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    1. Coulter Welcome Center

      The Coulter Welcome Center is a unique destination point for campus visitors. Visitors can join a campus tour, meet student ambassadors, navigate the interactive campus map and learn all about what CMU and Pittsburgh have to offer. 

      One of the many impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak is that Carnegie Mellon's campus in Pittsburgh is currently closed to visitors. This means that we unfortunately aren't able to welcome you for an on-campus visit at this time.

    2. Tepper Building (Tepper)

      The Tepper Building is home to the Tepper School of Business, named for alumnus David A. Tepper. The Tepper School offers undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D. and executive education programs and boasts 10 Nobel Laureates among its faculty and alumni ranks.

       

      The building is also home to the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, the Technology-Enhanced Learning Center (part of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation), the Coulter Welcome Center, Rohr Commons, and the newest fitness center.

    3. Stever House

      Stever House is a first-year residence hall in the Morewood neighborhood. Click here for more information, photos, and virtual tours.

    4. Gates & Hillman Centers

      Carnegie Mellon’s Gates Center for Computer Science and Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies has been recognized as one of nine projects worldwide to receive the 2012 American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Architecture.

      The Gates and Hillman Centers, which opened in 2009, share a joint space and are located in a challenging spot: the eastern slope of a steep valley that intersects the campus which feeds into Junction Hollow in Oakland. With five main entrances on three different levels and two major pedestrian bridges, they also serve as a crossroads, tying the campus together.

       

      Home to the School of Computer Science 

       

       

    5. Purnell Center for the Arts (CFA)

      The Purnell Center for the Arts is home to our drama school, the nation’s oldest degree-granting drama program, and includes state-of-the-art performance and education facilities like the Philip Chosky Theater and the Miller Gallery.

       

      Home to the School of Drama 

       

       

    6. Cohon University Center

      The Jared L. Cohon University Center is our student hub. The Cohon University Center is home to performance, wellness and community space for the university. Students can take advantage of our state-of-the-art fitness center (including the university swimming and diving pool), visit the University Store or eat at one of many dining locations located here.

    7. The Fence

      The Fence sits in the middle of campus and acts at a billboard for student groups. Painting the Fence is a time-honored  tradition at Carnegie Mellon. Strict tradition dictates that the Fence may only be painted between midnight and sunrise, in its entirety, using only paintbrushes. If you want to keep your message on the Fence, it must be guarded around the clock. Guarding the Fence can be as much fun as painting it with groups of students camping out in tents overnight and cooking out on the Cut during the day, so that their message can be seen by all.

       

    8. Doherty Hall

      Doherty Hall is one of the campus’ oldest academic buildings, featuring lecture halls and state-of-the-art laboratories for the Chemistry, Biology and Chemical Engineering departments. Doherty Hall’s green roof and outdoor classroom host a variety of natural and exotic plants to provide a relaxing environment to look out on the Carnegie Mellon campus.

       

      Home to the Mellon College of Science’s Chemistry 
      and Biological Sciences Departments, and the College of Engineering’s Chemical Engineering Department. 

       

    9. ANSYS Hall

      ANSYS Hall is a four story, 36 thousand square foot mixed-use building that incorporates a maker assembly space with immediate access to the outdoor Maker Courtyard, student collaboration space, classrooms and offices. ANSYS Hall is a sustainable building with the goal of meeting LEED Gold and a home to the College of Engineering.


    10. Baker Hall (Dietrich)

      Baker/Porter Hall are the oldest buildings on campus and connect via a long, sloped hallway. Porter houses programs like civil and environmental engineering, information systems and social and decision sciences. Baker is home to the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. On the first floor you’ll find a sculpture of the university’s first president with a nose that’s worn away due to a legend of luck.

       

       

      Home to the following departments:

    11. Hunt Library

      Hunt Library opened in 1961 as the university’s first dedicated library building and was a gift from Roy and Rachel Hunt. It is the largest of three main libraries on campus with more than 600,000 volumes. Watch the building’s evening light show that accentuates the aluminum and glass structure or visit the library’s new state-of-the art facility and collaborative studios.

       

      IDEATE@Hunt is a new collaborative making facility in Hunt Library. It includes a digital fabrication shop, a physical computing lab, an interactive media black box, traditional fabrication facilities, and collaborative design studios that also serve as classrooms for 30 new studio-based courses.

    12. College of Fine Arts (CFA)

      College of Fine Arts is an architectural creation of Henry Hornbostel, the college’s first dean, and is home to three of its five schools: architecture, art, and music — as well as four BXA intercollege degree programs  the bachelor’s of humanities & arts, science & arts, computer science & arts and engineering & arts.

    13. Buggy

      Buggy Sweepstakes is one of two main highlights of Spring Carnival, a CMU tradition since the 1920s. Part high-tech soapbox derby race, part relay race, Buggy is uniquely Carnegie Mellon. In Buggy, student teams compete in a five-person relay race around Flagstaff Hill in neighboring Schenley Park. Teams are made up pushers and a driver. The pushers propel their buggy through the uphill sections of the course, while the driver steers through the downhill portions of the course reaching speeds of 35 miles an hour. Booth is the other main highlight where students design and engineer booths that include interactive components and sometimes are several stories tall! 

    14. Gesling Stadium

      Gesling Stadium is home to our football and track and field teams. The stadium is surrounded by two residence halls, a parking garage, soccer/intramural field and the Cohon University Center (CUC). 

       

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