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President in the News - 2015

New Technique Developed by Team Including CMU President Removes Defects While Keeping Materials Strong
October 19, 2015
An international team of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh, Zhiwei Shan and colleagues from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, Ming Dao and Ju Li from MIT, and Evan Ma from Johns Hopkins University, has developed a new technique called cyclic healing that uses repetitive, gentle stretching to eliminate pre-existing defects in metal crystals. 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Engineering Materials

Hillman Chair to Support CMU Faculty, Students
October 7, 2015
Carnegie Mellon and the Henry L. Hillman Foundation announced the creation of the Henry L. Hillman President's Chair at CMU. The chair will be supported in perpetuity by an endowed fund of more than $30 million, including a new anchor gift of $11 million from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation. 
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Pittsburgh Business Times | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 

Tata Consultancy Services to Form Tech Center in Gift to Carnegie Mellon
August 25, 2015
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. will help fund a technology center at Carnegie Mellon University where it will provide researchers as well as recruit in areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Bloomberg Business | The New Indian Express

CMU President Subra Suresh Appointed to Hewlett-Packard Board
August 12, 2015
Hewlett-Packard announced new board members Wednesday as the technology concern looks to separate into two companies with more favorable cost structures, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc.
Bloomberg Business | CNBC | The Register

India Can Leapfrog to the Next Wave of Technology, says Carnegie Mellon University President
July 24, 2015
Its infrastructure gap allows the country to move directly into creating something new instead of tearing down existing frameworks, says Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh. Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Digital India initiative, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) hosted a symposium on integrated intelligence, which essentially aims to harness technology to improve human conditions. On the eve of the event, which was held on July 4 in New Delhi, Suresh, 59, spoke to Forbes India about technology’s transformative potential and its implications for the country. 
Forbes India

CMU President Subra Suresh Signs Agreement with India's Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
July 8, 2015
The Indian government has decided to spend $2.4 million in five years on advanced studies in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by outstanding Indian students at Carnegie Mellon University. An agreement to this end was recently signed between India's Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and CMU. 
The Times of India

CMU President Subra Suresh, Collaborators Create Device That Extracts Rare Tumor Cells Using Sound
April 6, 2015
A simple blood test may one day replace invasive biopsies thanks to a new device that uses sound waves to separate blood-borne cancer cells from white blood cells. Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh and fellow researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University report the latest advancement that brings their device one step closer to clinical use in a paper published this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The Telegraph | The Engineer | Pittsburgh Business Times

CMU, Pitt, UPMC Form Alliance To Transform Health Care Through Big Data
March 2015
Carnegie Mellon has partnered with Pitt and UPMC to help hospitals and doctors leverage “big data” to shape the future of health care in America. The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance will focus heavily on technology and data-centered innovations to ultimately improve quality of care while reducing cost.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Washington Times | Pittsburgh Magazine | Pittsburgh Business Times

Carnegie Mellon Receives Three Gifts Totaling $17 Million for Tepper Quad, Presidential Fellowships and Scholarships
February 2015
CMU President Subra Suresh expresses his gratitude for three generous gifts totaling $17 million intended for the development of the David A. Tepper Quadrangle and the Presidential Fellowships and Scholarships initiative. Two trustees and an alumnus provided the gifts that Dr. Suresh says will help to fulfill the “fundamental vision” of an innovative education.
Pittsburgh Business Times | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Kloehn, Higher Education Communications Leader, Takes New Position as CMU Vice President for Marketing and Communications
February 10, 2015
Dr. Subra Suresh welcomes Steve Kloehn as the university’s new vice president for marketing and communications. Dr. Suresh praises Kloehn as a “hands-on, innovative leader and communicator” who will lead the university's efforts in expanding its global visibility.
Pittsburgh Business Times

Farnam Jahanian Named Carnegie Mellon University Provost
February 11, 2015
CMU President Subra Suresh announces new provost Farnam Jahanian, who will move from his position as vice president of research to a key member of Dr. Suresh’s leadership team. Jahanian brings with him an accomplished career in science and entrepreneurship, as well as an extensive background in higher education administration.
Pittsburgh Business Times

Integrated Intelligence: Bridging Humanity and Technology for the World
January 23, 2015
Carnegie Mellon President Subra Suresh recognizes the interconnection between people and machines that will integrate human and artificial intelligence. Integrated Intelligence goes beyond technological advances to benefit all levels of the human experience for future generations.
Ideas Lab Sponsored by GE

Carnegie Mellon President Subra Suresh Voices “Tech Consequences” 
January 23, 2015
Dr. Suresh speaks to Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about the future of artificial intelligence. Dr. Suresh expands upon the consequences of allowing sophisticated machines more and more access to all the most private and confidential areas of our lives.
Scientific American Podcast

CMU’S HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS
Six CMU faculty appear on the new Thomson-Reuters list of the world’s Highly Cited Researchers in sciences and social sciences published this month.

The CMU faculty on the list are:

  • Neil Donahue, Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Engineering and Public Policy
  • Ignacio Grossmann, Chemical Engineering
  • Rongchao Jin, Chemistry
  • Gregory Lowry, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Chemistry
  • Subra Suresh, Computational Biology; Materials Science and Engineering; Bioengineering; Engineering and Public Policy

The list includes names of about 3,000 highly cited researchers in fields of the sciences and social sciences whose papers were in the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year indexed in the Web of Science. The 2015 list was based only on citations in papers published between 2003 and 2013. Details on the criteria and method for creating the list are available online.