 | ||||
|
|
July 8, 2004 Vol. 15, No. 1
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.
PROGRAM TRAINS AREA FACULTY IN CYBERSECURITY Carnegie Mellon is offering a program this summer to help faculty from the Community College of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh Public Schools start new programs and expand existing ones in information security. The program is run by CyLab, a university-wide, multidisciplinary initiative that builds on more than two decades of Carnegie Mellon's leadership in information technology. It is funded by the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse. — Each selected partner in the program sends several faculty members to Carnegie Mellon for an intensive month-long program that enables them to develop expertise and curricula under the guidance of faculty and experts from the Networked Systems Survivability Program in the Software Engineering Institute. Dena Haritos Tsamitis, director of education, training and outreach for CyLab and associate director of the Information Networking Institute, said the outreach is an important step in CyLab's vision of making 20,000 households in the Pittsburgh area and 10 million users worldwide savvy about cybersecurity. — Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases04/040628_cybersecurity.html DRAMA PRESENTS ITS SUMMER NEW PLAY FESTIVAL The School of Drama's Summer New Play Festival begins today, July 8. Six new plays by alumni and students in the School of Drama's dramatic writing program will be presented over two weekends at 8 p.m. in the Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre at the Purnell Center. Tickets are free to the public and will be available at the box office one half-hour prior to curtain. Seating is limited. — The 2004 Summer New Play Festival, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, gives writers the chance to see how an audience responds to their new plays. Through moderated response sessions following each performance, the audience can offer impressions about the works presented. The festival is designed to help writers prepare their scripts for productions in regional theatres around the country. — The featured plays are:
ANDY AWARD NOMINATIONS DUE JULY 12 Nominations are being accepted for the 2004 Andy Awards, the university-wide staff recognition program that honors individual staff members and/or teams whose outstanding dedication and performance have had a significant impact on the university. Awards are given in five categories: dedication, innovation, enthusiasm, citizenship and culture. The deadline for nominations is July 12. Awards are open to all non-faculty university employees. Go to www.cmu.edu/andyawards/ for more information and nomination forms. NEWS BRIEFS — Homecoming is Oct. 15-17. If your college/department is planning an event during the weekend and you have not yet notified the Events Management Office, contact Jennifer Logan (logan2@andrew) to be sure that your event is included in the homecoming schedule. — On Wednesday July 7, Computing Services upgraded the SPAM filtering software available for Andrew email accounts. The current software has been replaced with a product called PureMessage by Sophos (www.sophos.com). Users subscribed to the Andrew SPAM filter service through My Andrew (http://www.cmu.edu/myandrew/) should automatically see 80 to 90 percent of the SPAM email filtered when the new software is deployed. PERSONAL MENTION — Lisa Kirchner has been appointed director of marketing and public relations for the new Carnegie Mellon campus in Doha, Qatar. Kirchner has 15 years of experience in creating and executing strategic media relations and marketing campaigns for both non- and for-profit organizations. — Yang Cai, systems scientist in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, presented his research on security measures for transit systems to the technical panel of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on June 24. The TRB sponsors Cai's research project. TRB Program Manager Harvey Berlin said the project is a "forward-thinking study that was proposed two years before the Madrid Transit Bombing. It has alerted agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration." Cai and his assistant, Paul Li, are working with Richard Shnyder from the Port Authority on field testing of prototypes and proposing new technical concepts. Co-principal investigators of this project include professors Dan Stancil from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Mel Siegel from the Robotics Institute. — Reid Simmons, research professor in the Robotics Institute, has been named associate director for education and chair of the Robotics Institute's doctoral program. He will oversee all educational programs in robotics, teaching assignments, the program committee and the admissions committee. Simmons will work closely with Associate Robotics Professor Illah Nourbakhsh, who heads the institute's master's degree program, Associate Research Professor Mel Siegel, head of the Master of Science in Information Technology-Robotics Technology Program, and Suzanne Muth, graduate student programs manager. Simmons has been a Carnegie Mellon faculty member in computer science and robotics since 1988. He is the most recent recipient of the Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence for his extraordinary contributions to the field of computer science. — Rebecca Steinberg, a junior majoring in technical writing, has received the Eli Lilly Student Scholarship from the American Medical Writers Association. The scholarship will pay for her attendance at the association's conference in October. Steinberg, who has a concentration in science and medical writing, is interning this summer in the School of Computer Science's Media Relations office. CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS — Friday, July 16: Lecture. Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now!", an independent news program. 7 - 9:30 p.m., McConomy Auditorium. Reception at 6 p.m. in the Danforth Lounge, University Center. Tickets for the lecture are $15 for general admission and $12 for students. Tickets for both the reception and the lecture can be purchased for $50 and will include VIP seating, hors d'oeuvres, and a signed copy of Goodman's latest book, "The Exception to the Rulers." Goodman will address a wide range of topics, including the war in Iraq, the deregulation of the airwaves, the silencing of the majority through media and the historical precedent for independent media. Following her talk, she will take questions from the audience. This is a fundraising event for the city of Pittsburgh's public access television station's (PCTV-21) new facility on Penn Avenue. "Democracy Now! "is a daily radio and television news program that airs on more than 225 stations in North America. To purchase tickets for this event, visit www.proartstickets.org, call PCTV-21 at 412 322-7570, or visit The Quiet Storm on Penn Avenue. — Monday, Aug. 2: Carnegie Mellon's 15th Annual Football Alumni Golf Outing at the Longue Vue Country Club, Verona, Pa. Buffet lunch at 11:30 a.m., followed by a "shotgun start" at 1 p.m. The limit is 120 golfers. Deadline to register is July 16. Further information: Coach Rich Lackner, 8-2216. |
||
|
Other Carnegie Mellon News || Carnegie Mellon Home |
||||