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August 19, 2004 Vol. 15, No. 7
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.
ORIENTATION BEGINS TUESDAY; PARENTS TO USE MOREWOOD PARKING LOT The university will welcome 1,394 first-year students to campus next Tuesday for the beginning of Orientation Week, Aug. 24-29 (http://www.studentaffairs.cmue.du/first-year/orientation/2004/). There will be a large volume of traffic on campus that day, as parents will be moving their students into the various residence halls. Parking will be prohibited on Margaret Morrison, Tech and Frew streets to allow parents to unload their students' belongings near their residence halls. —To improve parking for parents that day, the Morewood Gardens Parking Lot is being made available to them. Permit holders in the Morewood Gardens lot, the largest parking facility on campus, will be assigned alternate parking for that day based on their place of employment. A parking placard identifying the location will be mailed to permit holders. —Beth Meiser, assistant to the university's chief financial officer and head of Parking Services, encourages members of the campus community to use alternate transportation that day to ease traffic flow and parking congestion. If you plan to use alternate transportation that day, email Meiser at meiser@cmu.edu or call 8-4286 to let her know that you will not need an alternative parking spot. TSAMITIS TO HEAD INFORMATION NETWORKING INSTITUTE Carnegie Mellon has named Dena Haritos Tsamitis to head the Information Networking Institute (INI), a university-wide initiative founded in 1989 to offer professional graduate degree programs that combine technology, management and policy. Since 2002, Tsamitis has served as the associate director of the institute, handling its daily operations, including the information networking (MSIN) and information security (MSISTM) graduate degree programs. She also played a large role in creating the MSIN degree program offered in Athens, Greece, in collaboration with Athens Information Technology. —In addition to her role in the INI, Tsamitis helped found Carnegie Mellon's CyLab, a university-wide initiative focused on developing new technologies for measurable, available, secure, trustworthy, and sustainable computing and communications systems. Since October 2003, she has served as director of education, training and outreach for CyLab. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Heinz School, serves on the Department of Homeland Security Task Force for Information Security Education and Awareness and is part of the Washington, D.C.-based EDUCAUSE Security Education and Awareness Working Group. —For more information, see http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/040819_tsamitis.html GOVERNOR RENDELL NAMES RIVERS TO GAMING CONTROL BOARD Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has named Carnegie Mellon's Assistant Vice President for Enrollment, Sanford Rivers, to a two-year term on the state Gaming Control Board, a seven-member panel that will award gaming licenses and regulate the operation of slot parlors in the state. The Pennsylvania legislature recently approved a new gambling law, which paves the way for 61,000 slot machines in 14 establishments throughout the Commonwealth. —"Sanford Rivers' name at Carnegie Mellon is synonymous with incorruptibility," Governor Rendell said. "As the school's chief labor negotiator and mediator, as well as a veteran NFL official, Sanford has proven to me that his commitment to fairness and ability to solve problems make him the right person to help mold policies that will be successful as the board works to craft this burgeoning industry." Further information: http://www.cmu.edu NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLASS DEVELOPED FOR NON-BUSINESS STUDENTS This fall the Tepper School of Business will offer its Technology-Based Entrepreneurship course to undergraduate and graduate students in the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Mellon College of Science and the School of Computer Science. The course originally was developed to teach non-business majors the process of starting a new business. Now a fresh approach tailors the course to meet the specific needs and interests of students studying engineering, science and computer science. In addition, instructors for each section have relevant entrepreneurial experience in each discipline. Further information: Art Boni, the John R. Thorne Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and deputy director of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship, at boni@andrew.cmu.edu. NEWS BRIEFS —The Bookstore has announced that the 2004-2005 academic calendars are ready for purchase in the stationery department on the lower level. The calendars are printed on one side, are in a new larger format and retail for $1.75 each. To place orders for pickup, call the stationery department at 8-5591. —C-MITES, the university's center for academically talented youth, is offering 75 different Weekend Workshops (http:// www.cmu.edu/cmites. To receive brochures by mail, contact the C-MITES office at 8-1629 or cmites@cmu.edu —The new session of Weight Watchers begins on Sept. 7. The price is $144 or $132 for life- time members. Meetings are every Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m. If you would like to join, you should attend the meeting on Aug. 31, to sign up and pay the dues. Fifteen paid members are needed before the first meeting in order to continue having the meetings on campus. The Aug.31 meeting will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Connan Room, University Center. Questions: contact Amber Vivis at lbrown@andrew.cmu.edu. PERSONAL MENTION —The following faculty from the Tepper School of Business received Best Paper Awards at the Western Finance Association meeting in late June: Stanley Zin and Bryan Routledge for "Generalized Disappointment Aversion and Asset Prices" and Christine Parlour and Ronald Goettler for "Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order Market," co-authored with Uday Rajan. —Professor Denise Rousseau of the Tepper School of Business and Heinz School, and Guillermo Dabos, a public policy and management doctoral student, won the Best Paper Award for "Social Interaction Patterns Shaping Employee Psychological Contracts: Network-wide and Local Effects" from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. —Shibo Li, Ph.D. 2003, received the "2004 Howard Dissertation Award" at the American Marketing Association's Summer Marketing Educators' Conference where he presented his paper "Essays on Interactive Marketing." —Andrew Pueschel of University Advancement placed in the top 12 in the three-dance division and third in the Gold Syllabus division of the Amateur National Ballroom Championships on Aug. 13. He was also elected president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of The United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association. For more information about ballroom dancing in Pittsburgh, email pueschel@andrew.cmu.edu or go to http://www.pghusabda.org/ —Donald Sutton, professor of history and anthropology, is principal investigator for a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant (2004-5) supporting research on Huanglong ("Yellow Dragon"), a pilgrimage center and World Heritage Site in west China. He and co-principal Investigator Xiaofei Kang, assistant professor of history at St. Mary's College, are writing a book on the interaction of religious practice, ethnicity, tourism and environmentalism, with the provisional title "Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Religion and Ethnicity at China's Margins." CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Aug. 20 - Oct. 3: The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery presents "A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad," an exhibition that provides an in-depth look at new work created by 11 contemporary African and African Diaspora artists who live in Europe and the United States. —Tuesday, Aug. 24: Orientation picnic for Class of 2008. 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., College of Fine Arts (CFA) lawn. The picnic is an opportunity for new students and their family members to meet and interact with faculty and staff. For a complete orientation schedule visit http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/first-year/orientation/
—Tuesday, Aug. 24: Harriet Schwartz, CFA career consultant and author of "Spirituality 101," a guide for keeping and finding your spiritual life on campus, will have an author signing from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. in the Bookstore.
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