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January 19, 2006 Vol. 16, No. 26
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. 2005 Editions are available online. Previous editions are available online.
UNIVERSITY RECEIVES RECORD NUMBER OF UNDERGRADUATE APPLICATIONS Carnegie Mellon's Office of Undergraduate Admission set a new record this year with more than 17,000 applications for 2006-07 admission. The old record of 16,696 applications was set in 2001 when Carnegie Mellon joined the Common Application, a non-profit organization that provides a single online or print application that students may submit to any of its nearly 300 member institutions. The final application total will be announced in February. To learn more about the Office of Undergraduate Admission, visit http://www.cmu.edu/admission or call 8-2082. EPP WINS GRANT FOR SECURITY-RELATED RESEARCH The Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support a variety of security-related research projects. Granger Morgan, head of EPP, said the grant will support a wide range of research projects on issues related to security and engineered civil systems, including improved communication among emergency responders, decontamination after a dirty bomb or chemical attack, vulnerability of computer, electric power and water systems, and how to involve the public in key decision making. —Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060116_critical.html COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS RESURRECTS THE BEAUX ARTS BALL ON MARCH 4 After a 10-year hiatus, the College of Fine Arts will revive its legendary Beaux Arts Ball, a multi-disciplinary art party, on Saturday, March 4, to celebrate the college's 100th anniversary. "The Beaux Arts Ball is a tradition going back to the earliest years of the college: a tradition of provocative costumes, energetic dancing and beautiful decoration," said Douglas Cooper, architecture professor and co-chair of the Beaux Arts Ball Committee. "I could think of no more fitting way for our faculty, staff, students and alumni to initiate the college's second century." —Carnegie Mellon began its tradition in 1911 when architect Henry Hornbostel, a member of the first faculty and a dean of the college, introduced the Beaux Arts Ball to campus. The ball became a costume party, usually held every four years in the College of Fine Arts building. Costumes are encouraged, but not mandatory. —The Beaux Arts Ball will be held from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the College of Fine Arts building. Tickets are $40 for students ($35 if reserved by Jan. 27); $75 for alumni, faculty and staff; and $250 for an exclusive Patrons ticket. Tickets can be purchased by check or credit card, by mail or in person at the School of Drama box office in the Purnell Center. Credit cards will also be accepted by phone at 8-2407. Limit two tickets per person. Tickets must be purchased by Feb. 28. No tickets will be sold at the door. NEWS BRIEFS —The Heinz School is establishing the Suresh Konda Memorial Lecture to foster dialogue about information security policy and management issues. The lecture honors Suresh Konda, an alumnus and long-time Carnegie Mellon employee who died tragically in 2003. At the time of his death, Konda worked for the Software Engineering Institute. He was considered a pioneer in information security research and recognized widely for his work on the security of large networks. He received the SEI's first Angel Jordan Award for Innovation in 2002.The Konda lecture is being established through contributions from classmates, friends and colleagues who want to honor him and the lasting contributions he made to the field of information security. For more information and to contribute, visit: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/pdf/development/Konda_memorial.pdf. —According to Science Watch, a bimonthly newsletter published by Thompson Scientific, Carnegie Mellon is a powerhouse for business, economics and management research. A study conducted by the organization evaluated the number of times that an institution's research was cited in economics, business, accounting and management journals. The group also created an "impact" rating by averaging the number of citations by paper. Between January 1995 and April 2005, Carnegie Mellon was No. 7 among institutions ranked by citation impact. The top 10 include the University of Chicago; Harvard; the National Bureau of Economics Research; MIT; the University of California, San Diego; the University of Pennsylvania; Carnegie Mellon; Stanford; Princeton and Northwestern. PERSONAL MENTION —The selection committee of the Academy of Achievement has chosen Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) second-year student Estefania Pickens, a Siebel Scholarship recipient, as a student delegate for the 45th International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles June 1-4. This all-expense-paid program will be attended by 250 students from 40 countries and leaders from the arts, public service, sciences, business and academic areas. —The Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) has announced that professors Susan Finger and Eswaran "Sub" Subrahmanian are the 2005-06 recipients of the Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research. The award will be presented at the CIT Faculty Awards Banquet on April 22 at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. The award is presented annually to individuals for their contributions to systems research in areas that are relevant to the College of Engineering and ICES. —Robert Strauss, Heinz School professor of economics and public policy, has been appointed to a panel of the National Academies Committee on National Statistics. The panel will review the statistical activities of the Census Bureau's Governments Division and submit its report by March 2007. The Governments Division is responsible for conducting a census of governments every five years, and for annually measuring government spending and revenues, short- and long-term indebtedness, governmental employment and government retirement plans. —Graduate student fellowships received by electrical and computer engineering students include the Ann and Martin McGuinn Graduate Fellowship awarded to Debin Gao; the Frank J. Marshall Graduate Fellowship awarded to Jung-Chun (Mike) Kao and Ahren Studer; and the Benjamin Garver Lamme/Westinghouse Graduate Fellowship awarded to Mike Beattie, Ben Henty, Jeff Nelson and James Newsome. ECE undergraduates scholarship recipients are Wilson Tsao, a sophomore, and Jeremy Weagley, a junior, won the Boeing Leadership Scholarship. Lauren Chikofsky, a junior, and Ajay Panagariya, a senior, received Lockheed Martin Undergraduate scholarships. —ETC co-founder and co-director Randy Pausch has decided to step down from administration and return to research and teaching. His role and insight in establishing the ETC is legendary and will be celebrated with the establishment of an annual Randy Pausch Award for the student embodying the best of right brain/left brain thinking. Pausch returns to the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in a full-time capacity, but will remain an adjunct professor in the ETC. —The National Science Foundation has informed professors David Andersen, Alexei Efros and Eric Xing that they will receive its CAREER Award. Andersen is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD) interested in networking and distributed systems. Efros, an assistant professor in the CSD and the Robotics Institute, is interested in computer vision and graphics. Xing is an assistant professor in the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery and the Language Technologies Institute and interacts with CSD faculty and students with interests in computational biology. Further information: official.cmu-news, Jan. 17. —School of Computer Science Ph.D. students Derek Hoiem, robotics, and Jure Leskovec, the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, have been selected as Microsoft Research Fellows for the next two years. Hoiem works with professors Alyosha Efros and Martial Hebert, and is interested in machine learning and computer vision, specifically geometric scene construction. Leskovec works with Professor Christos Faloutsos and is interested in link analysis and large graph mining. CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Jan. 19 - Feb. 28: Staff Council's "Beads for Tulane. . . Adopt a Campus" campaign. Carnegie Mellon staff, faculty and students are encouraged to donate gift cards from Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Target that will be sent to members of Tulane University who continue to suffer from the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Staff Council will have a collection site in the University Center commons area every Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monetary donations will also be accepted.
—Jan. 20 - March 5: As part of the College of Fine Arts (CFA) Centennial Celebration, the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery will host "100% Centennial," a show of alumni work featuring a century of Carnegie Mellon artists, including Andy Warhol, Mel Bochner, Joyce Kozloff and Philip Pearlstein. Works by alumni from all of the college's schools—art, music, architecture, design and drama—will be displayed throughout the gallery's three floors. An opening reception will take place from 5 to 8 p.m., Jan. 20. Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/060117_centennial.html
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