September
9, 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 September 2-8,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 146
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Coverage: Aiding in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina
KDKA | September 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 7
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 6
The New York Times | September 5
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 3
National News Stories
The Washington Post | September 5
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 3
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 4
Information Technology
National Geographic News | September 7
Environment
The New York Times | September 3
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 2
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 5
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 5
Valley News Dispatch | September 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 4
International News Stories
Express India News Service | September 7
Business Standard | September 2
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Special Coverage: Aiding in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina
KDKA | September 7
It was a beautiful day on the Carnegie Mellon campus
- an eye opener for Arthur Leslie who grew up in Montgomery, Alabama.
"It's gorgeous," Leslie said. "I love the architecture.
The campus is beautiful and the weather is really nice." Arthur
is one of 10 Tulane University students who started classes Tuesday
at Carnegie Mellon. Leslie's plan was to be attending class in New Orleans,
but Hurricane Katrina had other plan s. ... After a week of phone calls,
Leslie found out that he'd be able to attend classes at Carnegie Mellon
this fall. "I'm ecstatic about coming to Carnegie Mellon and I'm
just hoping that all of my fellow students at Tulane can go somewhere
this fall semester," Leslie said.
http://kdka.com/local/local_story_250171306.html
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 7
The region's colleges have begun enrolling students affected by Hurricane
Katrina. ... Carnegie Mellon University said it now
has 10 students on its campus who had planned to enroll at Tulane, including
some from Maryland, Seattle and the Pittsburgh region. "They are
here and they are actually in class," spokeswoman Teresa
Thomas said yesterday. She said Carnegie Mellon anticipates
10 to 15 additional students, mostly from Tulane. Carnegie Mellon, like
many major universities, said it will not charge students for tuition
if they already had paid at the school in which they were enrolled.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05250/566762.stm
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 6
A robotics engineer, dance artists and a little girl with a lemonade
stand are among a growing number of Western Pennsylvanians who have
opened their homes and hearts to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. "There
are times when you feel you need to help," Carnegie Mellon
University engineer Ricky Houghton said Monday. Houghton
has offered to take in up to five refugees at his McCandless home. "Although
there's a need for money, it seems money's not going to solve everybody's
needs right now," he said. "There's too much pain there, and
to sit back and go about our lives normally doesn't seem a reasonable
thing to do." Like thousands of other Americans, Houghton posted
his invitation on a Web site maintained by New Orleans' main newspaper,
The Times-Picayune.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_371142.html | back to top
The New York Times | September 5
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of displaced residents
and their relatives... have turned to the Internet for information about
a home feared damaged or destroyed. Many are using Google Earth, a program
available at the Google Web site that lets users zoom in on any address
for an aerial view drawn from a database of satellite photos. By the
end of last week, a grass-roots effort had identified scores of posthurricane
images, determined the geographical coordinates and visual landmarks
to enable their integration into the Google Earth program, and posted
them to a Google Earth bulletin board... Most of the images originated
with the Remote Sensing Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, which has been posting them to its Web site (noaa.gov)
since Wednesday. Taking inspiration from the online volunteers, Google,
NASA and Carnegie Mellon University had by Saturday
night made the effort more formal, incorporating nearly 4,000 posthurricane
images into the Google Earth database (at earth.google.com) for public
use.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/
technology/05google.html?oref=login | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 3
Western Pennsylvania is stepping up to help the victims of Hurricane
Katrina more than 1,000 miles away. ... Carnegie Mellon University
and University of Pittsburgh officials are still waiting to hear what
students from Tulane University might need. Thirty-one students at Carnegie
Mellon from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are being offered psychological
services and financial assistance if needed, spokeswoman Teresa
Thomas said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_370424.html | back to top
National News Stories
The Washington Post | September 5
Gas lines have materialized across the nation. Many stations have run
out. Others raised prices defensively in a deliberate, but not entirely
successful, effort to slow panic buying. Prices suddenly jumped 5 cents,
30 cents, 50 cents a gallon, and in a few places fell by just as much.
Many of last week's events were classic signs of an unstable market,
economists said, one that has sustained an unexpected shock and is still
plagued by shaky information. Buyers and sellers simply don't know what
an acceptable price is right now for a gallon of gas. ... "I think
what's going on is that people don't know where the new equilibrium
will be reached," said Lester Lave, an energy
economist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
"So they are fishing around and struggling."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/
03/AR2005090301482.html?sub=new | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 3
[Ryan] Menefee, a sophomore from Plano, Texas, is among 58 brand-new
RAs testing their people skills and their stamina this fall on a science-heavy
campus whose punishing workload and far-flung enrollment (arriving from
47 states and 22 foreign countries) make Carnegie Mellon
a petri dish for homesickness and other freshman angst. Menefee and
his peers will be judged in large part by how quickly and completely
they help transform rows of boxy dorm rooms into vibrant student communities.
... Organizing softball games, knowing the most about campus and simply
being the first upperclassmen many freshmen meet make RAs mini-celebrities
on their floors. There is plenty of outlet for creativity. ... At Carnegie
Mellon, there were three applicants for each vacancy this fall. Each
of them needed a resume, faced multiple interviews and, upon selection,
underwent a week of live-in dormitory training on topics from group
facilitation to first-year student development to multiculturalism.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565061.stm
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 4
As academics battle to keep the sometimes-obscure subjects to which
they've devoted lives in the syllabus, administrators are feeling the
pressure to make their students more marketable, and thus boost their
rankings, by trying to find ways to make a liberal arts degree compatible
with a job in the real world. ... While most students know that science
or business is more practical, "I talk to students who would rather
be philosophers, and it's hard for kids to make these choices,"
said Christina Straub, an English professor at Carnegie
Mellon University and an associate dean. This sometimes translates
to more students double-majoring, marrying something they love to study
with a more useful subject. ... Even if parents and some students are
starting to focus more on the job market, proponents of a liberal arts
education still emphasize that learning for the sake of learning has
its place in college. "Any course that teaches you to think analytically
about any subject matter is preferable if you're smart," Carnegie
Mellon's Straub said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05247/564786.stm
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Information Technology
National Geographic News | September 7
People know when they're on the phone with an inattentive jerk, but
they might not realize how they sound to others. A new telephone technology,
dubbed the Jerk-O-Meter, could help. ... The machine connects to a cell
phone and picks up on vocal cues, such as how quickly someone speaks,
the amount they interrupt, and whether they use other conversational
signals such as repeated "yeahs." The cues are used to measure
a speaker's engagement on a scale from 0 to 100. ... "I think they
are sort of tapping into the … fact that the enormous level of
frustration that we have nowadays is coming out in our voices,"
said psychology professor Brian MacWhinney of Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "So anything that would
help would be perceived as great." ... "I'd say that there
are definitely individual linguistic markers that carry across a conversation,"
said Carnegie Mellon's MacWhinney. "There are things that will
come out very quickly. But how well machines are able to pick that up,
I just don't know."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005
/09/0907_050907_jerk_o_meter.html | back to top
Environment
The New York Times | September 3
A plastic tube and a fluorescent light could turn out to be two crucial
components for getting drinking water back in New Orleans. The UV-Tube,
a low-cost water disinfecting system, is the sort of technology that
disaster relief agencies may begin to turn to in the arduous cleanup
in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Other ideas include cheaper systems
to test water and, further in the future, new styles of chemical purifiers.
In the aftermath of Katrina, the local agencies first face the challenge
of pumping water out of the city and testing the water infrastructure,
said Dave Dzombak, professor of civil and environmental
engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Until that
can be done, portions of the city and many of the areas housing refugees
will likely have to get water from tankers.
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/
CNET_2100-1008_3-5847384.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 2
Hurricane Katrina's fury has reignited the scientific debate about whether
global warming might contribute to the destructive force of hurricanes.
... "Because of global warming, the scientists who look at this
problem say this is the sort of storm you can expect to become more
common," said Granger Morgan of Carnegie
Mellon University, a world-renowned climate change expert.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_370022.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 6
Crime is down in Beechview from last year, police say, but it's hard
to convince the neighborhood. ... Criminologist Alfred Blumstein,
a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said that
when crime happens in a traditionally insular neighborhood, it looms
large. He compared such a neighborhood to a house. "We all expect
to feel secure in our homes. I've been a victim of burglary twice,"
he said. "It's an experience that highlights your vulnerability,
and you might not have thought about your vulnerability before. When
you are forced to think about it, it makes you a bit anxious for a while."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05249/566220.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 5
Light from the Lagoon Nebula had to cross about 3,800 light-years before
it reached the virgin mirror of the South African Large Telescope this
summer. By comparison, the 8,000 miles separating the telescope from
Pittsburgh is hardly worth mentioning. And from the perspective of Richard
Griffiths, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon
University, it really doesn't matter that SALT is a hemisphere away.
Carnegie Mellon is one of 11 international partners in the SALT project
and, as such, will have guaranteed observing time once the scope is
fully operational. So when images of the Lagoon Nebula and several star
clusters were released last week, marking what astronomers called the
telescope's "first light," Griffiths had reason to be happy.
"The performance is pretty good right now, considering that we
are at the start of commissioning," he said of the initial images.
It also is encouraging is that the construction has been completed on
schedule, just five years after ground breaking in the Karoo region
northeast of Cape Town, and within its $20 million budget. "That's
pretty amazing for a big telescope like this," he added.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05248/565761.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | September 5
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says 7 million to 8 million Americans
-- 5 percent to 6 percent of the work force -- hold multiple jobs. Robert
Kelley, business consultant and instructor at Carnegie
Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, said the actual
count is probably higher. "The official statistics might not pick
it up because some people work two jobs but both don't get reported,
either by the person or by the company," Kelley said. "My
own sense is that it's higher than that."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_370930.html | back to top
Valley News Dispatch | September 4
As Americans prepare to celebrate Labor Day, more are working longer
and harder. Their view of the American dream -- of getting ahead --
is not always in sight as it was for the previous generation, said Denise
Rousseau, a professor of behavioral public policy at Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Globalization, "de-industrialization"
and other economic forces are offering two basic types of jobs, she
said. The top tier has good-paying jobs with advances in pay and benefits
as workers gain experience; the lower tier jobs pay the same, relatively
flat wage without benefits, she said. "We're seeing a lot of families
with one parent working for benefits and the other working for a higher-paying
salary. It's harder to get both in one job," Rousseau said. Workers
aren't losing economic standing as much as hope that the economic promise
of tomorrow will be better than today, she said.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/newssummary/s_370808.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 4
Days after Katrina moved on, victims and rescuers remained focused on
a race for recovery in which every hour, every minute was crucial. But
long after food and water supplies are restored to a desperate city,
after the looting is checked and the last body buried, New Orleans'
road back from devastation will be measured in years. ... Of course,
no one yet has a handle on how much it will cost to rebuild the city.
"You saw early estimates of insurance losses of $16 to 25 billion,
which have to be way low," said David Dzombak,
a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering
at Carnegie Mellon University. "I couldn't guess
the entire cost, but I expect it to be several-fold that, at the least."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05247/565370.stm | back to top
International News Stories
Express India News Service | September 7
Having already hooked on to the Wi-Fi bandwagon, the University of Pune
is on course for its next tech venture: an e-library that will make
over 4,000 journals available to students and researchers at the click
of a mouse. The Rs 30-lakh project undertaken by the Jaykar Library
of the University of Pune will soon be functional. "As part of
the US-based Carnegie Mellon University's 'Universal
Digital Library Project' more than 2,000 books in Jaykar Library have
already been scanned. Already, over 800 of them have been uploaded on
the global information knowledge superway," chief librarian S K
Patil said.
http://cities.expressindia.com/
fullstory.php?newsid=147526 | back to top
Business Standard | September 2
Rising compensation costs is forcing the Indian software industry to
save costs by improving productivity. This is being attempted by producing
nearly bug (defect) free software first time round by adopting static
testing. ... The Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie
Mellon University which has developed the CMM (capability maturity
model), foremost quality benchmark for the software industry, finds
that manual testing removes only a fraction of the defects and adds
that “if you want a quality product out of test you must put a
quality product into test.”
http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/
storypage_link.php?chklogin=N&autono=198961
&lselect=1"dftnm=lmnu9"dftindx=9
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