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September
1, 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 25 to August 31,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 271 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The New York Times | August 31
The Washington Times | August 29
The Wall Street Journal | August 25
ABC News (PC Magazine) | August 25
CBS News (AP) | August 25
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 30
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 27
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 27
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 26
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 25
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 27
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 29
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 29
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 28
Tribune Chronicle | August 28
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 25
Richmond Register | August 25
International News Stories
ZDNet (CNET) | August 29
AME Info | August 28
The China Post (AP) | August 28
Gulf Times | August 27
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National News Stories
The New York Times | August 31
If John J. Regan has his way, coin-operated parking meters will soon go the way of pay phones. More than 3,000 parking meters in New Haven are expected to use the cards by next month. Mr. Regan, 50, is the chief executive of Parcxmart Technologies, a company in Hampton Falls, N.H., that has developed a smart card that can be used for both parking and local shopping. With programs under way in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., Mr. Regan—along with the founders and investors—hope the company can break into the multibillion-dollar industry. Moving from concept to concrete can be difficult, especially in a market dominated by a few companies like Cale Parking Systems USA, Duncan Parking Control Systems and POM Inc., which work with thousands of municipalities nationwide. ... "It is difficult to get people to cooperate on unified systems, since everyone has to agree to accept the same card," said Michael I. Shamos, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. "But it is the easiest thing in the world to use; it's just hard to get everyone to accept it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/business
/31sbiz.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin | back to top
The Washington Times | August 29
As the world focuses on the conflict between Israel and Iran's proxy, Hezbollah, a quiet revolution to remove oppression and despair that often leads to terrorism is taking place in neighboring Qatar under the leadership of a dynamic and charismatic woman. Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned is the wife of the amir of Qatar, one of America's strongest allies in the troubled Middle East. While President Bush believes that the removal of terrorism requires a major transformation of the Middle East through the promotion of liberty and democracy, the sheikha has focused on a new mission of statecraft: good governance. For the sheikha, the three major pillars of good governance are education reform, religious tolerance and political pluralism, all of which she firmly believes can take root in the Middle East. Ultimately, good governance means serving the people-in her mind the most valuable asset of a nation. ... The nerve center of her drive for education reform is the Qatar Foundation, a nonprofit enterprise dedicated to promoting the arts and sciences, and educating younger generations. The Qatar Foundation created Education City, a 24,000-acre multi-institutional campus, which is home to leading American institutions and think tanks. American universities— including Georgetown, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon and Cornell—have set up satellite campuses in Education City, thus enabling Qataris and other Arab Muslims to obtain a Western education.
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed
/20060828-101134-3921r.htm | back to top
The Wall Street Journal | August 25
Michael Schwarz earned an economics doctorate from Stanford University before spending five years as an assistant professor of microeconomics at Harvard University. His research papers include, "Synchronization Under Uncertainty." These days, Mr. Schwarz is thinking about how to use economics to save attractive women from unwanted solicitations on an Internet dating site. ... The Russian-born theorist, 36 years old, is at the leading edge of a push by Internet giant Yahoo Inc. to beef up its business by hiring prominent academic economists and other researchers. The company, which offers consumer services ranging from email to fantasy sports, is betting that sponsoring fundamental research will help it tackle some of its biggest challenges, including battling the technological prowess of Google Inc. ... A Yahoo spokeswoman won't say how many economists or researchers the company plans to hire. A person familiar with the matter says Yahoo aims to build a team of more than a dozen economists. In the past year, the company has snagged leading talents in microeconomics, Web search and artificial intelligence from universities such as Cornell and Carnegie Mellon, and industrial labs including those of Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB115646646975445112-search.html?KEYWORDS=Hoping+to+overtake+
its+rivals%2C&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month | back to top
ABC News (PC Magazine) | August 25
The Mobile Robot Programming Lab (MRPL) at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute has published the first in a planned series of open, educational robotics designs. The Linux-based "Qwerkbot" can be built in two hours from detailed online instructions, at a cost of $550, the lab says. The Qwerkbot was developed by an MRPL project called "Telepresence Robot Kit," or TeRK for short. The TeRK Project and the Qwerkbot design were unveiled at a "Science Foo" camp held at Google's "GooglePlex" headquarters August 11-12.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/
ZDM/story?id=2356664 | back to top
CBS News (AP) | August 25
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cautioned lawmakers to avoid the temptation to impose protectionist trade policies as the United States grapples with fierce competition from globalization. Globalization has shrunk the world and made countries increasingly connected through economic ties. The opportunities for companies to sell their goods to more and more countries can generate wealth and boost living standards. ... Bernanke's speech marked his first address to a high-profile economics conference as chairman of the central bank. A well-respected economist, longtime professor and a former Fed member, Bernanke succeeded longtime Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. Allan Meltzer, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, viewed Bernanke's speech as "making a good case for free trade." Bernanke avoided discussion of the future course of interest rates in the United States. With his guidance, the Fed this month halted the longest unbroken stretch of interest rate increases in recent history. The Fed had steadily boosted rates since June 2004 to fend off inflation. ***This Associated Press article was placed in 30 media outlets.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/
08/25/ap/business/mainD8JNLKUG0.shtml | back to top
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 30
Two weeks after Laurie Podskalny bought bedsheets at a New Orleans Target for her Tulane University dorm room, she was enrolled in classes 16 hours north at Carnegie Mellon University. Podskalny became a student refugee, hours after her freshman convocation and just before Hurricane Katrina hit one year ago Tuesday. Podskalny, now 19, said she remembers Tulane President Scott Cohen, wearing Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian print shirt, welcoming students with the announcement, "We're so happy you're here. ... Now please go." ... "Carnegie Mellon was the nicest school," she said. The university extended her an invitation right away. ... Of the 31 students who enrolled at Carnegie Mellon last fall, six Tulane students stayed and began classes Monday, spokeswoman Jennifer King said. Justin Feig, 23, a Carnegie Mellon senior, said he loved Tulane and New Orleans when he lived there, but he's better off in Pittsburgh in respect to his education. Tulane is phasing out four engineering majors, including his mechanical engineering major. As soon as Feig arrived on campus last fall, "I knew I wanted to stay here," he said.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/s_468370.html | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 27
With successful models such as Paducah, Ky.; Penn Alps, Md.; and Berkeley Springs, W.Va., before them, the Nathanael Greene Historic Foundation is hoping the arts will serve as a catalyst to revitalize Greensboro, the historic Greene County town famous for its early pottery. Foundation organizers of Art Blast on the Mon are planning a two-day focus on the arts that includes a Creative Communities Conference on Friday and an art festival and art show and competition Saturday. ... Festival-goers can view the mural now being painted by artist-in-residence Connie Merriman, an art professor at Carnegie Mellon University, on the wall of a building on Main Street. The mural depicts the history of Greensboro.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06239/716136-58.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 27
The trouble with being a professional actor is that no one knows whether you're acting or not. In Hilary Masters' new novel, Sam Emerson has this problem with his mother, who is confined to a nursing home, but once was an actress a couple of strobe-light flashes less than a star. He would slip a tape into the machine, and say, " 'Let's have a little music.' ... 'Oh, yes, let's do have music,'" she would respond, clapping her hands, her eyes becoming brilliant, as if footlights had suddenly come on at the foot of her bed." ... Masters, honors-winning author of eight other novels, a memoir and short stories and essays, is professor of English and creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, and his love for the area is apparent.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06239/716133-148.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 26
The Karnavali here in winter is one of the world's most spectacular, but last night it was the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra that felt a part of a celebration. In point of fact, the musicians were part of the celebration here. Patras invited the PSO here to help the city honor its being chosen the European Capital of Culture for 2006. The lineup this summer has been impressive, among them comedian/actor Roberto Benigni, tenor Jose Carreras, conductors Mstislav Rostropovich, Sir Neville Marriner and Maxim Shostakovich. Carnegie Mellon University's own Cuarteto Latinoamericano joined in with a concert with guitarist Manuel Barrueco in late July.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06238/716451-42.stm | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 25
The Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University said it has achieved a 100 percent placement rate for 2006 graduates of its Master of Science in Information Networking and Master of Science in Information Security Technology and Management programs. Starting salaries are up 5 percent from 2005, from an average of $78,300 currently compared to $74,000 last year. INI also experienced an 82 percent increase in the number of corporate recruiters hiring its graduates. INI director Dena Haritos Tsamitis said the numbers are "a testament" to the programs' equipping students with "a blend of technical, managerial and policy expertise" attractive to employers.
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/08/21/daily29.html | back to top
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 27
The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, a high-tech economic development engine, is both an example and victim of the ongoing tug-of-war between the region's powerhouse research institutions and its budding life sciences companies. ... Since it was founded in 2002 with $70 million in private funds from local foundations and $33 million from the state's tobacco settlement fund, the greenhouse has directed the bulk of the money--roughly $60 million--toward luring top-notch faculty and constructing or renovating research facilities--including Oakland's biomedical tower--at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. That was the intent from the start, said Mark Nordenberg and Jared Cohon, who co-chair the greenhouse board and lead Pitt and Carnegie Mellon respectively. The $70 million gift had been slated for the universities by a group of local foundations, including the Heinz Endowments and the R.K. Mellon Foundation, they said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06239/716521-28.stm | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 29
Two children's health facilities, a yet-to-be-built nanotechnology research center and a plot of land near Pittsburgh International Airport were among the six beneficiaries of $24 million in state grants announced Monday by Gov. Ed Rendell. The money comes from the state's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, a pot of cash doled out for projects approved by the Legislature, but picked by the governor. The Legislature typically approves more projects than the state can afford, leaving the governor to decide who gets the money. The amount of grant money must be matched by the recipient. ... Carnegie Mellon University, where Rendell announced the grants, will get $4 million to help pay for a 180,000-square-foot building it's planning for nanotechnology research. The center, to be built over a parking lot near the Carnegie Museum of Art, will allow the school's 40 or so faculty researchers to work in clean rooms and labs designed specifically for nanotechnology work, said Pradeep Khosla, dean of the College of Engineering. Construction could start within a year.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_468223.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 29
The leaders of several area health-related industries on Monday defended their use of hundreds of millions of dollars in national tobacco settlement money in the first of three state hearings. The Pennsylvania Senate committee holding the hearing in Hazelwood took testimony and asked questions about the best way for the state to use its $11.3 billion share of the settlement in the future. ... Representatives from the University of Pittsburgh, Pitt's Cancer Institute and Carnegie Mellon University discussed how they have used the settlement money to bring in larger federal grants. "We have generated more than a 7-to-1 return on the tobacco funds received, dramatically accelerated new business creation and forged an historic partnership with the University of Pittsburgh," said Mark Kamlet, provost and senior vice president of Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/news/health/s_468217.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 28
The University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and three economic development organizations said Monday they have set aside $2 million to start an angel fund and find someone to manage it. Innovation Works, the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, and the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development are teaming with the universities on the Pittsburgh Angel Fund. The groups and schools put out a request for proposals Monday for a manager of the account, which they expect to hold several million dollars from private investors to be granted to high-tech startup companies.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories
/2006/08/28/daily2.html?surround=lfn | back to top
Tribune Chronicle | August 28
People wondering how being taken over by a for-profit hospital company might affect Forum Health should simply look at a dime, a university assistant professor said. "There's a dime's difference between not-for-profit and for-profit, but only a dime's," said William Vogt, associate professor of economic and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Vogt, who has published papers on hospital competition, said government regulators shouldn't have any anti-trust concerns because Community Health doesn't own any other area hospitals. He added there's "a chance" Community Health may increase prices and reduce services that attract low-profit patients, such as high-risk pregnancies or burn patients, but he said those effects are small. He echoed other health care experts in saying Community Health should be able to cut Forum Health's supply costs by providing the better buying power that comes from a large organization.
http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/
News/articles.asp?articleID=8003 | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 25
Carnegie Mellon University ranks 16th in the nation and the University of Pittsburgh, 18th, in terms of their positive economic and social benefits to their communities, according to the "Saviors of Our Cities" list released Thursday by Evan Dobelle, president of the New England Board of Higher Education.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x
/pittsburghtrib/s_467711.html | back to top
Richmond Register | August 25
Getting a bad evaluation can feel like the end of the world. But it doesn't have to be. ... Remember, what you consider to be a bad evaluation, might not be. Some companies require managers to list areas for improvement to help employees set goals. In other cases, evaluations might be more about bureaucratic paper shuffling than employees, and your boss' unenthusiastic review might reflect a lack of time more than anything else. "My experience is that for the most part evaluations are routine and make very little difference. They tend to have the biggest effect for newer employees who are still breaking into the system and may still be on a probationary period," says Robert Kelley, a professor at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon. ... Still, you should never ignore a bad evaluation. Your reputation is still on the line and, in many companies, evaluations are used as a basis for raises--so your paycheck could suffer. "Whenever you get negative feedback you should take it seriously, you might have a blind spot. So even if you don't file a response, seek out other opinions from a mentor or a valued co-worker. Sit down with them and ask them to be honest about your performance," Kelley suggests.
http://www.richmondregister.com/business/
local_story_236090952.html?keyword=topstory | back to top
International News Stories
ZDNet (CNET) | August 29
Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul. Perpendicular hard drive technology, which started appearing last year, currently lets manufacturers increase drive density, or the amount of data stored, by around 50 percent annually. But that pace of progress is likely to sputter in about four to five years. To keep progress going, the first disks based on new technology will need to enter the market around 2011. Competitors differ, however, on how and when ideas for revamping drives should become reality. Seagate Technologies, the world's largest drive maker, wants first to adopt a concept called "heat-assisted magnetic recording". This involves heating microscopic cells on the disk platters as part of the recording process. ... Reducing the grains further in size could cause them to flip at room temperature and so corrupt the data — an aspect of the "superparamagnetic effect", first identified in the mid-1990s by Stan Charap of Carnegie Mellon University. And cutting back on the number of grains inside each bit, absent further changes, would increase noise and lower reliability.
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/
0,39020433,39281972,00.htm | back to top
AME Info | August 28
The ballroom at The Ritz-Carlton came alive with thousands joining in the spirit of Woman Today Festival, a festival that marked the first anniversary celebrations of Woman Today--Qatar's first and only working woman's magazine. ... The festival was a result of many partners getting together. Prominent brands like Nokia by Consolidated Gulf Company, Powerplate, Escada by Emporium, Cadillac by Mannai Trading Co, Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Q-tel, Qatar Airways & Qatar Airways Holidays, Ali Bin Ali and Commercialbank were the event partners. The official host for the festival was the Ritz-Carlton, Doha, Café Bateel provided the refreshments. Qatar Media Services joined as the media partner, Star Images did the fashion show choreography.
http://www.ameinfo.com/94719.html | back to top
The China Post (AP) | August 28
After two-plus years, is the pain from the long march of higher interest rates over for good? Borrowers finally got a reprieve this month when the Federal Reserve decided to halt a campaign that produced the longest stretch of rate increases in recent history. Where the Fed is headed next, at its next meeting Sept. 20 and later, generated chatter on the sidelines of economic conference that focused on globalization. Outside the meeting, talk turned to how the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, and his colleagues at the central will steer the course of interest rate policy. ... Allan Meltzer, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, questioned whether it was wise for the Fed to halt its credit-tightening campaign with inflation on the rise. "The Fed may be on the verge of a very big mistake," he suggested. Meltzer is concerned that inflation could creep higher and that the Fed might lose some of its inflation-fighting credibility with investors. Then investors, companies and consumers might change their behavior in ways that could worsen inflation. For instance, companies might opt to boost prices even more and workers might demand bigger pay increases because of that.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business
/detail.asp?ID=89003&GRP=E | back to top
Gulf Times | August 27
Eight students in the freshman class at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar were honored at Education Excellence Day for their outstanding academic achievements at high school. This award, presented by the Supreme Education Council, is given to top-ranking Qatari students from high schools and universities in Qatar and overseas. Receiving the award from Carnegie Mellon’s computer science program were Fatima Ahmad al-Fakhri, Khalid Abdullah al-Sooj and Hamed Elias Shaibani. Awards were also given to Aisha Mohamed al-Sada, Shuaa Khalifa al-Nasr, Amna Jassim Sultan, Eatidal Mohamed al-Qatami and Saad Rashid al-Matwi from Carnegie Mellon’s business administration program."Receiving this award is the first step towards my future," said Etedal al-Qatami. "Now that I'm a student at Carnegie Mellon, I plan to further achieve my objectives and make a difference in the community."
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article
.aspx?cu_no=2&item_no=104699&version=1
&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
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