Every year Carnegie Mellon University celebrates Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week with a variety of events for graduate students.
In celebration of this week CMU Portugal hosted a luncheon on Thursday April 10th in Scott Hall. Attendees included Dual Degree and Affiliated Ph.D. students spanning many CMU departments including: Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Engineering & Public Policy, Human-Computer Interaction, and Language Technologies.
The students also span many Portuguese Universities including: Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH-UNL), NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), University of Aveiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Faculty of Engineering – University of Porto, and University of Lisbon.
Also in attendance were guests of the CMU Portugal Patient Innovation Residency Program, which consists of six teams who participated in the Patient Innovation (PI) Bootcamp. The teams are currently spending one week at CMU in Pittsburgh, from April 7th to 11th for the final stage of the accelerator program.
This luncheon provided an opportunity to celebrate the students’ hard work and dedication to the program as well as network with fellow Portuguese entrepreneurs.
