Dec 1st, 2008 · Government officials have been working to restore confidence in the economy. Allan Meltzer is a former Fed economist and currently teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. He says he has been unimpressed so far with the government's actions. Meltzer tells Steve Inskeep that he has higher hopes for President-elect Barack Obama's economic team.
Sep 22nd, 2008 · As the country struggles with the current financial crisis, there have been the inevitable comparisons with the Great Depression. Marvin Goodfriend, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, tells Linda Wertheimer that while people are comparing this financial crisis to the 1930s, there are some big differences.
Jul 25th, 2008 · Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University professor who turned a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer into a best-selling book and worldwide fame, died today at the age of 47.
Jul 22nd, 2008 · This week, Congress votes on a bill that would help homeowners facing foreclosure. The measure may also include a Bush administration plan to help mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Deborah Amos talks to Allan Meltzer, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University, about how the proposed measure may or may not help homeowners. They also discuss what average Americans may face as the country continues to experience an economic slowdown.
May 24th, 2008 · Some cities have accents; Pittsburgh has its own language. The dialect is being studied by a group of linguists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Locals at the city's famous Original Hot Dog Shop offer lessons on how to speak.
Aug 6th, 2007 · A researcher from Carnegie Mellon University says that women describe being more anxious about negotiating a pay raise than men. The anxieties might be justified: A study shows that women who negotiated were perceived and treated differently from the men who did the same.
Jun 11th, 2007 · While entering information on a Web page, you may have run into a CAPTCHA -- that string of letters you type to prove you're a real person. Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, wants to harness all that extra typing to streamline the process of digitizing books.
Jan 21st, 2007 · A new resarch project from Carnegie Mellon University -- "Traffic Stats" -- makes it possible to go online and figure out the risks involved in putting yourself behind the wheel of a car.