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2018 Year in Review 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW www.cmu.edu/dietrich TABLE OF CONTENTS CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY’S DIETRICH COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 02 Message from the Dean 03 Facts and Figures 04 Student Experience 22 Research and Creative Projects 31 Board of Advisors 32 Alumni Spotlights 34 Achievements MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN t Carnegie Mellon University, the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences is the home for Aresearch and education focused on humanity. Our faculty and students take on problems that are important to the world. At the Dietrich College, faculty conduct foundational and deep disciplinary research, collaborate across disciplines, and share a passion for innovation in both research and teaching. Our students emerge from their experience at CMU able to communicate, think, learn and understand the world in ways that will serve them for the rest of their lives. This “year in review” is a sample of stories about the students, faculty, staff and alumni in the college that appeared on CMU websites, in the local press or the national media in 2018. In this publication, you can learn more about our newly launched Pittsburgh Summer Internship Program, our faculty members’ advocacy for the humanities in Washington, D.C., and research on autism risk-factors. The year was also full of milestones for our talented alumni, who now include a member of U.S. Congress and an Emmy Award winner. I am continually impressed by the contributions and accomplishments of our community, and even more so as we begin to reflect on the Dietrich College’s 50th anniversary, which we will celebrate in 2019. Whether you are a member of our faculty or staff, a current or former student, or someone curious about what RICHARD SCHEINES Dean, Dietrich College of is happening at the Dietrich College, I Humanities and Social Sciences invite you to learn more in the pages Professor of Philosophy that follow. 2 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Carnegie Mellon University FACTS AND FIGURES THE DIETRICH COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 1,332 STATISTICS CENTER FOR & DATA THE NEURAL UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE BASIS OF STUDENTS COGNITION SOCIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS 57 SCIENCES SCIENCE & HUMANITIES SCHOLARS WITH DIETRICH COLLEGE MAJORS PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENTS ENGLISH 292 & PROGRAMS GRADUATE STUDENTS 207 PHILOSOPHY HISTORY FULL-TIME FACULTY 7 MODERN INFORMATION FULL-TIME OTHER LANGUAGES INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF POLITICS & STRATEGY 9 PART-TIME MEMBERS OF… FACULTY 9 American Association for the Advancement of Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52 6 PART-TIME OTHER 4 National Academy of Sciences INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF 2 National Academy of Medicine 1 National Academy of Education YEAR IN REVIEW 3 STUDENT EXPERIENCE RECORD-BREAKING APPLICATION GROWTH CARNEGIE MELLON attracted a record-breaking 24,351 applicants for admission to the Class of 2022, a 19 percent increase over the previous 29% year’s pool. The growth in applicants spanned Increase in applicants all six of CMU’s to the Dietrich College undergraduate for the Class of 2022. colleges. THE CLASS OF 2022 ARRIVES The start of a journey—students were welcomed into their home away from home at CMU’s Dietrich College. For the Class of 2022, Orientation Week brought days filled with team builders, scavenger hunts and even a night at a museum. Dietrich College Dean Richard Scheines greeted first-year students and their families with a promise. “We will push you to think, work and experience the world in new ways,” Scheines said. “You are not alone. Carnegie Mellon is a community in the truest sense of the word.” Allison Guzman, a senior majoring in Ethics, History and Public Policy with minors in professional writing and politics and public policy, was the student speaker at the welcome event. “While I didn’t know what I was getting into when I applied to Carnegie Mellon, I know what I’m getting out of it,” said Guzman. “Carnegie Mellon swept me off into the unknown, and I could not be happier.” 4 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Carnegie Mellon University ASKWITH KENNER GLOBAL LANGUAGES AND CULTURES ROOM BRINGS THE WORLD TO CAMPUS he Askwith Kenner Global Languages and Cultures Room, a new space within the David A. Tepper Quadrangle, offers Tstudents and the community an immersive, interactive language classroom and learning space. The space was made possible thanks to a generous gift from long-time supporter, alumna and emeritus trustee Patricia Located on the first floor of the Tepper Quad building, the Askwith Askwith Kenner (MM 1966). Kenner Room is equipped with several Oculus VR headsets and other new technologies. “In today’s world of complex societal challenges, it is more important than ever for each student at CMU to have a global But studying abroad may not be possible for all students experience,” Kenner said. “I believe this — there are financial concerns, travel restrictions and space will enable students of every barriers created by world events. The new space works to discipline to have a taste of languages eliminate those barriers, and provide an immersive and cultures from around the world.” experience through the use of new technology, such as interactive documentaries and virtual reality stations. An important aspect of studying other languages and cultures is to be immersed Future projects, events, research and learning experiences in that region’s experience, Korryn will be led by Stephan Caspar, assistant teaching professor Mozisek, director of integrative learning, of media creation and multi-cultural studies in the Office of the Vice Provost for Education, said. Department of Modern Languages. YEAR IN REVIEW 5 IN & OUT OF THE CLASSROOM GRAND CHALLENGE SEMINARS The Dietrich College requires undergraduate students to take a bold, idea-driven Grand Challenge Seminar in their first year. Faculty from a wide range of disciplines across CMU co-teach the seminars, which focus on issues affecting students' lives in the 21st century. The courses encourage students to recognize that multiple perspectives are essential to addressing complicated problems, and they build concrete skills — like collaboration, communication and data analysis — that will help students to succeed throughout their university experience and beyond. The following are highlights from several Grand Challenge Seminars offered in 2018. CLIMATE CHANGE It isn’t every day that students get to learn negotiation strategies from the experts on the frontlines, but a class of CMU students got to do just that. The “Climate Change” Grand Challenge Seminar aims to help students understand what climate change is, how scientists know it’s happening, why there’s so much public debate over it, what solutions are available and how policymakers go about implementing them. The course was taught by Peter Adams, professor of civil and environmental engineering & engineering and public policy, Katarzyna “Kasia” Snyder, an adjunct instructor in the Dietrich College, and James Wynn, associate professor of English and rhetoric. Snyder, a former U.N. climate change lead negotiator for Poland, invited former colleagues Paul Watkinson and Hussein Alfa Nafo to join the class for a question and answer session. SHIFTING A CULTURE: UNDERSTANDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE When Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, spoke in Pittsburgh, CMU students were among the nearly 1,000 in attendance, including professors and students from the Grand Challenge Seminar “Shifting a Culture: Understanding Gender-Based Violence.” Lisa Tetrault, associate professor of history, Candace Skibba, associate “The opportunity to meet Tarana Burke and see her speak was not only teaching professor of Hispanic inspiring, it was also very timely. Rarely do the words that students see on the page and use in the classroom find themselves almost simultaneously Studies, and Jess Klein, coordinator in the media and serendipitously in a talk by the leader of a movement of gender programs and LGBTQ that is shaping the topic of gender-based violence,” Candace Skibba said. initiatives, brought their areas of expertise together to explore the many manifestations of gender-based violence, from stalking to human trafficking and potential solutions. Burke is known for first using the phrase “Me Too” back in 2006 to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault in society. In October 2017, #MeToo began going viral on social media as a way for people to describe their experiences with sexual assault and harassment. Her talk seemed like the perfect way to tie current events to topics from the class. 6 Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Carnegie Mellon University DECONSTRUCTING INEQUALITY CLIMATE CHANGE irst-year CMU students examined different Students learned how inequality has emerged as a demonstrations of inequality as part of the social and political problem in the 18th and 19th Grand Challenge Seminars. centuries and how it has re-emerged as a key concept for current socio-political movements. In addition to FKathy M. Newman, associate professor of inequality’s past and present, the course focused on English; Mark Kamlet, Provost Emeritus and the future, especially with the coming of increased University Professor of Economics and Public Policy in automation and the elimination of jobs being done by the Dietrich College and Heinz College of Information humans. Systems and Public Policy; Kody Manke, assistant professor of psychology; and Paul Eiss, associate professor of anthropology
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