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New Inductees Share Their Post-Grad PlansSpring 1998 In order to get to know our May inductees, we asked them what they plan to do after graduation. Here is how they responded: "I will be working for Teradyne in Boston, Mass." -Mark Bedillion, Mechanical Engineering "I will take a summer internship with Ford Motor Company in the Advanced Vehicle Technology Division, working on control systems for engines aimed to be manufactured by 2004. The Ford engineering headquarters is in Dearborn, Michigan, and I plan to move to Ann Arbor right after graduation. In the fall, I will be starting graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Department of Aerospace Engineering offered me a Named Fellowship, which will cover all educational expenses plus a generous monthly stipend for living costs. I will be taking classes both in and out of the Department, and will become active in research projects dealing with turbulence, microgravity combustion, aircraft controls or scramjet technology. My degree program will be a Masters of Science, but I plan to continue on for a Ph.D. either at Michigan or some other university with a well-respected aerospace program. Finally, I will be getting married this summer (August 16) to a recent graduate of CIT (Sharon Bansal, 1997, MechE). Sharon is in the Ford College Graduate Program, which allows her to change job assignments every three months to gain an better understanding of the workings of the entire company." -George Blaha, Mechanical Engineering "I am taking a year off and then going to medical school. During the year off I will be a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and I will be doing work with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and schizophrenia." -Ashley D. Bone, Psychology "After graduation I am getting married on June 20, and starting work at General Mills in Golden Valley, Minnesota, as a programmer/analyst on July 6." -Lisa Bublitz, IDS/IM double major, Social and Decision Sciences "Currently I am planning on attending graduate school in computer science at Cornell. This summer I will be working at an internship in either industry or research." -James Cheney, Computer Science "I am the recipient of the 1998-1999 Humanities and Social Sciences Alumni Travel Fellowship. Through this project, I will travel to Germany, Hungary and Austria visiting the cities where my relatives grew up. I will collect cultural information as well as family lineage data. I will return with a detailed account of the environment of my heritage as well as many short creative stories that incorporate my cultural experiences." -Jessica Egyhazi, Creative Writing and Psychology double major "After graduation I will be working for Intel's finance department at their Santa Clara, Ca., site." -Yevgenia Fink, Industrial Management "After graduation I will be attending graduate school at Cornell University to obtain a M. Eng. degree in Operations Research." -Jennifer R. Fridd, Mathematical Sciences "Plans after graduation: graduate school to study theoretical chemistry at Columbia University in New York City." -Benjamin F. Gherman, Chemistry "Starting this fall I am planning on attending graduate school at Cornell University in pursuit of a Ph.D. in Computer Science." -Kevin Hamlen, Computer Science "I'm taking a job with Epiphany Marketing Software, in Mountain View, Ca." -Scott Hansma, Computer Science "I've been accepted to three graduate programs for an M.S. in Communications, Northwestern University, Cornell University and University of Southern California. However I plan to defer these acceptances for two years while I work at Towers Perrin as an associate in their Web Communications group in New York City. I will be backpacking Europe for several weeks after graduation with several friends and then I will go to Hong Kong to visit my family before coming back to the U.S. to start work in mid-August." -Nancy K. Ho, Industrial Management "I am planning on attending Northwestern University for grad school, pursuing a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering. It was a difficult decision to leave CMU, and I almost stayed, but the 'romance' of going to a new and unknown city was too overwhelming." -Brian Ingram, Materials Science & Engineering "After graduation, I will be attending Columbia University to pursue a master's degree in Operations Research." -Jessica E. Kich, Mathematical Sciences "I will be attending physics graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin." -Aik-Meng Kuah, Physics "My post-graduate plans are still up in the air. I was accepted to Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, but I turned them down. I am waiting to hear about a job as the assistant to the editor in chief at Premiere magazine in New York. If I don't get it, I will go back home (to L.A.) and look for something. So right now there is Plan A but no Plan B." -Alexander Benjamin Lewin, English "Hopefully I'll be getting a full-time job by the time I graduate! If not, graduate school is definitely an option (applied to two schools and waiting for a reply)." -Ava Manching Lo, Industrial Management "I'll be attending Washington University in St. Louis with the goal of receiving a Ph.D. in Economics. I have been awarded an Olin fellowship to finance my education." -Mindy Marks, Economics and Political Science double major "Upon graduating from CMU, I will be attending Harvard School of Dental Medicine." -Nancy McDermott, Chemistry "I will be staying at CMU for the IMB program in the ECE department." -Jason McDowall, Environmental and Civil Engineering "I have accepted a job in Belmont, California, with a small artificial intelligence R&D group called SHAI (Stottler Henke Associates Inc.). I will begin working at the beginning of July." -Phillip Michalak, Computer Science "I plan to stay at CMU until December, when I will graduate with my M.S. in chemistry." -Carl Andres Morales, Chemistry "After graduation I move back to Valley Forge and travel for a month or so . . . then I start work for Lockheed Martin, Management and Data Systems Division, as part of the Financial Leadership Development Program." -Robb A Murray, Industrial Management "I am attending a Ph.D. program in Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Denver. I will be studying cognition in autism and developmental disorders and how behavior in these disorders can relate to brain functioning." -Jamie S. Ogline, Psychology "I will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. My first duty is in Quantico, Va., at The Basic School (TBS). I'll be there for 6 months. During this time, I'll pick my Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) (basically what job I'll be doing). I'm hoping to be a communications officer because this will keep me close to my ECE degree." -Phil O'Hara, Environmental and Civil Engineering "I was nominated for 'Who's Who Among America's Educators,' elected to the Board of the United Mental Health, and selected as an examiner for the 1997 Greater Pittsburgh Total Quality Awards." -Marian Andrea Orr, Ph.D., MPM (Counselor, Upper St. Clair School District), Heinz "I am going to the University of Texas at Austin next year to earn my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. It's a highly ranked program for clinical psych, so I'm really glad I was accepted. Now I only have five more years of school left." -Jennifer Ragan, Psychology "I am employed by Oracle. I will be working with multimedia in their Valhalla branch and living in Manhattan, NYC. After taking a few weeks to backpack in Asia or Australia." -Perrin J .Rowland, English and History double major "After graduation, I will take a few months vacation at home in Northern Virginia. In August I will be starting my software development job at 3D/EYE, a CAD software company in Atlanta, Georgia." -Mauricio Vives, Computer Science PKP Members in the News Gil Alterovitz, a senior majoring in Electrical & Computer Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Canada. A 4.00/4.00 student, Gil's achievements include a patent pending with 18 claims (for which he received an "Intellectual Property Award" from Motorola) as well as a number of articles published in newspapers/magazines. He will be working at the University of Toronto on a biomedical engineering project and will take related coursework. The project is an extension of the Small Undergraduate Research Grant that Gil worked on under Professor Jose Moura at CMU during his freshman year. After his Fulbright tenure, Gil will enter MIT, where he has deferred enrollment. "I co-edited a book with Michael J. Prietula and Les Gasser, Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups (AAI Press/ The MIT Press, 1998). I also organized the Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Workshop held in Montreal. This spring, I served as an NRC panel member on the Committee on Human Behavior and Military Simulation Panel, was a panel member for an NAS/NRC special meeting on population, and am a member of the NSF Advisory Panel for Sociology." -Kathleen M. Carley, Associate Professor of Sociology and Organizations, Social and Decision Sciences "I co-chaired (with Brenda Graham) Take Our Daughters to Work Day at CMU on April 23, the fourth year I've co-chaired the event. This is the 6th annual TODTW day, which was was established by the Ms. Foundation. Our Committee has grown each year, as the campus community has become more aware of the event." -Melissa Cicozzi, Assistant Department Head, School of Design (and PKP Treasurer) "In June of 1997, I gave a paper and keynote talk at an annual curriculum conference and retreat at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., on 'Revision and Reform in General Education.'" -Jay Devine, Associate Dean, H&SS Stephen E. Fienberg, a former president of the Carnegie Mellon Chapter of PKP, was appointed last spring as Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science. He recently joined the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences and has been at work on a book on the politics and statistics of censustaking. Once graduation is over, he will be on the road for much of the next several months with professional meetings in New Haven; Ottawa, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Oslo, Norway; and Dallas. "My book, Artists and Their Museums on the Riviera, was published this spring by Harry N. Abrams. There are 120 photos and sketches (50 in color). The book tells the story of the lives and work- loves and losses of major 20th century artists (Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Leger, Renoir, Cocteau and many of their contemporaries) who spent important portions of their career on the 80 miles stretch of coast and inland perched villages from Menton to St. Tropez. I also have many talks associated with the publication scheduled. I've given several talks this spring: at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania on research on the linguistic impact of study abroad experiences, and in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong on second language acquisition in a study abroad context and communicative language teaching." -Barbara F. Freed, Professor of French and Applied Linguistics "I received a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. The Spencer Foundation funds research related to education, and the funding will support me as I complete my dissertation." -Alix Gitelman, Graduate Student, Statistics "After I graduate from the Heinz School I will be working with the Pittsburgh office of Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group. I will be primarily doing public sector consulting engagements for state and local government entities." -Lee M. Haller, Graduate Student, Heinz "I am going to graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin for the Computational and Applied Math Program there." -Patience Moreno, Senior, Mathematical Sciences "I was on sabbatical at the London School of Economics during fall term '97. I was there on a STICERD (Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines ) award, with the fancy title of 'Distinguished Visitor.'" -Teddy Seidenfeld, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy and Statistics "I am joining Coopers & Lybrand for IT consulting in New York, starting July. After graduation, I will travel with my family in Canada and the U.S. for a while before I go home (Hong Kong) with my parents. I will stop by Japan about a week to visit some friends. Staying home for about three weeks before I go back to New York." -Nesta So, Senior, Social & Decision Sciences "I've agreed to be Director of an outreach program entitled Building Bridges: Integrated Math and Science Transitions. Planning is underway for the first summer institute to be held in July, 1999. The focus of the program is to bring together teams of teachers from each of the important transitions in K-16 education, elementary to middle school, middle school to high school and high school to college, to discuss curriculum development at each stage particularly in light of the new national standards in math and science." -Karen Stump, Director of Laboratories/Senior Lecturer, Chemistry "I just received the Mellon College of Science's Richard Moore Award for contributions to undergraduate education in the College. In April 1997 I received the University's Robert E. Doherty Prize for undergraduate education." -Hugh D. Young, Professor of Physics Officers for 1998 President Mark Mentzer Associate Head and Associate Professor, School of Design President-Elect Karen Stump Director of Laboratories/Senior Lecturer, Chemistry Department Vice President David Betts Assistant Professor, School of Drama Treasurer Melissa Cicozzi Assistant Department Head, School of Design Secretary Kathleen Minadeo Johnson Special Projects Coordinator for Women's Concerns Public Relations Officer Lisa Ritter Director of Public Relations, College of Fine Arts |