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October 13, 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 October 6 to October 12,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 191 references to the university in worldwide
publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 13
The New York Times | October 10
BusinessWeek | October 8
BusinessWeek | October 6
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 12
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 11
Philadelphia Inquirer | October 9
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 8
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 8
Information Technology
The Morning Call | October 6
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 10
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 6
Plenty Magazine | October 2006
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 11
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 10
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 9
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 9
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 7
International News Stories
International Herald Tribune | October 11
Daily India (UPI) | October 11
The Korea Herald | October 11
Engineer Live (European Design Engineer Magazine) | October 10
Times Online | October 7
The Peninsula | October 7
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National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 13
While some institutions have created "student alumni associations" to try to build the loyalty before the diploma is in hand, others, like Carnegie Mellon University, are trying a more organic approach that avoids the "customer" label. At Carnegie Mellon, alumni are defined as those who have completed one semester at the institution. So Judith M. Cole, associate vice president for university advancement and director of alumni relations, considers students as alumni for three and a half years before graduation. The focus of Carnegie Mellon's alumni association offerings has centered on students and how alumni can be involved with them. Ms. Cole says her philosophy is more of a throwback to the old days of alumni associations, with an emphasis on community building, instead of revenue generation. First and foremost, she says, alumni should be given opportunities to help further the mission of the institution, which is educating students.
http://chronicle.com/weekly
/v53/i08/08a03601.htm | back to top
The New York Times | October 10
A dear friend has been battling cancer for a decade or more. ... A wide circle of former students count themselves among his lifelong friends; he and his wife have always welcomed a steady stream of visitors to their home. Though no one could ever prove it, I suspect that one of many ingredients in his longevity has been this flow of people who love him. Research on the link between relationships and physical health has established that people with rich personal networks--who are married, have close family and friends, are active in social and religious groups--recover more quickly from disease and live longer. But now the emerging field of social neuroscience, the study of how people’s brains entrain as they interact, adds a missing piece to that data. The most significant finding was the discovery of "mirror neurons," a widely dispersed class of brain cells that operate like neural WiFi. ... So when the people who care about a patient fail to show up, it may be a double blow: the pain of rejection and the deprivation of the benefits of loving contact. Sheldon Cohen, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University who studies the effects of personal connections on health, emphasizes that a hospital patient's family and friends help just by visiting, whether or not they quite know what to say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/health/
psychology/10essa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | back to top
BusinessWeek | October 8
Carnegie Mellon has E&TIM. Let me translate. Carnegie Mellon University will offer, starting Jan. 07, a one-year interdisciplinary master of science degree in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management that will be taught by profs and researchers in Engineering and Public Policy, the B-School and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences. It's a one year program out of the Engineering School. On Oct. 11, Carnegie Mellon is putting on a panel on how innovation drives growth that includes Mark Harshman, director of R&D at Siemens, Lisa Roudabush, a general manager at US Steel, Anuj Dhanda, chief information officer at PNC Bank, Bar Samardzich, vp of powertrain development at Ford and others.
http://www.businessweek.com/
innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/ | back to top
BusinessWeek | October 6
Businesses like McDonald's are looking hard for those dream designers who have the skills to figure out how to be customer-centric. They're coming from schools like IIT, where I'm now an adjunct professor, and Carnegie Mellon--places that teach storytelling, visualization, and prototyping, and how to repurpose these design methods and others for business. The number of schools that do this really well is limited, but it is certainly an emerging field.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2006
/id20061006_582640.htm?chan=top+news_
top+news+index_innovation+%2Bamp%3B+design | back to top
Education for Leadership
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 12
The streak can be traced back to the day Rich Lackner first stepped onto Carnegie Mellon University's campus as a freshman linebacker in the fall of 1975. He's still there. So is the streak. Carnegie Mellon, which is 5-0 heading into its University Athletic Association opener Saturday at Western Reserve University (3-2), already has clinched its 32nd consecutive non-losing record. The Tartans are 5-0 for the first time since 1990 when they went 10-0 in the regular season and made their most recent appearance in the NCAA Division III playoffs, losing in the first round to Lycoming, 17-7.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06285/729329-134.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 11
John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves" seemed to me an extraordinary play right from the start, when I first saw the 1986 Lincoln Center production with John Mahoney, Swoosie Kurtz and Stockard Channing, and then the 1988 City Theatre version at Hartwood, with Bingo O'Malley, Shirley Tannenbaum and Katherine Carlson. But seeing it now at Carnegie Mellon, I think it's actually better than extraordinary. This is one of the definitive modern American plays, a brilliantly theatrical account of the American dream gone sour. That's a hackneyed theme, but it's imagined here with such breathtaking brio that it becomes a revelation. Of course, a student cast, no matter how talented, isn't fully able to realize the despair and panic of middle age at the play's heart. But what the Carnegie Mellon students do get is the accumulating frenzy of tragic farce. Guare pushes living-room tragicomedy right to the edge of surreal absurdity, without losing the feel of real people fighting for their emotional lives.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06284/728878-325.stm | back to top
Philadelphia Inquirer | October 9
This month, a Philadelphia-based company called No Lie MRI anticipates sliding its first clients into a scanning machine. Founder Joel Huizenga says they run the gamut, from women trying to prove they didn't cheat on their husbands to convicts claiming innocence. ... J. Peter Rosenfeld, a psychologist at Northwestern University, says he has no trouble believing fMRI can discriminate lies 80 percent of the time, but that's still a huge error rate. Since the 1980s, Rosenfeld has been experimenting with EEG to see lies in the form of brain waves. He says his most recent round of experiments suggest it's more reliable and accurate than fMRI. Stephen Fienberg, a statistician at Carnegie Mellon University, is skeptical of both. He headed a recent National Academy of Sciences panel that evaluated the polygraph.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/
news/magazine/daily/15712706.htm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 8
During the Age of Discovery, a period beginning in the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th, European ships sailed to Africa and the New World in search of new trade routes and partners in a major effort of outward expansion. Fueled by burgeoning capitalism, the explorers of the day brought with them cartographers who mapped out the new lands they discovered to be sure that they could make their way back and forth. ... Yet for the important role maps have played throughout history, for anyone who has studied them--especially the older ones--one thing is predominately clear: they almost are never correct. For New York artist Joyce Kozloff, there is something inherently beautiful in this fact. That's why, in 1998, she began to paint a series of small frescoes based on old maps she had found in history books she called her "Knowledge" series. ... Twenty of those frescoes and four globes from the series are on display in the exhibition "Joyce Kozloff: Exterior and Interior Cartographies" on view through Oct. 15 at Regina Gouger Miller Gallery in Carnegie Mellon University's Purnell Center for the Arts. It's just one of several series derived from maps on display by the artist, who just happens to be an alumnus of the University.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_473910.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 8
Tucked away in a little-known corner of the Carnegie Mellon University campus is a one-of-a-kind resource for the botanical world--at least on this side of the globe. The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, located on the fifth floor of the Hunt Library, opened 45 years ago as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library, part of the life's work of the wife of former Alcoa president and chairman Roy A. Hunt. Through her love of gardening and books, she amassed an extensive library of botanical books and artwork. Shifting over the years from collecting mostly older items to contemporary ones, the institute now has about 29,000 books, 30,000 works of art and 25,000 portraits of botanic artists, plus artists' biographical information, letters and manuscripts. One challenge for James White and Lugene Bruno, curator and assistant curator of art, is simply making locals aware that this gem for botanical research exists. One way they hope to expand people's understanding of the institute is through the current art exhibition, "What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions."
http://www.post-gazette.com
/pg/06281/727720-42.stm | back to top
Information Technology
The Morning Call | October 6
Montgomery County's voting machines and the software used to tabulate the votes cast on them were tested successfully this week in Harrisburg. The successful test follows the software's failure in a test conducted by state officials before the primary election. ... . Michael Shamos, who conducted the tests, said county officials "have good reason to believe there will be certification," but Secretary of State Pedro Cortes will make the ultimate decision. Shamos, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, spent seven hours testing the machines and their software Wednesday. Shamos also conducted the tests in March that revealed bugs in the county's tabulation software, including one glitch that would allow someone to change the number of votes cast on a machine.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/quakertown
/all-b1_2machinesoct06,0,1493968.story
?coll=all-newslocalquakertown-hed | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 10
Using environmentally safe compounds such as sugars and vitamin C, Carnegie Mellon University chemists have improved a process for producing specialty plastics to make the technology more attractive to industrial manufacturers. "I think this might be the critical hurdle that we had to get over to take this process from something actively examined with curiosity to something that really might make a difference," said James Spanswick, associate director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Macromolecular Engineering. A decade ago, the center's director and founder, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, invented a polymer-making technique called atom transfer radical polymerization, or ATRP.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_474300.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 6
A movement to promote sustainable living in Pittsburgh is beginning Saturday with a few simple steps. Nearly 1,000 people, including politicians, ministers, university professors and environmentalists, are expected to march four miles through Oakland to share their belief that consumer-driven lifestyles deplete natural resources and result in a poorer quality of life. "I feel it is the moral responsibility of every city to take care of generations to come and leave the same good environment for them," said Ravikant Pathak, an air pollution researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who organized the march with the Pittsburgh chapter of the Association for India's Development. Pathak said the march is to show people that doing simple things--like taking public transportation once or twice a week, lowering the thermostat or using natural light rather than electricity--add up to significantly decrease pollution.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_473768.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 6
"Hot enough for you?" It's a common, sweltering, summertime query on the streets of Pittsburgh, but no matter what your response, you ain't seen nothing yet. A new two-year study of climate change projections in the northeastern United States. By the end of this century, summers in Pittsburgh could resemble those in Georgia or Alabama if we continue the unabated burning of fossil fuels--coal, oil and natural gas, according to a new two-year study of climate change projections in the northeastern United States. ... M. Granger Morgan, head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, said the conclusions of the new report are very similar to those of a U.S. Global Change Research Program study of climate change impacts on the United States done in 2000. "We're already committed to significant climate change. The question is can we decarbonize the electric system of the U.S., and the answer is yes for about 20 percent more than the current delivered price of electricity," said Mr. Morgan, who did not participate in the study but is an internationally recognized expert on climate change policy.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg
/06279/727848-113.stm | back to top
Plenty Magazine | October 2006
Antioxidants aren't just good for us--they're good for plastics, too. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out how to use common antioxidants like vitamin C to make a popular kind of plastic manufacturing more efficient--and much greener. When Carnegie Mellon scientists developed atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in 1995, it was considered a breakthrough in plastic technology. In traditional processes, once a polymer chain reaction is started, it goes quickly and is difficult to control. ATRP makes it possible to grow polymer chains one molecule at a time, which allows plastic manufacturers to control the properties of the plastics they create. According to Dr. James Spanswick, associate director of the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, more than a hundred companies, including L’Oreal, Bayer, and Eastman-Kodak, are using or plan to use ATRP to make products.
http://plentymag.com/features/
2006/10/pimp_my_polymer.php | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 11
Dr. Fanger, a pioneering Danish researcher who died three weeks ago of an aortic aneurysm, said in an interview a week before his death that he had done scores of studies that proved poor temperature control and ventilation have an adverse effect on people's performance. ... In any case, Dr. Fanger said, his studies have shown that even when buildings are designed and operated to meet national air conditioning standards in the United States and Europe, about 20 percent of the employees will be dissatisfied, with half saying it's too cold and half saying it's too warm. That is why the holy grail of HVAC--heating, ventilating and air conditioning--should be to provide temperature and ventilation control to each employee, he said. That's exactly what's being done at Carnegie Mellon University's Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace, a glass-enclosed experimental office perched atop the Margaret Morrison building on the school campus. There are three basic techniques being used at the Intelligent Workplace that differ from the typical systems in office buildings, said two of the architecture professors who work there, Vivian Loftness and Stephen Lee. ... Designing buildings that cool and heat with less energy will become increasingly important as more and more of the world's population moves into cities, said Volker Hartkopf, director of the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06284/728887-28.stm | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 10
The latest poll shows Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum 13 percentage points behind Democratic challenger Bob Casey. A little-known group of political observers is making its own prediction on another come-from-behind Santorum victory: Don't bet on it. Political futures markets--a sort of hybrid of stock markets and sports betting--show Casey with an 85 percent chance of capturing the seat. Economists say these markets, in which people put money on those they think will win, tend to be an accurate crystal ball of what will happen on election night. ... The largest political futures market, Intrade.com, handled about $15 million in trades during the 2004 presidential race, said John Delaney, CEO of the Dublin-based Trade Exchange Network, which owns Intrade. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the nation's largest regular futures market, handled $463.4 trillion in trades the same year, according to its Web site. "These markets make better predictions than a poll," said John Miller, an economics professor and head of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Social and Decision Sciences. Miller doesn't play the markets but has studied them.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/news/cityregion/s_474260.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 9
O. Burak Ozdoganlar. Age: 35. Residence: Franklin Park. Family: Wife, Neslihan; twin daughters, Ayda and Dilara, 6. Occupation: Assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. Noteworthy: Named winner of the 2007 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the International Awards & Recognition Committee of the International Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_474163.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 9
Gary K. Fedder. Residence: Wilkins Township. Age: 45. Family: Wife, Cheryl, 46; daughter, Tara, 6. Occupation: Howard M. Wilkoff professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University; holds a joint appointment in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Robotics Institute. ... Noteworthy: Recently appointed director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/search/s_474048.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 7
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will be performing live and almost in person this evening. The performance, to take place live at WQED studios in Oakland, will be broadcast live across the nation to outlets of Morton's The Steakhouse. Like the one Downtown, all the restaurants are equipped with 9-foot, high-definition TVs and seven-channel surround-sound systems. Philip Elias, from Elias/Savion, Downtown, which developed the broadcast system, says the concert is a change in the "paradigm" of concert-going. Elias/Savion is a marketing-public relations-advertising firm. Don Marinelli, executive producer of the entertainment technology program at Carnegie Mellon University in Oakland, agrees, and adds it is like "public pay for view." Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Marsalis says he got involved in the project because he saw it as is a way of taking jazz "into new settings." Marinelli, looking at the effort from an academic setting, agrees. "This audience has grown up watching screens," he says of an entertainment world dominated by the baby-boom generation, which has always has TV. "For them, watching TV at an event is normal and expected."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib
/living/music/s_473925.html | back to top
International News Stories
International Herald Tribune | October 11
Two eyes are hardly enough to read everything that comes across one's desk in a day. E-mail messages barge in all morning and pile up all night. A new online service, while it does not cut down on incoming e-mail, does promise to make it easier on the eyes. The service combines text-to-speech software with podcast technology so that e-mail can be converted to sound and downloaded onto a portable media player. That way, you can take your e-mail with you and listen to it as you travel to work, eat lunch, jog or organize files. Outblaze, which provides hosted e-mail and other communications services to businesses, helped create the free service, called Audio Webmail, for a client, mail.com, in late August. Users can test it out by signing up for a personalized account at www.mail.com. Though it is still in its beta, or test, stage, the results have been promising. ... According to Alan Black, associate research professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, "Only 60 to 70 percent of the population is good at speaking to voice recognition."
http://www.iht.com/articles/
2006/10/11/business/ptpod.php | back to top
Daily India (UPI) | October 11
U.S. research suggests children with autism are delayed in the ability to categorize objects, both living and non-living things. Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University say their findings could provide a cognitive explanation for one of the characteristics of autism: the inability to recognize the goals and motivations of others. ... "People have not really studied these conceptual deficits in very young children as the possible basis for the social and cognitive deficits in older children and adults with autism," said Carnegie Mellon psychologist David Rakison, who co-authored the paper with Cynthia Johnson, director of the Autism Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/68966.
php/Autistic-deficit-studied-in-young-children | back to top
The Korea Herald | October 11
A forum for the heads of information technology universities kicks off today for a three-day run at the Information and Communications University near Daejeon. ICU, which aims to produce IT specialists, will host the forum. The Ministry of Information and Communication is sponsoring the conference. ... Further, ICU boasts a wide global network with 80 universities from 40 differing countries. It has ties with the Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Germany's Munich University of Technology and France's INT. In particular, it has a dual master's degree programs in software engineering with Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/
html_dir/2006/10/12/200610120030.asp | back to top
Engineer Live (European Design Engineer Magazine) | October 10
Not too long ago, when the instrument panel on a popular car consisted of just five or six instruments and five or six auxiliary (secondary) controls to operate the radio and heating system, the idea of making a hand gesture in a designated space to operate one of these controls would rightly have been seen as an unnecessary extravagance at best. ... Sensor-based systems do not suffer from the technical challenges facing vision-based systems, yet they still offer the same safety benefits and HMI opportunities. This supports the suggestion by the author that a sensor-based gesture-recognition HMI may be the best way to achieve a safer, more reliable secondary control interface on cars. Carnegie Mellon University is developing the iWave gesture recognition system in collaboration with, and funded by, General Motors. The primary objective was to create an innovative human-car gesture interface to support information or entertainment goals without compromising safety. The initial interface was designed and tested in a driving simulator with 18 subjects using one-handed gestures in front of the center console.
http://www.engineerlive.com/european-design-engineer
/20061001/automotive-design/1.5.801.803/16448/gesture-recognition
-technology-could-improve-automotive-safety.thtml | back to top
Times Online | October 7
Imagine that you are sitting next to a complete stranger who has been given £10 to share between the two of you. He must choose how much to keep for himself and how much to give to you. He can be as selfish or as generous as he likes, with one proviso: if you refuse his offer, neither of you gets any money at all. What would it take for you to turn him down? This is the scenario known to economists as the ultimatum game. Now the way we play it is generating remarkable insights into how the human brain drives financial decision making, social interactions and even the supremely irrational behavior of suicide bombers and gangland killers. According to standard economic theory, you should cheerfully accept anything you are given. ... George Loewenstein, Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, and one of the pioneers of neuro-economics, said: “The new science of neuro-economics is lending support to a very ancient view of human behavior. That is the idea that there is a conflict and interaction between passion, and reason and self-interest.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
article/0,,2-2392997,00.html | back to top
The Peninsula | October 7
The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUQ) in association with the Academic Bridge Program and Carnegie Mellon hosted its second Garangao Evening, yesterday. The event was opened to public. The event was organized by the VCUQ Student Activities Office and the Student Government Association. Students created a traditional environment reflective of the Garangao atmosphere. The event served as a showcase for people unfamiliar with the Garangao tradition. "We want to bring back the traditions that people have forgotten about, we want to take people back on a trip to the past, to a time when kids would gather and go around the houses in the neighborhood to collect nuts and sweets while singing Garangao songs." said Hissa Al Garni Students Activities Coordinator.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news
.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month
=October2006&file=Local_News20061007880.xml | back to top
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