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May 26, 2006
This internal publication contains information about recent coverage
of Carnegie Mellon that appeared primarily in national newspapers, magazines
and online publications. Please note that some sources may require registration
or a subscription in order to access their information online.
Please send comments and suggestions to thomas@cmu.edu
The media coverage archive is available at www.cmu.edu/clips
From May 19 to May 25,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 286 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Chemical & Engineering News | May 22
TechDaily | May 22
CBS News (AP) | May 21
Newsday | May 21
USA Today (Gannett News Service) | May 19
Time | May 14
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 19
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Business Times | May 23
The Journal Gazette (L.A. Times) | May 22
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 21
Information Technology
Detroit Free Press (AP) | May 24
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 23
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 23
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 19
Pittsburgh TEQ | May 2006
Biotechnology
Psychiatric Times | May 2006
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 20
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 24
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 22
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 19
International News Stories
IT Week (VNU Network) | May 24
The Korea Times | May 24
Gulf Times | May 24
The Peninsula | May 23
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National News Stories
Chemical & Engineering News | May 22
With their atomically smooth surfaces, carbon nanotubes can act like a Slip 'n Slide for gases and water, hastening the molecules through the nanotube's channel at speeds far greater than would be expected from classical models of transport. At least that's what theorists said. Now a group of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has demonstrated this phenomenon experimentally. ... In a commentary accompanying the Science paper, chemical engineering professors David S. Sholl of Carnegie Mellon University and J. Karl Johnson of the University of Pittsburgh call the report "a fascinating step toward the development of highly efficient membranes." "These experiments show that carbon nanotube membranes can have spectacularly high fluxes, but to be useful as membranes, they must also show high selectivity," Scholl and Johnson note. "The experiments to date have only examined single-component transport, so no direct information on this crucial issue is available."
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news
/84/i21/8421notw4.html | back to top
TechDaily | May 22
After a yearlong review of proposed changes to rules governing the transfer of technology to other countries, the Commerce Department on Monday announced it will create an advisory board to evaluate current policies. In a Federal Register notice, the department's Bureau of Industry and Security said it will create a federal advisory committee. The panel will include academic and industry experts to study for 12 months the nation's "deemed export" licensing policy. It also will review current policies related to tech transfers and deemed export licenses, which cover dual-use technologies that have both commercial and military applications. ... Jared Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University, also called the decision a good move. "It is important that we consider carefully any restrictions on fundamental research conducted in our universities by foreign nationals as their contributions continue to promote our national economic welfare," he said in a statement. He co-chairs the export controls task force of the Association of American Universities. ***In order to view this link, you must have a subscription to TechDaily.
http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/
techdaily/pmedition/tp060522.htm | back to top
CBS News (AP) | May 21
It's been 30 years, but Dick Tucker has no trouble recalling the French signs posted inside city buses that crisscrossed Montreal: "In French, we say it this way. We don't say it that way." Language is the words to the lullabies we were sung as babies, the fabric of our conversation around the dinner table, the whisper of prayer, the lessons of school. It clearly evokes strong feelings, framing not just our speech, but our thoughts. ... "Language is never about language," said Walt Wolfram, a social linguist at North Carolina State University. "Why should it be any different in the United States?" That point is seconded by Tucker, an expert on language education, planning and policy at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. "The discussion is ... related to fears of immigration issues. I think it's related to a worry about the changing demography of the United States. I think it's a worry about who will continue to have political and economic influence," Tucker said. *This article was placed in 80 media outlets.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/
05/20/ap/national/mainD8HNNEK80.shtml | back to top
Newsday | May 21
Under a big white tent pitched on Molloy College's grounds in Rockville Center, the excitement was palpable as friends and family gathered to honor 759 graduates, the largest class ever to graduate from the Catholic school. Commencement speaker Kiron Kanina Skinner, an assistant professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, told students that commitment to a life of service and faith is the essence of a life well-lived. Having mastered Molloy's curriculum in their chosen majors, she said, they are well prepared. "This institution's explicit and nontrivial commitment to service has given its students the permission and confidence to say to the wider community of mankind that it is OK to lead a value-centered, faith-oriented life," she said. Skinner drew one of several cheers when she told them, "Do not let anyone make you afraid. Think as big as you possibly can."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/
longisland/ny-ligrad0521,0,4406023.story
?coll=ny-li-mezz | back to top
USA Today (Gannett News Service) | May 19
Traditional console games have been hogging the spotlight for years, especially with events like the Electronic Entertainment Expo allowing vendors to hawk their wares in Hollywood. But there's a movement afoot that's quietly trying to do something more substantial. It's trying to merge the video game and the educational software markets. Known as the Serious Games Movement, this genre is "about taking resources of the (video) games industry and applying them outside of entertainment," says Ben Sawyer, co-founder of Digitalmill Inc., and one of the organizers of the Serious Games Summit. This means creating games that play roles in areas such as education, health, public policy, science, government and corporate training, he says. ... Even private investors are stepping up to fund serious educational games, such as Dimenxian, a new algebra game in development by Tabula Digita. Due late this year, it will offer an immersive 3-D environment in which kids "learn math or die trying." PeaceMaker is a game in production by a team of six graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center aimed at conflict resolution and understanding. In the video game simulation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you can choose to play as either the prime minister of Israel or as the Palestinian president.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming
/2006-05-19-serious-games_x.htm | back to top
Time | May 14
In the mid-1990s, the Federal Government conducted a mass experiment that looked, in some ways, like the exodus following Katrina. Some 4,600 families in public housing projects were randomly assigned one of three different destinies. Families in the first group got a golden opportunity: a housing voucher good for relocation to any neighborhood with very low poverty. Those in the second group got a voucher for use anywhere. And a third set, the control group, stayed where it was. The group that moved to better neighborhoods did not have better lives in every way. But the young people were less likely to be arrested for violent crimes, according to a 2005 study published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Their new, safer neighborhoods appeared to make them less dangerous. But there is another scenario that is less promising. That one predicts that when people lose connections to their old neighborhoods, they also lose something good. They lose reasons to do the right thing. "One of the things that keeps people straight is the fact that there are people who are important to them around. They don't want to embarrass themselves," says Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon. "As you disperse people into unfamiliar environments, without these people they care about, there is less control over them, and they could become more troublesome."
http://www.time.com/time/archive
/preview/0,10987,1194016,00.html | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 19
Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business has launched the James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program, which will provide mentoring, an internship and other business leadership programs to 12 MBA students in the second year of their studies. The new program was made possible with a gift from Mr. Swartz, a Tepper school alumnus and venture capitalist who co-founded Palo Alto, Calif.-based private equity firm Accel Partners.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06139/691395-28.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Business Times | May 23
People with low incomes are more likely to be under stress than their wealthier peers, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University. The study by the Pittsburgh-based university measured the income and years of education for 95 men and 98 women, and then tested their urine and saliva for stress hormones. ... "The study does not have to do with poverty, per se," lead researcher Sheldon Cohen said. "What we have found is a graded association, where those with highest levels of income and education show the lowest levels of stress hormones, those in the middle show higher levels, and those at the lowest end show the greatest levels."
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/
pittsburgh/stories/2006/05/22/daily15.html | back to top
The Journal Gazette (L.A. Times) | May 22
Speaking last April to fellow cognitive neuroscientists in San Francisco, multitasking researcher Marcel Just described gender differences observed in a screening test he gave to students at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches. Twice as often as males, female subjects were able to listen to two distinct voices and accurately answer questions about the content of the spoken messages. Such skills give an important edge in certain settings, such as airline cockpits and air-traffic control towers, Just says. But he cautions that his findings fall far short of suggesting “something universal” about women’s multitasking skill.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld
/journalgazette/14638799.htm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 21
Kevin Lenz sees it all the time. As the founder and chief instructor of Driving In a New America Inc., Mr. Lenz often finds himself sitting next to a teenage driver when the following scenario unfolds: "I'll tell them, 'We're turning right here,' and they'll put on their left turn signal, and I'll say, 'No, turn right,' and they'll say 'Right' and leave their left turn signal on. ... While he hasn't studied left-right discrimination per se, Marcel Just, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, said that when his center has scanned people's brains as they do spatial tasks, at least six areas are active in both hemispheres. ... There is one theory that people's right brains store a mirror image of every word in their vocabulary, but most people are then able to suppress the mirror words when they read, said Carl Olson, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06141/691956-114.stm | back to top
Information Technology
Detroit Free Press (AP) | May 24
Veterans Affairs officials didn't fully heed warnings dating to 2001 to tighten access to personal data for the millions of U.S. veterans, investigators said Tuesday. ... The VA said Monday that the personal information -- mainly from veterans discharged since 1975--was stolen in a government-owned laptop with disks in what appeared to be a routine burglary in early May. Included were Social Security numbers, birth dates and in some cases the numbers that rate the severity of the veterans' disabilities. David Farber, a former Federal Communications Commission official and a professor of computer science and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said such information doesn't belong outside a secure environment. "Even if someone only stole the laptop for the hardware, they can find a market for the information," he said.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article
?AID=/20060524/NEWS07/605240415/1009 | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 23
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are taking aim at the problem of power-hungry computers that gobble energy and drain funds from data center operations across the country. Carnegie Mellon today announced creation of a Data Center Observatory, a dual-purpose facility that is both a working data center and a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency. "These large clusters of power-hungry machines, along with rising energy prices, are generating huge energy bills, forcing data center owners nationwide to seek more energy-efficient solutions," said Greg Ganger, a Carnegie Mellon professor of electrical and computer engineering.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/news/s_455099.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 23
A Carnegie Mellon University robotics spinoff, AssistWare Technology, was scooped up by a Massachusetts company for an undisclosed sum yesterday. Both firms make computers with "eyes." These "machine vision systems" combine cameras with software that can speed up manufacturing processes and even alert drowsy drivers when they are veering off the road. Launched 11 years ago by Carnegie Mellon roboticist Dean Pomerleau, Hampton-based AssistWare is one of a few local robotics startups whose maiden customers weren't in the military.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06143/692271-96.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 19
At least two types of games are available to show children and parents how to avoid online predators. Some games have children participate. Others are simulations that impart information through telling a story. Some target young children; others are for junior high students. One interactive game has preteens portray superheroes who learn what predators do and say. The game, which is being developed by Internet safety specialists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the school's CyLab, is being refined for fall distribution in Pittsburgh public schools and later online, a CyLab spokeswoman said. ... One interactive game that will be released this fall will be for children ages 9-12. The Pittsburgh-produced game will have them portraying cyber cadets whose job it is to defend a cyber academy. The game is in animation described by Carnegie Mellon's Dena Haritos Tsamitis as "retro futuristic."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x
/pittsburghtrib/s_454680.html | back to top
Pittsburgh TEQ | May 2006
Carnegie Mellon assistant professor comes from a long line of civil engineers. ***To read this interview with Carnegie Mellon assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Burcu Akinci, click the below link.
http://news.pghtech.org/teq
/teqstory.cfm?ID=1526 | back to top
Biotechnology
Psychiatric Times | May 2006
Researchers dedicated to discovering risk factors for Alzheimer disease and other dementias are broadening their focus to identify genes and lifestyle factors involved in the protection and enhancement of longevity and cognitive health in older adults. Three of these scientists— George Zubenko, MD, Ph.D., Gary Small, MD, and Dilip V. Jeste, MD— reported on their research at a recent meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. ... "The recruitment of men and women who reach 90 years of age with preserved cognition is a major undertaking because few people reach that age [0.5% of the population], and for those who do, cognitive impairment is common. The effort on the ‘front end,' including the establishment of libraries of cell lines and DNA samples, and an electronic database to store the resulting clinical and laboratory information, was a monumental task," said Zubenko, who is also an adjunct professor of biologic sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/Dementia
/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=187202611 | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 20
The $82 million sale of Rolling Rock brands to Anheuser-Busch poses a major obstacle to the survival of Latrobe Brewing, which until yesterday was by far the strongest survivor in a region once populated with thriving locally owned breweries. ... What remains to be seen is how local fans of the iconic Rolling Rock brand will react to their beer being made in New Jersey. "It is clearly not good for local consumption," said Peter Boatwright, a Carnegie Mellon University marketing professor. "Part of the appeal of any brand is its culture and locale, and beer is an especially brand-oriented purchase."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06140/691738-28.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 24
The U.S. Secret Service is expanding its relationship with local universities and financial institutions to prevent and combat electronic crimes. The Secret Service's local field office already had created a network with Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University and local financial institutions to try to prevent hackers from stealing information and money. ... "If we could educate private industry and law enforcement about prevention, we could end these crimes," said Matt Lavigna, assistant special agent in the Secret Service's Pittsburgh Field Office. "Basically we're looking to confront and suppress technology-based criminal activity that damages the integrity of financial payment systems." The local partnership, he said, will continue using Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute's CERT Program to help solve cyber crimes and identify weaknesses in financial computer networks. CERT focuses on research, development, training and education, and responds to cases in which computer networks have been breached.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06144/692624-28.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 22
The West and the Islamic world are not necessarily on a collision course, the wife of Qatar's head of state told Carnegie Mellon University graduates Sunday. Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned, keynote speaker for Carnegie Mellon's commencement, addressed 3,300 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree recipients at a packed, rain-soaked Gesling Stadium, telling them to look beyond a clash-of-civilizations narrative. "We live in a time when we are told there is a cultural faultline between the West and Islam. We are told the West and Islam are at war, that the ideologies of the West are incompatible with Islam and that each civilization is trying to destroy the other," she said. "I ask you to think outside the confines of the clash narrative and replace it with a narrative of cooperation."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_454913.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 19
Residence: Highland Park. Age: 57. Family: Wife, Rise; daughter, Emily, 17. Education: Bachelor's and master's degrees in business and a doctorate in urban and public affairs, all from Carnegie Mellon University. Occupation: Teresa and H. John Heinz III professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_454552.html | back to top
International News Stories
IT Week (VNU Network) | May 24
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a working data center which also functions as a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency. The principle research goals of the Data Center Observatory are to better comprehend and mitigate human administration costs and complexities, address power and cooling challenges, and study failures and their consequences. ... "These large clusters of power-hungry machines, along with rising energy prices, are generating huge energy bills, forcing data center owners nationwide to seek more energy-efficient solutions," said Greg Ganger, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon. To tackle these issues, university researchers are working with APC to develop new ways to reduce energy demands in data centers. Administration costs are another major research area. Data centers are complex to operate and require significant human administration. "Anecdotally, we know that human costs are a dominant part of the total cost of ownership for data centers, but exactly where people spend their time isn't well understood," said Bill Courtright, executive director of the Parallel Data Lab.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news
/2156801/carnegie-mellon-opens-dco-boost | back to top
The Korea Times | May 24
The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs on Friday will host an international conference on e-government at the Government Complex in downtown Seoul. Korean policymakers will join guest speakers from international organizations and corporations to share ideas on using high-tech solutions to improve efficiency in the legislature, judiciary and administration. ... John Grasso, director of the Institute of Software Research International at the Carnegie Mellon University, and Gregory Curtin, director of the e-Governance Lab at the University of Southern California, will also participate in the forum.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation
/200605/kt2006052416461111970.htm | back to top
Gulf Times | May 24
H. H. Sheikha Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, the chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, visited on Monday the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the digital library at Carnegie Mellon University. Sheikha Mozah was greeted upon her arrival at the medical center by its president Dr. Jeffery Romoff.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=88138&version
=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
The Peninsula | May 23
H. H. Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, the Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development received an honorary doctorate from the University of Carnegie Mellon, USA, in Humane Letters. Sheikha Mozah gave the keynote speech at the Carnegie Mellon 109th commencement on Sunday at the Gesling Stadium in the university campus.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display
_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=
Qatar+News&month=May2006&file=
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