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July 1-7,
2005
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 July 1 - 7,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 105
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Voice of America | July 3
AutoWeek | July 1
CNET News | June 29
Student Experience
Post-Gazette | July 4
Arts and Humanities
Post-Gazette | July 4
Charlotte Observer | July 3
Information Technology
Post-Gazette | July 6
San Jose Mercury News (ASSOCIATED PRESS) |
July 5
Biotechnology
Tribune-Review | July 6
Tribune-Review | July 3
Environment
Tribune-Review | July 5
Tribune-Review | July 3
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | July 7
Tribune-Review | July 7
Post-Gazette | July 6
Washington Observer-Reporter | July 6
Tribune-Review | July 5
Post-Gazette | July 2
International News Stories
Checkbiotech.org, Switzerland | July 4
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National News Stories
Voice of America | July 3
President Bush heads to Scotland this week for the annual Group of Eight
Summit. Summit host, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, wants this year's
meeting of the leaders of the world's richest industrialized democracies
and Russia to focus on aid to Africa and climate change. While there
is agreement on the goals, there are trans-Atlantic differences on approach
... Professor Adam Lerrick, of Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an expert on the economics
of foreign aid. He says, without reform, there can be no long-term progress.
"The greatest, I think, advice I could give to the G-8 leaders
is to be firm that, yes, they are committed to helping the poor in Africa
and other countries - there are other parts of the world that are just
as poor, but it has to be done in what is going to be, in the long run,
an effective manner," Mr. Lerrick says.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-03-voa31.cfm
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AutoWeek | July 1
Consumers who want the government to give each vehicle a single grade
for its performance on safety tests will have to keep waiting. The National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration has dropped from its priority
plan the idea of developing summary safety scores. NHTSA says it is
considering changes to its front-impact and side-impact crash tests.
So keeping the summary system as a priority would be "premature,"
the agency says. "I'm disappointed," says Granger
Morgan, chairman of the engineering and public policy department
at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Morgan
chaired a panel of Transportation Research Board experts that recommended
single safety scores in 1996. The board is a sister organization of
the National Academy of Sciences. Congress had asked the panel to examine
how to improve delivery of safety information to consumers. Morgan says
he suspects the single-score idea may be doomed.
http://www.autoweek.com/news.cms?newsId=102681
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CNET News | June 29
The next tech powerhouse, if Ghazi Benothman is correct, is about the
size of Rhode Island. Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, is laying
the groundwork to become a development center for advanced semiconductors,
decompression algorithms and other high-end products, said Benothman,
a founding partner in Minah Ventures, a venture firm specializing in
companies from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Dubai's
office parks and free-trade zones have already attracted Microsoft,
Hewlett-Packard, Daewoo and General Motors, among others, and it has
one of the fastest-growing airports in the world. "The next market
to emerge behind India and China is the Middle East," Benothman
said. When you look at them as individual countries, it adds up to nothing.
But in the region, there are 100,000 college graduates a year. Half
are in engineering, and the other half are in medicine," Benothman
said. The Middle East is also benefiting from a blend of oil money and
U.S. higher education. Carnegie Mellon University,
Texas A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Weill
Medical College of Cornell University have all set up campuses in Doha,
the capital of Qatar, which has similar goals to Dubai. All 41 students
in Carnegie Mellon's first academic class finished their first school
year a few days ago. Nine made Dean's list for the spring semester.
These students will graduate in 2008.
http://news.com.com/Techs+next+watering+hole/
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Student Experience
Post-Gazette | July 4
Jacob Wobbrock, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon
University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, took first place
in a national design competition for his role in developing a text entry
technique called EdgeWrite. The technique is designed for use with handheld
devices, but also can be adapted for use with wheelchair joysticks and
can be an alternative to keyboard entry for any number of computer devices.
EdgeWrite is suitable for use by people with motor impairments.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05185/532620.stm
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Arts and Humanities
Post-Gazette | July 4
In response to "What Fathers Do Best" by Steven E. Rhoads
(Forum, June 19; first published in The Weekly Standard): Steven Rhoads
claims that hormones make women nurturers and men not. His language
makes it sound as if science supported this idea, but the truth is that
the science of sex differences is inconclusive. It is not science but
ancient prejudice behind Rhoads' views. Yet even if his hormonal theories
were to be validated, one could not derive a moral imperative from them.
An excess of testosterone has been associated with a predisposition
to violence, yet we do not excuse violent behavior in men, much less
urge men to live up to their supposedly violent natures. Rhoads makes
other claims sound scientific when they are at best merely anecdotal.
***Please note that this opinion piece was written by David
R. Shumway, director of the Humanities Center and professor
of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05185/532676.stm
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Charlotte Observer | July 3
Orson Welles must have been winking when he said, " 'The War of
the Worlds' has no further significance than as the holiday offering
it was intended be," at the end of his radio adaptation. In the
words of Lil' Jon -- Whaaat! Welles' 1938 radio broadcast sent frightened
Americans fleeing from their homes because they thought New Jersey had
been invaded by Martians. It sounds crazy today, but the broadcast was
far from insignificant. "The Welles hoax was the first time that
the true power of an electronic mass media that could reach almost every
American was exposed," said Kathy Newman, associate
professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
The broadcast and most importantly the reaction to the broadcast demonstrated
the reach and immediacy of electronic mass media, and it taught Americans
not to believe everything they heard on the radio. Today, skepticism
of radio, television, newspapers and magazines is crucial in a digital
era where information spreads like pollen in the spring.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/
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Information Technology
Post-Gazette | July 6
Bill Cheswick figures that pretty much everyone logging onto a computer
every day is just like his 81-year-old Dad, a reasonably computer-savvy
man whose computer nonetheless is filled with viruses and other bad
stuff that he doesn't even know is there, much less how to get rid of
it. Cheswick will be one of 100 cybersecurity experts at a three-day
symposium that begins today at Carnegie Mellon University
on making computer security and privacy more user friendly for the masses
... "No wonder people just give up, it's just so much work for
computer users to keep up," said event organizer and Carnegie Mellon
researcher Lorrie Cranor, an expert on computer privacy
and public policy. Between anti-virus software, spyware detectors and
spam filters, computer users are often confused about how and when to
protect their computers, she said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05187/533266.stm
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San Jose Mercury News (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | July
5
The Supreme Court's ruling last week in the closely watched Grokster
case is reverberating through the file-sharing world, prompting some
services to re-examine their business models -- and chances of survival.
Executives said they spent the week huddled with lawyers, trying to
assess their vulnerabilities under the Supreme Court's new "inducement"
standard. In a unanimous ruling, the court found Internet file-sharing
services could be held liable if they encourage people to use their
software to illegally download music, movies and other copyrighted works
... Michael D. Smith, assistant professor of information
systems at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon
University, said the music industry needs to support legitimate
forms of file-swapping, otherwise it will be faced with the same piracy
problem. "It's like trying to control a roach infestation with
a pair of sandals," said Smith. "Every once in a while you
get the satisfaction of squashing one of the little buggers. But unless
you control the structural problem behind the wall, you won't get at
the problem."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/
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Biotechnology
Tribune-Review | July 6
Emergency service workers know less about the life span of the filters
in their gas masks than they do about the freshness of the carton of
milk in their refrigerators ... That's why Carnegie Mellon
University engineers are partnering with researchers at the U.S. National
Personal Protective Technology Laboratory in South Park to develop sensors
that alert users when it is time to replace their mask cartridges ...
The need for a better way to monitor the life span of breathing cartridges
came to the forefront after 9/11, when respirators served a critical
role in ensuring worker safety in the World Trade Center rescue and
recovery effort, said Gary Fedder, a professor of electrical
and computer engineering and robotics at Carnegie Mellon. The sensor
being designed through the Carnegie Mellon-federal partnership would
be placed inside the respirator's carbon filter to monitor when it becomes
filled with potentially dangerous gases ... The research is being overseen
by Fedder, who co-directs the university's Microelectromechanical Systems,
or MEMS, Laboratory. His Carnegie Mellon collaborators on the sensor
project are David Lambeth, professor of electrical
and computer engineering; Richard McCullough, dean
of Carnegie Mellon's College of Science; and Lee Weiss,
the principal research scientist for the university's Robotics Institute.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_350535.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 3
Dannie Durand is an archaeologist, only she does her
digging with a computer rather than a spade, and she excavates genes
instead of ancient artifacts. Like species, genes evolve over time.
Some chunks of DNA get copied, while others get trimmed away. Individual
molecules within a gene's code are altered. By analyzing those changes,
scientists can trace back a gene's chronology and map it on the twigs
and branches of an evolutionary tree. Thousands of possible scenarios
must be considered to pinpoint the ancestry of a single gene. Durand,
a biology and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon
University since 2000, has designed a new software tool called "Notung"
to make it faster and easier to dig through the molecular ruins -- a
nascent field known as genetic archaeology.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_349724.html | back to top
Environment
Tribune-Review | July 5
This week, the golden arches flanking the Fort Duquesne Bridge will
be enveloped by giant vacuums, protecting motorists and the environment
from the lead paint that workers will sand-blast off the steel structure.
The 1970s-era lead-based paint that has been flaking off the bridge's
arches and into the Allegheny River will be removed, and a new coat
of safe zinc-rich paint in an "Aztec gold" hue will be applied.
The $14.3 million painting and bridge-repair project started in April
2004 and will continue through December. Most of the bridge base already
has been stripped of the lead-based paint ... Lead paint chips that
have been flaking off and falling into the Allegheny River are relatively
insoluble, but could eventually dissolve and enter the ecosystem, potentially
posing health risks to animals or humans using the rivers, said
Dave Dzombak, a professor of civil and environmental engineering
at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_350122.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | July 3
For most of the 1900s, the rivers and streams near Pittsburgh almost
exclusively contained only pollution-tolerant carp and bullhead catfish,
often in numbers so small that they could hardly be fished. The Allegheny,
Monongahela and Ohio rivers are gingerly mending after years of abuse.
What tells that story better than any statistic, government regulators
and environmental officials say, is the pollution-sensitive wildlife
returning to Western Pennsylvania after an absence of decades ... Private
and government organizations measure bacteria levels in the water, either
through spot testing or in a few fixed locations, but none monitor the
rivers on a consistent enough basis and at enough sites to develop trends,
said Tim Collins, director of Carnegie Mellon
University's Studio for Creative Inquiry 3 Rivers 2nd Nature Project,
which has examined pollutants in the county's waterways for the last
four years.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_349724.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Post-Gazette | July 7
Jim Rankin isn't one to sit around, enjoying the perceived
comforts of idle time. "It's not my nature at all," Rankin
said. "Some people travel or just kind of hang around the house
when they get to this point, but I just couldn't see myself being that
way. I just had to do something." So he's going back to college.
Rankin, who coached the North Allegheny High School football program
for 18 years and amassed a 144-62-2 record before stepping down in November,
has been hired as an assistant at Carnegie Mellon University.
He will coach the Tartans' offensive guards and centers. Rankin becomes
one of three full-time assistants under Carnegie Mellon coach Rich
Lackner.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05188/533596.stm
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Tribune-Review | July 7
First-year Carnegie Mellon University athletics director
Susan Bassett will be one of 10 new members of the
Ithaca (N.Y.) College Athletic Hall of Fame. The school will induct
Bassett and others during ceremonies Oct. 7 on campus. Bassett, who
became the second female to coach a men's and a women's swimming team
to top-10 finishes in NCAA Division III in the same season, played one
year of field hockey at Ithaca before an auto accident ended her playing
career.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
sports/college/s_350924.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 6
Mark S. Kamlet, provost of Carnegie Mellon
University since 2000, has been appointed to a new five-year term. Kamlet
also was named senior vice president, effective July 1, the school announced.
Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon said that Kamlet's
new title of senior vice president recognizes the key role the provost
plays in almost all aspects of administration.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05187/533487.stm
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Washington Observer-Reporter | July 6
There are no belching smokestacks here. No monstrous mills churning
out tons of steel. But in the labs on a sprawling, tree-lined, collegelike
site in this Pittsburgh suburb, steel work is most definitely being
done. Like researchers at other steel companies, the employees inside
the U.S. Steel Research and Technology Center are toiling in a new age
-- perfecting generations-old techniques and developing new technology
to make steel better, cheaper and faster. With growing global competition,
innovation is required to stay in business ... The perception that the
steel industry is antiquated is not in tune with reality, said Ron Ashburn,
executive director of the Warrendale, Pa.-based Association for Iron
and Steel Technology. "It's by no means akin to what our grandfathers,
or even our fathers would have been exposed to in a mill environment,"
he said. But considering overall advances in technology, basic steel
production has not changed that dramatically, said Richard Fruehan,
director of the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research in Pittsburgh
at Carnegie Mellon University. "There have been
a lot of improvements," he said, "but they are more evolutionary
than revolutionary." Fruehan said the global consolidation of companies
could help speed up that change.
http://www.observer-reporter.com/307456091359054.bsp
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Tribune-Review | July 5
Becky Olson was thrilled her mother took her to see an original copy
of the Bill of Rights at Carnegie Mellon University.
"I think it's spectacular," Becky Olson, 11, said. "And
it's wonderful we have it. And it wouldn't be the country we have today
without it." One of four known copies of the original Bill of Rights
-- complete with the two amendments never ratified by the states --
is on display through Friday at Carnegie Mellon University's Posner
Center. About 100 people a day -- compared with two or three most days
-- have visited the Oakland center since the document went on public
viewing June 22, Carnegie Mellon officials said ... The Library of Congress,
the American Antiquarian Society and a private collector have the other
copies, according to Mary Kay Johnsen, Carnegie Mellon's
special-collections librarian. The copy at Carnegie Mellon was bought
in 1963 by the late Henry Posner Sr., a collector of rare books and
documents, from New York book dealer H.P. Kraus. At the time, it was
the only copy known to exist outside the Library of Congress. Johnsen
said she does not know how much Posner paid for it.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_350169.html | back to top
Post-Gazette | July 2
A ribbon-cutting and open house are scheduled Saturday, July 9, at Blueroof
Technologies Smart Cottage in McKeesport. Federal, state, county and
city officials who provided grants and aid to Blueroof will attend the
ribbon-cutting, as will James Osborn, executive director
of Carnegie Mellon University's healthcare robotics
center. Carnegie Mellon recently announced an agreement with Blueroof
to use its model cottage as a testing ground for devices that help physically
and mentally challenged people. The technology comes from a consortium
involving Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05183/531329.stm
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International News Stories
Checkbiotech.org, Switzerland | July 4
Dannie Durand is an archaeologist, only she does her
digging with a computer rather than a spade, and she excavates genes
instead of ancient artifacts. Like species, genes evolve over time.
Some chunks of DNA get copied, while others get trimmed away. Individual
molecules within a gene's code are altered. By analyzing those changes,
scientists can trace back a gene's chronology and map it on the twigs
and branches of an evolutionary tree. Thousands of possible scenarios
must be considered to pinpoint the ancestry of a single gene. Durand,
a biology and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon
University since 2000, has designed a new software tool called "Notung"
to make it faster and easier to dig through the molecular ruins -- a
nascent field known as genetic archaeology.
http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?
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