Fall Open House: November 11 & 12, 2016

Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College invites you to our Pittsburgh, PA campus this fall!

We're hosting a Fall Visitation event for prospective students. This two-day event will provide an opportunity to meet Heinz College faculty, administrators, and current students. You'll also learn more about the master's programs offered at Heinz College, the admissions process, and your financial aid options. Please register below.

Fall Visitation

Friday, November 11, 5:00pm - 7:00pm EST
Saturday, November 12, 9:30am - 3:30pm EST

Sessions with Faculty, Program Directors, Current Students, Career Services and more!

Online Information Sessions

Can't make it to campus for our Open House?  Learn about your program of interest without leaving your desk.

Each session is hosted by a program director as well as representatives from the Heinz College Admissions team and current students.

Click here for a list of Previously Recorded Webinars

Coming soon to a city near you- An Admissions Representative may soon be in your area.  

Members of the Heinz College spend much of the Fall season on the road, meeting with prospective students. Check out our Travel Schedule

Our Master’s Degrees

The Heinz College has master’s programs that apply Information Technology + Analytics + Management to the following areas:

Public Policy & Management (MSPPM)

Health Care Policy & Management (MSHCPM)

Public Management (MPM)

Arts Management (MAM)

Entertainment Industry Management (MEIM)

Information Systems Management (MISM)

Information Security Policy & Management (MSISPM)

Information Technology (MSIT)

Please feel free to contact the Office of Admissions to learn more. We are happy to speak with prospective students about reaching their academic and career goals.

Sincerely,

Office of Admissions

Carnegie Mellon University- H. John Heinz III College

Pittsburgh, PA | Australia | Washington, DC | Los Angeles, CA | Distance Learning

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Phone: +1.412.268.2164 | Fax: +1.412.268.7036

In a new article published in The Conversation, School of Public Policy Assistant Professor F. Chris Curran shares his latest research that reveals significant achievement gaps in science for students as soon as kindergarten.

The study, which Curran worked on with Ann Kellogg, a public policy Ph.D. student, examined data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K), a national study conducted by the federal government that uses data from science achievement tests that assessed concepts in physical, life and environmental science, and scientific inquiry.

“Our study revealed large gaps in science achievement in kindergarten between white students and racial or ethnic minorities. And, where science gaps existed, we found that they were generally larger than the gaps in reading or mathematics achievement. However, we did not find significant gaps by gender,” Curran wrote in the article titled “Science achievement gaps start early – in kindergarten.”

Curran, whose research areas of focus include education policy and early childhood education, notes in the article that the results of the study point to the need for increased attention to inequities in science achievement.

“I believe, for example, that teachers and school leaders should look for opportunities to incorporate science concepts into reading and math lessons,” writes Curran. “Looking beyond the classroom setting, the findings of our work and that of others suggest the need to provide support to informal science learning opportunities. Visiting museums, interacting with nature and exploring novel tools all represent ways in which parents and caregivers can support early science inquiry.”

Read the full article in The Conversation, and view additional coverage below.

In kindergarten, there is no STEM gender gap (Education Week) 
Science achievement gaps start early, in kindergarten (San Francisco Chronicle) 

Image: Chris Curran presents talk at UMBC about his research. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC. 

This article, by Max Cole, originally appeared here. 

On August 27, 2016, Sonora Review published Abby Dockter's review of Professor Piotr Gwiazda's latest collection of poetry, Aspects of Strangers. Here Dockter writes that:

Aspects of Strangers styles itself an ethnography: a series of cultural observations that have been cut, dried, and gathered into poems. A true anthropologist would not have been able to resist fleshing them out into a treatise—context, you know—but the speaker in these poems is more interested in blank space. There is a fresh, field-notes quality preserved in these records, and somehow his cherry-picked observations gradually suggest the beauty and complexity of what’s under description. Poems are for moments, and Gwiazda provides a gorgeous rush of them.

As Dockter reminds us, Gwiazda’s words provide us access to a side of the world worth exploring more and more. We are excited with every poem about the journey he encourages us to take. To read the full review, please visit https://sonorareview.com/2016/08/27/a-review-of-piotr-gwiazdas-aspects-of-strangers/#more-8998.

Baltimore Magazine recently released its “Best of 2016” edition, which highlighted leaders in arts and culture from across the city over the past year. Lia Purpura, Writer in Residence in UMBC’s Department of English, was named Baltimore’s top poet.

The magazine states: “In It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful, her latest collection published this year, Purpura impressively delivers poignant insight into our existence without pomp and circumstance. Her verses are little gems with short stanzas and an absence of flowery language, but that doesn’t make them any less profound. Instead, Purpura . . . proves how meaningful simplicity can be.”

Purpura has also been awarded a Pushcart Prize for her essay “Scream, or, Never Minding,” which was originally published in The Georgia Review. Also receiving recognition last month was Purpura’s poem “Resolution,” which was featured on The Academy of American Poets website as the national “Poem-a-Day” on August 8.

Lia Purpura’s work frequently appears in The New Yorker, Orion, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Iowa Review, and other national journals. Among her numerous honors are a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright Fellowships, and four Pushcart prizes. Her collection of essays, On Looking was a finalist for the National Books Critics Award. 

We offer our congratulations to our Writer in Residence, Lia Purpura, for this outstanding recognition of her work.