This semester, students enrolled in Art + the Brain have been interpreting concepts like memory and perception through photography, artists' books, sculpture and computer games.

 

When Pixar's "Toy Story" premiered 20 years ago, it revolutionized an industry as the first computer-animated feature film.

"It still looks fresh, which is very gratifying," said Ralph Guggenheim a lead producer on the film and a two-time CMU alumnus. "Visually, we knew other feature films would surpass what we'd done. But we wanted to make it look as good as it could possibly look and set the bar high for anyone who followed us."

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If your career goals as a student include dentistry, a decision science major is probably not for you.

 

For virtually anyone else, though, studying decision science provides enormous flexibility in pursuing different careers and acquiring resources for responding to life's opportunities and challenges.

 

"You are able to make Decision Science what you want," said Nadia Tuma-Weldon (DC'04), the director of Truth Central, McCann Worldgroup's global thought leadership unit. "As a transfer student from piano performance, I did not have a clear idea of what I wanted to do. In speaking with Baruch Fischhoff, however, I found my path in the program and still reference the research I did at CMU in my career today."

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