Personal Mention

Ramayya Krishnan, dean of the Heinz College, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in recognition of his years of public administration service and expertise. Krishnan was recognized for his role in helping to create innovative partnerships across the public, private and university sectors. His experience working on the IT and Services Advisory Board chaired by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and his service on the policy advisory board of the Government Accountability Office  also were honored. In addition to serving as a NAPA fellow, Krishnan serves on the advisory board of the President of Asian Development Bank, and he is an invited member of a Royal Society and National Academies convening on Artificial Intelligence and its consequences. He is the president of INFORMS and an INFORMS Fellow, and he previously served separate terms as president of both the INFORMS Information Systems Society and the INFORMS Computing Society. He is a former member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Data Driven Development. Find out more.

Ph.D. Student Nianyi Chen has received the John Peoples, Jr. Research Fellowship in Physics. The fellowship is named after Carnegie Mellon alumnus John Peoples, Jr., a physicist who directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It provides graduate students in the Department of Physics with a stipend and $1,000 for education-related expenses to allow them to focus on their research. A member of Associate Professor of Physics Hy Trac’s lab, Chen is working to simulate the Epoch of Reionization — the time in the early life of the universe when the first stars and galaxies formed and started to ionize neutral hydrogen. "Our simulation aims at understanding the history of the early universe when direct observations of this epoch are limited," Chen said. Her simulations will show how the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation of the universe is affected by reionization and will provide researchers working on future observational surveys of the CMB with a better idea of how and when reionization happened. 

Daniel Teadt, an assistant professor of voice in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Music and an internationally acclaimed vocal artist, recently gave a TEDx talk in Youngstown, Ohio, focusing on the power of our authentic sound and what our voices may be trying to tell us. In his talk, Teadt explores three key concepts that work to unleash our most authentic selves through the power of the human voice. Teadt works with classical singers and public speakers to find their most authentic sound that allows them to be voice leaders in their field. Watch his TEDx talk.