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CNBC Researchers Identify Changes in Motor Cortex After Extended Exercise of Motor Skills 24 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am

How does the brain change with the practice and the acquisition of skill? In a recent paper published in Nature Neuroscience, Nathalie Picard, Yoshiya Matsuzuka, and Peter Strick looked at neural acti...

July Research Round-Up 1 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm

A round-up of a selection of papers published by CNBC faculty in the month of July is now available.

Pacific Rim: Robots in the Real World 25 Jul 2013 | 07:44 pm

While moviegoers enjoy Pacific Rim's human-piloted robots, researchers are working on brain-computer interfaces (BCI) that could transform Hollywood magic into reality. Dr. Steven Chase of the CNBC wa...

CNBC Postdocs Win Best Poster Presentation Award 24 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm

Two CNBC postdocs, Timothy Hughes and Sagi Perel, had posters selected as one of the Best Poster Presentations at the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association 2013 Postdoctoral Data & Dine Sy...

May Research Round-Up 7 Jun 2013 | 02:37 am

A round-up of a selection of papers published by CNBC faculty in the month of May is now available.

CNBC Alumna named one of Inc. Magazine's 10 Women to Watch in Tech 5 Jun 2013 | 06:48 pm

Maximize human potential — that of others as well as your own. It's a philosophy that Vivienne Ming (DC'03,'06) refined as a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University. Now the theoretical neurosc...

Neuroscientists Make Discovery; Could Lead to Better Understanding of Learning and Memory 30 May 2013 | 08:40 pm

Students preparing for final exams might want to wait before pulling an all-night cram session - at least as far as their neurons are concerned. It's well known that synapses in the brain, the connec...

Steven Chase Selected as a 2013-2014 Wimmer Faculty Fellow at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation 30 May 2013 | 02:37 am

The program is designed for junior faculty members who are interested in enhancing their teaching through concentrated work with an Eberly consultant. The Wimmer program, now in its eighth year, is su...

Carnegie Mellon Joins Launch of NSF-Sponsored Alliance To Mentor African-American Computer Scientists 28 May 2013 | 06:44 pm

Carnegie Mellon University has joined Clemson University and five other university partners to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Science (iAAMCS), a U.S. resource for in...

Carnegie Mellon To Present NIMH's Leslie Ungerleider With Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences 15 May 2013 | 09:25 am

Carnegie Mellon University will award the first Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences to Leslie G. Ungerleider, chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of M...

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