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November 17, 2011 · Vol. 22, No. 20
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CMU Partners With Sun Yat-sen University
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| Carnegie Mellon and SYSU will establish a joint Institute of Engineering in Guangzhou, China, initially offering master's and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering beginning in 2013.
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GigaBlitz Event Seeks Citizen Scientists
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 Scientists fanned out last June to capture high-resolution images for the first Nearby Nature GigaBlitz.
Organizers are hoping for even broader participation in the second GigaBlitz, scheduled for the solstice week of Dec. 19-26.
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University Priority: Ethics and Safety
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The health, safety and well-being of the university community are top priorities at Carnegie Mellon. CMU provides a hotline that all members of the university community should use to confidentially report suspected unethical activity relating to financial matters, academic and student life, human relations, health and campus safety, or research.
Students, faculty and staff can anonymously file a report by calling 1-877-700-7050 or visiting the Web at http://www.reportit.net (user name: tartans, password: plaid). All submissions will be reported to appropriate university personnel.
The hotline is NOT an emergency service. For emergencies, call University Police at 412-268-2323.
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Learning and Behavior |
 Until now, most psychology and neural imaging research have focused on how humans learn behavior through trial and error. However, CMU neuroscientists Matthew M. Walsh and John R. Anderson have found that this view is incomplete.
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Walsh and Anderson show how the brain uses both instruction and experience to select actions.
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Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund Open for Business |
The Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund (OFEF), which provides early stage business financing to Carnegie Mellon alumni who have graduated in the last five years, is now accepting applications through Jan. 31.
To learn more about OFEF, part of CMU's Greenlighting Startups initiative, and to apply online, visit http://www.cmu.edu/open-field.
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The November Piper is Now Online |
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CMU Students Win Global Cybersecurity Contests |
Carnegie Mellon engineering and computer science students are using their competitive skills to rack up global victories as members of CMU's "Capture the Flag" team.
Capture the Flag (CTF) is a computer security war game in which each participating team or individual competes to find a key source of information by solving a litany of challenges.
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