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History Ph.D. Wins 2010 Heinz Dissertation Award
Jessie B. Ramey, who earned her doctor's degree in history from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, has won the National Academy of Social Insurance's 17th Annual John Heinz Dissertation Award. The award is given to the best doctoral dissertation each year in the social insurance field.Read more... |
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Qatar Information Systems Students Develop Online Patient Referral System
During the fall semester, four students from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar worked for 15 weeks to develop an information system aims to improve communication between health care centers and the Qatar Diabetes Association. Read more... |
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Marcel Just and Team Crack Brain's Codes for Noun Meanings
A team of Carnegie Mellon scientists has combined brain imaging and machine learning techniques to determine how the brain arranges noun representations. Understanding how the brain codes nouns is important for treating psychiatric and neurological illnesses. Read more... |
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New Study Shows Research Participants Link Pay and Risk Levels
A new study published this month by the journal Social Science and Medicine finds that paid research participants naturally, and often incorrectly, assume that low-paying studies are low risk. H&SS professors Alex John London and George Loewenstein were part of the research team. Read more... |
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Psychology's Timothy Keller and Marcel Just Discover First Evidence of Brain Rewiring in Children
Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically rewire itself, creating new white matter that improves communication within the brain. "Showing that it's possible to rewire a brain's white matter has important implications for treating reading disabilities and other developmental disorders, including autism," said Just, the D.O. Hebb Professor of Psychology and director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. Read more... |
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Information Systems Students To Present Final Projects for Local Non-Profits
Fifteen Carnegie Mellon University student teams in the senior-level Information Systems (IS) Application course will present their final projects for local non-profit organizations. The students teamed up with local non-profit organizations this semester to develop customized solutions for them that would otherwise be generally unaffordable or impossible to realize. Read more... |
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Research Shows People Blame
External Agents When Bad Things Happen to Them
New research by Carey K. Morewedge reveals people attribute external agents - other people or supernatural forces - when something goes wrong, but not when things happen the way they wanted or expected. Read more... |
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SDS Professor Paul Fischbeck Links Health Care Debate To Risk of Dying in the U.S. and Europe
The current health care debate in the United States is complicated. Trade-offs between heath care expenditures, lifestyle choices and life expectancy have been suggested but seldom clearly demonstrated. Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decision sciences and engineering and public policy. uses risk of dying data in the U.S. and Europe to illustrate differences in health care systems. Read more... |
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Happily Hopeless: Professor George Loewenstein Discovers Optimism Can Be Detrimental to Mental Health
New research by Social and Decision Sciences Professor George Loewenstein and Dylan M. Smith, Aleksandra Jankovic and Peter A. Ubel of the University of Michigan shows that holding on to hope may not make patients happier as they deal with chronic illness or disease. The study tracked and surveyed patients with both reversible and irreversible colostomies over a six-month period to measure their emotional well-being. The results confirm that people do not adapt well to situations if they're believed to be short-term. Read more... |
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Information Systems Program Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted the Information Systems (IS) program $206,000 over the next two years to continue its "Information Systems in the Community" summer program. The program brings students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Carnegie Mellon for an intensive, six-week session in which they learn software development best practices, project management and teamwork. The program, derived from the highly successful IS major within H&SS, started six years ago with an initial grant from the Mellon Foundation. Read more... |
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Carnegie Mellon Appoints New Co-Director
Of Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Michael J. Tarr, a new professor of psychology, will co-direct the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC). The CNBC is a joint project between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh devoted to investigating neural mechanisms and their impact on human cognitive abilities. Read more... |
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Distracted Driving Podcast
Listen to Marcel Just, the director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, discuss his research that shows why cell phones distract drivers. Listen here. [Requires iTunes.] |
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Facing the Economic Turning Point: A New G-20 Agenda Critical for Restoring Growth and Confidence
On Sept. 23, the university community gathered to tackle issues that world leaders would be focusing on at the G-20. Under the leadership of Professor Kiron Skinner, the day-long conference - co-hosted by Carnegie Mellon and the Atlantic Council - explored the economic and social forces at work in the post-economic crisis world. They were joined by U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Daniel Rooney, as well as leaders at the World Bank, PNC Financial Services and BNY Mellon, among others. Read article. Read related report. |
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H&SS Summer 2009 Newsletter Available
In this issue: When dreaming is believing; 2009 Cognition Symposium and Guggenheim Fellowships; Study could help with weight loss; David Danks faculty profile; 2009 Harry S. Truman Scholarship winner; and much more. Read more... |
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