August 26,
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 19-25,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 142
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report | August 29
Business 2.0 | September 2005
Forbes | August 18
National News Stories
Newsday | August 24
Houston Chronicle | August 24
Chemical & Engineering News | August 22
The Chronicle of Higher Education | August
22
The Mercury News | August 21
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 25
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 22
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 25
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 22
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 24
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 22
ComputerWorld | August 22
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 21
Regional Impact
Washington Observer-Reporter | August 25
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 24
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 23
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 21
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 21
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 20
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 19
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 19
International News Stories
Newindpress | August 23
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Special Coverage: College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report | August 29
Carnegie Mellon ranked 22nd among the best national
universities. The undergraduate engineering program ranked eighth overall,
with computer engineering ranking third, electrical engineering 10th,
and materials, civil, environmental, mechanical and chemical engineering
specialty areas all ranking in the top 20. The undergraduate business
program ranked fifth overall. In business specialty offerings, Carnegie
Mellon ranked second in management information systems, quantitative
analysis, and production and operations management and fifth in supply
chain management. The Tepper School’s finance, entrepreneurship,
marketing and management programs were also ranked in the top 20. Carnegie
Mellon was also identified as a leader in the following categories:
Undergraduate Programs/Creative Research, Economic Diversity, International
Students and Great Schools, Great Prices.
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Business 2.0 | September 2005
We figured that, more than any other prospective grad students, MBA
candidates want a handsome return on investment. They want to know what
kinds of salaries await them, and which schools offer the fastest route
to the top. … With the help of the Princeton Review, we zeroed
in on the 25 schools whose students scored highest on the GMATs. We
talked to students, alums, and career-advisory officers, and asked the
questions you would. … Carnegie Mellon University,
Tepper School of Business: …Tepper aggressively forges contacts
between students and potential employers. The work of students in product-development
programs and business-plan competitions is judged by real executives,
who can also make hiring decisions. Proactive career center representatives
visit scores of corporations to lure recruiters to campus.
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Forbes | August 18
In Forbes magazine's biennial rankings of national full-time business
schools Carnegie Mellon's David A. Tepper School of
Business was rated 16th. The school was also rated eighth in the country
among top national part-time MBA programs. The Forbes rankings focus
on the return on investment for graduates—alumni salaries five
years after graduation minus tuition and the forgone salary during their
time in school.
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National News Stories
Newsday | August 24
The new security system the MTA announced yesterday will be designed
to foil terrorists and monitor the transportation network - and to expand
in the face of evolving threats. But the implications may extend well
beyond the system's initial capabilities, because it will be designed
to accept other types of data in the future. The MTA will put out another
request for proposals this year for detectors capable of spotting biological,
chemical or radioactive materials, according to a spokesman. And the
art and science of threat detection is rapidly changing. The direction
of the technology, for instance, is to be able to determine if somebody
is showing signs of nervousness, according to Takeo Kanade,
a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/
newyork/nyc-nymta24vr4395800aug24,0,453483.
story?coll=nyc-nynews-print | back to top
Houston Chronicle | August 24
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan isn't stepping down until January. But the
Greenspan era of the Federal Reserve is already being celebrated. Today,
luminaries of the central banking world will gather in Jackson, Wyo.,
to reflect on the Fed chief's contributions to monetary policy and debate
his legacy. Preliminary indications suggest the assessment will be glowing.
"There's no question that his tenure was quite remarkable for the
history of the Federal Reserve or central banks," said Allan
Meltzer, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University
and a Fed historian.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/
ssistory.mpl/business/3324021| back to top
Chemical & Engineering News | August 22
Researchers are working to replace fossil-fuel sources with hydrogen
in a variety of applications, including transportation. Switching from
petroleum to hydrogen may offer major benefits in terms of pollution,
energy security, and other issues. But the change to a hydrogen economy
won't happen overnight. Numerous scientific and technological hurdles
need to be overcome before the switch to hydrogen can be implemented
on a large scale. Working toward that goal, scientists are developing
a variety of new materials and methods for producing and storing hydrogen.
... David S. Sholl, an associate professor of chemical
engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, also applied
computational techniques to discover new materials with useful properties.
Sholl's study revealed new types of sulfur-tolerant transition-metal
alloy membranes for hydrogen purification.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/
83/8334altenergy.html | back to top
The Chronicle of Higher Education | August 22
The American Psychological Association and the American Psychological
Foundation have named the recipients of their annual awards recognizing
contributions to the field. The awards were presented on Friday at a
ceremony during the association's annual meeting, in Washington. The
awards and recipients are as follows. ... Awards for Distinguished Scientific
Contributions: ... Robert S. Siegler, a professor of
cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/
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The Mercury News | August 21
While business schools across the country mourn the drop in full-time
MBA students, part-time programs are on the rise. In the Bay Area over
the past five years, about a half-dozen universities have entered the
local market and begun wooing Silicon Valley workers who want a Master
of Business Administration degree but don't want to give up their day
jobs to earn it. ... The newest Bay Area entrants are Carnegie
Mellon University and the University of California-Davis, which
begin new programs this fall. The respected Tepper School of Business
will launch its first part-time MBA cohort of a dozen students at Carnegie
Mellon West at Moffett Field in Mountain View.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/
mercurynews/news/local/states/
california/the_valley/12438910.htm | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 25
A national shortage of bacterial meningitis vaccine is making it harder
for Pennsylvania college students to comply with a state law requiring
them to be inoculated to live in dormitories. ... At Carnegie
Mellon University, where classes begin Tuesday and 3,400 students
will live in the dorms, school health officials received about 50 calls
this summer from anxious parents who had difficulty obtaining the vaccine
from their health care providers, said Jennifer Church,
interim dean of student affairs. "We advised these parents that
we could give (the students) the vaccine when they arrived," said
Church, in an e-mail message. In the last week, the Carnegie Mellon
health staff has administered 100 vaccine doses to incoming freshmen,
among them foreign students who were unable to get inoculated in their
home countries, Church said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
health/s_367184.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 22
Jeremy Forsythe's days begin at 7:30 a.m. this summer. That's when he
and a crew of 10 to 12 students start to work building a solar-powered
house on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. But
as the days of summer have grown shorter, their work days have only
gotten longer. ... Indeed, the students from Carnegie Mellon, the University
of Pittsburgh and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh have just five more
weeks to put the finishing touches on the 800-square-foot house, now
rising in the green hollow known as Donner Ditch. It then will get broken
down, trucked to Washington, D.C., and reassembled on the National Mall,
forming a temporary solar village with 17 other competitors from such
schools as Michigan, Virginia Tech and Texas.
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 25
I welcome the dialogue provoked by Terry Young's recent article ("Presentation
makes the difference for video art," Aug. 9) and Graham Shearing's
response (Feedback, Aug. 18), but I take issue with Young's characterization
of Pittsburgh as a city where "nothing seems to be born or die."
As head of the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University,
I have had the pleasure of being associated with recent and past faculty
and students who contradict this poetic but not entirely true pronouncement.
Andy Warhol (pioneer of pop art), Mel Bochner (pioneer of conceptual
art), and Philip Pearlstein (leading contemporary realist painter) were
all raised in Pittsburgh and educated at Carnegie Mellon. The landscape
of contemporary art would not be the same without their contributions.
The newer generations are no less promising. Countless artists launch
their careers from their studies here. *** This opinion piece was written
by Susanne Slavick, Regina Gouger Miller Head of the
School of Art.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 22
Designed by conceptual artist and Carnegie Mellon alumnus
Mel Bochner, and landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, the $4
million [Kraus Campo on Carnegie Mellon's campus] has, as one of its
backdrops, a blue-painted wall on which is mounted a large quotation
in black-and-white porcelain tile, two scrambled sentences by Austrian-born
philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. I won't spoil the challenge of untangling
this word puzzle; part of the experience of the garden is that you figure
it out for yourself. But the effect is that the words, isolated from
the sense-making context of the sentence, come to us as pure fragments
of language. They become a kind of found poetry, and when spoken aloud,
a strange incantation: "In walk they direction the changed have
people. ..."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05234/557789.stm | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 24
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, which just last month unveiled
a new computer workhorse, has received a $52 million contract to assume
an expanded role in the National Science Foundation's growing TeraGrid
computer network. The national science agency has increasingly focused
its funding for high-end computing on the TeraGrid, a cyber-infrastructure
that links some of the most powerful computers across the country and
has the combined capacity of performing 60 trillion calculations per
second. The Pittsburgh center's two computers alone can perform 16 trillion
calculations per second. ... The Pittsburgh center grabbed the largest
hunk of $150 million that the foundation awarded last week for TeraGrid
projects. ... The center is a joint effort of Pitt and Carnegie
Mellon, along with Westinghouse Electric Co.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 22
Although computerized translations historically have read more like
broken English, increased processing power and larger data samples have
allowed researchers to improve the accuracy of these systems. Start-up
Language Weaver, for instance, has created software that can translate
Al Jazeera broadcasts. Research on the topic is also being tackled at
Carnegie Mellon's Language Technology Institute and
other universities.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-1038_3-5841819.html | back to top
ComputerWorld | August 22
... Researchers are beginning to apply similar monitoring techniques
to all aspects of power and to all parts of the chip, says Babak
Falsafi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering
at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "On
the processor chip, and even on the DRAM memory, you are going to see
fine-grained resource scaling, such as voltage and frequency scaling,"
Falsafi predicts. "It's across the entire chip now, but you'll
have tighter control over the various resources so you'll be able to
do scaling within the chip itself, which will give you a lot more buttons
to push and a lot more flexibility." For example, Falsafi and his
students developed cache memory architectures that monitor program behavior
at runtime and "autoconfigure" to adapt to the required cache
size and organization. Unused cache sections are placed in a sleep state
so they draw no current. Future designs will incorporate such resource
scaling across all chip structures to save power, he says.
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/
hardware/story/0,10801,104017p2,00.html | back to
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Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 21
Pennsylvania has been given the green light from an oversight panel
to develop its own regulations for power plant mercury emissions, while
it sues the federal government over pollution standards it believes
fail to adequately address the public health risk. ... Some members
of [the Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee], including Peter
Adams, a Carnegie Mellon University assistant
professor of civil and environmental engineering, are questioning how
cost-effective state regulations would be, given mercury's global scope.
He said power plant emissions cross state lines, so some of the mercury
deposited in Pennsylvania is coming from elsewhere, just as mercury
from Pennsylvania-based power plants is polluting other parts of the
world. "Having a state rule would be an improvement over what we've
had," Adams said, "but are all emitters sharing the cost in
the same way?"
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Regional Impact
Washington Observer-Reporter | August 25
[Sandy] Cavanaugh, a technology teacher for Canon-McMillan's fifth-
and sixth-grade students, said many responded with similar levels of
enthusiasm [to a robotics program that was introduced to the school
last spring]. ... Cavanaugh attended a three-day training session in
January, along with teachers from Central Greene, McGuffey, Peters Township
and Southeastern Greene school districts, offered at Washington &
Jefferson College through the Robotics Academy at Carnegie Mellon's
National Robotics Engineering Consortium. "Our goal was not to
teach robotics in order to develop roboticists. Our goal was to teach
robotics in order to develop math and science, and teach engineer ways
of thinking," said Robin Shoop, director of educational
outreach at the Robotics Institute.
http://www.observer-reporter.com/
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Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 24
Based on the snarled traffic, it seemed as if every office in every
business park from Cranberry to Irwin had emptied out, their denizens
converging on Downtown yesterday morning to see former New York Mayor
Rudy Giuliani, financial guru Suze Orman and "America's No. 1 Motivator,"
Zig Ziglar. ... While Lowe and Ziglar have their passionate followers,
they're not taken all that seriously by management experts, said Robert
E. Kelley, adjunct professor of organizational behavior at
Carnegie Mellon University's business school. "If
it motivates you to get on the phone and make some more calls, maybe
it's worth it to some people. But I've not seen any data showing a real
rise in productivity," said Kelley. "You can look at these
seminars as a form of entertainment. People go to these and come away
feeling good, and if they don't mind paying the money, there's no harm
in it."
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05236/558961.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 23
The [Pittsburgh Citizen's Gaming Advisory Panel], appointed by Mayor
Tom Murphy in March, plans to consider at least five sites where developers
have proposed putting a casino. The panel intends to issue a report
listing the pros and cons of each site, co-chairs said yesterday. ...
Ronald Porter, the other co-chair, noted that the city's
casino likely will compete with one at The Meadows harness racetrack
in Washington County as well as other slots parlors across the state.
"Pittsburgh is not in isolation," said Porter, an adjunct
professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School
of Public Policy and Management.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_366378.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 21
Lenore Blum has been teaching math and computer science
at elite institutions such as the University of California at Berkeley,
Mills College and Carnegie Mellon University since
the late 1960s. But put her in a computer lab with a bunch of middle-school
girls who aren't especially computer savvy, and Blum really gets to
pursue her passion -- inspiring young students, especially girls, to
consider careers in math and science. "All my outreach is to hook
people by getting them interested in the subject," said Blum, 62,
a Carnegie Mellon distinguished career professor of computer science.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 21
We elect others to make decisions we can make ourselves. We do this
because it is too much to ask citizens to put in the time and effort
necessary to make sound choices on every policy issue we confront. So
we choose others to choose on our behalf. Unfortunately, direct democracy
is available only in limited instances in Pennsylvania. ... While local
home rule charters make initiative and referendum available to citizens,
we do not have it at the state level. This must change now. Our commonwealth
needs it now more than ever. *** This opinion piece was written by Mark
DeSantis, adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 20
Don Smith Jr., university director of economic development
at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University,
has relinquished his seat on the board of Innovation Works, the Hazelwood-based
technology company nest. His term was up last December, but he stepped
down in June. Timothy McNulty, associate provost for
strategic technology initiatives at Carnegie Mellon, has assumed Smith's
seat. Smith's been busy making the rounds to gain support for a new
proposal to launch an umbrella organization for the region's tech economic
development groups. ... The umbrella organization also would have an
advisory board, composed of local names with a lot of clout, including
university chiefs Mark Nordenberg of the University of Pittsburgh and
Jared Cohon of Carnegie Mellon University and PNC Financial
Services Group Chief Executive Officer James Rohr, who soon will be
chairing the Allegheny Conference on Community and Economic Development.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 19
Two years ago, at about 4 p.m. EDT on Aug. 14, a 9,300-square-mile area
stretching from the Midwest to New England began losing electric power
in a rapidly spreading blackout that ultimately darkened a third of
the country, leaving 50 million people without electricity. It was the
largest power outage in American history. ... But for many people the
question remains, "Could it happen again?" A Carnegie
Mellon University economist thinks that it not only could,
but that it most likely will. "Almost nothing has been done that
would make it better," said Lester Lave, a professor
of economics at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. The reason,
Lave said, is that neither the improvements made to the operation of
America's power grid since the blackout nor additional changes included
in the energy bill address a fundamental problem in the way that electricity
is delivered to American consumers.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 19
Carnegie Mellon University remained in 22nd place among
all national universities. Its undergraduate business program, which
serves 475 students, improved from sixth to fifth best in the nation.
Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business ranked second in management
information systems, productions and operations management and quantitative
analysis, and fifth in supply chain. The school's high national rankings
reflect its emphasis on number crunching and analytical techniques in
solving business problems, said Milton Cofield, executive
director of Tepper's undergraduate business program. Forbes also released
its survey of graduate business schools yesterday. Carnegie Mellon stood
at 16th in the nation among full-time programs and eighth for part-time
programs.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_365270.html | back to top
International News Stories
Newindpress | August 23
lose on the heels of the Australian immigration department announcing
plans to promote Australia in India, a state government has shown interest
to go directly to India to attract information technology workers. ...
The trade mission led by premier [Mike] Rann would also endeavor to
promote the state educational institution to the prospective Indian
IT students. A world-renowned university is about to open a branch in
South Australia. ''Carnegie Mellon's Adelaide branch
will be the highest world-ranked university operating in Australia,''
deputy premier Foley said recently. This will ensure South Australia
is well placed to meet the challenges of skill shortages and to provide
a fantastic educational choice for international students, especially
those from India who want a US degree, he added.
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