CMU students, faculty, and researchers will have increased access to open scholarship resources through the University Libraries thanks to a recent gift awarded by Dr. Hillard M. and Joan S. Lazarus.
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Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure G. Sayeed Choudhury has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch the Ecosystem for Next Generation Infrastructure (ENGIN) Software Foundation. This two-year initiative represents the next strategic phase of the Carnegie Mellon University Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), housed within the University Libraries. The ENGIN Software Foundation (ESF) aims to fill a critical and widely recognized gap in the academic open source ecosystem.
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Carnegie Mellon University Press (CMUP) is proud to announce the establishment of the Tayur Endowed Poetry Fund, made possible through the generosity of Sridhar R. Tayur, Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business. This announcement coincides with the announcement of a special reading by Rita Dove — past CMUP author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and US Poet Laureate — through the Pittsburgh-based International Poetry Forum where Tayur serves as a member of the board of directors.
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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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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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Carnegie Mellon University Libraries is pleased to announce an anonymous gift of $1 million to establish the T. D. Jacobsen Endowed Acquisition Fund in honor of Terry Jacobsen, Director and Principal Research Scientist at the university's Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
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In August 2024, the Mellon Foundation awarded a three-year, $650,000 grant to the University of Oregon to support a new institute aimed at transforming the culture of leadership in higher education: the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI). In January 2025, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation contributed another $650,000. Associate Dean for Academic Engagement Nicky Agate, who has worked alongside Christopher P. Long, provost and senior vice-president at the University of Oregon and VELI Principal Investigator as a part of the HuMetricsHSS initiative for the past eight years, will lend her expertise in workshop facilitation, community building, and open science principles to the project.
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The tenth annual Giving CMU Day, themed “24 Hours of Tartan Power,” was celebrated on campus and online on Tuesday, December 3. Thanks to the incredible support from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the University Libraries, over $66,000 was raised for four priority funds: Friends of the Library, Special Collections Acquisition Fund, Enhance Library Learning Spaces, and the IDeATe General Fund.
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The ninth annual Giving CMU Day was celebrated on campus and online on Tuesday, November 28. With the support of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the University Libraries and the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) network, over $11,000 was raised for four priority funds: Friends of the Library, Special Collections Acquisition Fund, Enhance Library Learning Spaces, and IDeATe.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a grant of $241,147 to a team from CMU Libraries to support the implementation of a training program and curriculum to prepare library practitioners to meet the evolving open science needs and expectations of the research communities they support.
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