June 2, 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 26 to June 1,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 165 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Times Record News (Scripps Howard News Service) | May 30
The Washington Post | May 30
Orlando Sentinel | May 30
Las Vegas Sun (AP) | May 30
Chief Executive | April/May 2006
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 28
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 31
Box Office Mojo | May 25
Information Technology
InformationWeek | May 29
San Jose Mercury News | May 28
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 31
Environment
eco-structure | May/June 2006
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 28
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 25
Local News Stories
Circuits Assembly | May 30
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 30
The Villages | May 30
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 28
Pittsburgh Catholic Newspaper | May 26
International News Stories
Bernama | May 31
Gulf Times | May 28
The Adelaide Advertiser | May 27
Cultural Heritage News | May 27
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National News Stories
The Commerce Department said Wednesday it is shelving controversial national-security proposals aimed at restricting foreign students in universities from using sensitive machinery in advanced scientific and engineering projects. The move ends a two-year-long confrontation with scientists, who argued the government shouldn't interfere in valuable scientific research involving cutting-edge technologies. ... According to the National Science Foundation, foreign students accounted for a third of those getting doctoral degrees in science and engineering awarded by American universities in 2003. Carnegie Mellon University President Jared L. Cohon said he was pleased the government listened to the concerns of educators before adopting a regulation that might have interfered with vital scientific research. "Research, after all, is the driver of American industrial competitiveness, and vital to our national security," Cohon said.
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/
trn/nw_washington/article/0,1891,
TRN_5707_4740066,00.html | back to top
The Washington Post | May 30
The already-cantankerous debate over high-tech voting machines, which have been installed in great numbers in recent years, is growing more intense and convoluted as primaries get underway and the midterm election nears. ... Unlike many colleagues in his field, Michael I. Shamos, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has worked on election issues for about 20 years, has not generally been seen as a friend of the activists. In 2004, they assailed Maryland's decision to buy Diebold touch-screen machines and asked a court to stop the state from using them. Shamos testified that with a few additional steps, the machines could be used without problem, and the court agreed. Now, Shamos wonders. He is confident in his testimony and believes most security holes can be plugged. But he wonders whether Diebold cares enough about security and the sanctity of elections. "There's a broader philosophical question that's been worrying me more and more lately," Shamos said. "What are these companies really doing? They don't seem to have embraced the seriousness with which people in this country take their elections. It's been kind of an adversarial thing where companies want to make profits, and they just haven't spent enough time and energy designing secure systems."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900816.html | back to top
Orlando Sentinel | May 30
As Congress weighs a Senate measure to make English the national or common language of the United States, many of the immigrants the legislation would affect say they wouldn't have it any other way. ... In Senate votes on May 18, an amendment made English "the national language." Another called it "the common and unifying language" of the United States. Both proposals stated that government should not be expected to provide services in any other language, unless specified by law, as in bilingual ballots and bilingual education. But the language measures, some critics say, do not address a real problem. "The vote was a waste of time. English is the de facto language of government and business in this country," said Kenya Dworkin y Mendez, a Hispanic-studies professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "The officialization of the language is simply a rhetorical exercise. . . . Hispanic immigrants are learning and becoming English monolinguals faster than previous generations of immigrants."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
orl-english3006may30,0,910249.story
?coll=orl-home-headlines | back to top
Las Vegas Sun (AP) | May 30
Facing a daunting average of one vehicle stolen every 25 minutes, Las Vegas police are studying how other cities have curbed a trend that could put Sin City atop the list of cities nationwide in stolen cars this year. ... Las Vegas police also studied a bait-car program in Dallas that has been nationally recognized for helping nab habitual auto thieves. Bait cars are police-owned vehicles equipped with global positioning systems that can easily be tracked if the car is stolen. Bait cars are effective, but can be expensive for police agencies, said Professor Alfred Blumstein, a leading national criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories
/nevada/2006/may/30/053010911.html | back to top
Chief Executive | April/May 2006
There is a lot of buzz these days around words such as outsourcing, innovation, competitiveness and globalization. A lack of engineers and security restrictions are generating buzz as well. The general tone is that outsourcing and security restrictions are hurting innovation and resulting in lost jobs, and visa restrictions are causing a sharp decline in the foreign student population at U.S. universities. This, so the argument goes, is causing the U.S. to fall behind in innovation and creating a shortage of engineering talent as a higher percentage of foreign students educated here go back home. ***This article was written by Pradeep Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering.
http://chiefexecutive.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?
sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications
%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F
18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=29BA760AF7CB
4EE0ABB8D8245916E94A | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 28
At the start of the school year, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profiled students who were facing new challenges and were off to "great beginnings." As the school year ends, some of them reflect on how the months have changed them and pushed them toward their goals. ... As a newly trained resident assistant in a dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University, sophomore Ryan Menefee, of Plano, Texas, saw plenty of change this year, in himself and in the 19 freshmen on his floor in Mudge House who were entrusted to him. The new arrivals faced more than the jolt of being away from home and assorted personal issues. As the semester wore on, Ryan found himself increasingly working with them to better organize study habits on a campus with a grueling workload. A pair of ears, he said, became one of his best tools for helping students find themselves. "I was really surprised at how people really just want you to sit down and listen to what they have to say," he said. "They don't necessarily even want a solution. They just want you to listen.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06148/693526-298.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 31
Flute doyenne Jeanne Baxtresser will receive the National Flute Association's lifetime achievement award at its convention August 10 to August 13 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Now a professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Baxtresser made her orchestral debut at 14 and went on to be principal at the New York Philharmonic and a renowned teacher. Her annual weeklong master class takes place June 18-25 at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06151/694311-42.stm | back to top
Box Office Mojo | May 25
A promising group of actors recently braved an audience of Hollywood types with an impressive showcase of new talent at director Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre in Burbank. The graduating class of 2006 at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama is a worldly mixture of confident actors whose performance selections ranged from the grocery store rant in Something New to scenes from Neil Simon and John Hughes. Poised, good-looking and eager to work hard, each actor earned a serious round of applause. Everyone was fantastic. Among those with stage presence are a blonde firecracker named Ashton Heyl, sultry Patina Miller, who recently did a screen test for Bill Condon's Dreamgirls, tall, dark and handsome Raffi Barsoumian, who'll be playing Don Juan at this summer's Stanford Theater Festival, and a fellow named Ryan Bechard, who played Tennessee Williams well enough to catch Disney's attention. Ryan's a stunt man, too.
http://boxofficemojo.com/
features/?id=2075&p=.htm | back to top
Information Technology
InformationWeek | May 29
With funding from tech vendors and government agencies, Carnegie Mellon opens its Data Center Observatory to improve energy efficiency, reduce management costs, and consolidate server clusters. ... The best first step is to clearly understand where the IT dollars go--but that isn't always easy. A survey of IT executives by Forrester Research shows that 38 percent of IT budgets is spent on salaries and benefits for full-time staff, more than twice what's spent on hardware. A Carnegie Mellon University survey of dozens of IT managers shows that IT personnel costs range from four to seven times the cost of hardware. "It's amazing how poorly as an industry we understand these costs," says Greg Ganger, director of Carnegie Mellon's Parallel Data Laboratory. "If we can't define the problem, you're going to have a hard time coming up with answers."
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware
/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188500685 | back to top
San Jose Mercury News | May 28
Powerful computers, huge databases and new data-mining techniques--many with roots in Silicon Valley--lie at the heart of the uproar over allegations that the super-secret National Security Agency has been monitoring the telephone calls and Internet traffic of millions of Americans. While the NSA's activities remain murky, one thing has become clear: Rapidly evolving technology can enable the government to quickly comb through troves of personal information in its efforts to identify terror suspects and monitor everything from their telephone calls to their financial transactions. ... One thing that concerns privacy advocates is that data mining is far from perfect and can produce false positives that might turn innocent Americans into suspects. "In reality, the data is quite noisy," said Artur Dubrawski, director of the Auton Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, which specializes in data mining. "The results are a probability that something is true, it's not definite. There's always a risk of getting it wrong."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/
mercurynews/news/local/14688207.htm | back to top
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 31
University of Pittsburgh biophysicist Guy Salama watched the electrical activity deep inside a living heart on a computer screen in his Oakland lab. ... About three years ago, Salama joined with Lauren Ernst and Alan Waggoner from Carnegie Mellon University's Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center to develop better dyes in a project supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Last month, they announced success in the Journal of Membrane Biology, where they described seven so-called "Pittsburgh" dyes. The dyes can penetrate farther into the heart tissue in part because they were designed to absorb and emit long wavelengths of light in the near-infrared region of the color spectrum, said Ernst, a senior research scientist at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/news/health/s_456040.html | back to top
Environment
eco-structure | May/June 2006
People: roof system designer and installer, Contractors Diversified Inc., Solon, Ohio, with input from Carnegie Mellon architecture, engineering and art students, and manufacturer, W.P. Hickman Systems Inc., Solon. Green points: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and 3 Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program provided support and grants to install a 3,982-square-foot (370-m2) green roof on the south wing of Hammerschlag Hall. The roof features grasses, perennials, flowers and a pond. ***Click the link to read more about Hammerschlag Hall at Carnegie Mellon.
http://eco-structure.com/docs/archives%
202006/eco_may06/eco_may06_coolroofing.pdf | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 28
First used to generate electricity more than a century ago, wind power is rapidly moving from a niche product favored by environmentalists to a mainstream, valuable part of the country's power-producing portfolio. ... Colleges, universities and some progressive businesses earlier this decade got involved with wind. Carnegie Mellon University decided 5 percent of its energy needs in 2001 would come from wind. The percentage has since increased to 7 percent. "Our decision prompted 30 other colleges to make commitments for wind energy," said Dave Dzombak, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/business/s_455762.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 25
An astronaut, author and professor showed the local business community a global view of the Alle-Kiski Valley. Jay Apt, a NASA astronaut who grew up in Pittsburgh, advocated the aviation industry, including Rockpointe Business Airpark in West Deer, the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics and the Pittsburgh International Airport to local businesses at the Allegheny Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon Wednesday. The event was at Lucky Strike Lanes in the Pittsburgh Mills mall. ... "Pittsburgh wouldn't have been a place I would have considered living if I couldn't have based a plane here," said Apt, who is the executive director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University and a professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. At Carnegie Mellon, Apt said one person they're trying to recruit into the department also asked where he could base an aircraft. Apt said airports are critical to the region's future. "I think that Rockpointe has shown we're a region with a future," Apt said.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/
x/pittsburghtrib/s_455431.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Circuits Assembly | May 30
On Tuesday, June 6, Dr. Jonathan Cagan, chief technologist and co-founder of DesignAdvance and professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, will give a keynote address at the Pittsburgh Technology Council's "Innovation Day." His topic will be "Pragmatic Innovation – Understanding Innovation in the 21st Century." Dr. Peter Boatwright, professor at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, will also speak at the event. Dr. Cagan and Dr. Boatwright are co-authors of the book The Design of Things to Come.
http://circuitsassembly.com/
cms/cms/content/view/3429/95/ | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | May 30
Pittsburgh's parking tax--at 50 percent, the highest in the nation--now tops the wage tax as the second-largest source of city tax money. ... Robert P. Strauss, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, finds the city's growing reliance on the parking tax troubling, particularly as the wage tax lags behind. "In a more perfect world, you would use the parking tax to reflect the costs of congestion and police that commuters and people who drive Downtown impose," not to keep the city's debt-ridden budget afloat, he said. Though the parking tax is exceeding expectations, it "is nothing to be proud of," Strauss said. "What you're seeing here is not rational taxation. You're seeing desperation taxation."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_455916.html | back to top
The Villages | May 30
Rich Erdelyi is an accomplished motivator, a sought-after speaker at coaching clinics, was offered an NFL scouting job, and is the undisputed master of the Wing-T offense, but he will always be first and foremost, Dan Marino’s high school football coach. Erdelyi, a new Villages homeowner who has had 21 consecutive winning seasons as offensive coordinator at Carnegie Mellon, doesn't mind. If you’re going to be forever linked to someone, it might as well be the greatest passer in NFL history.
http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/
articles/2006/05/28/sports/sports01.txt | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | May 28
The following is an excerpt from the commencement speech delivered at Carnegie Mellon University last Sunday: At first glance, Doha and Pittsburgh don't seem to have much in common and I suppose many of you probably don't know very much about my country--Qatar--except for the fact that Carnegie Mellon University has a campus there. But it has always been my experience that beneath the surface of differences lay deep and poignant similarities.
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06148/693545-109.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Catholic Newspaper | May 26
Following the announcement of Bishop Donald Wuerl’s new assignment as archbishop of Washington, many prominent business, religious and civic leaders expressed their encouragement and best wishes. Their edited responses follow: ... "Bishop Wuerl has long been a member of Carnegie Mellon's Diversity Advisory Council, where he was an inspiration to all of us. He often spoke eloquently of the importance of our work to increase diversity and tolerance both on our campus and in the world. A man of profound moral and intellectual force, Bishop Wuerl has had great impact on our city, bringing us all closer together. With gratitude for his strong and steady leadership in Pittsburgh and confidence that he will offer even more distinguished service in Washington, I extend my best wishes to Bishop Wuerl as he moves on to the exciting challenges ahead." ***This is a quote from Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.pittsburghcatholic.com
/newsarticles_more.phtml?id=1679 | back to top
International News Stories
Bernama | May 31
Educational institutions in Australia that offer courses to overseas students face tougher quality controls under laws introduced to the Australian Parliament. Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop said amendments to the Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation would protect the reputations of educational institutions and strengthen consumer protection for international students studying in Australia. ... Carnegie Mellon University's newest campus was opened by South Australian Premier Mike Rann. Rann said attracting the Pittsburgh-based institution to Adelaide was a significant coup for the state. The Adelaide campus offers classes in the university's masters of science degrees in both information technology and public policy and management as well as a masters in entertainment technology.
http://www.bernama.com.my/
bernama/v3/news.php?id=200931 | back to top
Gulf Times | May 28
Omar Bin Khattab Scientific School has won the Second International Botball Robotics Challenge in Qatar, organized yesterday by Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar at the City Center. Al Khor International School took the second place, with Amna Bint Wahhab Independent Secondary School for Girls coming third. ... Carnegie Mellon in Qatar Dean Chuck Thorpe pointed out that Botball is a great way to learn about robots. "Even better, it is an excellent way to get hands-on experience with math and engineering and teamwork," he added.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=88784&
version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
The Adelaide Advertiser | May 27
Britain's Cranfield University is planning to open the state's second foreign-based campus in Adelaide. ... Premier Mike Rann yesterday signed a heads of agreement with the university for a feasibility study into courses and establishment costs. ... Mr. Rann said Cranfield was interested in "delivering its own British post-graduate degrees in Adelaide and forming strategic teaching and research partnerships with other universities in Adelaide, including Carnegie Mellon and the University of SA".
http://www.theadvertiser
.news.com.au/common/story_page
/0,5936,19270573%255E910,00.html | back to top
Cultural Heritage News | May 27
The Pennsylvania-based Reza Vali is one of the very few Persian (Iranian) composers in the West who has had the chance to have his works performed by prestigious ensembles and orchestras around the world. He was born in 1952, studied at the Tehran Conservatory of Music, Vienna Music Academy, and the University of Pittsburgh. Vali has been a faculty member of the school of music at Carnegie Mellon University since 1988. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as the Outstanding Emerging Artist for which he received the Creative Achievement Award.
http://www.chn.ir/en/
news/?section=2&id=6402 | back to top
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