A recent topping-off ceremony commemorated placement of the final steel beam on the new School of Computer Science (SCS) Complex at Carnegie Mellon University.
"After years of planning and looking at a big hole in the ground, it has been exciting for us to watch the steel rising up and the building taking shape," said Randal E. Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. "The reaction by everyone who has seen it has been 'wow!'  In particular, they've commented that it's a really big building, and all of those angles and overhangs are quite dramatic." News release

Congratulations to the 2008 Boeing Leadership Scholarships Awardees!: Andrew Krieger, Sophomore; Le Wei, Sophomore; Laura Abbott, Junior; Luis Ballesteros, Junior; Benson Tsai, Junior. The Boeing Scholarships were established in fall 2002 to recognize student initiative and leadership, teamwork, academic excellence and quality, and perseverance.

Carnegie Mellon Faculty Host Four Futuristic Exhibits At Wired NextFest!
Snake robots, dancing Keepon robots, breathtaking GigaPan Camera panoramas and a sheep that mows grass instead of eating it, are Carnegie Mellon’s contributions to this year’s Wired NextFest: “the premier showcase of the global innovations transforming our world.” News release

Tom Cortina (PI), Wanda Dann and Carol Frieze (co-PIs), have been awarded a $1.46 million 3-year NSF ITEST grant to run summer workshops in computing for high school STEM teachers in the Appalachian region including Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The goal is to increase HS computing education in this region by training these teachers to teach computing and by building a support network for these teachers to share materials as a community. Workshops will include Alice, Java and computational thinking.