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Heinz College's Karen Clay is featured in a Bloomberg piece on Milan's ongoing fight against air pollution. Clay, a prof...
10/02/2026

Heinz College's Karen Clay is featured in a Bloomberg piece on Milan's ongoing fight against air pollution.

Clay, a professor of economics and public policy at Heinz College, speaks to the public health stakes of the city's chronic bad air. She points out that while pollution's toll is severe, including its role in an estimated 1 million premature deaths worldwide between 2000 and 2019, it's hard to draw a direct line from air pollution to individual deaths, which can breed public complacency around addressing it.

“It’s not just killing old people, it’s killing people of all ages, including the very young,” Clay said.

Read the full story here! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-08/why-car-bans-and-bike-lanes-haven-t-cleaned-up-milan-s-air

A team of Carnegie Mellon graduate and undergraduate students just tackled a problem with life-or-death stakes: reducing...
10/01/2026

A team of Carnegie Mellon graduate and undergraduate students just tackled a problem with life-or-death stakes: reducing friendly fire on the battlefield.

Working with the U.S. Department of Defense through Heinz College's Lean Innovation Lab, students Khushi Shah, Tanner Balluff, Cooper Zhu, and Jeffrey Zhang built a real-time visual overlay system that helps tank crews instantly distinguish friendly from hostile vehicles. Their work was selected for the Defense Innovation Unit's summer fellowship out of hundreds of applicants across 70 universities.

From securing security clearances to testing their prototype with tank commanders in Germany, this is hands-on innovation with real-world impact.

Read more here! https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2026/August/student-project-could-help-reduce-battlefield-friendly-fire?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article&utm_content=lean-innovation

Big congratulations to Chloe Bonson, who just placed sixth in the nation at the NCAA cross country championships, the be...
09/30/2026

Big congratulations to Chloe Bonson, who just placed sixth in the nation at the NCAA cross country championships, the best individual finish ever for a Tartan woman, while already underway in her master's degree at Heinz College through the accelerated program with Allegheny College.

Balancing elite athletics with grad school isn't common, but Bonson found the support she needed to do both, and do them well. She's completing her bachelor's and master's in under five years while studying Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, and credits the program's hands-on approach, and a community that respects passions outside the classroom, for making it possible to chase both goals at once.

Congrats, Chloe! To read her full story, click here! https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2026/September/going-the-distance?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article&utm_content=chloe-bonson

Yesterday we celebrated Latine Heritage Month with an afternoon of community and culture! Thank you to everyone who join...
09/29/2026

Yesterday we celebrated Latine Heritage Month with an afternoon of community and culture! Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the afternoon so special!

AI is evolving quickly. So is the need to make sure it can be trusted, secured, and responsibly deployed.Heinz College i...
09/28/2026

AI is evolving quickly. So is the need to make sure it can be trusted, secured, and responsibly deployed.

Heinz College is launching the AI Trust, Assurance, and Governance (AITAG) Certificate Program, a new executive education program designed to help senior leaders and technology professionals operationalize trustworthy AI at enterprise scale.

Developed with CMU’s Artificial Intelligence Measurement Science and Engineering Center (AIMSEC), the four-module program follows the AI assurance lifecycle: Understand. Validate. Secure. Govern. Participants will explore AI evaluation, cybersecurity, risk management, and enterprise governance through practical frameworks and real-world case studies.

The inaugural cohort begins virtually in January 2027. Learn more here! https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2026/September/carnegie-mellon-universitys-heinz-college-launches-ai-trust-assurance-and-governance-aitag-certificate-program?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=press-release&utm_content=aitag

In his "Responsible AI" course, Anand Rao pushes his students toward something he calls "meta-thinking": before you let ...
09/28/2026

In his "Responsible AI" course, Anand Rao pushes his students toward something he calls "meta-thinking": before you let AI touch a problem, figure out how to frame it and break it down yourself. The idea is that AI works best as a real collaborator, not a shortcut, "like having a discussion with another person," as he puts it.

Rao, who co-chairs Heinz College's Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Management program, is one of several CMU faculty rethinking how they teach in a world where students have AI at their fingertips for basically any assignment. Across the university, the shift isn't about banning the tools, it's about designing coursework that still demands real thinking.

Read the full piece on how CMU faculty, including Heinz's own Anand Rao, are approaching AI in the classroom. https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/august/navigating-the-ai-era-with-a-cmu-focus-on-critical-thinking

In just under a week, Heinz College will be at the D.C. Select Grad Fair 2026, meeting prospective students interested i...
09/25/2026

In just under a week, Heinz College will be at the D.C. Select Grad Fair 2026, meeting prospective students interested in public policy graduate programs. If you or someone you know would like to meet us in D.C., sign up at the link below. We can't wait to see you there!

https://american-spa.swoogo.com/dcselect26student

Ready to launch your social-impact career, pivot into a new field, or level up into a leadership role? A master's from H...
09/24/2026

Ready to launch your social-impact career, pivot into a new field, or level up into a leadership role? A master's from Heinz College can get you there, combining rigorous public policy and management training with the data and analytics skills today's nonprofit leaders need.

Meet us at the Idealist Grad School Fair on Sept 29 to learn how our programs prepare changemakers to lead with both heart and evidence. And it's free to attend!

📅 RSVP now at https://www.idealist.org/grad-schools/attend

Brett Ashley Crawford, teaching professor and executive director of Heinz College's Arts Management and Technology Lab, ...
09/23/2026

Brett Ashley Crawford, teaching professor and executive director of Heinz College's Arts Management and Technology Lab, sees a big opportunity in Carnegie Mellon's newest NEA grant: "The NEA grant allows CMU to lead a national effort in analyzing how higher education, and its recruitment pipelines, can better integrate AI literacy, specifically within the arts."

CMU's College of Fine Arts, with Heinz College's AMT Lab playing a key role, will lead a national study establishing benchmarks for how AI is reshaping arts education. As Crawford puts it, the work will help the AMT Lab "amplify arts advocacy, policy and education" at a pivotal moment for creative practice.

Read more here! https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/august/cmu-to-lead-national-study-of-ai-in-arts-education

Khadija Taki didn't come to cybersecurity the usual way. She started in hospitality management in Casablanca, Morocco, a...
09/22/2026

Khadija Taki didn't come to cybersecurity the usual way. She started in hospitality management in Casablanca, Morocco, and it turns out reading systems and people under pressure translates pretty well to defending critical infrastructure.

Now a student in Heinz College's MSISPM program, Taki has presented research at DEF CON, served as principal investigator on a NASA mission concept team, and interned with the Geospatial Intelligence ISAC. She speaks five languages and holds over 20 FEMA and CISA certifications, on top of everything else. Her take on breaking into the field without a traditional background: "You do not need permission to start, and you do not need a traditional background to be excellent."

Interested in her story? Click here! https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2026/August/khadija-taki-is-preparing-to-build-the-cyber-defenses-of-tomorrow?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article&utm_content=khadija-taki

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