In addition to funding research projects, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will support projects dealing with the arts and the creation of new courses associated with the popular Bachelor of Humanities and the Arts program, a joint effort between the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Fine Arts. The Center for Literary and Cultural Analysis coordinates its efforts with the Center for the Arts in Society. The mission of the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery is to pursue basic science in automated learning methods, including data mining, statistical methodology and knowledge discovery, driven by applications to problems of societal importance. The Center for Business, Technology and the Environment was founded to foster interdisciplinary research in vital areas of economic development. Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging The Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging provides a technical, administrative and intellectual base for existing research projects that are collaborative across Carnegie Mellon's departments of Psychology and Statistics, its Graduate School of Industrial Administration and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Research addresses human factors and performance and educationally and medically relevant research.
Faculty are drawn from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, the School of Computer Science and the College of Engineering. Kathleen Carley , professor of social and decision sciences, is the director. Center for History and Policy The Center for History and Policy plays an important role in expanding research opportunities for students in social history and history and policy programs. Students have undertaken a wide variety of contract research projects on topics like blacks, women and gays in the military, changes in the infant mortality rates, cocaine use and innovative prison treatment programs. Center for Innovation in Learning The Center for Innovation in Learning is an applied research center dedicated to the improvement of education.