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How a Student Worked with the Architecture Archives to Save Rare CMU Blueprints

Before winter break, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences first-year Ryan Tosh found a large trash bag filled with architectural drawings depicting buildings on CMU’s campus in the KGB’s office during a cleaning session.

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Posner Foundation Commits $8 Million to CMU Libraries Special Collections

The Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh has announced an $8 million commitment to support the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Special Collections — the university’s repository for rare books, manuscripts, and early calculating devices and cryptographic machines.

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Open Access By the Numbers

KiltHub is a comprehensive institutional repository maintained by the University Libraries and hosted on the figshare platform, where Carnegie Mellon University researchers and their collaborators can share the scholarly outputs and research data produced in the course of their research. KiltHub curates, collects, preserves, and provides open access to this material as part of the Libraries' commitment to open scholarship and collaboration.

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Bioinformatics Hackathon Elevates Computational Biology Research

From March 3–5, CMU Libraries partnered with California-based cloud computing and bioinformatics company DNAnexus to host their fifth annual collaborative bioinformatics hackathon in Pittsburgh. More than 30 participants from all over the world teamed up to explore machine learning and AI approaches to computational biology problems, sharing expertise, learning from their peers, and even engaging in a bit of friendly competition.

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Enjoy Free Access to the Washington Post

We're excited to announce the addition of the Washington Post to our growing collection of digital news resources! All current Carnegie Mellon University community members now have complimentary access to this renowned publication's digital content.

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2025 Reproducibility Hackathon Investigates LLM Writing Styles

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Libraries hosted its second annual Reproducibility Hackathon. 35 participants were challenged to replicate and augment published research, working with existing data and code to explore new possibilities for ideas and analyses and winning prizes for their contributions.

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Doctoral Researchers Connect Beyond Disciplines in 3MT Championship

Ten doctoral students shared their complex research and made connections across disciplines during the championship round of Carnegie Mellon University's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, held Tuesday, March 11 in McConomy Auditorium of the Cohon University Center. This year’s finalists, who hailed from departments across campus, were challenged to present their theses for a general audience in under three minutes.

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Carnegie Mellon University Receives Generous Donation to Support Research and Special Projects at University Libraries

Carnegie Mellon University is pleased to announce a generous donation from Matthew (ENG 2005, 2005) and Sarah Brockmeyer, which will provide significant support for research and special projects at the University Libraries.

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Effective and Ethical

In early 2023, a student researcher approached STEM Librarian Haoyong Lan with a problem: The student wanted to gather articles for a literature review and had asked ChatGPT for sources, but half of its suggested references didn’t exist.

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Registration Opens for AI Literacy Workshop

On Monday, March 31 and Tuesday, April 1, the Libraries is hosting a two-day, hands-on workshop designed to introduce attendees to frameworks for applying AI responsibly and effectively. Undergraduate and graduate students from across campus are invited to register to attend, whether they are already involved in building their own AI, or are simply interested in exploring AI opportunities in the future.