PIPER11/09 Issue

3 Hollywood Alums Come Home 6 Building Projects Earn Accolades for Sustainability and Design Lighting His Legacy 9 Nobel Laureates Made Stops at Carnegie Mellon 10 Students Serve as Tech Consultants

Faculty Win Stimulus Funding B ROAD RANGE OF RESEARCH S UPPORTED

■ Bruce Gerson

More than 50 research projects at Carnegie Mellon have received nearly $30 mil- lion in federal funding through President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, a massive effort aimed at revitalizing the U.S. economy by supporting university research. “This is just the fi rst wave of stimulus funding that will play out over the next two to three years,” said Associate Vice President for Government Relations Tim McNulty, who noted that $30 million is ap- PHOTO BY TIM KAULEN proximately 10 percent of the university’s W ITH ITS ABSTRACT PENGUIN CUTOUT AND DAZZLING LED-LIGHT DISPLAY, THE PAUSCH BRIDGE WAS DEDICATED annual research budget. “Our faculty are DURING HOMECOMING AND NOW CONNECTS THE PURNELL CENTER TO THE GATES AND HILLMAN CENTERS. TO READ winning stimulus proposals in a nice mix MORE ABOUT THE BRIDGE AND DEDICATION, SEE PAGE EIGHT. of potentially high-impact areas, and the stimulus funding is helping to enhance our burgeoning life sciences efforts.” McNulty also noted that several Presidential Refl ections: A Q&A with Jared Cohon Carnegie Mellon faculty members are part of pending research funding proposals ■ Heidi Opdyke cated we are to the task at hand. There’s response already from people. I’m cer- submitted by the Pittsburgh Public Schools very little time for celebration and taking tainly looking forward to that. In late October, the Piper sat down C ONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE a breath. We just keep moving forward. We’ll see what the future holds. with President Jared L. Cohon to talk We have regional campaign events You never know what great inventions about the start of the academic year, coming up in India, Singapore and our colleagues will come up with or the impact of the G-20 Summit, his role Washington, D.C., and those will be who just might stop by. W E WANT YOUR as chair of a National Academy of exciting. We’re getting tremendous C ONTINUED ON PAGE TWO F EEDBACK! Sciences committee that worked to un- cover hidden costs of energy and more.

Is the Piper helping to keep This academic year started with the you informed of campus news opening of the Gates Center for Com- and events? In our ongoing puter Science and the Hillman Center effort to keep you posted, for Future-Generation Technologies, we want to know how we’re visits by Australia’s prime minister doing, so be sure to check out and Bill Gates, and more. What’s next? the back page of the Piper Sleep! It was a very exciting begin- ning of the semester. You know, one for a readership survey. of the things I admire about Carnegie Mellon is how unassuming and dedi- O NE Presidential Refl ections C ONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

Did Carnegie Mellon benefi t from Having the prime minister of than the national average. We continue the G-20 Summit being in Pittsburgh? Australia on campus was certainly a big to grow in certain areas, including at There was the direct and immediate plus for us. We’ve already followed up Carnegie Mellon, Pitt and UPMC. So benefi t the students got from it. There with meetings with some of his minis- the knowledge industries and the role were the seminars, the webcasts and the ters. As most of the readers will know, the universities play in that, I think are daylong symposium we had with the we have a campus in Adelaide, Austra- absolutely crucial to Pittsburgh’s success Atlantic Council. I think the symposium lia, and having government support for to date and will be perhaps even more so was quite valuable and well attended that is important. in the future. by students, which I was pleased to see. Finally, because of all of this, more And it’s a cool thing to hear a head of people know about Carnegie Mellon — Carnegie Mellon was recently state. I doubt too many of our students and that it’s in Pittsburgh — than knew named a Top 25 “Best Neighbor” would have ever had the chance to hear before the G-20. university for its economic and the Australian Prime Minister speak. social impact on Pittsburgh. Is Carnegie Mellon’s success tied to As for the color and hoopla, and Up next, Pittsburgh is hosting the Pittsburgh and vice versa? protestors and security that came along United Nation’s World Environment We’re proud of that. We’re proud of the with the G-20 — I don’t think any of us Day on June 5, 2010. With a theme PHOTO BY KEN ANDREYO fact that the University of Pittsburgh was could have imagined what that would of “Biodiversity: Connecting with J ARED COHON high on that list. I think among uni- have been like without seeing it, and Nature,” what type of role do you envision Carnegie Mellon playing? versities, Pitt and Carnegie Mellon are our students and all of us got to see that Probably even a more central role than Carnegie Mellon played a very big especially committed and active to local fi rst hand. with the G-20. Local institutions will part in this. Not only did I chair it, but economic and artistic vitality. Much of Less direct, but even more lasting, play an active role in planning and Scott Matthews, a professor in Engineer- that we do together through organiza- was the tremendous media coverage delivering the event. We’re already in ing and Public Policy and Civil and tions like the Life Sciences Greenhouse that Pittsburgh got, and Carnegie Mellon conversations with the University of Environmental Engineering, was a and through the many technology and as well. Pittsburgh, West Virginia University member, and there were non-member research collaborations that we have We learned that when the G-20 and other organizations. We’ve got consultants like Mike Chester, who created. It’s been very good, and we’re comes to town so do 2,000-3,000 jour- some good ideas, and I expect Carnegie received his Ph.D. from Carnegie pleased it’s been recognized. nalists. Every one of them had to fi le Mellon will be prominently featured Mellon and is a post-doc at Berkeley. What’s good for Pittsburgh is a story answering the question, “Why in that. Mike played a very valuable role in good for us. It certainly helps us with Pittsburgh?” Carnegie Mellon was Pittsburgh is turning out to be the doing some of the modeling for the recruitment and retention of faculty generally a featured part of the answer. place to be. report. Carnegie Mellon fi ngerprints and students. It’s a great story, and we’re proud of the are all over this report, and it’s some- role that we have played in Pittsburgh’s A National Academy of Sciences thing to be proud of. Will our impact on the city change as rebirth and transformation. committee that you chair recently we become a more global university? reported that the hidden cost of Do you see Carnegie Mellon hav- I don’t think our relationship with Pitts- energy on human health was $120 ing a hand in some of the research burgh will change at all. If anything, it billion in 2005. How do you see this recommended in the report? will get richer in the sense of what we data and the 350-page report outlin- Indeed, we are already. There were can contribute to Pittsburgh’s success. ing the details affecting U.S. energy topics in those recommendations that policy and research? I hope and expect that the university’s we were working on, and others were PIPER It’s going to be quite infl uential. The global footprint and our activities around too, even before we made the 11/09 Issue report was released Oct. 19, and the the world will yield more benefi ts recommendations. There are lots of P UBLISHER Friday before that the committee spent directly to Pittsburgh by bringing people Teresa Thomas opportunities for Carnegie Mellon to the day briefi ng White House, agency and jobs from other countries here. E DITOR make more contributions. Bruce Gerson and Congressional staffs. There was a What were some of your key messag- lot of interest, which was good to see. M ANAGING EDITOR What are some of the ways the es to alumni during Homecoming? Heidi Opdyke There’s no news in the fact that American Recovery and Reinvest- One thing that is certainly on their minds energy has external effects and costs. W RITERS ment Act of 2009, also known as the is the economy, how Carnegie Mellon Bruce Gerson What’s new is our success in quantifying stimulus bill, has impacted campus? Heidi Opdyke has fared during the recession and how some of those impacts as we indicated, Shilo Raube The most direct way is through increased we’re doing now. Abby Ross although there was a lot we couldn’t. funding for research. Carnegie Mellon Byron Spice Recessions are never good for To have virtually all of the impacts one received about $30 million more in anybody, including us, but we weathered D ESIGNER could think of collected in one place is Melissa Stoebe sponsored research that we probably the storm and we’re doing OK. Communications Design Group very important in the policy process, wouldn’t have otherwise obtained. If I always try to convey to alumni and it hasn’t happened before. P HOTOGRAPHY you believe the stimulus helped stop the that they should be comforted by the fact Ken Andreyo freefall of the economy, and I have no Communications Design Group and pleased that however much we may Glenn Brookes This role was more related to being reason to doubt that it did, we certainly Tim Kaulen have changed, whether they were here a scientist and policy advisor than all benefi tted from that. To contact The Piper staff, call 412-268- an administrator. What was that like 10 years ago or 50 years ago, we are the 2900 or email [email protected]. for you? same university when it comes to the In a CNN.com opinion piece, you Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate and Carnegie It’s a too-rare event for me to do what core values on which we are based: hard Mellon University is required not to discriminate in admission, wrote about how Pittsburgh shows employment, or administration of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or handicap in I was really trained to do, which is work and rigor, problem solving, inter- violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of how the power of education and the Educational Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or other federal, state, or local laws environmental science and policy. But innovation can revive an economy disciplinary collaboration, innovation. or executive orders. In addition, Carnegie Mellon University does not That’s what we were a century ago, and discriminate in admission, employment or administration of it’s nice to have the opportunity to in crisis. Are we starting to see the its programs on the basis of religion, creed, ancestry, belief, age, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender identity. do it when I can. As chair, more than light at the end of the tunnel? we still are. We always appeal to those Carnegie Mellon does not discriminate in violation of federal, state, or local laws or executive orders. However, in the judg- ment of the Carnegie Mellon Human Relations Commission, anything else what I did was convene, Our tunnel has not been as long or as core values whenever we think about the Presidential Executive Order directing the Department of Defense to follow a policy of, “Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t dark as the rest of the country. That in what we are doing, and what we want to pursue,” excludes openly gay, lesbian and bisexual students manage and develop a positive group dy- from receiving ROTC scholarships or serving in the military. Nevertheless, all ROTC classes at Carnegie Mellon University namic. The committee did a phenomenal and of itself says a lot about Pittsburgh do next. And if anything, those values are available to all students. Inquiries concerning application of these statements should be directed to the Provost, Carnegie Mellon University, amount of work in producing the report today and the diversity and robustness are more strongly expressed today than 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, telephone 412- 268-6684 or the Vice President for Campus Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, from nothing. If all we had done was of its economy. Our unemployment rate, they ever have been. telephone 412-268-2057. Carnegie Mellon University publishes an annual campus though higher than it was, is much lower security report describing the university’s security, alcohol and write a report without doing any new drug, and sexual assault policies and containing statistics about the number and type of crimes committed on the analysis it would have been impressive campus during the preceding three years. You can obtain a copy by contacting the Carnegie Mellon Police Department at 412-268-2323. The security report is available through the in that amount of time, but we did a lot World Wide Web at www.cmu.edu/police/. Obtain general information about Carnegie Mellon University by calling 412-268-2000. of analysis. Produced for Media Relations by the Communications Design Group, November 2009, 10-218. T WO Hollywood Alums Come Home, Share Experience with Students

■ Abby Ross Students got a pre-Homecoming visit ers with partner and star Tom Cruise, from Paula Wagner and Steven Bochco, including “Mission: Impossible” and its two of Carnegie Mellon’s most notable two sequels, “The Others” and “The Last alums in Hollywood. Their insights, Samurai.” She is currently developing wisdom and advice add to the School and producing fi lms through her com- of Drama’s educational mix. pany, Chestnut Ridge Productions. “Interfacing with industry leaders A writer and executive producer, is an essential part of keeping abreast Bochco is best known for his ground- of best professional practice in the arts,” breaking television work including said Peter Cooke, head of the School “Hill Street Blues,” “LA Law” and of Drama. “NYPD Blue.” Wagner and Bochco were two of the Together, they talked to students many alumni who were seen on campus about the business of acting and hosted

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Rogers, and playwright Mac Wellman maturgs. The sessions provided students PHOTO BY KEN ANDREYO also made recent appearances. with the opportunity to receive candid, P AULA WAGNER AND STEVEN BOCHCO RECENTLY VISITED CAMPUS TO ENLIGHTEN

“Having lots of really wonder- fi rst-hand knowledge from leaders in the STUDENTS WITH FIRST- HAND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. ful people coming in adds value to the entertainment industry. expertise of the fabulous faculty,” “Talking with alumni like Paula and the School of Drama doesn’t just prepare away from my years here on campus,” Cooke said. Steven only solidifi es the idea that there us for the real world in terms of the the- he said. Wagner became the fi rst female are limitless possibilities,” said Kevin atre, but in all areas of the entertainment Wagner, who is a member of the agent at the Creative Artists Agency Service, a stage management/production industry.” Board of Trustees, said the most important (CAA), producing numerous blockbust- management junior. “The education in Bochco told students that he consid- thing she learned here was how to learn. ers his education as a writer invaluable. “So much of my education came “But my world education — in after college when I was thrown into the terms of learning about a community of real world, but learning how to learn is a Platzer Named to Popular like-minded artists — was probably the very important quality that I got from this Science’s “Brilliant 10” singularly most important thing I took school,” Wagner said. ■ Byron Spice University Honors Andre Platzer, assistant professor of computer science, was one of 10 young scientists chosen by the editors of Popular Science for the magazine’s annual “Brilliant 10” list. Platzer, 30, who the magazine dubbed the “Crash Test Anti-Dummy,” was cited for his work on verifi cation software for hybrid, or cyber-physical, systems, such as collision avoidance systems in fl ight control and railway control systems. Sys- tems like these are important in many domains, including robotic surgery devices and nano-level manufacturing equipment. Like seatbelts, antibiotics and fi re hoses, a method for detecting potentially critical errors in safety systems is an innovation so vital “that it’s hard to imagine how we got along without it,” states the profi le of Platzer that appears in the magazine’s November issue. He is among the researchers participating in the new Institute for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems, which is developing new tools for analyzing models of complex embedded computer systems, as well as biological systems. The institute, headed by Edmund M. Clarke, University Professor of Computer Science, was established this year as part of a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HARITAN

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PHOTO BY KEN ANDREYO online to Piper+ for this month’s question. A NDRE PLATZER T HREE Rudman Parlays Physics, English Into 50-Year Career ■ Bruce Gerson A man of many passions, Joseph Rud- we were over there so often.” man is certainly no “ordinary Joe.” The While working in the Physics multi-talented staff and adjunct faculty Department in the 1960s, Rudman com- member’s 50-year track record at pleted his coursework for a bachelor’s Carnegie Mellon is as diverse as it is degree in English at Carnegie Mellon, long. Consider his interests, which range but he had to take graduate courses at from high-energy physics and 18th the University of Pittsburgh to fi nish his century author Daniel Defoe, to dining degree. etiquette and golf, and you may want him “At that time you had to be a female by your side at your next cocktail party. at Margaret Morrison Carnegie College Rudman is a scientifi c project to get an English degree here. I could administrator in the Physics Department, take all the courses but they wouldn’t where he started his Carnegie Mellon give me the degree. So I went over to career at the age of 19 after high school Pitt,” Rudman explained. and two years of college at St. Fidelis Rudman, however, did receive his Seminary in Herman, Pa., where he was master’s degree in English — his oral studying to be a priest. He started here topic was “Satire in the 18th Century” working as a scanner-measurer, who — and his doctor of arts from Carnegie PHOTO BY HEIDI OPDYKE

worked with bubble chamber fi lm, and Mellon. His dissertation topic discussed J OSEPH RUDMAN HAS DABBLED IN MANY FIELDS DURING HIS LONG CAREER. then progressed to a lab supervisor and designing and teaching a course on how foreman before eventually moving into to teach humans about computers. his current role. With a doctorate in English, and 10 countries. He’s been quoted in was one of the fi rst people to write for “It’s a catch-all title. I do anything Rudman began parlaying his passions. many international and national publica- money. He cranked stuff out everyday. that they need me to do,” said Rudman, “It was funny, by the time I got my tions, including The New York Times, He was fascinating,” he said. who was recognized for his 50 years doctorate I was making more money and he’s written several articles, including Also fascinating is the time Rudman of service to the university at the Andy in the Physics Department than I could two encyclopedia entries, on the topic. spends on other university activities, Awards ceremony in early September. have as a beginning English teacher. So, Many individuals and organizations, even including hosting hundreds of meals in “Over the years, I’ve done cryogenics, I combined physics and English,” Rud- the CIA, have sought his counsel. which Carnegie Mellon students learn electronics, machine shop work, pro- man said. “I had offers to go places, but “It’s a scientifi c look at literature to proper dining etiquette, and working gramming, data analysis, whatever is they weren’t as good as what I had here.” verify authorship. You look at stylistics as an assistant coach for the Carnegie necessary.” He joined the Tepper School of and statistics,” said Rudman whose Mellon golf team. He’s also given talks Rudman’s work in Physics has Business and the College of Humanities specialty is 18th century author Daniel for Alumni Relations and served on the taken him to the Argonne National Lab, and Social Sciences as an adjunct faculty Defoe. “Everyone has a unique and University Disciplinary Committee and southwest of Chicago, and to CERN on member. He has taught several courses, verifi able writing style. You use neural the Fulbright Scholarship Committee, the border of France and Switzerland. including Computer-Assisted Text networks, support vector machines and among many others. “By working in physics here, you’re Editing, Business Communications and Bayesian techniques to verify authorship. In his 51st year at Carnegie Mellon, at the cutting edge of what’s going on Writing for Economists, as well as his “I use my physics background to Rudman stresses the importance of being right now, all the new computing,” he specialty course, Computer and Literary help me conduct experiments relating to fl exible. said. “The Web started in the group that Linguistics Studies, for which he became authorship attribution. It’s a science I’ve “You have to adapt and change. we collaborated with at CERN. The highly and widely regarded. been working on since the early ’70s.” You just have to,” he said. cyclotron there is 17 miles around and it In addition to his work as a physics Rudman said he became interested And how long will he continue to goes under the Jura Mountains in France administrator and teacher, Rudman has in Defoe during his undergraduate days. work? and comes into Switzerland. At one point become an expert in yet another fi eld — “Defoe was also an accountant, econo- “As long as I feel myself being the department had three apartments in authorship attribution. He’s given about mist, journalist, spy and a counterspy. productive,” he said. France and two automobiles because 40 talks on the subject in 26 U.S. cities He wrote so many different things. He That could be a while.

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Experimental Geography School of Design Lecture Building Virtual Worlds Show Guitar Ensemble Concert Check out the new art exhibit by 19 artists Laurene Vaughan of RMIT University in Austra- From virtual reality to audience interaction and Jim Ferla, director and teams from seven countries that explains lia will lecture on “Design outside of Design.” everything imaginable in between, this live 8 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 9 the differences between geographical study 5-6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 24 showcase of the most impressive student work Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts and artistic expression of the earth. Breed Hall, Margaret Morrison 103 from the semester is truly a must-see event. Through Jan. 31 Doors open at 2 p.m. Holiday Tour at Phipps Conservatory Miller Gallery, Purnell Center Healthcare@Heinz Lecture 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec 2 and Botanical Gardens Stephen Parente of the University of Minnesota Chosky Theater Please join Carnegie Mellon’s Women Associa- Botanicals: Environmental Expressions will discuss “Meaningful Market-based Health tion members and friends for a self-guided in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Reform: The Journey Thus Far.” University Lecture Series tour of Phipps Conservatory. The cost is $10 Collection Noon – 1:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30 Nadine Aubry, the Raymond J. Lane Distin- for adults, $9 for seniors (62+), $9 for students One of the fi nest private collections of Hamburg Hall 1001 guished Professor and head of the Depart- and $7 for children (9-12). RSVP by Dec. 4 to contemporary botanical art in America, ment of Mechanical Engineering will discuss Tricia Dugan at [email protected] Checks these 54 artworks are expressions of the Open Forum with President Cohon “Lessons from Living Life on the Boundary.” may be written to CMWA and mailed to: purely aesthetic forms found in nature. Staff Council will host an open forum with 4:30 p.m., Dec. 3 CMWA Box 1269 5032 Forbes Ave., Pitts- Through June 30 President Cohon. Porter 100, Gregg Hall burgh, PA 15289. Hunt Institute Noon-1 p.m., Monday, Nov. 30 6 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 10 Rangos 2 & 3, University Center (UC) School of Music Holiday Concert Phipps Conservatory University Lecture Series Robert Page, conductor “The Global Rise of Social Enterprise” UniverSOUL Leadership Noon, Friday, Dec. 4 Faculty Artist Recital: Jerr Boschee of The Institute for Social The university’s growing presence in the world Rangos Ballroom, UC Cynthia DeAlmeida, oboe Entrepreneurs has been an advisor to social requires the ability to lead and manage in new Cynthia DeAlmeida, principal oboe of the entrepreneurs in the United States and ways. This interactive workshop will challenge Scotch’n’Soda Production Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, performs solo elsewhere for more than 30 years. assumptions, analyze traditional leadership “Betty’s Summer Vacation” works for oboe. 4:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 23 models, and explore non-traditional leadership Dec. 4 – 5 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 Porter 100, Gregg Hall styles. Visit www.cmu.edu/hr/learning/leader- McConomy Auditorium, UC Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts ship/index.html to register. 9-noon, Wednesday, Dec. 2 Connan Room, UC

F OUR Chief of Naval Operations Visits Carnegie Mellon

■ Shilo Raube Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, the top naval advisor to President Obama, visited Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus in October to discuss his vision of the current and future U.S. Navy. He mentioned that the Navy’s goal is to be a global navy by being in and around the areas that “we have interest and responsibilities.” “International naval cooperation is the cornerstone of America’s maritime strategy,” Roughead said. “We have to be driving toward a Navy that refl ects the face of the nation, a Navy that when the American people and American leaders look at it, they see themselves refl ected back. And, we have to start now.” He said it is the Navy’s aim to project power, be a deterrent force, and to pro- vide sea control, maritime security, humanitarian assistance and disaster response. Roughead also mentioned how counter-piracy is a great example of how the Navy stands on a global stage by working with friends and allies from several different nations to keep the sea lanes of communication open. Kiron K. Skinner, an associate professor of international relations, director of the International Relations and Politics Program, and a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, believes Roughead’s message came at a PHOTO BY TIM KAULEN crucial moment. C HIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS ADMIRAL GARY ROUGHEAD IS THE FIRST CHIEF “With the U.S. involved in two wars in the broader Middle East and the Obama OF NAVAL OPERATIONS TO COMMAND BOTH THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC FLEETS. administration reassessing its Afpak (Afghanistan/Pakistan) policy, it’s imperative to understand how our military plans to manage everything,” she said. “It’s also impor- Center and met with Carnegie Mellon’s Women in Computer Science. tant to realize that the U.S. is not operating on its own accord but in the interest of Roughead’s lecture was part of the International Relations and Politics the global community and with international cooperation.” Program’s Speaker Series and was co-sponsored by the College of Engineering While at Carnegie Mellon, Roughead toured the National Robotics Engineering and Heinz College.

Stimulus Funding Supports a Broad Range of Research A LOOK AT SOME C ONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ARRA-FUNDED and the Port Authority Transit. “The story develop faster algorithms for matching facilities all across America. PROJECTS will continue to unfold,” he said. donors and recipients, and to create algo- “And that’s also what the Recovery The majority of Carnegie Mellon’s rithms that yield solutions to last-minute Act is all about. It’s not just about creating National Science ARRA funding, nearly $21 million, has discoveries that the donor’s kidney and make-work jobs; it’s about creating jobs Foundation Awards been appropriated through the National recipient are not compatible. that will make a lasting difference for our Rohit Negi and his team — including Science Foundation (NSF) to support The grant will enable Sandholm’s future,” Obama said. Marija Ilic, professor of electrical and nearly three dozen research projects in research group to apply their current “These grants bring both societal computer engineering and engineering and robotics, engineering, computer science, algorithms to multiple kidney exchanges and economic benefi ts to the region,” public policy; Franz Franchetti, a research business, biological sciences, and social — including the nationwide one that McNulty said. “Some of this research scientist in electrical and computer and decision sciences. United Network for Organ Sharing will provide life-saving innovations to engineering; and Ole Mengshoel, a senior The largest NSF awards went to plans to create — and to develop better the medical fi eld, while helping to create systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Computer Science algorithms and processes for the kidney new companies and new jobs. This is Silicon Valley — received $1.5 million Edmund Clarke; Associate Professor of exchange problem. something we’ve done with great success to develop monitoring tools for predicting Electrical and Computer Engineering “The proposed research will immedi- at Carnegie Mellon, and we look forward widespread rolling blackouts that are Rohit Negi; Robotics Professor Jessica ately help save hundreds of lives annually to future breakthroughs thanks to these plaguing the nation’s power grid. Hodgins; Assistant Mechanical Engineer- in the U.S. alone,” Sandholm said. “Once generous grants.” ing Professor Alan McGaughey; Associ- the nationwide kidney exchange reaches The largest of the NIH awards went Jessica Hodgins and her co-principal ate Teaching Professor Maxine Eskenazi steady state, that number can be over to Dr. Joel Stiles, an associate professor in investigator (PI) Fernando De la Torre in the Language Technologies Institute; 5,000 per year. The approach also leads the Biological Sciences Department and received $1.2 million to improve and Computer Science Professor Tuomas to dramatic improvements in the quality the Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for medical diagnoses and treatments for Sandholm. of life by moving patients off dialysis and Computational Biology; Robert Murphy, cognitive disabilities and illnesses, Clarke’s $3.8 million award will sup- back into the productive work force.” the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of such as Parkinson’s disease, by modeling port his team’s work to create revolution- In addition to the NSF grants, Computational Biology and director of human activities and symptoms using ary computational tools and models to Carnegie Mellon has received more than the Lane Center; and Eric Ahrens, associ- data gathered with lightweight, wearable advance science in several areas, from $5 million in stimulus funding from the ate professor of biological sciences. sensors. helping to develop new treatments for National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Stiles and his research team at the pancreatic cancer and atrial fi brillation to support a variety of scientifi c research that National Resource for Biomedical Super- Alan McGaughey and his Carnegie building safer airplanes and automobiles. holds promise for positively impacting computing received a $1.3 million award Mellon engineering co-PIs Shelley Anna The researchers will use Model Check- human health. to make new supercomputing technology and Mohammad Islam, and Kevin Pipe ing and Abstract Interpretation, methods “Now, we know these investments in available to researchers across the United of the University of Michigan were that are successful in fi nding errors in research will improve and save lives for States, allowing them to model and awarded a grant of $965,874 to study heat computer circuitry and software, and ap- generations to come,” President Obama simulate the structure and function of transfer and fl uid fl ow in carbon nanotube ply them to their work in biological and said of the NIH’s recent announcement molecules. The technology is 100 times aerogels. The team believes by tuning the electronic complex systems. of $5 billion in national stimulus funding. faster than currently used resources and structure of the aerogel, it will be possible Sandholm and his research team will “But we also know that these investments will dramatically accelerate research that to obtain materials ranging from excellent use $855,259 in stimulus funding to build will save jobs, they’ll create new jobs — visualizes and predicts the chemical inter- thermal insulators to high thermal on the existing algorithms they developed tens of thousands of jobs — conducting actions that underlie health and disease. conductivity materials, which potentially for matching living kidney donors with research, and manufacturing and supply- The work will provide information very can be used for electronics in aerospace unrelated kidney recipients. Among the ing medical equipment, and building and important to drug discovery. applications. advances the team hopes to make is to modernizing laboratories and research C ONTINUED ON PAGE ELEVEN

F IVE Building Projects Earn Accolades for Sustainability and Design

■ Bruce Gerson The renovation to Porter Hall 100, also known as Gregg Hall, and the building addition to the Tepper School of Busi- ness recently earned accolades from the U.S. Green Building Council and the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Porter’s “Lofty” Gregg Hall Renovation The Gregg Hall renovation project in 2007-08 received a Silver Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifi cate from the U.S. Green Building Council for its energy effi -

ciency, sustainability and use of green PHOTO BY BRUCE GERSON G REGG HALL WAS GUTTED AND RENOVATED IN ONE SEMESTER. THE RECENT RENOVATION PROJECT EARNED A SILVER LEED design principles. The project included RATING, MAKING IT THE EIGHTH CAMPUS BUILDING PROJECT TO BE CERTIFIED BY THE U.S. GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL. renovations to the Gregg Hall audito- rium, the creation of a 3,200-square-foot and our team leader Harold Major that second fl oor above the auditorium and we were able to accomplish all of these the restoration of Gregg Hall’s exte- goals for the project,” Horgan said. rior and windows. That space above the auditorium, completed in summer Tepper School Addition 2008, houses the Information Systems The 7,100-square-foot building addi- program in the College of Humanities tion to the west entrance of the Tep- and Social Sciences. per School, adjacent to Hunt Library, The Gregg Hall project’s green ele- recently received the Honor Award, ments include energy effi cient lighting, the highest award given annually by appliances and computers; regionally AIA Pittsburgh, and garnered glowing

“LEEDING” THE WAY Including Gregg Hall, Carnegie Mellon now has eight build- ing projects certifi ed by the U.S. Green Building Council. The PHOTO BY BRUCE GERSON Carnegie Mellon Café received a Gold LEED rating in 2008 T HE ORIGINAL HORNBOSTEL EXTERIOR OF PORTER HALL 100 WAS RESTORED

and the Collaborative Innovation Center earned a Gold Core DURING A RENOVATION THAT ADDED 3,200-SQUARE- FOOT OF SPACE ABOVE THE

and Shell rating in 2006. Earning Silver LEED ratings were the AUDITORIUM. THAT NEW SPACE INCLUDES FACULTY OFFICES, A CONFERENCE ROOM buildings at 300 and 407 S. Craig Street (2007), and the Hen- AND LOUNGE (BELOW) FOR THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROGRAM. derson House (2004) and Stever House (2003) residence halls. The Posner Center earned a LEED certifi cation in 2005. In addition to the Tepper School building addition, other projects pending LEED certifi cation are the Tepper School fi rst-fl oor renovation, the Doherty Hall Phase 2 project, and the Gates and Hillman centers.

manufactured materials that contain reviews by local and national designers. recycled components; environmentally The addition, which is seeking a friendly paint, coatings, adhesives and Gold LEED rating, houses a new suite sealants; and composite wood and doors of faculty offi ces and a conference room that contain no urea-formaldehyde. In with great views of the adjacent Peace addition, 60 percent of the construction Garden and Schenley Park. Its exterior waste was recycled. consists of glass, aluminum metal and

“Porter 100 had multiple and lofty dark fi ber cement board panels. PHOTO BY BRUCE GERSON goals from the start,” said Ralph Hor- Green elements to the Tepper gan, associate vice provost for Campus School addition include a retention pit Design and Facility Development. “The to control storm water runoff, light- fi rst goal was to gut and rehab one of ing sensors and timers based on room the largest, most heavily used and most occupancy and the amount of natural tired-looking lecture hall on campus. light, and the use of regionally manufac- Second, to somehow shoehorn a new tured materials and certifi ed wood from home for the Information Systems forests in which trees were replanted. program in the air space of that old “I think that the new Tepper addi- lecture hall. Third, to restore the original tion project is really special,” Horgan Hornbostel exterior of the building. And said. “We did a lot of hard work with lastly, to do all of this but only take the the school, Dean Dunn, Lynn Lalone, lecture room off-line for one semester.” Joseph Pastorik and with our architect, Horgan said the project also recap- EDGE Studios, to produce a space that tured old basement space for offi ce use worked for the users but that also made

by graduate students in the Mechanical a special statement to the campus and to PHOTO BY BRUCE GERSON Engineering Department. the city about the new and exciting work R ALPH HORGAN SAYS THE 7,100-SQUARE- FOOT BUILDING ADDITION TO THE TEPPER “It is a testament to the whole team, taking place in the Tepper School.” S CHOOL REFLECTS THE EXCITING WORK TAKING PLACE THERE. S IX Pure Science, Helping Students Makes Miller Happy

■ Heidi Opdyke For Jim Miller (E’77 ’83 ’95) returning to the university four years ago as a research professor meant returning to the roots of scientifi c inquiry. “The technical part of my job in Appliances Company. He met his industry wasn’t as deep as I wished it to wife, Janel, while attending Carnegie be,” Miller said. “So I came here, and I Mellon, and his son, Jeff, is a senior get to be much closer to the fundamental in civil engineering here. part of the scientifi c spectrum and work Before returning to the university, on some really basic problems with Miller and his family made being a part people who worry about what the of Carnegie Mellon a tradition. The atoms do.” Millers are members of the Andrew Miller is a member of the engi- Carnegie Society, which Jim Miller neering research faculty and inter- says allows him to give back by helping acts with graduate students. Current students’ pay their way or improving research involves studying ways to equipment in the chemical and civil make palladium-based membranes for engineering departments. separating hydrogen from coal gasifi ca-

“IN MY OWN WAY, I WANT TO HELP THE UNIVERSITY GET THE KIND

OF RESOURCES IT NEEDS TO MAKE IT GO.” — JIM MILLER (E’77 ’83 ’95) tion products more effi cient and less “There’s a lot of connections to the expensive. The work is in collaboration university that go pretty far back with with the National Energy Technology my family. And even beyond those, the Laboratory, based in the South Hills. kind of work that the university does, “This collaboration allows students the kind of problems that it tries to to work on problems that are really rel- understand and solve are important evant and important to energy science societal problems. In my own way, and solutions to the energy problems I want to help the university get the that our country faces,” Miller said. kind of resources it needs to make it “It’s good stuff and it’s the basic sci- go,” Miller said. PHOTO BY HEIDI OPDYKE F ROM THE TOP LEFT IS ENGINEERING SOPHOMORE ROBERT RUGART, JIM MILLER ence that I was missing out in industry, Other ways Miller gives back to AND ENGINEERING SENIOR ROGAITE (ROSIE) SHAFI. WORKING ON THE CHEME so it makes me happy.” the university include serving as the COMPETITION CAR IS ENGINEERING SOPHOMORE GAVIN CHEN. Miller received his bachelor’s faculty advisor for the student chapter degree from Carnegie Mellon in 1977 of the American Institute of Chemical and his Ph.D. in 1995, both in chemi- Engineers (AIChE) and a related group university’s Faculty & Staff Annual [email protected] or visit www. cal engineering. He worked in industry that competes in the ChemE Car com- Fund Committee. He encourages all fac- cmu.edu/campaign/involved/faculty. for many years, including at Exxon petition. The group recently competed ulty and staff to contribute to this effort. html. Payroll deduction forms are avail- Chemical Company, Gulf Oil Research, at nationals in Nashville, Tenn. To learn more about the annual fund able at www.cmu.edu/campaign/ways/ Altamira Instruments and Mine Safety Miller is also a member of the drive, contact Carole Panno at fy-09_payrollrom.pdf.

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■ Heidi Opdyke Two of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates I had never heard about the Gradu- spent time at Carnegie Mellon early in ate School of Industrial Administra- their careers. Oliver Eaton Williamson tion (GSIA) program, but I eventually (TPR’63), who earned his Ph.D. in followed up on Chuck’s advice and economics at Carnegie Mellon, shares inquired about the Ph.D. program. One this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic thing led to another, and I left Stanford Sciences. Ada Yonath, a post-doctoral after two years to join the Ph.D. program fellow at the Mellon Institute in 1969, at Carnegie. Stanford is a great univer- was named one of three winners of the sity, but GSIA was unique and over Nobel Prize in Chemistry. fulfi lled my expectations.” Williamson and Yonath join 16 The Nobel Foundation announced other Nobel Prize winners with ties to that Williamson was selected for: “his Carnegie Mellon — most recently Ed analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the fi rm.”

Rubin, who shared the Nobel Peace WILLIAMSON OF OLIVER EATON PHOTO COURTESY OF ADA YONATH PHOTO COURTESY

Prize as a member of the Intergovern- Co-recipient Elinor Ostrom of Indiana O LIVER EATON WILLIAMSON A DA YONATH mental Panel on Climate Change along- University was selected for: “her analy- side former Vice President Al Gore. sis of economic governance, especially ests. GSIA brought such interests to the Yonath received the Nobel Prize for the commons.” fore. I summarize these in what I have this year for work in generating X-ray Oliver Eaton Williamson Williamson developed focus for referred to as the Carnegie Triple: Be crystallographic images of the ribosome disciplined; be interdisciplinary — if, structure as early as the 1970s, a task the Williamson is currently the Edgar F. his research under the instruction of and as the problems cross interdisciplin- Nobel committee said was then considered Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business several academic pioneers who, dur- ary lines — and have an active mind.” “impossible.” She currently is the Martin Economics and Law at the University ing the 1960s, were revolutionizing the Chester Spatt, the Pamela R. and S. and Helen Kimmel Professorial Chair of California, Berkley. While he started principles of accepted economic theory. Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Ph.D. program at Stanford business While at Carnegie, he especially learned and director of the Center for Financial Israel. school, Williamson came to Carnegie from Richard Cyert, James March, Allan Markets at the Tepper School of Busi- During her time in Pittsburgh, the Tech at the suggestion of Charles Bo- Meltzer, Herbert Simon, Jack Muth and nini (GSIA’59), an assistant professor fellow Ph.D. candidates. “I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL TO THE EDUCATION THAT I RECEIVED AT with whom three Ph.D. students shared “I am forever grateful to the educa- GSIA BETWEEN 1960 AND 1963... I SUSPECT THAT I HAD LATENT an offi ce. tion that I received at GSIA between “Chuck and I would converse about 1960 and 1963. And Pittsburgh is a INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERESTS. GSIA BROUGHT SUCH INTERESTS TO great town.” Williamson said. “It was an this and that, but he always came up THE FORE. I SUMMARIZE THESE IN WHAT I HAVE REFERRED TO AS incredibly exciting experience. I suspect with a fi nal remark: ‘You should be at THE CARNEGIE TRIPLE: BE DISCIPLINED; BE INTERDISCIPLINARY — Carnegie,’” Williamson said. “Frankly, that I had latent interdisciplinary inter- IF, AND AS THE PROBLEMS CROSS INTERDISCIPLINARY LINES — AND

HAVE AN ACTIVE MIND.” — OLIVER EATON WILLIAMSON (TPR’63)

Pople Family Provides ness, said Williamson was a pioneer in Israeli scientist worked with Gerald recognizing the limits of markets and Elliott, a visiting scientist from Kings Golden Opportunity fi rms. College in England in Rice’s lab. Yonath “He has made many contributions helped Elliott develop a low angle X-ray to the fi eld of economics in determin- lab for studying muscle in the Mellon ing the nature and boundary of fi rms Institute and in Rice’s lab at the Marine and determining whether transactions Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. are better mediated through markets or “It was my fi rst time in the USA, and I internally within a fi rm,” Spatt said. had a 1-year-old baby,” Yonath said. “The “On behalf of Carnegie Mellon scene was certainly different from all I University, I congratulate Oliver experienced earlier, and I learned a lot sci- Williamson on this great honor,” said entifi cally and also about science policy.” Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. While the work done at the time Cohon. “We are always pleased to see wasn’t as revolutionary as Yonath’s later our alumni succeed, and in this case Dr. work which earned her the Nobel Prize, Williamson has achieved international Rice said that she and Elliott helped the recognition at the highest level. His college venture into small angle X-ray dif- work in economic governance has been fraction research. “We were just entering a groundbreaking, and this Nobel is well new era, and it was very tricky,” he said. deserved.” Yonath said that her Ph.D. thesis at the Weizmann Institute was on collagen, Ada Yonath and during her work she developed an inte- PHOTO BY NICOLE READING Robert V. Rice, a Carnegie Mellon grated biochemical/computerized approach A T THE INAUGURAL JOHN A. POPLE LECTURES IN THEORETICAL AND QUAN- Professor Emeritus of Biology and that allowed high-resolution structure TUM CHEMISTRY HELD ON OCT. 5, THE CHILDREN OF THE LATE JOHN A. POPLE Chemistry, recalls Yonath as being an determination of collage. She extended PRESENTED THE FORMER CHEMISTRY FACULTY MEMBER’ S NOBEL MEDAL TO THE extremely cheerful individual who did her knowledge about fi ber and power U NIVERSITY. POPLE RECEIVED THE 1998 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY FOR HIS outstanding work while a member of his diffraction during her time in Rice’s lab. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY. THE GOLD MEDAL, WHICH laboratory, which at the time was study- “The combined experience was vital WILL BE DISPLAYED IN HUNT LIBRARY BEGINNING THIS SPRING, WILL BECOME ONE OF ONLY A FEW TO BE DISPLAYED AT A UNIVERSITY. POPLE BEQUEATHED HIS ing muscles. Rice worked with the Mel- for detecting the potential of my initial MEDAL TO CARNEGIE MELLON, THE PLACE WHERE HE COMPLETED HIS PRIZE- lon Institute and Carnegie Mellon from diffraction from the ribosome micro crys- WINNING RESEARCH. 1954 until 1987. Yonath joined his lab a tals,” she said. “MY FATHER WAS A BRILLIANT MAN IN MANY WAYS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS couple of years after the Mellon Institute Rice said the work was paid for by a THAT HE WAS WISE ENOUGH TO KNOW IS THAT NO SCIENTIST IS AN ISLAND. IN had merged with the university. National Institutes of Health grant, which ORDER TO ACHIEVE GREAT RESULTS YOU NEED A GOOD ENVIRONMENT, A SUP- “She was a very devoted scientist was devoted to muscle biochemistry and PORTIVE DEPARTMENT AND ADMINISTRATORS, AND THE BEST TECHNOLOGY,” SAID even then,” Rice said in a recent phone biophysics. A NDREW POPLE, THE LAUREATE’ S SON. “ALL THIS AND MORE HE FOUND AT interview from his home in Falmouth, C ARNEGIE MELLON.” Mass. N INE LECTURE SPOTLIGHT: STUDENTS SERVE AS TECH CONSULTANTS FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS

■ Heidi Opdyke Joseph Mertz knows where Babeldaob The students who take on the intern- “All of the pieces is. He’s been to the largest island in the ships have to be able to be fl exible and are in place,” Mertz said. Pacifi c Island nation of Palau and is hop- resourceful, Mertz said. From the partners’ ing more people will want to visit there “The diffi culty is not in the technical view, the programs have or other far-fl ung destinations. skills. You can bring that in,” Mertz said. been successful as well. “We’ve had students working there “It’s dealing with ambiguity. No one is Projects have included for fi ve years now,” Mertz said. “They telling the students what to do. Their fi rst Web sites, design tem- work in the ministry of health and task is to bring structure to this very un- plates and databases. education, and they come back with nice structured project and assess what needs The Carnegie Mellon photos of waterfalls and stories about to be done.” students have trained snorkeling and scuba diving.” There’s also the issue of handling local staff to update and Mertz, an associate teaching profes- new experiences, students maintain a blog sustain the programs on sor in the H. John Heinz III College and at http://tcingc.org/ about their experience their own. One example the School of Computer Science, has sent that include everything from bus trips to is a Web site created for 49 students from all seven colleges to dining on fruit bat soup. He said he also the Ministry of Health in provide assistance to governmental de- fi nds they miss media-rich Web sites in the Cook Islands. Since it OF JOSEPH MERTZ PHOTO COURTESY J OSEPH MERTZ partments, schools and non-governmental areas where connection speeds are more was created in 2004 by a organizations in technologically under- like those of dial-up connections. student, Ministry of Health offi cials have “But I like that I get to make an served nations. Internships have occurred “They have transformative experi- continually added additional sections impact around the world through these in places such as Niue, Palau, Ghana, ences. They use their skills, but they also and updated content. students,” Mertz said. India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. build confi dence by going to these far- Not only are the project partners Support for the project comes from Mertz designed and teaches Tech- away places,” Mertz said. gaining value from the technical skills a variety of sources. The Egerman Fam- nology Consulting in the Community in In his recent university lecture, supplied by the students, but the students ily Foundation has been the primary sup- Pittsburgh and Qatar. Students develop Mertz explained the capacity-building come away with new perspectives. porter. Additional support has come from technical consulting and management consulting model the program is built on “They learn to slow down enjoy, and the Secretariat of the Pacifi c Community, skills while collaborating on site with a and described the outcomes the students act more deliberately in life,” Mertz said. the United Nations Association of the leader of a local organization. The inter- have achieved. He hopes to exponentially Mertz, a lifelong Pittsburgher, said United States, the Pacifi c Telecommuni- national Technology Consulting in the expand the program to involve more stu- he wishes a program like this would have cations Council and the university. Global Community summer program is dents and faculty advisors. been available when he was in school. an outgrowth of the course.

on site and a panini menu featuring many INI’s Cyber Academy a N EWS BRIEFS local ingredients on the third fl oor of the Finalist for Prestigious Gates Center. Japan Award Owner Amy Enrico plans to host weekly Through the creative efforts of Carnegie Mel- Bartiromo To Host Manufacturing Roundtable coffee tastings in the café space, giving the lon’s Information Networking Institute (INI) and In Wiegand Gym campus community the opportunity to learn CyLab, a novel interactive cybersecurity portal CNBC will fi lm a special “Meeting of the Minds” roundtable on manufacturing on Monday, what contributes to the unique taste charac- for children, The Carnegie Cyber Academy, Nov. 30, in Wiegand Gym. The event will be hosted by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, anchor of teristics of each coffee. was named a fi nalist for the Japan Award. CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo,” and host and managing editor of the nationally Tazza D’Oro operating hours are 7 a.m. The entry was one of more than 300 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. Possible syndicated “Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo.” Previous shows have featured innovative research tools competing for Saturday hours will be evaluated. capitalism and the future of health care. top honors in an international competition For this one-hour special event, which will be taped at 6:30 p.m. that day, CNBC will designed to encourage higher standards for Music Professor Named bring together decision makers, business leaders, policy makers and visionaries including educational multimedia content. To Steinway Artist Roster Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE, and more. Created by the INI and Carnegie Mel- More information will be announced as it becomes available. Sergey Schepkin, lon CyLab, the MySecureCyberspace game associate professor and www.carnegiecyberacademy.com were of piano in the School designed to teach users how to avoid cyber of Music, has been predators and malicious viruses. diameter to 1 1⁄4 inches in diameter. The base Walking to the Sky named to the roster plate of the pole also increased in depth by Reinforcement Complete of Steinway Artists, an Research Saves Electricity approximately 20 inches. If the recently installed Walking to the Sky exclusive list of inter- With Low-Power Processors, The bottom of the new pole is nearly sculpture looks a bit heavier than it did nationally renowned double the width of the original sculpture. The Flash Memory before, you’re absolutely right. While the total pianists maintained diameter at the base increased from 20 to 39 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Intel length of the pole (103 feet) and the angle by legendary piano maker Steinway and inches, while it decreased at the top, from 20 Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low- (75 degrees) remain the same as the original Sons. Schepkin was selected based on the to 17 inches. The interior steel pipe reinforce- power, embedded processors typically used sculpture, its overall gross weight has more high standard he has set with his artistic and ments gradually decrease in thickness, going in netbooks with fl ash memory to create a than tripled, increasing from 13,000 to 40,000 professional achievements. He joins a list of from 3⁄4 inch thick at the bottom to 1⁄2 inch server architecture that is fast, but far more pounds. accomplished pianists such as Sergey Rach- thick at the top. The university did not pay for energy effi cient for data-intensive applications The sculpture, created by Jonathan maninoff and contemporary classical music the reinstallation. than the systems now used by major Internet Borofsky (A’64), has a new stainless steel pole sensation Lang Lang. services. design that includes interior steel pipe rein- Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Schepkin An experimental computing cluster forcements to minimize movement and maxi- studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conserva- Coffee Bar Opens in based on this so-called Fast Array of Wimpy mize stability, and a stronger foundation. An tory, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. Gates Center Nodes (FAWN) architecture was able to additional 7,000 pounds of reinforcing steel Since 2003, Schepkin has worked at Coffee and espresso bar Tazza D’Oro is handle 10 to 100 times as many queries for and 30 cubic yards of concrete were added Carnegie Mellon. He has given many solo and adding to the buzz of activity in the Gates the same amount of energy as a convention- to the existing concrete foundation, which has chamber performances, and he has pre- and Hillman centers. al, disk-based cluster. The FAWN cluster had been covered with a waterproof membrane. sented lectures-recitals and master classes at The Highland Park staple, which recently 21 nodes, each with a low-cost, low-power In addition, 90 steel dowel pins were drilled many higher education institutions worldwide. celebrated 10 years at its main location on N. off-the-shelf processor and a four-gigabyte into the existing foundation and the pole base Highland Ave., will offer pastries baked daily compact fl ash card. At peak utilization, the plate bolts were increased from 3⁄4 inches in cluster operates on less energy than a 100- watt light bulb.

T EN ARRA-Funded Projects Soap Stars Seen on Campus C ONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE Maxine Eskenazi and her co-PI Alan Black were awarded an $897,502 grant to create the Dialog Research Center, which will aid spoken dialogue researchers worldwide by distributing data collected through “Let’s Go,” an automated phone line for Port Authority schedules. The center also will conduct tutorials on spoken dialogue systems and sponsor competitions to spur research. In addition, the center will develop a 311 phone line to handle citizen complaints and service requests for the City of Pittsburgh.

National Institutes of Health Awards

Robert Murphy received $510,300 to expand current methods of computational proteomics. Murphy and his colleagues use automated fl uorescence microscopy and machine learning techniques to determine the location of proteins within cells. The new funding will enable the researchers to further study the subcellular proteins and how they change locations in response to varying conditions, such as exposure to therapeutic drugs, providing new methods and targets for drug discovery.

A grant for $492,081 will allow for continued development of cellular MRI technology that will allow Eric Ahrens and his research team to track therapeutic cells, such as those used in vaccines or gene therapies, as they travel through the body. A major

PHOTO BY KEN ANDREYO bottleneck to approval of cell-based therapies has been the inability to prove where therapeutic cells go after they are introduced to the body. Aherns’ technology addresses “AS THE WORLD TURNS” EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND DIREC- this problem and it is hoped that the technology will be used to monitor a colorectal TOR CHRISTOPHER GOUTMAN (CFA’76) WATCHES MAURA WEST cancer dendritic cell vaccine in clinical trials at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer AND MICHAEL PARK REHEARSE A SCENE FOR THE LONG- RUNNING Institute. CelSense, a Carnegie Mellon spin-off company, will manufacture the markers SOAP OPERA IN FRONT OF THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ON NOV. used in Ahrens’ study. 2. THE SHOW WAS ON A THREE- CITY TOUR, AND PITTSBURGH STOPS INCLUDED CARNEGIE MELON, CHARLES SPIEGEL FOR MEN National Endowment for the Arts Award IN SQUIRREL HILL, NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ON

THE NORTH SIDE AND THE CLARK BAR & GRILL ON THE NORTH The College of Fine Arts (CFA) also has received ARRA funding. CFA Dean Hilary

S HORE. SCENES FROM PITTSBURGH ARE EXPECTED TO AIR ON Robinson and her co-PI Courtney Ehrlichman garnered a $50,000 award from the

CBS ON NOV. 20. National Endowment for the Arts for their “Creative Entrepreneurs” project. The effort aims to support the retention of individual artists and to develop their careers in the local arts community.

The research team is led by David An- of Civil Engineers Researchers Work To cant and positive infl uence toward the educa- dersen, Carnegie Mellon assistant professor (ASCE) for outstand- Understand Neuronal tional growth and life of Mensa members. of computer science, and Michael Kaminsky, ing professional Navigation Robert Beatty, a 1960 graduate of senior research scientist at ILP. The work was accomplishments and Carnegie Mellon with a degree in industrial A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, supported in part by gifts from Network Appli- academic excellence. management, nominated Meltzer for the Goettingen Medical School in Germany and ance, Google and Intel Corp., and by a grant Garrett award in appreciation of the education, men- the University of Cambridge in the United from the National Science Foundation. (CIT’82,’83,’86) torship and guidance that he received as a Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers is head of the student. Beatty credits Meltzer with introduc- Science Program (HFSP) grant to develop Tarr Appointed Department of Civil ing him to the utilization of computerized molecular probes that will help researchers Co-Director of CNBC and Environmental Engineering and co- calculations for economics and encouraging better understand the “cellular GPS” system founder of the Center for Sensed Critical him to study the (then) new fi eld of computer Carnegie Mellon that guides neurons to create a properly wired Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR), a programming and technology at Carnegie has appointed new nervous system. research center developed to deliver “nervous Mellon. Psychology Professor In the course of the development and systems” for critical infrastructure. Garrett “Professor Meltzer was a wonderful Michael J. Tarr, co- repair of the nervous system, nerve cells, also and his colleagues envision infrastructure with teacher and mentor,” Beatty said. “To this director of the Center called neurons, seek to fi nd other specifi c various sensors that feed valuable data to be day whenever I see his name in print, or see for the Neural Basis of nerve cells with which they connect to form processed for instant use or future reference. him being interviewed on a major TV show, I Cognition (CNBC). The a synapse. At the synapse, information is Garrett also has developed mobile feel a touch of pride that this is the man who CNBC is a joint project passed from cell to cell via electric impulses, hardware and software systems to support is responsible for my career, and who has so between Carnegie Mel- underlying the nervous system’s essential information collection and access during con- infl uenced my life.” lon and the University processes like perception and thought. struction management and bridge inspection of Pittsburgh devoted to investigating neural Leading the nerve cells to their spe- processes. Khosla Receives Academic mechanisms and their impact on human cifi c targets are growth cones, specialized Excellence Award cognitive abilities. Peter Strick, a professor of structures within the tip of the neuron’s axon. Casalegno Named Assistant neurobiology and psychiatry at Pitt, also co- Within each growth cone is a tiny molecular Pradeep K. Khosla received the prestigious Dean of Student Affairs directs the center. navigational system that guides the nerve cell 2009 Academic Excellence Award at the Pan Before joining Carnegie Mellon, Tarr Dean of Student Affairs Karen Boyd recently down a winding path while sensing the cellu- IIT entrepreneurship conference in Chicago spent 14 years at Brown University as a pro- announced that Gina Casalegno has ac- lar terrain, allowing the cell to fi nd its synaptic last month. fessor of cognitive and linguistic sciences. An cepted the newly created position of assistant target. Khosla is a University Professor, dean expert in the neural, cognitive and computa- dean of Student Affairs and will lead the ca- The HFSP supports novel, innovative and of the College of Engineering, the Philip and tional mechanisms underlying visual percep- reer and professional development center. Liz interdisciplinary basic research focused on the Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and tion and cognition, Tarr also held a chair in Vaughn will step in to serve as interim director complex mechanisms of living organisms. Computer Engineering, and founding director ophthalmology and visual sciences at Brown. of Student Activities for the remainder of the of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. He was unani- Tarr grew up in Pittsburgh and is the son school year. Meltzer Garners mously selected from a fi eld of more than 200 of Joel Tarr, the Carnegie Mellon Richard S. Mensa Award nominees to receive the Academic Excellence Caliguri Professor of History and Policy. Award from Pan IIT, a global organization Allan Meltzer, the Allan H. Meltzer University representing alumni from all Indian Institutes Professor of Political Economy at the Tepper Garrett Honored by of Technology campuses. School of Business, was awarded the 2009 American Society of Khosla received his bachelor’s degree in Distinguished Teacher Award by the Mensa Civil Engineers technology from IIT (Kharagpur, India) in 1980 Education and Research Foundation. The and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Carn- Carnegie Mellon’s James H. Garrett Jr. has award is in recognition of Meltzer’s work as egie Mellon in 1984 and 1986, respectively. been elected a fellow of the American Society teacher and mentor, which has had a signifi -

E LEVEN Carnegie Mellon Purchases Additional Properties for Future Development Along Forbes-Craig Corridor

■ Bruce Gerson Forbes Avenue, represents one of the of this latest purchase will enhance the building at 4615 Forbes, a parking lot most signifi cant expansions of the main university’s other investments on cam- behind the GATF building, and the Na- Carnegie Mellon has purchased three campus in the university’s history, and pus, such as its Collaborative Innovation tional City Bank property and building nearby Forbes Avenue properties, provides for the otherwise impossible Center — the only building in the world at 4612 Forbes. including the former site of an Exxon contiguous development of our campus where Google, Intel, Apple and a Micro- In an email to the campus commu- service station at 4621 Forbes, from along Forbes to Craig Street, forming soft Research Lab live under one roof — nity last summer, Carnegie Mellon Pres- Museum Park Partners, a land develop- the key for future expansion and growth, and the recently completed Gates Center ident Jared Cohon said these contiguous ment fi rm, for future development in the which will benefi t students, faculty, for Computer Science and Hillman properties were strategically located to Forbes Avenue and Craig Street cor- staff and the community at large.” Center for Future-Generation Technolo- enable future growth that will benefi t the ridors. In addition to the former service Horgan noted that property is at gies. “Our students are benefi ting from university and the region. He said the in- station, the purchase includes a hillside a very high premium in the Oakland the increased instructional space, and vestment was of compelling importance just east of 4621 and a house on Filmore section of Pittsburgh, especially near our corporate partners value our quality to the university’s future growth, even in Street, which sits behind 4621 and adja- Craig Street, which has one of the development,” he said. “For this Forbes- such a challenging economic time. cent to a parking lot for the Graphic Arts lowest property vacancy rates of any Craig corridor, the university believes These properties, which were Technical Foundation (GATF) building. area in the country. that mixed-use development provides purchased for approximately $25 Carnegie Mellon and Museum Park “This recent purchase completes the best economic model for the univer- million, and the recent purchase of Partners completed the closing Nov. 9. our strategic assembly of large parcels sity, the city and our corporate partners. the three additional Forbes Avenue “We are pleased to have come to along the Forbes-Craig corridor,” said The university will work from a plan properties for $7.5 million are being this recent purchase, as it will allow Horgan, who noted that Carnegie that allows for the orderly coordination funded from working capital reserves Carnegie Mellon to plan for a holistic Mellon now owns the majority of land of uses, parking, traffi c and design.” of the university. redevelopment of a property that is criti- along Forbes from Craig Street to The recent acquisition follows the In 2008, Carnegie Mellon pur- cally important to the university,” said Margaret Morrison Street. “In the purchase of three acres of land along chased the properties at 4620, 4622 Ralph Horgan, associate vice provost for future, this corridor will provide a ‘front Forbes Avenue this past summer, which and 4626-4628 Forbes Avenue, which Campus Design and Facility Develop- door’ to our campus from Oakland.” included a lot in Junction Hollow on the housed a bar, vintage clothing shop ment. “This purchase, combined with Horgan also said the redevelopment south side of Forbes Avenue, the GATF and restaurant. our earlier land acquisitions along

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