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2009

November

• Vice President of Research and former MCS Dean Rick McCullough's spin-off takes off (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, November 2009)
• Chemist Marcel Bruchez receives grant to study neuronal navigation system (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, November 2009)
• Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use NMR Methodology To Elucidate Chemical Structure of Natural Compounds (Carnegie Mellon press release, November 2, 2009)

October

• Cornuejols Awarded Dantzig Prize (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, October 2009)
• DOE Grant Launches Carnegie Mellon Initiative To Automate Discovery of Astrophysical Phenomena (Carnegie Mellon press release, October 26, 2009)
• Giving Voice to Vaccine Research: Margaret Johnston (S'72) (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, October 2009)
• A Mars Adventure: Kristine Ferrone (S'04) (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, October 2009)
• Mathematics Professor Peter Andrews Honored at the 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction (Mellon College of Science press release, October 19, 2009)
• Carnegie Mellon Appoints New Co-Director Of Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (Carnegie Mellon press release, October 9, 2009)

• Chemist Marcel Bruchez and Colleagues To Develop Probes To Understand Neuronal Navigation (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, October 12, 2009)

• Art Conservation Research Center seeks to lengthen lifespan of valuable artifacts (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 12, 2009)

• Alison Barth and Colleagues Develop Method To Make Cortical Neuronal Firing More Efficient (Carnegie Mellon press release, October 8, 2009)

September

• Family of Nobel Laureate John A. Pople To Present Nobel Medal To Carnegie Mellon at Inaugural John A. Pople Lectures (Carnegie Mellon press release, September 29, 2009)
• Biologist Gregory Newby Among Three Carnegie Mellon Alumni Named Fulbright Scholars (Carnegie Mellon press release, September 10, 2009)

August

• The Thinkers, physicist Tiziana Di Matteo: Black holes, black energy and the history of the universe (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 31, 2009)

July

• Lights, Camera...Science: Joel Stiles and CMIST create educational science videos using the power of scientific modeling at the PSC (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, July, 2009)
• Guy C. Berry has provided an obituary including Prof. Casassa's many scientific contributions. (MCS news story, July 16, 2009).
• Once a physicist: Bruce McWilliams (Physics World, July 1, 2009)

June

• Edward F. Casassa, professor emeritus, passed away June 19, 2009. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 20, 2009)

• Chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Receives EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (Carnegie Mellon press release, June 22, 2009)

  Presidential Award: Matyjaszewski Honored by EPA (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, June 2009)

  EPA announcement of the Green Chemistry 2009 Academic Award, including link to podcast (Environmental Protection Agency website, June 22, 2009)

• Science Fiction or Fact?: Barry Luokkala's Science and Science Fiction course (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, June 2009)

  Video of Barry Luokkala talking about the Science and Science Fiction course (YouTube, June 18, 2009)

• Combating Infection: Biologist Aaron Mitchell has identified a novel regulatory gene network that plays a role in yeast infections (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, June 2009)

  New Mechanism Fundamental to the Spread of Invasive Yeast Infections Identified (Carnegie Mellon press release, June 17, 2009)

• Cells Are Like Robust Computational Systems, Computational Biologist Bar-Joseph and scientists at the Lane Center for Computational Biology Report (Carnegie Mellon press release, June 16, 2009)
• The Right Stuff: Biological Sciences student Timothy Helbig (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, June 2009)
• The Thinkers: RMU professor Monica VanDieren (and Carnegie Mellon alum) finds beauty in math (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 1, 2009)
• Carnegie Mellon's Bob Murphy Appointed to National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, June 3, 2009)

May

• Natalie Weir Receives the 2009 Judith A. Resnik Award (Mellon College of Science story, May 19, 2009)
• Epilepsy Drug Discovery: Preventing Seizure Progression (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, May 2009)

  Carnegie Mellon Researchers, including biologist Alison Barth, Identify New Drug To Prevent Seizure Progression in Model of Epilepsy (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, May 4, 2009)

• Angels & Demons: A Scientific Explanation by Physicist Manfred Paulini (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, May 2009)

Real science doesn't matter for movie's plot (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 15, 2009)

• MCS Staff Awards, 2009 (Mellon College of Science story, May 7, 2009)
• Peter Berget Receives the Julius Ashkin Award for Excellence in Teaching (Mellon College of Science story, May 5, 2009)
• Mellon College of Science Students Earn Education and Research Awards(Mellon College of Science story, May 5, 2009)

April

• Carnegie Mellon GlueX experiment makes a big step forward with the Department of Energy groundbreaking (Curtis Meyer's website, April 2009)
• Physicist Manfred Paulini will discuss science facts and fiction in "Angels and Demons" (MCS web story, April 2009)
• Carnegie Mellon Student Work Showcased at Undergraduate Research Symposium, May 6 (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, April 30, 2009)
• Physicist Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb to Discuss Mysteries of the Dark Universe at Carnegie Mellon's Buhl Lecture (Carnegie Mellon press release, April 14, 2009)
• Physicist Leonard Kisslinger is the co-awardee of the first Mark Gelfand Service Award for Educational Outreach Award (April 2009)
• Biological sciences and chemistry majors named Goldwater scholars (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, April 2009)
• Biologist Nathan Urban named a Newsmaker in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 2, 2009)

March

• MCS Names Noel Walkington Associate Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs (MCS story, March 2009)

  Teragrid Transforms Research: PSC's Ralph Roskies, Physics's Tiziana Di Matteo and other physicsists discuss supercomputing's role in advancing science (PSC press release, March 30, 2009)

• Black holes shed light on nature of universe (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 21, 2009)
• Physicist Mike Widom Confirms Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Silicon (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, March 16, 2009)
• Renowned Computer Scientist Richard M. Karp To Receive Carnegie Mellon's Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, March 5, 2009)
• Colleagues Celebrate Bothner-By’s Work in NMR Spectroscopy (The Piper, March 2009)

February

• New McWilliams Fellows Named (Mellon College of Science Story, February 26, 2009)
• Leonard Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll (Carnegie Mellon News Blog, February 9, 2009)
• Q & A with Manojkumar Puthenveedu Biological Sciences’ Newest Assistant Professor (Biological Sciences story, February 20, 2009)
• Physicist Tiziana Di Matteo Presents Detailed Cosmological Simulations at AAAS Meeting (Carnegie Mellon Press Release, February 18, 2009)

  Supercomputing means better models of earthquakes, cells and the universe (Medill Reports — Chicago, Northwestern University, February 16, 2009)

• McWilliams Fellow Kevin Bandura Scouts Telescope Location in Moroccan Desert (Fermilab today, February 3, 2009)

January

• Manil Suri (S'80,'84), novelist and professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. (Carnegie Mellon Today, January 2009, Vol. 6 No. 1)
  Manil Suri biography
• Biological Sciences Professor Aaron Mitchell Appointed Section Editor for PLoS Pathogens (Mellon College of Science, January 28, 2009)
• Carnegie Mellon Team a Finalist in the Elsevier Grand Challenge (Carnegie Mellon blogpost, January 2009)
• BIOS³ Mini-Course: Street Smarts on a Global Scale (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, January 2009)
• How to Go Green: Terry Collins Offers Expert Advice (Carnegie Mellon homepage story, January 2009)

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