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May 13, 2004 Vol. 14, No. 42
The "8 1/2 x 11 News" is published each week by the University Advancement Division. News of campus interest should be sent to one of the following editors:
Ed Delaney, 412-268-1609
(ed47@andrew.cmu.edu) 2001 Editions are available online. 2002 Editions are available online. 2003 Editions are available online. Previous editions are available online.
UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES ITS 107TH COMMENCEMENT THIS SUNDAY Carnegie Mellon's 107th Commencement will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 16, in Gesling Stadium. More than 2,100 degrees will be conferred. Candace Sheffield Matthews (E'81), president of the SoftSheen-Carson division of L'Oréal USA, Inc., is the keynote speaker. She earned an MBA from Stanford University and held senior marketing positions at General Mills, Procter & Gamble, Bausch & Lomb, CIBA Vision Corporation and The Coca-Cola Company. She then joined L'Oréal and in 2001 became president of SoftSheen-Carson, L'Oréal's worldwide headquarters for hair-care products for people of African descent. —Joining Matthews on the commencement platform will be three honorary degree recipients: C.D. Mote Jr., an internationally recognized scholar for his research in dynamic systems and biomechanics; William D. Ruckelshaus, the first administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and Richard A. Tapia, an internationally known researcher in computational and mathematical sciences and a national leader in educational outreach programs. For more on Matthews, Mote, Ruckelshaus and Tapia, visit www.cmu.edu —Larry Kurzweil (IM'77, IA'78), president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal CityWalk, will be the keynote speaker at the Tepper School of Business graduate school diploma ceremony on Saturday, May 15, at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, will speak at the Heinz School's diploma ceremony at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 16, at Temple Rodef Shalom, corner of Fifth and Morewood avenues. For more on Kurzweil and Cummings, visit www.cmu.edu/PR/releases04/040511_hollywood.html and www.cmu.edu/PR/releases04/040421_blackcaucus.html —Further information on commencement is available at www.cmu.edu/commencement THREE PROFESSORS RECEIVE UNIVERSITY'S HIGHEST ACADEMIC HONOR Professors Randal E. Bryant, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Joel Tarr have been named University Professors, the highest academic distinction Carnegie Mellon faculty members can achieve. The title is awarded on the basis of national or international recognition for research, artistic and literary accomplishments, and other scholarly activities. Bryant, the President's Professor of Computer Science, is the newly appointed dean of the School of Computer Science. He has achieved wide recognition in academia and industry for developing computer-aided design tools that simulate and verify digital circuits, and for his research in symbolic manipulation and parallel computation. Matyjaszewski, the J.C. Warner University Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at the Mellon College of Science, is renowned for developing atom transfer radical polymerization, a controlled living polymerization that allows precise, nanoscale control over the formation of polymers. Tarr, the Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of Urban and Environmental History and Policy, is one of the nation's leading scholars of urban history, particularly the history and impact of urban technological systems and the problems of environmental pollution. Information: www.cmu.edu/PR/releases04/040510_academichonor.html NEWS BRIEFS —President Jared L. Cohon and Provost Mark Kamlet will host the annual Staff Picnic from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday, May 24, in the Wiegand Gym and Rangos Ballroom, University Center (UC). Food will be served throughout the entire picnic time. Picnic-goers must present a valid Carnegie Mellon ID. Shuttle information will be provided closer to the time of the picnic. —The Carnegie Mellon Women's Association elected the following officers for the 2004-2005 year: president: Sandy Brenner Hill; vice president, programs: Denise Fazio; co-vice presidents, membership and publicity: Jill Diskin (on campus) and Merlyn Williams (off campus); secretary: Marge McIntyre Cain; treasurer: Gloria Claus; newsletter editor: Sally Stewart (committee chairs by appointment); by-laws: Gloriana St. Clair; scholarship: Virginia Schatz; Web site administrator: Donna Konias. Further information: www.cmu.edu/CMWA PERSONAL MENTION —MBA students Joshua Gerlick, Yogesh Oka and Mark O'Leary, who formed a new diagnostic medical device company called EANeedle, won the 21st annual Moot Corp international business plan competition, known as the Super Bowl of business plan competitions, at the University of Texas on May 8. As the winner, EANeedle receives the chance to negotiate a $100,000 investment from the Moot Corp Pontoon Fund. They also receive office services from the Austin Technology Incubator valued at $25,000, legal services valued at $25,000, and an invitation to open the NASDAQ Stock Market Aug. 6. For more, visit http://business.tepper.cmu.edu/default.aspx?id=142733 —The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has elected Egon Balas, University Professor of Industrial Administration and Applied Mathematics and Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research, as an external member. —Carnegie Mellon investigators are working with experts from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a process to target and destroy groundwater toxins through the use of "smart" nanoparticles. The university's team includes professors Greg Lowry, Sara Majetich, Krysztof Matyjaszewski, David Sholl and Robert Tilton. Also working on the project are post-doctoral researchers Wahab Almusallam and Traian Sarbu, and doctoral students Yueqiang Liu, Navid Saleh and Kevin Sirk. Further information: official.cmu-news, April 19. —For the second consecutive year, students from the Tepper School of Business have won the regional championship in the Students in Free Enterprise community service competition. This year's winning team includes Edward Liang, Cindy Hsu, Jennifer Toda, Lily Feng and ctor Chu. Their activities included helping a Pittsburgh entrepreneur launch an e-commerce Web site to promote Pittsburgh's fashion industry, teaching elementary students about cultural diversity and the global economy, and organizing a campus game show about ethical decisions. —Chad Smith, a Heinz School student in Health Care Policy and Management, has been awarded the Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship to study public health in Johannesburg, South Africa. —Sridhar Seetharaman, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and Philip LeDuc, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, have won 2004 National Science Foundation Career Awards for successfully integrating technology and research into the classroom. Seethharaman received a five-year, $600,000 grant to study the behavior of nonmetallic particles in steel. LeDuc received a five-year, $400,000 grant to study the structure inside a living cell. —The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has announced the winners of its AJ Awards, named for Angel Jordan, founding father of the SEI. The awards recognize individuals and teams whose work crosses organizational boundaries and whose outstanding commitment has significantly impacted the SEI community. Categories and winners are: Contribution: Richard Pethia; Dedication: David Gregg; Innovation: The Online Registration Implementation Team—Elaine Bolster, Rosemary Darr, Carla Grandillo and Amy Leyland; Director's Office Award for Excellence: Watts Humphrey. —MCS neurobiologist Justin Crowley has been named a 2004 Searle Scholar. The Searle program supports the research of junior faculty with outstanding potential in the fields of chemistry, medicine and the biological sciences. The three-year, $240,000 award will allow Crowley to extend his research on the formation of neural circuits in the primary visual cortex, the region of the brain that initially processes visual signals. —Catalina Achim, an assistant professor of chemistry, has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for new faculty members, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The five-year, $510,000 grant recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Achim received the award in support of her research on incorporating metal ions into peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic analog of DNA. |
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