August 12,
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 August 5-11,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 237
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | August
12
The New York Times | August 10
Bloomberg News | August 8
The New York Times | August 7
South Florida Sun-Sentinel | August 6
Bloomberg News | August 5
Arts and Humanities
The Wall Street Journal | August 11
Information Technology
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 11
The Miami Herald | August 10
The New York Times (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | August
9
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 8
The New York Times | August 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 5
Biotechnology
The Wall Street Journal | August 11
Medical Research News | August 9
Environment
Omaha World-Herald | August 8
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 6
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 5
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 10
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 5
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 5
International News Stories
Pakistan Online-International News Network
| August 10
MIS Magazine | August 2005
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National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | August 12
For American intellectuals, directives about "beach books"
strike every summer like seaside mosquitoes, transmitting a kind of
vulgar virus from those natural enemies, the pandering, soulless, dumber-than-ever
mass media. ... Short-story writer and Carnegie Mellon
faculty member Sharon Dilworth, [said] that "beach
books are usually mystery thrillers or romantic page turners. They're
thick, plot-driven books, the kind you don't mind getting wet or sandy
because you're not going to read them again." She urged a slight
uptick in taste.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/
v51/i49/49b01501.htm | back to top
The New York Times | August 10
Graduate students from top schools in the United States, most from master
of business administration programs, are vying for internships at India's
biggest private companies. For many, outsourcing companies are the destinations
of choice. ... Infosys Technologies, the country's second-largest outsourcing
firm after Tata Consultancy Services, discovered how popular India had
become as an internship destination for Americans when the company began
recruiting: for the 40 intern spots at its Bangalore headquarters, the
company received 9,000 applications. Only those with a cumulative grade-point
average of 3.6 or more made it to a short list, and then they were put
through two rounds of interviews. The final 40, who cut a wide academic
swathe from engineering schools like M.I.T. and Carnegie Mellon
to business schools like Stanford, Wharton and Kellogg, have since arrived
on campus for average stays of three months.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/
business/worldbusiness/10intern.html? | back to top
Bloomberg News | August 8
The [Federal Reserve's] so-called measured pace of rate increase shows
79-year-old Greenspan's preference for moving against risks that could
move the economy away from stable growth and full employment, says Allan
Meltzer, a professor of political economics at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh and author of a history of
the Fed. "He has run the most counter-cyclical policy in history,''
Meltzer says. "People who criticize him for being too loose too
long would have criticized him for tightening too fast.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/
news?pid=10000103&sid=agtajG01oIu4&refer=us | back
to top
The New York Times | August 7
The Air France evacuation required an extraordinary degree of social
coordination - which emerged among a group of strangers with virtually
no time to prepare. Once out of the wreckage, they were aided by other
strangers who, on the spur of the moment and with no expertise in emergency
situations, had pulled off a nearby highway and calmly charged into
the scene, despite the risks posed by an exploding plane. ... While
this sort of behavior is often described as remarkable, it is actually
what researchers have come to expect. *** This editorial was written
by Baruch Fischhoff, professor of social and decision
sciences at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/
opinion/07fischhoff.html | back to top
South Florida Sun-Sentinel | August 6
The boy could run. Yes, he could. That may be hard to envision today,
as a 43-year-old man stands behind the lectern, supported by knees that
always gave him trouble and calves that no longer measure quite the
same size. We know Dan Marino could run because Rich Erdelyi
insists as much, and Erdelyi would know as well as anyone, because,
like many in attendance today, he knew the boy who became Dan Marino.
... What Erdelyi was: Marino's coach at Central Catholic High in Pittsburgh,
which is why he feels like "a piece of me is going into the Hall
of Fame today" too. ... Erdelyi is pure Pittsburgh - for the past
22 years, he has been at Carnegie Mellon University,
where he serves as the golf coach (regarded among the nation's best)
and the football offensive coordinator.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/
mercurynews/sports/12322110.htm | back to top
Bloomberg News | August 5
World Bank critics are training their fire on the institution's loans
to China, a capital-rich country on a buying spree for U.S. bonds and
companies, saying the bank's money should go to needy nations. ... While
lending to higher-risk countries such as Algeria and Peru, the World
Bank enjoys the near-guarantee of a return of its loans to China, said
Adam Lerrick, an economist at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. China's $1 billion in annual borrowing, tiny
in comparison to the country's economy, could have a substantial impact
on developing economies in Africa and Asia, Lerrick said. China has
"an investment-grade rating, they can borrow as much as they could
possibly need,'' Lerrick said. "The World Bank should be concentrating
where there are poor people without access to private sector financing."
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/
news?pid=nifea&&sid=aMEjN1S9RveA | back to
top
Arts and Humanities
The Wall Street Journal | August 11
The recent announcement that Marin Alsop will become music director
of the Baltimore Symphony at the end of the 2005-2006 season is an exciting
step for all who have followed her extraordinary career with great admiration,
and for all who care about the well-being of the symphony orchestra
in America. But to herald this as the first such appointment of an American
woman -- as articles in the Washington Post, Newsday and the New York
Times did -- is to make assumptions that are both right and wrong, for
interesting reasons. *** This editorial was written by Alan
Fletcher, head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112371043549510192,00-
search.html?KEYWORDS=%22Carnegie+Mellon%22&COLLECTION
=wsjie/archive | back to top
Information Technology
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 11
A 3-year NASA project to test a "search for life" robot will
soon come to an end, but not before one last trip to the Chilean desert.
"Zoe," a solar-powered rover that resembles a go-cart, is
a prototype of an artificially intelligent "astro-biologist,"
or a robot that can explore and study life in harsh climates. It's been
developed and tested by Carnegie Mellon University
and NASA's Ames Research Center, which expects to use the underlying
technology in future Mars missions. Zoe and a team of researchers will
leave in two weeks for a third and final mission to the Atacama Desert
in Chile, where the robot will travel alone across about 110 miles in
two months, studying the driest desert on Earth.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-7337_3-5827745.html? | back to top
The Miami Herald | August 10
A new Secret Service program is aimed at teaching companies how to prevent
employees from sabotaging computer systems. ... About 20 percent of
computer-related crime is generated by disgruntled company insiders
against their unsuspecting bosses, resulting in the loss of hundreds
of millions of dollars a year, according to a study presented on Tuesday
during a training session for the U.S. Secret Service's Miami-based
Electronic Crimes Task Force. ... The seminar marked the rollout of
the Secret Service's insider threat training program, which is planned
to be offered to other e-crime task forces across the country. The sessions
are based on a recently-completed study by the Secret Service's National
Threat Assessment Center and software experts from Carnegie
Mellon University. ''This is a pretty big problem out there,''
said Dawn Cappelli of the university's Software Engineering
Institute. Cappelli and her colleagues found that saboteurs fit no definitive
psychographic profile other than being poor performers in some way at
work and technically savvy.
http://www.miami.com/mld/
miamiherald/12343050.htm | back to top
The New York Times (ASSOCIATED PRESS) | August
9
They're being called the Kutztown 13 -- a group of high schoolers charged
with felonies for bypassing security with school-issued laptops, downloading
forbidden Internet goodies and using monitoring software to spy on district
administrators. ... "This does not surprise me at all,'' said Pradeep
Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's
engineering department and director of the school's cybersecurity program.
IT staff at schools are often poorly trained, making it easy for students
with even modest computer skills to get around security, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/
technology/AP-Kutztown-13.html? | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 8
Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team is hitting the
road this morning, packing up its two robotic off-road racing vehicles
and heading to Nevada for desert testing prior to October's $2 million
Grand Challenge race. The Red Team's two modified Hummers, called Sandstorm
and H1ghlander, are among the 40 vehicles that will attempt to qualify
for the Oct. 8 event, which is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency. The team is considered among the frontrunners in the
race, which will require the driverless vehicles to navigate a roughly
175-mile course without human assistance.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05220/550453.stm | back to top
The New York Times | August 7
Though the number of corporate stalkers appears to be growing - along
with the number of payoffs to online extortionists - quantifying the
dimensions of the threat is difficult. Last fall, a researcher at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh published a study of online
extortion involving small and medium-sized businesses, saying that the
Internet's global reach had produced "a profound change in the
nature of crime, as the existence of information systems and networks
now makes criminal acts possible that were not before, both in increased
scope and ease."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/
business/yourmoney/07stalk.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 5
Known as the Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle (TUGV), the
six-wheeled combat robot spun around in circles displaying its strength
and durability at what could have been its coming-out party-- the first
public demonstration of the prototype designed and developed at Carnegie
Mellon University and set to be built and manufactured at BAE
Systems' Ground Vehicle Unit plant in Fayette County. ... "The
Marines are a tough customer. They have continually pushed them to make
it easier to use," said Randy Bryant, dean of
Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. Researchers at Carnegie
Mellon's Robotics Institute and the National Robotics Engineering Consortium
have been developing and fine-tuning the Gladiator since 2002, when
several research teams and defense contractors began competing to present
the Department of Defense with a specialized robotic vehicle to venture
into unknown territory on battlefields and deliver real-time pictures
to soldiers.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05217/548931.stm | back to top
Biotechnology
The Wall Street Journal | August 11
Given the extraordinary nature of the findings on endocrine disruptors
of the last 15 years, it is remarkable that the chemistry community
has failed to incorporate adequate toxicity and ecotoxicity information
into the training of chemists. We must change to meet greater responsibilities
to future generations. I represent a field called "green chemistry,"
where chemists are working to incorporate tox/ecotox understanding into
their work and to design chemical products and processes where hazard
is minimized or eliminated. Hopefully, green chemistry will help to
support healthy lives for our progeny and a sustainable future for our
species. ***This editorial was written by Terry Collins,
Lord professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
0,,SB112371168501110216,00-
search.html?KEYWORDS=%22Carnegie
+Mellon%22&COLLECTION=wsjie/archive | back to
top
Medical Research News | August 9
Researchers at Northwestern University and Carnegie Mellon
University have found that a recently described class of molecules called
microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in regulating oogenesis, the
process by which females make eggs. ... "We found the first evidence
that miRNAs are involved in oogenesis, and this adds an extra layer
of complexity that needs to be explored if we are to understand how
development is regulated," said Jonathan Minden,
associate professor of biological sciences and one of the paper's authors.
... In addition to Carthew and Minden, other authors on the PNAS paper
are Kenji Nakahara and Kevin Kim of Northwestern University and Christin
Sciulli and Susan Dowd of Carnegie Mellon
University.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=12331
| back to top
Environment
Omaha World-Herald | August 8
For ethanol industry advocates, long focused on increasing production
in the Midwest, a key promise of the energy bill Congress passed last
week and President Bush signed today is the prospect of an ethanol industry
and market stretching coast to coast. The bill requires refiners to
blend a larger amount of ethanol and biodiesel into their fuels, starting
with 4 billion gallons in 2006 and increasing to 7.5 billion gallons
by 2012. ... Lester Lave, economics professor at Carnegie
Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, isn't sure that
formula will work. ... Lave, also an engineering professor, is studying
turning other agricultural products into ethanol, an effort that he
thinks is more likely to transform the industry.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=46
&u_sid=1478438&u_rnd=781861 | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 6
High on the roof of Carnegie Mellon University's Hamerschlag
Hall, Bob Bingham straddles a drift of low-growing
plants blooming in shades of hot pink, purple and red. Around him, deep
green sedums and feathery grasses float in a sea of gray gravel. Bingham,
an associate professor of art and a member of the university's environmental
practices committee, was one of the champions of this living roof, one
of three at Carnegie Mellon. Also known as a green roof, it tops a conventional
roof and is made from succulents and other plants that can survive on
nothing more than rainwater. "It's a no-brainer if you want to
save energy, if you want be environmental, if you go toward sustainability,"
Bingham said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05218/549461.stm
| back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 5
Women are poorly represented on Pittsburgh's non-elected boards, authorities
and commissions, but minority appointees have built a strong presence,
according to a study released Thursday by the Heinz School of Public
Policy on Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
The study, endorsed by the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania,
found that women make up 34 percent of the city's appointed board members,
though 51 percent of the city's working-age population is female. Among
Allegheny County boards, 29 percent of the members are women, while
52 percent of the working-age population countywide is female.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_360580.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 10
As anyone who's ever taken time off from the drudgery of the 9 to 5
routine knows, returning to work after a vacation can feel as much like
a hangover as the morning after a night of overindulgence. ...
Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon
University who teaches seminars in time management. His suggestion for
the best way to ease back into work after a vacation? Lie. "When
you record your outgoing message, if you're coming back Tuesday, tell
everyone you're coming back Wednesday," Pausch advises. "You
buy yourself that extra day to come in and shovel off your desk."
Even better, is to tell people they can't leave a message, that you're
just not available until your return, Pausch said. "What you don't
want is to come back to a desk full of phone messages, where you spend
your first day back trying to catch up with people who say, 'I already
solved that problem.'"
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_362305.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 5
The number of homicides and suicides declined nationally throughout
much of the 1990s, including those committed with firearms. ... The
decline in the '90s related to a continuing drop in violence among people
over 30, and to a reduction in an earlier increase of drug-related criminal
activity among young people, said Alfred Blumstein,
professor of operations research at the Heinz School of Public Policy
and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. In the
past five years, trends have been more locally driven, Blumstein said,
noting that problems relating to gun violence may be increasing in Philadelphia.
He also noted that for both law-abiding citizens and criminals, firearms
in Pennsylvania have been "relatively easy to get."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05217/549177.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | August 5
Reticle Partners LLP is close to completing the region's first search
fund, an investment vehicle that allows entrepreneurs to raise money
to buy established companies. ... Like all search funds, Reticle has
a business plan showing how it will increase sales substantially, thus
rewarding the investors. It is targeting companies whose owners are
interested in exiting the business. ... The idea is to buy a company
and bring in new management and ideas, said Arthur Boni,
deputy director of Carnegie Mellon University's Donald
H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship. "We see it as a niche, an
opportunity for this region with its aging population."
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/08/08/story8.html | back to top
International News Stories
Pakistan Online-International News Network |
August 10
A new research reveals that aggression among males is evident at an
stage as early as kindergarten.
The little boy who clings possessively to his stuffed teddy bear or
shows similar domineering attitude despite frequent admonishments may
seem adorable and strong-willed, but according to a recent study, his
behavior may be an early sign of aggression. ... "By the end of
kindergarten, there are several powerful predictors of (chronic physical
aggression)--high opposition and high hyperactivity, low IQ, family
breakup, teen motherhood, and low maternal education," according
to Dr. Daniel S. Nagin of Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Richard E. Tremblay
of the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. "Interventions
for these children have been shown to have some long-term impact."
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/
details.php?id=85278| back to top
MIS Magazine | August 2005
Professor David Farber, considered by many as the grandfather
of the Internet, recently delivered a talk in Singapore. He tells Tissie
Adhistia that CIOs may not have a choice when it comes to use of the
Internet. ... "I think they don't have a choice when it comes to
the use of the Internet. It is part of the business fabric. It's like
your telephone, it may annoy you but you can't get rid of it because
you'll be out of business. So, what CIOs should be doing is putting
pressure on vendors to implement the best security measures. ... David
Farber, a career professor of computer science and public policy, School
of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in
the US, has been involved with networking for over 45 years.
http://www.misweb.com/magarticle.asp
?doc_id=24916&rgid=5&listed_months=0 | back
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