2006

December

• Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh Team Engineers Muscle, Bone Cell Differentiation With Aid of Ink-Jet Printer
  Media coverage:
  'Bio-inks' could order stem cells what to be, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , December 11, 2006
  'Bio-inks' help reproduce body parts, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 11, 2006
  Bio-ink printer makes stem cells differentiate, NewScientist.com news service, December 11, 2006
  Biological inkjet system organizes stem cells, CBC News, December 11, 2006
  "Inkjet" printer helps organize stem cells, Reuters, December 10, 2006
  Muscle and bone from an ink-jet printer, Eureka Alert , December 10, 2006
• Carnegie Mellon Mathematician Receives
  Erlang Prize For Contributions to Applied Probability
• Roy Nicolaides Receives Alexander M. Knaster Professorship as Head of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon
• Steve Shreve Appointed Orion Hoch Chair of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon
• Leonard Kisslinger Receives Award for Educational Empowerment

November

• Biologist Charles Ettensohn Plays Key Role In Unveiling Sea Urchin Genome
• Study Reveals That Odor DiscriminationIs Linked to the Timing at Which Neurons Fire
• Carnegie Mellon's Unique Bachelor of Science in Computational Finance Meets Growing Market Demand
• Dean Richard McCullough addressed the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing at their annual meeting
• NIH Awards $8.5 Million for Biomedical Research at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• Fe-TAML: Catalyst for Cleanup, Environmental Health Perspectives, November 2006
• Carnegie Mellon Creates New Master's
  Degree in Biotechnology and Management
• Exotic Relatives of Protons and Neutrons Discovered by Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Researchers in Fermilab Collaboration

October

• Physics Professor Tiziana DiMatteo Featured on NOVA Special Oct. 31
• Carnegie Mellon Holds Conference on Applied Analysis To Celebrate 65th Birthday of Mathematician David Kinderlehrer
• The Matyjaszewski Group Uses "Green" Approach To Transform Plastics Manufacturing Process
  Media coverage:
  CMU chemists improve plastics technology, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 10, 2006
  Pimp My Polymer, Plenty Magazine
  A Method for Better, Greener Plastics, Seed Magazine, October 19, 2006
  Vitamin C and Water Not Just Healthy for People — Healthy for Plastics, too, The National Science Foundation press release, October 24, 2006
  Polymers With Safe Amounts Of Copper (subscription may be required), Chemical & Engineering News, October 30, 2006
  Engineering team pictures tomorrow's polymers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 01, 2006
• MCS Alumni Frederick Dill and Lawrence Sulak Receive Distinguished Achievement Awards
• Five Mellon College of Science professors to speak at University of Pittsburgh's Science2006 conference

September

• Eckard Münck Receives National Award from American Chemical Society
• Neuroscientist Nathan Urban Receives NIMH/NSF Grant To Examine Mechanisms That Underlie Neuronal Synchronization
• University Lecture Series:
  In Situ Spectroscopy on Mars-following the water in current NASA missions, Philip Gütlich, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

August

• MCS welcomes new faculty: Subha Das, Veronica Hinman and Rongchao Jin
• Carnegie Mellon Helps Spin Off 14 Companies in Fiscal Year 2006
• Carnegie Mellon University Receives NSF Grant to Develop New Computational Techniques for Unraveling Human Genetic History
• USDA Grant Provides Research Opportunities for Gifted Minority Students

July

• Ke Min receives a Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Student Scholarship for research in green chemistry
• Chuanbing Tang Receives 2005 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
• Biology Ph.D. Student Nan Song Wins Mellon College of Science's Graduate Student Travel Award

June

• The Collins group, U.S. Department of Agriculture Report That Fe-TAML® Catalysts Degrade Estrogenic Compounds
• Irene Fonseca has been recognized as one of the top Portuguese scientists working in America
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Celebrates Its 20th Birthday
• Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Strengthen Undergraduate Research Through Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grants Totaling $3.6 Million
• Rothstein and Colleague Win Gravity Research Foundation Prize
• Olson Named Acting Co-Director of Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
• Homeland Security Career May Be in the Cards for Math Major

May

• MCS Staff Awards Honor Individual and Team Achievements in 2006
• David Deerfield, a staff scientist at PSC since 1988, died on May 14
• Mellon College of Science Faculty, Students Earn Education and Research Awards
• U.S. News & World Report rates the Ph.D. in Biological Sciences program 36th best, up from 54th in 2002
• Carnegie Mellon Reappoints Richard McCullough Dean of the Mellon College of Science
  Download the Executive Summary of the Evaluation Committee's Report (28K PDF file)
• Researchers Now Able to Look Deep into Heart to View Triggers of a Heart’s Beat
• Student’s Research Helps Identify New Cancer Drug — Kimberly Kicielinski to Present Her Work on Capitol Hill

April

• NIH Awards $13.3 Million to Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh For National Technology Center for Networks and Pathways
• From Particle to Anti-Particle and Back Again: Carnegie Mellon Physicists Play Active Role in High-Precision Measurements
• Team of Mathematical Sciences Students Finish 8^th at Putnam Competition
• Junior Satyan Pai Wins Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
• Carnegie Mellon Study Sets Benchmark Properties For Industry's Most Popular Conducting Plastic

March

• Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA) Seminar Hosted by Carnegie Mellon Highlights Pittsburgh’s Leadership in PNA Research
• Catalina Achim and Justin Crowley among Five Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Members Who Received Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships
• Buhl Lecture: Keith Hodgson, Stanford University
  “Brighter Than a Quadrillion Suns: Photon Science in the 21st Century”
• Shlomo Ta’asan has teamed up with immunologists at UPMC to Discern Immune Response to Infectious Diseases, Vaccine Development
• Mathematician Irene Fonseca Selected To Deliver the Prestigious Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture
• Carnegie Mellon Study, lead by Alison Barth, Indisputably Identifies Impact of Neural Connections in Learning Process

February

• Bioinformatics Pioneer David Haussler To Receive Carnegie Mellon’s Prestigious Dickson Prize in Science
• Egon Balas and Kris Matyjaszewski among Five Carnegie Mellon Professors Elected Into the Prestigious National Academy of Engineering
• New release of GSI-OpenSSH includes high-performance networking patches
• Richard D. McCullough Wins 2006 Carnegie Science Center Start-up Entrepreneur Award
• MBIC’s life detection system one of the features in Science News's article on the search for extraterrestrial life

January

• Chien Ho and Colleagues Develop Non-invasive Technique To Detect Transplant Rejection at Cellular Level

  New tests show promise in tracking rejection after heart transplant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  MRI tracks progress, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

• Mark Bier Receives NSF Funding to Build Innovative Mass Spectrometer to Study Complex Biomolecules
• 20 Years of Supercomputing in Pittsburgh
• Mathematics Luminary and Carnegie Tech Alumnus Raoul Bott Dies
• Green Chemistry a Hit at Pittsburgh’s First Night Celebration
• Interdisciplinary Course Links Art and Chemistry

Interdisciplinary News of Interest

• Carnegie Mellon, UPMC Sign Research Agreement To Develop Advanced Health Care Information Technologies
• Carnegie Mellon and Portugal To Launch Major Research and Education Collaboration
• Researchers add to understanding of how brain cells communicate
• Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use New Imaging Technique To Discover Connection Differences in Brains of People With Autism
• Carnegie Mellon Study Offers New Clues About Memory
• Rendell Stresses Skilled Workforce for Economic Growth at Supercomputing Science Consortium (SC2) Seminar
• Carnegie Mellon Researchers Discover Key Deficiencies in Brains of People with Autism
• Carnegie Mellon Researcher Discovers Nanostructured Materials That May Increase Lifespan of High-Capacity Energy Systems
• Carnegie Mellon Names David Dzombak Associate Dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs in Engineering College
• Carnegie Mellon Researchers Discover New Cell Structures, Properties That Could Help Reverse Effects of Premature Aging in Some Children
• Carnegie Mellon To Launch Center for Innovative Robotics
• Carnegie Mellon Names James H. Garrett Jr. Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• “Cosmic Collisions” Highlights Simulations at Pittsburgh
• Raj Reddy To Receive 2006 Vannevar Bush Award for Lifetime Contributions to Science
• Carnegie Mellon Shows off Best and Brightest During Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium
• Researchers Say Use of Switchgrass Could Be Solution to America's Ongoing Energy Crisis
• Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Presents Comprehensive Report on Ecological Health of Allegheny County
• DNA Evidence Powerful, but Confusion and Controversy Cloud Its Use, Says Carnegie Mellon Statistics Professor
• Timothy Swager, MIT Conductive Polymer Pioneer, to Lead Plextronics’ Technical Advisory Board
• Carnegie Mellon Collaborates With EA to Revolutionize Computer Science Education
• Carnegie Mellon Researchers Launch New Center To Deliver "Nervous Systems" for Critical Infrastructures
• Carnegie Mellon Scientists Show How Brain Processes Sound
• Carnegie Mellon University Finance Professor Receives TIAA-CREF Institute Award

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