| March/April 2002 |
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Two - Issue Two
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WESTERBERG MEMORIAL BLOOD DRIVE TO BE HELD ON APRIL 9 On Tuesday, April 9, ICES will sponsor a blood drive from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Singleton Room in Roberts Hall. This blood drive is being held in memoriam of Ken Westerberg, son of Art Westerberg, Swearingen University Professor of Chemical Engineering and ICES. Ken died in January of 2001 of Leukemia at the age of 35. Prior to his death, he expressed extreme interest in recruiting donors to aid this cause. Furthermore, the Pittsburgh area is currently experiencing a "state-of-emergency" due to extremely low blood supplies. If more donations are not received during the next several weeks, many area hospitals will be forced to cancel elective surgeries. Participation
in this blood drive is open to the entire campus community. To reserve
a time slot to donate blood, please contact Dana Hilinski at hilinski@andrew.cmu.edu.
Walk-ins are welcome, but those without an appointment may experience
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DOWD ENGINEERING SEED FUND FOR GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP - DEADLINE APRIL 15 Faculty
members from the College of Engineering are invited to submit proposals
for the Dowd Graduate Student Fellowship
program. Proposals should be submitted via email to Cristina Amon, Director
of ICES, by Monday, April 15, 2002. Fellowship selections will
be announced in June to start in July or September of this year. If you
have any questions regarding this call for proposals please contact Professor
Amon at 8-4343 or at camon@cmu.edu. |
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PITA'S ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS COURSE: BRIDGING EDUCATION WITH INDUSTRY - COURSE PROJECT PRESENTATIONS ON APRIL 30 As
you may or may not be aware, the ICES Education Laboratory hosts several
courses each semester for the College of Engineering. Course 39-605/6,
the Engineering Design Projects course, is one of four courses currently
taught by ICES faculty members. |
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ICES COMMUNITY MEETING ON APRIL 12: ICE CREAM INCLUDED! The entire ICES community is invited to attend a general information meeting on Friday, April 12, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in 2224 Hamburg Hall. Information will be provided on timely issues such as:
Ice cream and snacks will be provided. Please RSVP to Tiffany Booth at tbooth@andrew.cmu.edu by Wednesday, April 10. All ICES members are urged to attend. |
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ON-LINE PHONE DIRECTORIES NOW AVAILABLE Verizon recently developed an on-line telephone directory to wean the public away from traditional bulky phone books. This will significantly reduce the amount of paper directories distributed on campus. The Carnegie Mellon campus community is encouraged to use this new feature. To access Verizon's on-line directory go to www.superpages.com. |
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CASOS
SUMMER INSTITUTE, JUNE 15-20 The CASOS summer institute provides an intense and hands-on introduction to computational analysis of social and organizational systems. The focus is on social network analysis, complex adaptive systems, designing and evaluating computational models, multi-agent systems, virtual experiments, and docking. Illustrative models such as VDT, ORGAHEAD, CONSTRUCT, and ORGCON will be discussed. Network tools such as NETSTAT and UCINET will be used. Sessions will be split between lectures and labs. No
prior programming experience is assumed. Attendees will be given readings
and selected software. This institute is supported in part by the National
Science Foundation, IGERT program. Ph.D. students who are U.S. residents
can apply to the Carnegie Mellon IGERT program for scholarships to help
cover part of the cost of attending this workshop. Simply mark on the
application that you are interested in a scholarship and send email to
kathleen.carley@cmu.edu. Additional information is available on www.casos.ece.cmu.edu/. |
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A new website, IRIS, has been designed to accommodate the needs of the ICES community. ICES Request Information System (IRIS) is the central information system for users to submit problem tickets, request software, hardware and systems, view the ICES phone list, general ICES announcements and current server backup information. IRIS also offers online discussion groups giving users a forum to communicate with their group mates and advisors. Currently, IRIS is restricted to computers on the SCS network and can be found at http://www.ices.cmu.edu/help IRIS is supported by ICES Facilities Management and all requests are sent directly to the Facilities Management office. Many thanks to Justin Kulla for creating the new ICES intranet. |
To submit information for the next edition of iNews, please contact Tiffany Booth at tbooth@andrew.cmu.edu
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iNews Production Staff
iNews is a bimonthly newsletter designed to serve the ICES community. All faculty, staff and students are encouraged to email submissions, questions or comments they may have to any of the iNews staff members. |
