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August 10, 2006 Vol. 17, No. 5
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.
TEPPER SCHOOL START-UP TO RING THE NASDAQ STOCK MARKET OPENING BELL This year's winning Global Moot Corp® team from the Tepper School of Business will ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 11, in New York City as one of its prizes from the annual business school contest known as the "Super Bowl of Business Plan Competitions." The winning venture, NeuroLife(TM) Noninvasive Solutions, is a medical technology company developing a new handheld diagnostic device that is the first in the world to measure brain pressure noninvasively. —More than 1.5 million patients suffer from brain injuries each year and approximately 3.6 million people in the United States are at risk of brain damage resulting from elevated brain pressure. The NeuroLife(TM) device measures brain pressure through a patient's eye using an ophthalmological technique, alleviating the risk of drilling holes to place invasive monitors in the brain and providing early detection for patients suffering from brain disorders caused by stroke, hydrocephalus, meningitis and accidents. —"NeuroLife™ illustrates the very best in analytic, creative and purposeful team thinking that addresses an unmet medical need by turning a concept for a breakthrough diagnostic device into a viable business that will truly save patients' lives," said the team's faculty advisor Art Boni, the John R. Thorne Chair of Entrepreneurship and deputy director of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School. S. Thomas Emerson, the David T. and Lindsay J. Morgenthaler Professor of Entrepreneurship and director of the Jones Center, was the team's co-advisor. Team members include NeuroLife™ co-founders Daniel McChesney (MBA'05) and Ernest Braxton Jr. (MBA'07), along with Adil Wali (MBA'07) and Franco D. Harris (MBA'07). McChesney and Braxton are physicians. —Now in its 23rd year, Moot Corp® is held annually at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to earning their appearance at NASDAQ, the Tepper team received a prize package valued at more than $100,000, including $25,000 in cash, a year of business consulting and prosecution of its first American patent by the law firm Ropes & Gray. This year's win is the second first-place finish at the Moot Corp contest for a Tepper School team in three years. —Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060808_nasdaq.html NEW CURRICULUM DEVELOPED FOR LEGO MINDSTORMS ROBOT-BUILDING SET Educators at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Academy say robotics could become an even more powerful teaching tool with curriculum they developed for the new version of LEGO Education's popular MINDSTORMS robot-building set. The co-branded LEGO Education/Carnegie Mellon curriculum takes advantage of upgraded software and hardware, such as simplified programming and Bluetooth wireless capability, in the newly released MINDSTORMS Education NXT robotics set. The CD-ROM-based curriculum for middle- and high-school students is included in a MINDSTORMS Education product line launched Aug. 1. —Robin Shoop, director of the Robotics Academy, said the new lesson plans are designed as a series of explorations that require students to investigate problems and develop their own solutions. "We give kids the opportunity to think of themselves as researchers," Shoop said. "We are trying to put the responsibility for learning on them by asking them to answer questions." —Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/press_releases/index.html DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR NEW ID+ CARD All faculty, staff and students will receive their new Carnegie Mellon ID+ Card this month. Sponsored cardholders (spouses, partners, dependent children, visitors and affiliates) will be able to obtain their Affiliate Card in early September. You are encouraged to retain your old ID until the end of September as some access control systems, which will not be replaced until mid- to late-September, will require the use of your old ID. —The distribution schedule is as follows: Returning undergraduate students will find their new ID+ in their SMC mailbox upon their return to campus (after Aug. 11). Students who do not have a digital photo on file must visit the Card Office for a new photo and to receive their ID. New first year students will receive their ID during First Year Orientation. —Graduate Students will receive their card in their academic departments after Aug. 24. Students who do not have a digital photo on file will have to visit the Card Office for a new photo and to receive their ID. —Faculty & Staff will receive their ID+ cards on the following dates: —Further information on the new ID+ Card is posted at www.cmu.edu/idplus. NEWS BRIEFS —Carnegie Mellon's robotic bagpiper McBlare has gone to Scotland to entertain at the Glasgow International Piping Festival. McBlare's chaperon and co-developer Computer Science Associate Research Professor and Artist Roger Dannenberg demonstrated McBlare Aug. 10 at Glasgow's National Piping Centre and will give a formal presentation at the University of Glasgow. Dannenberg has dressed McBlare in a kilt and will carry him on a tripod. He says his charge looks like a cross between a creature from War of the Worlds and a kilted piper. For more information: official.cmu-news, Aug. 9, and in Carnegie Mellon Headlines on the Web portal. —Carnegie Mellon's Kappa Sigma Fraternity recently earned several awards at the national Kappa Sigma Leadership Conference. The chapter was recognized for community service, intramural achievement, and its education and communications programs. Carnegie Mellon student Greg Jaworski was named the Undergraduate Brother of the Year. PERSONAL MENTION —Linda Argote, the David M. Kirr and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Tepper School of Business and editor-in-chief of "Organization Science," has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. The association (previously called the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national level. Its mission is to promote, protect and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching and the improvement of human welfare. —Electrical and Computer Engineering professors Jimmy Zhu and T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger will present invited keynote talks at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Aug. 28 - 30. Zhu, director of the Data Storage Systems Center, will give the opening presentation on "Thermal and Current Driven Noise in Magnetoresistive Sensors." Schlesinger, head of ECE, will present on "Challenges in Optical Recording Technology." The conference will cover a broad range of topics in magnetic and optical information storage. —Science Spectrum magazine's 2006 Emerald Honors award winners, presented to the top minorities in science, include ECE Professor Shawn Blanton for Educational Leadership and ECE alumnus Abhijit Mahalanobis (Ph.D. 1987), who was named "Scientist of the Year." The recipients will be featured in Science Spectrum and presented with their awards at the Minorities in Research Science Conference in Baltimore this September. —Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) and Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR) co-directors Jim Garrett and Jose M.F. Moura welcome Matthew Sanfilippo as the newly created Executive Director of CenSCIR. Sanfilippo, who began the position in July, brings "an extraordinary mixture of knowledge and experience in engineering of infrastructure systems, deployment of computer technologies in engineering applications, venture capital experience, start-up business-model development and organizational leadership," says Garrett. Further information: http://www.ices.cmu.edu/newsitem.asp?NewsID=442. CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS
—Sept. 8–10: The School of Design will host its first Emergence Conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. The conference will focus on service design, an area that spans many disciplines, from design and business to technology and the social sciences, and is relevant both in academia and the professional world. Further information: http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060808_conference.html |
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