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2 Q&A WITH DAVID DZOMBAK 3 H. GUYFORD STEVER (1916-2010) Wonders at Work 8 STUDIO FOR CREATIVE INQUIRY FELLOW UNVEILS PITTSBURGH GIGAPANORAMA

11 S TUDY SUGGESTS TWEETS MAY REPLACE POLLS AS PUBLIC BAROMETERS

12 S HERRIE FLICK SHARES POST-IT NOTE FICTION Campaign Nears Two-Thirds Mark

■ Heidi Opdyke

During Spring Carnival, the university announced that “Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University” has raised more than $628 million in commitments and cash toward its $1 billion goal. David Bohan, associate vice president for University Advancement and the executive director of the campaign, said that number couldn’t have been reached without the support of the campus community. “Faculty and staff are critical partners in the campaign’s efforts because their gifts, at any and every level, are an endorsement for Carnegie Mellon and its mission,” Bohan said. “The actions of our university community are viewed as a barometer that PHOTO BY TIM KAULEN we are on the right course. There are many D AVID TOURETZKY (FROM LEFT), A RESEARCH PROFESSOR AT THE ROBOTICS INSTITUTE, JOSH MOORE AND DONTE alumni who stay in touch with the university M ASSIE WATCH RALPH PISTORIUS MANEUVER A CHIARA ROBOT DURING THE ANNUAL TAKE OUR DAUGHTERS AND community who served as advisers, mentors S ONS TO WORK DAY SPONSORED BY STAFF COUNCIL. STAFF COUNCIL MEMBER KENNETH CHU SAID MORE THAN 150 and friends when students were here. CHILDREN AND 60 VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATED IN ACTIVITIES ON APRIL 22. C ONTINUED ON PAGE THREE

C OMMENCEMENT Science Magazine Honors Online Chemistry Labs P REVIEW INSIDE ■ Jocelyn Duffy burgh, set about to change how students with chemistry in a way that refl ects what Carnegie Mellon will hold its 113th David Yaron and his team have developed learn chemistry. They developed The practicing chemists do in the lab. Commencement at 11 a.m., Sunday, a new formula for teaching and learning ChemCollective (www.chemcollective. “Traditional textbook problems were May 16 in Gesling Stadium, where chemistry by taking laboratory activities org), a website that provides chemistry developed by educators when paper and about 3,700 undergraduate and graduate out of the lab and into the Internet. instructors with free access to activi- pencil problem solving was the only degrees will be conferred. For a look at While many students fi nd chemistry ties that go beyond traditional textbook viable option to practice chemical

this year’s keynote speaker Ian Rawson, concepts to be a “disconnected bag of problems, allowing students to engage C ONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT student speaker Leslie McAhren, the tricks” that are diffi cult to relate to real- honorary degree recipients and a com- world experiences, Yaron and his team’s mencement weekend schedule, see the creation helps students connect basic special commencement pullout section chemistry formulas and notations to the inside on pages 5-8. core ideas of science. In 2000, Yaron, an associate profes- sor of chemistry, and his team of software SCS RANKS #1 engineers, undergraduate programmers See page 10. and educational consultants from Carne- gie Mellon and the University of Pitts- O NE Q&A With David Dzombak: Thoughts on Why Water Matters

■ Chriss Swaney China have implications for environ- mental resources. David Dzombak, the Walter J. Blenko Sr. Professor of Civil and Environmental While we are working to reduce our Engineering and faculty director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental individual and collective environmental Education and Research, is helping to plan the World Environment Day Water footprints, the number of feet continue Matters! Conference on June 3 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. to increase. The challenge for us as Dzombak recently was named chair of a new National Research Council (NRC) individuals and as societies is to develop Committee to provide advice to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on water resource new ways of doing things that consume issues. He also serves on the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory energy and resources. Board and on a second NRC committee focused on water quality in the Mississippi River. He sat down to talk with the Piper about why water matters. What are some of the environmental challenges endemic to the Pitts- What can you tell us about World ence and inviting professionals from burgh region, and how are we trying Environment Day? government, industry and academia to to solve some of those issues? The United Nations World Environment Pittsburgh. Speakers at the event include One of the challenges for the Pittsburgh Day is a worldwide day of awareness of James E. Rogers, chairman, president region is fi ne particles generated in global environmental issues, challenges and chief executive offi cer for Duke the combustion of coal. Fine particles and progress. Pittsburgh was chosen as Energy; David Ainsworth of the U.N. penetrate deeply into the lungs and pose the North American site, and there are Convention on Biological Diversity; human health risk. At Carnegie Mellon, PHOTO BY KEN ANDREYO D AVID DZOMBAK six sites around the world. Greg Koch, managing director of the we’re a leading research center on fi ne In Pittsburgh, the celebration will Global Water Stewardship Program for particles in the atmosphere. The United consist of six weeks of events leading The Coca-Cola Co.; Carl Safi na, found- States — through the Environmental So, at Carnegie Mellon we work up to the actual day, which is Saturday, ing president of the Blue Ocean Insti- Protection Agency — has been study- to get all students to think about their June 5. We’ll be culminating the activi- tute; and other thought leaders. ing fi ne particles, their sources and personal ability to infl uence the environ- ties with the Water Matters! Conference We will have three panels in the their health impacts. Carnegie Mellon ment. While they are here, they have the on Thursday, June 3, which will focus conference. The fi rst focuses on water researchers have been developing the opportunity to take classes, and there on water and water issues in North and your health, the second on water and science base for regulations of fi ne are many more non-class opportuni- America. energy — water and energy are inextri- particles. ties to learn about environmental issues cably related to one another — and the Other challenges for western Penn- through clubs such as Sustainable Earth, How is Carnegie Mellon playing a third, on water as an economic driver. sylvania relate to coal production. We the Green Practices effort on campus, part in World Environment Day? There will also be three keynote talks. have a long history of coal mining and extracurricular seminars, Earth Day Carnegie Mellon is playing a key role in coal use. The coal mining has had tre- events and others. organizing the Water Matters! Confer- How has the environmental move- ment grown at the university and the region since you’ve become O NLINE: HEAR MORE FROM THE INTERVIEW involved in civil and environmental AT HTTP://BIT. LY/ PIPER engineering? PIPER Environmental awareness has increased 5/10 Issue tremendously over the past several de- cades. This has been refl ected by growth mendous environmental impact for us. Can you talk about your own P UBLISHER We have scarred land from strip mining, research and how it impacts the Teresa Thomas in environmental education and research environment and public policy? at Carnegie Mellon, and by changes subsidence from deep mining, and acid E DITOR My research is focused on protec- Bruce Gerson in western Pennsylvania. The shrink- mine drainage from voids in the ground left from deep mining and surface min- tion and restoration of water and land M ANAGING EDITOR age of heavy industry in our region has resources. Currently, my research group Heidi Opdyke spawned a variety of new directions. ing. These are very long-term problems. We also have problems with old is engaged in several projects related to W RITERS Among them was a recognition of the Mark Burd Eric Sloss water and energy. We are working on value of our natural resources here wastewater infrastructure in our region. Jocelyn Duffy Byron Spice This results in frequent raw sewage carbon capture and geological seques- Abby Houck Brad Stephenson and of opportunities to use our natural tration (CCS), and in particular on the Heidi Opdyke Chriss Swaney resources in different ways for economic discharges to our rivers. Shilo Raube Teresa Thomas potential for leakage of carbon dioxide development and not just for exploiting The good news is we’re aware of the problems, we’re not complacent gas stored in deep geologic formations. D ESIGNER resources like coal, oil and gas, all of Melissa Stoebe This is the technology under develop- which started here in western Pennsyl- about them, we’re working on them and The Communications Design ment for capture of carbon dioxide and Photography Group vania. There’s been a real transformation we will see steady progress in the com- ing decades. emitted from power plants and other P HOTOGRAPHY in how our natural resources are viewed fossil fuel sources of energy. We are Ken Andreyo in western Pennsylvania. Tim Kaulen What advice can you give students also working to study the use of waters Larry Rippel who want to be involved in trying to of degraded quality for thermoelectric What are some of the greatest To contact The Piper staff, call 412-268- tackle environmental issues? 2900 or email [email protected]. challenges for our environment power plant cooling. About 40 percent Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate and Carnegie There is widespread interest among stu- Mellon University is required not to discriminate in admission, as we move forward? of all water withdrawal in the U.S. is for employment, or administration of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or handicap in dents at Carnegie Mellon and other uni- power plant cooling, and in many parts violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of The greatest challenges for our environ- the Educational Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or other federal, state, or local laws versities in the environmental challenges of the country the amount of available or executive orders. ment as we move forward are ever- In addition, Carnegie Mellon University does not of our time. Some of these students will discriminate in admission, employment or administration of increasing strains on the environment, freshwater for such purposes is very its programs on the basis of religion, creed, ancestry, belief, age, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender identity. choose to pursue careers that engage limited. Carnegie Mellon does not discriminate in violation of federal, starting with increasing population. state, or local laws or executive orders. However, in the judg- ment of the Carnegie Mellon Human Relations Commission, them directly in meeting the challenges. There are several projects at the Presidential Executive Order directing the Department While we work to reduce our of Defense to follow a policy of, “Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t Others won’t pursue careers directly pursue,” excludes openly gay, lesbian and bisexual students environmental footprint, the number of Carnegie Mellon related to the water- from receiving ROTC scholarships or serving in the military. Nevertheless, all ROTC classes at Carnegie Mellon University in environmental protection, but all of are available to all students. people in the world keeps increasing. In energy nexus. We need water to produce Inquiries concerning application of these statements should be directed to the Provost, Carnegie Mellon University, us, through our daily lives will have an energy, we need energy to produce 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, telephone 412- the United States, we’re at 306 million 268-6684 or the Vice President for Campus Affairs, Carnegie environmental impact. Every activity Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, people and by mid-century, we’ll be at water. We treat water for drinking telephone 412-268-2057. Carnegie Mellon University publishes an annual campus humans undertake has an environmental security report describing the university’s security, alcohol and more than 400 million. purposes and industrial uses, and that drug, and sexual assault policies and containing statistics about the number and type of crimes committed on the impact. It is widespread awareness and requires energy. We pump it around campus during the preceding three years. You can obtain a In sub-Saharan Africa, with dra- copy by contacting the Carnegie Mellon Police Department at 412-268-2323. The security report is available through the commitment to different ways of doing in distribution systems for domestic World Wide Web at www.cmu.edu/police/. matic population growth, there are big Obtain general information about Carnegie Mellon University things in our personal spheres, which by calling 412-268-2000. crunches coming because of severely and agricultural water supply, which Produced for Media Relations by the Communications Design Group, May 2010, 10-475. limited fresh water resources. The results in environmental protection and requires energy. energy usage rate increasing in India and advancements. C ONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR T WO H. Guyford Stever 1916-2010 FORMER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT LEAVES LEGACY IN EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

H. Guyford Stever, the visionary Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, Academy of Sciences and the National president who helped to create Carnegie the Carnegie Institute of Technology Academy of Engineering. Mellon University and many of its col- (engineering) and the School of Urban In 2008, the nation’s fi rst green leges and schools, died on Friday, April and Public Affairs (now the Heinz Col- dormitory at Carnegie Mellon was 9 surrounded by family and friends. The lege) took their place beside the College named after him. Members of Stever’s university’s fi fth president (1965-1972), of Fine Arts and the fl ourishing Gradu- family visited the university during Stever was at the forefront of setting ate School of Industrial Administration commencement and the dedication. scientifi c policies for the U.S., an adviser (now the Tepper School of Business). Stever had a distinguished career to two U.S. presidents and the architect Carnegie Mellon also made dramatic that spanned many fi elds of science and of today’s university. advances in computing. These advance- administration. Over the years, he ex- “H. Guyford Stever was a prominent ments led the way for today’s School of erted lasting infl uence on countless sci- scientist, an important national leader Computer Science, the Robotics Insti- entifi c endeavors. He was instrumental in in science policy, and the creator of an tute, the Software Engineering Institute the formation of new institutions, from enduring legacy here at Carnegie and the nation’s fi rst university-wide the creation of NASA in the post-Sputnik

Mellon. The period of tremendous computing network, known as Andrew. years, to creation of the internationally OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES PHOTO COURTESY H. GUYFORD STEVER growth and progress that he started In November 1971, U.S. President known Carnegie Mellon University. As continues today. We are all part of his Richard M. Nixon nominated Stever to Presidential Science Adviser to Presi- Technology, also called the “Stever legacy,” said President Jared L. Cohon become director of the National Science dents Nixon and Ford, Stever helped to Committee,” was among the best known. in an email to the university community. Foundation (NSF), and he resigned in shape the scientifi c agenda for the nation. This special steering committee was In 1967, Stever announced the February 1972 to accept the NSF post. He also chaired the oversight committee formed with a mandate to coordinate the formation of Carnegie Mellon Univer- His career was marked by many that redesigned the space shuttle boosters efforts of various branches of the federal sity as a result of a merger between the academic honors. He won the National after the Challenger explosion. government, private companies and U.S. Carnegie Institute of Technology and Medal of Science in 1991 and the Van- During his career, Stever was chair- universities in order to develop a space the Mellon Institute of Research, leading nevar Bush Award in 1997, which are man or member of numerous advisory program. Carnegie Mellon to a period of tremen- among the nation’s highest honors for committees to the U.S. government. The Stever detailed the events of his life dous growth. During his administration, scientifi c work in public service. Stever National Advisory Committee for Aero- in a memoir, “In War and Peace: My Life the College of Humanities and Social also was a member of the National nautics’ Special Committee on Space in Science and Technology.”

Campaign Progress $400 E VENT INSPIRES D.C. ALUMNI by Funding Initiatives

MILLIONS $350 Progress Against Goals $300 as of March 31, 2010

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Campaign Nears Two-Thirds Mark PHOTOS BY ROBB HILL

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“Every dollar gets us closer to for The Order of the May (formerly discovering or creating something new; known as the Al May Society). Those to solving the next real-world problem; who attended were recognized for their and to providing knowledge that enables consecutive and loyal fi nancial support students to succeed and innovate in the of the university. Special recognition was world,” he said. given to people who have given 25 years One of the other key campaign goals or more consecutively, as those individuals is to enhance and encourage alumni were formally inducted into the Order. engagement. During March and April the Based on fi scal year 2009, more than campaign hosted record-attendance at 11,000 individuals are consecutive givers, events in Bangalore, Mumbai and New and of those more than 500 donors have D.C.-based alumni Phil Bronner (SCS’92) (above, from left), and Delhi, Singapore and Washington, D.C. given for 25 years or more. Eric Giler (TPR’77) participated in a panel discussion for an As part of these events, panel Faculty and staff interested in Inspire Innovation event in Washington, D.C. The theme of the discussions were held that featured supporting the university fi nancially or event, innovation and its game-changing impact on business, faculty and alumni. The panels covered who may have questions regarding their topics that were of relevant interest to giving are encouraged to contact Carole technology and society, allowed Bronner, a partner at Novak alumni and to the university — such Panno ([email protected]) or Biddle Venture Partners, and Giler, president and CEO of as innovation, smart urban growth, Michael Haas ([email protected]). WiTricity Corp, to share insights with audience members and sustainability and the environment. Additional information is also available fellow panelists Priya Narasimham, Pradeep Khosla and Ray During Spring Carnival, faculty at www.cmu.edu/campaign/involved/ Lane, chairman of the university. More than 400 alumni attended and staff donors with two or more years faculty.html, and payroll deduction forms including Alisha Bhagat (HSS’05) (inset). of consecutive giving were invited to are available at www.cmu.edu/campaign/ participate in a debut recognition event ways/fy-09_payrollrom.pdf. T HREE STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Fellow Unveils a Pittsburgh GigaPanorama

■ Eric Sloss

One of the largest digital photographs from high atop the U.S. Steel Tower,” during the January competition, was the competition. To view the Gigapan ever created, a panoramic, 360-degree said Bear, who is leading the High Point also featured during the event, as were of Pittsburgh visit www.gigapan.org/ image of southwestern Pennsylvania Park Investigation, a project connecting 32 architectural design sketches and fi ve gigapans/47373/. taken from the rooftop of the U.S. Steel the expertise and insights of many archi- business case studies produced during Tower, was unveiled by STUDIO for tects, engineers, planners and design- Creative Inquiry Fellow David Bear dur- ers in an effort to transform an urban ing a ceremony on Earth Day, April 22, rooftop into a public green space. in the College of Fine Arts. “Though the true experience will Taken with a GigaPan camera, the be witnessing this panoramic view live, image was assembled from more than this one-of-a-kind photographic image 4,000 individual pictures taken on the will forever showcase one of the world’s morning of Oct. 19, 2009. The digital most spectacular city landscapes,” photograph contains 3.13 gigabytes Bear said. (10.5 gigapixels) of information created At the event, the STUDIO ac- by the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mel- knowledged the participants and lon and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing products of the recent High Point Park Center. Design Sketch/Case Competition, which The cropped image presented by involved 350 Carnegie Mellon students Bear at the ceremony was 4 feet high and faculty members imagining the

by 23 feet long. In its entirety the image creation of a sustainable public park on PHOTO BY TIM KAULEN

would be 50 feet high by 285 feet long top of the U.S. Steel Tower, a one-acre P AUL HECKBERT (FROM LEFT) OF THE CREATE LAB, ART WETZEL OF THE

— too big for even the Great Hall to expanse that is the largest space atop P ITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER, DAVID BEAR OF THE STUDIO FOR

accommodate. any building that size on Earth. C REATIVE INQUIRY AND RUTH KARLIN OF THE HIGHPOINT PARK INVESTIGATION

“This GigaPanorama lets viewers “The Roof of the World,” an GATHER IN FRONT OF THE CROPPED GIGAP AN IMAGE TAKEN FROM THE TOP OF

understand the magnifi cence of the view independent documentary video shot THE U.S. STEEL TOWER.

Cuban Connection Q&A With David Dzombak CFA DEAN VISITS ARTISTS IN HAVANA C ONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO

■ Eric Sloss met with musicians, artists and Havana’s What outcomes would you like to see from World Environment Day? The conference organizing committee, which involves faculty and staff from Hilary Robinson, the Stanley and Marcia vice minister for culture. They also visited the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University along with Carnegie Gumberg Dean of the College of Fine artists’ studios and took time to experience Mellon, as well as representatives of several foundations, Bayer Corporation Arts, recently traveled to Cuba with a the sights and sounds of Havana. and a number of environmental nonprofi ts — with Sustainable Pittsburgh in group of six representatives from Pitts- The group visited the Institute Su- the lead — have several primary goals for the conference. Water Matters! will burgh’s Mattress Factory to attend the perior de Arte, Cuba’s art academy, and feature thought leaders, relevant to our region and nationally, who are at the opening reception for a new exhibition attended the opening reception for “Que- cutting edge of sustainable water solutions. We want attendees to come away called “Queloides/Keloides.” loides.” The Institute Superior de Arte is with increased knowledge of needs, challenges, opportunities and new ideas, The exhibit, which contributes to cur- located in the Havana neighborhood of which can be brought to bear in their communities, homes and companies. We rent debates about the persistence of rac- Vedado and on the site of a pre-revolution also want the event to support initiatives throughout our region for advancing ism in contemporary Cuba and elsewhere country club. water stewardship, water technology innovation and water opportunities for in the world, runs at Havana’s Centro The Centro Wifredo Lam, where the recreation and economic development. Wifredo Lam through May 31. After- “Queloides” exhibition is located, was just We hope that the conference will inspire more people to work on and ward, several Havana artists will travel a few blocks from the group’s hotel on the improve our water infrastructure and steward our water resources as well as to Pittsburgh to work in residence at the Plaza de la Cathedral. Juan Roberto Diago, contribute to a more widespread awareness of the importance of our water Mattress Factory. An exhibition will open one of the artists in the “Queloides” resources. in Pittsburgh this fall. exhibition, and Jorge Antonio Fernandez Something else that we’re doing in conjunction with the conference is that During the week in Cuba, Robinson, Torres, the director of the Centro Wifredo we’ve just begun a study to examine potential for our region to be a center for who serves as a board member for the Lam, served as tour guides. The center water technology innovation. Over the next year this effort will engage univer- Mattress Factory, and the rest of the group has three fl oors of gallery space around an open-air courtyard and sculpture garden. sities, companies, non-profi ts and individuals in our region to identify unique opportunities to build upon existing activities and strengths to pursue collec- tively new opportunities in the water technology domain. Carnegie Mellon is leading the effort through the Steinbrenner Institute and the Center for Water piper Quality and Urban Environmental Systems. Professor Jeanne Van Briesen and I are joining with colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne Uni- versity and some non-profi ts to take stock of the activities going on in water Congratulations to Norma Cloherty and Mary Ann Schmidt for knowing that technology and stewardship innovation. We’re calling this the water innova- students living on campus are counted as part of Allegheny County’s offi cial tion consortium, and we’re hoping the conference will help us engage people census population, regardless of where their parents live. in thinking about how we can build on the activities and innovations to grow Pittsburgh’s activity and success in the international water market. Go online to the Piper+ at http://bit.ly/CMUpiper for this month’s question.

Previous winners are ineligible. Winners will receive a prize from the Is there anything else you’d like to add? Carnegie Mellon Bookstore. We’re very excited about the United Nations World Environment Day coming to Pittsburgh and having the opportunity to conduct a major national confer- Connect with Internal Communications ence focused on water, an asset so important to the history and economic development of our region, and to our future history and economic develop- http://bit.ly/CMUnewsFacebook ment. We are working hard to encourage our Carnegie Mellon community to come out to the conference as well as the broader community in the Pittsburgh http://www.twitter.com/CMUnew region.

F OUR COMMENCEMENT10 Humanitarian Ian Rawson To Give Commencement Address, May 16 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS ARE BELL, DENNARD, LUDEROWSKI, SIMONS

■ Teresa Thomas Rawson earned his master’s degree Chester Gordon Bell Ian G. Rawson, managing director of in political science from the American Doctor of Science and Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) in University of Beirut, his Ph.D. in medi- Technology Deschapelles, Haiti, will be the keynote cal anthropology from the University Bell, the father of the minicomputer and speaker for Carnegie Mellon’s 113th of Pittsburgh, and attended Harvard a world-renowned pioneer in high-per- commencement ceremony at 11 a.m., University’s School of Public Health formance and parallel computing, is a Sunday, May 16 in Gesling Stadium, executive program in health planning and principal researcher at Microsoft’s Sili- where more than 3,700 undergraduate administration. He was president of the con Valley Laboratory, and for the last and graduate degrees will be conferred. Hospital Council of Western Pennsylva- decade has been researching digitally “We are fortunate to have an nia, president of AmeriNet Central and a storing a person’s life. He is revered as outstanding class of honorary degree senior manager with Allegheny General part of the startup faculty of Carnegie recipients and a keynote speaker who Hospital. He served various Pittsburgh Mellon’s Computer Science Depart- have had a profound global impact in cultural and health organizations’ boards ment, where he was a professor of their chosen fi elds,” said Carnegie and advised public health programs in computer science and engineering from Mellon President Jared L. Cohon. “We I AN RAWSON Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and 1966 to 1972, and co-authored with Al- are especially pleased to welcome as our acquainted with Albert Schweitzer, the the Dominican Republic. len Newell the classic book “Computer keynote speaker Ian Rawson, who has great musician, theologian and physician Rawson is a longtime Pittsburgh Structures.” He subsequently collabo- led Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti who founded a hospital in central Africa. resident and member of the Carnegie rated on the design of C.mmp and Cm*, for many years. He has worked tirelessly They were so inspired by his example Mellon community. He has served the pioneering computers of the Computer and literally non-stop since the devasta- that they established HAS in Haiti’s Ar- university as an adjunct professor in the Science Department. Bell came to tion of the January earthquake to treat tibonite Valley in 1956, and devoted the Heinz College; an advisory board mem- Carnegie Mellon from the Digital the injured and to care for thousands of rest of their lives to collaborating with ber of TechBridgeWorld, a CMU team of Equipment Corporation, where he was refugees. His is a story of leadership and the people of the region to improve their faculty, staff and students that creates and manager of computer design and the selfl ess dedication that will inspire and quality of life. Rawson served as HAS implements technology solutions for de- architect of the fi rst minicomputers and motivate us to respond to the challenges board chair before becoming managing veloping communities around the world; time-sharing computers. In 1986, Bell facing the world.” director. His wife, Lucy, is president of and a collaborator on a variety of projects was asked to establish a computing di- When Rawson was 10, his stepfa- the Board of Friends of HAS, which to advance social equity. rectorate for the National Science Foun- ther and mother, Dr. W. Larimer Mellon raises funds and awareness through the Rawson will share the commence- dation and to lead cross-agency planning Jr. and Gwen Grant Mellon, became sale of Haitian art. ment stage with four honorary degree recipients. They are: C ONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN Al-Jaber Delivers Carnegie Mellon Qatar Keynote

■ Noha Al Afifi Hessa Sultan Al-Jaber, the secretary and encouragement.” Passionate about ensuring that the general of the Supreme Council of Carnegie Mellon Qatar’s Class of benefi ts of technology reach all sectors, Information and Communication Tech- 2010 comprises students receiving de- Al-Jaber has led numerous initia- nology, (ictQATAR) gave the keynote grees in computer science, information tives to make Qatar a more inclusive address at Carnegie Mellon Qatar’s technology and business administra- society through ICT. She has led the graduation on May 3. tion. modernization of Qatar’s government “I count Dr. Hessa as a very good In her years of leadership at through ICT by streamlining process, friend,” says Charles E. Thorpe, dean ictQATAR, Al-Jaber has led Qatar’s making government more transparent of Carnegie Mellon Qatar. “And she information, communication and and accessible, and launching an online is, of course, a friend to the university: technology (ICT) strategy across sec- portal to the government. Al-Jaber also she was on our Joint Advisory Board tors, spearheading major initiatives in has been instrumental in the creation of for years, she is working to build up the government, education and business. Mada, an assistive technology center ICT industry, and she sponsors many She has overseen the liberalization of that serves persons with disabilities in interesting and valuable initiatives. In Qatar’s telecommunications market and Qatar, as well as the development of the

COURTESY OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY IN QATAR COURTESY addition, she is a personal friend, to directed the modernization of Qatar’s Center for Arab Women in Technology. H ESSA SULTAN AL -JABER whom I have always looked for advice ICT infrastructure. F IVE S IX in several polymath —someonewhoisanexpert McAhren’s speech,whichisbased on herthesis,focusesthethemeof in theworld.” themes frommythesisandputthemout “This wasanopportunitytopullsome “Asanartist,you’reconstantly looking foranaudience,”McAhrensaid. and Lifelong Ascent.” speaker. Herspeechistitled“You, Me Commencement asthisyear’s student She’llhaveachancetoexperience an extraordinarycreativechallengeat ordinary. and celebratestheextraordinaryin McAhren enjoyscreativechallenges Master ofFine Arts studentLeslie ■ culture. on CarnegieMellon’s interdisciplinary In manyways,itisapersonalre beyond theworkplacefortheirtalents. multiple careerpathsandpursueoutlets motivate fellowgraduatestoimagine Entrepreneurial ArtistTo DeliverStudentCommencementSpeech AbbyHouck C/W’s awards, widespreadcriticalpraiseandglobalboxof C/W Productionsproducedawiderangeofpicturesthatearnednumerous (C/W) withherformerCAA client Tom Cruise.Forthenext13years, directors andwriters.In1993,shelaunchedCruise/Wagner Productions Wagner beganhercareeratCreative Artists Agency (CAA),whereshe spent 15yearsrepresentingsomeofHollywood’s toptalentincludingactors, theater andnewmediaprojects. production companythatiscurrentlydevelopingmotionpicture,television, and skillfultalentagent.SheisfounderofChestnutRidgeProductions,a ■ at Tepper DiplomaCeremony Hollywood Producer To Speak civil liberty issues. civil libertyissues. Award forchampioningnumerous COO ofMorgan CreekProductions,wereawardedthe ACLU BillofRights Wagner hasreceivednumerousawardsforhercontributionstovarying fi of theUCLA Schoolof Theater, Film and Television. tion throughtheLibraryofCongress.SheisalsoonExecutive Committee of DirectorsandsitsontheboardNationalFilmPreservation Founda- Wagner wasco-ownerandCEOofUnited Artists Entertainment,LLC from 2006to2008.Sheisamemberofthe American Cinematheque’s Board Spielberg’s “War Of The Worlds,” forwhichshewastheexecutiveproducer. blockbusters “Mission:ImpossibleII,”III”andSteven town,” “TheLastSamurai”and“Ask The Dust,”aswelltheinternational Limits,” “ShatteredGlass,”“Narc,”“TheOthers,”“Vanilla Sky,” “Elizabeth- ers. Wagner wentontoproducesuch criticallyacclaimed brought thecompany1997Nova Award forMostPromisingProduc- lm societies. In 2007, she and her husband Rick Nicita, co-chairman and lm societies. In2007,sheandherhusbandRickNicita,co-chairman MarkBurd fi COMMENCEMENelds ofstudy. Shewantsto T fi rst fi lm, “Mission: Impossible,” was an international hit that lm, “Mission:Impossible,”wasaninternationalhitthat fl ection ection earning accolades as a successful producer earning accoladesasasuccessfulproducer executive intheentertainmentindustry, Board of Trustees, Wagner isaleading of Dramaandamembertheuniversity’s A graduateofCarnegieMellon’s School Memorial Hall. May 15intheSoldiersandSailors The eventwillbeat2p.m.onSaturday, emony forthe Tepper SchoolofBusiness. keynote speakerduringthediplomacer- and topstudioexecutive,willserveasthe Paula Wagner (A’69), producer, talentagent fi lm projects that highlight civil rights and lm projects thathighlightcivilrightsand plans are“proprietaryinformation.” now, allshewillsayisherbusiness curriculum andtheartofsuspense.Right yet. She’s masteredtheSchoolof Art’s don’t askMcAhrentorevealanydetails she developedatCarnegieMellon.But tion istogrowoneofthebusinesses Her said. a ‘lemonadestand’ proprietor,” McAhren neurial spirittomakememorethanjust “Allofthesebusinessprofessors have pushedmyideasandentrepre- Mark FichmanandJeffrey R. Williams. wright, ChrisCykar, FrankDemmler, Business coursestaughtbyPeterBoat- took advantageofsix Tepper Schoolof business venturesduringthistimeand trepreneurship. She’s started McAhrenhasspentthepastthree years pursuinginterestsinartanden- full extentoftheirskills,”McAhrensaid. total realestateintheirbrainsandthe “Ihopemytalkwillbeanopportu- nity forpeopletothinkaboutusingthe fi rst goalfollowinggradua- fi ce success. fi lms as“Without fi ve small fi lm lm

COURTESY OF JON D. WILLIAMS ■ Speak from Experience Heinz CollegePresenters the Of Rodef ShalomSynagoguewillbeJuliusE.Coles,director of Thekeynote speakerforthePublicPolicyandManage- ment diplomaceremonyat2p.m.onSunday, May16at Heinz Collegein1987. Williams receivedabachelor’s degreeinartsmanagementfromOttawa University in1985andamaster’s degreeinpublicpolicyandmanagementfrom any globalgeography. design, developmentandimplementationengagementsforclientsofDeloittein focuses onengagementleadershipformulti-yearlarge-scale custom application Williams’ consultingcareerwithDeloittehasfocusedonlarge technology/ application integrationengagementsforsomeofDeloitte’s largest clients.He Williams previouslyservedasnationalmanagingdirectorofservicesfor Deloitte U.S.,andhealsoledDeloitte’s enterpriseapplicationspractice. India PrivateLimited(DCIPL),Deloitte’s India-basedglobaldeliverycenter. Directors, andhealsoservesasthechairmanofboardforDeloitteConsulting director ofMorehouseCollege’s Andrew Young Centerfor Priortohis positionwithMorehouse,Coleswas president of Africare from2002to2009.Heserved asthe for International Affairs atGeorgia’s Morehouse College. C J a smallbusinessinforeigncountry. Shenotedtheexperiencetaught her aboutthechallengesofsettingup 4x6 portraitpackage. pesos (aboutthreedollars)fora5x8and to otherstreetvendors. They charged 30 they setupshopinthetownsquarenext apartment thatdoubledasabackdrop, camera andanorangecurtainfromtheir Mexico. Armed withacardboardsign, a mobileportraitstudioinOaxaca, Inthesummerof2007,McAhren and herfriend,Rachel Walsh, opened day.” Remind yourselfevery begins withdailyrenewal. slogan: “Lifelongascent make apurchasewiththe prospective customersto didyousee.it/ encourages and herwebsitewww. Gouger MillerGallery, Exhibition attheRegina cape PGH”MFA Thesis on displayatthe“Es- You Want.” were They statement “AskFor What are imprintedwiththe The toothbrushhandles Linda Babcockproud. College facultymember that wouldmakeHeinz is selling$5toothbrushes McAhren currently ON BradStephenson ONTINUED D.W fi ce ofGlobal Educationandthe Andrew Young Center ILLIAMS

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requested by used concept of metal-oxide semicon- the United to improve math education in the Congress for ductor (MOS) transistor scaling, show- States to nation’s public high schools. Simons’ a network to ing how to design devices and build create more scientifi c research was in the area of connect all highly integrated circuits of micron than 350 new geometry and topology, and included the federal and uni- size. In the 1980s, he led a group that site-specifi c discovery and application of geometric versity research showed how to design devices of sub- installations, measurements called the Chern-Simons computers, micron dimensions, leading to today’s which have invariants, which have wide use, particu- which became gigabit memory chips and powerful attracted tens larly in theoretical physics. He earned

the Internet. microprocessors. At IBM’s Thomas J. MARK PERROTT COURTESY of thousands his bachelor’s degree from MIT and G ORDON BELL Bell earned Watson Research Center, Dennard B ARBARA LUDEROWSKI of visitors doctoral degree from the University of his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in continues to investigate the limits of annually. She has been honored as a California at Berkeley, both in math- electrical engineering from the Massa- scaling and the future evolution of Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylva- ematics. In 1975, the American Math- chusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). microelectronics. He has received 52 nia, has been named among Pittsburgh’s ematical Society honored Simons with U.S. patents and published more than Top 50 Cultural Power Brokers10 and has the Veblen Prize in Geometry. With his Robert H. Dennard (E’58) 100 technical papers to date. Dennard received the Harry Schwalb Excel- wife, Marilyn, Doctor of Science and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees lence in the Arts Award for visual arts. he manages Technology in electrical engineering from Southern Luderowski studied at the Art Students the Simons Dennard, who earned his Ph.D. in elec- Methodist University. League of New York, the Cranbrook Foundation, trical engineering from Carnegie Mellon Academy of Art in Michigan and which is pri- in 1958, is renowned as the inventor in Barbara Luderowski Carnegie Mellon. Her sculpture has been marily devoted 1967 of the Doctor of Fine Arts shown throughout the United States. to the support one-transistor Luderowski has been an important force of scientifi c dynamic James H. Simons in the transformation of post-industrial research. The random ac- J AMES H. SIMONS Pittsburgh by making immense con- Doctor of Business Simons have cess memory Practice tributions to the arts community in the also founded a countrywide health care (DRAM) cell region as well as to the redevelopment Most of Simons’ professional accom- training program in Nepal. for IBM — the of the city’s North Side neighborhood. plishments and many of his philan- global standard Beginning with her purchase of a vacant thropic initiatives revolve around for low-cost mattress warehouse in the Mexican War mathematics. He is chairman of the McAhren Speaks R OBERT H. DENNARD digital memory Streets area in 1975, Luderowski has board of Renaissance Technologies, C ONTINUED FROM PAGE SIX used universally in computers and other created today’s multi-building Mattress the exclusively quantitative, highly data processing and communication Factory, a highly regarded museum of successful investment fi rm he founded Slavick’s graduate assistant. systems today. Dennard also is a pioneer contemporary installation art with a in 1982, and served as CEO until 2009. “We call Leslie ‘the golden girl,’” in scaling principles of microelectronics, world-renowned artists residency pro- He is also chairman and founder of the Slavick said. “Maybe it’s her irrepressible which provide rules for making circuits gram. Since 1982, she and co-director nonprofi t Math for America, which he, curly blond hair, her sunny disposition or smaller in every dimension. In 1972, he Michael Olijnyk have brought artists together with a group of others in the her Midas touch. She is unapologetic in and co-workers developed the widely from all over the world and throughout fi nancial industry, established in 2004 considering our relations as transactions that can and should be mutually benefi - cial. She creates opportunities for herself Schedule of Events and for others, striving for excellence and currency, both literally and fi guratively.” Commencement weekend at Carnegie Mellon involves much more than the ceremony itself. Below is a list of events that will McAhren also will remember School keep campus humming May 15-16. of Art faculty member Jim Duesing for Saturday, May 15 To attend, RSVP by May 11 to 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. his teaching style and sense of humor. [email protected] Commencement Welcome Area open 8 a.m. - 3 p.m., 6 - 8:30 p.m. or 1-866-401-9529. Wean Commons, UC “He insists upon meeting every week, Commencement Welcome Area open like clockwork,” McAhren said. “You Wean Commons, UC 5 - 8 p.m. First Aid Area open meet with him in awful weeks and in Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource Athletic Equipment Desk, UC First Aid Area open Center (CMARC) Reception wonderful weeks. He consistently pushes Athletic Equipment Desk, UC Singleton Room, Roberts Engineering Hall 8:30 - 10 a.m. you to think harder and do more.” School of Computer Science 8 - 9 a.m. Interaction with faculty like Slavick 8 p.m. Breakfast Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Doctor’s Hooding Ceremony Gates & Hillman centers and Duesing is just one reason McAhren Initiation Cere mo ny Wiegand Gym, UC This is a breakfast for School of Com- McConomy Auditorium, UC chose to move from Albuquerque, N.M., Doctor’s candidates will be recognized and puter Science graduates and their families. Sponsor will send information directly to attend the School of Art. hooded individually on stage. Caps and Reservations are required. Please contact to inductees. gowns are required. A reception for can- Catherine Copetas at [email protected] McAhren said the small size of Caps and gowns are required. A light break- didates, ceremony participants and their or 412-268-8525. fast will be available prior to the ceremony. the MFA program, which currently has families and friends will immediately follow 18 students, meant faculty outnumber the ceremony in Rangos Hall and Schatz 10 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Dining Room, UC. Robing for Faculty, Degree students nearly two-to-one. One of her fa- Naval Science (Navy) No tickets are necessary. Candidates and Members of ROTC Commissioning Ceremony vorite memories is the School of Art’s fall NOTE: Doctor’s candidates and program the Platform Group Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall Gateway Clipper cruise, which provides partic i pants should gather for robing and pro- Various locations (off campus) cession line-up at 7 p.m. in Rangos Hall, UC. students and faculty an opportunity to get 4141 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 10:15 - 11 a.m. to know one another. Procession of Graduates 10 - 11 a.m. “You’re outside of the classroom, Sunday, May 16 Various locations across campus. Honors Ceremonies 7:30 - 10 a.m. and you’re having a casual meal. You’re Various locations across campus. Diploma Ceremonies and Department 11 a.m. sailing into the sunset. There’s nothing Events COMMENCEMENT Noon - 8:30 p.m. better,” McAhren said. Specifi c times and locations are listed on Gesling Stadium Diploma Ceremonies and page 8. Although McAhren will leave the Department Events 12:30 - 5 p.m. Specifi c times and locations are listed on School of Art this month, she plans to 7:45 - 8:30 a.m. Diploma Ceremonies and page 8. Baccalaureate Celebration Department Events be actively involved as an alumna. Wright-Rogal Chapel, UC Specifi c times and locations are listed on “It has the No. 1 multimedia program 5 - 7 p.m. The Carnegie Mellon Interfaith Council will page 8. Pre-Commencement Jazz Reception in art in the United States,” she said. lead an interfaith baccalaureate ceremony. All graduating seniors and their families are Attendance is optional. No tickets are neces- UC = University Center “It’s the fi nest there is.” invited. sary. Caps and gowns are not required. Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts S EVEN Diploma Ceremonies Magazine Honors Graduating students receive their diplomas at department or college ceremonies held throughout commencement weekend.

ComplimentaryT shuttle service will be provided on Sunday afternoon to diploma ceremonies taking place off campus. Online Labs Written directions to off-campus sites also will be available in the Commencement Welcome Area. Unless otherwise indicated, C ONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE the reception will follow the ceremony. manipulations, beyond limited time in a physical laboratory,” Yaron said. Bachelor of Humanities & Arts/ School of Design H. John Heinz III College “Ready access to computers gives us the Bachelor of Science & Arts/ Ceremony & Reception: 3 p.m., School of Information Systems opportunity to fundamentally redesign Bachelor of Computer Science & Arts Saturday, May 15 & Management Ceremony: 8:30 a.m., Sunday, May 16 Rangos Hall, UC the activities that students are asked to Ceremony: 2 p.m., Saturday, May 15 Kresge Theater, College of Fine Arts School of Drama Philip Chosky Theater, Purnell Center do in high school and college chemistry Reception: 9:30 a.m. Ceremony: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Reception: following ceremony courses.” Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts Philip Chosky Theater, Purnell Center Lobby, Purnell Center The site, which has evolved and Reception: following ceremony Carnegie Institute School of Public Policy & Lobby, Purnell Center grown over the past decade, has been of Technology Management named a recipient of the prestigious School of Music Biomedical Engineering Ceremony: 2 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Ceremony: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Reception: following ceremony Science Prize for Online Resources in Ceremony: Noon Kresge Theater, College of Fine Arts Rodef Shalom Synagogue (off campus) Education (SPORE). The award, spon- McConomy Auditorium, UC Reception: following ceremony Reception: 1 p.m., Saturday, May 15 4905 Fifth Ave. sored by Science magazine, recognizes Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts Connan Room, UC Interdisciplinary Programs outstanding freely available online Chemical Engineering College of Humanities Entertainment Technology Center materials that enrich science education. Ceremony: 1 p.m., Sunday, May 16 & Social Sciences Reception: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 The developers, which include Carnegie Carnegie Lecture Hall, Carnegie Museum Economics/Business Administration Ceremony: following reception Mellon’s Yaron, Michael Karabinos and (off campus) (Bachelor’s ) East End Lounge, Heinz Field (off campus) Reception: following ceremony alumnus Donovan Lange, and the Uni- Reception: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 100 Art Rooney Ave. Hall of Architecture, Carnegie Museum Ceremony: 2 p.m. NOTE: Shuttle service not provided. versity of Pittsburgh’s James G. Greeno 4400 Forbes Ave. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Gaea Leinhardt, were recognized in Mellon College of Science Civil & Environmental Engineering (off campus) the April 30 issue of Science. 4141 Fifth Ave. Reception: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Biological Sciences “Students can learn how to do the Ceremony: 2 p.m. English Ceremony: 2 p.m., Saturday, May 15 Rooms 120 & 121, David Lawrence Hall Ceremony: 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 15 Auditorium, Mellon Institute (off campus) University of Pittsburgh (off campus) Reception: following ceremony McConomy Auditorium, UC O NLINE: WATCH DAVID YARON 3942 Forbes Ave. Reception: following ceremony Social & Conference Rooms, Mellon Institute 4400 Fifth Ave. DISCUSS THE CHEMC OLLECTIVE Electrical & Computer Engineering Schatz Dining Room, UC Chemistry Ceremony: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 History PROGRAM AT Reception: following ceremony Reception: 8 a.m., Sunday, May 16 Ceremony: 2 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Wiegand Gymnasium, UC Lower Level Coffee Lounge, Baker Hall Auditorium, Mellon Institute (off campus) HTTP://BIT. LY/CMUPIPER. Ceremony: 9 a.m. Reception: following ceremony Engineering & Public Policy/ Social & Conference Rooms, Mellon Institute Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall standard written exercises that appear in Engineering & Technology 4400 Fifth Ave. Innovation Management Information Systems textbooks without really developing an Mathematical Sciences Ceremony and Reception: 8 a.m., Ceremony: 6 p.m., Saturday, May 15 Ceremony: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 understanding of chemistry,” Yaron said. Sunday, May 16 Philip Chosky Theater, Purnell Center Room 2315, Doherty Hall “Our goal is to give students the oppor- Reception: 7:30 p.m. Rangos 2 and 3, UC Reception: following ceremony Lobby, Purnell Center tunity to approach chemistry more like Perlis Atrium, Newell-Simon Hall Information Networking Institute actual scientists, by designing and car- Modern Languages Ceremony: 5 p.m., Saturday, May 15 Physics Ceremony: 8:30 a.m., Sunday, May 16 rying out their own virtual experiments Reception: 6 p.m. Ceremony: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Rangos 1, UC St. Nicholas Cathedral (off campus) Reception: following ceremony and by applying chemistry concepts in Reception: following ceremony 419 S. Dithridge St. Room 7500, Wean Hall real-world contexts.” Skibo Coffeehouse, UC Materials Science & Engineering The site has two main types of Philosophy School of Computer Science Ceremony: 1 p.m., Sunday, May 16 activities: virtual labs and scenario-based Reception: following ceremony Reception: 8:30 a.m., Sunday, May 16 Ceremony: 1 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Winchester Thurston School Auditorium Ceremony: 9 a.m. Reception: following ceremony learning activities. The virtual labs use (off campus) Adamson Wing (136A), Baker Hall Carnegie Music Hall, Carnegie Museum a web-based laboratory simulation in 555 Morewood Ave. Psychology (off campus) which students can select from hundreds 4400 Forbes Ave. Mechanical Engineering Ceremony and Reception: 12:30 p.m., of chemical reagents and manipulate Sunday, May 16 Ceremony and Reception: 2 p.m., Tepper School of Business them much like they would in an actual Saturday, May 15 Rangos Hall, UC Business Administration laboratory. The scenario-based activi- Wiegand Gymnasium, UC Social & Decision Sciences (Master’s & Doctor’s) Reception: 7:30 a.m., Sunday, May 16 ties give students the opportunity to College of Fine Arts Schatz Dining Room, UC Ceremony: 2 p.m., Saturday, May 15 apply chemical concepts to interesting Ceremony: 8:30 a.m. Reception: following ceremony School of Architecture Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall scenarios such as a murder mystery, a McConomy Auditorium, UC Ceremony: 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 15 (off campus) case of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh Kresge Theater, College of Fine Arts Statistics 4141 Fifth Ave. Reception: 4 p.m. or a project designing fuel for a mission Ceremony: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Business Administration Great Hall, College of Fine Arts Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall to Mars. (Bachelor’s)/Economics School of Art Reception: following ceremony The site also serves as a platform Lower Level Coffee Lounge, Baker Hall Reception: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Reception: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 16 Ceremony: 2 p.m. for instructors to develop their own Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center Student-Defi ned Majors Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall materials, which they can share among Ceremony: 2:30 p.m. Ceremony and Reception: 12:30 p.m., (off campus) the community of users. Of the 117 labs Philip Chosky Theater, Purnell Center Sunday, May 16 4141 Fifth Ave. Adamson Wing (136A), Upper Level, currently available on the site, 56 have Baker Hall UC = University Center been contributed by 11 different groups from the user community. Last year, more than 100,000 virtual lab experiments were performed on the Heinz Presenters Speak from Experience C ONTINUED FROM PAGE SIX website, and the software was down- International Affairs from 1997 to 2002 Agency for International Develop- Service Award. loaded more than 25,000 times for use and as the director of Howard Univer- ment (USAID). Coles retired from the Coles received a bachelor’s degree on local computers. sity’s Ralph J. Bunche International U.S. Government’s Foreign Service in from Morehouse College in 1964 and The ChemCollective is funded by Affairs Center from 1994 to 1997. 1994 with the rank of Career Minister. a master’s in public affairs from the National Science Foundation’s Na-

MostOMMENCEMEN of Coles’ career in the He received numerous awards includ- Princeton University’s Woodrow tional SMET Digital Library and Course, foreign service has been spent as a ing the Distinguished Career Service Wilson School of Public and Curriculum and Laboratory Improve- senior offi cial with the United States Award and the Presidential Meritorious International Affairs in 1966. ment programs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Howard E IGHT Hughes Medical Institute. C Public Opinions STUDY SUGGESTS TWEETS MAY REPLACE POLLS AS PUBLIC BAROMETERS

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Polling may be the current gold standard stream potentially allows us to take Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys sentiment analysis did not correlate as for assessing public opinion, but a new the temperature of the population very of Consumers, the Twitter-derived senti- well with election polling during 2008. Carnegie Mellon study suggests that quickly,” Smith said. Telephone-based ment measurements were much more For instance, increased mentions of analyzing millions of Twitter messages polls can take days and cost thousands volatile day-to-day. But when the re- “Obama” tended to correlate with rises might eventually be a faster, cheaper of dollars, he noted, while analyzing searchers “smoothed” the results by av- in Barack Obama’s polling numbers, but way to get a sense of what’s on people’s Twitter sentiments can be fast and inex- eraging them over a period of days, the increased mentions of “McCain” also minds. pensive. results often correlated closely with the correlated with rises in Obama’s popu- Taking full advantage of those In the study, to be presented May 25 polling data, said Brendan O’Connor, larity. Improved computational methods freely offered opinions will require at the Association for the Advancement a graduate student in the Language Tech- for understanding natural language, par- computers that can understand and of Artifi cial Intelligence’s International nologies Institute and the fi rst author of ticularly the unusual lexicon of micro- analyze natural language, including Conference on Weblogs and Social Me- the study. blogs, will be necessary before Twitter the idiosyncratic language that typi- dia in Washington, D.C., Smith and his Consumer confi dence measured by feeds can be reliably mined to predict fi es tweets, said Noah Smith, assistant colleagues collected a billion microblog the tweet analysis, for instance, followed elections, the researchers concluded. professor of language technologies and messages – averaging about 11 words the same general slide through 2008 and “The Web is so mainstream now machine learning. But even with the each – posted to Twitter during 2008 and the same rebound in February/March of that there’s no question that the Web is relatively crude tools available today, 2009. They used simple text analysis 2009 as was seen in Gallup’s Economic representative somehow of the popula- Smith and his colleagues found that mi- techniques to identify messages that per- Confi dence Index and the Reuters/Uni- tion,” O’Connor said. But pinning down croblog analysis can yield measures of tained to the economy or to politics and versity of Michigan Index of Consumer Web demographics is still diffi cult, he consumer confi dence and of presidential then found words within the text that Sentiment (ICS). The ICS and Gallup acknowledged, noting that Twitter traffi c job approval similar to those of well- indicated if the writer expressed positive data had a correlation of 86 percent over alone increased by a factor of 50 during established public opinion polls. or negative sentiments. the period; the Twitter-derived senti- the two-year span of the study. “With seven million or more mes- When compared to polling data ments had between 72 percent and 79 Using computer programs to judge sages being tweeted each day, this data from the Gallup Organization and the percent correlation with the Gallup data, the sentiments of microblogs is fraught depending on the number of days aver- with potential error, but even with the aged to smooth the data. crude tools used in this exploratory Likewise, both the Twitter-derived research, the accuracy is better than can Special Delivery sentiments and traditional polls from be achieved by chance, O’Connor said. S CANNER WILL BE USED Gallup and Pollster.com refl ected declin- “The massive amount of data ing approval of President Obama’s job was crucial in making this work,” he T O ANALYZE THOUGHTS performance during 2009, with a 72 explained. “We don’t need to get the percent correlation between them. sentiment of every individual right to ■ Shilo Raube But the researchers found that their understand sentiments in aggregate.” In early April, the new Scientifi c Imaging and Brain Research (SIBR) Center received a special delivery. Club Pays Tribute to Offi cers An 18,000-lb. Siemens Verio 3T Scanner, purchased with a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, was lowered via crane into the SIBR’s new location in Wean Hall 3604. To move the scanner into the facility, an access area was created in the lower level of the south side of Wean. The scanner — the only MRI scanner located within a computer science department — will now allow Carnegie Mellon

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGING AND BRAIN OF THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGING AND BRAIN PHOTO COURTESY RESEARCH CENTER scientists to analyze thoughts in A N 18,000-LB. SIEMENS VERIO 3T SCANNER participants’ brains. IS LOWERED INTO WEAN HALL’ S BASEMENT. The SIBR will be operational T HE MRI SCANNER WILL BE USED TO ANALYZE this month and will be used by THOUGHTS. several departments interested in brain science, including Psychology, Computer Science, Social and Decision Sci- ences and Modern Languages.

W ATCH A VIDEO OF THE SCANNER INSTALLATION, RIPPEL PHOTO BY LARRY

NARRATED BY JUST, AT HTTP://BIT. LY/CMUPIPER. P ITTSBURGH POLICE CHIEF NATHAN E. HARPER ACCEPTS A PLAQUE FROM S AGAR SHAH OF THE CARNEGIE MELLON CRICKET CLUB IN EARLY APRIL. T HE CRICKET CLUB HOSTED A BENEFIT CRICKET GAME IN MEMORY OF FALL- “It’s a fi rst at Carnegie Mellon to have this kind of scanner that is advanced, EN PITTSBURGH POLICE OFFICERS ERIC G. KELLY, STEPHEN J. MAYHLE AND PAUL J. SCIULLO, WHO WERE KILLED RESPONDING TO A DOMESTIC high fi eld and much more comfortable for participants,” said Marcel Just, the CALL IN THE CITY’ S STANTON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD IN APRIL 2009. D. O. Hebb Professor of Psychology and director of SIBR. “We will be using it to “EVEN THOUGH IT’ S VERY HARD TO EXPRESS THE SORROW, THE SADNESS understand how the mind works to get to the underpinnings of human thought.” IS STILL FELT,” HARPER SAID DURING THE EVENT. “AT THE SAME TIME, WE The goal is to make the SIBR a leading national center in cognitive, HAVE TO CONTINUE TO HONOR AND RECOGNIZE THAT THESE WERE THREE EXTRAORDINARY OFFICERS THAT GAVE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND IT’ S developmental and social neuroscience imaging by supporting innovation and HUMBLING FOR THE COMMUNITY TO STILL BE WITH US.” PICTURED BEHIND discovery. “Scientists at Carnegie Mellon are going to work together to help H ARPER ARE CMU POLICE OFFICER PAUL HELFFRICH AND OTHER MEMBERS reveal the biological thinking machine that makes us who we are,” Just said. OF THE CRICKET CLUB.

N INE SCS Tops U.S. News Graduate School Rankings

The School of Computer Science (SCS) society and the lives of individuals. We Department in the College of Humanities is third in logic, 10th in discrete is ranked fi rst in the nation among are pleased to be counted among the top & Social Sciences ranks ninth for mathematics and combinations, 11th in graduate computer science programs in computer science graduate programs in statistics and biostatistics departments. applied mathematics and 36th overall. the 2011 edition of U.S. News & World the United States.” In mathematical specialties, The Physics Department ranks 30th, the Report magazine’s “America’s Best In other graduate rankings, the the Mellon College of Science’s Department of Biological Sciences 46th Graduate Schools.” SCS, last ranked College of Engineering (CIT) kept Mathematical Sciences Department and the Department of Chemistry 49th. fourth in 2009, is tied for the top spot its sixth overall ranking from a year this year with MIT, Stanford and the ago. In specialty areas, CIT is seventh University of California, Berkeley. In in electrical engineering, seventh in P REVIOUS RANKINGS specialty categories, SCS ranks fi rst environmental engineering, 10th in in programming language, second in civil engineering, 11th in mechanical U.S. News & World Report also re-published some graduate program rankings artifi cial intelligence, third in systems engineering, 13th in materials science from previous years. These include the following (year and ranking are in and fi fth in theory. and engineering, 16th in chemical parentheses): The 2011 edition of “America’s Best engineering and 29th in biomedical Graduate Schools” and the “America’s engineering. • Master of Fine Arts (2008, seventh): Specialties: Multimedia/Visual Best Graduate Schools” guidebook were The Tepper School of Business Communications (fi rst), Industrial Design (third), Graphic Design (fi fth); released in April. ranks 16th overall, second in information • Public Affairs/Heinz College (2008, 10th): Specialties: Information “Carnegie Mellon strives to push systems and production/operations, third and Technology Management (fi rst), Public Policy Analysis (fourth), the frontiers of research and education in supply chain/logistics and 16th in Environmental Policy and Management (10th), and Health Policy and in computer science,” said SCS Dean fi nance. It ranks ninth for its part-time Management (10th); and Randal E. Bryant. “We pursue a very MBA program. • Humanities & Social Sciences programs (2009): Economics (Tepper School, broad agenda, spanning both the theory In U.S. News & World Report’s 19th), Psychology (17th): Specialties: Cognitive Psychology (second). and design of computers, as well as how fi rst-ever ranking of Ph.D. programs in information technology can transform statistics, Carnegie Mellon’s Statistics

Scottish Ties

F ROM LEFT, ROBERTA SEFCIK (BSA’12), MICHAEL RUSSELL AND JAKE MOHIN (MCS’10) CELEBRATE CARNEGIE MELLON’ S S COTTISH HERITAGE WITH SCOTTY, THE UNIVERSITY’ S MASCOT. R USSELL, SCOTLAND’ S CABINET SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING, VISITED THE UNIVERSITY IN EARLY APRIL. HIS TALK, “SCOTLAND: A NEW FUTURE BUILDING ON A GREAT PAST,” ARGUED SCOTLAND’ S CASE FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE UNITED K INGDOM, CITING THAT SCOTLAND DOES NOT HAVE REPRESENTATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. “THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT ALSO BELIEVES THAT THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SAY ON THEIR OWN FUTURE IN A REFERENDUM,” HE SAID. RUSSELL WAS ONE OF THREE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT MINISTERS WHO TRAVELED TO THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA TO DISCUSS GREAT SCOTS AND INNOVATION DURING S COTLAND WEEK. PHOTO BY KEN ANDREYO

Professor of Statistics include Carlow University, Carnegie Mellon care,” Datta said. “One of the aims of this N EWS BRIEFS and Social Sciences, University, the Community College of Allegh- project is to show how to make the comput- will be inducted Oct. eny County, Chatham University, Duquesne erization of health care systems live up to the Three Inducted into 9 at the academy’s University, LaRoche College, the Pittsburgh promise of more innovative health care while American Academy of headquarters in Cam- Theological Seminary, Point Park University, at the same time providing confi dence that pri- Arts & Sciences bridge, Mass. For the Robert Morris University and the University of vacy expectations of patients are respected.” full list of 2010 fellows, Pittsburgh. The award, part of the American Recov- The School of visit www.amacad.org/ ery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will help Computer Science’s news/a2z10.pdf. the SHARPS team develop security and risk Randal E. Bryant and Datta To Study Health The academy was established in 1780 by mitigation policies and the technologies neces- Jeannette M. Wing Information Technology John Adams, John Hancock and other found- sary to build and preserve the public trust as and the College of Anupam Datta, an assistant research profes- ers of the nation as a center for independent health IT systems gain widespread use. Humanities & Social sor with Carnegie Mellon CyLab, is part of a policy research. The current membership Sciences’ Joseph B. multi-institutional research team that received a includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and Kadane are among $15 million grant from Researchers Develop more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. 229 leaders in the the U.S. Department New Probes for Proteins Carnegie Mellon has had 15 inductees sciences, social sci- of Health and Human overall. To view the complete list, visit www. Scientists in the Department of Chemistry and ences, the humani- Services to reduce se- cmu.edu/news/rankings-awards/awards/ Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center are ties, the arts, business curity and privacy barri- professional-societies.shtml. advancing state-of-the-art live cell fl uorescent and public affairs ers to the meaningful imaging by developing a new class of fl uo- to be elected this use of health informa- rescent probes that span the spectrum from year to the American PCHE Wins Outstanding tion technology. Datta violet to the near-infrared. The new technology, Academy of Arts & Service Award is one of 20 senior in- called fl uoromodules, can be used to monitor Sciences. The three The Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education vestigators from 12 universities involved in the biological activities of individual proteins in inductees in one year is an all-time high for (PCHE) has received the Benjamin Franklin Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research living cells in real time. Chemistry Professor Carnegie Mellon. Award for Outstanding Service on behalf of Projects on Security (SHARPS) project. Carn- Bruce Armitage discussed recent advances in Bryant, University Professor of Computer Higher Education from the Association of Inde- egie Mellon’s portion of the award is $700,000. their fl uoromodule technology that have pro- Science and SCS dean; Wing, the President’s pendent Colleges and Universities of Penn- “It is important to ensure that electronic duced diverse and photostable probes at the Professor of Computer Science and assistant sylvania. The award honors PCHE’s efforts in health records do not fall into the wrong hands recent American Chemical Society meeting. director of the National Science Foundation; helping to defeat the city’s proposed tuition tax and are not used for purposes that do not fur- and Kadane, the Leonard J. Savage University on students this past year. PCHE members ther the goal of providing more effective health T EN Commuters Spin to Work on Two Wheels Child’s Play ■ Heidi Opdyke to downtown and then bikes along the drivers to see. Because of that he takes When Philip Miller of the Software Engi- river trail to Oakland, which is about four some precautions before his commute neering Institute fi lls up his tank to head miles each way. When the weather is such as using side streets instead of main to work during spring and fall, it usually bad, she uses a crosstown bus. roads. means breakfast. Miller cycles up to 36 “It’s the same people who ride the “Automobiles do not see you. It’s miles a day to commute into Oakland trail everyday,” Tomer said. “It gets to not that they’re particularly mean. But I from the Butler County community of be a community. It’s a friendly group, try to ride on side streets instead of main Mars. and it’s a nice way to travel.” roads,” Podnar said. “Recumbents sit Miller is just one of many university Miller leaves home at 4:30 a.m. or low, so I have an American fl ag on my employees who switch from four to two earlier to avoid traffi c and likes to ar- bike that people see.” wheels as nice weather approaches. rive in Oakland around 6 a.m. His Bike Pam Snyder, a project director in Friday, May 21, is National Bike Friday machine folds up so that he can psychology, has been biking to work To Work Day. In celebration of that, the carry it onto Port Authority Buses that for several years and has traveled on university is partnering with BikePGH don’t have bike racks for the especially a number of long-haul bicycle trips in to have a Bike to Work Breakfast Pennsylvania and the northeast. She from 7:30-10 a.m. at the Merson B IKE TO WORK BREAKFAST said that in the past fi ve years driv- Courtyard-University Center. ers have become more conscious 7:30-10 A . M ., FRIDAY, MAY 21 “Carnegie Mellon Green of bicyclists and are courteous. Practices supports this Bike to M ERSON COURTYARD-UNIVERSITY CENTER “It’s not as scary as people

Work event, which brings awareness think it is. The culture is changing PHOTO BY HEIDI OPDYKE bike-unfriendly parts of his commute. here in Pittsburgh and becoming more to the possibilities of using the bicycle E MMA BIGLER AND RYAN HANDRON “For the most part, the bus drivers acceptable,” Snyder said. for everyday transportation,” said Barb PLAY WITH A PARACHUTE DURING are accommodating and kind. But I carry Miller recommends that people Kviz, environmental coordinator for A PICNIC FOR THE CHILDREN’ S a copy of the regulation that stipulates should know the basics about keeping a Facilities Management Services (FMS). S CHOOL AND THE CYERT CENTER I can bring a folded bike onto buses with bicycle in good shape and ride in a way Marcia Gerwig, director of the IN CELEBRATION OF WEEK OF me all the time,” Miller said. “It only University Center, said she has attended that honors the rules of the road and is THE YOUNG CHILD. ESTABLISHED happened once that someone told me the breakfast the last few years. She has predictable for drivers. IN 1971 BY THE NATIONAL I couldn’t bring a bike on board.” bicycled to work for the past decade. Bike racks are available through- A SSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION “It’s a great event, you can talk to Miller said he rides to work for out campus. Parking & Transportation OF YOUNG CHILDREN, THE WORLD’ S other bikers, commiserate and get advice. exercise, but there’s an added goal: He’s Services rents individual steel bicycle LARGEST EARLY CHILDHOOD It’s well attended, and you see lots of training to bike one of the 100-plus mile lockers, which enclose each bike. Lock- EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, THE WEEK great people.” mountain stages of the Tour de France ers are available to anyone who has their OF THE YOUNG CHILD BRINGS TO Even on two wheels, transportation next summer. bicycle registered with the university. ATTENTION THE NEEDS OF YOUNG options abound. People make their way “I really enjoy my bike,” Miller said. Registration is free and available from CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, to work on bikes that fold or recline. “It’s given me a lot more pleasure than Campus Police. For more information, WHILE HIGHLIGHTING THE EARLY Some even park their bike along the way. I anticipated.” contact 268-2052. CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS “It’s made it an adventure to com- Gregg Podnar’s bike is another Another alternative form of trans- AND SERVICES AVAILABLE TO MEET ing into work,” said Kyle Tomer, FMS unusual ride. The program manager for portation is by bus. Carnegie Mellon THOSE NEEDS. service response manager. “When the gas the Robotics Institute can be seen on his faculty, staff and students who show a prices went up, and CMU offered the bus recumbent bicycle making the three-mile valid university ID can ride Port Author- passes it seemed silly not to take advan- trek from Edgewood. The bike, which al- ity Transit buses free of charge. Paper tage of it.” lows the rider to recline, is good exercise copies of schedules are available in the Tomer, of Mt. Lebanon, takes the T and saves energy but is more diffi cult for University Center and on the buses.

Zhang Wins $510,000 particularly in the educational context: Stories care. Her research examined working parents es (IMCE), an academic unit offering profes- Young Investigator Award from the Center, Stories from the Margins and and their struggle to combine employment and sional graduate-level management education Stories from In Between. The book includes child rearing and revealed how they used child for the culture and entertainment industries Yongjie (Jessica) essays by Carnegie Mellon Qatar students. welfare institutions for their own purposes — through its Master Zhang, an assistant as a family survival strategy. of Arts Management professor in the De- History Dissertation Carnegie Mellon History Professor Steven (MAM) and Master of partment of Mechani- Wins Three Awards Schlossman co-directed the dissertation with Entertainment Industry cal Engineering, has Tera W. Hunter, formerly of Carnegie Mellon Management (MEIM) received a three-year, Jessie B. Ramey, who received her doc- and now professor of history at Princeton programs. Students in $510,000 Young tor’s degree in history from Carnegie Mellon University. Lisa Tetrault, assistant professor of these programs con- Investigator Award for in 2009, has won three national dissertation history at Carnegie Mellon, served as the third duct applied research research excellence awards for her dissertation “A Childcare Crisis: reader. and provide techni- from the Offi ce of Naval Research. Zhang will Poor Black and White Families and Orphan- cal support to artists and cultural institutions use her grant to develop novel algorithms and ages in Pittsburgh, 1878-1929,” the Organiza- Dan Martin Named Interim through the Center for Arts Management and a software package designed to help improve tion of American History’s (OAH) Lerner-Scott Dean of CFA Technology (CAMT). and streamline ship design and analysis for the Dissertation Prize in Women’s History and the Martin joined Carnegie Mellon in 1992 Navy. Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize from the Dan J. Martin will become interim dean of the and for the past year has served as associate Labor and Working-Class History Association College of Fine Arts, beginning July 1. dean of CFA, assisting with many leader- Carnegie Mellon Qatar (LAWCHA). Ramey previously received the “Dan brings a wealth of knowledge and ship activities within the college and serving Hosts Book Launch National Academy leadership experience to this interim position. on many interdisciplinary committees at the of Social Insurance’s I know CFA will be in good hands during our Carnegie Mellon Qatar hosted a book launch university level. (NASI) 2010 John search for a permanent dean,” said Executive for “Hazawi” in April. The book, the fourth in In addition to his teaching and administra- Heinz Dissertation Vice President and Provost Mark Kamlet in a the Qatar Narrative series, was a collaboration tive work, Martin actively consults with cultural Award. Ramey’s three recent email to the CFA community. between Assistant Professor Silvia Pessoa of organizations in strategic planning and trustee dissertation awards In February, Dean Hilary Robinson an- Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Mohana Rajakumar of relations, and has presented workshops and are unprecedented nounced she would be stepping down at the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing and master classes on arts management topics at for the History end of this school year to pursue several other Halim Choueriry formerly of Virginia Common- universities and for arts service organizations Department. scholarly endeavors and to spend more time wealth Qatar. in the United States, Canada, Germany, Spain, Her winning dissertation re-conceptual- with her family in England. “Hazawi” consists of three sections that Austria, Greece and Italy. ized orphanages as a form of child care and Martin is director and founder of the Insti- aim to portray the social dynamics in Qatar, explored the development of institutional child tute for the Management of Creative Enterpris- E LEVEN S T I CK YStories Post-it Note Fiction Over the years, Adjunct English Professor Sherrie Flick found that student writers have difficulty ending stories. To help them, Flick had her students in the class Survey of Fiction-Forms write entire stories on Post-it Notes. The paper gives them a boundary,” Flick said. “Space is limited, so it’s a great way to practice one specific writing element.

For Flick, Post-it Note writing allows PHOTOGRAPHER: KEN ANDREYO S HERRIE FLICK TEACHES HER STUDENTS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES

her to experiment and hone her craft.“It’s ON POST-IT NOTES. challenging to write a concise story in a short space — and it really contrasts novel writing,” she said. —Shilo Raube

Read more in an article Flick wrote about her students’ projects in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: www.post-gazette.com/ pg/10108/1050982-109.stm

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