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April 27, 2006 Vol. 16, No. 40
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.
NIH AWARDS $13.3 MILLION FOR NEW CELL RESEARCH CENTER A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh has received a five-year, $13.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a National Technology Center for Networks and Pathways. The center, headquartered at Carnegie Mellon, will focus on developing fluorescent probe and imaging technologies to investigate regulatory pathways and networks in real-time in living cells. This work will generate powerful molecular biosensors for preclinical research to map the many cell-signaling networks involved in disease. Ultimately, such biosensors will be used in hospital- and office-based diagnostic medicine. Biological Sciences Professor Alan Waggoner, principal investigator of the grant, will direct the new center. "This award recognizes our visionary science and the collaborative strength of both universities in advancing this exciting new field," said Mark Kamlet, senior vice president and provost of Carnegie Mellon. "This major grant will give us even greater capabilities to produce innovative biotechnologies that impact tomorrow's medicine." —Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/060424_waggoner.html. BAXTRESSER, BLUM AND TUCKER NAMED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS Carnegie Mellon has named Jeanne Baxtresser, Manuel Blum and G. Richard Tucker University Professors, the highest academic distinction Carnegie Mellon faculty can achieve. The title is awarded on the basis of national or international recognition for research, artistic and literary accomplishments, and other scholarly activities. —Baxtresser, the Vira I. Heinz Professor of Flute, has held principal positions with three major orchestras, culminating with her 15-year tenure as solo flutist with the New York Philharmonic. She has been the featured soloist with leading orchestras across North America and Europe, and is internationally recognized as a leading recording artist, author and teacher. She has published numerous recordings and her book, "Great Flute Duos From the Orchestral Repertoire," was named the 2004 winner of the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition. —Blum, the Bruce Nelson Professor of Computer Science, is one of the founders of computational complexity theory--work that has also had applications to cryptography and program checking. He came to Carnegie Mellon as a visiting professor in 1999 after a distinguished career at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received an A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computing. He recently was named to the National Academy of Engineering and was elected to the National Academy of Science in 2002. —Tucker, head of the Department of Modern Languages and the Paul Mellon Professor of Applied Linguistics, is one of the world's leading experts on second-language learning, and has established effective language instruction programs across the globe. He co-authored the seminal monograph "The Bilingual Education of Children" and developed language education programs in the Philippines, Africa and the Middle East. He is the only person to have been honored by all four major North American language education associations: the American Association for Applied Linguistics; the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; the National Association for Bilingual Education; and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY Carnegie Mellon will celebrate 100 years of excellence in civil and environmental engineering education on Friday, April 28, with a daylong series of events and activities. The day will begin with the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Symposium from 8:30 a.m. - noon in the Singleton Room, Roberts Hall of Engineering. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Tung Au laboratory in Porter Hall, and at 7 p.m., members of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department will conclude the festivities with a trip to PNC Park for a Pirates game. —The day will also honor the centennial of Porter Hall, which will be rededicated in a 4:30 p.m. ceremony on Frew Street that will feature the unveiling of an artistic rendering created by local artist James Sulkowski. A program will follow at 4:45 p.m. in Gregg Hall (Porter Hall 100). Parking on Frew Street will be restricted from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday for the rededication. DANIEL NAGIN WINS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY AWARD Daniel Nagin, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, has been named the winner of the prestigious 2006 Edwin H. Sutherland Award. The award, established in 1960 by the American Society of Criminology (ASC), recognizes outstanding contributions to theory or research in criminology on the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior, the criminal justice system, corrections, law or justice. Nagin will receive the award at the November ASC meeting, where he will deliver the plenary address. Alfred Blumstein, the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research and former dean of the Heinz School, received the Sutherland Award in 1987. For more on Nagin's research, visit http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/dn03.html. NEWS BRIEFS —Two Carnegie Mellon RoboCup teams brought home four trophies from last weekend's RoboCup U.S. Open, hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. In the league for four-legged AIBO robots, CMDash'06 was the best of the U.S. teams and second overall, losing in the final to Dortmund, Germany. Eight AIBO teams competed. In the small-robot league, the CMDragons'06 took honors as the best U.S. team and for first place overall, winning all of its games by the maximum score of 10-0. —The School of Drama, has announced its 2006 - 2007 schedule of productions. Information about each performance is posted at http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060421_drama.html. —The University Center swimming pool will be closed for painting and annual maintenance, May 1 to June 12. —Because this year's Faculty & Staff Kennywood Picnic falls early in the month of July (July 8), the organizers are alerting everyone in advance because of the Fourth of July holiday. Be sure to note the following ticket sale dates and locations: Thursday, June 29: University Center (UC); Friday, June 30: UC; Wednesday, July 5: Mellon Institute; Wednesday, July 5: UC (evening); Thursday, July 6: UC. PERSONAL MENTION —The College of Fine Arts (CFA) has selected Art Professor Lowry Burgess as the recipient of the 2006 Hornbostel Teaching Award. Burgess, former CFA dean, was chosen for his creative legacy, including the profound impact he has had as a teacher throughout the last 40 years--nearly 20 of which he's spent at the School of Art. Burgess will receive the award during "A Celebration of Teaching at Carnegie Mellon," at 4:30 p.m., April 27 in Rangos Hall, UC. Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060421_hornbostel.html. —Graduate student awards recently received by electrical and computer engineering students include the Intel Foundation/SRCEA Scholarship awarded to Shadi Saberi Ghouchani, the IBM/SRC Fellowship awarded to Jeffrey Nelson, and the Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship awarded to Brandon Salmon and Roland Wunderlich. —Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence has announced the Wimmer Faculty Fellows for 2006. This year's fellows include Jay Aronson, assistant professor, Department of History; Andrew Beveridge, visiting assistant professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences; Michael Chemers, assistant professor, School of Drama; Robert Heard, associate teaching professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Pamela Jennings, assistant professor, School of Art and Human Computer Interaction Institute; and Lisa Tetrault, assistant professor, Department of History. Information: http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/060420_eberly.html. CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Monday, May 1: The Aesthetics Out of Bounds Lecture Series. "Through the Looking Glass--Visualizing Place and Others in China," Professor Katheryn Linduff, University Center for International Studies Research, Department of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. 5 p.m., McConomy Auditorium. For more information about the series, visit http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mwitmore/aesthetics/index.html. —Monday, May 1: R. James Woolsey, director of the CIA under President Clinton, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Rangos 2 Ballroom, UC, on "Energy, Security and the Long War." —Tuesday, May 2: Design Lecture Series. "Alien Designer: On Solitude And Boredom In Design." Ingo Offermanns, visiting design faculty. 7 p.m., McConomy Auditorium, UC. Reception will follow. —Thursday, May 4: SCS Distinguished Lecture: The Hank Suz-Chi Wan Memorial Lecture. "Bringing the Beast to Life: The VFX of King Kong," Joe Letteri, Visual Effects Supervisor, Weta Digital Ltd. 3 p.m., Wean Hall 7500.
—Friday, May 5: Exhibit. Opening reception: "Protean Probability: How a Mathematical Theory of Probability Wrestled Answers From Randomness." Ph.D. candidate and Posner Center intern Benjamin C. Jantzen. 5 - 7 p.m. Posner Center. For information, call 8-7272.
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