Georgia Tech’s Faculty/Staff Newspaper • Vol. 36, No. 4 • February 21, 2011 WTHE histle ? ?ASK?? AWAY Does any unit on A Junior’s Grill Legend Says ‘Farewell’ to Tech campus offer self- defense classes for AMELIA PAVLIK Miss Anne (left) ?? female employees COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING visits with her and students? campus family If your favorite order is a baked during a retire- ment party The Tech Police Department sweet potato and fried okra, she’s offers Rape Aggression held Feb 17. the type of lady who will make Anne worked Defense (R.A.D.) classes at Junior’s Grill to female students and sure it’s on the table waiting when you walk in the door. for 33 years. employees. The free course She retired in is offered over three days, December. for four hours per day. The She’s also the type of lady who will offer course is usually offered once up a homemade loaf of bread or a bit of a semester. “We usually do advice to someone who is feeling a little the class for groups of 10 to homesick or just having a bad day. 12 women,” said Officer Alex This lady is Anne Pamfilis, known to Gutierrez. “People will con- most on campus as “Miss Anne,” and in tact me, I put them on the December she retired from Junior’s Grill waiting list and when I have after 33 years of service. enough in a group, I contact “My favorite part of the job was the inter- them.” For more about the action,” said Anne, who is 81 years young. R.A.D. course, visit www. “I’d share my stories and advise them [the rad-systems.com or e-mail customers]. I was on my feet all day long, “Miss Anne has been my best story “My educated guess is that Anne served Gutierrez at alex.gutierrez@ but it didn’t bother me.” source; she knows everyone and everything at least 90 percent of them,” she added. police.gatech.edu. Anne began working at Junior’s in the 1970s, when Tommy Klemis, her nephew on campus,” said Kim Link-Wills of the Of course, Anne had her regular custom- If you have a Tech-related who owns the business, offered her a Alumni Association. “I wish we could have ers including the group that always came question that you’d like job. (See this month’s Ramblin’ Through had her on the Alumni Magazine staff.” in for coffee or the customer who would answered, e-mail it to Time feature for more about the history of According to Sandi Bramblett of bring her fig preserves. When she had an [email protected]. Junior’s.) Institutional Research and Planning, operation on her knee, some even brought From that point on, Anne became a fix- 166,893 students have taken classes at in remedies to help ease her pain. ture at the grill. Tech since 1974. ANNE, continued on page 4 EVENTS ARTS & CULTURE Changes Approved to February 23 Campus MovieFest is giving film Conflict of Interest Policy Professor Elected equipment to students, faculty and staff for one week to make their own 5-minute movies. Come to the Library AMELIA PAVLIK to National Academy East Commons from noon to 5 p.m. COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING http://tinyurl.com/47m32vr of Engineering Proposed changes meant to clarify the pro- February 25 COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING Twenty-four international inventors, cess and rules set forth in the Conflict of Interest composers and designers will come (COI) Policy were approved during the Feb. 15 together for the Margaret Guthman joint meeting of the Academic Senate and General William J. “Bill” Cook, Chandler Family Chair New Musical Instrument Competition. Faculty Assembly. and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of The final performances will be held at Industrial and Systems Engineering, is one of 68 new 7 p.m. in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium. Among the primary changes were the addition of definitions members and nine foreign associates elected to the http://gtcmt.gatech.edu for a “COI management office” and “responsible unit official,” National Academy of Engineering (NAE). as well as revised definitions for “family,” “investigator” and DramaTech presents “The Shape of “responsible representative of the institution.” Cook is known widely for his work with Things” at 8 p.m. in the Dean Dull The section on “Disclosure to the Institute” was revised to Theater. Check website for additional the traveling salesman problem and his show times and ticket information. reflect the use of the online COI disclosure system, and the research in combinatorial optimization and http://dramatech.org “Review of Financial Disclosures and Resolution of COI” sec- integer programming. In November, Cook tion was revised to reflect a centralized review process that is was also elected fellow by the Institute for March 4 & 5 conducted by the COI office and that the “responsible unit Operational Research and Management The New Trinity Baroque Orchestra official” will be involved in COI management. Sciences. will combine forces with the Tech In other business, the following topics were addressed: “I was overwhelmed by the news of my Chamber Choir to present two Atlanta performances of J.S. Bach’s monu- • A new minor in leadership studies that will be offered by the election to the academy,” Cook said. “This mental Mass in B Minor. The March School of Public Policy and the College of Management was is a great honor for me but is also recogni- 4 concert will be held at 8 p.m. at approved, among other programming items. tion of the important role played by optimi- St. John’s United Methodist Church zation in engineering disciplines.” • Proposed changes to the procedures followed by the Faculty William J. Cook (550 Mt. Paran Rd., NW). The March Cook joins two Georgia Tech alumni who 5 concert will be held at 8 p.m. at Status and Grievance Committee were approved. Now, when were also selected for the NAE honor. Parker H. “Pete” Petit, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church a formal hearing committee is generated, it will include 25 (1790 Lavista Rd., NE). potential members, rather than 24. Also, if the grievance is www.newtrinitybaroque.org COOK, continued on page 3 Events continue on page 2 FACULTY, continued on page 2 www.whistle.gatech.edu EVENTS Institute CONFERENCES New School of CSE Hosts Convocation & LECTURES JULIET HELMS COLLEGE OF COMPUTING February 22 The School of Chemistry and On Feb. 11, Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Biochemistry welcomes Georgia State University’s Y. George Zheng, who is Science and Engineering (CSE) celebrated its creation speaking on “Chemical Approaches to with the CSE Convocation. Protein Arginine Methylation” at 4 p.m. in room 3201A, Molecular Science and Engineering Building. The School of CSE, officially formed in May 2010 as one of three www.chemistry.gatech.edu academic units of the College of Computing, was founded on the notion that computation has taken its place alongside theory and February 23 experimentation as one of the three paradigms for scientific discovery The Clean Energy Speaker Series will and innovation. feature a panel discussion on “The “Formal creation of the school is a critical milestone capping the State of the Smart Grid” at noon in the efforts of our faculty, staff and students over many years to create an Hodges Room, Centergy Building. academic home for individuals who have devoted their careers to this www.secleanenergy.org discipline,” said CSE Chair and Regents’ Professor Richard Fujimoto. The Honors Program and the College “The school provides a platform to continue to grow interdisciplin- of Sciences present the 2011 Karlovitz ary research and education in areas such as modeling and simulation, Lecture featuring Duke University’s high performance computing and data analysis.” College of Computing Dean Zvi Galil helps celebrate the creation of Dr. Erich Jarvis speaking on “Brain CSE is, by definition, an interdisciplinary field, and multiple speak- the School of Computational Science and Engineering at the CSE Evolution: How Birds and Humans ers who participated in the panel session at the event hold joint Convocation. CSE Chair Richard Fujimoto (standing at right) says the Learn to Sing and Talk” at 5:30 p.m. in the Clary Theater, Student Success appointments in CSE and other units on campus. school provides a platform for the growth of interdisciplinary fields that Center. David Sherrill, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry with a rely on the tools modern computation provides. joint appointment in CSE, extolled the virtues of having large-scale February 24 computing and data capabilities for computational chemistry on the could benefit biologists. Avishai Mandelbaum will present the quantum level on campus. These new capabilities, to be largely cre- CSE Professor Haesun Park, who also participated in the panel, 2011 ISyE Distinguished Lecture at 4 ated through CSE’s efforts, allow for more accurate simulations and said that, by making CSE into its own school, Georgia Tech has p.m. in the atrium, School of Industrial defined the model for other universities to emulate. and Systems Engineering. The title of more advanced models in research areas such as bioinformatics and the talk is “Service Engineering: Data- other health-related fields, he added. The event closed with a keynote address from David Keyes, dean of Based Science in Support of Service Panelist Jeffrey Skolnick, director of the Center for the Study mathematical sciences and engineering at King Abdullah University Management, or Empirical Adventures of Systems Biology and another CSE joint appointment, echoed of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. in Call Centers and Hospitals.” Sherrill’s sentiments and discussed how the capabilities of the school www.isye.gatech.edu www.cse.gatech.edu February 28 Grant makers, fundraisers, philan- thropists and educators will discuss FACULTY, continued from page 1 “Diversity, Philanthropy and Access Roosevelt House to Higher Education” at 4 p.m.