July 10, 2003

Vol. 14, No. 1

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
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International trade attorney Marco Delgado, a 1990 graduate of the Heinz School (and Mexican-American), has given the school $250,000 to establish the Marco Delgado Fellowship for the Advancement of Hispanics in Public Policy and Management.

—The gift is the largest by an alumnus in the Heinz School's history and will be matched 100 percent by the school. The fellowship will be used to strengthen recruitment efforts and provide scholarship funds to talented Hispanic graduate students in public policy and management.

—"Marco Delgado's generous gift is very exciting and extremely important to the Heinz School, which has had a deep commitment to diversity since its founding in 1968," said Mark Wessel, acting dean of the Heinz School. "Given the growth of the Hispanic population in the United States and the importance of that constituency, we are seeking ways to reach out and make Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon a more accessible place for Hispanic students. This fellowship will greatly strengthen our ability to do that."

VOTE ONLINE FOR YOUR STAFF COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE

Staff Council is conducting its annual election of campus representatives. All full-time and part-time Carnegie Mellon staff not represented by Faculty Senate or a collective bargaining unit are eligible to vote in this election. Listed on the ballot are the candidates who have been nominated to serve a two-year term on Staff Council, effective Aug. 21.

—You may vote online at http://www.cmu.edu/staff-council/vote.html for as many candidates as you wish. The nominees receiving the highest number of votes will become elected representatives for 2003 - 2005 and will join the returning representatives who will be serving their second year.

—The voting deadline is Wednesday, July 16. Paper ballots are also available by contacting sc-elections@andrew or calling 412-268-5695.

SCHOOL OF DRAMA HOSTS 2003 SUMMER NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

The School of Drama's Summer New Play Festival, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, begins Friday, July 11. Six new plays will be performed over two weekends in the Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre at the Purnell Center for the Arts. Tickets are free to the public and will be available one half-hour prior to curtain at the box office. Seating is limited.

—The festival will showcase three plays each weekend that are the work of the School of Drama Dramatic Writing Program alumni and students. The festival is designed to help writers prepare their scripts for productions in regional theatres around the country as well as New York City.

—The schedule of plays is posted on official.cmu-news, July 1.

NEWS BRIEFS

—The university is offering a four-week program of information security education to historically black and Hispanic-serving institutions that began July 7 and continues through Aug. 1.The program, begun last year and funded by the National Science Foundation, is designed to train the next generation of Internet security professionals. Partnering institutions for the this year's session include Howard University, Morgan State University, Hampton University, the University of Texas at El Paso, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi and California State University at San Bernardino. The program is conducted by staff of the Software Engineering Institute and its CERTŪ Coordination Center, as well as faculty from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Heinz School.

—Looking for a job at Carnegie Mellon is now easier than ever. Human Resources' enhanced job posting site, hr.web.cmu.edu/jobs/index.htm, lets applicants search for jobs by category and provides information about working at the university. Send your comments and questions to Jill Diskin at jd51@andrew.cmu.edu.

—A new session of Weight Watchers At Work will be held on Tuesdays, 11:45 a.m.- 1 p.m., July 22 through Oct. 7. The first meeting is in the Dowd Room, University Center. Anyone interested must preregister so that enough program material is available. The preregistration form is at http:// www.andrew.cmu.edu/~jm5h/ww-top.html. Meeting times and places are also on the Web site. Weight Watchers will only start the session when 15 paying members are pre-registered. Further information: official.cmu-news, July 7.

PERSONAL MENTION

—Annaswamy Gopal, director of development for Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Software Research International (ISRI), died suddenly of a heart attack on July 4. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gopal was responsible for helping to establish several Carnegie Mellon software engineering educational programs in the Asia Pacific region and for Carnegie Mellon's West Coast campus. He also played a key role in numerous other ISRI initiatives. He is survived by his wife, Sumitra, his daugher, Aarthia, and his son, Sudhir. Memorial contributions may be made to the Annaswamy Gopal Memorial Fund c/o Walter Schearer, associate director, Institute for Software Research International, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 or to the American Heart Association, 10 Duff Road, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235. A memorial service will be held at the university in the fall.

—The Cambridge University Press has published Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Marc De Graef's new book, "Introduction to Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy." The book, which is based on De Graef's Electron Optical Methods of Materials course, is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as for researchers new to the field.

—Matt Howell, Service Leader for the Computing Services Help Center, has been elected to a two-year term as Co-VP/Communications for the Pittsburgh Service and Support Professionals organization. Howell has previously served as Co-VP/Student Chapters for the organization. Pittsburgh Service & Support Professionals is the local chapter of the Help Desk Institute, the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry. Its membership is composed of Help Desk staff, consultants, technicians, managers, vendors and others who are active in the help desk industry including both internal and external customer support.

—Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Sridhar Seetharaman and graduate students Yan Wang and Martin Valdez have been awarded the 2003 Marcus Grossmann Young Author Award by the American Society for Metals (ASM). This award is for the best paper published in a given year in Metallurgical Transactions by authors under the age of 40. The three will receive the award in Pittsburgh at the ASM Award dinner on Oct. 14.

—Computing Services has announce that, effective May 1, Betsy Pursh assumed the responsibilities of Telecom manager. She has been Telecom's financial and long distance analyst since January 1989. Kevin Deak has been promoted from Telecom field service leader to Telecom assistant manager. Kevin has been in Telecom for 13 years and with Datacomm since 1988. Mary L. Pretz-Lawson has been appointed associate director for technology planning and project management in Computing Services. She has been the head of Telecom since 1990.

—Pradeep Khosla, head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of ECE and Robotics, has been elected ellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) "for significant contributions to automated modeling, reconfiguration, and design of robotic and real-time software systems, and for encouraging the field through professional leadership."

—ECE Professor Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu's article, "New Heights for Hard Disk Drives," is the cover story of the July/August edition of Materials Today, a magazine for material scientists around the world. The report highlights the past and present directions of data storage research, and investigates two newer technologies: perpendicular and heat-assisted magnetic recording.

CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS

—Wednesday, July 30: Orientation 2003 Information Session. 2 - 3 p.m., Rangos 3, UC. Learn what will be happening when Orientation 2003 takes place Tuesday, Aug. 19 through Sunday, Aug. 24. An overview of the program will be offered and your questions will be answered. For more information, contact the Office of Orientation at 412-268-4886 or go to http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/first-year/

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