Grass in front of Hunt Library
What do #NFL stadiums have in common with @cmu.edu's campus? Hint: you walk on it everyday. 🌱
As Pittsburgh prepares to host the #NFLDraft 🏈 Acrisure Stadium 🏟️ is replacing its Kentucky bluegrass field with a newly engineered bermudagrass designed for cold-weather performance.
bit.ly/nfl-cmu-grass
Josie Karkkainen
Our 2026 Pitt Partner intern Josie Karkkainen is hard at work in the Architecture Archives. 📐
Have you been to the 4th floor of Hunt Library to see our exhibit?
Happy Student Employee Appreciation Week! 🎉
From checking out materials and helping visitors at our service desks, to maintaining our collections and supporting workshops and classroom learning—you do it all! 📚
We couldn’t do this work without you. Your contributions make a real difference. 🫶
LSAC looking at maps
LSAC making maps
As the 2026 spring semester comes to a close, the 2025-2026 Libraries Student Advisory Council (LSAC) is putting the finishing touches on their year-long mapping project to explore how space, memory, and identity shape their journeys at @cmu.edu.
🗺️ Learn more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
“The University Libraries is where I feel the most connected to the resources available on campus. To me, it is a space of learning and discovery.”
On campus, @cmu.edu students experience the Libraries in many different ways — through study, research, collaboration, and discovery.
The following reflections are drawn from student voices featured in our stories over the past year.
🫶 Read the quotes from our students: bit.ly/4mo0bnO
Scotch’n’Soda archives - Pippin, Pippin
A fifth year student on @cmu.edu’s campus is exploring new ideas and interdisciplinary work aimed bringing current students and alumni closer to the University Archives, including digitized materials from Scotch'n'Soda Theatre. 🎭
💻 Read more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
2026 Shakespeare Lecture: Simon Armitage on Sonnets & Shakespeare - Posner Center for Special Collections
For the first time, UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage will read from a series of new and unpublished poems about the human soul, all composed as Shakespearean sonnets, and offer context and insight on the collection.
🗓️ Tuesday, April 28, 2026
⏰ 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
📍 Posner Center
cmu.is/shakespeare-...
1st place went to Raouf Belkhir
2nd place and The Alumni Choice Award went to Christopher Blum
3rd place went to Lara Abdelmohsen
The People’s Choice Award went to Anish Pyne
Congrats to the 2026 #3MTCMU winners!
🥇 Raouf Belkhir, Psychology, Dietrich College
🥈 Christopher Blum, Chemistry, @cmuscience.bsky.social
🥉 Lara Abdelmohsen, Biomedical Engineering, @cmuengineering.bsky.social
People’s Choice: Anish Pyne, Biological Sciences, MCS
Alumni Choice: Christopher Blum
McConomy Auditorium
The 2026 Three Minute Thesis championship is about to begin! ⏰
Join us in the McConomy Auditorium, CUC and cheer on your favorite presenters!
#3MTCMU #3MT @cmu.edu
![LARMESSIN, Nicolas de (France, fl. ca. 1700). Habit de Jardinier (Gardener’s Costume). [Netherlands]: G. Valck, ca. 1690. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Art Accession no. 1761.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlsff554tunsjlcoolppsqwo/bafkreifujxgj6cmw5rvcnmtql2w5niu3iefkqizkyackf5zcmz5oteggbi)
LARMESSIN, Nicolas de (France, fl. ca. 1700). Habit de Jardinier (Gardener’s Costume). [Netherlands]: G. Valck, ca. 1690. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Art Accession no. 1761.
WHITEFIELD, Edwin (1816–1885). Aster linarifolius (Azure Star Flower). New York: D. Appleton, 1845. Published in Embury, E. E., American Wild Flowers in Their Native Haunts, opposite p. 217.
Explore botanical imagery from the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. 🌹🧑🎨
Join us 3/25, 4:30-6:30PM in the Posner Center for Botanical Illustration & Enlightenment to explore how artists and scientists have collaborated to depict the natural world.
All are welcome! Snacks + fun provided.
CMU Distinctive Collections annual report
The CMU Libraries 2025 Distinctive Collections Annual Report is here!
110% growth in research interactions, 450K+ online viewers reached, the Posner Center reopened after an $8M renovation, and 381K+ web pages archived.
💻 A big year for preserving CMU's history. online.fliphtml5.com/frfzbb/qxtw/
Forum for Student Publishing: March 12, 2026
Join us for an evening of student-led sessions on some of today's biggest challenges and opportunities in student publishing.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
4:30pm - 7:30pm
Hunt Library, IDeATe Studio A @cmu.edu
💻 Register today: cmu.libcal.com/event/16040442
Professor Sinead Ryan, Dean of Research at Trinity College Dublin, Professor John Kelleher, Director of ADAPT, and OFAI Executive Director Sayeed Choudhury.
Trinity College Dublin has joined the Open Forum for AI (OFAI), strengthening global collaboration on transparent and accountable AI.
Through the @adaptcentre.bsky.social, Trinity will contribute to OFAI’s Research Working Group to advance open, human-centered AI.
💻 Learn more: bit.ly/3N5F64b
Women's History Month book and streaming movie display.
This month’s book collection highlights the achievements, struggles, and lasting impact of women whose work has shaped communities and institutions, both widely known figures and those whose stories are less often told.
Explore our #WomensHistoryMonth book and streaming movie list: bit.ly/whm-list
STEM Librarian Huajin Wang and an attendee explore the “Visualizing Library Lending Practices” activity, which focused on using data to tell data stories by creating bar charts with LEGO® bricks.
As part of #LoveDataWeek (Feb. 9–13), we held a "Hands-On" event using LEGO® bricks to visualize trends and explore data storytelling in a fun, collaborative environment. 🧱+📊
💻 See the photos here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Deepanjali Mishra
Deepanjali Mishra
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT prelim round 5 co-winner, Deepanjali Mishra of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the @cmuengineering.bsky.social! 📣
Presentation: The Hidden Energy Cost of Waiting in Computers.
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
Carnegie Mellon has a long legacy of pushing the boundaries of research and innovation in #robotics. 🤖
Explore the robust history of robotics at CMU, compiled by
@library.cmu.edu.
@cmurobotics.bsky.social
Anish Pyne
Anish Pyne
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT prelim round 5 co-winner, Anish Pyne of Biological Sciences at @cmuscience.bsky.social! 📣
His presentation is titled, "Practice Makes Pathogens: How Bacteria Train for Infections."
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
CMU students entering Hunt Library
DYK... our libraries are so much more than a building for books?
From technology lending to a wide variety of workshops to departmental librarians with extensive knowledge of disciplinary information, check out resources we provide students, faculty and staff.
library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Rishi Veerapaneni
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 4 co-winner, Rishi Veerapaneni of @cmurobotics.bsky.social at @scsatcmu.bsky.social! 📣
His presentation is titled, "How to train your ~~dragon~~ robot team!"
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
Jimmy Wang
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 4 co-winner, Jimmy Wang of Mechanical Engineering at @cmuengineering.bsky.social! 📣
Wang's presentation is titled, "Building Bridges for Heat."
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
@nature.com recently highlighted the work of our #STEM Librarians Melanie Gainey and Chasz Griego.
The piece explores the ways librarians can serve as key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.
💻 Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than 70 members of the @cmu.edu community gathered at Hunt Library to celebrate #LunarNewYear.
There was fortune telling, origami, paper lantern crafts, traditional eats like dumplings and mandarin oranges, and more at the event. 🏮
See the photo gallery here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Christopher Blum
Christopher Blum
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 3 co-winner, Christopher Blum of the Dept. of Chemistry at @cmuscience.bsky.social! 📣
Blum's presentation is titled, DNA Disguised Messengers for Cancer Treatment.
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 3 co-winner, Ruihan Gao of @cmurobotics.bsky.social at @scsatcmu.bsky.social! 📣
Gao's presentation is titled, "Teaching AI the Sense of Touch."
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 Register to attend: cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
Lunar New Year at Hunt Library
Lunar New Year at Hunt Library
Join us to kick off 🦵 the Year of the Horse 🐴 with origami 🦢, paper lantern crafts 🏮, and traditional Lunar New Year 🌚 eats liked dumplings 🥟 and mandarin oranges 🍊!
🗓️ Today, February 17
🕟 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
📍 Hunt Library, Studio A (Floor 1)
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) #Libraries and #NVIDIA #Hackathon Prototypes the Future of #Bioinformatics (via @library.cmu.edu) www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
A student worker hands a guest at Hunt Library a book.
The University Libraries offers resources, hosts events, and offers a space for people to study, read, and do research.
Learn more about our amazing student workers whose contributions help make this possible!
💻 library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Raouf Belkhir
Raouf Belkhir
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 2 co-winner, Raouf Belkhir of the Department of Psychology at Dietrich College! 📣
Belkhir's presentation is titled, "When 'No Error' isn't the End of the Story."
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
Sunreeta Bhattacharya
Sunreeta Bhattacharya
Congrats to #3MT prelim round 2 co-winner, Sunreeta Bhattacharya of the Neuroscience Institute at @cmuscience.bsky.social! 📣
🧠 "Deciphering the brain’s uncertainty-processing algorithms for learning and decision-making."
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
