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December 2025

The Council of the City of Pittsburgh recently declared Nov. 3, 2025 to be 鈥溾�� in honor of Devine鈥檚 鈥渢ireless efforts [to] enrich the lives of others and strengthen the community he serves鈥�. Joseph 鈥淛ay鈥� Devine (DC 1984) is currently the associate dean for undergraduate studies at Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Danny Oppenheimer, professor of Social and Decision Sciences, published an op-ed titled 鈥溾�� at The MIT Press Reader.

November 2025

Anne Lambright, head of the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics,听has published a two-volume collection on Peru鈥檚 celebrated theater collective, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani: "" (MLA Text and Translation Series, 2025) and "" (MLA Text and Translation Series, 2025). Lambright's anthology highlights the group鈥檚 activist roots, its focus on human rights and social justice and its efforts to amplify Indigenous and marginalized voices in Peru.

Kathy Newman, associate professor in the Department of English, has authored a piece for The Conversation titled, 鈥溾��.

John Joseph Chin, assistant teaching professor at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology,听has authored a piece for The Conversation titled, 鈥溾��.

Tatyana Gershkovich, associate professor of Russian studies in the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics, is by the 92nd Street Y based on Vladimir Nabokov's Russian novel 鈥淭he Gift鈥�. Enter THEGIFT50 to access a 50% discount for CMU community members.

Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor with the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology,听coauthored an op-ed for The Washington Post titled, 鈥溾�樷��.

Ralph Vituccio, teaching professor in the Department of English and the Entertainment Technology Center, and Reem Alghazzi, a former Artist and Scholar at Risk Fellow and alumna of Dietrich College, will premiere their documentary 鈥溾�� at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 7, at Harris Theatre. Tickets are available for purchase through the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. 鈥淚n Exile鈥� brings to life the powerful stories of artists, writers, musicians and political activists forced to flee their homelands.

October 2025

J. David Creswell,听the William S. Dietrich II Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience, published a new column in Psychology Today, 鈥溾��

In November, Kathy Newman, associate professor of English and director of graduate studies,听will be a session lead on teaching her banned books course.

Also in November, Gretchen Chapman, head of the Social and Decision Sciences Department,听will be giving a talk on behavioral drivers of vaccine decision-making at the .

September 2025

David Creswell, the William S. Dietrich II Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience, recently published a new review paper on meditation apps in the journal American Psychologist.

Brad Mahon, professor in the Department of Psychology, recently published a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the kinematic alphabet used by the brain to build complex hand motions.

Mathieu Berbiguier, visiting assistant professor of Korean Studies, was interviewed by the BBC about the success of the music from the 2025 Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters.听

Tatyana Gershkovich, associate professor of Russian Studies, was awarded the by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society for "Art is Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds" (Northwestern University Press, 2022).听

Kevin Jarbo (DC 2018), assistant professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, was named to .

好色先生TV鈥檚 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes 25 new faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, research associates and special lecturers to the campus community. These scholars bring a wealth of knowledge, expertise and innovative thinking to various areas of study across the college.

August 2025

Anne Lambright, head of CMU's Department of Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics, was in July.

Jim Daniels, Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English Emeritus, has just published his first book of nonfiction, "" (Cornerstone Press). Since his retirement in 2021, Daniels has published four collections of poetry: "Comment Card" (好色先生TV Press), "The Human Engine at Dawn" (Wolfson Press), "Ars Poetica Chamistrica" (WPA Press), and "Gun/Shy" (Wayne State University Press), along with a work of fiction, "The Luck of the Fall" (Michigan State University Press).

July 2025

Lynn Sotillo has been appointed associate dean for finance and chief business officer for 好色先生TV鈥檚 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Daniel Nagin, Lester Hamburg University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, was recently . The 120 members and 30 international members in the 2025 NAS cohort will be inducted in a ceremony at NAS鈥檚 annual meeting next April.听

Two Dietrich College faculty members are guests on season two of the CMU podcast 鈥�Where What If Becomes What鈥檚 Next.鈥澨�Kevin Zollman, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy and director of the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics, is featured in听Episode 5: Game Theory Decoded - Part 1听补苍诲听Episode 6: Game Theory Decoded - Part 2.听David Creswell, William S. Dietrich II Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience and co-founder of Equa Health, is featured in听Episode 7: The Science of Coping With Stress.

June 2025

Tatyana Gershkovich, William S. Dietrich Associate Professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics, has published a book of translations: 鈥溾�� (2025, Academic Studies Press).

Timothy Verstynen, interim director of the Neuroscience Institute and professor in the Department of Psychology, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship which he plans to use to conduct an 鈥渆xploration of exploration."

Aaditya Ramdas, associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and the Machine Learning Department, has been . The IMS cited Ramdas鈥� accomplishments, including pioneering the new subfield of game-theoretic statistics based on e-values, confidence sequences and betting, and for fundamental contributions to post-selection inference and multiple testing, conformal prediction and statistical machine learning.

Vicki Helgeson, professor in the Psychology Department, has published the 7th edition of her textbook, "." The new edition also brings on two new editors, Krystle Balhan and Erin Winterrowd.听

Danny Oppenheimer, professor in the Psychology Department, and Mark Patterson, director of the Quantitative Social Science Scholars Program, have published a new study, entitled, 鈥�,鈥� in the journal Memory and Cognition.

May 2025

Ralph Vituccio鈥檚 latest film, 鈥淪isyphus Beach,鈥� opened the Ethnographic Film Festival in Paris on April 18 with a screening and Q&A. An associate teaching professor in the Department of English, Vituccio said the film 鈥渋s a meditation on endurance, struggle and the human condition 鈥� told without a single word of dialogue.鈥�

Adam Causgrove, director of corporate and government relations for Dietrich College and winner of the 2012 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year award, will emcee the 2025 World Beard and Mustache Championships this July at Heinz Hall.

Stephan Caspar, an associate teaching professor in media creation and multicultural studies, was featured in an in by the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) network at Carnegie Mellon.

Alex John London co-chaired a workshop for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on . This hybrid workshop took place in Washington D.C., and online on April 3-4.

Gordon Weinberg, lecturer and special faculty in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, has won the Dietrich College Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching and Educational Service.

Kim Piatt, director of experiential learning at Dietrich College, has won the Carnegie Mellon Gelfand Service Award for Educational Outreach.

Larry Heimann, teaching professor in the Information Systems program, has won the Carnegie Mellon Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching.

Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez, research professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Lauren Banko, instructor and Wellcome Trust Researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of History, is co-author of the recently published book 鈥溾�� (Oxford University Press). Additional co-authors include Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak and Anindita Ghoshal.

April 2025

Carl Olson, a professor at the Neuroscience Institute, died Nov. 23, 2024. Matt Smith with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) and a former student wrote an in the journal Neuron.

Nicholas DiBella, a postdoc in the Philosophy Department, joined Simon Cullen, Dietrich AI and Education Fellow and assistant teaching professor in the Philosophy Department, on to discuss their AI project, . DiBella and Cullen are also finalists in the .

Daniel Silverman, assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology (CMIST), has published the book 鈥�Seeing is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better鈥� (Cambridge University Press).

Children's School educator Jean Bird was recently honored with a Lifetime Membership and the Mary Jane Taylor Distinguished Service Award at the International Association of Laboratory Schools (IALS) Conference. Bird has dedicated her entire career to early childhood laboratory schools and has served on the IALS Board for multiple terms, currently as the board secretary.

Sarah Hae-In Idzik, assistant professor of Rhetoric in the Department of English, has published an article titled "" in Quarterly Journal of Speech.

March 2025

Zach Branson, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, will serve as the new assistant director for the undergraduate statistics program starting this spring.

Aidan Beatty, graduate advisor and lecturer in the Department of History, has published a book titled "" (Pluto Press, 2024).

Andrew Ramey (DC 2015), director of advising for Dietrich College, has published a book titled "" (University of Virginia Press, 2025).

Vince Sha, Dietrich College鈥檚 associate dean for IT and operations, joined Michael Skirpan, an assistant teaching professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D), and Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean for digital infrastructure at Carnegie Mellon Libraries, in delivering 鈥�," an official side event of the Paris AI Action Summit. The workshop, a collaboration between CMU鈥檚 Open Forum for AI and the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, focused on the practical applications of AI in higher education, adolescent development, civil society, medicine, the workforce and research.

February 2025

Adam Bjorndahl, associate professor in the Philosophy Department, has published a textbook titled 鈥溾�� (University of Cambridge Press, 2024).

Vini Singh, assistant professor in CMU鈥檚 Department of Social and Decision Sciences, participated in a Q&A with Katy Milkman, James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and host of the Choiceology podcast, titled听

Edith Balas, emeritus professor in the Department of History, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 16 at the age of 95. A holocaust survivor and accomplished art historian, Balas led a remarkable life. The Department of History will celebrate her legacy with a lecture series, to commence in fall 2025.

January 2025

has been named a Kavli Fellow by the . Ramdas is among the 162 of the nation鈥檚 brightest young scientists from industry, academia and government to take part in the National Academy of Sciences鈥� U.S. and international Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia for 2024.听听

Sara Moussawi led a team of CMU researchers on a recent article published in the journal . Moussawi was joined by Joe Mertz, Jeria Quesenberry, Xiaoying Tu, Julia Poepping, Larry Heimann, Raja Sooriamurthi, Divakaran Liginlal, Christopher Kowalsky, Martin Barrett, Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman, Laura Pottmeyer and Michael Melville in Informations Systems, Heinz College and Eberly College on the article titled, 鈥淏uilding Future Information Systems Leaders: The Crucial Role of Problem Scoping in Service-Learning Experiences."

Chad Schafer, professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, has been named one of the by Rebellion Research AI Asset Management.

December 2024

好色先生TV thrives as a global research leader due in part to the university鈥檚 talented staff. To maintain this momentum, the university has committed to professional growth through the CMULead program, which empowers staff to gain the knowledge and experience to become a future leader. Members of the newly graduated 2024 CMULead cohort from Dietrich College include Andrew Ramey, Correy Dandoy, Amanda Mitchell and Patrick Doyle.

In addition to her role as head of the Department of Statistics & Data Science, which houses the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center, Rebecca Nugent serves as CMU鈥檚 . Part of this role is helping student-athletes get connected to scholarship opportunities. This fall, (ENG 2025) was selected as one of 16 finalists for the 2024 William V. Campbell Trophy from the National Football Foundation (NFF). He will receive a postgraduate scholarship of $18,000, and the NCAA will donate $5,000 to CMU鈥檚 Athletics Department to support academics in recognition of Nugent鈥檚 service.

November 2024

Kelli Maxwell, associate dean of Student Success, Dietrich College Dean鈥檚 Office, received the Innovative and Creative Contributions Andy Award, which honors staff members who have developed new approaches, methods and processes to improve organizational effectiveness.

Correy Dandoy, a听senior academic advisor and communications manager听for the Information System听Program, is the recipient of the 2024听Dietrich College Staff Community Excellence Award.

October 2024

David Creswell, the William S. Dietrich II Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience, discussed how affirmations can activate the brain's reward system with host Cristina Quinn on the .

Robert Kass, the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics & Computational Neuroscience, has been named the 2024 by the American Statistical Association. He will deliver 鈥淩easoning from Data in Science鈥� on Oct. 4 at Florida State University.

Chris Phillips, professor and head of the Department of History, delivered the second annual . Phillips鈥� Sept. 25 talk focused on the History of NIH Biostatistics.

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has been named 好色先生TV鈥檚 Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science, effective Jan. 1, 2025.听Shinn-Cunningham, who will be the eighth dean to lead MCS, joined Carnegie Mellon in 2018 as the founding director of the Neuroscience Institute and the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience.

Six Dietrich College staff have been nominated for Andy Awards. Jessica Lutz, academic advisor, Information Systems Program, and Daniel Kasper, business manager, Neuroscience Institute, have been nominated for the Commitment to Excellence (Rookie) award. Jeanne Crichlow, administrative assistant II, Dietrich College Dean鈥檚 Office, and Amy Stoebe, assistant director of writing & communication, Department of English, have been nominated for the Commitment to Excellence (Veteran) award. Melissa Stupka, senior academic program manager, Neuroscience Institute, has been nominated for the Commitment to Students award. Kelli Maxwell, associate dean of student success, Dietrich College Dean鈥檚 Office, has been nominated for the Innovative and Creative Contributions award.

September 2024

Steve Awodey, professor in the Department of Philosophy, has published his book 鈥�Rudolf Carnap: Studies in Semantics: The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 7.鈥� The 14-volume collection focuses on the work of Rudolf Carnap (1891鈥�1970), a central figure of twentieth-century philosophy and the leading philosopher of the Vienna Circle. It has been published by Oxford University Press.

Adam Bjorndahl, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Philosophy, has published 鈥�鈥� with Cambridge University Press. The book provides a comprehensive and unified introduction听to classical and modal logic.听

Ed Simon, adjunct professor in the Department of English, has published his latest book, 鈥�.鈥澨� Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, from the Bible to blues, and illustrates how the impulse fto sacrifice our principles in exchange for power is present in all kinds of social ills, from colonialism to nuclear warfare, from social media to climate change to AI, and beyond.

Manasvini Singh, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, had her recently published work in the journal cited in a White House briefing about racial differences in health care, specifically noting 鈥�鈥�even after accounting for socio-economic factors, Black women have a higher risk of maternal mortality than white women, life expectancy is shorter for Black Americans,听and there is evidence that differential treatment by race plays a role."

Jonathan Tsay, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, published an article titled 鈥淔undamental processes in sensorimotor learning: Reasoning, refinement, and retrieval鈥� in the . His research explores the explicit strategies to sensorimotor learning tasks and developed a theoretical 鈥�3R鈥� framework to understand how complex movements are learned.

July 2024

Simon Cullen, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Philosophy, has received an Open Inquiry Award for teaching excellence. He was recognized for 鈥渕ost effectively integrated open inquiry, viewpoint diversity or constructive disagreement into the classroom and/or curriculum.鈥� The honor exemplary individuals, groups and institutions who are leading the way in improving classrooms, campuses and scholarship by championing our values.

June 2024

Manasvini Singh, assistant professor in social and decision sciences, was featured in . She discussed her latest research study, published in Science titled 鈥�.鈥�

Xiaoying Tu, an assistant teaching professor at both the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, gave a .

Sue-mei Wu, teaching professor of Chinese Studies, successfully organized the 2024 Asian Festival along with the Organization of Chinese Americans and Win-Win Kung Fu. The event was held on the CMU campus on May 19 and featured AAPI cultural performances and display tables. About 400 people were in attendance to celebrate AAPI culture, accomplishments and efforts to make connections across many communities in Pittsburgh and beyond.听

May 2024

Henry听Posner III听has been appointed to the Surface Transportation Board鈥檚 newly formed . Posner, an adjunct instructor in the Department of History and chairman of Iowa Interstate Railroad, will serve a two-year term advising the independent federal agency on issues impacting the development and operation of passenger rail services.听听

Joshua Schwartz, assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, published his latest research in the . The study found that foreign peril can reduce domestic polarization under certain circumstances and demonstrates that elite reactions to foreign threats are highly important in shaping wider domestic effects.

April 2024

Nico Slate, professor and head of the Department of History, has published his new book, 鈥�.鈥� The book chronicles Chattopadhyay鈥檚 life. A colleague of Mahatma Gandhi, Chattopadhyay fought against sexism, imperialism, and racism, and later became one of the most important patrons of the arts and handicrafts in independent India.

March 2024

Alex John London, the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and听Computational Technologies in the Department of Philosophy, has joined the board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). He will contribute his experience to help PRIM&R continue to build trust in scientific research and further advance PRIM&R鈥檚 mission of advancing the highest ethical standards in the conduct of research.

Aaditya Ramdas, assistant professor in the Statistics & Data Science and Machine Learning departments, has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics for 2024.

February 2024

, associate teaching professor in the Entertainment Technology Center at 好色先生TV and the Department of English, has screened several films at festivals. 鈥淗aenyeo,鈥� which explores women free divers on a tiny island of Marado, South Korea, will be screened听at the Venice Grand Cine Film Celebration. In addition, 鈥淪isyphus Beach,鈥� an experimental piece about Indian workers who literally break apart by hand ocean-going super tankers in Alang, India, will be screened听at the Paris Ethnographic听Film Festival.

January 2024

The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, honored Rita Dove with the 2023 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In her remarks, Dove thanked听Gerald P. Costanzo, professor of English, and the听好色先生TV Press. The University Press, under Costanzo鈥檚 direction, published 鈥淭homas and Beulah,鈥� Dove's third collection of poetry and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Dove later served as the first Black Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995.听.听

December 2023

Brooke Feeney, a professor of psychology, has received . This award recognizes a mid-career scholar for their theoretical and methodological advancements and scholarly leadership. In particular, the award honors a researcher who has added substantially to the body of knowledge of the social psychology field and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology.

November 2023

Natalie Amgott, associate director of Online Language Learning, was granted an Early Career Award from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL), awarded each year to one early researcher in a field related to the teaching/learning of world languages.听

David Creswell, the听William S. Dietrich II Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience, was featured on the podcast . Creswell discussed his research that links academic success to sleep.

Edmund Russell, the David M. Roderick Professor of Technology and Social Change in the Department of History, received the听听from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) for 鈥�,鈥� which was published in the journal Technology and Culture. The prize is awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology 鈥� power, electronics, telecommunications and computer science 鈥� published during the preceding year. This spring, Russell released 鈥�Uniting the States with Telegraphs from 1844-1862,鈥� the first digital map of any telegraph system.听

October 2023

S茅bastien Dubreil, teaching professor of French and Francophone Studies; Korryn Mozisek, special faculty in the Department of English; and , a faculty member in University Libraries and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, participated in the held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. They presented a poster titled 鈥淔irst Year of College: It鈥檚 What You Make In/Of It鈥� and a paper titled 鈥淕aming Culture: Designing and Role-Playing Intercultural + Global Learning.鈥�

Rebecca Nugent, the Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science and head of the Department of Statistics & Data Science, discussed the university鈥檚 artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs during a Sept. 15 Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee on the Commonwealth鈥檚 role as an innovation leader. She also spoke at 听on Sept. 25 in Dortmund, Germany, during a session titled 鈥淚nnovations in AI: a Transatlantic Fireside Chat between Dortmund and Pittsburgh.鈥� The City of Pittsburgh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Dortmund in 2022 focused on tech-driven innovations and the economy.

September 2023

Felipe Gomez, teaching professor of Hispanic Studies, and Gabriele Meier, teaching professor of German, use graphic novels to explore the concept of resilience and mental and physical health during their first-year听Grand Challenge Seminar听titled Becoming Resilient in Challenging Times.听They have used the in 好色先生TV Libraries to help their students build on their knowledge of local challenges.

Please join us in welcoming the new staff at Dietrich College: Aidan Beatty, Department of History; Corinne Branquet, Children's School; Patrick Carr, Department of English; Ryan Dibble, Department of Psychology; Mark Gardner, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology; Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra, Department of History; Weizhe Guo, Neuroscience Institute; Jacquelyn Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology; Yuhang Li, Neuroscience Institute; Rafael Lopez, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology; Abigail Medvic, Department of Psychology; Clarice Meffert, Department of Psychology; Oscar Portis, Dietrich Commuting; Navjeet Randhawa, Children's School; Jess Regan, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology; Zoe Schneider, Department of Psychology; Jessica Smith, Department of Psychology and Lisa Vento, Dietrich College Dean's Office.

July 2023

Ezelle Sanford III, assistant professor of history, has received the 2023鈥�2024 Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship from , the nation鈥檚 largest African American video oral history archive. This Fellowship aims to foster classroom innovation and teaching and to diversify curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. Sanford shared this honor with 12 scholars across the country. Sanford was recognized for the course he developed, 鈥淚ntroduction to African American History: Black Americans and the World.鈥� During the course, students use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to review the history of Black Americans from a global perspective.

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, the director of CMU鈥檚听Neuroscience Institute听and the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, has been named president-elect of the听Acoustical Society of America,听which promotes the knowledge and practical application of the field of acoustics.

Robert S. Simon has been named the new executive director of the听Master of Science in Computational Finance听Program at 好色先生TV.听

June 2023

has received the "for significant contributions in the areas of reproducibility in science and technology; active, sequential decision-making; and assumption-light uncertainty quantification.鈥� This award is bestowed to one researcher annually who is within the first eight years of completing their doctorate.

Michael Tarr, the Kav膷i膰-Moura Professor of Cognitive and Brain Science, is one of five 好色先生TV faculty members who have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at 好色先生TV.

On May 3, Brian MacWhinney, the Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, was by IASCL media coordinator Katie Von Holzen about Geology, Emergentism, CHILDES and TalkBank. He also shared his favorite IASCL memories and what he is looking forward to during the 2024 Congress in Prague.

The Dietrich College Seed Grant听program听has announced the spring funding cycle for 2023. Seth Wiener, associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages, and听Jocelyn Dueck, assistant professor in the School of Music, will examine the connection between musical voice training and structured language learning. Aaditya Ramdas, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, and听John Chin, assistant teaching professor in the Institute for Politics and Strategy, have created the ColpusCast, a new near-real time forecast model of illegal seizures of power.听Kevin Jarbo, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, and听Roberto Vargas, a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Psychology, will explore how biases in attitudes and beliefs affect behavioral decisions that go on to perpetuate these biases.听

May 2023

, professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, co-chaired a virtual workshop, titled 鈥淎pproaches to Improve the Measurement of Suicide in Law Enforcement听in the United States,鈥� on April 25 and 26. The workshop was a collaboration between the National Academies and the Committee on National Statistics.

Christian Lebiere, research psychologist in the Department of Psychology, will be featured in the American Psychological Association issue of 鈥淪cience Spotlight,鈥� for contributions made to the field.

Sue-mei Wu, a teaching professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and executive director of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), has organized and led the 2023 CLTA annual conference, held in听Washington听D.C.听听is the premier professional association for Chinese language teachers in the United States, with 17 regional affiliated associations and 13 special interest groups across the country.听

April 2023

好色先生TV has been awarded a Mellon Foundation grant to support a New Directions Fellowship for Uju Anya, associate professor of second language acquisition in the Department of Modern Languages. Through the fellowship, she will seek training in a new field 鈥� entertainment technology and game design 鈥� to create multilingual game-based experiences in online virtual reality platforms for Black youth from the U.S., Brazil, Colombia and across the Americas.

Doug Coulson, associate professor in the Department of English, has authored 鈥�,鈥� published by Amherst College Press. In the book, he examines the laudatory, even operatic, forms of writing Supreme Court justices have used to justify fundamental rights decisions.

Edda Fields-Black, associate professor in the Department of History, and composer John Wineglass presented a discussion and performance of 鈥溾�� at the American Society of Environmental Historians Conference on March 24.

Joel Tarr, professor emeritus in the Department of History, has received the , which is given every year to an individual who has contributed significantly to environmental history scholarship.

March 2023

Cleotilde Gonzalez, research professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, has organized a special workshop on Human-AI with ELLIS-Alicante. The workshop will be held March 7-9, 2023 in Alicante, Spain, and Zoom options are available to attend virtually. Register to attend the sessions online.

Musicians from the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra will perform 鈥�Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice鈥� at听听on March 3. The piece features a libretto by Edda Fields-Black, associate professor of history, and an original score by composer John Wineglass.听听about the upcoming performance.听

Jeria Quesenberry, teaching professor of information systems, and co-author Eileen M. Trauth, professor emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University, have published their book . The book is available from Edward Elgar Publishing and provides a foundation for examining gender equity in technology fields.

February 2023

Springer Link has published 鈥�.鈥� Seidenfeld is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Philosophy and Statistics. His work focuses on the foundations at the interface between philosophy and statistics that examines problems that involve multiple decision makers. The publication features a paper titled 鈥淥n the Normative Status of Mixed Strategies,鈥� by Kevin Zollman, professor of philosophy and social and decision sciences.听

Joe Trotter, the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice, received the from the American Historical Association at its annual meeting held in Philadelphia, Jan. 5-8. He was recognized for how his work shaped historians鈥� views of Black urban life in all its complexity.听

January 2023

Nevine Abraham, assistant teaching professor of Arabic Studies, has received a sub-award from听The Stevens Initiative's HIVER program, which helps connect students at American and Arab institutions, to continue her work bringing students in Pittsburgh together with their peers at the American University in Cairo during her course, 鈥淢inorities in the Middle East and North Africa.鈥� The students engaged in virtual discussions with the Egyptian students on issues of racism听and women's and minorities' rights.

Congratulations to Connie Angermeier in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Eyona Bivins in the Department of English, and Samantha Nielsen and Teraya White in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, who are graduates of the 2022 CMULead program.

鈥淭he No Club,鈥�听co-written by Linda Babcock, the James M. Walton University Professor of Economics, along with Brenda Peyser, Laurie Weingart of CMU and Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh, was named among the top business books of 2022 by several publications.

Felipe G贸mez, teaching professor of Hispanic studies in the Department of Modern Languages,听has received the in 2022 for outstanding comics research. In particular, his work, 鈥淲ill it be possible? Apocalypse and Resistance in Latin American Graphic Novels,鈥� was cited for the award. G贸mez presented an honorary lecture for the annual conference of the Society for Comics Research (Dortmund) on Nov. 17.

CB Insights named MindTrace as one of the 150 companies in the 鈥渃linical intelligence鈥� category for 2022. MindTrace was co-founded by Brad Mahon, associate professor of psychology. The company is focused on developing neurosurgery software tools to map a patient鈥檚 brain prior to surgery. The tools allow the surgeon to evaluate the patient鈥檚 behavioral performance, simulates surgical resection plans, and predicts cognitive outcomes 鈥� all before the first incision, or in real-time during surgery.听

Mame-Fatou Niang, associate professor of French and Francophone studies, has started an听听in Paris. She will work on听鈥溍塩ho茂ques,鈥澨齛 sound project with residents of Clichy-sous-Bois, a poor and rapidly gentrifying suburb of Paris.听鈥溍塩ho茂ques,鈥澨齣s a large-scale tapestry obtained through the weaving of demolition materials and sound waves. These sounds from the past are collected or recreated to document the evolution of the neighborhood through the ears of its residents.

In October, Kristina Straub, English faculty emeritus; , area chair of the John Wells Directing Program; and , area chair of Dramaturgy and director of the Center for the Arts in Society, contributed to the R/18 Collective鈥檚 鈥淩e-Activating Restoration and 18th-Century Theatre for Today鈥檚 Stages鈥� symposium in collaboration with the Newberry Library and Congo Square theatre company, both based in Chicago.听听about the R/18 Collective鈥檚 work.

Raja Sooriamurthi, teaching professor of information systems, received the Instructional Innovation Award from the . The award recognizes the teaching and pedagogy in the decision sciences at the college or university-level teaching through quantitative systems, behavioral methodology or functional/disciplinary areas.听

Sue-mei Wu,听a teaching professor of Chinese studies in the Department of Modern Languages,听and听the executive director of the national (CLTA), worked with her ACTFL/CLTA 2022 conference committee to run a successful ACTFL/CLTA 2022 annual convention program in Boston, November 18-21. During the conference, Wu presented her paper titled 鈥淚ncorporating Outreach and Advocacy Activities into a DEI CFL Curriculum鈥� at the ACTFL 2022 convention. Wu also delivered opening remarks at the first 鈥淣ational Chinese EXPO of Student Works鈥� showcase that boasted more than 200 student works with more than 4,000 students from 47 states and Canada.

Wu also held the Chinese Culture Night Showcase along with students from her class 鈥淭opics in Chinese Language, Culture and Society鈥� (82-139). During the event, participants took advantage of karaoke, Taichi and dances, puppetry, Chinese dress and photos, calligraphy and bookmarks, Chinese knotting and Chinese games. All proceeds from the event went to benefit Kesem-CMU, an organization dedicated to providing year-round support for children affected by a parental cancer.