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May 16, 2002 Vol. 12, No. 43
The "8 1/2 x 11 News" is published each week by the Department of Public
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MORE THAN 2,000 DEGREES TO BE CONFERRED AT SUNDAY'S COMMENCEMENT The university's 105th commencement ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. in Gesling Stadium. Tom Ridge, director of Homeland Security and former governor of Pennsylvania, will give the keynote address. More than 2,000 bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees will be conferred. This year's student speaker is Jeff Walch, a senior in the Bachelor of Science and Arts program with concentrations in biology and architecture. Complete commencement information is available on the commencement Web site, www.cmu.edu/commencement/ and in the May issue of the Carnegie Mellon News at www.cmu.edu/cmnews/index.html — Networked Media will provide a live Webcast of the commencement ceremony. A test connection page is available at www.cmu.edu/commencement/webcast/ so that individuals who are unable to attend, can test and adjust their settings before the event. CORNUEJOLS, BERRY AND JONES NAMED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS Gerard Cornuejols, Guy C. Berry and Elizabeth W. Jones have been named university professors, the highest academic distinction faculty members can achieve at Carnegie Mellon. The title is awarded on the basis of national and/or international recognition for research, artistic and literary accomplishments, and other scholarly activities. —Cornuejols is the Ford Distinguished Research Professor at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA). His expertise is in the areas of operations research and organizational methods in finance. He has received numerous research grants from the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. He has earned many citations, including the prestigious Lanchester Prize for the best paper in the field of operations research from the Operations Research Society, and the Fulkerson Prize for the best paper in the field of discrete mathematics from the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society. —Berry, professor of chemistry and polymer science, is widely recognized as a leader in rheology and light scattering of polymers. His work has furthered the study of important issues in the conformation and dynamics of macromolecules. He is a co-editor of Progress in Polymer Science and has been a co-editor of the Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics. He was recognized with the1990 Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology and the 1994 American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Award. —Jones, the Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and head of the Department of Biological Sciences, is an internationally respected educator and researcher in the field of genetics. She is the author of two impressive textbooks about genetics and has edited a two-volume and a three-volume monograph on the molecular and cellular biology of yeast. Her research takes genetic approaches to learn how proteins in yeast cells reach their proper destinations. As proteins and functions have been almost obsessively conserved during evolution in all advanced cells like the cells of yeast and the cells of humans, what she learns about cellular assembly in yeast is almost always directly applicable to our own cells. JOIN CARNEGIE MELLON TEAM AT THE AIDS COMMUNITY DAY WALK A Carnegie Mellon team is forming for the annual Pittsburgh AIDS Community Day Walk scheduled for Sunday morning, June 2, at Flagstaff Hill, Schenley Park. The day includes a 5K pledge walk, as well as a 1-mile family walk and activities for children. A free picnic and concert will conclude the day's activities. This event is the biggest annual fundraiser for the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, the region's largest AIDS service organization dedicated to HIV prevention, education, and client support. Information on how to join the Carnegie Mellon walk or to pledge a donation is available at www.andrew.cmu.edu/~soho/walk.html PERSONAL MENTION —Teresa Thomas, former director of public relations for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Mellon College of Science, has been promoted to assistant vice president for media relations in the University Advancement Division, effective immediately. —Chris Hendrickson, head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected to give the 2002 Francis C. Turner Lecture for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), "in recognition of his leadership in the fields of transportation engineering and construction management, for his energetic support of ASCE, and for his intellectual enthusiasm and scholarship." —Katia Sycara, principal research scientist, Robotics Institute, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for her "significant contributions to case-based reasoning, autonomous agents, and multi-agent systems." One of a small and select group of individuals elected each year, Sycara will be recognized at the Fellows Dinner on July 30, during AAAI 2002 (July 28-Aug 1) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Sycara is also the winner of the 2002 Autonomous Agents Research Award "for her influential research activities in multiple sub-areas of agent research including agent architectures, middle agents, and multi-agent negotiation." She will be recognized at the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, July 17 19, in Bologna, Italy. —Emeritus Professor Thomas M. Kerr, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, is chairman of the committee that is selecting Pittsburgh-area firms for American Business Ethics Awards. The firms, chosen for their commitment to business ethics, will be announced and honored at a luncheon at the Duquesne Club on May 31. This annual event is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Society of Financial Services Professionals. —Patrick Riley and Manuela Veloso were awarded the "Best Paper" for "Planning for Distributed Execution through the Use of Probabilistic Opponent Models" at the Sixth International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling in Toulouse, France. —Carolyn Manley has been appointed the new director of university conference services. She replaces Lorrie Safar, who will leave the university this summer to assume full-time duties at home. Manley has been at the university since 1988 and is currently events manager in the University Center. She is a board member of the Carnegie Mellon Black Faculty and Staff Association and president of the Carnegie Mellon Women's Association. —Martin Aurand's "Pittsburgh Architecture: A Guide to Research" and other Architecture Archives Web pages were cited as "indispensable" in an article about architecture research published by the "Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation News," March 2002. An architecture librarian and archivist, Aurand's current projects include making "The Charette," the journal of the Pittsburgh Architectural Club from 1920 to 1974, available in full text at www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/ —Seventeen students from some of America's most prestigious universities will receive grants to study the world's most pressing environmental challenges as Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research. Ph.D. candidates will receive $10,000 grants and master's candidates $5,000. The Carnegie Mellon recipients and their projects are: Charles Stanier, Ph.D. candidate, "Ultrafine particles in the atmosphere: emissions, formation, and growth." Gwen Christini, master's candidate, "Assessing voluntary environmental management system programs." CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Wednesday, May 22: Global Economic & Investment Outlook Conference. 9 a.m., McConomy Auditorium. Presented jointly by the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management and the Gaillot Center for Public Policy at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration. |
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