From the Cathedral lawn you can barely see Carnegie Mellon University. But now, Pitt and CMU… From the Cathedral lawn you can barely see Carnegie Mellon University. But now, Pitt and CMU are making efforts to reach across the borders of Panther Junction.

In a press conference yesterday, Chancellor Mark Nordenberg and President Jared Cohon of CMU announced the formation of a new corroboration named the Regional Economic Development Project, set to galvanize the economy and job market of Western Pennsylvania.

Nordenberg and Cohon appointed Donald Smith Jr., a CMU grad and Special Assistant to the President for Economic Development there since 1998, to head the project. His goal is to coordinate the economic activities between Pitt and CMU, focusing primarily on using the high-profile departments of technology and health sciences featured within the respective universities.