The Neuroscience Institute was launched to bring together faculty and students from across the University to conduct multi-disciplinary work to advance the state of brain science.  Programmatic activities undertaken in Carnegie Mellon’s BrainHub and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) are included under NI in a new administrative structure. With participation of the CMU community, the strategic planning for the new institute was completed in September 2018.  Faculty hires, program planning and administrative restructuring are underway. 

Administratively, the Neuroscience Institute is affiliated with both the Mellon College of Science (MCS) and the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, but has members from MCS, Dietrich, the College of Engineering, the School of Computer Science, and the College of Fine Arts.