Brooke Kuei Contributing Editor

Articles

• SciTech Briefs

  New ant species supports species formation theory

  SciTech | August 25, 2014
• DAAD RISE Program research summaries

  Students often come to Carnegie Mellon because they believe they have something to offer to the world. They have talent, passion, and a strong work ethic. They have an innate drive for knowledge, but even more than that, they crave discovery. And they want to contribute new ideas to the world around them. But where do they begin?

  SciTech | August 15, 2014
• Spergel journeys through time at Bennett-McWilliams lecture

  What if you could go back in time? What if you could go so far into the past that you could see the beginning of the universe?

  David Spergel, chair of the department of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, took his audience back in time at the second Bennett-McWilliams lecture in Rashid Auditorium last Thursday with his creatively named talk, “Taking the Universe’s Baby Picture.”

  SciTech | April 28, 2014
• Dashboard helps workers understand their electricity use

  One of the benefits of living on campus or through Carnegie Mellon housing is that you never have to worry about your electricity bill. Unfortunately, you are probably unaware of how much energy you’re using and may be unknowingly wasting a lot of energy. Ray Yun, a Ph.D. candidate in the computational design program in the School of Architecture, has developed an Intelligent Dashboard that allows...

  SciTech | April 21, 2014
• Lin analyzes Boston bombing using geocoded Twitter data

  According to The Boston Globe, on April 15, 2013, three people were killed and over 260 others injured during the Boston Marathon bombing. In relation to the tragedy, Yu-Ru Lin, an assistant professor of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as a Bostonian herself, presented a Human-Computer Interaction seminar lecture last Wednesday, titled “The Diffusion o...

  SciTech | April 7, 2014