October 3, 2002

Vol. 13, No. 13

The "8 1/2 x 11 News" is published each week by the Department of Public Relations. News of campus interest should be sent to
Ed Delaney, 412-268-1609 (ed47@andrew.cmu.edu) or Bruce Gerson, 412-268-1613 (bg02@andrew.cmu.edu). The newsletter is available on the official.cmu-news and cmu.misc.news bulletin boards.

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CEOs from some of America's largest companies, government officials, labor leaders, academics and others will meet at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Oct. 8 - 9 for an unprecedented national symposium to discuss prospects for economic growth in a new environment of heightened security costs for American companies.

—Raymond V. Gilmartin, chairman of the Council on Competitiveness and chairman and CEO of Merck & Company, Inc., and Jared Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon, are co-hosting the symposium. Cohon is a member of the council's executive committee.

—Among those featured at the symposium are Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, Council of Economic Advisors Chairman Glenn Hubbard, National Governor's Association chairman Governor Paul Patton (D-Ky) and CEO's from AT&T, BellSouth, Kemper Insurance, Roadway Express and others. The symposium is supported by the National Governors Association, the Business Roundtable, the National Academies and the National Association of Manufacturers.

—The symposium is by invitation only, however it will be broadcast on the Web at www.competitiveness.org using End System Multicast (ESM) technology, pioneered by a Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science research team led by Associate Professor Hui Zhang. ESM can only be deployed by Windows users because software for other operating systems has not yet been completed. For directions on how to tune in to the upcoming conference, see www.cs.cmu.edu/~ESM-streaming.

—Further information: www.compete.org/newsroom/readnews.asp?id=54

BUSY HOMECOMING WEEKEND PLANNED FOR ALUMNI

Alumni from many parts of the U.S. are gathering on campus for the annual homecoming celebration, Thursday, Oct. 4 - Sunday, Oct. 6. Major events include college and department receptions, reunion celebrations, educational seminars, alumni awards ceremony, parade of classes, football game and President Cohon's address.

—The schedule of events for each day is available on the Web at www.cmu.edu/alumni/

TEAM WINS $2.1 MILLION TO BUILD ONLINE FORUM FOR CITIZEN DELIBERATION

The National Science Foundation has approved a three-year, $2.1 million grant to support a Carnegie Mellon team of "electronic democracy" researchers. Led by faculty members Peter M. Shane and Peter Muhlberger of the Heinz School, and Robert Cavalier of the Department of Philosophy, the team seeks to develop and test software that would enable citizens to use the Internet more effectively to learn about, and act upon, community issues.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE UNIVERSITY'S EDUCATION AWARDS REQUESTED

The university community is invited to nominate members of the faculty, staff and administration for Carnegie Mellon's three major educational awards: the Academic Advising Award (formerly called the Undergraduate Advising Award but changed to recognize the advising of graduate students), The Robert E. Doherty Award for Sustained Contributions to Excellence in Education and The Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching. Nominations for this academic year must be received by Monday, Nov. 4. Complete information is posted on official.cmu-news, Sept. 23.

UNIVERSITY ACQUIRES ONE-MILLIONTH LIBRARY COLLECTION

University Libraries has recently acquired its one-millionth collection. The symbolic volume is Liber Scriptorum, The First and Second Books of the Authors Club of New York (1893 and 1921), a pair of limited volume editions. The copies were part of the Carnegie family library at Skibo Castle in Scotland, and are a gift to the university from the Carnegie UK Trust on behalf of Carnegie heirs.

—The Authors Club of New York, organized in 1882, was a social club for men and a support group for younger writers. Each member, including Andrew Carnegie, contributed an original signed essay, story or poem. Carnegie contributed a signed essay on poet Robert Burns, "Genius Illustrated from Burns," published in The First Book. The second book contains a eulogy written about Carnegie.

—Liber Scriptorum has been digitized and is on the Web at doi.library.cmu.edu/10,1184/OCLC/04613595 and doi.library.cmu.edu/10,1184/OCLC/01487370

UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN BEGINS OCT. 7; WIN ORLANDO TRIP, $500 TO 7 SPRINGS

Carnegie Mellon's annual United Way Campaign begins Monday, Oct. 7, with several incentives for online donors. Starting Oct. 7, those contributing through the Web at www.unitedwaypittsburgh.org/uwac/carnegiemellon will be entered in a raffle for a trip for four to Orlando, Fla., compliments of the United Way. The prize includes round trip airfare from Pittsburgh and use of a four-bedroom home for seven nights. The home is 15 minutes from Disney World. You must make your contribution online by Dec. 31 to be eligible to win the trip, which must be taken by July 30, 2003. The drawing will be held on Jan. 15, 2003. Many other prizes are listed on official.cmu-news, Oct. 2.

—Other prizes to be raffled off among university donors, include a $500 gift certificate to Seven Sprints Ski Resort.

NEWS BRIEFS

—Faculty and staff can update their demographic information (campus phone number, campus address, home address, etc.) for the 2003 Faculty/Staff Directory (paper directory) through audit forms which will be distributed Oct. 7 - 11. Review your information and return only those audits needing correction to your departmental DRIVE administrator whose name is printed on the audit. Your department must receive your corrected audit form no later than Oct. 22 for your updated information to be included in the 2003 directory.

PERSONAL MENTION

—Michael Gallmeyer, assistant professor of finance, and Burton Hollifield, associate professor of financial economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA), received the "Best Overall Paper" award during the 2002 European Finance Association Meeting in Berlin last August. Their paper is entitled "An Examination of Heterogeneous Beliefs with a Short Sale Constraint."

—Byungjoon Yoo, GSIA Ph.D. student, has been named the Outstanding Winner of Penn State's second Annual eBusiness Research Center Doctoral Award competition for his proposal "Biased or Neutral? Public or Private? Ownership Structure and Business Model of Electronic Business-to-Business Marketplaces."

—Mark Manuszak, assistant professor of economics, GSIA, received the International Journal of Industrial Organization Essay Prize at the 2002 Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics for his paper "The Impact of Upstream Mergers on Retail Gasoline Markets."

—Hillary Carey, a 2000 graduate of the Communication Design bachelor's program and currently a second-year master's student in Interaction Design, presented her paper, "Corporate Decision Making and Part Differentiation: A Strategy for Customer-Driver Product Development Planning," at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers conference in Montreal, Canada, on Sept. 29.

—Christopher Jones, principal lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, has received a Fulbright scholarship for lecturing on multimedia authoring at the Portuguese Catholic University, Porto, Portugal, from October 2002 to January 2003.

CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS

—Friday, Oct. 4: Homecoming Concert. Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, conductor. 9 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall. Ticket information: 412-268-2383.

—Monday, Oct. 7: Adamson Writers Series. Award-winning narrative poet Mark Brazaitis, assistant professor of English at West Virginia University. 8 p.m., Adamson Wing, Baker Hall. Information: official.cmu-news, Sept. 13.

—Tuesday, Oct. 8: Graduate Women's Gathering. 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., Rangos 3, UC. Connecting luncheon for women grads, faculty and administrators. No structured discussion is planned. Participants are asked to "wear their research on their sleeves." Register online at uri.web.cmu.edu/gradprograms/multiregis.html

—Thursday, Oct. 10: Staff Council representatives will be selling Entertainment Books in the University Center, 1st floor near the Connan Room, 10 a.m. ­ 2 p.m. The books are $20 each. See official.cmu-news, Oct. 2.

—Friday, Oct. 11: Mechanical Engineering Seminar. "MEMS Systems Research," Albert Pisano, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. Scaife Hall 125, 2:45 p.m.

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