The 'Highland Fling', a feature of an annual Campus Week Celebration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. (c.1920) Image found in the University Archives, available online via our Digital Collections.
At Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, we celebrate the many contributions of the faculty and staff who make the Libraries the destination for scholarly information, creative inquiry, and intellectual collaboration across disciplines, propelling the significance, reach, and impact of the university.
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Brian Mathews was selected to serve on the conference planning committee for the 2025 Conference of the International Network for the Science of Team Science. It will be hosted next summer at the US Food & Drug Administration.
Tatiana Usova, Library Director at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, recently gave a talk at the pre-conference session, Diamond Moments of International Librarianship and its Impact, and also presented a poster “Democratizing access to undergraduate research” at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in San Diego.
Curator of Special Collections Sam Lemley was quoted in a story from Nature about the sale of materials from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Lemley weighed in on Enigma machines, the development of the world’s first programmable electronic computer, and the challenge of preserving modern items like computers.
Social Sciences Librarian and Director of the Evidence Synthesis Program Sarah Young published two new papers with collaborators addressing evidence synthesis methods. The first, with Business and Entrepreneurship Librarian Ryan Splenda and several others, is an assessment of search reporting and conduct in Campbell systematic reviews, published in the Campbell Systematic Reviews journal. The second demonstrates an application of a new method called “research weaving,” combining systematic mapping and bibliometrics, using a previously published systematic map on the roles of vegetated strips in agricultural fields. This is published in Ecological Solutions and Evidence.
Project Management Office Director Ken Rose earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, which acknowledges candidates who are skilled at managing the people, processes, and business priorities of professional projects.