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January
7 - 13, 2005
This internal publication contains information about recent coverage
of Carnegie Mellon that appeared primarily in national newspapers, magazines
and online publications.
Please send comments and suggestions to thomas@cmu.edu
The media coverage archive is available at www.cmu.edu/clips
From January 7 - 13,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 128
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | January 13
Christian Science Monitor | January 13
Christian Science Monitor | January 10
BusinessWeek | January 7
The New York Times (REUTERS) | January 6
Student Experience
The Chronicle of Higher Education | January
14
Arts and Humanities
Houston Chronicle | January 10
Tribune-Review | January 9
Tribune-Review | January 9
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) | January
5
Information Technology
Fortune Magazine | January 12
Technology Research News | January 12
Popular Mechanics | January 11
The Herald-Dispatch | January 10
Post-Gazette
| January 10
Environment
Post-Gazette | January 9
Washington Observer-Reporter (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
| January 7
Tribune-Review | January 7
Post-Gazette | January 7
Regional Impact
Boston Globe (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | January 9
Post-Gazette | January 9
Tribune-Review | January 9
Pittsburgh Magazine | January 2005
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | January 9
International News Stories
International Herald Tribune | January 12
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National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | January 13
A physician refers a patient for an X-ray at a facility in which the
doctor is a partner. Another takes cash for referring a patient to a
clinical trial. A Wall Street analyst praises a company with which his
employer does business. A money manager talks on television about a
stock he owns. A professor writes an op-ed piece backing the position
of a company that pays him...In each instance, the person giving advice,
often bound by professional ethics or regulation, is supposed to place
the consumer's interest ahead of his own. Many advisers do. But just
in case, advisers are told: Disclose your interest. Does it work? Sometimes...But
disclosure isn't a panacea, warns Carnegie Mellon University's
George Loewenstein, who works at the intersection of
economics and psychology, studying how people behave.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110557551
322324732-search,00.html | back to top
Christian Science Monitor | January 13
If you forgot to celebrate Dec. 8 - the Global Day of Action Against
Debt and Domination - you're not alone. Most people in rich nations
pay little attention to forgiving poor nations' debts. But last month's
Asian tsunamis changed that. This past Friday, the United States, Britain,
Japan, and the other well-to-do members of the Group of 7 announced
a moratorium, perhaps brief, on the debts of the 12 nations hit by the
tsunamis...Another complication lies in setting terms on loans. Allan
Meltzer headed a 2000 commission on international financial
institutions that urged the US to forgive the poorest countries' debts
and make grants, not loans, to them in the future. But the Carnegie
Mellon University economist sees a need for making sure such
grants are used in ways that get results and reform poor policy.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0113
/p17s02-cogn.html | back to top
Christian Science Monitor | January 10
On New Year's Eve, not one murder was committed in the city of Chicago.
It was a fitting finish to a year that, by any measure, saw serious
inroads against violent crime...The steadily low rates have surprised
experts who expected crime to increase. The are many reasons it should,
says Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie
Mellon University: fewer job opportunities, slashed social-service
budgets, the added anti-terrorism duties for police officers. "All
of these factors could contribute to making things worse, but they don't
seem to be," he says. Since 2000, the crime rate "has been
impressively flat."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0110
/p01s03-ussc.html | back to top
BusinessWeek | January 7
To honor two distinguished scholars and increase its international population,
Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh
has announced new full-tuition scholarships for French and Spanish MBA
aspirants applying for the 2005-06 academic year. The Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Scholarship will go to "an exceptionally qualified MBA candidate
who is a resident of France," according to the school...Also being
honored is professor and provost emeritus of Carnegie Mellon, Angel
Jordan, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science...A scholarship in his name will be awarded to an outstanding
MBA candidate who is a resident of Spain. "Our hope is that these
scholarships will attract outstanding MBA students from France and Spain
who will strive to achieve what Angel and Jean-Jacques have achieved,"
says Tepper Dean Kenneth Dunn. "Enhancing our
diverse student experience is also critical for the preparation of leaders
in the international marketplace."
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content
/jan2005/bs2005017_3031.htm | back to top
The New York Times (REUTERS) | January 6
With U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick out of the running to
succeed James Wolfensohn as World Bank head, speculation heated up over
who will lead one of the globe's top lenders. Officials said on Thursday
Zoellick was set to be named deputy to incoming Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, ending months of rumors in Washington that he was set for the
World Bank post...U.S. representation on the World Bank's executive
board is also set to change in coming months. A Treasury official confirmed
on Thursday that Carole Brookins had resigned this week as executive
director. Allan Meltzer, a Carnegie Mellon
economics professor who headed a government panel that recommended an
overhaul of the IMF and World Bank four years ago, said he was not surprised
that Zoellick was going to the State Department. ``There is a great
desire in the administration to see improvements in the World Bank in
outcomes as opposed to lending, and I don't think Zoellick was seen
as the person to do that,'' said Meltzer.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics
/politics-economy-worldbank.html | back to top
Student Experience
The Chronicle of Higher Education | January 14
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in 2003
backing the use of race in college admissions, the University of Texas
at Austin and the University of Georgia took particular interest in
the mechanics of the ruling. At the time, both public universities were
operating under federal-court orders prohibiting them from considering
a student's race in making admissions offers. With those decisions supplanted
by the Supreme Court ruling, the institutions were free to return to
race-conscious policies...What happened at Georgia and Texas is emblematic
of the widely divergent reactions that higher education has had to the
2003 rulings in two cases involving the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor. While college presidents were largely united in their public
support of affirmative action in the months leading up to the oral arguments
in the cases, their response to the decisions over the past year and
a half has been much more guarded and, at times, defensive. The muted
reaction is, in part, a result of the continuing legal efforts by a
coalition of advocacy groups to eliminate race-based programs at colleges
and of last November's election, which swept a larger, and more conservative,
Republican majority into Congress. Nowhere has this cautious stance
been more apparent than at the dozens of institutions, including Carnegie
Mellon, Harvard, and Yale Universities, that have quietly opened
a wide range of what were once exclusively minority scholarships and
programs to students of any race.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i19/19a02101.htm
Arts and Humanities
Houston Chronicle | January 10
Will you be happier if you make more money? Psychologists say probably
not — assuming you aren't poor, in which case a change in wealth
can have a big impact on well-being. After attaining a certain earnings
level — some theorize that's around $40,000 now in the United
States, about double the government-defined poverty level for a family
of four — increased affluence hardly affects happiness, according
to social scientists who have examined how they are linked..."There's
amazingly little that will raise your happiness for a long time,"
Carnegie Mellon University economist George
Loewenstein said. By contrast, some things are well documented
as begetters of unhappiness. Not having a job when you want one —
even if you're well off — ranks at the top, Loewenstein said.
Other prescriptions for unhappiness: having a bad relationship with
your significant other or having children beset with problems.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl
/business/mym/2983595 | back to top
Tribune-Review | January 9
An additional opportunity to see the work of emerging local theater
artists opens a two-week run in the Cultural District this coming weekend.
"Future Ten," a festival of 10-minute plays, is being produced
by Future Tenant, an alternative art space at 801 Liberty Ave., Downtown.
The festival of 10 small shows written by 10 writers and performed by
a multitude of actors is an outgrowth of Future Tenant's mission to
serve emerging artists through opportunities that get their work seen
by as many people in Pittsburgh and the surrounding communities as possible...Dan
Martin, head of Carnegie Mellon University's
Master of Arts Management program, selected the 10 scripts.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/entertainment/arts/carter/s_290975.html | back to
top
Tribune-Review | January 9
They tumble out of our mailboxes, form patchwork quilts on theater lobby
tables and often serve as advertisements for products that are not yet
created. They're theater season brochures, those booklets, fliers and
postcards filled with information on what plays are on the schedule..."The
minute I got Quantum Theatre's piece, I knew I wanted to go there,"
says Kristin Hughes, assistant professor at Carnegie
Mellon University's School of Design. "It had a contemporary
feel. The typography was contemporary. It said something different is
going on here."...Although the individual companies might have
different artistic style and goals, each season brochure has the same
goal...Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Challenge: Broaden
the audience by appealing to potential theatergoers younger than the
School of Drama's traditional subscriber base. Solution: Instead of
a season brochure, it's a packet of seven cards, one for each of the
season's six shows, plus a separate card with subscriber information
and order form.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/entertainment/arts/s_291145.html | back to top
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) | January 5
Several Carnegie Mellon faculty members were appeared
in segments of this program which aired nationally on PBS. Visit the
web for complete transcripts of the segments featuring faculty members
Barbara Johnstone and Natalie Baker-Shirer.
http://www.pbs.org/speak/
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Information Technology
Fortune Magazine | January 12
The first great wave of industrial robots began appearing in factories
in the 1980s. Most of them were stationary armlike machines assigned
to the "three D's"—dull, dirty, or dangerous jobs, such
as stuffing chips into circuitboards, spray painting, or spot welding.
But the robot world is changing fast...Meanwhile university researchers
are developing industrial robots that go beyond the three D's to jobs
that require significant ability to make independent decisions. They
include inspecting an underground pipeline as natural gas flows though
it, navigating rugged desert terrain without a driver, and even walking
on water while testing for pollutants. For a glimpse at what's coming
in mobile robotics, FORTUNE visited a place that's always hopping with
wild ideas: the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. **Please note that the article that appears
in hard copy of the magazine covers a several page spread and includes
images of robots such as "Explorer", "Sandstorm"
and Red Whittaker with members of the Red Team, "Ultrastrip",
and "Toro Groundsmaster 3500D", as well as Metin Sitti
with a gecko.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/imt
/0,15704,1016608,00.html | back to top
Technology Research News | January 12
Humans are constantly accommodating computers. Data taken from one program
must often be altered before another program will accept it properly,
for instance. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University
have built a tool that uses natural language parsing techniques to reduce
the formatting that must be done when text is copied from one application,
like email, and pasted into another, like an address book. The tool,
dubbed Citrine, automatically adds inferred structure to data as it
is copied to the clipboard. The method simplifies situations like copying
a street address from an email and pasting it into MapQuest to one copy
action and one paste action.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/011205/
Copy-and-paste_goes_natural_Brief_011205.html | back
to top
Popular Mechanics | January 11
At the moment, [Dr. Stephen C. Jacobsen is] particularly excited about
a new class of tiny sensors that will help robots and other intelligent
machines monitor their own movements. "That's the biggest thing
out of the lab," he says flatly. At first, it doesn't seem like
such a big deal, but with a little explanation, the implications grow
clearer...Dr. Melvin W. Siegel of the Robotics Institute
at Carnegie Mellon University agrees that the sensors
have great promise. It stems, he says, from their ability to provide
something called proprioception, a sixth sense which we all take for
granted that tells us what our own parts are up to at any given moment.
"That's what robots don't have," says Siegel. "They're
running blind and the existence of small, lightweight, reliable sensors
will let us work with machines that know where their own parts are.
You know how important that is to you."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science
/robotics/1282396.html | back to top
The Herald-Dispatch | January 10
Some areas in West Virginia have already started experimenting with
offering free or low-cost wireless Internet access available to anyone
with a wireless connection on a laptop computer. Wireless Internet,
known as wireless fidelity or Wi-Fi, takes existing high-speed Internet
connections and beams the signal in the air so people within a certain
distance can access the Internet. A $125,000 grant in 2003 from the
Appalachian Regional Commission and the Benedum Foundation jumpstarted
a project to start a Wi-Fi infrastructure in Glenville. Glenville State
College and Carnegie Mellon University’s Center
for Appalachian Network Access used the grant to build two Wi-Fi towers
on top of buildings at the college and have plans to build more in the
next three years. Now about 50 customers in Glenville have Wi-Fi access
for $20 a month.
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2005
/January/10/LNtop2.htm | back to top
Post-Gazette | January 10
Daniel Stancil chose a scientific journal to report
on a bit of electronic marksmanship last month, but it could just as
easily have been inserted into an old Looney Tunes cartoon. It was sort
of like Yosemite Sam walking into an Old West saloon and, spying his
nemesis Bugs Bunny, firing off a series of wild shots from his six-shooters.
The bullets ricochet around the room until simultaneously converging
-- and in true cartoon form, screeching to a halt mid-air -- around
Bugs' head. Funny stuff. Stancil, on the other hand, is an electrical
engineer and did his shooting with radio waves, not cartoon bullets.
The results weren't nearly so hilarious but he contends they could lead
to improvements in cell phone and wireless laptop communications, as
well as in radar. Using antennas instead of six-guns and his Carnegie
Mellon University laboratory instead of a saloon, Stancil showed
that he could bounce radio waves off of cabinets, desks and doorknobs
and bring them to focus on an antenna across the room. In fact, he and
graduate student Benjamin Henty found that the more clutter in the room,
the better able they were to focus their signals on a target antenna.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05010/439652.stm
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Environment
Post-Gazette | January 9
The consolidation question, in Pittsburgh and elsewhere, touches on
a variety of issues: level of taxes, quality of service and redundancy
in government. Add to that list how a region organizes and operates
sewerage systems. A study released Thursday by the National Academy
of Sciences and sponsored by the Allegheny Conference on Community Development
faulted 11 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania for having too many
small, autonomous municipal treatment systems. The independence that
so many towns and boroughs value is a factor that has prevented the
region from taking care of an expensive health hazard: the overflow
of untreated sewage into the water supply. In other words, if Pittsburgh
is to end this malodorous, bacteria-filled threat, small is not beautiful.
The fact that the region has a water quality problem is not new. "Investing
in Clean Water," a 2002 study by a local group headed by Carnegie
Mellon President Jared Cohon, described the
situation in great detail, and the Allegheny Conference has been trying
to organize an effective community response.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05009/438942.stm
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Washington Observer-Reporter (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
| January 7
Southwestern Pennsylvania should take a regional approach to improve
its water and sewer problems, the research arm of the National Academy
of Sciences said in a report Thursday. Like other areas around the country,
aging and broken sewers in an 11-county region dump raw sewage into
streams and rivers when it rains and the academy says its recommendations
could serve as a model elsewhere. Although previous studies have suggested
fixing the problems could cost $10 billion, the National Research Council's
report didn't assign a cost..."One of the important outcomes of
the study is that southwestern Pennsylvania has been given the opportunity
to set the national standard for how regions can collaborate on their
efforts to efficiently address water quality problems," said Jared
L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University
and a member of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
http://www.observer-reporter.com/293212294363054.bsp
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Tribune-Review | January 7
Southwestern Pennsylvania needs a regional group to oversee billions
of dollars in federally required improvements to aging or leaky sewer
systems in 11 counties, according to a two-year study made public Thursday.
The National Academy of Sciences report, released at Carnegie
Mellon University, stops short of detailing how much repairs
would cost or how much consolidation would save. Repairs would stop
an estimated 16 billion gallons of untreated sewage from spilling into
creeks and rivers each year during rainstorms and snowmelts. The report
recommends a small, but unspecified, sewer-repair surcharge to set up
the umbrella agency to oversee repairs. ***Please note, a similar story
also appeared in news segments on local television stations KDKA and
WPXI and featured Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/trib/regional/s_290710.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | January 7
The National Academies of Science released a study that says cooperation
on planning and operating sewerage systems is necessary to stem the
pollution. The study, released yesterday at Carnegie Mellon
University in Oakland, strongly recommends that management of the fragmented,
municipally owned sewer systems in and around Pittsburgh be consolidated
either through merger of city and county governments or the establishment
of regional management organizations. The study mirrors the findings
of a 2002 study, "Investing in Clean Water," put out by a
local steering committee chaired by Carnegie Mellon President Jared
Cohon, that recommended prioritizing capital investments and
municipal cooperation. "This study strongly confirms the importance
of a regional approach, but going from this point forward is not going
to be easy," said Cohon, who is an environmental systems engineer.
"But if we can meet the challenge, we can not only improve the
quality of our lives but be a national model."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05007/438521.stm
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Regional Impact
Boston Globe (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | January 9
The nation's pre-eminent collection of works by and about Sir Isaac
Newton may be on its way from Cambridge, Mass., to Pittsburgh. The University
of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are preparing
a joint proposal to get the collection, which is currently located at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An agreement to keep the
collection there ends in 2007 and officials there are weighing whether
to move it to another location.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/009/region/
Newton_collection_seen_moving_:.shtml | back to top
Post-Gazette | January 9
Pittsburgh is a leading candidate to land a library and institute now
located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that would bring
to this city one of the nation's pre-eminent collections on the history
of science and technology. The 50,000 rare books, 30,000 secondary titles
and assorted other materials include one of the world's three greatest
assemblages of works by and about Sir Isaac Newton. The Burndy collection
is seen as a potential fit with both Pitt's History and Philosophy of
Science department and the school's Center for Philosophy of Science.
Carnegie Mellon's tech-heavy campus is a draw too,
in part because of an existing focus in the history of technology and
holdings within the Hunt Institute, devoted to the history of botany
and various areas of plant science, those privy to the discussions said.
N. John Cooper, dean of the school of arts and sciences at Pitt, said
the Burndy Library and Dibner Institute would help enrich the undergraduate
and graduate programs at both universities. Carnegie Mellon Provost
Mark Kamlet said his campus, too, is hopeful that Pittsburgh
will be selected. "We would be delighted," Kamlet said. "It
would be a nice feather in our region's cap."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05009/439358.stm
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Tribune-Review | January 9
For a borough founded just 51 years ago, Perryopolis has recorded a
great deal of history. The Fayette County community of about 2,000 residents,
located along Route 51 about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, was carved
out of Perry Township after local philanthropist Mary Fuller Frazier
left a bequest in her will for its creation...Perryopolis also is developing
a more prominent position in cyberspace. An initiative affiliated with
Carnegie Mellon University, called the Center for Appalachian
Network Access, is installing a broadband wireless system to serve the
borough and the surrounding area.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review
/trib/fayette/s_290255.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Magazine | January 2005
Nobel Prize winners Finn Kydland, University Professor
of Economics and PhD alumnus, and Edward Prescott, PhD alumnus and former
faculty member, are listed as Pittsburghers of the year under a category
called "The Thinkers." This article is not available online.
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Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | January 9
Officials at area colleges and universities waiting to hear from
students from the tsunami-torn regions of South Asia have gotten some
good news -- and a lot of "no news" that they're interpreting
as good news as well. As of late last week, no students or faculty members
had been reported missing, injured -- or worse -- as a result of the
Dec. 26 tragedy that has killed 150,000 people. But at least a few were
involved, albeit safely. Among them were two from Carnegie Mellon
University, which has 638 students from India, Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Carnegie Mellon had no word on any
other students, faculty or staff from the affected area.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05009/439416.stm
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International News Stories
International Herald Tribune | January 12
Great wealth offers the chance to buy a Learjet, an island, a sports
club or, these days, a more enduring and worthy bauble: a big-time business
school with your name inscribed on the gates. In the case of the most
prestigious U.S. business schools, the price of immortality - or something
akin to it - has been going up. In September 2004, the University of
Michigan announced that Stephen Ross, developer of the $1.7 billion
Time Warner Center in Manhattan, had donated $100 million to its business
school - the biggest gift in the university's history and the biggest
ever to a U.S. business school. That announcement followed by only a
few months a $55 million gift from David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa
Management, a New Jersey-based hedge fund, to Carnegie Mellon
University's business school, now known as the David A. Tepper School
of Business.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01
/11/business/immortal.html | back to top
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