September
2, 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 26-September 1,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 206
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
BusinessWeek | September 5
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 31
Bloomberg News | August 29
The Wall Street Journal | August 26
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 30
Arts and Humanities
Fortune | September 2005
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 28
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 26
Information Technology
The Washington Post | August 30
The Boston Globe | August 29
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 29
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 25
Environment
Science Magazine | August 29
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 1
The Daily Pennsylvanian | September 1
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 31
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 30
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 28
International News Stories
BusinessDay | September 1
The Globe and Mail | August 31
Hindustan Times (INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE) |
August 30
The Peninsula | August 30
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National News Stories
BusinessWeek | September 5
With B-school applications on the decline for the third straight year,
many mid-tier schools are attempting to carve out niches that would
allow them to remain competitive -- not only with each other but with
top-ranked schools as well. Here are a few of the specialties: Carnegie
Mellon (Tepper School of Business) -- The program's integrated
product-development track provides students with an understanding of
how to develop and launch useful, desirable products. This track is
just one of nine distinct focuses that MBA students can choose.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/
content/05_36/b3949100_mz056.htm | back to top
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 31
New Orleans could be underwater for quite a while, according to experts,
and the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico might be under repairs for
years. ... Dave Dzombak, professor of civil and environmental
engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, agreed that
the cleanup of the city will likely take months and that human neglect
exacerbated the situation. Experts have warned for a number of years
that a serious threat of a strong storm breaching the city's aging defenses
existed, but remedial actions had only just begun. "Plans were
under way to do various things, but the budget wasn't completely there,"
he said. "There was a certain probability of a storm this size
hitting New Orleans. They didn't beat the odds." ... If there is
a bright spot in the gloom, the disaster may help policy-makers focus
more sharply on the relationship of cities and the environment, Dzombak
predicted. "New Orleans developed there for historical reasons,
but today you'd have to look at it as an unsustainable development,"
he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-1025_3-5845129.html | back
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Bloomberg News | August 29
Alan Greenspan's eventual successor as chairman of the Federal Reserve
may have to nudge the central bank toward greater openness to compensate
for his biggest shortcoming: He won't be Alan Greenspan. The more than
60 central bankers and academic economists who gathered in Jackson Hole,
Wyoming, this weekend for a symposium on the Greenspan era praised him
for steering the U.S. economy toward both low inflation and low unemployment.
... "The next chairman will have to establish himself as a bona
fide inflation-fighter,'' said Allan Meltzer, professor
of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh. A numeric inflation goal "is certainly one way to
do it.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103
&sid=arvcDNYI8zhs&refer=us | back
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The Wall Street Journal | August 26
A year after outsourcing was debated during the U.S. presidential election,
fear of losing technical jobs to lower-wage Asian countries still runs
high. To get a handle on the threat, many commentators and journalists
cite vast numbers of engineers produced each year by China and India
-- some estimates range as high as 600,000 for China and 350,000 for
India, compared with the fewer than 100,000 degrees granted annually
in the U.S. The implication is that the U.S. must increase investment
in engineering and attract more bright students to the technical fields
in order to compete. ... Ashish Arora, a Carnegie
Mellon professor who also has studied the issue, estimates
the number is closer to 200,000.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
0,,SB112488992778121801,00-search.html | back to
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Student Experience
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 30
You're standing on the sidewalk, a lonely and broken person. You're
hungry without a clue where to eat, someone just lied to you about the
corner of Fifth and Forbes avenues and you feel like bursting into tears.
... Fortunately, colleges and universities extend helping hands to new
students to make the transition easier. ... Carnegie Mellon
University breaks down 1,400 new freshmen into a variety of orientations,
including specialized sessions for minority and international students.
"They provide students with contacts," says Anne Witchner
Levin, director of Orientation and First-Year Programs. "Students
start bonding, find out the resources available, and learn what the
system can do for them."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
style/family/s_368723.html | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Fortune | September 2005
Among the fantastically complex gear carried by the space shuttle Discovery
when it roared into orbit in March 1989 was a hermetically sealed glass
cube the size of a jack-in-the-box. Filled with water from 18 of the
world's major river systems, it contained trace amounts of most of the
elements of the periodic table. Inside the water was a smaller cube
covered with featureless holograms; inside that was a vacuum. Nestled
in a cargo module and never touched by an astronaut, the cube went up
into orbit and came back down without a hitch—the first official
nonscience payload to be taken into space by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration's shuttle program. The assembly, known as the
"Boundless Cubic Lunar Aperture," was a work of art by
Lowry Burgess, a professor of art at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. It represents, he says, the nothingness that
became everything. Underlying the work's conceptual complexity is a
simple conviction that Burgess shares with a cadre of upward-looking
artists: Mankind's exploration of space needs to be about more than
just scientific and engineering chops.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/
thisjustin/0,15704,1096772,00.html | back
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 28
According to several Inuit myths, Noah (yes that Noah -- the one with
the ark and all those paired animals) -- strayed far from his biblical
seas and ended up in Hudson Bay. Unlike the benevolent Noah from the
Old Testament, this Noah is disoriented in the desolate white landscape
of winter. Boorish and angry, he lashes out at those who offer help.
... Ostensibly, this is is Howard Norman's memoir of his time in Churchill,
Manitoba, translating oral stories from an Inuit elder for a Toronto
museum. The book offers much more than a retelling of an authorial experience
in a foreign place, however; it is a beguiling study of how stories
blend and reshape themselves depending on the teller and the listener.
***This book review was written by Sharon Dilworth,
associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05240/560716.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 26
One adjective that typically isn't used to describe the 'Burgh is fashionable.
The organizers of "Diva's and Friends: A Handmade Soiree -- A Tribute
to Pittsburgh Fashion Design" hope to change all that starting
tonight with a 15-day fashion, art and music extravaganza held at Future
Tenant, an alternative art space in the heart of Pittsburgh's Cultural
District."What makes Pittsburgh fashion unique is that a lot of
people wouldn't readily associate (fashion) with Pittsburgh," says
Julie Wright, co-director of Future Tenant, a project
of Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for the Management
of Creative Enterprises that is hosted by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/events/s_367513.html | back to top
Information Technology
The Washington Post | August 30
Hoping to develop technologies that could at some time look for signs
of life on other planets, researchers are exploring Chile's Atacama
desert, the driest on Earth, with an experimental robot. Named Zoe,
it is a solar-powered, independently functioning rover developed at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. It is equipped
with instruments to detect and identify microorganisms and study their
habitats. ..."This desert has similar conditions like the planet
Mars, where you have dry, cold and low temperatures," said Alan
Waggoner, professor of biological science at Carnegie Mellon.
"It has large regions where you can't see any evidence of life.
. . ." Project leader David Wettergreen said,
"The research team wanted an extreme environment where organisms
survive in the desert and where there is high ultraviolet radiation,
just like Mars."***See page 2 of the article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2005/08/28/AR2005082800760.html | back
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The Boston Globe | August 29
With over 8 billion Web pages on file, Google is the most comprehensive
index of the Internet. Too bad. Internet users don't need 8 billion
pages, or 8 million. Even eight is usually too many. More often than
not, we'd settle for just one page -- the one with the information we
need. ... But we needn't wait. Instead, we can turn to Clusty.com, a
search service developed by the computer science wizards at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh. ... There's a good chance
you've never heard of Clusty, but there's also a decent chance you've
used it. Company founder Raul Valdes-Perez estimates
that 10 percent of Americans have used Clusty. That's mainly because
the America Online Internet service, with over 20 million subscribers,
displays Clusty results with every search.
http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/
articles/2005/08/29/cutting_through_search
_engine_clutter/ | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 29
Caterpillar is not a word typically associated with speed, but Carnegie
Mellon University's Red Team is happy to have picked up Caterpillar
Inc. as a major sponsor of its driverless race vehicles. The company,
a leading manufacturer of heavy construction equipment, last year embedded
one its engineers, Josh Strubel, as a full-time member
of the Red Team and has provided a number of electronic controls and
software for the team's two driverless Hummers, Sandstorm and H1ghlander.
The vehicles are now being tested at the Nevada Automotive Test Center
in preparation for October's $2 million Grand Challenge off-road race
sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05241/561721.stm | back to top
The New York Times (CNET NEWS) | August 25
...Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University during
[Intel's Justin] Rattner's speech [about proactive, autonomic computing]
showed off the Diamond project, which lets individuals search through
digital photos on a hard drive by actually searching on the image itself,
not data attached to the photo."There are going to be tens of thousands
of pictures sitting on hard drives," a Carnegie Mellon researcher
said. "How do we find it if it is completely unlabeled?" Google
and other search engines currently provide a sort of image search, but
the software is really searching on metadata tags attached to the image,
not the contents of the image itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-7337_3-5843300.html | back to top
Environment
Science Magazine | August 29
Wastewater cleanup crews may soon have a safer, more efficient way to
destroy toxic, humanmade pollutants known as nitrophenols. Researchers
have developed a "green" nitrophenol degrader that disintegrates
when its work is complete and that appears harmless to animals and plants
in early toxicity studies. Manufacturers use nitrophenols to produce
dyes, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals, among other products. Discharged
in wastewater streams, the chemicals do not degrade easily and are toxic
to aquatic life. ... The chemical solution developed by chemist Terry
Collins and doctoral student Arani Chanda at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, works at most
natural pH levels and uses a fraction of the iron. ... The findings--presented
yesterday at a meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington,
D.C.--mark the first time researchers have successfully used Fe-TAMLs
to degrade nitrophenols. Paul Anastas, director of ACS's Green Chemistry
Institute, says he welcomes the latest development. He calls Collins's
work on Fe-TAMLs is "absolutely brilliant" and "cutting
edge." In addition to wastewater cleanup, Collins believes Fe-TAMLs
can be used to reduce the environmental impact of paper bleaching and
might make common detergents more efficient. "It has the potential
to dramatically impact our daily lives," he says.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/
cgi/content/full/2005/829/3 | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 1
Carnegie Mellon University offered to give whatever
help it can to Tulane University in New Orleans, which could include
Carnegie Mellon taking on students from Tulane so they don't fall behind
in their classwork. "We're waiting to hear from them about what
they need," Carnegie Mellon spokeswoman Teresa Thomas
said. ***This story offers suggestions on how you can help hurricane
victims.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_369654.html | back
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The Daily Pennsylvanian | September 1
For university administrators across Pennsylvania... the large number
of prominent institutions has been a key factor in luring students to
the Keystone state, despite New York colleges and universities outnumbering
those of Pennsylvania by more than 200. "I think in all honesty
there's just a lot of really good schools in Pennsylvania so I think
we're very fortunate in that respect," Carnegie Mellon
University Director of Admission Michael Steidel said.
"I think both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are great draws in terms
of urban areas but the state system is very good too."
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/
display.v/ART/2005/09/01/43163c4a21131 | back to
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Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 31
India's ambassador to the United States believes ties between the world's
two largest democracies are stronger than ever. "The Indo-American
relations have never been as good as they are today," said Ronen
Sen, speaking to more than 500 people Tuesday at Carnegie Mellon
University in Oakland. And, he predicted, "They will grow stronger."
With a population of nearly 1.1 billion, India has been called the world's
largest democracy. The former British colony became an independent nation
in 1947.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_369252.html | back
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 30
Hurricane Katrina's shutdown of crude oil production and refining in
the Gulf of Mexico could cause gasoline prices in Western Pennsylvania
to jump by as much as 50 cents a gallon, on top of a record average
price of $2.55 now, experts said Monday. ... "Katrina certainly
disrupted production, but we won't know until people can go back in
and assess damage to rigs as to what the impact will be," said
Lester Lave, a professor of economics in Carnegie
Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribune-review/business/s_368794.html | back
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | August 28
The free-spending ways of the nation's largest full-time General Assembly
may have lit the fuse that could knock it down in size. ... Robert
Strauss, a Carnegie Mellon University professor
of economics and public policy, said Pennsylvanians pay a price beyond
the legislative largesse they underwrite for the General Assembly. Strauss,
who advises policy makers on tax issues across the nation, has watched
Pennsylvania struggle with tax reform for 26 years. He's watched homegrown
businesses move out and heard outsiders say they'd move in, if only
the state would update its property tax assessment and business tax
laws. He attributes the stalemate to systemic problems with the Legislature.
"Nobody has seriously tried to make the General Assembly smaller
or tried to get public disclosure of public documents," he said.
"We are where we are because we the voting public has been unable
to try to figure out a way to do things differently."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_368261.html | back to top
International News Stories
BusinessDay | September 1
The final overture to the unveiling of the Southern African Large Telescope
has begun, and the stage is Sutherland, a town so remote that few South
Africans know where it is. That is the point, of course. Sutherland
is away from it all, away from the bright-light cities of the US and
Europe, away from urban sprawl and the ambient light that interferes
with celestial observation. ... By pooling private and public funding,
SA now hosts the largest diameter telescope in the southern hemisphere.
It is a truly multinational endeavour and sets an example for scientific
and educational co-operation between nations in the 21st century. ...
There is also extensive participation by the UK Salt Consortium, Canterbury
University, Goettingen University, Carnegie-Mellon
University and the University of North Carolina.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/
topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A86772 | back
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The Globe and Mail | August 31
In June 2005, Lorrie Cranor, Associate Research Professor
at the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon
University, presented the disquieting result of research carried out
by her team. They examined the performance of six commercial privacy
tools, marketed as capable of permanently wiping data from computers
to protect data privacy. The researchers were able in most cases to
recover sensitive data; files were not properly overwritten, and in
one cases, the product tested 'completely failed' to do anything useful.
Users of such products were clearly left with a false sense of security
that their data had been successfully erased. The vendors were contacted
by the researchers, and the vast majority failed to respond. Unfortunately,
flaws in security products are nothing new.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20050826.gtkirwanaug26/BNStory/Technology/
?query=Carnegie+Mellon | back to
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Hindustan Times (INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE) | August
30
A million rare manuscripts, palm leaves, copper plates and age-old classical
literature are to be digitised under a project jointly undertaken by
Carnegie Mellon University and the Indian ministry
of communications and information technology. Carnegie Mellon will provide
proprietary software and hardware to the Digital Library of India for
$5 million. "In collaboration with the SV Digital Library of the
Tirumula Tirupati Devasthanam, we have started scanning as many manuscripts,
palm leaves and age-old books to host them on our portals in digitised
form," Carnegie Mellon director Kiran Kumar told
IANS.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/
news/181_1476380,00040006.htm | back
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The Peninsula | August 30
The Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, has appointed Amal
Al Malki as a visiting assistant professor at its English department,
a press release said here yesterday Amal is the first Qatari to be appointed
a faculty member at the Education City. "Professor Amal taught
this course to students on our Pittsburgh campus during spring semester
last year," said Charles Thorpe, Dean, Carnegie
Mellon in Qatar, said. "We're thrilled to have her on the Qatar
campus now, as a faculty member who brings a firsthand knowledge of
the English speaking needs of our students," he added.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?
section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=
August2005&file=Local_News2005083025114.xml | back
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