakthrough innovations. The campaign brought in a total of $ 1.19 billion, with $ 578.5 million going toward Carnegie Mellon's endowment. It also enabled

4674-499: The first 8-mile (13 km) section of the Parkway. The tunnel consists of twin arch-shaped reinforced concrete bores that are 4,225 feet (1,288 m) long and approximately 29 ft 4 in (8.94 m) wide. The tunnel is segmented longitudinally by expansion joints which occur approximately every 50 ft 4 in (15.34 m) with some variation at the entrance and exit. The walls are approximately 1 ft 9 in (0.53 m) thick and extend 12 feet (3.7 m) above

4756-496: The heart of Silicon Valley (offering masters programs in Software Engineering and Software Management). The Tepper School of Business maintains a satellite center in downtown Manhattan and the Heinz College maintains one in Adelaide , Australia. The Heinz College , the Institute for Politics and Strategy, and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy host centers in Washington, D.C. as part of degree programs, research, and government affairs initiatives as well as being

4838-415: The highway prior to entering the tunnel and detour through Frick Park and Schenley Park because doing so is generally faster. Jalopnik listed Exit 74 on I-376 at #2 on its list of "The Ten Worst Exit Ramps In The US (and UK)." Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University ( CMU ) is a private research university in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States. The institution

4920-488: The individual colleges and programs range from Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture 's 30% to Carnegie Mellon School of Drama 's 3%. The largest college, in terms of the class of 2025 enrollment, is the College of Engineering with 499 students, followed by the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences with 391, and the Mellon College of Science with 266. The smallest college is the School of Design, with 34. The middle 50% range of SAT scores of enrolled freshmen

5002-596: The institution changed its name to Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) and began offering four-year degrees. During this time, CIT consisted of four constituent schools: the School of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, the School of Science and Technology, and the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women . The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was founded in 1913 by banker and industrialist brothers Andrew Mellon (who went on to become U.S. Treasury Secretary ) and Richard B. Mellon in honor of their father, Thomas Mellon , patriarch of

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5084-399: The leading centers of robotics research in the world. The Field Robotics Center (FRC) has developed a number of significant robots, including Sandstorm and H1ghlander , which finished second and third in the DARPA Grand Challenge , and Boss, which won the DARPA Urban Challenge . The Robotics Institute has partnered with a spinoff company, Astrobotic Technology Inc. , to land a CMU robot on

5166-427: The length of the tunnel and low-pressure sodium fixtures for the threshold (day time) lighting at the tunnel entrances. Other tunnel operational systems include carbon monoxide monitoring, fire alarm, emergency communications, and an over-height truck detection system. In Pittsburgh driving lore, the tunnels are notorious, most notably for several accidents when tractor-trailers that are too tall to safely travel through

5248-621: The moon by 2016 in pursuit of the Google Lunar XPrize. The robot, known as Andy, is designed to explore lunar pits, which might include entrances to caves. The RI is primarily sited at Carnegie Mellon's main campus in Newell-Simon hall. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon, with offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and Arlington, Virginia. The SEI publishes books on software engineering for industry, government and military applications and practices. The organization

5330-470: The most money include the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense , which contributed $ 70.5 million and $ 90.4 million in 2021, respectively. The recognition of Carnegie Mellon as one of the best research facilities in the nation has a long history. As early as the 1987 federal budget, CMU was ranked as third in the amount of federal research funds received with $ 41.5 million, with only MIT and Johns Hopkins receiving more research funds from

5412-427: The name was changed to Language Technologies Institute. The Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department , one of the seven departments in the School of Computer Science , was established in 2007 (as Lane Center for Computational Biology), officially became a department within the School of Computer Science in 2009, and named the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department in 2023. The department

5494-412: The park. On January 28, 2022, the Fern Hollow Bridge , a steel rigid-frame bridge carrying Forbes Avenue across the park at Hot Dog Dam Dog Park collapsed, injuring 10. The remains of the bridge landed on and blocked a recreational trail. The bridge was rebuilt, and it and the trail below was reopened in December 2022. The original Frick Environmental Center, completed in 1979, originally housed

5576-449: The portal buildings are sandstone and brick veneer with louvered openings and block-glass windows. A variety of cellular phone equipment has been added to the walls and roofs of the portal buildings. Additionally, the entrance to each tunnel has traffic signals mounted overhead, which are part of the over-height truck detection system . The Squirrel Hill Tunnel lighting system consists of fluorescent fixtures for constant lighting throughout

5658-409: The top of barrier to the intersection with the roof arch. The roof arch is 3 feet (0.91 m) thick with an inside radius of 19 ft 3 in (5.87 m). Since August 1987, the tunnels have provided cellular phone reception. The tunnel provided AM reception in 1958; however, due to design repairs, the reception was discontinued by the early 1960s until being reinstalled in 1986. Radio reception

5740-414: The tunnel get stuck against the roof of the tunnel. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation raised the ceiling of the Squirrel Hill Tunnels to eliminate this problem and ease flow of traffic in and out of Pittsburgh. The tunnels also are known for generating traffic jams that can extend to the preceding exits because the highway narrows from four lanes to two. As a result, many residents prefer to exit

5822-550: The tunnel. This ceiling was constructed 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m) above the roadway at its centerline. The ceiling was supported by steel hangers at the tunnel centerline. The plenum contained rectangular openings of varying dimensions that allowed circulation of exhaust and fresh air in the tunnels. In addition to providing ventilation, the plenum carried conduits to power the cellular phone equipment. Both roadway barriers in each bore were retrofitted in 1980 with 2 ft 0 in (0.61 m) concrete barriers and walkways for

5904-462: The university has established leadership in fields such as computational finance , information systems , cognitive sciences , management, arts management, product design, behavioral economics , energy science and economics, human–computer interaction , entertainment technology , and decision science . Within the past two decades, the university has built a new university center (Cohon University Center), theater and drama building (Purnell Center for

5986-516: The university or spun off into autonomous entities. Carnegie Mellon's 157.2 acre (63 ha) main campus is five miles (8 km) from downtown Pittsburgh , between Schenley Park and the neighborhoods of Squirrel Hill , Shadyside , and Oakland . Carnegie Mellon is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh . Carnegie Mellon owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. For decades,

6068-431: The university to establish 31 endowed professorships, 97 endowed fellowships and 250 endowed scholarships. On September 7, 2011, William S. Dietrich II , the former chairman of Dietrich Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Worthington Industries , Inc., pledged a gift of $ 265 million, effective on October 6, 2011, upon his death. In response to this gift, Carnegie Mellon renamed the College of Humanities and Social Sciences as

6150-662: The university's Computational Biology department. On April 12, 2024, Carnegie Mellon broke ground for construction of its new Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences, a 338,900 square-foot addition to its campus. Nationally, U.S. News & World Report placed Carnegie Mellon in a tie with Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Michigan for 21st place among American research universities in their 2024-2025 rankings. Many of its graduate programs have been ranked in national and international surveys. In 2022, U.S. News ranked Carnegie Mellon as having 23 graduate programs in

6232-635: The university's strengths to benefit society in the areas of biotechnology and life sciences , information and security technology, environmental science and practices, the fine arts and humanities , and business and public policy . In 2006, following negotiations between President Cohon and South Australian Premier Mike Rann , CMU opened a campus of the Heinz College in the historic Torrens Building in Adelaide , Australia. President Cohon's term ended on June 30, 2013, after which he returned to

6314-478: Was 720-770 for reading and writing, and 770-800 for math, while the middle 50% range of the ACT composite score was 34–35. The university is need-blind for domestic applicants. The class of 2026 enrolled students from 46 U.S. states and 42 countries. Undergraduate tuition for 2023-2024 is $ 62,260, and room and board is $ 17,468. CMU is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". For

6396-677: Was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools . In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, it became Carnegie Mellon University through its merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research , founded in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon and formerly a part of the University of Pittsburgh . The university consists of seven colleges, including

6478-460: Was improved to cover the entire tunnel in March 1997. With the help of Carnegie Mellon University graduate students, the tunnel has provided FM reception since May 2005; moreover, AM signals were upgraded at that time. Before 2013, a 6-inch-thick (15 cm), cast-in-place concrete ceiling separated the arch from the traveled lanes of the tunnel bores to form a plenum, which provided ventilation for

6560-576: Was named one of the "New Ivies " by Newsweek . In 2010, The Wall Street Journal ranked Carnegie Mellon 1st in computer science, 4th in finance, 10th overall, and 21st in engineering according to job recruiters. Carnegie Mellon ranks thirteenth among "Best Colleges By Salary Potential (Bachelor's Only)" in the United States according to PayScale 's 2016–17 study. In 2024, Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business placed 9th in an annual ranking of U.S. business schools by Bloomberg Businessweek . In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter ranked

6642-634: Was replaced by Farnam Jahanian , the university's interim-president and former provost, in March 2018. On September 8, 2022, Carnegie Mellon announced a $ 275.7 million partnership with the Mastercard Foundation to support Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Kigali, Rwanda . Carnegie Mellon's Kigali campus provides graduate-level study in engineering and artificial intelligence. On November 6, 2023, Carnegie Mellon Trustee Ray Lane and his wife Stephanie Lane invested $ 25 million in support of

6724-401: Was the introduction of the " Andrew " computing network in the mid-1980s. This project linking all computers and workstations on campus set the standard for educational computing and established Carnegie Mellon as a technology leader in education and research. On April 24, 1985, cmu.edu , Carnegie Mellon's Internet domain, became one of the first six .edu domain names. In the 1990s and into

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