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December
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 December 2-8,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 228
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
BusinessWeek | December 7
Los Angeles Times | December 7
CBS News (AP) | December 3
USA Today | December 1
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 2
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 8
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 6
Interior Design | December 5
ARTnews | December 2005
Information Technology
PhysOrg.com | December 8
Philadelphia Daily News | December 7
Government Technology | December 6
Inside Bay Area | December 5
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 2
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 4
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 7
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 2
NEPA News (AP) | December 2
WTRF-TV | December 1
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 4
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 3
International News Stories
Gulf Times | December 7
India Business Standard | December 7
The Hindu Business
Line | December 5
Qatar Today | December 2006
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National News Stories
BusinessWeek | December 7
W ith many admissions consultants and directors at top-tier schools
predicting a jump in application volume after three consecutive down
years, this season promises fiercer competition for fewer spots. More
than ever, timing is of the essence. For many applicants, say admissions
consultants and directors, avoiding the competitive later rounds may
be the key to being accepted at their dream school. Although each of
seven schools contacted by BusinessWeek Online considers round-by-round
application volume proprietary information, each has confirmed an increase
in applications in the first stage of the cycle, which usually ends
by October or November. Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School
of Business cites an increase of 16% from last year...
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/
dec2005/bs2005127_7505_bs001.htm | back to top
Los Angeles Times | December 7
The new president of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization
crisscrossed the state by jet Tuesday in a crusade to keep Stanley Tookie
Williams, a co-founder of the vicious Crips gang, from execution next
week. The NAACP is hoping to call more attention to Williams' help in
rehabilitating gang members — and, critics say, trying to rejuvenate
an aging organization by linking it to a cause embraced by hip-hop stars.
... Legal scholar Alfred Blumstein of the Heinz School
of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon
University said: "This is a case in which the governor could do
well by providing clemency. Here's a guy who is producing a social benefit."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-naacp
7dec07,1,1153139.story?coll=la-headlines-california | back
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CBS News (AP) | December 3
Many Wall Street professionals see most people in the market as a herd.
If the herd is heading one way, they say they'll head the other. As
a result, they can't get enough polls gauging how people feel about
stocks. If the majority of investors love stocks, the pros take that
as a strong sign to sell. If most investors hate stocks, that's a reason
to buy. The smart money says it will do the exact opposite of what everyone
else is doing, because logic and experience dictate that investors who
stay with the herd often get trampled. But history shows that investors
both professional and amateur too often let emotions drive their investment
decisions. ... A study published in "Psychological Science"
co-authored by professors at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon
University and University of Iowa pitted people with normal brains against
people whose limbic systems, the brain's emotional center, were impaired.
The paper asks whether a neural systems dysfunction that curbs emotion
can lead, in some circumstances, to more advantageous decisions. The
answer, in terms of investing, was yes.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/
wireStory?id=1369586 | back to top
USA Today | December 1
She has higher public opinion ratings than other senior Bush administration
officials, and a best-selling book calls her the party's best chance
to hold the White House in 2008. But Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice rolls her eyes at talk of a future in politics. ... First as Bush's
foreign policy adviser during his 2000 presidential campaign and then
as his first-term national security chief, Rice worked mostly outside
the spotlight until this year. Now, as the administration grapples with
challenges created by the wars in Iraq and against terrorism, Rice is
the nation's public face promoting the ideas closest to the president.
It's a role that suits her, says Kiron Skinner, an
international relations expert at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh and a longtime friend of Rice. "She's best when she's
trying to find her way out of the storm."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/
2005-12-01-rice-profile_x.htm | back to top
Student Experience
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 2
The question often popped into Bary Dunn's mind the past three seasons
when he sat on the bench the entire game. When he spent hours in the
empty gym shooting jump shot after jump shot. Or when his muscles ached
lifting weights in the summer: "Why am I doing this?" Dunn,
a 6-foot-6 senior swingman at Carnegie Mellon, discovered
the answer when he scored 34 points -- one more than his career total
-- and was named the most valuable player after the Tartans won the
Radisson/Carnegie Mellon Tournament championship last week. "This
is what I stuck around for," said Dunn, an Allderdice High School
graduate who scored 16 points in Carnegie Mellon's tournament-opening 106-70 victory
against Oberlin and 18 in a 87-85 victory against Bethany in the title
game. "But there were times when I wondered if it hasn't happened
by now, when is it going to happen? This is what I stuck around for.
The payoff has been huge."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05336/616024.stm | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 8
A funny thing happened to "Urinetown" on its way to Carnegie
Mellon -- the feisty little musical spoof grew in both size
and seriousness. Its silliness is still evident, the melodramatic appropriation
of Brechtian agitprop, arch play with stage convention and abundant
musical comedy parody. But promoted from its scruffy origins off-Broadway
onto the Chosky stage, with a larger cast, better voices and a grim/grand
set that would have added millions to the costs of its Broadway transfer,
it now verges on mock-operatic. The satire darkens. Played larger, the
message about capitalist greed and abuse of natural resources gains
an earnestness I didn't feel in New York or the national tour that two
years ago rattled around in the Benedum.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05342/618755.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 6
The archly edgy, highly satirical hit Broadway musical "Urinetown"
has come to Carnegie Mellon University's School of
Drama, and the students couldn't be more welcoming. A largely student
audience gave last Friday's performance a spontaneous standing ovation.
The musical about a corrupt town where it's a privilege -- and an expense
-- to pee delivers political and environmental messages while allowing
audiences to feel smart for identifying its coy musical theater references.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/s_401065.html | back to top
Interior Design | December 5
When it comes to green awards, the Sustainable Leadership Awards are
some of the most prestigious. Sponsored by CoreNet Global, the International
Interior Design Association (IIDA), and the American Institute of Architects’
(AIA) – Committees on the Environment and Interior Architecture,
and underwritten by manufacturers Haworth, Tandus, and Johnson Controls,
the awards recognize organizations dedicated to making sustainable design
and development a cornerstone of their business practices. Awards will
be bestowed in four categories: architecture and interior design; government
or non-profit; for-profit companies under five billion dollars in sales;
and for-profit multinational companies over five billion in sales. This
year’s Steering Committee includes four industry professionals.
In addition to chairing the committee on the environment for the AIA,
Vivian Loftness, professor and head of the School of
Architecture School at Carnegie Mellon University,
is on the research faculty for the Center for Building Performance &
Diagnostics in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
http://www.interiordesign.net/id_newsarticle/
CA6288663.html | back to top
ARTnews | December 2005
In 1941, a nursing student named Monique Bourgeois responded to an ad
placed by Henri Matisse for a “young and pretty night nurse.”
Five years later the friendship that developed between Matisse and Bourgeois,
by then a Dominican nun named Sister Jacques-Marie, would culminate
in the creation of what Matisse considered his life’s greatest
achievement: the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence. Sister Jacques-Marie,
the woman Matisse called “the true initiator of the chapel,”
died last fall of respiratory failure and other causes at Les Embruns,
a rehabilitation center in Bidart, France, where she had been director.
She was 84, according to Barbara Freed, a professor
of French studies at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, who directed a 2003 documentary on their relationship, A
Model for Matisse: The Story of the Vence Chapel. ... Freed says that
one of the challenges in making the documentary was to uncover Sister
Jacques-Marie’s real feelings toward Matisse. “What ultimately
came out was yes, she had very deep affection for him,” Freed
says. And while Freed is certain that the relationship between the two
was not carnal, it was more nuanced than the nun described to the press.
“It was a very tender, wonderful, and special relationship,”
Freed says.
http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.
cfm?mode=current&art_id=1947 | back to top
Information Technology
PhysOrg.com | December 8
The "One Laptop Per Child" project, the brainchild of Nicholas
Negroponte, chairman of the MIT Media Lab, with support from computer-industry
heavyweights such as Michael Dell, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, is an
effort to deliver several million laptop computers to developing regions
that would otherwise be unable to provide them for students. ... Cost
concerns are currently being addressed, and the "One Laptop per
Child" effort has formed a U.S. non-profit group, allowing spending
towards the effort to qualify as a charitable deduction. Other potential
contingencies include how these machines will be supported, what training
will be provided, their overall durability and the large scale of the
project. "One dimension is hardware. I think it depends on the
age that you target this. If you give it to younger kids, there are
issues about looking after it. Older kids should take better care of
it," said Professor Rahul Tongia, a systems scientist
for Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer
Science and Department of Engineering and Public Policy. "Calculators
can last 10 to 20 years; they're robust devices. But these are not used
hours a day in developing countries and took several iterations to reach
such robustness." Tongia then commented that support for the devices
would be dependent on localized industries that emerged to fill the
need. "Anything where there's value, people will innovate off of
it," said Tongia.
http://www.physorg.com/
news8863.html | back to top
Philadelphia Daily News | December 7
He was an inventor, a writer, a scientist and a printer, and his philanthropic
contributions to Philadelphia and the world were boundless. This year,
to celebrate what would be Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday on Jan.
17, Philadelphia is planning a yearlong party on a grand scale for arguably
its most historic resident in restaurants, hotels, museums, libraries
and stores. ... Philadelphians can "talk" with Ben Franklin's
Ghost at the Peco Energy Liberty Center, 6th and Chestnut streets, using
a technology called a "synthetic interview." Franklin will
actually appear to be answering questions and speaking with people through
a high-tech video screen developed by Carnegie Mellon University's
Entertainment Technology Center.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/
performing_arts/13346549.htm | back to top
Government Technology | December 6
Carnegie Mellon University researchers and members of Taiwan's government-affiliated
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) will unveil new security
technology today in Hsinchu, a research-rich area south of Taipei. "The
new research we plan to show at the upcoming symposium is designed to
contribute significantly to technology developments in both Asia and
the United States," said Tsuhan Chen, a Carnegie
Mellon professor in electrical and computer engineering and
co-director of the ITRI lab at Carnegie Mellon along with co-director
Shiaw-Shian Yu, based at ITRI in Taiwan. Increased demand for both Internet
and physical security prompted both Carnegie Mellon and ITRI researchers
to develop a software toolbox capable of tracking everything from an
errant teenager taking the family car for an unscheduled drive to surveillance
at major transportation hubs.
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/
channel_story.php/97479 | back to top
Inside Bay Area | December 5
For 11 years, most states have relied on voting systems tested to minimal
federal standards, the results withheld from public scrutiny and given
the green light by a non-governmental agency working on a shoestring
budget. The era of approving tools of democracy on the cheap is coming
to an end, and judging by talk at a national gathering of voting experts
here last week, few will be sorry to see it go. Carnegie Mellon
University computer expert Michael Shamos, a state
voting-systems certification official for Pennsylvania, is one of the
staunchest advocates for new, fully computerized electronic voting systems.
But judging by what he's seen emerge from secretive, private labs known
as independent testing authorities and approved by the National Association
of State Elections Directors, Shamos said. ... He found a quarter of
the voting systems presented to Pennsylvania unsuitable for elections,
with such glaring failures as an inability to tally votes correctly.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/
localnews/ci_3279940 | back to top
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 2
By peering into the brains of live honeybees, a Carnegie Mellon
University researcher has found evidence to support a famous, decades-old
theory of how animals learn, and discovered clues about how people temporarily
store information. In 1949, renowned Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb
developed an intuitive but radical theory of how learning occurs within
the brain. ... Scientists have ferreted out plenty of evidence to support
Hebb's theory by studying electrical signals traveling between pairs
of nerve cells. But until now, this phenomenon hadn't been observed
in larger networks of nerve cells, said Roberto Fernandez Galan,
a postdoctoral research associate at Carnegie Mellon. New fluorescent-dye
techniques allowed Galan and colleagues at Humboldt University in Berlin,
Germany, to look for the first time at how collections of nerve cells
work in the delicate brains of honeybees, which have surprisingly keen
memories. Their findings will be published in January's issue of the
journal Neural Computation. "I wanted to check for evidence of
Hebb's theory at the network level," said Galan, 30, of Shadyside,
who works at Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-
review/health/s_399996.html | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 4
During a recent talk hosted by Carnegie Mellon University's
Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, the
first question Gov. Ed Rendell asked was this: "Why is it bad news
that gasoline prices have fallen after having skyrocketed as a result
of Hurricane Katrina?" A student responded by saying that unless
economically "squeezed," consumers will not be conservative
about their energy usage. Mr. Rendell acknowledged the correct response,
then prefaced his further remarks by saying that energy is the single
technological issue that is most critical to the economic, environmental
and security future of our nation. "America's energy past is grounded
right here in Pennsylvania ... and the country's energy future is here,
too." Speaking from an academic perspective, we agree. ... At Carnegie
Mellon, we are setting the bar for other institutions in making environmentally
wise decisions. For instance, Carnegie Mellon became the largest retail
purchaser of wind power in the country in 2001. Since that time, more
than 40 colleges and universities in Pennsylvania have followed our
lead and purchased wind power to meet some of their energy needs. ***This
article was written by Chris Hendrickson, faculty director
and Deborah Lange, executive director of the Steinbrenner
Institute for Environmental Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05338/616645.stm | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | December 7
With more than 600 new apartments and condominiums scheduled to hit
the market over the next two years downtown Pittsburgh, housing developers,
foundations and government officials will be watching closely how quickly
they will be absorbed. Carnegie Mellon University graduate
students who studied the market for Downtown residential development
over the past semester are bullish that the new units will be filled
up fast. They recently concluded that demand for housing in the Golden
Triangle in the near term is likely to outstrip supply. Based on an
analysis of the results of a survey the group conducted of young professionals
in the region, the group estimates there is demand for 1,000 more residents
than currently can be housed in the Golden Triangle.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
business/s_401449.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 2
The North Side has been redesigned. Its main arteries -- Federal and
Ohio streets -- are reconnected, and the shadowy, concrete expanse of
Allegheny Center sits reformed in the middle of traffic grids, drenched
in sunlight and greenery. Not only that, there are more walking paths,
water features, street lights, a theater for all tastes, and coffee
shops. And the drippy, pigeon-infested, badly-lit railroad underpass
that separates the North Shore from the North Side? Gone. On the practical
side of fantasy, 42 Carnegie Mellon University architecture
students redesigned the North Side to the delight of most of the 30
people at an "urban lab" workshop at the Children's Museum
Wednesday night. It was the last of three such workshops. Each fall
semester, Carnegie Mellon's fifth-year architecture students focus on
a neighborhood, studying its history, identifying its design flaws and
social needs, then set about redesigning it. The project helps students
develop as designers. ... The finished product -- a full-color booklet
of all 11 schemes -- needs a funding source.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05336/616108.stm | back to top
NEPA News (AP) | December 2
Neighborhood groups and universities want to develop a database that
could help the city solve problems like its inventory of vacant properties.
City Council voted tentatively to release mountains of city data to
be entered in the Community Information System, or CIS.The system will
include information on every property in Pittsburgh, including crimes,
building code violations, tax payments, fires, health code violations
and civil lawsuits. City Councilman Doug Shields called the database
"an MRI (scanner) for the city. ... This is probably the single
most important invention to hit the city in 50 years."Funded by
foundations and corporations, the system is a project of the Pittsburgh
Partnership for Neighborhood Development; the anti-sprawl group, 10,000
Friends of Pennsylvania; Carnegie Mellon University's
Center for Economic Development; and the University of Pittsburgh's
Center for Social and Urban Research.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.
cfm?newsid=15682104&BRD=2212&
PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6 | back to top
WTRF-TV | December 1
McDowell county will launch a business web site tomorrow that's going
to bring together businesses with communities. The web site is the McDowell
County Online Business Incubator. It was developed with graduate students
from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. The
idea is that businesses can post meetings, seminars and opportunities
on the sight. And potential employees and outside businesses can see
what the county has to offer.
http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?
func=viewstory&storyid=7046 | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 4
Pittsburgh, once a true melting pot, is now one of the least international
big cities in America, and that could foreshadow more problems for an
already slow local economy. ... The reason Pittsburgh's immigration
rate is so alarming to followers of the local economy is what it portends:
slow growth. ... Every year, about 3,000 people enter the labor pool
in the Pittsburgh area -- not enough to keep pace with a 1 percent growth
rate in jobs, about 10,000 jobs a year. One Duquesne University study,
in fact, predicted a shortage of workers in the Pittsburgh area that
could reach 125,000 by 2010 and 225,000 by 2020. "At some point,
you run out of more people who want to go into the labor force,"
said Jerry Paytas, director of Carnegie Mellon
University's Heinz School Center for Economic Development. "We
do need to bring people in."
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/05338/616612.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 3
Carnegie Mellon University Engineering School Dean
Pradeep Khosla told a room filled with engineers yesterday
that all is not lost in the United States' quest to remain a global
"superpower." Despite a recent study by the American Society
for Engineering Education reporting that fewer than 5 percent of undergraduate
degrees awarded in 2004 were in engineering, America can remain "at
the top of the food chain" if it trains its engineers in management,
finance, policy and entrepreneurship, Dr. Khosla said. "We need
to train engineers ... who will be managing, creating and deploying
innovation," he told the lunchtime crowd at a panel discussion
titled, "Is America Falling Behind?"
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
05337/616626.stm | back to top
International News Stories
Gulf Times | December 7
The Birla Public School (BPS) yesterday celebrated its second
Founder’s Day at a function that featured a number of performances
by children. Rajinder Bhagat, minister (political) at the Indian embassy,
released the fourth issue of the school’s newsletter. Carnegie
Mellon University dean Dr. Chuck Thorpe, who
was the guest of honor, demonstrated a robotic dog for the audience.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=63717&
version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back
to top
India Business Standard | December 7
Around 100 projects with Indian-American expertise to be launched this
month. Some of the best-known names of the Indian diaspora have come
together to give something back to the motherland. And for once, it
is not money but expertise. What's more, they are looking at a two-way
transfer. This will be done under the aegis of Indian-American Council,
whose just-constituted board boasts of names like Texas Pacific Group's
General Partner Vivek Paul, McKinsey & Co's Managing Director Rajat
Gupta, KPCB Partner Vinod Khosla, UN Under Secretary-General Shashi
Tharoor, and eminent academicians Marti G Subramanyam (New York University),
Krishna G Palepu (Harvard), Raj Reddy (Carnegie
Mellon) and Deepak C Jain of JK Kellogg School. As many as
100 projects are being launched this month in India which will have
expertise from Indian-Americans. The target is to take this number to
1,000 by the end of 2006.
http://www.business-standard.com/common/
storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu2&
leftindx=2&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=207742 | back
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The Hindu Business
Line | December 5
How to succeed in the biggest market opportunity of the 21st century?
That's the sub-title of Vijay Mahajan and Kamini Banga's book The 86%
Solution, from Wharton School Publishing and Pearson Power. ... `Grow
big by thinking small' is the advice of another chapter. Among the strategies
discussed in it is one about combining products to conserve space. "Microsoft
has developed an entertainment system that combines a television, computer,
DVD player, and stereo... Professor Raj Reddy at Carnegie
Mellon University is working on a $250 combination wireless
networked PC-TV-DVD-phone, which should be available by 2006."
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2005/
12/05/stories/2005120500150200.htm | back to top
Qatar Today | December 2005
Is war child’s play? Just play? Could be. A student from the Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh wants to save the world through
a game that is based on peace and democracy. The team, headed by Don
Marinelli of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology
Center (ETC), visited the university’s Qatar campus recently and
spoke about the game that explores the Mideast conflict. Marinelli,
introduced as the modern day Leonardo da Vinci, didn’t disappoint.
*** See the full article in the December issue of Qatar Today. | back
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