Newsletter
January 2002
CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

Awards Deadlines Approaching
The deadline for submission of project ideas for PKP's PROMOTION OF EXCELLENCE GRANTS is Jan. 25, 2002. For details and eligibility requirements, see "Scholarship/Fellowship Opportunities" at the end of this message.

Each year, PKP's GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM offers outstanding students 52 fellowships of $8,000 each and 30 Awards of Excellence of $1,500 each for first-year graduate study. For fall 2002 awards, the deadline for submission to the chapter is Feb. 1; for submission to national headquarters is March 1. See Phi Kappa Phi: Scholarships and Awards or e-mail lr2c@andrew.cmu.edu for more information.

T-Shirt Design Contest
Help spread the word about Phi Kappa Phi by designing an eye-catching t-shirt for our chapter members to sport around campus. The only style guideline is your own imagination, and there's $100 in it for the winning idea. The winner will be selected by the chapter executive committee. Submit ideas to Public Relations Officer Lisa Ritter electronically (lr2c@andrew.cmu.edu) or by hard copy (Warner Hall 419) by February 15. Deadline extended to March 1st

Spring Theatre Outing
Stay tuned to your PKP e-mail letter for information on a trip to a City Theatre performance on the South Side, sponsored by the chapter.
CHAPTER NEWS

52 New Members Initiated in December
The chapter welcomed 52 new members at the Dec. 6 initiation ceremony. Initiated were 33 undergraduate students, 8 graduate students, 10 faculty and 1 staff member. New member Marilyn Taft Thomas, professor and director of graduate studies in the School of Music, presented a moving talk entitled "Breaking out of Boxes."
MEMBER NEWS

Chapter Member Selected as Rhodes Scholar
Mindy C. Hebert, a senior majoring in biological sciences, has been selected as a 2002 Rhodes Scholar. Hebert, from New Iberia, La., has made extensive contributions to both church and community activities and has worked to publicize social and ethical issues underlying scientific research. She has conducted significant research in cell biology, which she will continue at Oxford University, England, by reading for the M.Sc. in biochemistry.

Hebert is one of 32 U.S. students to have been chosen for the Rhodes. She is the third student from Carnegie Mellon to win a Rhodes Scholarship. Previous Carnegie Mellon winners were the late Ronald Boyer, a 1953 physics graduate, and Cindi Dennis, who earned her bachelor's degree in physics and computer science in 2000.

Chapter Members Publish Book
Chapter members BARBARA LAZARUS (Associate Provost for Academic Affairs), LISA RITTER (communications consultant, editor of Carnegie Mellon's Graduate Times newsletter and chapter public relations officer) and SUSAN AMBROSE (Associate Provost for Educational Development) have co-authored a book. "The Woman's Guide to Navigating the Ph.D. in Engineering and Science" (IEEE Press/John Wiley and Sons, 2001) covers topics such as funding, choosing and working well with an advisor, learning by critique, balancing competing needs, writing and defending the dissertation and searching for a job. The book has been purchased by several universities for their female engineering and science doctoral students.

Individuals
Chapter president STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, and acting director of the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery in the School of Computer Science, the keynote address, "The Interplay Between Research Innovation and Federal Statistical Practice," to the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference on Nov. 14.

Chapter Secretary NANCY KLANCHER, Director of Carnegie Mellon's Graduate Programs Office, was nominated for an Andy Citizenship Award this spring. Named after university founder Andrew Carnegie, the Andy Awards are given annually to campus citizens whose outstanding dedication and performance have had a significant impact on the university. Last spring, Klancher published findings on GPO programming in the conference proceedings of in the 2001 Joint Conference of NAMEPA/WEPAN (Co-Champions for Diversity in Engineering) entitled "Creating a Critical Mass: Inter-university Programming for Graduate Students of Color."

BARBARA LAZARUS, associate provost for academic affairs, was awarded the university's Robert E. Doherty Award last spring. Given to members of the university community who have made substantial and sustained contributions to excellence in education, the Doherty Award recognizes contributions to the development, implementation and evaluation of educational programs at all levels, and to the creation and maintenance of an environment that fosters excellence in education.

More recently, Lazarus has been selected to serve on a national panel to identify higher education programs and policies that are increasing the participation of women, under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities in science, engineering and technology. The panel is under the auspices of BEST (Building Engineering and Science Talent), the newly formed public-private partnership whose mission is to follow up on last year's report on diversity and the U.S. technical workforce by the Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development.

DONALD MARINELLI, co-director, Entertainment Technology Center, was a keynote speaker at the New Jersey Council on the Arts Conference "Setting the Stage for the Future," held at the New Jersey Network Studios in Trenton, N.J. More than 100 arts managers from the state of New Jersey gathered to discuss a statewide plan for the arts developed by the Council on the Arts and the New Jersey Department of State.

LARA PANIS, a senior in H&SS, received the Student Service Award from Alumni during Homecoming weekend. Next year, Panis will be a recipient of the 5th Year Scholars Award; her project will be working with first-year students to change attitudes on campus.

SEAN ZDENEK, who graduated in May with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, is currently Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His specialization is Electronic Media.
ABOUT PHI KAPPA PHI & CARNEGIE MELLON

Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is an academic honor society dedicated to the recognition and promotion of academic excellence in all fields of higher education. Those elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi include the top 5% of last-term juniors and the top 10% of seniors, along with outstanding graduate students and distinguished faculty, staff and alumni.

Currently, 282 chapters of the Society exist on the campuses of colleges and universities across the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. This interdisciplinary honor society, which includes members from every college and school at Carnegie Mellon, was an important presence on campus from 1933 until 1983, when a lapse in membership caused the chapter to be disbanded. The dedication of current Phi Kappa Phi members and the interest and support of members made the revival of the chapter in 1995 possible. Carnegie Mellon's chapter is among such top national schools as CalTech, Cornell, Georgia Tech and the University of Michigan and joins Pennsylvania schools such as Drexel, Duquesne, Penn State and Villanova.
CHAPTER OFFICERS

President STEPHEN E. FIENBERG is Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science and Acting Director of the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery in the School of Computer Sciences. He's been a CMU faculty member since 1980 and was recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. He recently taught a freshman seminar on race and ethnicity in America, and works on a variety of problems related to statistics and public policy including adjustment of decennial census data, disclosure limitation for statistical databases and the scientific validity of the polygraph. This is his third non-consecutive term as chapter president.

Vice President DAVID BETTS, an M.B.A. candidate in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, was elected by the chapter as the first graduate student vice president. Betts has a long history with the chapter, having transferred his membership from University of California to Carnegie Mellon in 1995, when he was a faculty member in the School of Drama. He holds a B.A. in Theatre (and completed significant coursework toward a dual degree in business administration) from the University of California at Riverside, and holds an M.F. A. in Production Management and Theatre Technology from the University of Texas at Austin. His concentration within the business program is strategy and finance, and he enjoys golf, NASCAR, opera, classical music, computer graphics, art museums and travel. He has served two terms as chapter treasurer and one as faculty vice president.

Vice President ELIZABETH PAGE-GOULD, a senior in the Department of Psychology, was elected by the chapter as undergraduate student vice president. She is very active in a variety of activities across campus and has received many academic honors. Liz was recently inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Beta Kappa and is also a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (in which she also served as secretary-treasurer), Psi Chi (Psychology honor society), Mortar Board (in which she served as membership selections chair) and Kappa Kappa Gamma (in which she has held many offices). Over the last two years, she has received four Small Undergraduate Research Grants and presented her work at the 2000 and 2001 Meeting of the Minds Undergraduate Research Symposia. In 1999, she was nominated as a Carnegie Mellon Emerging Leader. She has also excelled in athletics, participating in panhellenic swimming, softball, volleyball and buggy activities. She has also been active in community service, most recently volunteering with the Salvation Army's New York Disaster Relief effort in September.

Treasurer MELISSA CICOZI is the academic advisor for undergraduate design majors and minors, and the co-advisor for BHA students with a design concentration. She is also the business manager for the School of Design. She teaches Design History II each spring. She is dedicated to helping young women strengthen and broaden their academic skills, and 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. She is currently serving her third term as chapter treasurer.

Secretary NANCY KLANCHER is the director of the Graduate Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon University, where she provides professional development and academic support programming for graduate students university-wide. 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. She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in English literature from Boston University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in medieval literature at Boston University. She has two daughters, aged 4 and 8, three 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 second year as chapter secretary.

Public Relations Officer LISA RITTER is editor of Carnegie Mellon's quarterly Graduate Times newsletter and is communications consultant to the offices of the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and the Associate Provost for Educational Development. She has worked as an editor, graphic designer and public relations director. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in professional writing from Carnegie Mellon. Her family includes her husband, Mechanical Engineering Professor Jack Beuth, their two children, Caroline, 6, and Jacob, 3, and cat, Tessie. Interests include reading and old house restoration. This is her fourth non-consecutive term as public relations officer.
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS

Awards for Students
PKP's GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM allocates more than $460,000 annually to outstanding students for first-year graduate study, offering 52 fellowships of $8,000 each and 30 Awards of Excellence of $1,500 each. Every chapter has the opportunity to submit one nominee, and each person nominated receives an Active-For-Life membership in the Society. For fall 2002 awards, the deadline for submission to the chapter is Feb. 1; for submission to national headquarters is March 1. See Phi Kappa Phi: Scholarships and Awards for more information.

The INTERNSHIP SUPPORT GRANT and the STUDY ABROAD SUPPORT GRANT are open to eligible undergraduates. Both competitions are open to qualified members and nonmembers in all fields of study. While the Internship Support Grant is designed to support you as you seek knowledge and experience in your academic field by working outside of the academic setting, the Study Abroad Support Grant is designed to provide support as you seek knowledge and experience through studies abroad. Four $1,000 Study Abroad Support and four $1,000 Internship Support grants will be awarded in each of Phi Kappa Phi's five regions. See Phi Kappa Phi: Scholarships and Awards for eligibility requirements. Applications for 2003 awards will be available in August 2002.

Awards for Faculty
The NATIONAL SCHOLAR AWARD recognizes excellence in scholarly activities in any academic field. The criteria established for this award include: outstanding record of past scholarly achievements; documented evidence of national/international prominence and visibility; and distinguished record of honors, publications, patents, inventions or other types of recognition for excellence and scholarly achievement.

The NATIONAL ARTIST AWARD recognizes excellence in its members, namely that of outstanding achievement in the broad realm of the arts. The criteria established for this award are: distinguished record of past accomplishments in the arts (dance, music, theater, art, sculpture, etc.); documented evidence of national/international prominence and visibility; demonstrated ability to effectively promote excellence in the arts; and acknowledgment by peers in the field through national/international awards or other means of recognition.

Deadlines: These two awards are given once per triennium. Information on the 2004-2007 competition will be available in Fall 2003.

Awards for any PKP Member
PROMOTION OF EXCELLENCE GRANTS are open to any PKP member, team of Society members, chapter-in-good-standing or any team of chapters of the Society. Although a project team may include non-members (students, faculty, administrators, staff, community members), the project director must be an active member of the Society. There is no limit to the number of applications that may be submitted by members or chapters. Projects may be research- or development-focused. The focus may be on a single campus, among a set of campuses, or in the community. Preferences will be given to projects that are multi-disciplinary in nature. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations will not be supported through this program, nor will projects that merely distribute grant funds in the form of scholarships or cash awards. Deadlines: Jan. 25, 2002, and Jan. 24, 2003.

For more information see Phi Kappa Phi: Scholarships and Awards or send an e-mail to awards@phikappaphi.org.

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