FRFF Projects
The STUDIO administers the Frank-Ratchye Further Fund (FRFF): an endowment to encourage the creation of innovative artworks by the faculty, students and staff of Carnegie Mellon University. With this fund, the STUDIO seeks to develop a cache of groundbreaking projects created at CMU — works that can be described as “thinking at the edges” of the intersection of disciplines. Since the fund’s inception in 2012, the STUDIO has funded more than 600 projects by CMU faculty, staff, and students.
Filter projects by year:
-
Emote: An Original Musical
Tim Carullo and June Spiegel (2024)
-
Embodying the House: Archive as Memory
Mira Teng (2024)
-
Effortful Design
Ann Li (2024)
-
DYING LIKE GODS
Rowan Acadia Dunlop, Pria Dahiya, Evan Vines (2024)
-
Dragonfly Rug Sculpture
Max Stockdale (2024)
-
Dead Things in Jars (2025 Maddy Varner Award Winner)
Lorie Chen (2024)
-
Collaborative Drawing Machine
Marc Dunand (2024)
-
Caim (Gaelic key-em: meaning Sanctuary)
Priyanka Acharya (2024)
-
Building Facades as Passive Dehumidifiers: Integrating Isothermal Membrane Assisted Dehumidification (IMAD) for Enhanced Thermal Comfort
Nandan Bhusry (2024)
-
Behind the Seams: The Story of the Dance Costume
Kendall Swendsen (2024)
-
Asspire
Jude Bissonette (2024)
-
Anakálypsi: Hidden stories embedded in charmed artifacts
Daphne Peters (2024)
-
AI Robot Girlfriend President
Zsofi Markus (2024)
-
Agent-Body Retreival
Em Lugo (2024)
-
A Million Questions
Laasya Bosukonda (2024)
-
3D Modeling Tutorials
Jamie Tseng (2024)
-
Minjin Batzorig (2024)
-
Wearable Sensor Glove for Music Control
Janika Oh, Annika Wu (2023)
-
Vegetable Paper Craft (2023 Maddy Varner Award Winner)
Jennifer Shin (2023)
-
Tilt (2024 Maddy Varner Award Winner)
Hannah Lesser (2023)
-
The Mother Trees
Katherine Pukinskis (2023)
-
Stages of Convergence: Exploring Action-based Platforms for Collaborative Prototyping
Shih-Hsueh Wang (2023)
-
Sound Hologram
Daniel Rosenberg Munoz and Miles Scharff (2023)
-
Somewhere – For your Eyes and Ears
Ningning Yang (2023)
-
SoftWare/CookWare
Shenai Chan (2023)
-
SIMS (Souvenirs in Moments)
Emma Im (2023)
-
Simona’s Search
CMU Drama Students (see full credits below) (2023)
-
Sheboygan Viewfinder
Ginger Brooks Takahashi (2023)
-
Rite of Passage
Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum (2023)
-
Polaroid Real+
Serena Zhang (2023)
-
Permissible Dose
Erin Mallea (2023)
-
One Big Eye
Sobia Ahmad & Benny Shafer (2023)
-
Olfactory Media Library
Alex Young and Lindsey French (2023)
-
Mitigating Toxicity in League of Legends
Monica Kawade, Prof. Geoff Kaufman (Advisor), Farhan Ahmed, Lisa Yu Li, Lei Lei Tun, Gaurav Nemade, Kyle Kawakami, Junghyun Choy (2023)
-
Kombucha Boom? Sustainable Options for the Costume Industry
Claudia Brownlee (2023)
-
John Henry Incomplete Track List + (Extended)
Dariyah Scott (2023)
-
Jambo
Eric Zhao and Jiaqi Wang (2023)
-
Inkling
Qixin Zhang (2023)
-
How Things Connect
Ling-Lin Ku (2023)
-
Fragmented Mythology: Afera
Najjiyah (Najj) Al-Mahi (2023)
-
Feeling Into
Leah Minsky (2023)
-
Entangled Stories of the Anthropocene
Priyanka Bista (2023)
-
Eelam
(2023)
-
Dimensions
Laura Wu (2023)
-
context.
Sophia Hao (2023)
-
Compoundologies: Urban Playbook from the Land of a Million Rice Fields
Tommy Yang (2023)
-
City Walk
Monalisa (Lisa) Malani (2023)
-
Channels (#1 Pittsburgh/Los Angeles)
Geneva Skeen (2023)
-
Camber Chair
Hazel Froling (2023)
-
Blurred Bodies
Stephen Neely (2023)