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April 2012 [.Pdf] CMU’S NEWS SOURCE FOR FACULTY & STAFF 4/12 ISSUE 2 W OLFE S HARE S H O W P UBLIC T RAN sp OR TAT ION C HANGE S W ILL Directing Success A FFEC T CMU 5 BOOK FOCUSES ON ARAB WOMEN IN ARAB MEDIA M INI C OUR S E H EL ps C ARNIVAL B OO T H B UILDER S 9 G ARDENER T O O FFER T I ps ON T A M ING W ILDFLO W ER S Award-Winning Educators Make Personal Connections n Piper Staff Faculty who exemplify the university’s standards of excellence in education are recognized annually as part of the Celebra- tion of Education, which this year will NDREYO take place starting with a reception at 4:30 A p.m., Wednesday, April 25 in Rangos 1 and 2 at the University Center. The events are free and open to the public. PHOTO BY KEN The Celebration of Education consists of five main awards: The Ryan Award, A W A RD - WINNING DIRECTOR R OB M A RSH all ( A ’ 8 2 ) OFFERED HIGH PR A ISE TO THE CMU D R A M A S CHOO L A S HE TOUCHED The Barbara Lazarus Award and The ON HOW CO ll EGE THE A TER TR A INING A ND EXPERIENCE H A S BEEN A DRIVING A ND INF L UENTI al FORCE IN HIS C A REER . “ I T W A S A N INCREDIB L E PROGR A M , ” M A RSH all S A ID . “ I T W A S all HERE . I W A S A CTING ONE MINUTE , DOING Gelfand Award, presented annually, and VOICE THE NEXT . I T W A S A WONDERFU L COMBIN A TION OF THINGS TH A T YOU COU L DN ’ T FIND A NYWHERE E L SE IN THE The Doherty Award and The Academic COUNTRY . I T W A S RE all Y PERFECT .” Advising Award, given every other year. In M A RSH all W A S A T CMU ’ S P ITTSBURGH C A MPUS A S P A RT OF THE S TEINER S PE ak ER S ERIES , M A DE POSSIB L E addition, the most recent recipients of the THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF D A VID ( E ’ 5 1 H ’ 1 1 ) A ND S Y L VI A S TEINER . College Teaching Awards, the Graduate F O ll OWING WE L COMING REM A R K S BY CMU P ROVOST A ND E XECUTIVE V ICE P RESIDENT M A R K K A M L ET A ND Student Teaching Award and the Graduate S CHOO L OF D R A M A H E A D P ETER C OO K E , M A RSH all J OINED THE ST A GE A ND S A T DOWN TO A N INFORM al CONVERS A TION Student Service Award also are honored. WITH C OO K E , FO ll OWED BY A UDIENCE QUESTIONS . C ONTINUED ON P A GE SIX W A TCH THE CONVERS A TION ON L INE A T WWW . CMU . EDU / PIPER . Autism Study CIC To Be Named For Former CMU President Crosses n Teresa Thomas Six former Carnegie Mellon presi- and to technology commercialization at the university’s Information Networking Disciplines, dents have been immortalized with CMU. The building houses technology Institute and the CERT® Coordination university buildings named in their research and development offices for Center, Carnegie Mellon’s internation- Universities honor. Soon there will be a seventh. Apple, Intel and Disney. It also houses ally known cybersecurity team. Students, faculty and staff are Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE Lab — a Carnegie Mellon’s eighth President, n Shilo Rea invited to a ceremony at 11 a.m., robotics lab sponsored by Microsoft — Jared L. Cohon, said the Collaborative While it’s well accepted that genetics Wednesday, April 18 in the Col- and space for Carnegie Mellon CyLab, C ONTINUED ON P A GE THREE play a strong role in autism disorders, the laborative Innovation Center (CIC) underlying causes remain a mystery. lobby, where the CIC will be named But, now for the first time, researchers, the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative including Carnegie Mellon’s Kathryn Innovation Center in honor of CMU’s Roeder and the University of Pittsburgh’s seventh president. Mehrabian, who Bernie Devlin, have identified three genes led CMU from 1990 to 1997, is now that affect a child’s risk for autism. chairman, president and CEO of Published in “Nature,” this series of Teledyne Technologies Inc. studies suggests that autism disorders are The dedication recognizes caused by variations in multiple unrelated Mehrabian’s contributions to C ONTINUED ON P A GE TWE L VE economic development in Pittsburgh O N E Q&A With Ryan Wolfe: Public Transportation Changes Will Impact Carnegie Mellon Community n Heidi Opdyke Ryan Wolfe, director of Campus Services, T OP 20 recently attended a Staff Council general body meeting to discuss Carnegie All of the top 20 Port Authority Mellon’s rising use of public transporta- Transit routes used by members tion and the impact of the proposed mas- of the CMU community are being sive Port Authority Transit service cuts, considered for service reductions expected to take place Sept. 2. The Piper or elimination. They include: caught up with Wolfe after the talk. 61D 54 P1 How will the proposed changes 61C 71C Light Rail at the Port Authority Transit (PAT) 61A 64* P3 affect members of the Carnegie 61B 28X 82 Mellon community? 71B 75 58* The proposed changes as they stand 71D 67 86 right now include an approximate 35 71A 69* percent reduction in their system. They *indicates proposed elimination are proposing an elimination of 46 routes, all of which are currently used by staff and students. With a new agreement, will the In addition to the proposed 35 university continue to pay for percent reduction, there’s a general fare faculty and staff to ride for free? increase that will take place in July. Yes. To clarify, the students do pay a While this does not directly impact our transportation fee, and the university community members that use Port through the benefits process funds Authority services, it will have a nega- faculty and staff participation. So while tive impact on the Pittsburgh region. there is not an additional charge to the Obviously, the route eliminations employee, there is money being col- E are of the greatest concern to Carnegie K lected centrally for both groups. DY Mellon. Ninety percent of our ridership P is concentrated in about 20 routes. Is there anything people can do to If you look at the 61s, 71s and a few be involved? others, that’s a real big bulk of our Based upon the turnout and conversa- HOTO BY HEIDI O ridership. Four of these top 20 routes, P tion we had at the town hall meeting all heading east, are on the list for R Y A N W O L FE as well as other presentations around possible elimination. 20 bus routes will continue to run after The other concern is the 10 p.m. S LIDES FROM W OLFE ’ S S ta FF C OU N CIL PRESE ntat IO N service stop time. Only five of our top 10 p.m. under the proposed changes to A RE A V A IL A BLE at WWW . CMU . EDU / S ta FF - COU N CIL / PAT’s schedule — 58, 61B, 69, 71A and 71D. Our shuttle and escort system rider- N EWS /2011-2012/PAT- UPD at E . H T ML ship has been steadily increasing and is up 30 or 40 percent. The PAT reductions L E A R N MORE A BOU T PUBLIC T R an SI T FROM A T WO - P A R T REPOR T would put even further stress on that if PRODUCED BY CMU P H .D. E LLIS R OBI N SO N , K EVI N B ROW N there were essentially only five buses an D D an IEL T ka CI K FOR WRCT 88.3-FM serving students after 10 p.m. PIPER at H tt P :// T R an SI T R A DIOPGH . WORDPRESS . COM . 4/12 Issue What is ridership like for Carnegie P UBLISHER Teresa Thomas Mellon? We’ve had conversations with the campus, it is clear that our community It has gone up over the years. Last year E DI T OR M ana GI N G E DI T OR University of Pittsburgh about what is aware and concerned. We will con- Bruce Gerson Heidi Opdyke we were at almost 1.8 million rides, and they’re thinking about doing to prepare tinue to communicate with both the Port I would expect our ridership to be at or W RI T ERS because Pitt is in a very similar situa- Authority and the campus concerning Jocelyn Duffy Byron Spice above that this year. the proposed cuts. Bruce Gerson Chriss Swaney tion. They have fewer parking places Between 2006 and 2011, we’ve had Heidi Opdyke Teresa Thomas per capita than we do and they rely Whether or not you use PAT, a ser- Shilo Rea Ken Walters 30 percent growth. heavily on the Port Authority. vice reduction of this size will impact Dennis Schebetta you. Please contact your local repre- Where is the impact going to be the What are some of the important sentative in Harrisburg, in the Senate D ESIG N ER worst? Melissa Stoebe dates to know? or the House, and let them know your Communications Design and Photography Specifically, with 26 of the proposed 46 On April 18 the PAT Board of Directors Group concerns via email or phone.
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