He Did It

Carnegie Mellon Today: January 2012

Carnegie Mellon alumnus Jonathan Rothberg has invented a next-gen gene sequencer that could help usher in the era of personalized medicine. The idea came to him while his son was in the NICU fighting to survive.

The ABCs of Discovery

Carnegie magazine: Winter 2011

Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s "M is for Museum" is a wide-eyed, fun-filled look at how museum scientists are really kids at heart and every kid already has the heart of a scientific explorer.

Brain Power

Science Connection: November 2011

An inspiring lab class—and a lot of moxie—spurs a Carnegie Mellon University physics instructor and her husband to establish a science teacher-training workshop in Rwanda.