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March 24,
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 17 to March 23,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 215
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
Bloomberg News | March 23
The Arizona Republic | March 20
The Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| March 20
Student Experience
The Virgin Islands Daily News | March 21
Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 23
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 18
ScienceCareers.org | March 17
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 23
Motor Trend Magazine | March 21
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
Chicago Tribune | March 16
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 23
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 19
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 17
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 21
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
International News Stories
The Peninsula | March 2
The Australian | March 22
The Australian | March 22
Reporter.gr | March 22
The Peninsula | March 21
The Peninsula | March 19
March 19
The Australian | March 17
Channel NewsAsia | March 16
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National News Stories
Bloomberg News | March 23
We learn about the brains behind these experimental machines in "The
Great Robot Race," a one-hour PBS special about a 132- mile driverless
race through the Nevada moonscape sponsored by the Pentagon's Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency. ... The show opens with a brief review
of the first competition, which was a dismal pageant of failure. Fifteen
vehicles got through the qualifying hurdles in this 2004 event, yet
none made it farther than seven miles in the actual race. On the bright
side, no one was hurt, though there is footage of a marauding vehicle
crashing into a barrier, behind which a few startled humans may have
experienced a Depends moment. Two hundred teams entered the 2005 competition,
with 23 making the final cut and only a handful actually finishing the
race. This being a competition, viewers may find themselves choosing
favorites. The fan base may be somewhat thin for Carnegie Mellon
University's Red Team, led by a drill sergeant-type named Red
Whittaker. Red, mostly bald and slightly bearded, tells each
member to be ready to give ``200 percent'' to the mission. "If
you haven't done everything, you haven't done a thing,'' barks the maximum
leader, whose team enters two vehicles called Sandstorm and Highlander.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000088&sid=arQst5.49MiM&refer=culture | back
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The Arizona Republic | March 20
Technology, particularly the computer programs, could become part of
an "early warning" system for caregivers, said Jim
Osborn, executive director of the Medical Robotics Technology
Center for Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
"It may say, 'I noticed something different, and you might want
to take a look for yourself,' " he said. Some technology could
be more hands-on. Pearl, an interactive robot, even has hands of sorts.
Pearl the Nursebot, a prototype being developed by researchers on aging
technology at Carnegie Mellon, offers the "embodiment of technology"
but isn't meant to replace a person, Osborn said. The Pearl robots are
in the testing phase and are at work in a nursing home in Pennsylvania.
Pearl, which comes with interchangeable face plates, helps take seniors
to appointments or to the dining hall. Pearl is not available for purchase,
but that day may not be far off, Osborn said.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/
news/articles/0320agingtech0320.html | back to top
The Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| March 20
Under electricity deregulation, Texans have paid some of the highest
rates in the nation -- a reversal of at least a decade of relatively
cheap electricity under the state's old regulated system. That's the
conclusion of a national utility expert, who also reports that those
in deregulated states typically have had larger rate increases than
customers in states still under regulation. Separate academic reports
likewise show, after making adjustments for inflation and other factors,
that electricity prices in Texas have gone up since 1996, while those
in regulated states have gone down; and that in general terms, electricity
prices in the United States have not fallen under competition. ... For
instance, Seth Blumstock and Jay Apt, in a report prepared
for the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center,
note that the U.S. transmission system was not designed to handle the
volume of transactions needed under deregulation; that several new institutions
required under deregulation have resulted in higher industry costs;
and that increased market uncertainty under deregulation has increased
capital costs. ***This article was placed in about 20 national newspapers.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/
news/breaking_news/14142909.htm | back to top
Student Experience
The Virgin Islands Daily News | March 21
Seniors and parents need to know that they can deal - if for nothing
else than at least for a comparable offer from a school the student
would prefer to attend. With the exorbitant price tags involved, contestants
in this high stakes college-cost game need to know how to work with
financial aid officers before selecting Door No. 1, Door No. 2 or Door
No. 3. Sometimes these negotiations are very straightforward, where
accepted students take their aid offer from College X to College Y to
see whether Y wants to match, or perhaps even beat, X. Not all colleges
and universities like this practice, but I've seen it work for a few
students each year. The college that probably has done the most to encourage
such fiscal candor is Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, Pa. [Dr. William F. "Bill" Elliott,
vice president for enrollment at Carnegie Mellon],who has been working
to determine the fairest aid packages possible for 40 years, says that
his goal is to level the playing field. "We seek to make the out-of-pocket
expenses exactly the same" so that students can make their decision
to enroll based on which school feels right rather than which school
costs less.
http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/
index.pl/article_features?id=14648525 | back to
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Arts and Humanities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 23
The dialogue concerning the role of public art (and the process for
its acquisition and installation) has been lively at Carnegie Mellon
University, as it is likely to be anywhere an artwork is introduced
into a public arena (Patricia Lowry's "Carnegie Mellon crafts a
compromise on artist's controversial sculpture," March 15). As
head of the School of Art, a member of the University Public Art Committee
and an artist for three decades, I careen between joy and distress over
the reactions I observe: joy that the dialogue attests to the power
of art; distress at the lack of understanding about the nature of art
in general, much less contemporary public art. ***This article was written
by Susanne Slavick, head of Carnegie Mellon's
School of Art.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06082/674927.stm
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 18
Pittsburgh Symphony officials were scrambling earlier this week when
scheduled guest conductor Robert Spano suddenly canceled, which necessitated
a partly new program as well as a new conductor. ...[C]oncertmaster
Andres Cardenes revealed new and important dimensions
of his musicianship as the substitute conductor. ... The concertmaster
is often heard as a conductor in town leading the Pittsburgh Symphony
Chamber Orchestra -- as he will later this month -- and a chamber orchestra
of students at Carnegie Mellon University, where he
is head of string studies. ... Unlike many violinists-turned-conductor,
Cardenes went for a big orchestra sound in which the expected richness
of the strings' tone and expression were not at the expense of other
sections of the orchestra. Indeed, the brass playing was thrilling and
the woodwinds full of the personality that is noted where this orchestra
performs. The power and flexibility of Cardenes' performance was apparent
from the start, with a wide dynamic range and powerful rhythm from the
lower strings. With poetic clarinets and strong horn tone with the celli,
this conductor offered a truly heroic performance in the first movement.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
entertainment/music/s_434604.html | back to top
ScienceCareers.org | March 17
George Bernard Shaw wrote that "Economy is the art of making the
most of life." By this definition, Christina Fong
is an economist in more than one sense of the word. A research scientist
in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fong deftly
balances research, teaching, and family as she pursues a demanding career
in the field of public economics. She considered becoming a natural
science major in college until she took an introductory microeconomics
course during her sophomore year. "I was immediately attracted
to the abstract style of reasoning that economists use," says Fong,
"and the power of this style to help us understand social problems"--problems
she became aware of through her early exposure to two very different
cultures. "I realized that through economics, I could take an analytical
approach to studying certain social problems that I care deeply about."
Today, Fong’s work in public economics is informed by these deep
concerns as well as her parallel interests in psychology and political
science.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_
development/previous_issues/articles/2006_03_
17/making_the_most_out_of_life | back to top
Information Technology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 23
Carnegie Mellon University wants to build a research
center called Robot City at LTV's former Hazelwood Works to develop
the next generation of robots. ... University officials hope the move
will bring Pittsburgh closer to living up to the moniker given it by
The Wall Street Journal: "Roboburgh." ... "It'll take
years to fulfill the vision of Robot City, but that doesn't get in the
way of starting now and having real machines and people on the ground
and in action," said William "Red" Whittaker,
Fredkin Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and
the leader of the university's Red Team. The team's two robot vehicles
finished second and third in the 2005 Grand Challenge, a 130-mile race
of robot vehicles across the Mojave Desert in October. ... "A lot
of the work that we do takes space, and there's a lot of space out there,"
said Matt Mason, director of the Robotics Institute.
... University officials stress, however, that the site is raw, and
the dream is distant. Commercializing robots around the world has been
challenging, said Randal E. Bryant, dean of the School
of Computer Science. "A lot of it is too expensive for what it
gives you," he explained. But if anyone can make Robot City work,
insiders say, Whittaker can. "Red Whittaker is like a force of
nature," Mason said. "Usually, when he does something, it
happens a lot faster than you imagine that it could."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_435985.html | back to top
Motor Trend Magazine | March 21
Join NOVA for an exclusive backstage pass to the DARPA Grand Challenge...
From concept to construction to the final competition, NOVA delivers
the absorbing inside story of brilliant engineers and their unyielding
drive to create a champion, capturing the only aerial footage that exists
of the Grand Challenge, in "The Great Robot Race," airing
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 8 pm ET on PBS. ... Headlining the film is
Carnegie Mellon University's "Red Team," led by
Red Whittaker, an ambitious and relentless innovator with world-renowned
expertise in the field of robotics. Under his leadership, 50 students
and professionals give up their personal lives and outside distractions
for an intensive all-out devotion to not one, but two robots - "Sandstorm"
and "Highlander." Pittsburgh's miserable winter weather makes
for long, cold field tests, and 16-hour days are cushioned by only brief
bouts of sleep. Through it all, viewers witness first-hand what Red
calls the "violent and wretched time of birthing a new machine."
http://www.motortrend.com/features/auto_news/
2006/112_news060321_nova_darpa_grand_challenge/ | back
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
With the end of graduate school approaching, Jessica Trybus,
didn't have a job, so she created not one, but two for herself. The
director of "edutainment" at her alma mater Carnegie
Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) the
past two years, Ms. Trybus at the same time launched her own gaming
start-up, Etcetera Edutainment. ... Ms. Trybus, who earned a Masters
of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon in 2004, doesn't fit
the bill of your typical "gamer" who designs or plays video
games, said ETC director Don Marinelli. Most, he said,
are "testosterone-enriched males," whereas Trybus is "wholesome
and polite," though she does "bleed black and gold.'' Ms.
Trybus is determined to help Pittsburgh stake a claim the booming interactive
video gaming industry by focusing on "edutainment," which
Mr. Marinelli describes as using animation and video gaming technology
for education and training purposes. As Carnegie Mellon's "edutainment
director," she lobbied the state's Department of Community and
Economic Development around initiatives to help the university spin
off companies in the field.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06080/673661.stm | back to top
Chicago Tribune | March 16
It turns out that cell phones do interfere with aircraft navigation
systems, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have
found. What a relief. Someone get a copy of this study over to the Federal
Communications Commission right away. ... Lots of people have "forgotten"
to turn off their phones before takeoff, and so far nobody has managed
to crash a plane. So nobody really took those warnings seriously, but
most passengers cheerfully accepted the rules because almost nobody
wants cell phones to be allowed on flights. Those who do fall mostly
into two camps: business travelers (or more likely, business travelers'
bosses) and tech companies who stand to make money from the business
travelers' cell phone calls. Lobbying by those two groups is what prompted
the FCC to reopen the question of whether to allow in-flight calls.
... The researchers advise against it. The combined electronic noise
caused by a plane full of cell phones "will, in all likelihood,
someday cause an accident," they predict. Let's hope that ends
the conversation.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/
chi-0603160148mar16,1,6491330.story?coll=
chi-opinionfront-hed | back to top
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 23
People with H5N1 avian influenza evidently can't spread the virus easily
through coughing and sneezing, scientists said. Yet, a recent survey
by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found
that medical experts gave "surprisingly" high odds to the
virus being able to mutate into an easily transmittable form in the
next three years. ... A survey of 19 widely recognized doctors and epidemiologists
who attended a November meeting on pandemic influenza in San Francisco
estimated that there is a 15 percent chance that the current avian influenza
strain will change into a form that can be spread efficiently among
humans within the next three years, Carnegie Mellon researchers announced
Wednesday. "It's not that low a percentage. It's much higher than
I thought it would be," said Wandi Bruine De Bruin,
lead author of the study and a research faculty member in the Department
of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/pittsburgh/s_435973.html | back to top
Environment
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 19
When President Bush mentioned switch grass during his State of the Union
address as a potential fuel source, most Americans probably scratched
their heads. ... Pennsylvania has been slow to begin traditional biofuel
production -- biodiesel from soybeans and ethanol from corn -- because
it doesn't grow enough of those crops. But Pennsylvania is well suited
to a coming segment of the industry that turns trees, corn stalks and
grasses to a fuel called cellulosic ethanol, energy experts say. ...
Cellulosics relies on fast-growing grasses and trees or agricultural
waste -- like corn stalks -- for raw materials. Pennsylvania could support
825,000 acres of switch grass, enough to make more than 800 million
gallons of ethanol, according to research by Mike Griffin,
professor and executive director of the Green Design Institute at Carnegie
Mellon University, and his colleagues.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_434764.html | back to top
Regional Impact
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
As UPMC illustrates, the real power in Pittsburgh can be found in its
nonprofit sector, home to hospitals and foundations and universities
and cultural organizations. Collectively, they work to improve the quality
of life for people in southwestern Pennsylvania and provide venues for
learning and questioning the world as it was and is, whether the subject
is history, classical music or the art of Andy Warhol. They also attract
tens of thousands of visitors from around the world every year and give
the area prestige. Perhaps most importantly, the nonprofits are gigantic
engines of money and innovation that serve as the primary hope for Pittsburgh's
future economic growth. ... Pitt's Oakland neighbor is Carnegie
Mellon University, second-largest in the area and a draw for
almost 10,000 students a year, many lured by Carnegie Mellon's record
of innovation and research in such fields as computer science and robotics.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06080/673732.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 17
The commercial and residential construction revival in Pittsburgh extends
beyond the thriving SouthSide Works, the North Shore and projects planned
in the Fifth-Forbes corridor Downtown. Look to the eastern part of the
city -- to East Liberty, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill and Oakland -- where
new development is strong. ... Expected to begin this year is Carnegie
Mellon University's $88 million Gates Center for Computer Science,
which also will include a 150-space subsurface garage.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
business/s_434173.html | back to top
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | March 21
And thanks to $100,000 in new funding from the Pittsburgh Life Sciences
Greenhouse, the fledgling local company will be able to move further
along in development of its prototype iScan technology, a device that
detects elevated brain pressure "noninvasively" -- using a
camera, fiber optics and proprietary software to measure changes in
the eye's blood supply. Similarly, seven other promising life sciences
firms working on products ranging from a non-toxic adhesive to repair
surgical wounds to technology that helps diagnose and monitor lupus,
also will each $100,000 to help to further advance their work here,
the state-funded Greenhouse announced Tuesday. ... Technologies developed
at five separate entities -- the University of Pittsburgh, and the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Carnegie Mellon University,
Duquesne University of Pittsburgh, and Allegheny General Hospital --
were among those represented at the session at Greenhouse's headquarters
at the Pittsburgh Technology Center in South Oakland.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-
review/trib/pmupdate/s_435477.html | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
More family-friendly corporate policies result in increased corporate
growth and retention of both genders. Companies that have emphasized
a commitment to attract and retain female employees throughout all tiers
of the company usually invest in the development of family-friendly
corporate policies and worker retention programs that attract and retain
the top talent of both genders. ... In a more local example, Carnegie
Mellon University has become a leader in such practices by
offering a semester of paid leave to any faculty member -- regardless
of gender -- for parental leave related to a newborn child. It also
was one of our first local universities to offer domestic-partner benefits
and an on-site child care facility. These practices have provided Carnegie
Mellon with the ability to compete for the best minds working in academia
today, securing the university's status as one of the top colleges in
the country.
http://www.post-gazette.com/
pg/06080/673573.stm | back to top
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 21
Pittsburgh is the linguistic center of a dialect region covering most
of Western Pennsylvania as well as parts of northern West Virginia,
eastern Ohio and a small area of western Maryland. The Pittsburgh dialect,
often referred to as Pittsburghese (or Yinzbonics), contains substrates
reflecting the ethnic heritage of the region: Scotch-Irish, German and
Slavic. There are still vibrant ethnic communities in Pittsburgh, composed
of both recent immigrants and third- or fourth-generation Americans,
particularly in the South Side and Squirrel Hill, where it is not uncommon
to hear people speaking Polish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. ... For
more fun, check out english.cmu.edu/pittsburghspeech,
a site for non-linguists created by Carnegie Mellon
University linguist Barbara Johnstone, and www.pittsburghese.com,
a site mostly for laughs.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/
06080/673828.stm | back to top
International News Stories
The Peninsula | March 23
The Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama in
Pittsburgh, PA, U.S., recently broadcast live streams of the drama,
Nathan the Wise to audiences at the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar,
a university press release, said here yesterday. The event was said
to be the first of its kind and was followed by a talk-back session
between the Doha and Pittsburgh campuses. "The first comment I
recall from Carnegie Mellon President, Dr. Jared Cohon,
about the Qatar campus was how it provided a way to extend a hand in
peace in the Middle East," Indira Nair, Vice-Provost,
Carnegie Mellon, said. "This production of Nathan the Wise truly
is an extension of that vision. Our School of Drama has worked hard
and long especially with the efforts of Michael Chemers
and Shirley Saldamarco in Pittsburgh, and Ben
and Anita Reilly in Doha, and both our wonderful IT departments
to make this event happen."
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?
section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=
March2006&file=Local_News2006032314716.xml | back
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The Australian | March 22
Australian universities need to increase their links with industry,
governments and companies to survive and remain relevant, according
to a senior Carnegie Mellon executive. In Adelaide
to prepare for the opening of the American university's Adelaide campus
in May, Mark Wessel said that universities risked becoming
"historical artifacts" and would need to adapt to changing
societies and economies in coming years. "Carnegie Mellon is well
situated to respond to these changes, but it's going to accelerate ...
and the only way we're going to effectively respond to that is in collaborations
with governments and industry and with other universities," he
said. ... International interest in studying at Carnegie Mellon's new
campus has been strong. The university is hoping to enroll up to 60
international students in the two Heinz school programs and a further
20 students in entertainment technology.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
common/story_page/0,5744,18553197
%255E12332,00.html | back to top
The Australian | March 22
How may universities respond to the challenges of competition from the
private sector? Sadly, it would appear that many academics assume that
the elite position of universities will protect them from competition.
It would also appear that some universities are playing the private
sector at their own game by cutting courses that are less popular and
ramping up courses that are more popular with little thought to the
strategic consequences for the nation. The competitive realm that higher
education finds itself in seems to preclude sensible co-operation, particularly
across the public sector, in course rationalization. Given the educational
constraints of private colleges already mentioned, perhaps the real
challenge may come from American universities with significant intellectual
capital and educational experience setting up shop in Australia, as
Carnegie Mellon is already doing. That they may partner
successfully established private colleges as a way of moving quickly
into the market should keep us all on our toes. For me the most significant
move the universities could make to remain competitive is to invest
in and value their staff more, as this is where their competitive advantage
lies. That such investment might also result in quality staff eventually
moving into the private sector as it matures can only benefit the country
as a whole.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/
story_page/0,5744,18551700%255E12332,00.html | back
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Reporter.gr | March 22
What is this initiative? A self-evident one: The creation of a non-profit
institution and the establishment of a prestigious university which
is fully financially backed. This non-profit institution is called Athens
Information Technology and cooperates with foreign universities (Carnegie
Mellon and Harvard), accepting postgraduate students from all
over the world who wish to gain a postgraduate diploma in Information
Technology and Telecommunications. The institution is sponsored by Intracom,
owned by Mr. Sokratis Kokkalis. ... Could there be such an institution
in Greece? Of course, since Carnegie Mellon and Harvard, the universities
associated with AIT Institute, are ranked among the top academic institutions
in the world and they would never risk entering a cooperation scheme
which was not of the highest standards set by these very universities.
Thus, AIT Institute is among the first private European cutting-edge
technology institutions, providing pioneering facilities and laboratories.
Carnegie offers a Masters in Science in Information Networking, one
of its most demanding postgraduate programs, while Harvard complements
the education offered at AIT Institute in Administration through its
"Executive Program."
http://www.reporter.gr/fulltext_
eng.cfm?id=60322100019 | back to top
The Peninsula | March 21
Kids Valley, the kindergarten wing of the Birla Public School held a
graduation ceremony for its KG11 children on Thursday. Keith
Marsh, Student Services Specialist at Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar was the chief guest on the occasion. Citing his
own experience he urged the tiny tots to learn something from everyday
experience. Some of these may be found of little significance, but whatever
knowledge one acquires, whether it is big or small, will one day become
useful.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?
section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=
March2006&file=Local_News2006032174417.xml | back
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The Peninsula | March 19
Carnegie Mellon business administration student Yasmine
Abdelrahman knows she will need more than high marks in the classroom
to compete in a global marketing place when she graduates. She must
also have hands-on experience in the workplace. "Having experience
in a work environment adds a lot to your resume," she says. "High
grades and charity work is good too, but it will not always get you
in the interview chair." And getting in that interview chair is
a lot easier if you've done an internship, according to J. Patrick
McGinnis, lecturer in Carnegie Mellon's Tepper
School of Business. "Internships are an integral part of the American
business school education," McGinnis says. "Students get the
benefit of obtaining real-life experience and applying theories learned
in the classroom to the field where they will eventually work. Employers
also gain through internships because students provide a legitimate
contribution to the organization." To assist both students and
companies with the internship process, Carnegie Mellon offers a program
called Connections. This program is designed to bring together companies
who want to offer internships with student who want experience. To date
more than 25 Carnegie Mellon Qatar students have completed internships
and a few are already laying plans for a second one.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?
section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=
March2006&file=Local_News2006031915457.xml | back
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BBC | March 19
***BBC Television visited Carnegie Mellon University
in Qatar to film a segment on the future of the region and on how a
knowledge society will play a vital role in that future. Several computer
science majors at the Qatar campus are featured in the story.
www.streamingserver.qatar.cmu.edu
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The Australian | March 17
The decision to commit taxpayer funds to Australia's first foreign university
is bearing fruit with enrollments for courses costing up to $80,000
exceeding management expectations. Courses are due to start at Carnegie
Mellon University's Adelaide campus in six weeks' time with
the elite Pittsburgh institution offering a Masters in Entertainment
Technology degree - the only degree course of its kind in the world.
Carnegie Mellon dean Mark Wessel told The Australian
that 125 international students had been offered places and these candidates
would be whittled back to fill the 65 places at the Pittsburgh and Adelaide
campuses. Mr. Wessel said 15 students would start the MET degree on
May 22 and the course would be run from Adelaide's new Entertainment
Technology Center. More than 180 people have so far applied for up to
60 places at Carnegie Mellon's two Heinz School of Public Policy and
Management masters degrees in Public Policy and Information Technology.
The positions will be finalized by early May.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/
story_page/0,5744,18495095%255E12332,00.html | back
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Channel NewsAsia | March 16
The best and brightest young minds are being encouraged to pursue a
high-flying career in the infocomm industry. Singapore Management University
and America's Carnegie Mellon University are jointly
offering a new fast-track program, which will culminate in a Master's
degree in four years instead of the usual five. The unique partnership
is believed to be the first for any institution outside the U.S. ...
For American educational heavyweight Carnegie Mellon, Singapore was
the natural focal point for its work to expand its Asian presence. Said
Dr. Jared Cohon, president, Carnegie Mellon, "We'll
be getting some of the best students in Singapore coming to Carnegie
Mellon to get their Master's degree. That's a very high value for Carnegie
Mellon University and we benefit directly from it." Singapore's
Infocomm Development Authority has set aside S$12 million worth of scholarship
funding over the next five years to attract students. It will provide
for 40 scholarships paying for the full expenses of the program.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/
singaporelocalnews/view/198110/1/.html | back to
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