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Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are joining forces in a new research center designed to study and seek ways to halt the proliferation of extremist hate.
The announcement comes amid rising fears about ethnic violence against Asian Americans. On Tuesday night in Atlanta, a gunman killed eight people, six of Asian descent, at three massage parlors.
The genesis of the new center to study extremist hate, however, dates back more than two years.
Officials said the Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center is the result of conversations spurred by the Oct. 27, 2018, Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood that left 11 worshippers dead after a gunman stormed the building, home to three congregations, during Saturday morning services. ....

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