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The Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Dietrich College) is the liberal and professional studies college and the second-largest academic unit by enrollment [2] (after the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Weingart graduated from the University of Florida in 2009 with a Bachelor's degree in the history of science and a minor in computer engineering.He then worked as a research assistant at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University until 2015, when he became director of digital humanities programs at Carnegie Mellon University (2015–2021) and the University of ...
Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English [1] and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. [2] She is a literary scholar and theorist who has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture as well as on contemporary debates in literary and cultural theory.
The Franklin Humanities Institute was founded in 1999 by Cathy Davidson, then Vice Provost for interdisciplinary Studies, and Karla F.C. Holloway, former Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2002, the institute received a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "Making the Humanities Central." The ...
Carnegie Mellon's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences was ranked 55th for social sciences and 60th for humanities in the world by Times Higher Education for 2020. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Dietrich College is also ranked 20th for social sciences among Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world's top 100 universities.
The Frances Perkins Center is a nonprofit organization located in Newcastle, Maine. [1] [2] Its mission is to inspire current and future generations to understand and uphold the government's role in providing social justice and economic security for all, based on the vision of workers’ rights advocate Frances Perkins.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, commonly known as the Mellon Foundation, is a New York City-based private foundation with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [2] It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation.
The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was first established as the Department of Industrial Research at the University of Pittsburgh.It conducted research for firms on a contractual basis; a company would contract the institute to solve a specific problem, and the institute would then hire an appropriate scientist to do the research.