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Carnegie Mellon University Unveils Center for New Work Development in School of Drama

The Center for New Work Development will serve as a vital resource for CMU’s School of Drama, providing undergraduate and graduate students with educational for-credit opportunities to develop new plays, musicals and boundary-breaking work with professional artists at the helm.

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Carnegie Mellon University Announces Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Leadership Transition

Dave Mawhinney, founding executive director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University, will return to faculty on June 30, 2025, after nearly a decade of visionary leadership shaping the center’s growth and trajectory.

June 30, 2025
The Iris Lunar Dream Capsule.

Iris Lunar Dream Capsule Will Head to Moon on Next Astrobotic Lander

Members of the Iris team have assembled the Iris Lunar Dream Capsule, a tiny payload that will launch aboard Griffin-1, the next lunar lander from Carnegie Mellon spinout Astrobotic. The capsule — smaller than a matchbox — contains the names of team members and supporters, messages and stories, photos, a mini Iris, and a bit of the Moonyard from Carnegie Mellon Mission Control.

June 25, 2025
Exterior photo of the SEI building with four American flags

Renewed Mission: CMU Software Engineering Institute Leads National Security Software Innovation

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has renewed its contract with Carnegie Mellon University to operate the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for an additional term of five years.

June 24, 2025
This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time. Combining many images in this way clearly reveals otherwise faint or invisible details, such as the clouds of gas and dust that comprise the Trifid nebula (top right) and the Lagoon nebula, which are several thousand light-years away from Earth.

Rubin’s First Snapshots Launch a Decade of Discovery

Scientists and engineers at CMU’s McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics are building tools to aid astronomers around the world.

June 23, 2025
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CMU Study Identifies Strengths and Challenges in Pentagon’s Software Modernization Efforts

A new CMU Software Engineering Institute (SEI) study shows how DOD programs are getting better and faster at delivering secure software and where challenges persist.

June 11, 2025
Students tour the TechSpark workshop.

DASIE Opens Doors to Data-Driven Futures

Established in 2022, Carnegie Mellon University's Data Analytics Summer Immersion Experience (DASIE) helps students forge new career paths and pursue graduate education with purpose.

June 10, 2025

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