Saturday, May 15, 2010:On Saturday, May 15, 2010, my nephew, Nick, was presented with his diploma from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. We attended a very nice diploma ceremony in the afternoon and enjoyed walking through the "mall" area of the campus.
Carnegie Mellon University is located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh -- not far from the University of Pittsburgh. The campus is fairly compact, but still very pretty. The nicest area is a wide open space surrounding on all sides by academic buildings. There's also some neat outdoor sculpture.
Carnegie Mellon may be considered the academic jewel of Pittsburgh. It is a very prestigious university and is particularly known for its schools of computer science and engineering. CMU is regularly the recipient of government grants to study robotics and other high tech projects. And
in recent years, it was gifted with funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which were used to build a new computer sciences facility.
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