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March 10,
2006
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 March 3 to March 9,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 245
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | March 9
San Jose Mercury News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| March 7
The New York Times | March 5
Homeland Response | March 2006
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh City Paper | March 9
ArtNet Magazine | March 9
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 8
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 6
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 3
Pittsburgh City Paper | March 2
Information Technology
All Headline News | March 9
Pittsburgh Business Times | March 6
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 5
Environment
Beaver County Times | March 5
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 3
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 8
Pittsburgh Business Times | March 3
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 5
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 4
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 4
International News Stories
New Scientist Space | March 11
Gulf Times | March 8
The Brisbane Courier-Mail | March 6
The Adelaide Advertiser | March 4
Gulf Times | March 4
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National News Stories
The Wall Street Journal | March 9
When Xavier Charvet applies for a job at an investment bank next year,
he thinks he'll have an advantage. The 24-year-old French student's
resume begins with the phrase: "DEA d'El Karoui." That stands
for the postgraduate degree he is studying for under Nicole El Karoui,
a math professor in Paris. She teaches skills required to create and
price derivatives, the complex financial instruments based on stocks,
bonds or loans. ... The high demand for her students reflects big changes
in the global banking industry. ... But she was one of the first in
the world to carve out an academic niche studying the underpinnings
of derivatives transactions, starting courses in the late 1980s. About
two dozen universities have moved into that field, setting up their
own mathematical-finance departments, including Stanford University,
Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB11418
7184703793317-search.html | back to top
San Jose Mercury News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| March 7
A new generation of brutal and remorseless teens was about to savage
the nation, leading authorities on juvenile crime warned a decade ago.
Millions of Americans believed them. ... It never happened. Instead,
Americans are experiencing the sharpest decline in teen crime in modern
history. ... According to criminologist Alfred Blumstein
of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, teen crime's
decline is largely the downside of a rise that started in the mid-'80s
when kids took over drug gangs from adult dealers who'd been imprisoned
under toughened state and federal laws. The teens needed guns "because
crack was a street market and you had to protect yourself," Blumstein
said. "And they didn't have the restraint that older folks do."
... Many got smart, Blumstein said. "Kids saw what crack was doing
to their siblings, friends and parents and turned away from it."
At the same time, he added, "reasonably aggressive policing took
the guns from the kids."*** This article appeared in more than
40 media outlets this week.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/
news/politics/14040237.htm | back to top
The New York Times | March 5
Marvin the Robot, a supporting player in "The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy," speaks in the dull monotone of the chronically
depressed. In the "Star Wars" films, C-3PO is a bundle of
anxiety and neuroses. And in "2001: A Space Odyssey," the
HAL 9000 is creepily homicidal. These are all fictional machines, far
removed from real robots of the present or even those that scientists
envision for the future. Yet they raise questions: If robots can act
in lots of ways, how do people want them to act? We certainly don't
want our robots to kill us, but do we like them happy or sad, bubbly
or cranky? ... At Carnegie Mellon University, Rachel
Gockley, a graduate student, found that in certain circumstances people
spent more time interacting with a robotic receptionist — a disembodied
face on a monitor — when the face looked and sounded unhappy.
And at Stanford, Clifford Nass, a professor of communication, found
that in a simulation, drivers in a bad mood had far fewer accidents
when they were listening to a subdued voice making comments about the
drive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/
weekinreview/05robots.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | back
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Homeland Response | March 2006
[The EPA's Science Advisory Board]members said EPA has not developed
methods to evaluate acute exposure hazards following a chemical or biological
emergency, despite recommendations following 9/11 that the agency improve
its ability to assess such risks. ... SAB Chair Dr. Granger
Morgan, a Carnegie Mellon University professor,
called the Hurricane Katrina response an opportunity to get emergency
response plans "that would be more appropriate next time around.
I would ask that the window not be lost."
http://www.homelandresponse.org/500/
Issue/Article/False/12956/Issue | back to top
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh City Paper | March 9
The nude portraits that make up the Anatomy/Autonomy portion of Patricia
Barefoot’s exhibit at the Digging Pitt gallery are unashamed
and serene, painted in comforting, warm, earthy tones. The subjects
are not the conventionally pleasing young, perky bodies, but Barefoot
believes the art lets viewers reflect on their own notions of femininity.
... Paired with Anatomy/Autonomy is a collection of work by Susan
Constanse entitled Original Sin, which also explores the societal
roles of women. Both artists presented their work together eight months
ago at the South Side’s Brew House Space 101, where it was spotted
by Digging Pitt director John Morris. Since then, Barefoot has added
two new series -- Golden Bones and The Little Black Dress. “Golden
Bones is about the skeletal structure and the permanence of women and
how they impact our lives, how they impact society,” says Barefoot,
an adjunct art instructor at Carnegie Mellon University
and Duquesne University. “In The Little Black Dress, it’s
a dress, but it’s a strong emblem, a metaphor of women’s
bodies, women’s minds, and how they are stretched beyond capacity."
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?
type=Art%20Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=5804 | back
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ArtNet Magazine | March 9
The annual College Art Association conference has become a monster with
a thousand tentacles -- each one with a PowerPoint presentation. Typically,
the CAA offers about 75 illustrated lectures at 15 concurrent panels
every two-and-a-half hours, a panoply that is repeated eight times over
four days, with shorter sessions squeezed into the interstices. If you
have a taste for visual arcana and its interpretation, this is the place
to be. ... Ecological interests were well-represented at the booth of
the virtual exhibition space, where I picked up a copy of the catalogue
for the important Carnegie Mellon exhibition this fall,
"Groundworks, Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art,"
which contains several significant essays on artists’ engagement
with environmental crises and the increasing prominence of the "green
esthetic."
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/
features/boettger/boettger3-8-06.asp | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 8
"For about 10 years I did no art," Pittsburgh architect
Paul Rosenblatt says through a tan landscape to West Virginia
University's Evansdale campus. "I felt that the part of me that
was an artist was channeled into architecture." That began to change
in 1995, when Dennis McFadden, then curator of Carnegie Museum of Art's
Heinz Architectural Center, showed him Judith Turner's photoetchings
of the marble statues produced in fifth-century B.C. Greece for the
Parthenon. Turner focused not so much on the figures but the spaces
-- the "ground" -- between them. "She's interested in
relationships between things, not the things themselves," Rosenblatt
said. "They made those ancient works look utterly contemporary."
And they made him long to see them put back into an architectural context,
but a modern, American one. ... "The Parthenon Project," which
debuted at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 and traveled
to the Erie Art Museum, is included in the catalog to "Omnivorous,"
Rosenblatt's current exhibit at WVU. ... Rosenblatt came to Pittsburgh
in 1987 for a position at his father's alma mater, Carnegie Mellon,
where he now teaches a class called "Under the Influence,"
about the effect contemporary art and films have on architecture.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06067/666608.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 6
Back to celebrate Carnegie Mellon University College
of Fine Arts' 100th anniversary, the costume ball's light and shadow
theme stirred Kate Boyd's animal instincts. Students, faculty and guests
gathered at the college on Saturday night to revel in creative couture.
***See this article for photos of the Beaux Arts Ball.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06065/665913.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 3
From Pulitzer Prize winners David McCullough and Annie Dillard through
newer, younger writers such as Philip Beard and Lori Jakiela, there's
an incredible number of talented writers who call or have called Pittsburgh
home. It's hard to generalize about local writing characteristics, says
Jim Daniels, a poet and writer who heads the creative
writing program at Carnegie Mellon University. "One
thing I've noticed is that most of the writers here in town tend to
write work that is accessible," he says. "There's a kind of
hard-earned clarity that I find pretty consistently across the board."
... Jane McCafferty, a professor of writing at Carnegie
Mellon and the author of the short story collection "Thank You
for the Music," agrees that geography plays a role in forming local
writers. "I think we're bonded by years under these gray skies
in a city of bridges," she says. "I think this imbues our
work -- a sense of being huddled in what's neither the East or the Midwest,
but a place all its own."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/books/s_429269.html | back to top
Pittsburgh City Paper | March 2
After years of wondering whether it would ever happen, I am excited
-- and a little frightened -- to tell you that I have fallen in love.
True, it may not be a love the world accepts, but it’s love just
the same.And the object of my affection? A green and taupe robe and
tunic designed by Brandon R. McWilliams and worn by the title character
in Carnegie Mellon University’s production of
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s 1778 play Nathan the Wise. There are
a number of problems -- not the least of which is that I don’t
own it … yet! -- but maybe the biggest is that as I embark on
this new love affair, I have to risk the jealous scorn of my beloved
by praising something else. And that is this fabulous Carnegie Mellon
production. (How’s that for -- as we say in the trade -- burying
your lead?) Nathan tells the tale of a Jew, a Muslim and a Christian
in 1192 Jerusalem who, amidst the chaos and intolerance of their time,
manage to find not only peace but friendship. I can’t think of
any other play written in 1778 that’s this timely. Lessing, a
pre-eminent figure of the German Enlightenment, crafted a play that
(in a superb translation by Edward Kemp) puts to shame the greedy, lethal
men currently running the world.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?
type=Theater&action=getComplete&ref=5778 | back
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Information Technology
All Headline News | March 9
A new robot may be climbing a tree near you. Experts from Carnegie
Mellon and selected Universities have come together to create
a robot capable of climbing trees, as well as other vertical surfaces.
The robot is the result of the RiSE (Robots in Scansorial Environments)
Project. The project "is to create a bioinspired climbing robot
with the unique ability to walk on land and climb on vertical surfaces."
According to RiSE, the project studies novel robot kinematics, precision-manufactured
compliant feet and appendages, and advanced robot behaviors.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/
articles/7002709801 | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | March 6
Carnegie Mellon will collaborate with the maker of
blockbuster video games such as the Madden NFL series to "revolutionize
how computer programming is taught," the new partners said Monday.
Carnegie Mellon, based in Pittsburgh, will hook up with Redwood City,
Calif.-based Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) to teach programming via
the Alice programming software. Video game giant Electronic Arts is
probably best known for its EA Sports segment, makers of Madden, NBA
Live, NHL and Major League Baseball games for XBox, Playstation and
Nintendo consoles. Carnegie Mellon's Alice programming software (www.alice.org),
is used at 100 high schools and universities in the United States. It
is an interactive, 3D graphics package.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/03/06/daily8.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 5
Google's name conjures many different images -- from the fastest growing
technology company in the world, to one of the most secretive, to a
company that is changing the way the world behaves. It has ridden the
wave beyond the Internet bubble, and it has done so without spending
millions of dollars on advertising. The company, which this year will
open an engineering and research office on or near Carnegie
Mellon University's campus that is expected to employ 100 to
200, has made its reputation through word of mouth. Yet, despite not
using the media to fuel its growth, it may become the most dominant
media company ever -- with control over the way that small and large
companies purchase advertising on the Net, in print and on broadcast
stations.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06064/665001.stm | back to top
Environment
Beaver County Times | March 5
[Representative Melissa] Hart will be in Pittsburgh on Monday to deliver
$200,000 to a new center focused on brownfields development. The Western
Pennsylvania Brownfield Center will be at Carnegie Mellon
University's Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and
Research. The $200,000 grant comes from the Small Business Administration.
Hart has made the redevelopment of brownfields, former industrial sites,
a cornerstone of her House career. "When abandoned sites are rehabilitated,
local economies benefit," Hart said in a statement. "Redevelopment
of these sites creates jobs, removes blight and makes our communities
a better place to work and live."
http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?
newsid=16242737&BRD=2305&PAG=
461&dept_id=478569&rfi=6 | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 3
A center at Carnegie Mellon University that researches
abandoned manufacturing sites will help communities and small businesses
develop them. Carnegie Mellon plans to launch the Western Pennsylvania
Brownfield Center on Monday with $200,000 from the federal Small Business
Administration. "Communities and small businesses are afraid to
tackle these properties because they are uncertain of the environmental
issues," said Deborah Lange, director of the center.
"We think education and dissemination of information helps to take
away some of the barriers that are really limiting these communities."
Lange defines a brownfield as an abandoned or idle commercial or industrial
site for which real or perceived contamination hinders development.
She said the center, which employs about 12 faculty members, hopes to
spur development by giving communities and businesses information about
environmental laws and cleanup requirements.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_429445.html| back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 8
Good schools and jobs to attract and keep people here top the region's
priorities, a group of nonprofit, business and government leaders meeting
in Pittsburgh said Tuesday. About 1,100 people prepared a list of priorities
as part of the 2006 Nonprofit Summit at the David L. Lawrence Convention
Center, Downtown. Nonprofit leaders will use the results to boost their
voice with business and government leaders in developing the region's
next renaissance. ... One person moderated the discussion while another
recorded it at each of 100 tables. The comments were fed to a central
computer, where a team looked for common themes. The themes were projected
onto two large screens and then ranked by each participant using a keypad.
"The technology was great," said participant Randall
M. Weinstein, coordinator of polls for the Southwestern Pennsylvania
Project for Deliberative Democracy at Carnegie Mellon
University. "It was great to see in real time the response of what
everyone was thinking."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_430975.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Business Times | March 3
Giant Eagle could land where Lazarus once fell. The supermarket chain
confirmed this week that it is in talks with Cecil Township-based Millcraft
Industries to put a grocery store in the former department store Downtown.
... A recent survey of young professionals' interest in Downtown living
by Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School
of Public Policy and Management showed that nearly 95 percent of the
survey's participants ranked a grocery store as the most important service
in an ideal residential neighborhood -- far higher than any other amenity.
The study suggested a swath of Downtown, wedged mostly between the Boulevard
of the Allies, Liberty Avenue and Wood Street, would serve as a potential
target area for a well-located grocery store. Market Square was also
an ideal location, the study found.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2006/03/06/story1.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 5
The furor over the national security implications of a United Arab Emirates
company acquiring a British company that operates six major U.S. ports
is only one of a series of cross border mergers setting off alarm bells
in the halls of governments around the globe. Whether it's the national
security trump card played so often in the post-9/11 world or fear of
massive job losses in what are viewed as vital national industries,
government officials have forcefully inserted themselves into global
deal making. ... Patriotism makes cross border mergers in some industries
-- including steel, defense and airlines -- more likely to spark government
scrutiny. "There is a sense in many of these deals that, in the
country in which the target company is located, national pride gets
in the way," says Robert Dammon, who teaches at
Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06064/664997.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 4
For the third time in about a year, high-powered investors are demanding
better stock results from a top Pittsburgh corporation. H.J. Heinz Co.
disclosed Friday that a group led by billionaire Nelson Peltz - a group
which includes professional golfer Greg Norman - wants to nominate five
candidates to the company's board of directors. ... Companies can benefit
when investors take an active role, a Carnegie Mellon
University professor said. "These types of actions truly are not
a bad thing," said Jeffrey R. Williams, a professor
of business strategy at the Oakland university's Tepper School of Business.
"It's always true that these guys would not do this unless they
saw an opportunity to make the company better. They have a vision for
the company, to make the company's pieces make more sense."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_429811.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 4
Spurred by a recent spate of shootings, Pittsburgh police Chief Dominic
J. Costa will reassign four detectives to the city homicide squad to
investigate non-lethal shootings. Five people -- including a 16-year-old
shot in the leg after leaving a high school basketball game at Mellon
Arena -- were wounded in shootings in four city neighborhoods late Thursday
and early Friday. That brings the toll to 11 people wounded in 10 shootings
in the city over the past 10 days. ... Alfred Blumstein,
a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Oakland
who studies crime statistics and trends, said violent crime has become
a way of life for too many youths. "We have a very low threshold
in this society for response to insult," Blumstein said. "They
will shoot to kill people for things most of us would simply ignore."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribune-review/news/s_429817.html | back to top
International News Stories
New Scientist Space | March 11
It seems like such a simple problem. Yet a quarter of a century after
the shuttle's first launch, NASA still cannot guarantee that the foam
insulating the launcher's fuel tanks will stay attached during lift-off.
It was a chunk of foam falling off Columbia in 2003 that punched a hole
in the wing and sealed its fate. Over the past couple of weeks, NASA
has been explaining with unusual frankness why this problem is so intractable.
Its account highlights a fact we all too easily forget: that much of
manned space flight takes place at the limits of our technical knowledge.
"The shuttle is and always will be an experimental aircraft,"
says Paul Fischbeck, a risk analyst at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.newscientistspace.com/
channel/space-tech/mg18925423.900 | back to top
Gulf Times | March 8
As Qatar is fast getting "totally wired" the spotlight is
now on enhancing cybersecurity, which will protect the state’s
critical IT infrastructure. Pushing cybersecurity activities is the
Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR),
which has tied up with the Carnegie Mellon Software
Engineering Institute to set up Q-CERT in Qatar. IctQATAR secretary
general Dr Hessa al-Jaber said Q-CERT would serve as the national organization
to conduct and co-ordinate the comprehensive set of cybersecurity activities
that are required to protect Qatar’s IT infrastructure as cyberspace
becomes the nerve center of the government, business and education programs.
... Dr Hessa said Q-CERT would offer a series of courses in information
security based on Carnegie Mellon’s 18 years of experience in
the field.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=75992&
version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back
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The Brisbane Courier-Mail | March 6
The U.S. Defense Department is turning the fascination of young Americans
for computer games into a serious training tool for soldiers, sailors,
airmen and marines. ... Police and fire departments, too, are interested.
Shanna Tellerman, a video game expert at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is developing a program called
HAZMAT: Hotzone to teach New York firefighters the best way to handle
hazardous materials in the city's subways.
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/
common/story_page/0,5936,18366947%
255E8362,00.html | back to top
The Adelaide Advertiser | March 4
International students have poured almost $400 million into the state
economy in 2005, with Education Adelaide predicting that figure will
jump in 2006. Education Adelaide Chief Executive Denise von Wald says
trends in South Australia's overseas student market suggest that Adelaide
will be home to nearly 21,000 international students this year. The
growth targets are based on 2005 full-year figures, released yesterday
by Australian Education International. They show that South Australia
attracted 17,936 students in 2005 - up 16.9 per cent on the previous
year and way ahead of the national average growth of 7 per cent. Ms.
von Wald said a new global advertising campaign promoting Adelaide as
the nation's premier education destination was targeting China and Vietnam."Print
and television advertising, featuring Adelaide's key competitive strengths
such as our Nobel Prize winners and the opening of Carnegie
Mellon University, will begin in those countries in coming
months," she said.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/
story_page/0,5936,18339251%255E2682,00.html | back
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Gulf Times | March 4
Carnegie Learning, a leading research-based mathematics curricula provider,
has announced the implementation of the Cognitive Tutor maths curriculum
at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. Carnegie Learning’s
curriculum will be taught as a supplemental, after-school course to
high-achieving high school students who are enrolled in a humanities
track and are interested in pursuing business administration courses
at a university. The goal of the Carnegie Learning maths course is to
bring humanities track students’ maths skills to the same level
as those in the country’s science track. Admission to Carnegie
Mellon in Qatar’s business program requires knowledge of calculus,
and Carnegie Learning’s algebra II course helps to prepare students
for calculus coursework. "Carnegie Mellon in Qatar's business school
is highly quantitative, and students are expected to have strong maths
skills for entrance," said director of admissions Bryan
Zerbe.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/
article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=75255&
version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 | back
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