Carnegie Mellon University president Dr. Subra Suresh and interim provost Nathan Urban delivered opening remarks at the launch of CMU BrainHub, a new initiative that focuses on understanding the human brain — one of the grand challenges of the 21st century.

Understanding how the brain works is one of the biggest puzzles left for science to solve. Answers to critical questions in neuroscience lie at a pivotal intersection between biology, cognitive psychology, computer science, statistics and engineering – areas where Carnegie Mellon University excels