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June 8, 2006 Vol. 16, No. 46
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.
COSTUME DESIGN PROFESSOR EARNS 2006 TONY AWARD NOMINATION Paul Tazewell, an associate professor of costume design in the School of Drama, has been nominated for a 2006 Tony Award in the category of Best Costume Design for a Musical. He is being honored by the American Theatre Wing for his work in the new Broadway musical "The Color Purple." The 60th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast at 8 p.m., Sunday, June 11 on CBS. —"Paul's colleagues at the School of Drama are delighted that the Tony Award nominating committee has chosen to honor his remarkable work on 'The Color Purple' with a nomination," said Elizabeth Bradley, head of the School of Drama. "Spanning multiple periods and representing a mosaic of characters reflecting every aspect of human experience, Paul Tazewell's sensitive, nuanced artistry created a remarkable and seductive world. Our students know and celebrate that he is as much a gifted educator as he is professionally accomplished. We are enormously proud of his accomplishments." —This is Tazewell's second Tony nomination for Best Costume Design for a Musical, having received one for his contributions to the 1996 show "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk." He most recently designed for "Hot Feet," which is also running on Broadway. Tazewell, 41, has received the Lucille Lortel Award, three Helen Hayes Awards and the 2005 Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award. —Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060605_tony.html. CARNEGIE MELLON, PITT RECEIVE HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE GRANTS Carnegie Mellon has been awarded $1.5 million and the University of Pittsburgh has received $2.1 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to strengthen their undergraduate research and outreach programs in biological sciences. Both grants are for the duration of four years. The grants--which are two of three awarded in Pennsylvania--underscore the region's strength in biological sciences training. —At Carnegie Mellon, the funding will enable several new, advanced interdisciplinary lecture and laboratory courses to attract students from fields including mathematics, statistics, engineering and computer science. The proposed courses, undergraduate research initiatives and outreach programs will train more students in quantitatively oriented studies needed to advance life sciences research today. New courses include a lecture and simulation/modeling course called Information, Entropy and Noise in the Brain, and a course that integrates electronics and optics for biology. The HHMI funding will also strengthen the successful Summer Research Institute for rising sophomores and offer introductory biology courses in a variety of "flavors" tailored to the growing and heterogeneous population of science, social science and engineering students. In addition, the Carnegie Mellon program will expand outreach activities and organize interdisciplinary faculty research symposiums to acquaint prospective biology students with emerging fields in the biological sciences. The third funded program in Pennsylvania is at Lehigh University. Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060605_hhmi.html. UNIVERSITY POLICE ANNOUNCE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVE In a message to the campus community, Chief of University Police Creig W. Doyle has announced that the "Carnegie Mellon University Police will begin to enforce all moving violations of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code that are observed on city streets running through and along the perimeter of the Oakland campus. The goal of this permanent initiative, called 'Protecting Our Perimeters to Protect Our Pedestrians,' is to slow down vehicular traffic and reduce violations that endanger the lives and safety of pedestrians. —"This effort," he said, "is a result of many students and administrators who have expressed their concern about serious injuries suffered by students on city streets adjacent to campus over the past 18 months, and the daily 'near misses' that can be seen at virtually every intersection around campus." —Police will be particularly monitoring the intersections of Frew and Tech, Tech and Schenley Drive, Tech and Margaret Morrison, Margaret Morrison and Forbes, Forbes and Morewood, the exit from the Morewood parking lot opposite Hamburg Hall, and Forbes and South Craig Street. —The full text of Chief Doyle's announcement is posted at official.cmu-news, May 26. NEWS BRIEFS —Ten alumni from the School of Art and one master's degree student are among 33 artists exhibiting their work at the Three Rivers Arts Festival through June 18. The Carnegie Mellon artists are Josh Bonnett (A'00), Chris Craychee (A'96), Adam Grossi (A'03), Noel Hefele (A'02), Chris Kardambikis (A'05), Carolina Loyola (A'00), Matteo Nunzio Orsini (A'05), Ally Reeves (A'08), Jairan Sadeghi (A'05), Lauren Urbschat (A'05) and Terry Young (A'01). PERSONAL MENTION —Carl Olson, professor of cognitive neuroscience, has been named acting co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a multidisciplinary research center operated jointly by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. Olson succeeds Jay McClelland, who is leaving Carnegie Mellon to become a professor of psychology at Stanford University. Olson, who has directed the CNBC Primate Physiology Laboratory since 1996, is renowned for studies of the brain that have revealed areas responsible for fundamental cognitive processes including attention, memory and spatial localization of objects in their settings. —Fred Gilman, head of the Department of Physics, and Chen Hesheng, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of China, are co-chairs of the Workshop on PRC/US Collaboration in High Energy Physics being held in Beijing June 11 - 18 to enhance U.S. participation in particle physics projects in China. —Daniel Siewiorek, Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science (CS) and director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be awarded the 2006 Outstanding Contribution Award from ACM SIGMOBILE for pioneering and fundamental contributions to wearable and context-aware computing. ACM SIGMOBILE is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing. Siewiorek will receive the award later this month at the Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2006) in Uppsala, Sweden. He will deliver the keynote speech, "Lessons from Wearable Computing and Beyond." Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Professor of CS and Professor of ECE, is a program co-chair for the conference. —Claire Tomesch, a junior math major in the Science and Humanities Scholars program, is interning this summer at Pacific Northwest National Labs in Richland, Wash., where she'll work on a project involving image signal processing and nonlinear wave analysis--methods used to process electronic data and information. The internship is part of the Department of Homeland Security Scholarship Tomesch received in 2005. Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/060605_tomesch.html. —Mechanical Engineering Professor Jonathan Cagan, chief technologist and co-founder of DesignAdvance, and Peter Boatwright, associate professor of marketing at the Tepper School of Business, were speakers at the Pittsburgh Technology Council's "Innovation Day" on June 6. Cagan gave the keynote address titled "Pragmatic Innovation, Understanding Innovation in the 21st Century." Cagan and Boatwright are co-authors of the book "The Design of Things to Come--How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products." CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS —Saturday, June 10: Heinz School Information session for the Master of Public Management (MPM) and Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) programs. 10 a.m., Hamburg Hall 1004. Snacks will be provided, so please RSVP. Learn more about the MPM and MSIT programs at http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/mpm and http://www.msit.cmu.edu. RSVP to Bridget Jakub at 8-2164 or email jakub@andrew.cmu.edu. —Tuesday, June 13: Ask Human Resources (HR) about Qatar! An information session about living and working for Carnegie Mellon in Doha, Qatar, will feature David Albanese, director of HR for the Qatar Campus. He will give a presentation on benefits, allowances, housing and more. Noon, Rangos Hall, UC.
—July 12 - 14: The second Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) will be held at Carnegie Mellon. The symposium is sponsored by CyLab and will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction, security and privacy. For more information, see http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/
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