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June 30, 2005 Vol. 15, No. 49
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. 2004 Editions are available online. Previous editions are available online.
KAMLET REAPPOINTED AS PROVOST; ALSO NAMED SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT President Jared L. Cohon has reappointed Mark S. Kamlet to a second five-year term as provost and has also named him senior vice president, effective July 1. "In our administration, the provost plays a central and especially important role in both day-to-day operations and long-term strategy. Mark has been nothing short of brilliant in filling this role. His reappointment is a great thing for the university," Cohon said. He also noted that Kamlet's new title of senior vice president recognizes the key role the provost plays in almost all aspects of administration. —Since joining the faculty in 1976, Kamlet has had a distinguished career at the university. A professor of economics and public policy, he was head of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Kamlet was dean of the Heinz School for eight years before becoming provost. He is an expert in the economics of health care, quantitative methodology and public finance. Kamlet is on the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Board of the Institute of Medicine and has served in recent years on several expert consensus panels for the Centers for Disease Control, the Institute of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was recently appointed by the director of the NIH to be a member of the Public Access Working Group, which will monitor the impact of open access to results of NIH-funded research. He has also served as chairman of the board of Carnegie Learning and iCarnegie. POSNER CENTER CELEBRATES JULY 4TH WITH BILL OF RIGHTS DISPLAY University Libraries will display one of only four existing first editions of the Bill of Rights through July 8 as part of a larger Independence Day exhibit at the Posner Center. Donated to University Libraries by the Posner family, the 1792 document is a vital component of U.S. history and one of the many notable works in the Posner Collection. The Bill of Rights will be on display from 1 to 4 p.m. on weekdays in the Posner Center, with the exception of July 4. Other ongoing exhibits at the Posner Center include "Beautiful Books" and "Music of the Spheres." ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY CENTER CONJURES UP FRANKLIN'S GHOST The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) has created "Ben Franklin's Ghost," a virtual Benjamin Franklin with whom people can interact, for the Lights of Liberty Show in Philadelphia. People who wish to chat with Franklin's Ghost will find it floating on a screen above a table, which holds a book of questions about his life. Visitors can touch the questions that interest them or type in other ones while Franklin answers in real time. —The technology enabling this exchange is called Synthetic Interview, which was invented and patented by Scott Stevens, a senior systems scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and Michael Christel, senior systems scientist in the Computer Science Department. It's a way of capturing information from a database so that the person accessing it appears to have a natural conversation with a video persona. Jessica Trybus, director of edutainment for the ETC, created Franklin's Ghost and ETC faculty member Chris Klug designed the lighting for the exhibit. For more, visit http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases05/050628_etc.html. HR ANNOUNCES TUITION BENEFIT CHANGES FOR 2005-06 The tuition benefit for children of staff has been set at $2,650 per semester for the 2005-06 academic year. Staff who qualify can receive a maximum of $5,300 for the 2005-06 academic year for children who attend an institution other than Carnegie Mellon. For more, see http://hr.web.cmu.edu/current/work-life/tuition/child/. NEWS BRIEFS —Carnegie Mellon CyLab will work with Tatum Partners to offer a first-of-its-kind executive education program for today's fast-paced, mid-career chief information officers (CIOs). The CIO Essentials curriculum will include 12 courses that will be available to businesses across the country seeking to equip their executives with tools to lead them through the strategic implementation of technology. The inaugural CIO Essentials is scheduled to debut in Atlanta later this summer. For more on the initiative, visit http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases05/050627_cylab.html. —Staff Council will present this year's employee picnic at Kennywood Park on Saturday, July 9. Pavilions 8 and 9 will be reserved all day. Tickets are now on sale at the following times and locations: Friday, July 1, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., UC; Tuesday, July 5, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., Mellon Institute; Tuesday, July 5, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., UC; Thursday, July 7, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., UC. Only employees presenting their own Carnegie Mellon ID may purchase one Ride-All-Day ticket for $5 (valid July 9 only). Up to four additional Ride-All-Day tickets may be purchased for $12 each. Five additional Ride-All-Day tickets are $17 each. For more, see official.cmu-news, June 8. —The Office of Government Relations recently launched its Web site at http://www.cmu.edu/govrel. The site includes information about the office's mission, staff and services, and includes links to federal, state and local government news and information sites. PERSONAL MENTION —Duane Adams is stepping down as vice provost for research effective July 1, but will continue to assist Provost Mark Kamlet with several projects on a half-time basis. Adams joined Carnegie Mellon in 1984 as a research professor in the School of Computer Science, where he also served as associate dean for research, associate department head for computer science and associate director of research in the Robotics Institute. He spent four years on a university assignment as deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency before becoming vice provost for research in 1996. During his tenure, Adams has played key roles in the university's central administration. As vice provost he was instrumental in structuring research projects for Carnegie Mellon, building relationships with federal funding agencies and establishing research relationships with a number of corporations. He was also influential in the establishment and development of the West Coast Campus, the construction of Newell-Simon Hall and various university strategic planning and management activities. —Jim Rankin, head football coach at North Allegheny High School for 18 years, has joined the Carnegie Mellon staff and will coach the offensive line. Rankin led North Allegheny to the WPIAL playoffs 14 times, winning the WPIAL and PIAA titles in 1990. In 26 years as a head coach, Rankin has a 181-105-3 record. —Stacy Pane relocated to Washington, D.C., to accept two half-time positions with the university: director of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy's Washington, D.C., office and communications director for the Office of Government Relations. She previously worked for the Office of Government Relations on campus for four years, most recently as assistant director. —Alisha Bhagat, a recent graduate with majors in anthropology and history and a minor in materials science and engineering, received a Fulbright Grant to work on her project on Islamic feminism in India. —Erin E. Boyd, an electrical and computer engineering graduate, received the $1,000 Judith A. Resnik Award. This award was established at Carnegie Mellon in 1990 to recognize and encourage an outstanding female senior in the sciences or engineering planning to attend graduate school in engineering, medicine or the sciences. —Jim Salvia, a graduating senior in electrical and computer engineering; David Bradley, a master's student in robotics; and Matthew Wachs, a doctoral student in computer science, received National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowships. —Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Rob A. Rutenbar and doctoral student Saurabh Tiwary were nominated for Best Paper at the 2005 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference for their paper, "Scalable Trajectory Methods for On-Demand Macromodel Extraction." —Elizabeth Wiltrout, a junior chemistry major, received the $2,000 Joseph F. Mulach, Jr. and Louise A. Mulach Scholarship for Females in Science and Engineering from the Pittsburgh Foundation. The scholarship supports female students in engineering, biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics or physics who attend local colleges. CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Friday, July 8: Nomination deadline for this year's 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. For information and nomination forms, visit http://www.cmu.edu/andyawards/
—Tuesday, July 19: Staff Council Open Forum on Parking. Noon-1 p.m., McConomy Auditorium, UC. Questions may be submitted in advance to mgd@andrew.cmu.edu with the word "parking" in the subject line. Light refreshments will be served.
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