Education

Preserving the Navajo Language by Justin Merriman

Educators and students at the San Juan High School in Blanding, Utah worked with Duolingo, the language-learning app, to build their newest course in the Navajo language. Duolingo launched the course on Oct. 8, Indigenous Peoples Day, as part of an effort to preserve endangered indigenous languages. You can read more about this in Time, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ABC News, and the New York Post.

Freshmen Class by Justin Merriman

The freshman class of Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences visit the Heinz History Center for their orientation on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Carnegie Mellon University freshmen participate in 'House Wars,' an orientation activity, as they begin a new semester on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 on campus in Oakland, Pa. 

Carnegie Mellon University freshmen participate in 'House Wars,' an orientation activity, as they begin a new semester on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 on campus in Oakland, Pa. 

The freshman class of Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences visit the Heinz History Center for their orientation on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pa.