Welcome picnic for new undergraduates held by the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon University is hosting an Undergraduate Welcome Picnic on Saturday, October 24, to welcome the newest chemistry students to campus. It's a casual afternoon meant for the incoming undergraduates to meet their classmates and the faculty in a low-pressure setting, rather than in a lecture hall or a lab.
If you're new to the department, it helps to know the history of the place you're joining. The Department of Chemistry grew out of two separate institutions: the Carnegie Institute of Technology, founded in 1900, and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded in 1913. They merged in 1967 to form the university as it stands today. The Mellon Institute building is still a National Historic Chemical Landmark, known for its early applied research and for helping develop the first World War I gas mask. The university's faculty and alumni include 21 Nobel Prize laureates, four of whom were in chemistry.
There's a big change on the horizon for the department, too. They're preparing to open the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences, a new facility at Forbes Avenue and South Craig Street. It's going to be between 278,000 and 338,900 square feet and is targeting LEED Gold certification, so it'll be a significant expansion of the science space on campus. The picnic comes at a time when the department is looking toward that growth.
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If you're an undergraduate in the program, the picnic is on Saturday, October 24, at Carnegie Mellon University.
