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2008

December

• Newsmaker: Michael Widom (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 20, 2008)
• Michael Widom, professor of physics, and John L. Woolford, professor and acting head of the Department of Biological Sciences, were elected AAAS fellows (Carnegie Mellon press release, December 19, 2008)
• Building the Greenest Greenhouse:
  Math Alum Missy Unkovic helps to bring green building practices to Phipps Conservatory (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, December 2008)
• Lane Fellows Set To Tackle Computational Biology Problems of Today and Tomorrow (MCS web story, December 10, 2008)
• Siegal's Law: Physics Alum Helps Disabled (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, December 2008)

November

• Associate Professor Alison Barth Receives Two Society for Neuroscience Awards (Department of Biological Sciences News, November 18, 2008)
• Gregg Franklin Named Head of Carnegie Mellon's Physics Department (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, November 17, 2008)
• Enviro health scientists, chemists join forces to promote safe chemicals (Environmental Health News, November 2008)

October

• Discovery Science: A Nationwide Science Experiment in Genomics (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, October 2008)
• Commentary Don't Blame The Quants (Forbes.com, October 8, 2008)
• Breaking Ground: Matyjaszewski's ATRP Research (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, October 2008)
• The Thinkers: For CMU scientist, the one word is plastics (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 6, 2008)

September

• Professor Ferguson interviewed about Large Hadron Collider start up
  $10 billion collider project to shed light on origin of universe (PittsburghPost-Gazette, September 11, 2008)
  
  Carnegie Mellon has hand in 'Big Bang' collider (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 10, 2008)
  
  First Big Bang tests good, and we're all still here(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 10, 2008)
• Noted Economist To Discuss "Dark Markets" in Carnegie Mellon's Nash Distinguished Lecture
• Elizabeth W. Jones Memorial Symposium
• Nick Tsarevsky (S'05) Won the National Starch & Chemical Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry

August

• What's in the Air? Chemistry professor Neil Donahue talks about studying air pollution (The Allegheny Front, August 20, 2008)
• Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop MRI Technology That Non-Invasively Locates, Quantifies Specific Cells in the Body (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 21, 2008)
• Green Catalysts Provide Promise For Cleaning Toxins and Pollutants (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 18, 2008)
• Hydrogels Provide Scaffolding For Growth of Bone Cells (Carnegie Mellon press release, August 18, 2008)
• John Woolford Announced as Acting Department Head of Biological Sciences (MCS story, August 2008)

July

• EPA honors Chemistry Alumna (MCS story, July 2008)
  
  Green is the New Clean (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, August 2008)
• Possible Epilepsy Link Uncovered
  (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, July 2008)

June

• Obituary: Carnegie Mellon Professor, Head of Biological Sciences Elizabeth Jones Will Be Remembered For Her Mentorship, Research (Carnegie Mellon press release, June 13, 2008)
  
  Obituary: Elizabeth W. Jones / Genetics professor at CMU (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 16, 2008)
• Neuroscientists Uncover Possible Link Between Different Forms of Epilepsy
  (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, June 12, 2008)
• The Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology To Host 9th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop, June 8–11, 2008 (Media Advisory, June 6, 2008)
  

  To view the scientific program, visit the GLCW web site.

May

• Speeding Up Medical Discoveries
  Researchers in Carnegie Mellon's Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology have discovered how to speed up critical steps in an automated method for analyzing cell cultures and other biological specimens. (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, May 2008)
• Carnegie Science Center Honors (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, May 2008)
• Carnegie Mellon Scientists Unveil New Tool To Understand Evolution of Multi-Domain Genes
  Results Upend Current Analyses, Herald New Way To Understand, Exploit Key Proteins in Cancer (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, May 16,2008)
• Hanadie Yousef Receives the 2008 Judith A. Resnik Award (MCS story, May 2008)
• Mellon College of Science Students Earn Education and Research Awards (Mellon College of Science story, May 2008)
• MCS Staff Award Winners, 2008 (MCS story, May 2008)
• MCS Names Amy Burkert New Assistant Dean for the Health Professions Program and Educational Initiatives (Mellon College of Science story, May 2008)
• Prof. Terry Collins is first recipient of $50,000 Charles E. Kaufman Award (Pittsburgh Foundation press release, May 2008)

April

• Carnegie Mellon's Art Conservation Research Center Receives $3.87M From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Carnegie Mellon press release, April 28, 2008)
• Chemists Clean Up the Water (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, April 2008)

• Carnegie Mellon Establishes Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, April 22, 2008)
  
  Gift helps CMU probe cosmic mystery (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 21, 2008)
  CMU, Pitt seek to solve space mysteries (Tribune-Review, April 20, 2008 )

• Curtis A. Meyer: The William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching (Celebration of Teaching website, April 2008)

• Amy Burkert and Paul Karol are this year’s winners of the Mellon College of Science’s awards for education (Mellon College of Science story, April 2008)

• MCS Faculty to Participate in Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) (Mellon College of Science story, April 2008)
  
  Carnegie Mellon’s Jeffrey Hollinger To Direct Craniofacial Reconstruction Program, Team In New Medical Consortium (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, April 17, 2008)
• Three Carnegie Mellon Sophomores Earn Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships; Two from MCS (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, April 16, 2008)
  
  Chemistry Undergraduate Andrew DeYoung Receives Goldwater Scholarship (Chemistry news story, April 11, 2008)
  Biological Sciences Undergraduate Samuel Kim Awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (Biological Sciences news story, April 11, 2008)
• Physicist Joel Primack To Give “A Brief History of Dark Matter” At Carnegie Mellon's Buhl Lecture, April 22 (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, April 11, 2008)
• Biophysicist Marcus Deserno Develops Computer Model To Study Cell Membrane Dynamics (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, April 8, 2008)
• Gilman Appointed: Physics Leader New Dean of MCS (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, April 2008)

March

• Kevin Bandura and Wei He Receive the Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Graduate Fellowship (Mellon College of Science story, March 2008)
• Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar holds Inaugural Bill Brown Ride
  On March 1, seventy-six cyclists and nearly twenty volunteers took part in the inaugural Bill Brown Ride at the Doha Golf Club in Qatar to celebrate the life of Bill Brown, a beloved biology professor at Carnegie Mellon who passed away last year. (Biological Sciences, March 5, 2008)

February

• Volunteering Benefits Community — Mortar Board Society
  Physics senior and Science and Humanities Scholar Stephen Brunner is president of the Carnegie Mellon chapter. (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, February 2008)

• MBIC Scientists Develop Novel Fluorescent Proteins for Live Cell Imaging, Biosensor Design (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, February 6, 2008)

• Astrophysicist Tiziana Di Matteo Wins Emerging Female Scientist Award at Carnegie Science Awards for Excellence (Mellon College of Science Press Release, February 2008)

  Universe brave new world for CMU professor (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 1, 2008)

  Carnegie Science Awards announced (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 1, 2008)

January

• Biological Sciences Senior Bertrade "Betty" Mbom Receives HHMI’s Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, January 31, 2008)

  Profile of Betty Mbom (HHMI News, January 31, 2008)

  Betty Mbom — Navigating Toward Success (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, Winter 2008)

  Five Students Pursue Research Careers with Gilliam Fellowships (HHMI News, January 31, 2008)

• International Team Identifies 480 Genes That Control Human Cell Division
  Research Led by Carnegie Mellon Finds Many Genes Are Inactivated in Cancer Cells (Carnegie Mellon press release, January 7, 2008)
• Carnegie Mellon Joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project (Carnegie Mellon press release, January 8, 2008)
  
  CMU joins super-telescope team (Tribune-Review, January 9, 2008)
• Novel Mechanism for Long-Term Learning Identified by Carnegie Mellon Researchers Mechanism Described in Jan. 4 Issue of Science Explains How Neuronal Connections Continue To Strengthen After Repeated Stimulation (Carnegie Mellon press release, January 3, 2008)
• What’s that Smell (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, Winter 2008)
• Developmental Biologist Vernonica Hinman Uncovers the Nuts and Bolts of How
  Gene Regulatory Networks Evolve (MCS Press Release, January 2008)

Interdisciplinary News of Interest

• Cancer Research — International Team Finds Clues on How Disease Develops (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, Winter 2008)
• Particles Get ‘Invisibility Cloak’ (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, Winter 2008)

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