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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards

These awards are open to all high school and college students in the Pittsburgh area and any remote CMU locations. We seek personal narratives dealing with individual experience of racial…

CMU-Q students pay it forward in Vietnam

August 30, 2017 Carnegie Mellon students have many opportunities to travel abroad on chaperoned service learning trips. During these 1-2 week immersive projects, students travel to a new country, engage…

CMU-Q alumna Sara Abbas urges students to pursue well-rounded education

Class of 2012 graduate Sara Abbas spoke at CMU-Q last week, encouraging students to pursue a variety of experiences both in and out of the classroom. Abbas is the trade…

CMU-Q students place 1st in international computing contest

Team solves 10 coding problems as part of Harvard challenge DOHA, QATAR – A team of four Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) students was one of only 12 teams…

Introducing The Interactive News: a curated collection of the last decade of design and journalism

The Interactive News, a collaborative project led by Alexander Cheek, went live last week with more than 100 articles that exemplify the transformative capabilities of digital media. Cheek is assistant…

CMU alum urges students to take the 1st step in job hunting

CMU alumnus Pradeep Ranka met with Carnegie Mellon Qatar students as part of a series of lectures in career development. Ranka received a bachelor’s degree in architecture and industrial management…

Alums win Seedstars GCC, will compete in worlds

Meddy, an online platform to find health care services in Qatar, was one of two winning projects at Seedstars GCC 2016 in Bahrain. The founders of Meddy, Haris Aghadi andAbdulla AlKhenji,…

CMU-Q begins 5th year providing executive and professional education

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar begins its fifth year of the Executive and Professional Education program series next month, with courses in business strategy and tactics and dynamic organizational leadership.…

CMU-Q students hail from 40 different nations

Diverse group includes first-ever students from Albania, Japan and Kazakhstan DOHA, QATAR – For the academic year 2016-17, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar’s students represent 40 nations, including its first-ever…

Information systems professor recognized with visionary award

Ray Tsai, professor of practice in information systems, received the Visionary Award at the 21st SAP Academic Conference EMEA in Potsdam, Germany. Tsai was recognized for his dedication to teaching…