Institution name

Carnegie Mellon University

Contact address for international enquiries

5000 Forbes Ave
PITTSBURGH 15213

Telephone

+1 412 268 5231

Venue / office name

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Social and Decision Sciences

Address

208 Porter Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
PITTSBURGH
Pennsylvania
15213

Venue description

The departments faculty represent a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, neuroscience, history, philosophy, political science, and psychology. Despite the diversity of the faculty, the departments teaching and research programs grow out of several intellectual themes that cut across the social sciences. The multidisciplinary character of the department provides a unique opportunity for innovative research. Research areas of particular strength within the department include: behavioral decision theory, complex adaptive social systems, experimental economics, evolutionary and biological theories applied to the social sciences, and political economy. As this list indicates, members of the department stress the development of theories of social phenomena that do not always fit neatly into traditional disciplinary boundaries. There is a complementary emphasis on the empirical testing of theory, leading to a common concern with methodology. Much of the research in the department has important and direct public policy implications in areas such as technology, the environment, and health policy.

Telephone number

+1 412 268 3665

Is accommodation available at this venue?

Yes

Accommodation details

The Office of Housing Services offers traditional single-gender residence halls, co-educational residence halls, suites, apartments, houses, fraternity and sorority houses, and special interest housing. For the environmentally minded, New House is the Silver LEED certified residence hall on campus, constructed using green practices. First-year undergraduate students are required to live on campus and housing is guaranteed for four years. Nearly 75 percent of students remain on campus throughout their undergraduate experience. Housing and Dining Services is committed to providing quality accommodations and food service for the Carnegie Mellon community. University housing will be smoke-free, except for Webster Hall and Fairfax Apartments. Currently there are designated resident hall floors that offer smoke-free living; a particularly desirable alternative for living options in the university housing system. Housing Services provides each resident with a bed, desk, chair, bookshelf, dresser and closet or wardrobe. Each room has window coverings; some living areas also have floor coverings. Residents supply such items as pillows, bed linens, bedspreads, curtains, area rugs, etc. Residential room rates include utilities, maintenance, basic cable service, Ethernet or broadband Internet and a telephone connection in each accommodation. Residents pay separately for room and public area damages, premium cable channel service, and telephone usage. University residences are divided into three categories at Carnegie Mellon: rooms, apartments and houses.