News: In the Media

Theater to host piano recital

The Friends of the Conservatory of Music of Madeira (AACMM) will open the artistic season 2009/2010 with a piano recital. The concert, scheduled for 21:30 tomorrow, October 6th, will bring to the stage of the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias of Funchal, the Taiwanese pianist Meng-Hua Lin. Meng-Hua Lin at present is a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the United States, where she studied with Ian Hobson. She Completed her master degree at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, studying with Hanna Wu Li, also she obtained the certificate of interpretation at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she studied with Nina Svetlanova.

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Economy

An article by Jorge Orge, refers to Carnegie Mellon. “In the 80s, The industry in Pittsburgh disappeared and the economy as a result of America almost went bankrupt. Now, It is the base of large U.S. companies including HJ Heinz, Alcoa, U.S. Steel, PNC Financial Services, and one of the most important research schools, Carnegie Mellon University which contributed dramatically to the emergence of companies specializing in biotechnology, renewable energy and software”.

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Carnegie Mellon | Portugal program gives positive assessment to Portugal

The engagement between the academic community and companies highlighted in the report Assessment of the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Program, carried out by the “External Review Committee “(ERC), is a very positive assessment of the work done by the project.

Read the articles online, in Portuguese, from Canal Universitário e Politécnico and Ciencia PT.

A city which is an example to follow for Barack Obama

Pittsburgh, a town in western Pennsylvania which today receives the summit of the Group of 20 leading nations (G-20), with its history, it will surely impress diplomats, economists and journalists visitors. Today Pittsburgh accommodates companies that generate hundreds of billions of dollars, such as HJ Heinz, Alcoa, U.S. Steel and PNC Financial Services Group. The needs of its aging population helped to foster medical research. The presence of research schools such as Carnegie Mellon University contributed with the development and emergence of start-ups companies specializing in the areas of software, biotechnology, and renewable energy.

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Biofuels threaten to destroy the Gulf of Mexico

The goal was to reduce 500 acres of the so called ” dead zone ” in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest hypoxic zone in the world, where the excessive blooms of algae, stimulated by pollution, leads to oxygen depletion. However, the ambitious goal of the U.S.A. to stop the destruction of many natural habitats is far from reality. The alert came from a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.

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Partnership with Carnegie Mellon University is well accepted

Once again, the work of the University of Madeira (UMa) as part of the CarnegieMellon|Portugal partnership, was highlighted by the ‘auditors’ of the program’. The most recent report,conducted by the External Review Committee which evaluates the CarnegieMellon|Portugal partnership, was released on September 24th, and gives a very positive balance of the work completed. Among other things, it highlights the impact generated in higher education institutions, giving as a good example the recently created Interactive Technologies Institute in UMa.

Read the article online , in Portuguese, from Diário de Notícias da Madeira and Net Madeira.

National and international recognition is here

At University of Coimbra (FEUC), with the Faculty of Economics, the Master of Sustainable Energy, Quantitative Methods in Finance, Social Dynamics and Technological and Natural Hazards are given together. Even more, there is another master with Carnegie Mellon University, the Master in Software Engineering. However, the bid doesn’t stop here, the FCTUC has more partnerships for courses at postgraduate or PhD level

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A study in Canada indicates that up to 15% of children who attend nurseries suffer from depression and anxiety. The study was conducted by an international team of researchers from University of Montréal, Laval University and McGill University in Canada, INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale in France, Carnegie Mellon University in U.S.A., and University College Dublin in Ireland.

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