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January 31, 2002 Vol. 12, No. 28
The "8 1/2 x 11 News" is published each week by the Department of Public
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PROFESSOR COOPER AND STUDENTS TO CREATE MURAL FOR ROME, ITALY Douglas Cooper, world-renowned muralist who recently was named the Andrew Mellon Professor of Architecture, will work this summer with the Department of Modern Languages to produce a historical mural of Rome, Italy. Carnegie Mellon students from several disciplines will sharpen their Italian language skills by interviewing residents of Rome to learn their perspective on the city's history. —Cooper is celebrated for his murals‹ immense, panoramic views chronicling a city's history. He spends months interviewing a city's residents and melds their stories and rough sketches to map out a memoir of each city. —"I will be taking four Carnegie Mellon students to Rome for the preliminary work on the mural," Cooper says. "Janice Vairo, a Carnegie Mellon instructor in Italian, will help prepare the students and work with them during the project. All work on the project will be conducted in Italian." —This is Cooper's second project to incorporate foreign language training in a mural's creation. In 1996, he, Carnegie Mellon German Professor Steve Brockmann and four German language students produced a mural on location in Frankfurt for the city's central food market, die Kleinmarkthalle. —In 1996, Cooper completed a 200-foot-long mural for permanent display in Carnegie Mellon's University Center (UC). It represents the City of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon's campus in three time frames and from three vantages. FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH In celebration of Black History Month, the university's Black Faculty and Staff Association BFASA) has prepared a series of varied programs throughout February. The schedule for these events is posted on official.cmu-news for Jan. 25 and on the Web at http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/BFASA/ —The celebration begins with a Vendor Fair on Friday, Feb. 1, highlighting African-American food, jewelry, art, books and clothing. The fair is open from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. in the Connan Room, UC. CUARTETO LATINOAMERICANO NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY The Cuarteto Latinoamericano, quartet-in-residence at the School of Music, has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for its "Villa-Lobos: String Quartets, Vol. 6, Nos. 4, 9, 11." The 44th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast on CBS Feb. 27. Members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences select the Grammy Award winners. —The quartet is celebrating their 20th performance season. Violinists Saul and Aron Bitran and cellist Alvaro Bitran, together with violist Javier Montiel, have spent the last two decades touring in Europe and North and South America. When the Grammy winners are announced, Cuarteto Latinoamericano will be making their New Zealand debut at the 2002 New Zealand Festival, an international celebration of the arts. HEINZ SUMMIT INAUGURATES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE The Heinz School's "Summit on Law, Information Technology and Society," Feb. 7-8, will feature several notable telecommunications leaders, including former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Reed E. Hundt and David J. Farber, chief technologist at the FCC and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. They will discuss how making the Internet a universal medium can revive the telecommunications boom. The Hundt/Farber segment is scheduled for 12:30-2 p.m., Feb. 7 in McConomy Auditorium, UC. Organized by Carnegie Mellon's Peter Shane, the summit is a kickoff for the new Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping "techies" and "non-techies" understand how information technology is shaping society and the economy. —"The conference will advance InSITeS's mission of promoting interdisciplinary dialogue for developing new intellectual frameworks for understanding and developing policies to shape information technology in the public interest," said Shane, InSITeS director and a distinguished service professor of law and public policy at the Heinz School. —The Internet is already on its way to transforming financial services and the entire economy. The very strengths of the Internet and this new information technology economy, however, are also posing some of its greatest challenges. Some of those challenges will be addressed by a series of panel discussions, including Carnegie Mellon faculty and more than 30 legal experts talking about everything from law and technology in cybercrime and homeland security to the challenges and opportunities in wireless communication. —Further information is posted on official.cmu-news, Jan. 29. SNAKE ROBOT WILL ASSESS CONTAMINATION AT WASTE SITES Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Howie Choset has received an $800,000 grant from the Department of Energy to build probes that can help assess contamination at waste storage sites. He will use the funding over the next three years to redesign and reconfigure his snake robots to do the task, helping energy officials reach remote locations throughout North America. As the name implies, these robots possess multiple actuated joints enabling them to provide users with wider mobility in often very cramped settings. NEW BRIEFS —Carnegie Mellon Juniors are reminded that the Heinz School is accepting applications for admission to its Accelerated Master's Program for fall 2002. Programs include master of science in public policy and management, master of arts management, and the master of science in health care policy and management. For information, visit the Heinz School home page at www.heinz.cmu.edu. The deadline for applications is March 15.Email questions to: hnzadmit@andrew.cmu.edu PERSONAL MENTION —Ellen Reichenbach, program assistant, undergraduate studies, Department of Chemistry, will retire on Feb. 8 after 27 years at Carnegie Mellon. She has been with the Chemistry Department for 25 of those years. —Cristina H. Amon, the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Institute of Complex Engineered Systems, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her contributions to thermal management techniques for wearable computers and portable electronics. This honor is bestowed upon a limited number of senior IEEE members who have made important contributions to electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession. —Jennifer Smith, administrative coordinator in the Office of Planned Giving, will be leaving the university March 1. She, her husband, Don, and their two daughters, are moving to Kansas City where Don has a taken a position with Wilke Industries. CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Wednesday, Feb. 6: Soup & Substance Lecture. "Happy New Year! Celebrating African History All Year Long." Edda Fields, assistant professor, History. 12:30-1:30 p.m., McKenna/Peter Room, UC. —Wednesday, Feb. 6: Graduate Student Seminar Series. "Academic Job Search: All the Fundamentals" with Cliff Davidson, professor Civil and Environmental Engineering and director, Environmental Institute. Noon - 1:30 p.m., Connan Room, UC. Lunch will be provided to those who register. Register online at www.cmu.edu/adm/apaa/gpo —Wednesday, Feb. 6: The Biotech Club at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration presents "Bioforum," a discussion of the business behind biotechnology. The theme is "Building Value in the Biopharma Pipeline." Tom D'Ambra, CEO, Albany Molecular Research, and Bennet Shapiro, executive vice president, Worldwide Licensing and External Research, Merck Laboratories, are the featured speakers. Chosky Theatre, Purnell Center for the Arts. Further information is posted on official.cmu-news, Jan. 30. —Friday, Feb. 8: Mechanical Engineering Seminar. "What is Mechanical Engineering Anyway?" Ward O. Winer, chair of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. 2:45 p.m., Scaife Hall 125.
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