2005

December

• Inauguration of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
• Neuroscientist Alison Barth Receives Grant to Develop a Therapy to Prevent Seizures
• Research Team Led by Ziv Bar-Joseph Transforms DNA Microarray Analysis With Ideas from a Standard Internet Communications Protocol
  (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article) (Red Herring article)
• Physics Outreach Program Teaches Middle Schoolers More Than Science
• Obituary: Simeon Adlow Friedberg / Professor of physics at CMU for 42 years
• Plextronics Awarded R&D Contract to Further Organic Light Emitting Diode Development

November

• Urban Named a Top 50 Innovator by Scientific American Magazine
• Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh Receive Educational Grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Computational Biology Ph.D. program
• Catalina Achim and Clayton Merrell’s course, The Color of Minerals & Inorganic Pigments, is discussed in the 11/21 issue of Chemical and Engineering News (subscription may be required)
• Team Led by Roberto Fernández Galán Finds First Evidence of a Living Memory Trace
• Andrew Wakefield, an international authority on autism, will speak Thursday, Nov. 17 on “The Origins of the Autism Epidemic.”
• Pioneering Life Detection Research Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
• Department of Mathematical Sciences Welcomed Alumni
• Pittsburgh Unveils Big Ben the Supercomputer

October

• MCS Alumni Meisner, Stone and Vida Honored with Alumni Merit Awards at Homecoming
• Researchers, Led by Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Professor Neil Donahue, Create New Center to Study Tiny, Unhealthful Airborne Particles
• Carnegie Mellon Holds Workshop to Celebrate the Career of Influential Mathematician and Computer Scientist Alan Frieze (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story)
• It's time to put pre-college science laboratories on the front burner (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial by Elizabeth Jones)
• MCS Faculty Participating in Science Writing Conference
• Biological Sciences Faculty members present talks at Science2005
• Carnegie Mellon Alumnus John Hall Named Recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story) (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story)
• The Achim Group Creates PNA Molecule With Potential To Build Nanodevices

September

• Physics Department Receives Bequests of Nearly $1 Million from the estate of George Pake and the family of Raymond Sorensen
• Reactive Intermediate Long-Suspected of Playing Key Role in Common Chemistry Ruled Out by the Münck group and collaborators
• Carnegie Mellon University and CUNY's Lehman College Receive $350,000 From the USDA To Enhance Minority Students' Laboratory Skills
• Obituary: Victor J. Mizel / Longtime mathematics professor at CMU
• South African Large Telescope (SALT) releases first images; CMU among consortium participants (Carnegie Mellon press release) (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article)
• Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh Offer Joint Doctorate in Computational Biology
• Interdisciplinary Carnegie Mellon Course Bridges Chemistry and Art
• NSF Awards $52 Million for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• Mathematics at the Frontiers of Science
  15th Anniversary of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis
• Nobel Laureate Harry M. Markowitz To Present Nash Lecture
• Biological Sciences Professor Antonio-Javier Lopez’s Research Reveals How Cells Process Large Genes

August

• Carnegie Mellon Rover Heads to Atacama Desert in Chile For Final Mission in Three-Year Search for Life(Carnegie Mellon Press Release) (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story) (EventScope Helps Scientists See “Life in the Atacama”)
• Peterson’s PaST Project in the News
• Biology Professor Jon Minden and Fellow Researchers Find MicroRNAS Play Vital Role in Development
• Master of Science in Computational Finance Program Celebrates 10th Anniversary
• Science Close Up: High School Students Use Cutting Edge Microscopy at the PGSS
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Training Tomorrow's Scientists

July

• Conducting “genetic archaeology” gets easier using Notung software created by Associate Professor Dannie Durand (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article)
• Steve Shreve’s Finance Book Receives Recognition As “New Book Of The Year”
• Neuroscientist Nathan Urban Receives $1 Million To Understand Neural Integration from the International Human Frontier Science Program
• Carnegie Mellon's Science and Humanities Scholars Program Selects William L. Alba as the Innovative Program's First Director

June

• Biologist Brooke McCartney Receives March of Dimes Award
• G-Zero Group, Including Carnegie Mellon Researchers, Finds Strange Quarks Influence Proton Structure
• Computational Biologist Russell Schwartz Receives Prestigious PECASE Award
• Mellon College of Science Research Impact Remains High
• Gordon Rule, Peter Berget, Kelley Burgin and Sebastian Stoian received the Mellon College of Science’s highest awards on May 3.
• 2005 MCS Staff Awards honor staff achievements in all MCS departments

May

• Gene “Archeology” Gets Easier Using Software Created by Dannie Durand
• High-Energy Particle Physicist Roy Briere Selected Co-Spokesperson of the CLEO Collaboration
• The Kowalewski Group Adapts Simple Casting Technique To Create Ordered Nanocarbon

April

• BSA Senior Joana Ricou Has Art on the Brain
• Physicist Curtis Meyer Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Physics Sophomore Jennifer Anttonen receives a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship
• Smith Uses University Strengths To Drive Region’s Economy
• Professor Ray Sorensen, former head of the Department of Physics, passes away at age 74 (obituary)
• 2005 Buhl Lecture Hosts Theoretical Physicist Hitoshi Murayama To Discuss the Impact of E=mc²
• Carnegie Mellon Creates New Nanotechnology Center To Study and Design a New Generation of Technologies
• Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh Create Tool to Understand Rhythms of Neurons
• Stepping Inside a Cell — Biology on the Midway
• Dr. Margaret Carver (S’43), a pioneering female physician
• Department of Biological Sciences receives NSF grant to establish Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site

March

• Carnegie Mellon to Award Dickson Prize to George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
• Scientists Develop Technology That Uses MRI To Visualize Gene Expression in Living Animals
• Carnegie Mellon Detection System Finds Life in Atacama Desert (Carnegie Mellon Today) (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Chemistry Textbooks Lack Connection to Real Chemistry
• Milliones and Reizenstein Middle School Students Bring Home Awards from Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science
• Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop New, Green Chemistry by Combining Oxygen with Well-Studied Fe-TAML Catalyst
• Computational Biologist Robert Murphy Selected To Chair Prestigious National Institutes of Health Committee

February

• Simulations Show How Growing Black Holes Regulate Galaxy Formation (Carnegie Mellon Press Release) (Science Magazine article– subscription required) (MSNBC article)

January

• MCS Scientists featured in nanotechnology article
• Computational Biologist Automates Tool for Location Proteomics (Carnegie Mellon Press Release) (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story)
• Maria Kurnikova joined the chemistry department in Fall 2003 and specializes in developing computational models of the dynamics of proteins and protein assemblies on a long time scale.
• An interview with Dr. Frank Lederman (S’71), former Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Alcoa and recent appointee to Cray’s Board of Directors
• Paper by Astrophysicist Jeff Peterson Is One of the Most Cited by Scientists

Interdisciplinary News of Interest

• Carnegie Mellon Researchers To Announce New Center for Research on Urban Water Quality — WaterQUEST
• Carnegie Mellon Receives $6.5 Million Award To Continue Materials Science Research
• Tepper Grad’s Startup to Commercialize Noninvasive Medical Diagnostic Device for Brain Disorders and Injuries
• Carnegie Mellon Engineering Professor Tapped To Help Improve Archaic Lead Standards
• Educational and Nutritional Programs Improve the Well-Being Of Breast Cancer Survivors, Carnegie Mellon Study Finds
• Carnegie Mellon Statistics Professors Capture Award For Paper That Helps Solve the Mysteries of the Big Bang
• Carnegie Mellon Psychologist Sheldon Cohen Receives NIH Grant To Explore Links Between Health and Social Factors
• Carnegie Mellon Researchers and Pew Center Unveil New Blueprint To Reduce Greenhouse Gas
• Carnegie Mellon Appoints Greg Rohrer To Head Materials Science and Engineering Department
• Carnegie Mellon Engineers Collaborate With County Officials To Monitor Air Toxics
• Carnegie Mellon Professors Help with Launch of The Girls, Math & Science Partnership’s BrainCake.org
• W.M. Keck Foundation Funds Innovative Brain Research at Carnegie Mellon.
• The National Energy Technology Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University Team Up To Create New Paradigms for Hydrogen Production
• Carnegie Mellon’s Drama Season Explores Themes of Science in Three American Plays

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