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Prospective Students Current Students Faculty & Staff Alumni Companies Media Parents & Visitors Global Education	Center for Multiscale Modeling for Engineering Materials Overview The Center for Multiscale Modeling for Engineering Materials (CM²EM) is a new center within ICES that will coordinate research and educational activity in multiscale materials modeling across the Carnegie Mellon Colleges of Engineering and Sciences. The vision of CM²EM is the quantitative understanding of materials from the smallest to the largest relevant scales, with a special emphasis on emergent behavior in complex materials systems, in order to enable the better design of applications with existing engineering materials and to engineer new materials with targeted functionality. The center will serve to predict the properties and performance of existing engineering materials systems under varied operational conditions, as well as consider theoretical aspects of the design of new materials. It will serve as a primary hub for materials modeling activity at Carnegie Mellon. Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Amit Acharya will be the director of CM²EM, and Physics Professor Michael Widom from the Mellon College of Science will act as the associate director. To date, faculty participants in CM²EM hail from the following departments: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics.		Hot Topics CIT Staff Awards Nomination Deadline: November 13 Faculty, staff, and students are invited to nominate deserving staff members for the CIT staff awards: the Staff Recognition Award, the Rookie Award, and the Burritt Education Award, by Friday, November 13. For nomination criteria and procedures and a list of eligible staff, visit the staff awards website. Moving Bits Instead of Atoms Research by CEE Profs Matthews and Weber was cited in a Forbes article on why spending more energy in data centers can save energy in overall consumption by using IT (bits) rather than moving people and objects (atoms). Also, watch the video of ECE Prof. Ganger talk about how CMU makes our data center as efficient as possible. Academia's Role in Securing Cyberspace Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon talks with Educause Review about his role on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, U.S. policy on cybersecurity, and the role of universities in addressing the need for cybersecurity. How Pittsburgh Bounced Back Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon describes in this CNN commentary how Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh have been drivers of "Pittsburgh's renaissance" and how other cities around the world can leverage the resources of research universities to stimulate economic growth. Gecko Toes Inspire Company Earlier this year, MechE Professor Metin Sitti launched the startup nanoGriptech LLC to commercialize his research findings on the adhesive properties of gecko toes. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review featured the early growth of the company and the research it is based on. Studying the Earth from the Air CEE Ph.D. student Daniel Tkacik was featured by NPR for his participation in NASA's Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), a six-week session aboard a DC-8 flying laboratory. NPR followed Tkacik and his cohort as they collected data on a flight over California. Read or listen to the NPR coverage.



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