Recent news items mentioning Harvey Mudd College:

Math magic planned at UCD festival
Jun 24, 2008 (Daily Democrat)
...Benjamin, a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, is the author of several books on math tricks as well as dozens of research papers....

Minton awarded $250,000 Hertz fellowship May 28, 2008 (OurValley.org) ...At Harvey Mudd College, Minton majored in mathematics with a concentration in economics. Minton's academic interests range from algorithms in computer...

Nation's 'elite' schools getting harder to get into
May 28, 2008 (Iowa City Press Citizen)
...Before deciding to study math at Brown, he applied to 11 elite colleges, including Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Harvey Mudd College in...

HMC Featured in Segment on Worker Shortage Apr 21, 2008 (CNBC) ...Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe and students Casey Schilling '08 and Annika Eberle '09 discuss careers for engineers in the aerospace and defense industries....

Harvey Mudd student set for 'Jeopardy'
Mar 31, 2008 (The Sun)
Harvey Mudd College chemistry major Andrew Chung is one of 15 college students selected to appear on the upcoming "Jeopardy!" 2008 College Championship.

Issues in Robotics Workforce Development Mar. 18, 2008 (Robotics Trends) ...At Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, the approach is to use robots and robotics applications in the introductory computer science course as a final project, with students often using iRobot Create from iRobot. “We always have a full complement of students working on robot projects each summer,” says Zachary Dodds of Harvey Mudd....

At Harvey Mudd, a Parking Problem of a Different Sort
Mar. 14, 2008 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
...Fortunately, Harvey Mudd is about as skateboard-friendly as a college could be....

Focus on Algebra, U.S. Panel Tells Schools Mar. 13 2008 (The Christian Science Monitor): ..."There's starting to be a critical mass behind doing something," says Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., and a board member of the nonprofit Math for America, which recruits and trains math teachers....

NASA Plans Fast Shuttle Turnaround
Feb. 21, 2008 (TBO.com)
..."The abrupt change from gravity to weightlessness can throw off an astronaut's body in more ways than an upset stomach or nausea: It can disrupt the body on the molecular level, said Shenda Baker, a professor of chemistry at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif...."

Microsoft Adds Research Lab in East as Others Cut Back Feb. 4, 2008 (nytimes.com) …"Microsoft is probably the sole remaining corporate research lab that still values basic research," said Maria Klawe, a mathematician who is president of Harvey Mudd College….

Focus on either ACT or SAT test, some experts suggest
Feb. 2, 2008 (star-telegram.com)
…But last year, Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. -- the last SAT-only holdout -- finally changed its admissions policy….

Film festival continues to impress Jan. 30, 2008 (claremont-courier.com) …Claremont’s smog was overcome by rain this past weekend but that did not deter hundreds of movie lovers who made their way out to enjoy the Smogdance Film Festival at Harvey Mudd College….

A kernel of good news at Smogdance
Jan. 25, 2008 (latimes.com)
…Smogdance, Claremont's most famous film festival, runs Friday through Sunday at Harvey Mudd College….

Short film fest tweaks Sundance and Pomona Jan. 25, 2008 (p.com) …The event runs today through Sunday at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont….

Harvey Mudd College Finds Single Feature-Rich Storage Solution
Jan. 22, 2008 (datastorageconnection.com)
…Harvey Mudd College (HMC) has produced some of the luminaries of the IT industry, including Donald Chamberlin, co-creator of the SQL database query language and Jonathan Gay, the inventor of Flash….

Green candidate information session Jan. 18 Jan. 14, 2008 (wickedlocal.com) …Earned an undergrad degree in engineering from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif., and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University….

Harvey Mudd College grad will be on next space shuttle launch
Dec. 17, 2007 (dailybulletin.com)
...A member of the crew is Stan Love, a Eugene, Ore., native who graduated from Harvey Mudd College....

High flier Nov 20, 2007 (dailybulletin.com) ...Harvey Mudd College will now have a second alumnus reach the stars, or at least an orbit around Earth...

Finding the Odds of Synchronized Couples
Nov 8, 2007 (Wall Street Journal)
...Thanks to mathematicians Bill Butterworth of DePaul University and
Francis Su of Harvey Mudd College for the consultation. Prof. Su also
used an alternate method, a Poisson approximation...

Campus pranks now come with permission slips Oct 31, 2007 (The Christian Science Monitor) ...Following complaints in 2000 from several students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., about an annual prank where sophomores perform elaborate freshman room rearrangement...

Internal divisions make it a bad time for Israeli-Palestinian talks
Oct 24, 2007 (baltimoresun.com)
...Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, a Palestinian who holds a doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a visiting professor of politics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif....

Prestige Versus Education Oct 23, 2007 (Townhall.com) ...You may never have heard of Harvey Mudd College but a higher percentage of its graduates go on to get Ph.D.s than do the graduates of Harvard, Yale, Stanford or M.I.T. So do the graduates of Grinnell, Reed, and various other small colleges...

Math for America rightly rewards much-needed teachers
Oct 2, 2007 (MercuryNews.com)
... The project currently operates a successful teacher-education program in New York City, and is now expanding into California through Math for America Los Angeles, a collaborative program that will be operated by Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Graduate University and the University of Southern California...

Science Friday: Women, Girls, and Math Sept 21, 2007 (Science Friday) ... Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe joins host Ira Flatow and actress/author/mathematician Danica McKellar and others in discussing girls and mathematics....

Students protest for Louisiana's Jena Six
Sept 21, 2007 (dailybulletin.com)
... At 4:15 p.m. Thursday, black-clad protesters representing a diversity of ethnic backgrounds quietly arrived in small groups to the designated meeting point at Harvey Mudd College. By 4:30 the crowd had swelled to about 300 - exceeding estimates by organizers that 100 people would participate...

NPR's Science Friday to Focus on Women in Math, China Girls Math Olympiad Sept 20, 2007 (The American Mathematical Monthly) ... In addition, mathematician and actress Danica McKellar will talk about her new book, which encourages middle school girls to excel at math. Also appearing is Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College...

A Fifty Year Wave of Change
Sept 5, 2007 (O'Reilly Network)
... And I certainly couldn't have combined all this with being married and having two children.' Today, I am President of Harvey Mudd College, a tiny, incredible undergraduate college that educates some of the brightest students in the world in engineering, science, and mathematics. I'm the first female president at Mudd; many of the alumni say they thought they'd never see...

The Buzz: Sept. 1 Sept 1, 2007 (dailybulletin.com) ... On Wednesday, we wrote of the Princeton Review's ratings of colleges, praising most of the Claremont Colleges listings in various categories but also noting that Harvey Mudd College was No. 15 in the 'Campus is Tiny, Unsightly or Both' category. Director of Public Relations Don Davidson rose to the defense of the engineering school's campus: 'While ours is indeed a very small campus at 33 acres, we think it's quite...

U.S. News Rolls Out Engineering School Rankings
Aug 27, 2007 (Design News)
U.S. News & World Report came out with its engineering school rankings last week, with MIT grabbing the top spot among schools whose highest degree is a doctorate, and Harvey Mudd College taking the honors among bachelor’s and master’s schools.
...The top five among bachelor’s- and master’s-level schools were: Harvey Mudd; Rose-Hulman; Cooper Union; Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo; and the United States Military Academy... 

Nano-Engineer Group Formed Aug 22, 2007 (PhotonicsFiber.com) ... This group came together based on a sense of urgency and recognition that academia, American industry and government need to work together to develop a new partnering model that will lay the foundation for the nations future in science...

Bandwidth: Submodern
Aug 16, 2007 (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco electro duo Submodern took a path of turning strange sounds into good electro songs.
...Kerns and Kashuba met in the early '90s while students at Harvey Mudd College in Southern California...

Shuttle Carries BioSTAR-HMC Research Aug 14, 2007 (Collegenews.org) ... BioSTAR West is a member of the BioSTAR Group, an affiliation of several R&D and consulting companies. BioSTAR West is located in Claremont CA, approximately 0.5 miles from Harvey Mudd College . About Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College is a national leader in undergraduate education in engineering, science and mathematics, with a strong emphasis on humanities and the social sciences...

How is technology changing golf?  
Aug 13, 2007 (Minnesota Public Radio)
... Will the latest club technology, coupled with an advanced fitting, help my game? Early signs are positive. I'll let you know more by the end of summer. On to more interviews: Jeff Colton, a Harvey Mudd College -educated physicist, is Callaway's senior vice president of research and development...

Shuttle Endeavour's Cargo: Of Mice and Mass August 7, 2007 (Space.com) NASA's space shuttle Endeavour’s launch into orbit included not only its seven astronaut operators but a team of 24 small mice as well.  The mice, part of a muscle atrophy study, and other experiments will ride out Endeavour's spaceflight tucked away inside the orbiter's middeck compartments. ...reduce infection and ultimately reduce wound scarring, study coordinator Shenda Baker, a professor of chemistry at Harvey Mudd College in California, said in a statement...

Shrimp-shell wound healant to get space test     Jul 26, 2007 (New Scientist) A biopolymer produced from shrimp shells that has proved invaluable in treating wounded soldiers will be put to a new test in August aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. ...harmful byproducts of immune response, says Shenda Baker, a chemist at Harvey Mudd College in California, US, and president of BioSTAR west…

Key Global Warming Committee staffers
Jul 12, 2007 (The Politico)
Key Global Warming Committee staffers David Moulton, staff director of the House Select Committee on Energy Dependence and Global Warming, is among the House staffers directly impacting U.
...engineering from the University of Washington and earned systems engineering degrees from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif. Daniel W. Reilly...

Straight Talk About STEM Education Jul 5, 2007 (Science Magazine) Getting your hands dirty is one of many keys to a successful undergraduate education in the sciences, says this panel of U.S. educators... ...But when Science invited environmental scientist Stephanie Pfirman of Barnard College in New York City, mathematician Daniel Goroff of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California...

New Research Project: Curing Cancer With Mathematics
Jun 22, 2007 (Medical News Today)
According to Lisette de Pillis, the secret to more effective therapies to fight cancer can be found in mathematics. A cancer researcher and mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, de Pillis is leading a team that is developing and testing new mathematically optimal approaches to...
...be found in mathematics. A cancer researcher and mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, de Pillis is leading a team that...

Science and Technology Frontiers to Come Alive at June 26, 2007, Capitol Hill Exhibition Jun 22, 2007 (Newswise) Newswise Fascinating scientific advances across the spectrum of science, engineering, and technology disciplines will be featured and explained through table-top exhibits at the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) 13th Annual Exhibition &... ...America, Curing Cancer with Mathematics, Lisette DePillis, Harvey Mudd College Michigan State University, Plants as Biochemical Factories and...

Viaspace Subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corp. Files Patent Application on Tamper Resistant Fuel Cartridges
Jun 19, 2007 (Calibre Macro World)
Viaspace, a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, announced that its Direct Methanol Fuel Cell...
...from the Center for Design Education and the School of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Ca. The students teamed with our own...

VIASPACE Subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation Files Patent Application on Tamper Resistant Fuel Cartridges Jun 19, 2007 (PR Newswire via Yahoo!) PASADENA, Calif., June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC - News), a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, announced today that its Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation... ...from the Center for Design Education and the School of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Ca. The students teamed with our own...

Robot on a mission to make people smile
May 25, 2007 (Gulf Times)
Seema Patel and Quasi Staff Reporter QUASI, an expressive and intelligent robot that features an innovative behaviour control system, is to be one of the attractions of the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) TECHtalks - The 2007 Conference, being held on May 30 at the...
...Patel obtained a BS in Physics and a BS in Psychology from Harvey Mudd College where she first merged her interests in robotics and psychology...

Graduates all smiles May 14, 2007 (DailyBulletin.com) CLAREMONT - , Pomona College, Pitzer College and Scripps College all celebrated graduations on Sunday for the class of 2007. Commencement Photo Galleries: " Pitzer College " Pomona College " Scripps College " Mae... ...Pomona College " Scripps College " Mae C. Jemison spoke at the Harvey Mudd College commencement. Jemison was the first woman of color to go into...

LaCount Law Founder Stephen LaCount Honored by AeA for Community Service
May 11, 2007 (Business Wire)
AM Eastern Daylight Time IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Stephen LaCount, attorney and founder of LaCount Law, a boutique firm that represents some of Orange Countys leading technology companies, was awarded the prestigious Greg Ross Community Service Award at the 14th Annual High.
...in Junior Achievement of Orange County, an advisor to the Harvey Mudd College Entrepreneur Network (the engineering school of the Claremont...

Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf Is Among Commencement Speaker Class of 2007 May 10, 2007 (Diverse) Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will give the keynote address at commencement ceremonies at Langston University and Spelman College this... ...Alito Jr. Harvard University Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates Harvey Mudd College Mae Jemison: Medical doctor and former astronaut Howard University...

Festival of Microtonal Music Breaks Musical Barriers
May 5, 2007 (The Arcadia Weekly)
Microtonal Music Breaks Musical Barriers By Bill Peters Professor Bill Alves, will play during Microfest 2007, on Sunday, May 6 at Pomona College,...
...Professor of Music in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Harvey Mudd College, one of the Pomona Colleges in Claremont. Alves...

Harvey Mudd students creating device to help young girl May 4, 2007 (DailyBulletin.com) students in Ken Johnson's class spend most of the day studying art history and painting. Jessica Fernandez, 9, who has cerebral palsy, has some difficulties keeping up with the painting... ...Harvey Mudd students creating device to help young girl students in Ken Johnson's class spend most of the day studying art history and painting.

Mudd students' work bridges gap in knowledge
Apr 26, 2007 (DailyBulletin.com)
Harvey Mudd College students, from left, back, sophomore Ryan Quarfoth, senior Keith Solberg, sophomore Arjun Kalyanpur, and sophomore Lolly Simoni watch data on a computer as they conduct a seismic test on the Indian Hill Boulevard 210 freeway overpass on Tuesday, April 17,...
...Mudd students' work bridges gap in knowledge Harvey Mudd College students, from left, back, sophomore Ryan Quarfoth, senior Keith Solberg, sophomore...

A Carnival of Math Apr 24, 2007 (MAA Online) The MAA celebrated the opening of its Carriage House Conference Center last week with a veritable mathematical carnival. Researchers, educators, students, and others enjoyed presentations that featured juggling, card shuffling, sleight-of-hand, sudoku puzzles, drag racing, lightning-fast calculation, driver.. ...Math Fair for local high school students and teachers, Harvey Mudd's Arthur Benjamin demonstrated incredible mathematical prestidigitation in...

Science project reveals bacteria in classrooms
Apr 20, 2007 (DailyBulletin.com)
The students in Lisa Schuster's class all grimaced as they stared at the petri dishes in front of them. It wasn't the typical science lesson, even though the students were learning about...
...students were full of bacteria. The project was made possible by the Harvey Mudd Science Bus, a new program provided by students, faculty and...

Real Pay Increases for Professors Apr 12, 2007 (Inside Higher Ed) The average full-time faculty salary for 2006-7 climbed 3.8 percent, outpacing the inflation rate of 2.5 percent during 2006 and giving professors a real raise, according to a study released today by the American Association of University... ...Middlebury College 7. Swarthmore College 8. Wesleyan University 9. Harvey Mudd College 10. Claremont McKenna College In the community college...

College homework the real deal
Apr 4, 2007 (DailyBulletin.com)
CLAREMONT - College life is an adjustment for most students. On their own for the first time, many struggle simply to keep their rooms clean and stay ahead of their laundry while simultaneously meeting the demands of a full class...
...simultaneously meeting the demands of a full class load. Students at Harvey Mudd College raise the bar even higher. While enduring the usual...

Art and science of college admissions Mar 25, 2007 (LA Times) Re 'Why the best schools can't pick the best kids and vice versa,' Current, March 18 Barry Schwartz may be partly right in that there is no hard science to college admissions, but calling the work I do a crapshoot is... ...raffle drawing.GREG MCCANDLESS Claremont The writer is associate director of admission at Harvey Mudd College. If the public only knew...

Safety first
Mar 21, 2007 (Argus Courier)
Marty White with a model of the Endeavor space shuttle, for which she was part of the team in charge of eliminating the hazardous waste. AT A GLANCE Name: Marty White Age: 54 Occupation: Environmental health and safety professional at Lawrence Berkeley National...
...drained into the sewer. White received her bachelors degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, where she met her husband, Bob...

Seet, Nicholas (Auditude) Mar 20, 2007 (SoCalTech) Nicholas Seet is the founder of Auditude (http://www.auditude.com/), a Los Angeles startup that develops media tracking technology. Auditude's products are used both for ad tracking on television and radio stations, as well as for checking for copyrighted content on web... ...Yes, we actually got very lucky . I actually graduated from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, with a double major in engineering and...

All U.S. colleges accept ACT
Mar 18, 2007 (USA Today)
The ACT college entrance exam, long the Avis ('We try harder') to the SAT's Hertz, is celebrating a bit of a milestone this year: It now says it is accepted by every four-year college and university in the USA that requires such a...
...with last fall's freshman class. And this year, officials at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., said they would accept applicants' ACT...

New date site helps couples who really click Feb 28, 2007 (New York Daily News) RendezBook requires that each person show interest. It's the shy college kid's eternal dilemma: How do you find out if the hot girl or guy in your class or dorm has the same interest in you? Even with the advent of social networking sites like MySpace, a solution to this coed conundrum remained elusive -... ...figured out a 21st-century answer. Thomas Barr, a junior at Harvey Mudd College in Southern California, has launched a site called RendezBook.

Best Practices in Undergrad Research
Feb 22, 2007 (Inside Higher Education)
A new book, Developing & Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices, analyzes strategies to support the role of research within the undergraduate curriculum. Kerry R. Karukstis, a professor of chemistry at Harvey Mudd College co-edited the volume.

Alumna pens Harvey Mudd's anthem Feb 16, 2007 (DailyBulletin.com) A sad realization was made last spring when Sarah Harris and other professors on the Harvey Mudd College planning committee were busy preparing for the inauguration of the new college... ...Alumna pens Harvey Mudd's anthem A sad realization was made last spring when Sarah Harris and other professors on the Harvey Mudd College planning...

Mass Screening of Airline Passengers Recommended
Feb 7, 2007 (STNEWS)
By stnews.com staff writers Posted on A research report recommends that security screening of all airline travelers, not just high-risk passengers, is the most effective method of preventing terrorist attacks on...
...Security Screening of Airline Passengers?" written by Susan E. Martonosi, Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA, USA) mathematics professor, and Arnold...

Southwestern Professor Gathering Stories of Female Computer Science Pioneers Feb 4, 2007(Collegenews.org) Seeks role models to boost number of women in computer science GEORGETOWN, Texas, Feb 1, 2007 This year, only one female student will be graduating from Southwestern University with a degree in computer... ...Maria Klawe, the first woman to serve as president of Harvey Mudd College, one of the countrys premier undergraduate colleges for...

Inauguration set at Harvey Mudd
Feb 2, 2007 (DailyBulletin.com)
Inauguration set at Harvey Mudd Article Launched: 02/01/2007 12:00:00 AM PST Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe will officially be inaugurated during two days of activities on Friday and...
...Inauguration set at Harvey Mudd Inauguration set at Harvey Mudd Article Launched: 02/01/2007 12:00:00 AM PST Harvey Mudd College President Maria...