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Dr. Judith Hallinen Shares Broaden Participation Approaches For more than half a decade, RISS has partnered with Carnegie Mellon’s Leonard Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach to share robotics research with teachers, students, and visiting delegations. Dr. Judith Hallinen, Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Outreach at Carnegie Mellon University, [...]

Changing the Way We Learn: Intelligent Tutors Can robotics and AI help students around the world learn basic numeracy and literacy? Dr. Jack Mostow and the team at RoboTutor think that intelligent tutors can fundamentally change the way we learn. In this lunch and learn, scholars were exposed to applied [...]

Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute Welcomes the 2019 Cohort of Undergraduate Researchers to Campus The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) undergraduate research program opens doors and creates opportunities for future leaders in robotics. RISS gives students from across the country and world opportunities to conduct research with robotics researchers [...]

Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute Summer Scholars Program alumnae are STEM leaders. Left to right: Rachel Burcin (Global Programs Manager and Co-Director RISS), Nadine Chang (PhD student, SCS: Robotics Institute), Tess Hellebreker (PhD student, SCS: Robotics Institute), Maggie Oates (PhD student, SCS: Institute for Software Research), Maggie Collier (PhD student, SCS: [...]

Carnegie Mellon Qatar Students Make an Impact at the Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon’s global network of alumni and current scholars help to build bridges between institutions and organizations. CMU alumnus Sabih Bin Wasi and CMU Q faculty worked together with the Robotics Institute to create student research opportunities via Robotics [...]