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October 13, 2005 Vol. 16, No. 15
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.
HURRICANE KATRINA IGNITES POLITICAL DEBATE ON DOMESTIC POLICIES The History Department and the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) will present an Oct. 19 panel discussion and town hall meeting to focus on the domestic policies that have come under fire in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "Katrina: Disaster and the Politics of Race and Class in America" will begin at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19 in The Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A. —Hurricane Katrina left death, destruction, and suffering on a scale and scope not seen in the United States since the so-called "great" disasters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its chaotic aftermath and shocking images have ignited important political debate on domestic policies dealing with questions of race and class, individual vs. government responsibility and accountability, and the relationship between society, technology and the environment. This panel discussion and town hall meeting will address the historical and political antecedents to this crisis and explore its consequences for the future of New Orleans, the Gulf States and America. Panel members include: Moderator Joe Trotter, the Mellon Professor of History, chair of the History Department and director of CAUSE; Vagel Keller, visiting assistant professor, History of Technology and the Environment; Chris T. Hendrickson, the Duquesne Light Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Johanna Fernandez, postdoctoral fellow, CAUSE, Department of History. The panel discussion is co-sponsored by the departments of Economics, Modern Languages, Psychology, and Social and Decision Sciences. For more information on CAUSE, visit http://www.hss.cmu.edu/cause/. NEW CENTER TO STUDY TINY, UNHEALTHFUL AIRBORNE PARTICLES Carnegie Mellon researchers, led by Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Professor Neil Donahue, have created a new center to pinpoint the sources and effects of harmful atmospheric particles. "Eighty percent of the particle pollutants we breathe in Pittsburgh come from someplace else, and other Eastern cities are in the same soup," said Donahue. "Everyone is contributing to the problem and no one will be able to solve it themselves, so we are creating a center to investigate a variety of pollution sources." The $2 million Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS) will conduct laboratory and field tests to investigate the health effects of particulate matter, including natural and synthetic nanoparticles, and to understand the role of regional transport of these airborne particles. The center builds on decades of successful research on air pollution at Carnegie Mellon. SCHOOL OF DRAMA'S "PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL" OPENS OCT. 28 For one week each school year, classes and productions in the School of Drama take an intermission while student directors, designers, actors, technicians and playwrights collaborate on more than 40 productions of their own making. The result is the Playground Festival, which showcases a single week's worth of rehearsals and culminates in performances and events staged in and around the Purnell Center for Performing Arts. Events include dramatic and musical performances, installations, mural projects and light shows. This year's playground opens at 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 30. All playground performances are free. Tickets to performances and events will be available through the School of Drama Box Office on Thursday, Oct. 27. For more information, visit http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/drama/playground or call the School of Drama Box Office at 412-268-2407. NEWS BRIEFS —"100 Years of Student Work: Selections from the Architecture Archives" is an exhibit of work by School of Architecture students from 1905 to 2005. The exhibit is on the 4th floor of Hunt Library and will continue through the end of the year. Presented by the Carnegie Mellon Architecture Archives, it includes a sampling of drawings that have survived to become representative of their time. —The newly completed fourth deck of the East Campus Garage opened for parking on Oct. 8. The elevator is also back in service for the basement through level three. Work will need to be done this fall to correct a condition restricting elevator access to the fourth deck. —In light of the recent change in software being used for mailing lists from Majordomo to Mailman, Computer Education in partnership with the Help Center is offering a class on "Using Mailman" that will examine basic list maintenance and provide helpful hints for list management. This session will help transition current users of MajorDomo to Mailman. Registered participants are invited to bring their laptops. The session is 2 - 3 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 26 in the McKenna Room, University Center. Registration is required at http://www.cmu.edu/computing/education/index.html/. Starting in January, Majordomo will no longer be available. At that time, any remaining lists will be moved to Mailman. For more information, contact Computer Education at 8-3086 or computer-education@andrew.cmu.edu. —To subscribe to the university's news bboard, official.cmu-news, go to Mulberry and choose "open mailbox" from the file menu. Type "official.cmu-news" and click on "open." Then choose "subscribe" from the mailbox menu. More than 600 members of the campus community read official.cmu-news each week. —The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery will present "Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art" Oct. 14 through Dec. 11. Groundworks is an outgrowth of a five-year project by 3 Rivers 2nd Nature in Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry that will feature project documentation, images, drawings, wall texts, diagrams and maps intended to inspire conversation about new developments in art and environmental activism. The exhibition is being organized by Jenny Strayer, director of the Miller Gallery, and will travel to additional venues. A series of artist talks will be scheduled throughout the run of the exhibition and a formal symposium will take place Oct. 15 -16. Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery. PERSONAL MENTION —Assistant Mechanical Engineering Professor Philip LeDuc recently served on a research panel created by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to help determine what federal policy makers could do to enhance the science and technology enterprise in the U.S. In addition to LeDuc, the 12-person panel included Nobel Prize Winners Steven Chu and Robert Richardson, and Dan Mote, president of the University of Maryland. —Richard Pattis, associate teaching professor and freshman advisor in the Computer Science Department, has been chosen by the Association of Computing Machinery as the recipient of the 2006 Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. Pattis will receive the award and deliver the keynote address at the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium in Houston, March 1 - 5, 2006. —Art Professor Elaine A. King was the American guest curator for the Ninth Graphic Arts Biennial in Gyor, Hungary. She was also one of the plenary speakers during the museum's opening day activities, addressing issues in contemporary art in the U.S. King also represented the U.S. at the 39th Congress of the Association of International Critics of Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The title of her paper was "Art Criticism? Audiences in a Cultural Maze of Fragmentation and the Academe--A[W]+F= AC." CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Friday, Oct. 21: The first Technology for Life and Living (TELL) conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Select, University Center, Oakland. The conference will highlight opportunities to develop and apply innovative technologies that enable independent living for older adults. It will feature distinguished speakers with expertise in technology, caring for the elderly, health issues associated with aging, and more. It will also showcase a wide array of emerging technologies.TELL is a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The conference program is available at http://www.pitt.edu/~nursing/continuingedu/pdf/Q807_Aging_tech_PCHR.pdf. —Friday, Oct. 21: The College of Engineering with ICES hosts a seminar to showcase the research of the 2004 and 2005 Dowd-ICES Fellows. 3:30 - 5 p.m., Singleton Room, Roberts Hall. Reception follows. Fellowships are awarded to support graduate students who are conducting cutting-edge research on projects for which traditional sources of funding may not be available. —Oct. 27 - 30: Carnegie Mellon Homecoming. Homecoming registration closes on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Register via the Web (http://www.cmu.edu/alumni) or by phone (1-800-226-8258). After registration closes, you can register on-site in Kirr Commons, UC. Registration is open Thursday afternoon, Oct. 27, through Sunday morning, Oct. 30. Further information: http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/homecoming. |
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