My conversation with @CarnegieMellon President Farnam Jahanian at the New Golden Age Summit. We discussed the new CMU campus in Miami, organized around national missions and grand challenges rather than traditional academic departments, and how it can help accelerate discovery.

Today’s launch event for @CarnegieMellon Miami campus made possible by the investment of $3B from Ken Griffin was a shining moment for our state and country. What stood out, was the intentionality of CMU Pres. Jahanian’s team in reaching out to such a broad range of Miami stakeholders from all of the local universities, MDC/FIU/UM + electeds + community and private sectors groups. I spoke with students & faculty members like Dr. Jignesh Patel and also research scientists who all want to work collaboratively with our community in addressing the grand challenges we know that face our region and world. It came full circle when I saw one of my son @nabs_labs, closest friends who is a Freshman at the CMU Griffin School of Computer Science. Seeing a Miami kid back at home for this announcement was a harbinger of the impact and opportunity that will come from an R1 Research juggernaut setting up a campus in our Miami. The idea that a Miami kid like that and so many others could soon build/thrive and grow our ecosystem arising from this catalytic event is a sign of how much uplift is possible in our future.

Pittsburgh has always reinvented itself. As a former @CarnegieMellon trustee, I know what my friend Ken Griffin’s extraordinary $3 billion investment means for CMU and for Pittsburgh: $1 billion to strengthen the university’s Pittsburgh campus and $2 billion to launch Carnegie Mellon University Miami. It’s a huge vote of confidence in an institution that is helping shape America’s future.