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August
11, 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 August 4 to August 10,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 175 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Boston Globe | August 9
Bloomberg | August 8
The Wall Street Journal | August 8
BusinessWeek | August 7
Washington Post | August 6
Time | August 6
BusinessWeek | August 4
Education for Leadership
Echoes-Sentinel | August 5
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 10
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 10
The Kentucky Post | August 4
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 10
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 10
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 9
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 8
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
NewsForge | August 3
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 8
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 7
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 6
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 6
International News Stories
Daily India (UPI) | August 9
Gulf Times | August 6
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National News Stories
Boston Globe | August 9
In October 2002, lawmakers in Congress were presented with a pre-election test about where they stood on Iraq, and most answered it by siding with President Bush, voting to authorize his use of force against Saddam Hussein and promising an anxious electorate that they would be protected against a potential threat from Iraq. Four years later, with nearly 2,600 US soldiers dead and no trace of the weapons of mass destruction that the White House said Hussein possessed, it is the Iraq war hawks who are on the defensive, ahead of midterm congressional elections that could tip the balance of power in one or both houses of Congress. Upstart challenger Ned Lamont's win last night in Connecticut's Democratic Senate primary election against three-term incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman has given added momentum and confidence to antiwar candidates like Lamont across the nation, politicians who believe discontent over Iraq could be a deciding factor in their campaigns. ... "I think the war is a very big issue, basically because it seems to be never-ending. It seems to be getting worse, not better," said Jon Delano, a political scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "Those who embrace the war and who have offered no solution to getting out are clearly going to find themselves in trouble."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington
/articles/2006/08/09/antiwar_challengers
_across_us_get_a_vote_of_confidence/ | back to top
Bloomberg | August 8
Federal Reserve policy makers walk into their meeting today facing conflicting economic risks as they consider pausing after 17 straight interest-rate increases. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee must choose between extending the two-year tightening and exacerbating an economic slowdown or risk falling behind as prices climb. ... The Fed's benchmark lending rate was negative from October 2001 until December 2004, after inflation, one sign of the large monetary jolt the central bank has given the economy. "You have a tough situation" because rents, which form a large component of core inflation measures are likely to play catch-up to house prices, said Marvin Goodfriend, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and former policy advisor at the Richmond Fed. "There are some significant risks on the downside, but overall it is much more important that the Fed stay on top of inflation."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601087&sid=aGclbpupYNgY&refer=home | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | August 8
Italcementi SpA's research center in Bergamo, Italy, is the planned showcase for a new anti-air-pollution tool the company developed hoping to craft an image as an environmental pioneer in an industry known for creating, rather than reducing, smog. All the concrete used to build the laboratory, due to be completed in 2009, will be treated with a specially formulated cement called TX Active, which uses light to accelerate natural oxidation through a process, called photo catalysis, that speeds the degradation of air pollutants from burning fossil fuels in automobiles and heating systems. ... Still, some experts question whether such innovations will have a significant effect on overall urban air pollution. "I don't doubt there would be a reduction, but by how much?" asked Allen Robinson, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who specializes in emissions. "The real problem is that there is just such a large volume of pollution out there." A product like TX Active would probably have "quite marginal" effects on overall pollution levels in a city like Milan, he said. "A real pollution solution requires either preventing it from forming or getting it where it's most concentrated, at the source."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115500002
124029412.html?mod=googlenews_wsj | back to top
BusinessWeek | August 7
When Jonathan Bankard decided to apply to Harvard Business School last year, the Brown University senior heard the same thing from pretty much everyone: "You won't get in." After all, they told him, everybody knows you need years of full-time work experience to get into business school. ... While undergrads applying to B-school is hardly a new phenomenon, now more top schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Chicago are making a greater effort to reach out to "early career" applicants with less than three years of work experience, including students like Bankard who apply directly from undergraduate programs. And contrary to what many applicants believe, even schools like Tuck and Kellogg that don't accept undergrads say that while some work experience is critical, more isn't always better. Admissions directors say their efforts are an attempt to correct a trend ongoing for the last decade and a half, during which increased competition in MBA admissions helped push the average years of work experience at top schools from around three years to five. ... At Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, Executive Admissions Director Laurie Stewart says the school has "reinvigorated" its longstanding 3-2 program, which allows Carnegie Mellon undergrads to earn their BA and MBA in five years, by actively recruiting on campus.
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/
content/aug2006/bs20060807_
159640.htm?chan=top+news_top+news | back to top
Washington Post | August 6
Today, hundreds of colleges and universities around the world--including respected schools such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California--offer courses and degree programs in computer gaming, as do a growing number of community colleges. "This began to build about five years ago," explains Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, a Washington-based trade group. "We started to see some universities dedicate programs to people seeking careers in the industry." For today's students, who have "grown up with video games as a core part of their diet," Lowenstein says, "the opportunity to enter careers in the video game industry is as, if not more, attractive than the film sector."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080100816.html | back to top
Time | August 6
Try your hand at peace in the Middle East. In May Carnegie Mellon students won the University of Southern California's Public Diplomacy Contest for PeaceMaker, which challenges you to create a stable resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The game--where players pick which of the two countries they want to run--will be available for download at peacemakergame.com by year's end, for a price that has yet to be determined.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/
article/0,9171,1223388,00.html | back to top
BusinessWeek | August 4
One third of all new businesses fail by the two-year mark, and almost 60 percent fold within four years, according to a 2005 Monthly Labor Review study. But resilience can be rewarded. So can keeping a positive perspective. Investors, especially venture capitalists, will fund entrepreneurs who have failed before, but not those who burn bridges and lash out at others when they fail, says Kaplan ... He is successful today in part because he managed to separate his identity from his business. ... Today's entrepreneurs could stand to learn a few things from these resilient souls, says Scott Sandage, professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Born Losers. "It used to be that we as Americans thought of failure in business as something that happened when we were overzealous in expansion, when we went too far too quickly, or tried to expand into a business that we didn't know enough about," says Sandage. Now, failure indicates you're an overall washout and is used as a catchphrase to describe laziness or someone without ambition. "We're so attuned to the possibilities of success that we don't have a vocabulary for talking about failure," says Sandage. "That's why we have catch-all words like loser," he says.
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content
/aug2006/sb20060803_476462.htm?chan=
smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_today's+top+stories | back to top
Education for Leadership
Echoes-Sentinel | August 5
Andrew Hundt, son of Tom and Michelle Hundt, is spending the summer between his first and second year at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., in sunny California, but not on the beach or as a tourist. He is interning at a robotics academy operated by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The academy operates a 10-week summer institute at The Ames Research Center of NASA, Moffett Field, Calif. The program, which started Monday, June 5, and will continue through Saturday, Aug. 12, is designed for students interested in robotics to cultivate and sustain their interest in the fields known as STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Good thing Hundt’s alma mater, Watchung Hills Regional High School, had a Robotics Team. He was its captain for two years. Now he is majoring in computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon, and summering with NASA.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid
=17018335&BRD=1918&PAG=
461&dept_id=506420&rfi=6 | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 10
The magic of the flute has been enchanting people for millennia, usually as a solo instrument but rarely in such large numbers as will be heard this weekend in Pittsburgh. More than 4,000 amateur and professional flutists from around the country and the world meet today through Sunday at the 34th Annual Convention of the National Flute Association at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. All 120 convention concerts and exhibitions are open to the public, addressing the entire range of flute repertoire, from baroque to contemporary classical, as well as jazz, Irish and black styles. Internationally renowned flutist Jeanne Baxtresser, of Sewickley, will receive the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award. The former principal flute of the New York Philharmonic, Baxtresser teaches at Carnegie Mellon University, where she held her annual international master classes in June. Many other Pittsburgh musicians are featured at the convention, including the flute section of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Mellon baroque specialist Stephen Schultz.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x
/pittsburghtrib/s_465390.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 10
When it comes to musical accomplishments, Robert Kircher, 22, is not one to toot his own horn. Still, Mr. Kircher admits that his time performing in Italy as a member of the select international Point Chamber Orchestra made for some beautiful music, personally and professionally. The 40-member orchestra was organized this summer by the Carnegie Mellon University's resident director Efrain Amaya. Mr. Kircher, a 2002 Brentwood High School grad, is a junior and trumpet performance major at the university. "It was absolutely fantastic and the best opportunity I've had in my life," Mr. Kircher said. It was his first trip to Europe and he said it provided him with a wonderful musical and cultural experience that will benefit his career aspirations. ...Mr. Amaya, a native of Venezuela, said the trip was made possible by the efforts of a good friend, Barbara Mastella, an Italian journalist and patron of the arts. "It was very rewarding trip for all of us and we hope to arrange another one next summer," Mr. Amaya said. He called Mr. Kircher a "truly gifted performer."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06222/712299-55.stm | back to top
The Kentucky Post | August 4
Carolyn Lambert leaned out of her red and white pontoon boat and hailed two canoeists near Ripley. They were hunting for arrowheads along the muddy riverbank. Lambert was hunting for stories. Nobody left disappointed. One of the canoeists found three arrowheads. "They were these little chipped pieces of stone that someone dropped hundreds of years ago," Lambert said. "He knew where the stone was from and what those ancient people would have been doing with them." ... When she gets home to Pittsburgh, the 32-year-old artist will boil down more than 300 hours of taped interviews and stories into a one-hour documentary looking at the Ohio River and its people--those who live and work on its banks and waters. The project is funded by grants from several sources, including the Ford Motor Co., the National Wildlife Federation, the Ingram Barge Co. and the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon University, from which Lambert earned her graduate degree in art. ... Carnegie Mellon made her a fellow of the university's Studio for Creative Inquiry, which supports interdisciplinary projects that meld arts, science, technology and the humanities and examines how they impact local and global communities. That fellowship gave her project nonprofit status, which helped to encourage donations. But the real draw for her supporters was the adventure itself.
http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article
?AID=/20060804/NEWS02/608040356/1014 | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 10
Peter Lee. Residence: Park Place neighborhood of Point Breeze. Age: 45. Family: Wife, Susan; son, Harry. Occupation: Computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Education: Doctorate and master's degree in computer and communication sciences, and bachelor's degree in mathematics, all from the University of Michigan. Background: Served as associate dean for undergraduate programs at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science from 2000 to 2004; a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a board member of the Computing Research Association; a member of the Information Science and Technology Study Board with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; arrived at Carnegie Mellon as a research computer scientist in 1987 and became assistant professor a year later, an associate professor in 1994 and a full professor in 2000.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_465473.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 10
Math and science will look more like fun and games at some Pittsburgh area schools where those subjects will soon be taught using robots. A partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and LEGO Education has put robots in about a dozen grade schools in Pittsburgh and 50 schools throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. "The goal here is using the motivational effects of robots to excite more children to pursue careers in science and technology," said Robin Shoop, director of the Robotics Academy at Carnegie Mellon. Carnegie Mellon has written a classroom curriculum for elementary, middle and high school students to use LEGO's newest and most advanced robot in its popular MINDSTORMS robot building set--the NXT model.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06222/712431-298.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 9
There's an old joke in the U.S. Navy that landing a plane on an aircraft carrier is a controlled crash. Coming in slantwise at more than 100 mph, a carrier jet pilot has to hit a moving landing zone that is only 750 feet long, at which point a hook on the plane will catch an arresting wire that jerks it to a stop. When a carrier jet takes off, the pilot throttles the engines to full power and the plane is then catapulted into the air by a mechanical slingshot. In such conditions, it's little wonder that the Navy wants to develop better ways of predicting when its planes will develop threatening cracks and other problems that will take the aircraft out of service. That's where Anthony Rollett comes into the picture. Dr. Rollett is a materials science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and his team is part of the Prognosis program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. ... "What we are doing at Carnegie Mellon," he said, "is constructing computer models that actually represent this material, down at the level of the individual crystals inside the alloy. Once you've got this three-dimensional picture of a structure inside a metal along with the impurities, you can then run an engineering model where you apply a cyclic stress and figure out where in this microstructure the stress or strain will concentrate."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06221/711987-115.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 8
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute announced the release of a new robot building curriculum in Texas on Tuesday. Representatives of the institute's Robotics Academy and their partners, Billund, Denmark-based LEGO Education, unveiled the latest version of their MINDSTORMS Education NXT robot-building program Tuesday in affiliation with Austin, Texas-based National Instruments. Staff members from Tufts University, near Boston, also collaborated on the project. The Robotics Academy, which is partially funded by local foundations, including the Downtown-based Heinz Endowments and the Grable Foundation, has been working since 1999 to develop curricula that use robotics to teach math and science skills. The academy's director, Robin Shoop, said the explosive growth in new information requires that companies and educators come up with increasingly engaging ways to get students to learn and think critically.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/08/07/daily10.html?surround=lfn | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 4
Nearly everyone will be wearing a tartan, so the Carnegie Mellon University plaid will fit right in. But people will likely notice McBlare before they check out his attire. He'll be the one standing on his own three legs. And plugged into the wall. McBlare is a robotic bagpiper, first developed in 2004 by Roger Dannenberg and students at Carnegie Mellon. He would have unfair advantages in a competition, drawing his air supply from a compressor and possessing electrifyingly quick fingers. "At first he was a joke, to contrast with more serious demonstrations for celebrating 25 years of robotic research here," Dannenberg says. When students Ben Brown, who handled mechanical design, and Garth Zeglin, who put together the electrical elements, moved on to other work, Dannenberg kept improving McBlare. "The thing that amazes me about pipers is that they have to create 1 pound of air pressure per square inch, which is a lot more than normal trumpet playing requires," says Dannenberg, who is a trumpeter himself.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/living/music/s_464649.html | back to top
NewsForge |
August 3
The crowds are larger on this second day of Black Hat, though people are moving a little more slowly than yesterday, perhaps because of the free toga party last night at Caesar's Palace, marking the casino's 40th anniversary. Nevertheless, the conference sessions have been packed with intriguing information. ... A second panel yesterday afternoon, led by Joyce Brocaglia from the Executive Woman's Forum, discussed globalization issues for the security industry. Brocaglia described her panelists during the introductions as having been chosen from among "the most brilliant women in our industry." With her were Becky Bace from Trident Capital, Marike Kaeo of Double Shot Security, and Dena Tsamitis, a distinguished fellow of Carnegie Mellon University. One was a security pro who had worked on the first intrusion detection software developed at the National Security Agency during the '80s, while another was a world-famous authors of definitive texts on IT security.
http://software.newsforge.com/software/
06/08/03/2045221.shtml?tid=78&tid=138&tid=18 | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 8
High energy prices, conflict in the Middle East and concerns over our national security and greenhouse gases have pushed energy and environmental issues to the top of the political agenda. While the media have focused on the increased cost of energy--from the price of gasoline at the pump to increases in electric rates and its effect on consumer spending--far less has been said about how our local economy can benefit from higher prices. This region is well-positioned to benefit from high energy prices by developing our natural resources, leveraging our intellectual capital and researching ways to produce clean energy through our region's many environmental sciences firms. ... The Energy Policy Act of 2005 provides economic incentives for converting coal to electricity and liquid fuels (a process known as coal liquefaction) through the development of environmentally friendly technologies. This region contains some of our country's premier energy research institutions. Both the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University perform energy research, as does Penn State and West Virginia University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06220/711844-28.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 7
Jonathan Caulkins, one of the country's leading experts on U.S. drug problems, policies and programs, will speak from noon to 1:30 p.m. Aug. 15 in Room 2017 at the Cathedral of Learning in Oakland. Caulkins, a professor of operations and research and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School and former co-director of RAND's Drug Policy Research Center, will deliver a lecture titled "A Policy Analysis of Alternative Drug Control Strategies." The lecture is being presented by the University of Pittsburgh's School of Social Work and Center on Race and Social Problems.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_465059.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 6
Ronald D. "Shawn" Blanton. Residence: Franklin Park. Age: 40. Family: Wife, Angela; children Shane, Aaron and Adrianne. Occupation: Carnegie Mellon University professor in electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the university's Center for Silicon System Implementation, where semiconductors are designed and tested. Education: Blanton earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1987, a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1989 and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995. Background: Blanton developed and implemented innovative recruitment programs at the National Society of Black Engineers convention in Pittsburgh in March, an effort that doubled the number of prospective minority Ph.D. applicants interested in applying for graduate school at Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_464935.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 6
Don't talk about retirement to Richard P. "Dick" Simmons, the former chairman of the board of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Technologies Inc. Simmons, at 75, is just too busy being involved in Pittsburgh's cultural institutions, economic-development efforts and his family's philanthropy in the arts, education, music and medical research to while away the hours at home in Sewickley Heights, or lie on a beach soaking up the sun. ... Carnegie Mellon University's Kenneth B. Dunn, dean of the Tepper School of Business, puts Simmons' activism in the community in a historical perspective that Pittsburghers can understand. Simmons teaches a course about corporate executives at the Tepper School. "Dick Simmons represents the heritage of this community--the industrial and corporate leaders who historically have been generous supporters of our region's cultural, arts and educational institutions. Dick is doing what (Andrew) Carnegie did. He's doing what the Mellons did," Dunn said.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/today/s_464396.html | back to top
International News Stories
Daily India (UPI) | August 9
U.S. scientists have developed a mobile robot that balances and moves on a ball instead of wheels or legs. The Carnegie Mellon University researchers say "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery operated, omni-directional robot that balances on a single urethane-coated metal sphere. It weighs 95 pounds and is the approximate height and width of a person. Because of its long, thin shape and ability to maneuver in tight spaces, it has the potential to function better than current robots, the scientists said. Ballbot's creator, Robotics Research Professor Ralph Hollis, says the robot represents a new paradigm in mobile robotics. What began as a concept in his home workshop has been funded for the last two years with grants from the National Science Foundation.
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/49936.php
/New-type-of-mobile-robot-is-developed | back to top
Gulf Times | August 6
As its third academic year begins, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar has announced the addition of new faculty and staff. Joining this semester are John Barr, associate teaching professor; Dr. Lynn Carter, principal fellow; Iliano Cervesato, researcher; Erik Helin, visiting lecturer; Dr. Sham Kekre, associate teaching professor; Dr. Ian Lacey, associate teaching professor; Andrew Leung, course assistant; Dr. Alan Montgomery, associate professor; Douglas Perkins, instructor; Silvia Pessoa, visiting lecturer; Kiran Vemuru, director of the Arabic digital library and Paul Zagieboylo, instructor. The institute also announced the appointment of John Robertson as assistant dean for academic affairs. Robertson has served as the director for undergraduate education since the university opened in 2004.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.
asp?cu_no=2&item_no=101158&version=
1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
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