Monday, September 26, 2011

Carnegie AND Mellon

I wanted to find out why Carnegie Mellon (The school in Pittsburg) had both of their names. I wanted to know if they got together and were like, "Hey, want to make a school for ridiculously smart kids?"
That was not the case.
Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1900.
In 1967 the Carnegie Institute merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become CMU.

http://www.cmu.edu/about/index.shtml

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