Researcher correlates class To save the environment, Timeflies exictes at fall status and colds • A4 save the pandas • A6 concert • B5 SCITECH FORUM PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan November 11, 2013 Volume 108, Issue 11 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Ian Glasner steps Wolpert sings his way to the top into role as SBVP NOËL UM organizations, Glasner looks News Co-Editor forward to the new respon- sibilities associated with his Spurred by a desire to position as student body vice make Carnegie Mellon life president. more enjoyable, junior elec- “I think I can make a dif- trical and computer engi- ference here and effect posi- neering major Ian Glasner tive change on campus. It’s has filled the role of student all about representing the body vice president after former vice president and ju- nior philosophy major Peter “I think I Masters resigned from the position. can make a Glasner was nominated to difference student body vice president by Student Body President here and effect Lindsay MacGillivray two weeks ago, and his nomina- positive change tion was approved by Student on campus.” Senate last Thursday. Mac- Gillivray presented Glasner as her nominee to Senate and —Ian Glasner faced no objections. Student Body Vice MacGillivray and Glasner President already have a history of pos- itive collaboration: Glasner previously served on Mac- student body and helping Read The Tartan’s Gillivray’s advisory cabinet make campus a better place as residential life adviser. He and making students more interview with currently serves as the com- happy and successful. I want munity advisor for the Resi- to make this campus more former Carnegie dence on Fifth. He is also on fun,” he said. the executive committee of According to the student Mellon student Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s Penn- government website, the stu- sylvania Phi chapter and is a dent body vice president as- James Wolpert on founder of CMU in Haiti, an sists the student body presi- organization that travels to dent in all areas of the job and B8 and supports Haiti. is either elected alongside Although already en- Courtesy of James Wolpert gaged with various campus See SBVP, A3 Suresh praises power of interdisciplinary collaboration JACQUELINE JAMES ferent fields — along with his a physics expert might not be Iris Yang, a biomedical en- Junior Staffwriter co-workers and students — able to solve a problem per- gineering master’s student, made his work possible. taining to his or her field, an added, “I connected with his Newly instated Carn- Suresh focused mostly on engineer could. research and found it very in- egie Mellon President Subra the devastating affect malaria Suresh hopes that his work teresting.” Suresh gave his inaugural lec- has on the simple human red with blood diseases might At the end of his lecture, ture last Thursday. blood cell. eventually lead to some form which lasted over an hour, After an introduction by Red blood cells must stretch of cure for malaria and sickle Suresh stayed to answer some James Garrett, dean of the and squeeze to fit through the cell anemia, for a start. De- questions. The lecture was the College of Engineering and extremely thin vessels in our spite cautioning that he is far first of what Suresh hopes will Thomas Lord professor of civil brains, This ability is vital for from any true solution, he re- be many. and environmental engineer- bringing oxygen to all parts of mains optimistic. As the ninth president of ing, Suresh was greeted with the brain. When they are in- “With each small step we Carnegie Mellon, Suresh has applause from the audience fected, red blood cells quickly come closer to solving the gathered many academic in the standing-room-only lose this flexibility as their problem,” he said, and looked lauds throughout his career, Rashid Auditorium. outer shell hardens. These in- to students for help. “If any one being his recent election “It is rare I get to be in the fected cells go on to cause ma- CMU students could solve this, to the Institute of Medicine. position of the professor, so jor vessel blockages. you’d be very famous!” In addition, Suresh has held a let’s get to it,” Suresh said. Suresh highlighted the im- “I found the lecture educa- position on the National Acad- Suresh’s passion and the portance of interdisciplinary tional, definitely,” said alumna emy of Sciences since 2012 bulk of his research involve approaches to such confound- and Carnegie Mellon tech- and has been a member of the studying red blood cells and ing problems. nology support and assess- National Academy of Engi- their behavior when confront- Suresh himself has back- ment analyst Shruti Valjee, neering since 2002. ed with malaria, sickle cell ground in materials science, “and also very inspirational. I Suresh is one of only 16 anemia, and leukemia. engineering, and medicine. think it’s a great way for him Americans to have the honor Suresh greatly emphasized He paused several times to start off as CMU president, of holding a place in all three Courtesy of Tim Kaulen how “transformative and dis- throughout the lecture to not just as a president, but a societies. Suresh will be inau- President Suresh delivered his first inaugural lecture last Thursday. ruptive” developments in dif- make the point that though researcher too.” gurated this Friday. Nagin wins Stockholm criminology prize BRIAN TRIMBOLI punished. Nagin found that News Co-Editor “I’m more optimistic, in the specific deterrence does not have the preventative effect Daniel Nagin, the Teresa future, that the political climate people thought, but rather and H. John Heinz III univer- will be such that policymakers that “either the experience of Check sity professor of public policy punishment was perhaps ex- and statistics, described the will actually pay attention to this acerbating recidivism or hav- research that won him the research.” ing no effect — none of it was out our 2014 Stockholm Prize for showing that it had that kind Criminology. of chastening effect.” “I’ve been doing work —Daniel Nagin Nagin, who is originally calendar of which calls into question a Professor of public policy and statistics from Pittsburgh, came to lot of sentencing policy — the Carnegie Mellon for his un- President way we use imprisonment — dergraduate education in the in the United States,” Nagin research on deterrence, the ing him or her, while general early 1970s. After receiving a said. idea that the threat of punish- deterrence focuses on crime degree from what is now the Suresh’s The Stockholm Prize, ment will prevent people from prevention on a larger scale by Tepper School of Business, he awarded by the Swedish Min- breaking the law. making examples of specific came back to Carnegie Mellon istry of Justice with contribu- According to Nagin, the re- criminals. for a master’s degree, also in inaugural tions from the Torsten Söder- search for which he received An example of general de- business. berg Foundation, is “awarded the award “specifically has to terrence, Nagin says, is when Nagin continued his educa- annually for outstanding do with the impact of sending “the threat of knowing that tion at Carnegie Mellon with a events on achievements in criminologi- people to prison on their sub- there might be cops around Ph.D. from what is now Heinz cal research or for the appli- sequent offenses.” the corner deters you from College. He credits his interest cation of research results by Nagin made the distinction speeding.” in research to his time as an A3! practitioners for the reduction between specific and general Nagin studies how the undergraduate. Nagin, hired of crime and the advancement deterrence. Specific deter- experience of punishment as an undergraduate research of human rights,” according to rence focuses on an individual affects recidivism, when assistant, had the chance to a university press release. criminal, discouraging future criminals lapse back into their Nagin won the prize for his criminal activities by punish- law-breaking ways after being See NAGIN, A3 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » November 11, 2013 FEATURE PHOTO NEWS IN BRIEF Student awarded scholarship Annual Benefits and Fitness Fair from (ISC)² Foundation Carnegie Mellon is proud is a process built upon a cy- to announce that Pratibha cle of key attributes: learn- Anjali Dohare is the recipient ing, monitoring, analyzing, of a $40,000 cybersecurity deciding, and responding scholarship from the Inter- — before the whole cycle of national Information Sys- learning begins again,” said tems Security Certification Dohare in the press release. Consortium (ISC)² Founda- Cybersecurity attacks are tion. becoming more frequent The scholarship will help with the increasing usage of Dohare with her studies in computer systems for both the masters of science in in- economic and social means. formation technology-infor- As young adults become mation security at Carnegie more experienced with so- Mellon’s Information Net- cial media, experts believe working Institute. many are participating in “I intend to utilize this unsafe practices on the Web. scholarship in enhancing To be eligible for the my knowledge in the field of scholarship, applicants must cybersecurity and forensics be at least undergraduate during my studies at CMU’s sophomores by August of the INI, with an aim to merge the calendar year, when scholar- processes of prevention and ships are awarded. investigation through devel- Students must also be opment of an intrusion pre- academically eligible to con- vention and detection sys- tinue at their educational tem. Cybersecurity is more institutions while pursuing than one individual step — it their degrees. CMU research shows inkblots improve password security Computer scientists at Ph.D. computer science stu- Carnegie Mellon have cre- dent who helped develop ated a password system that GOTCHA, said, “These are will use inkblots to provide puzzles that are easy for a extra protection when pass- human to solve, but hard for words are stolen from web- a computer to solve, even if it sites.