Bridging its left and right brains, Carnegie Mellon University is starting a new music-technology program.
Carnegie Mellon is known for its strength in two disparate academic areas—fine arts and engineering. The music-technology program, which will teach students skills such as music-equipment design, will play to both strengths by culling courses from the College of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the School of Computer Science. It will initially admit four undergraduate students and eight master’s students, according to The Tartan, the university’s student newspaper. —Catherine Rampell
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