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CMu’s NEWS SOURCE FOR FACULTY & STAFF 10/12 ISSUE 5 T ABLE M ANNERS : E TIQUETTE D INNER P ROMOTES D ECORUM 6- 7 C ONGRATULATIONS TO A NDY A WARD N OMINEES Get the Scoop! 10 ISO F OCUSES ON S AFE P RACTICES 12 P ILOT S TUDY ON T RAFFIC L IGHTS R EDUCES P OLLUTION , T RAFFIC C LOGS Energized University Announces Innovative Scott Institute n Piper Staff Carnegie Mellon is digging into one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Energy. Granger Morgan, the director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, outlined the work being done to establish the university as the “go to” place for energy-related research and education during a symposium that lauded the new initiative and described some of the current research at CMU. “One of the things CMU is really good at is going out and identifying real-world problems and then fi xing them,” said Morgan, the Thomas Lord Chair in Engineering. The four key concerns plaguing the industry are a need for better energy effi ciency; energy security; developing sources of energy that are clean, safe, PHOTO BY TIM KAULEN affordable, secure and sustainable; and innovations S COTT S CHEIBLE , ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF C AREER S ERVICES AT THE H EINZ C OLLEGE , WAS ONE OF THE in technology and organizations, regulations, MANY S TAFF C OUNCIL R EPRESENTATIVES WHO SCOOPED ICE CREAM AT A RECENT SOCIAL FOR C M U S TAFF . economics and behaviors of people. S TAFF C OUNCIL GENERAL BODY MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ALL STAFF MEMBERS AND ARE HELD FROM NOON TO 1 P . M . ON THE THIRD T HURSDAYS EACH MONTH . F OR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW . CMU . EDU / STAFF - COUNCIL . C ONTINUED ON PAGE THREE Open Enrollment for Benefi ts Begins Oct. 29 n Piper Staff Take a Shot at Preventing the Flu This year’s open enrollment period for and her team will present an overview of University Health Services is offering fl u vaccine clinics for students, faculty, staff, spouses benefi ts begins Monday, Oct. 29 and the choices for 2013 and answer questions. and partners. Human Resources will cover the cost for staff and faculty and the CMU runs through Monday, Nov. 12. Information also will be available at student insurance plan will cover the vaccine cost for students on the plan. For spouses/ During the two-week period, the annual Benefi ts & Fitness Fair from partners and students on other plans, the cost is $17 (payment by student account or check only; no cash, please). Carnegie Mellon employees will be able 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 7 in to select their options for 2013 using the Rangos Ballroom, UC. Representatives The remaining vaccine clinic dates are: Oct. 19: 9 a.m. - noon, University Center, Pake Room HR Connection website at www.cmu. from HR, benefi ts carriers and health Oct. 24: 9 a.m. - noon, Mellon Institute edu/hr/hr_systems/hrconnection/index. organizations will be in attendance to Oct. 30: 3-6 p.m., Hamburg Hall html. Employees can choose plans for answer questions. The fair also features Nov. 7: 10 a.m. -3 p.m., University Center, Health and Benefi ts Fair Nov. 15: 3-6 p.m., Tepper School of Business, Room 109 health, dental, vision, disability and life wellness screenings, fl u shots, raffl e Please bring your CMU ID card. insurance as well as prescriptions, health drawings and giveaways. care spending and dependent care spending accounts. Mark You Calendars To help inform the university Benefi ts Open Forum: Noon – 1 p.m., community about the options for 2013, Tuesday, Oct. 30, Rangos 1, UC Staff Council will host its annual Ben- efi ts Open Forum from noon to 1 p.m., Benefi ts & Fitness Fair: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 30 in Rangos 1, University Wednesday, Nov. 7, Rangos, UC Center. Director of Benefi ts Mary Oler Food Drive: Oct. 29 – Nov. 9 O NE Q&A: Heidemann Balances Interests in Business & Art n Heidi Opdyke explore, in particular. I always loved to Where do you see the How is arts management changing? Kathryn Heidemann (HNZ’04) was learn about where I was program going in the The fi eld is continuing to blur the line of recently named to Pittsburgh’s 40 under living. I think that’s what next 25 years? how people experience the arts. 40 list. But for the director of the Master fed my utopian view of The world has changed, We’re seeing more people experiencing of Arts Management (MAM) Program, the role of the arts as a and social media has the arts without leaving their homes through 25 is the number of interest. tool for diplomacy and changed. The fi eld of mobile apps. They’re attending screenings With MAM celebrating its silver how we can create peace arts management has from remote locations, and they’re engag- anniversary this year, Heidemann sat and change through these responded as a result, ing before, during and after an experience. down with the Piper to discuss growing exchanges. and our program is at the With Carnegie Mellon being at the up abroad, the MAM Program and her forefront of developing center of innovation and technology we passion for arts management. Did you ever consider the “new” best practice in want to make sure we understand how that being an artist? the fi eld. A patron now has market works and help the arts organiza- What made you interested in the arts? I didn’t want to be a multiple portals of entry tions understand those synergies. My goal I was always interested in the arts, but I practicing artist for my K ATHRYN H EIDEMANN to experience art now, and is to help students and alumni to think was always interested in the sciences. career. I love to still be engaged 24/7. It’s not outside the box and bring the arts manage- I started taking dance when I was play bass guitar in bands and take dance merely about just going to a performance ment fi eld to a more sustainable place. very little, and I picked it back up in classes, but I need to have that left brain/ or through a museum anymore. It’s my high school. My mom made me take right brain balance and also love analyz- goal that we are always relevant and that What brought you to Pittsburgh? piano lessons starting when I was 8. ing budgets and we are ahead of the trends happening Grad school. I studied arts management What really made me interested in dissecting data. in the fi eld. Through the faculty and the and dance as an undergrad. I had never the arts and culture was living in places When I found the fi eld of arts alumni, we are very keyed into what is been here before, and I came for admitted where there were language barriers. My management, I thought, “Perfect, I can happening. students weekend and I fell in love with dad worked in the auto industry and we have both.” MAM alumni serve as our “army” CMU and Pittsburgh. I really got a sense lived in Australia, Venezuela, Germany and our eyes and ears in the fi eld. We of a thriving cultural scene here, and it and Detroit. Because there was so much How has MAM changed since you do regular curriculum reviews with our seemed like the perfect laboratory for diversity in my schools, we often looked were a student in the program? advisory board. So I ask myself where I school — it was small enough that it at the arts, culture, and local folklore to Ten years ago, it was fairly differ- see the fi eld going. I want to see us going was accessible and large enough that understand more about the communities ent. Back then there wasn’t quite the there fi rst because we’re training the next there were plenty of opportunities. where we were living. diversity of the student body. Thirty-fi ve generation of arts managers who need to I ended up staying and working for In Venezuela, there were some percent of our students are now inter- be prepared for the fi eld’s evolution — the Cultural Trust for eight years before Americans there, but there were also national, and we’re seeing a lot more or even better, be the ones inventing it. working at Carnegie Mellon in the School probably 30 other nationalities in my diversity of disciplines with students’ of Music and then the MAM Program. class. There was so much diversity that backgrounds balanced between the 40 Under 40 we all bonded in a lot of ways, and performing and visual arts. What makes Pittsburgh a cultural exposed each other to our respective The curriculum has grown, with Each year 40 people under the age of destination? cultures. Both food and art were essen- more electives and classes being intro- 40 are recognized as being commit- It has anything you could want. It has the ted to shaping the Pittsburgh region tial “universal languages” that I loved to duced. Recently we added a new faculty big multimillion-dollar organizations such and making it a better place. This member to the program, and there are year there are seven people with as the Cultural Trust, the opera, the sym- lots of great synergies across the CMU connections on the list: phony but also plenty of wonderful midsize university.

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