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October 6, 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 September 29 to October 5,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 435 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
Special Section: Carnegie Heroes
Cleveland Plain Dealer | October 5
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 29
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 29
National News Stories
BusinessWeek | October 9
The New York Times (AP) | October 2
Washington Post | October 2
BusinessWeek | September 19
BusinessWeek | October 2006
Education for Leadership
Philadelphia Inquirer | October 1
Arts and Humanities
Stage Directions | October 2006
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 3
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 29
Biotechnology
VOA News | October 3
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 4
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 29
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 2
International News Stories
CNET | October 2
Gulf Times | October 2
NE Asia | October 2006
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Special Section: Carnegie Heroes
Cleveland Plain Dealer | October 5
The lone policeman yelled for backup while he struggled with a man. Nobody came, except for passer-by Ben Saks. For his actions, Saks, a 2003 Shaker Heights High School grad who bears scars from a bullet wound, will receive a Carnegie Medal for Heroism. Saks, 21, opened his door on Feb. 25 to the scuffle in his Pittsburgh neighborhood. When the Carnegie Mellon University student called out to see if he could help the policeman, "I figured he was going to say no," said Saks. But the officer told him to help hold down the out-of-control man.
http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer
/sarah_crump/index.ssf?/base/opinion
/1160037464226810.xml&coll=2 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 29
Three men decided not just to stand by and watch but to take action. All three put their lives at risk to save others. John Flanigan, 57 at the time, rescued 6-year-old Lindsey Stocke from the basement of her family's burning house on Aug. 15, 2005. Ben Saks, 21, was shot in his left hand while helping a police officer on Feb. 25. ... On Feb. 25, at about 4 p.m., Mr. Saks, a Carnegie Mellon University architecture student, left his house on Bellefonte Street to go to a basketball game. When he walked out the back door, he saw a police officer struggling with a man in the back yard and immediately went to the officer's aid.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06272/726039-51.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 29
John Flanigan had never met Lindsay Hardy, yet when neighbors told the private contractor a 6-year-old girl was trapped in the basement of her burning Overbrook home, he didn't hesitate to kick in an air-conditioning unit to reach her. He found Lindsay lying unconscious on her bedroom floor on his third trip into the smoky room and hoisted her through the opening. Moments after Flanigan himself was pulled from the basement, the house collapsed. ... This is the fourth installment of the awards this year, given by the Carnegie Hero Fund, which has offices Downtown. Flanigan was one of two Pittsburgh men awarded the medal. The other is Carnegie Mellon University senior Ben Saks, 21, who was shot while helping a Pittsburgh police officer control an unruly suspect outside Saks' Shadyside home. Although he knew he was nominated, Saks was surprised to be an awardee. "I was honored and, to tell the truth, a little bit humbled," Saks said. "I just did what I had to do."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_472733.html | back to top
National News Stories
BusinessWeek | October 9
At Carnegie Mellon, I took a first year seminar with Dick Buchanan. He used to liken [design thinking] to climbing into a volcano: It's messy and it's risky and it's dangerous. To tap into unique insights, you have to follow tangents and lose yourself in them. The trick was to learn when and how to climb out of the volcano. People from all disciplines want to tackle complex problems. Designers can make something that allows a much richer conversation about the problem you want to solve. At Mayo Clinic's SPARC Innovation Program, our program space is right in the middle of the clinical space. There are patients across the hallway. The conversation that happens in the doctors' offices is so loaded with history that allowing [patients] to have an equal conversation is incredibly hard. Our challenge was, can we change that conversation that patients and physicians are having?
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine
/content/06_41/b4004404.htm | back to top
The New York Times (AP) | October 2
The winners of last year's Pentagon-sponsored robot race are back to take on another challenge--this time to develop a vehicle that can drive through congested city traffic all by itself. Stanford University, whose unmanned Volkswagen dubbed Stanley won last year's desert race, was among 11 teams selected Monday to receive government money to participate in a contest requiring robots to carry out a simulated military supply mission. ... The robotic challenge could turn into a rematch between archrivals Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon came in second and third last year with a converted Humvee and Hummer. Carnegie Mellon, which recently partnered with General Motors Corp., will enter a souped-up Chevy Tahoe. Engineers are installing computers and sensors and will test the vehicle later this month. Team member Chris Urmson said cars have to be smarter this time around. "The biggest challenge will be to drive in traffic and stay on the road. It's a whole new level," Urmson said. ***This article was featured in more than 100 media outlets.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/
AP-Robot-Challenge.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | back to top
Washington Post | October 2
Antiwar liberals last week got to savor the four most satisfying words in the English language: "I told you so." This was after a declassified National Intelligence Estimate asserted that the war in Iraq was creating more terrorists than it was eliminating. For millions of people who opposed President Bush's mission in Iraq from the start, this was proof positive that they had been right all along. Yes, they told themselves, we saw this disaster coming. Only . . . that isn't quite true. One of the most systematic errors in human perception is what psychologists call hindsight bias--the feeling, after an event happens, that we knew all along it was going to happen. Across a wide spectrum of issues, from politics to the vagaries of the stock market, experiments show that once people know something, they readily believe they knew it all along. ... In yet another experiment, Baruch Fischhoff, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University and a pioneer in the field of hindsight bias, found that Americans who made estimates about their danger after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks recalled having made much lower estimates of risk a year later, after their fears failed to materialize. Fischhoff testified about psychological factors in judgment at a meeting of the House intelligence committee last week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2006/10/01/AR2006100100784.html | back to top
BusinessWeek | September 19
After nine years of teaching business communication and oral communication at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, Chad Hermann still delivers to students the same two messages: "Know your audience," and "Love what you do." He does both himself, which is why the majority of Tepper students who participated in BusinessWeek's 2006 undergraduate survey named Hermann as their favorite professor. Hermann keeps his lecture room full because he uses lots of current events and pop culture—everything from a clip of Steve Jobs presenting Apple's (AAPL) iPod nano to a video of a Green Day concert. "Anything is at your disposal with communications, anything you see, hear, and do," Hermann says. "Communication is a metadiscipline—it includes everything, and everything includes communication."
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/
sep2006/bs20060919_195233.htm?chan=search | back to top
BusinessWeek | October 2006
The top design programs according to BusinessWeek's expert panel: Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design. Design-related academic partnerships: English Department, Mechanical Engineering Department, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, B-school. Notable Alumni: Elaine Ann, Kaisor Innovation, Hong Kong; Arnold Wasserman, Idea Factory, Singapore and San Francisco.
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/dschools/2006/index.asp
?sortCol=name&sortOrder=ASC&pageNum=1&resultNum=100 | back to top
Education for Leadership
Philadelphia Inquirer | October 1
Arriving in Sri Lanka for a 10-week internship, I found it hard to believe this island nation halfway around the world had been ravaged by a tsunami 16 months earlier. Yes, graves lined the south coast road on my six-hour ride to Hambantota for my first assignment. And there was a smattering of new housing developments built for tsunami victims. But most of the wreckage had been cleaned up, the shock of the disaster had worn off, and most of the recovery efforts were well underway if not complete. Still, there are children who lost at least one relative in the tsunami that killed more than 40,000 and displaced 2.5 million, and I was going to work for two agencies that help these young victims. ... My internship, arranged through Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was not a typical study-abroad program. Instead of taking classes, I helped design Web sites and brochures for the relief agencies and even taught the children a few gymnastic and dance moves.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/
news/magazine/daily/15622277.htm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Stage Directions | October 2006
Any director working on a play will want the cast and crew to listen first an foremost to him, to ensure there's one creative force guiding a production from the first rehearsal to the last. But even the best directors admit they can't know everything. That's where the dramaturge comes in. According to Dr. Judith Sebesta, head of the Theatre Studies division at the University of Arizona in Tucson, "The dramaturge is always pushing her fellow collaborators, from the playwright to the director to the designers, to question their choices, weighing each one against the original concept, if there is one, and against the goals of the particular production. ... Dr. Michael Chemers, head of the dramaturgy program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, agrees: "The dramaturge in an artist, ultimately concerned--like every other theatre professional--with the art event we are collectively creating. ... A good dramaturge ought to be the intellectual conscience of a production, helping the director negotiate between the grand vision of the production and fidelity to the original authorial intent, with a wide and deep understanding of the production's meaning in the context of culture, society and history." ***This article is not yet available online. The magazine can be accessed at:
http://www.stage-directions.com/index.html | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 3
Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing team will receive up to $1 million to build a robotic vehicle for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge--a competition during which vehicles must complete a 60-mile mission through urban traffic while obeying traffic laws. Carnegie Mellon's team was one of 11 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chose from a pool of 60 to receive funding. Track B teams can apply by Oct. 13 but cannot receive funding. Tartan Racing will use technology and write software to transform two Chevrolet Tahoes, donated by General Motors, into robotic vehicles that can travel without human assistance on a simulated military supply mission through a mock urban area.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06276/726930-115.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | September 29
Pradeep Khosla has become managing director of technology for iNetworks' BioOpportunity Fund and a member of the Pittsburgh-based private equity firm's investment committee. Khosla will remain dean of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. Charles Schliebs, iNetworks managing director, said Khosla's background in the convergence of information technology and engineering with life sciences will be a "great resource."
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/09/25/daily38.html?surround=lfn | back to top
Biotechnology
VOA News | October 3
A $4.5 million grant from the U.S. government-sponsored National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is helping to make medical history. The funds are supporting a collaborative effort by scientists, doctors and engineers from five research institutions across the United States to develop a new medical device that will help save babies' lives. Baby Isabella was born five days ago. She has a condition called pulmonary hypertension or high pressure in the lungs, which causes the heart to fail. ... For Isabella, two weeks is enough time for her heart to rest. But many babies waiting for heart transplants need more time. One quarter of the 4,000 babies waiting die before a new heart becomes available. James Antaki wants to change that. He is associate professor of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he heads a team working on an infant heart pump. "It assists part of the heart while the heart is recovering or is too weak to provide the pressure and flow to keep the baby alive and in some cases it is used as a bridge to a transplant. You can think of it as a crutch," Antaki says.
http://www.voanews.com/english/
AmericanLife/2006-10-03-voa63.cfm | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 4
The first commercially available solar absorption cooling system will be installed in dedication ceremonies Thursday on the roof of Carnegie Mellon University's Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace. Donated by BROAD Air Conditioning Co., the chiller will be used to conduct research for environmentally sound building-cooling practices at the building, a working laboratory for the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics in Carnegie Mellon's School of Architecture. The center aims to use the solar energy impinging on 10 percent of the roof to cool and heat 50 percent of the building.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/business/briefs/s_473374.html | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 4
Patients in Pittsburgh will be among the first to take part in a national program designed to change the way medical research becomes life-saving treatments. The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that the University of Pittsburgh would receive $83.5 million over five years to lead a regional institute that would speed the transition of medicines and therapies that prove promising in laboratory tests. Eleven other academic health centers nationwide received similar grants. ... Called the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the program is a partnership between Pitt and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Carnegie Mellon University, the RAND Corporation, the Intel Research Pittsburgh lab and the Urban League of Pittsburgh.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/health/s_473379.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 29
You can try to vote for George Washington, but Benedict Arnold will win. At least that's the scenario on a Diebold touch-screen voting machine toted around Capitol Hill yesterday by Edward W. Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University. He hoped to persuade lawmakers that a new generation of voting technology being deployed across the country still faces worrisome security flaws and should have paper trails that voters can check. ... State officials had been aware of the AccuVote's flaws and have advised counties to take cautionary measures, according to Michael Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor who tests voting machines for the state.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06272/726096-84.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 2
The Pittsburgh chapter of the Help Desk Institute named officers for 2006-07. President: Matt Howell, Carnegie Mellon University; co-vice president, programs: Ivy Novick, University of Pittsburgh financial information services; co-vice president, programs: Jacque Rowden, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe; vice president, communications: Dolores Heagy, Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06275/726280-318.stm | back to top
International News Stories
CNET | October 2
Intel is trying to see if millions of tiny robots can work together to create a coffee cup, or a model of a truck. Intel's lab in Pittsburgh, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University, showed off a technology concept at the Intel Developer Forum last week called Dynamic Physical Rendering, which could ultimately lead to a shape-shifting fabric. Apply the right voltage and software program and the flat piece of fabric turns into a three-dimensional model of a car. Change those parameters and it transforms into a cube. "Rather than look at a 3-D model on a CAD (computer aided design) program, a physical model would be manifested on your desk," said Babu Pillai, who, along with Jason Campbell, is heading up the project. "The material would change shape under software control."
http://news.cnet.co.uk/gadgets
/0,39029672,49283989,00.htm | back to top
Gulf Times | October 2
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) hosted 60 students from Qatar Foundation's Academic Bridge Program (ABP) to inform them about the educational options available in Education City. A faculty member from each area of study at the universities gave a presentation. Sham Kekre spoke about Carnegie Mellon's business administration curriculum and John Barr spoke about the computer science program. Gary Wasserman gave a presentation on SFS-Q's international affairs degree. SFS-Q's director of admissions Liz Kepferle, and Carnegie Mellon in Qatar's director of admissions Bryan Zerbe, conducted a presentation about the college admissions process to enlighten the students about the academic standards required to be accepted at each of the universities. "We are working closely with the community to ensure that local middle and high school students have the opportunity to learn what’s needed to join Education City's world-class American universities," said Zerbe.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article
.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=110703&version
=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back to top
NE Asia | October 2006
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have developed a robot that moves atop a single ball. Called the Ballbot, the 95-pound robot balances dynamically on a single metal sphere coated with urethane, and moves omnidirectionally. It is about the height and width of a slim person. Its body is a cylinder that is 1.5m tall, has a diameter of 44mm and weighs 45kg. Its body has three aluminum channels held together by circular decks. The developers of the robot claim that because it is thin, it can maneuver well in tight spaces and has the potential to function better than existing robots in proximity to humans. "We wanted to create a robot that can maneuver easily and is tall enough to look you in the eye," said robotics research professor Ralph Hollis of Carnegie Mellon, who created Ballbot. "Ballbot is tall and skinny, with a much higher center of gravity than traditional wheeled robots."
http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/neasia/005301 | back to top
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