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CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTSFall 2003
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS Fall Chapter Meeting Join us from 4 to 5:15 on Thursday, November 6, in Doherty Hall 3303 for our fall chapter meeting. You can meet the chapter officers and fellow chapter members, have some snacks and provide your input on important decisions that will be made about chapter activities that will take place this year. Directions to Doherty Hall 3303: From the second floor of Doherty Hall, take the stairs closest to the lecture hall (DH 2315) to the third floor. At the top of the steps, turn right. The short corridor ends at DH 3303. Alternately you may take the new passenger elevator, next to DH 2302, from the second floor to the third.
Cultural/Community-Building Outing for Chapter Members Fall/Winter Induction Coming Up in December MEET THE CHAPTER OFFICERS PRESIDENT ERIC GROTZINGER is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs in the Mellon College of Science and Teaching Professor of Biological Sciences. He has been at Carnegie Mellon since 1979 and has been dedicated to undergraduate education. In 1992 he was awarded the Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Advising Award. This year he is teaching a new freshman laboratory course called “EUREKA: An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Experience,” which combines biological sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematical sciences. He is an avid skier and is a member of the National Ski Patrol at Hidden Valley resort. This is his first term as chapter president. VICE PRESIDENT KAREN STUMP is a teaching professor who joined the Department of Chemistry in 1983 and has served as Director of Laboratories since 1987. As Chemistry's departmental liaison and a member of the Executive Committee for the $26 million Undergraduate Science Laboratory Renovations project, Karen was instrumental in more than a decade of intensive planning that led to the project's groundbreaking in 2001. As Director of Undergraduate Studies, she serves as a leader in laboratory education and laboratory safety and oversees the undergraduate curriculum. A distinctive feature of her educational contributions is her success in creating and sustaining educational outreach programs for kindergarten through 12th grade students and science teachers. She is currently an on-site director of the Governor's Institute for Physical Science Educators. Since its inception in 2000, the Institute has serviced over 150 K-12 teachers from across the state. Karen was part of a group of faculty who petitioned to reactivate the Carnegie Mellon chapter of Phi Kappa Phi and since that time has served as President of the chapter for three terms and Vice-President twice. Karen has been married to Don, a civil engineer, for 28 years and they have 3 children. STUDENT VICE PRESIDENT NICOLE VELEZ was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and has always felt a very special tie to the city and its people. As her parents are from Argentina and Colombia, those cultures also played an important role in her life growing up. She attended a small all-girls high school, just a mile away from Carnegie Mellon. In high school, she took many humanities courses and foreign languages and had the opportunity to study abroad. In accordance with traditional Latin culture, her parents urged Nicole to stay near home for college and she was awarded the Carnegie Mellon Scholar upon her acceptance to CMU. Once at CMU, she became particularly excited by the use of technology and chose to major in Information Systems, a degree she felt would allow her to learn about technology as well as its effect on people, processes and organizations. While she has thoroughly enjoyed her courses in software development and her team projects, Nicole always knew she did not want to pursue a career in the field. She had always considered medicine, and her interest in her science courses and experience as a volunteer in college confirmed her interest. She is currently applying to medical schools for next year. Nicole is a supplemental instructor for modern biology and co-president of the Doctors of Carnegie Society. She is also a member of the H&SS Student Advisory Committee and the VP Student Advisory Committee. In the winter, she teaches private and group ski lessons at Hidden Valley Ski Resort. She also enjoys art and traveling. TREASURER MELISSA CICOZI is the academic advisor for undergraduate Design majors and minors, and the co-advisor for BHA and BSA students with a design concentration. She is also the business manager for the School of Design and teaches Design History II each spring. Dedicated to helping young women strengthen and broaden their academic skills, Melissa has co-chaired the university's celebration of Take Our Daughters to Work for several years. She holds a B.A. from Washington University and a Master's of Public Management from Carnegie Mellon. Outside of CMU, Melissa chairs the Park Advisory Board for Mt. Lebanon, facilitates meetings for the Mt. Lebanon School District total quality committees, and chairs the Legislation Committee for the Howe School PTA. She is currently serving her fourth term as chapter treasurer. SECRETARY NANCY KLANCHER is director of the Graduate Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon, where she offers multiple academic support programs for graduate students, university-wide programs t. She especially supports traditionally under-represented students: graduate students of color and graduate women in the science and technical fields. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, she was Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where she managed the Dean’s Diversity Committee. Nancy holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English Literature from Boston University. She also spent eight years in the English Ph.D. program there, where she specialized in feminist literary theory and narrative ethos. She has two daughters, aged 6 and 10, four cats, a husband who is a professor in the English Department at CMU, and a garden she hovers over nervously spring to fall. This is her fifth year as chapter secretary. PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER LISA RITTER is a Communications Consultant for several offices at Carnegie Mellon. She has more than 15 years’ experience in communications, including writing, editing, graphic design and public relations. She was the editor of Carnegie Mellon’s Graduate Times newsletter for over five years, and is the co-author (with Barbara Lazarus and Susan Ambrose) of “The Woman’s Guide to Navigating the Ph.D. in Engineering and Science” (John Wiley & Son, 2001). She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Tech and an M.A. in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon. She and her engineering professor husband, Jack Beuth, have two children. Lisa enjoys reading, genealogical research and restoring her old house. This is her seventh year serving as Public Relations Officer for the chapter. OPPORTUNITIES Post Your Resume on the National PKP Website As a member of Phi Kappa Phi, you have proven yourself to be exactly what employers are seeking--bright, hardworking, dependable and principled. The Phi Kappa Phi Career Connection seeks to partner active society members with potential employers through a job search database. To upload your resume, go to http://www.phikappaphi.org/career, login to the secure server and click on Resume Database on the navigation bar on the left side of the screen. You must be an active member to participate in the resume database program. 2004-2005 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship Study Abroad Grants 2004-2007 National Scholar and Artist Award |