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The next issue of the University A daylong GSPH conference Times, Dec. 9, will be the last issue explores the public health effects of Marcellus shale drilling...... 3 of the fall term. The events calendar for that issue will include all events The 2010 election is over; now what? PBS’s Judy Woodruff through Jan. 6, when publication of addresses some post-election issues the University Times will resume. U N I V E R S I T Y in her American Experience lecture TIMES here...... 5 VOLUME 43 • NUMBER 7 NOVEMBER 24, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Prof Trustees okay $110.5 million in named construction, renovations, leases Einstein renovation that will interested in biological sciences agents at the University is done consolidate and expand research,” he said. at BSL-2 levels. BSL-2 agents winner Athe School of Medicine’s The lab will be designed for “are moderate-risk, viable micro- Vascular Medicine Institute and research with a variety of patho- organisms associated with human Division of Pulmonary, Allergy gens, but exactly which ones has diseases of varying severity in and Critical Care Medicine, and not been determined, said Dan healthy adults. These agents can construction of a unique bio- Fisher, assistant vice chancellor be hazardous through various containment lab suite that will for research facilities. exposure routes, but not inhala- facilitate undergraduate training Internationally accepted bio- tion.” BSL-2 also is necessary in the Department of Biological safety standards designate four when working with human blood, Sciences were among $110.52 mil- levels, 1-4, based on the proce- body fluid or tissues. lion in projects recently approved dures and containment needed to Approximately 85-90 per- by the Board of Trustees property protect workers, the community cent of the University’s labs are and facilities committee. and the environment. equipped to conduct BSL-2 In a Nov. 15 meeting, the com- According to Pitt safety guide- research, according to Jay Frerotte, mittee approved four projects and lines, most work with biological CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 two lease extensions. Ezra T. Newman The projects are: he American Physical rose formalism, one of the most- • A $13.99 million renovation Langley lab said to be 1st of Society has awarded Ezra cited sets of equations in relativity. of the 12th floor of the Thomas E. TT. Newman, professor In a nutshell, the formalism is an Starzl Biomedical Science Tower kind for undergrad learning emeritus of physics and astron- alternative method for describing (BST) to accommodate the Vascu- he lab planned for the ence, understanding and training omy, the 2011 Einstein Prize for Einstein’s equations that replaces lar Medicine Institute (VMI) and fifth floor of Langley Hall in this area are expected to find his part in devising the Newman- Einstein’s own version. the Division of Pulmonary Allergy Tis the first level-3 facility it a marketable skill. Penrose formalism, an extension Newman also is credited with and Critical Care Medicine in the in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sci- “The experience of working of Albert Einstein’s theory of reshaping the theory of general School of Medicine. ences, Graham Hatfull, chair of in a BSL-3 lab is unique. It’s an general relativity, as well as for relativity by working out one of the A project description provided the Department of Biological unusual opportunity,” Hatfull composing a variety of solutions to most influential reformulations of to the committee stated that the Sciences, told the University said. Einstein’s equations, particularly the original theory, among other renovation would consolidate and Times. It will replace an existing “Having this type of facility the Kerr-Newman black hole. lasting solutions and insights to expand research activities within lower-level facility as part of a is an opportunity not just to do The prize also recognizes the Einstein equations. VMI and the division, whose larger renovation of the Clapp- research work, but an opportu- Newman’s lifetime of work at The significance of the New- faculty members currently occupy Langley-Crawford complex. nity to train students in at least the forefront of general relativity man-Penrose formalism is that it “inadequate and borrowed” space The study of bacterial and part of what it takes to work under and commends his ongoing work allows for special conditions to be in five campus buildings. The situ- viral pathogens is an important these conditions,” he said. Even- to explain the significance of far- imposed before one attempts to ation impedes collaboration and component of the department’s tually students may advance to flung light energy. solve an equation, conditions for recruitment, the summary stated. research, Hatfull said. the point where they could enter The biennial Einstein prize, which Einstein’s original theory The renovation of 44,525 The lab’s potential to add to the lab either to observe or to per- first awarded in 2003, carries a does not allow. Instead of using the square feet of space at the Starzl the success of the department’s form rudimentary manipulations $10,000 award. four standard space-time coordi- BST will include laboratories, research makes it valuable for that “so they have a full understanding In 1962, six years after Newman nates, the Newman-Penrose equa- infrastructure upgrades and fact alone, but it’s also ground- of what it takes to work in that joined the Department of Physics tions use four different vectors to interior renovations, all funded breaking in its incorporation of unique environment.” and Astronomy, he and University describe the geometric construc- through a National Institutes of design features that facilitate Faculty likewise will benefit of Oxford professor Roger Pen- tions of the theory that arise from Health (NIH) grant. undergraduate learning, he from having the BSL-3 facility rose developed the Newman-Pen- massive objects in motion. n • A $6 million project to reno- noted. The suite’s observation close at hand. As an example, vate 4,400 square feet of laboratory room and monitoring cameras Hatfull said his own research space in Langley and Crawford allow students to “see everything with the bacterium that causes Pitt wins award for halls to create a Biosafety Level that’s essentially going on in the tuberculosis — which requires (BSL) 2 and 3 Laboratory Suite lab,” Hatfull said. He knows of level-3 containment — could for the Department of Biological no other such lab in the nation, be expanded. Other strains of grounds maintenance Sciences. The project is being acknowledging that others likely bacteria can be substituted in funded equally through Provost will be watching. “There may be some studies, but with the BSL-3 The Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) recog- reserves and School of Arts and a community out there interested lab available, the range could be nized Pitt with a Merit Award in the society’s 2010 Green Star Awards Sciences reserves. in the design of how we use the expanded to include experiments competition. The award was given in the University and College The unique aspect of the facilities,” he said. “We need to that must use the TB bacterium Grounds category for exceptional grounds maintenance. project is that it will include be very careful about how we itself. “This is a great honor to receive,” said Kathryn Trent, manager an instructional viewing room establish that.” Another research area that of grounds services in Facilities Management. “It not only recognizes adjoining the BSL-3 lab. Cam- He noted that the depart- will become possible with the the efforts put in by our staff, but also the University of Pittsburgh’s eras in the lab’s biological safety ment’s missions of education and availability of the lab is one in commitment toward enriching their students’, staff and visitors’ lives cabinets will enable students to research long have been closely which samples with suspected through green spaces.” observe the work via closed circuit entwined. “We bring them but unknown viral pathogens The Green Star Awards program brings national recognition to TV. Associate Vice Chancellor together as much as possible,” can be examined. “We can’t do grounds maintained with a high degree of excellence, complementing for Facilities Management Joseph Hatfull said. those experiments now,” he said. other national landscape award programs that recognize outstanding Fink said the proposed lab appears Biosafety issues are a con- Hatfull said the department is landscape design and construction. to be among the first in the nation cern today both in terms of the continuing to expand and recruit. Founded in 1911, PGMS is a membership society of grounds pro- to be equipped with features that potential for emergence of new He sees the lab as a potential fessionals dedicated to advancing the grounds management profession are conducive both to research diseases as well as bioterrorism key to drawing in new faculty. through education and professional development. as well as undergraduate train- threats, he said. Scientists need “Having facilities like this could Overall, PGMS presented seven Grand Awards, its highest honor, ing. “We have not found another training to work with pathogens be very, very attractive,” he said. as well as 14 Honor Awards and 12 Merit Awards in 13 categories of facility like it to get senior-level and students who have the experi- —Kimberly K. Barlow n competition. n undergraduates to continue to be

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in fall 2011. Sandy Phillips, executive direc- Action urged on Pittsburgh transit crisis tor of Peoples Oakland (www. peoplesoakland.org) thanked the he University Senate against the proposed tax, which writing to try and help our state liaison Steve Zupcic is seeking vol- University and the community community relations com- eventually was withdrawn from legislators see the importance of unteers and donations for Project relations committee for their Tmittee (CRC) is urging consideration by the mayor’s the Port Authority.” Bundle-Up, which, in partnership long-standing support. support for efforts to lobby Har- office.(See Jan. 7 University Times.) The web site (www.gpsa.pitt. with the Salvation Army, provides Peoples Oakland is a recovery risburg to solve the county’s loom- “Once that was finished, we edu/portauthority/) is open to winter clothing for needy children and wellness center that assists ing public transit crisis. Those asked how can we continue to public participation, he noted. and the elderly. Volunteers also are those with psychiatric disabilities efforts include emailing legislators move forward with the leadership “The web site is designed so that needed for the annual Christmas in living, learning and working through a student-run web site and the connections we have. So you can put in your zip code and Day at Pitt, at which the Univer- in the community. The agency and supporting the Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh Student Govern- the message will go directly to your sity expects to serve about 1,000 partners with several Pitt schools Downtown Partnership initiative, ment Council ratified its charter legislator,” Givens said. meals to the area’s less-fortunate and departments, including the which is targeting legislators with last month. They represent every The Pittsburgh Downtown population. School of Social Work, the School information about the effects of college and university in the city. Partnership has launched a similar Ongoing volunteer opportu- of Nursing, the Department of transit cuts on the area’s economy. We have official liaisons to City web site, keepPGHmoving.com, nities also are available. Contact Psychology and Western Psychi- The Port Authority of Allegh- Council and we have connections CRC members noted. They urged Zupcic at stz.pitt.edu or sign up atric Institute and Clinic, which eny County board meets today, to the Pittsburgh Council of the University community to lend online at www.commrel.pitt.edu/ provide professional and volunteer Nov. 24, and is expected to approve Higher Education,” Givens said. their voices to the transit cause via CRO-volunteerpoolform.html. services, Phillips said. a fare increase and a 35 percent In addition, CRC Governmen- the web sites. • The committee heard reports Genevieve Barbee, Commu- reduction in service, including tal Relations liaison John Wilds q from neighborhood community nity Human Services community the total elimination of almost 50 pointed out, “The city administra- In other CRC business: agencies — the Oakland Planning organizer, thanked Pitt for its routes as well as the elimination tion was amazed at the amount of • CRC co-chair Denise and Development Corp. (OPDC), $16,000 donation to build shelves of weekend service on 13 others. volunteerism among the colleges Chisholm urged Pitt employees, Peoples Oakland and Community in the Oakland Food Pantry at 370 The fare increase is expected to go and universities, so much so that particularly faculty members, to Human Services (CHS). Lawn Street, which is staffed by into effect Jan. 1 and the service they created a new position in the participate in the seventh annual Wanda Wilson, OPDC execu- Pitt and Carlow students. cuts March 13, along with more mayor’s office, called the chief community service database tive director, said her organization CHS executive director Adri- than 550 employee layoffs. The service officer, to try to work project by completing the online has convened a steering commit- enne Walnoha asked CRC mem- Port Authority, which by law must with colleges and universities.” survey at https://surveyweb2. tee for the 2011 Oakland Commu- bers to spread the word that, in balance its budget, faces a $47 Rebecca Kottler-Wein has been ucsur.pitt.edu/comservice/login. nity Plan, with the aim of creating addition to food, her organization million shortfall in the 2010-11 appointed to the post, he said. pitt by Dec. 17. The project is a shared vision for the future of the can provide assistance for the fiscal year. Givens said, “We’re moving designed to identify and document neighborhood through a broad- homeless to obtain the necessary (For more details on the crisis that same system, the very effec- the services and benefits that Pitt based community engagement entitlements, resources, support and the proposed service cuts, go tive online registration process for provides to the broader commu- effort. Stakeholders will include and life skills needed to achieve to the transit company’s web site, the petition we had created, and nity, Chisholm said. the universities, residents, agen- and maintain independent living, www.portauthority.org.) using that system to support the Committee members noted cies and businesses. as well as provide care for individu- CRC student representative Port Authority with their lobbying that the database is searchable Wilson said a winter kick-off, a als in need of a supervised living David Givens said the Graduate efforts to Harrisburg. We have and contains more than 1,800 spring action forum and a summer arrangement. and Professional Student Asso- had that web site up and running service projects for those looking urban design analysis forum are More information on CHS ciation (GPSA), in cooperation [since mid-October], and we’ve to partner in community efforts. in the planning stages, with the is available at www.chscorp.org. with other student groups at Pitt already had about 500 students • CRC Community Relations goal of launching the new plan —Peter Hart n and at other area universities, has launched an online petition The Swanson School of Engineering is partner- system analysis and planning. to urge state legislators to pump ing with Siemens Energy to provide Pitt’s aspiring The five-year agreement with Siemens Energy’s enough funding into the cash- electric power engineers with the same training and Transmission and Distribution Service Solutions strapped transit company to avoid Engineering software available to their professional counterparts. group marks the first of only a few collaborations the service cuts and other draconian The company will provide the school with the company plans to form with American universities. measures. to partner professional version of its Power System Simulator Gregory Reed, director of the Swanson School’s “When we had discussions last for Engineering (PSSE) software, the industry- Power and Energy Initiative and a faculty member year on the tuition tax [proposed with Siemens standard tool for designing and analyzing power in electrical and computer engineering, said that by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl], transmission systems. In addition, Siemens will the partnership presents an important advantage GPSA was very involved with establish a $5,000 annual graduate fellowship at the to students entering an engineering field that is in opposition to that tax,” Givens Energy school, as well as access for faculty and students to step with the nation’s increasing need for electric told the committee at its Nov. 16 attend Siemens’ Power Technologies International power as well as more efficient and expansive deliv- meeting. courses, which provide up-to-date training in power ery networks. n “When the tuition tax was [being debated], a lot of the student leaders from various col- leges and universities in the city Staff Assn. Council names committee leaders came together to coordinate our he Staff Association Coun- • Safety and security: chair, — Erica Germanoski, a senior first time. efforts to oppose this tax,” he said. cil (SAC) Nov. 10 affirmed Rick Fabean; vice chair, Kenny majoring in psychology; Joe Ger- • Fabean reported that SAC- That led to the formation of the Tchairs and vice chairs for Doty. manoski, Computing Services and sponsored CPR certification Pittsburgh Student Government its nine standing committees. • Salary and job classifica- Systems Development. workshops tentatively are planned Council to mobilize area students Appointees serve one-year terms, tion: chair, Jonah Yan McAllister- — Amanda Gilarski, a sopho- for Feb. 26 and May 14. November through October. Erickson; vice chair, Monika more majoring in rehabilitation The safety and security com- New chairs and vice chairs are: Losagio. science; Linda Gilarski, Depart- mittee is working with Parking, • Benefits: chair, Michael q ment of Biostatistics, Graduate Transportation and Services on Semcheski; vice chair, Natalie In other business: School of Public Health. installing “repeaters” in Pitt’s Blais. • The staff group announced — Miles McCoy, a sopho- underground garages to ensure • Elections: chair, Barbara the winners of Endowed Book more focusing on English writ- cell phone reliability in the case U N I V E R S I T Y Mowery; vice chair, Yuolanda Fund for Children of Staff, which ing; Warren J. McCoy, Office of of emergencies, Fabean said. Murray. provides financial assistance Affirmative Action, Diversity and • Costlow reported that more TIMES • Governance: chair, Meg toward the purchase of books to Inclusion. than 250 people attended the EDITOR Mayer-Costa; vice chair, Carol an undergraduate student whose • Libby Hilf, vice president for recent SAC-sponsored fall mar- N. J. Brown 412/624-1373 Hodgkiss. parent or guardian is a non-union marketing and communications, ketplace, which raised $200 for [email protected] • Grievance: chair, Angela staff member. The annual award reported that SAC’s revamped web the Oakland Food Pantry. WRITERS Coldren; vice chair, Rich Colwell. carries a $200 prize. Winners will site now is live at www.sac.pitt.edu. • Coldren recommended that Kimberly K. Barlow 412/624-1379 • Marketing and communi- be recognized at the Dec. 9 long- Hilf said she is seeking approval SAC consider changing the name [email protected] cations: chair, J.P. Matychak; vice term staff recognition ceremony. to establish a discussion board on of the grievance committee to chair, Kathy Krause. The winners and their parents the My Resources link to the My reflect its limitations. Peter Hart 412/624-1374 • Program and planning: are: Pitt portal for SAC members to “Grievance might not be the [email protected] chair, Monica Costlow; vice chair, — Bridgette Dawson, a junior exchange information between right word. Grievance, in the BUSINESS MANAGER Lynn Kachman. majoring in elementary education the group’s monthly meetings. union sense, is a formal process,” Barbara DelRaso 412/624-4644 • Research and information: at Pitt-Johnstown; parent, Marga- “We are in the process of working said Coldren, who chairs that [email protected] chair, Carol Neuner; vice chair, ret M. Clements-Dawson, School with CSSD to create a community committee. “In terms of SAC, we Events Calendar: [email protected] Fred Schiffer. of Dental Medicine. specifically for SAC. 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wide-ranging daylong conference on the public chosocial effects can’t be separated from the public health Radisav Vidic of Pitt’s Department of Civil and Environ- health impacts of development of the Marcellus discussion, said Bernard Goldstein in his presentation on mental Engineering. “Clearly there are lots of questions Ashale drew upon lessons learned in other regions health and safety considerations in fossil fuel extraction. being raised and I think the exchange of information and and raised questions for future research. A summary of the health impacts of the Exxon Valdez sharing of information among stakeholders would be one “We all seek an integrated strategy for a sustainable oil spill noted that oil was spilled “into a social as well as a crucial set,” he said. “What’s clear to me is that we don’t energy sector of the economy,” said Donald Burke, dean natural environment,” said Goldstein, past dean of GSPH have baseline data.” of the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), in his and a professor in Pitt’s Department of Environmental and Without information on the initial conditions before welcoming remarks at the school’s Nov. 19 event. “We Occupational Health. “It’s not just the toxic chemicals.” Marcellus shale drilling began, potential impacts attrib- must help industry learn best practices for protection of Alluding to his work in toxicology in the wake of the utable to the drilling cannot be determined. “It’s much public health and the environment.” Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he better to do proactive studies to find out what the situation Burke acknowledged that the topic has generated much said, “I am far less concerned about the toxicology of those is right now so you have a baseline for comparison. The political discourse. Citing the city’s recently enacted ban chemicals in terms of health effects than I am about the retroactive studies are very expensive and very inconclu- on drilling and a city council member’s associated com- psychosocial impacts of being thrown out of a job, all of sive in the most part,” Vidic said. “I think the challenge ment that the jobs generated by natural gas development the uncertainties, all of the unknowns. Those are major to the community — both the research community, the would be at funeral homes and hospitals, Burke said, “Our impacts that are happening.” industry and the community that lives in this region — is purpose here today is to provide a more measured voice Toxicology studies can’t evaluate nonspecific impacts. to perhaps engage in some kind of a dialogue to collect about the health consequences of the Marcellus shale. “We know that we very often can’t put a name or diagno- sufficient information that would provide baseline stud- “Thus far the era has been characterized by an ad sis to some of the health effects people are complaining ies in the region where perhaps drilling hasn’t occurred, hoc regulatory climate, passionate advocacy, a booming about,” he said. Using the definition of health as not merely and then use that information to assess potential impacts industry and political posturing and too many unsubstan- the absence of disease, but also one’s physical, social and from industrial activity,” he said. tiated assertions from all sides,” he said, adding that he mental well-being, if individuals cannot function because “The critical issue really is to start exchanging the hoped to help change the climate “to one of thoughtful they feel they are being affected, “Those people are not information in an unbiased and scientifically valid way to scientific investigation and collaboration among academia, healthy,” Goldstein said. “We need to act in a way that address the issues and ensure that everybody’s questions industry, government and the public advocacy groups.” will prevent, as best we can, these effects.” are answered appropriately. I think both industry and the Scientists from Pitt as well as other institutions pre- A common theme among the day’s speakers was that public have to play an important role in that.” sented research on impacts of Marcellus shale drilling more information is needed and that baselines should be q on air and water quality and discussed aspects in need established in order to determine any potential cause-and- Organizers said the presentations would be posted of additional study. effect relationship attributable to Marcellus shale drilling. on the Marcellus conference page at www.eoh.pitt.edu/ q “We’re just beginning to scratch the surface in terms of marcellus.asp. In addition to obvious environmental concerns, psy- what we know and what we understand,” said moderator —Kimberly K. Barlow n Baseline data Will economic gathered for boom be community long-term for change study Pennsylvania? he Institute for Public ill development Policy and Economic of Marcellus shale TDevelopment, a partner- Wresources bring a ship among eight northeastern long-term economic boom to Pennsylvania academic institu- Pennsylvania? Cornell University tions, has undertaken a baseline city and regional planning faculty socioeconomic study of the impact member Susan Christopherson of Marcellus shale drilling. isn’t so sure. Teri Ooms, executive direc- “I think there’s this idea that tor of the institute, shared initial we’re going to have this 60-year information from the project that play. Maybe so, but I think my aims to provide data for a future message is: Don’t count on it. longitudinal study on community This may be quite a bit more changes in the context of Marcel- condensed than we’re thinking lus shale drilling. “The purpose of,” she cautioned. of the project was to assess the “The oil and gas industry isn’t current social and economic like a long-term slow, measured conditions relating to gas well manufacturing industry. If any- development in the Marcellus thing, think financial services,” formation,” she said. Christopherson said. “This is a

Marcellus shale National Laboratory John Veil/Argonne The study surveyed 1,500 very speculative high-risk, short- Pennsylvania households in areas term industry. They’re not in it with Marcellus drilling activity. for the long term. Ooms, co-principal investiga- GSPH conference explores “When we think about this, tor on the study, said the survey we shouldn’t assume this is going aimed to ascertain residents’ to be some long, steady progress knowledge, attitudes and percep- public health impacts of drilling over a period of years,” she said. tions concerning the economic, “If we just assume this is going to social and environmental out- same,” Ooms said. tive positions on most issues were Despite their concerns, all the be long-term, I think we’re either comes they foresee as a result of “They believed that the job somewhat similar,” Ooms said. interviewees wanted to see the fooling ourselves or not being the development of the Marcellus opportunities would get better, q industry move forward. good planners.” shale gas reserves. however the environment and The study also included inter- Some of the issues beginning Leaders need a better under- It also sought information water quality and quantity issues views with “key informants” in to be observed in Pennsylvania — standing of how the industry on their attitudes about their would get worse.” Pennsylvania communities and such as home prices rising faster makes decisions and the factors communities and differences in Attitudes toward drilling in areas of Arkansas and Texas than income — already were that impact the pace and scale their knowledge and perceptions mostly were neutral, with the fol- (where shale gas drilling has been being seen in the other areas, of drilling to better predict the attributable to demographics such lowing exceptions, she said: developed) that yielded some Ooms said. Interviewees in Texas economic impact, she said. “What as age, gender or education. • 57 percent said that extrac- interesting results. and Arkansas reported their com- are they thinking, what are the Residents expressed strong tion of domestic natural gas In the Pennsylvania interviews munities had dramatic population financial analysts saying? positive responses related to resources should be encouraged with academic, business and growth as well as increases in “We need to adopt the uncer- school quality, the natural envi- to decrease reliance on foreign government leaders from five jobs, home values and household tainty principle,” she said. “This ronment, neighborhood friend- energy. counties, researchers found more income. is a very volatile industry. ... We liness and water quality in their • 60 percent agreed that the commonalities than differences, Among the concerns reported need to have policy makers who communities, she said. negative impacts of natural gas Ooms said. by Texas interviewees were emi- are going to be very savvy about “However, they did not rate the extraction can be prevented if the The community leaders nent domain, benzene emissions, what’s going on in the industry.” availability of jobs or job training process proceeds carefully. reported seeing new jobs and problems with gas industry land- q very well. They also believed their • 48 percent thought that only companies coming in, but tensions men and urban drilling, Ooms Citing Pennsylvania’s increase existing roads and streets were a few people would benefit from erupting due to concerns about said. in gas well permits, which rose already in poor condition and that natural gas development. mineral rights ownership and lease In Arkansas, there were con- from 71 in 2007 to approximately continued development of the “It appears there was little and royalty rates. Some reported cerns over possible wastewater 2,000 two years later, she said, [resource] would make it worse, consensus among survey partici- the beginnings of gentrification, disposal issues, but no water con- “That doesn’t sound like a slow and that traffic congestion was pants concerning the safety and changes in the rural character of tamination issues were reported, measured ramp-up to me. That increasing,” Ooms said. desirability of developing the gas their communities and increases she said. There, the largest con- sounds like a boom.” Communi- As for the impact of drilling in industry in the region. Many had in the cost of living. cern was road damage. ties need to prepare for the pos- their community, “Most people no clear opinion about the issues Road and traffic concerns The study is available at www. sibility of a bust, she cautioned. believed that most of the aspects raised and the percentages of were expressed across the board, institutepa.org. “I’m not saying this is going to of their lives would remain the those holding positive and nega- she said. —Kimberly K. Barlow n CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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jobs initially go to experienced are and the people who serve the outsiders. Anecdotal information industry,” she said. shows that local people also are “Every time the natural gas Marcellus shale being hired, “But they will also industry expands in the United then have to become transient States, Texas will get more jobs,” workers. They will have to go on she quipped. Will economic boom be long-term in PA? to work in other shale plays to q CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 keep their jobs.” Christopherson reiterated that happen but I think we need to be to build new business and industry. ties where there are no such cities. Some of the good jobs will be the long-term economic benefits prepared,” she said. “We should However, people tend to spend Regions that have become in Pennsylvania, “but they’ll be at will depend on figuring out how to think about the fact that this may windfalls differently than they dependent on natural resource Southpointe,” she said, which is capture revenues as they come in, be an accelerated drilling cycle.” would spend smaller amounts extraction “very frequently have becoming a sub-hub for the indus- ensuring environmental costs are The lack of a severance tax on received over time. “If somebody poor development outcomes, try. “Most of the good jobs are remediated and taking advantage gas drilling in Pennsylvania may gave you $5,000 a year for some particularly if they’re rural and going to go to where the industry’s of the opportunity for tax revenues be speeding the pace of extrac- period of years, think about how made up of small towns,” Christo- headquartered, i.e., Texas. That’s that can be invested in building up tion, she noted. Companies may you’d spend it as opposed to pherson said, noting that positive where the engineering firms are, rural counties. be motivated to drill more now to someone giving you $500,000 all or negative economic impact is that’s where the finance firms are, “We don’t want to leave these avoid the potential cost should a at once,” she said. tied to the diversity of the region’s that’s where the consultants are, counties worse off,” she said. tax be put into place later. In the case of Marcellus land- economy. that’s where the media people —Kimberly K. Barlow n Commonly cited economic owners, “We all hope they use it Evidence from western states impact estimates portray “a very to send their children to college. shows a pattern of decreased eco- incredibly rosy picture,” but But they may spend it on an nomic diversity in areas dependent essentially are only snapshots, Escalade,” she said. “We all hope on natural resource extraction. Christopherson said. “The job that they may spend it improving “Natural gas isn’t adding in to the and revenue projections provided their farms. But they may spend tourism and agricultural economy. a certain kind of information, but it to move to Florida.” It’s displacing it.” I also knew these kinds of studies Extraction of the gas comes at A “crowding out” phenom- were limited in what they could a cost to the communities in the enon also may occur. The cost of tell us,” she said. “They could form of road maintenance, traf- living — particularly in the form give us estimates of how mining fic congestion and public safety of housing — goes up, impacting investment coming into these needs, to name a few. “Who’s workers in non-extraction jobs counties will distribute itself across going to pay for this?” she ques- and the cost of labor increases, different sectors of the economy tioned. which tends to crowd out other and what kinds and how many “Those costs will be higher investment, she said. jobs might be created,” she said. if the boom/bust cycle goes in “I’m not saying there aren’t However, questions remain: because you’ll get communities going to be jobs created,” Chris- • How will the pace and scale with very low capacity having to topherson said. “There are going of drilling affect costs to the com- hire more teachers, more police to be jobs created. The question is munities and the environment? — very fast, because the demand what sectors are they going to be in • What can be expected will come in [rapidly] instead of and how many of them are going regarding long-term economic ramping up slowly.” Most areas to be good, well-paying jobs?” development? can adapt to a 5 percent change, If those jobs are in construc- • What kind of jobs will be but a 15 percent increase can stress tion, retail or service sectors, for created? a community, Christopherson instance, “Are those going to be • What are the long-term noted. “When the bust comes good jobs and how long are they Kimberly K. Barlow expectations and what will the these communities are left with going to last? I don’t think we Teri Ooms, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development, discussed early results of socioeco- communities in which drilling all that excess capacity. They’re know.” nomic data gathered in communities where shale gas extraction occurs look like in 20 years? left with too many policemen, too Christopherson said drilling is occurring. Christopherson noted that many schoolteachers.” approximately 50 percent of a Long-term effects aren’t well shale gas well’s production comes known, but some information can in its first year, with production be drawn from western regions beyond five years uncertain. Most that experienced resource booms Construction projects okayed of the jobs related to that sector in the 1980s, she said. Impacts in CONTINUE FROM PAGE 1 arrive early — when exploration rural areas differ from regions that director of Environmental Health facilities, small conference rooms sylvania Department of Public and drilling is done. Production include cities. and Safety. and departmental space for the Health, the Agency for Health jobs that remain after a well is “We’re talking about small The BSL-3 designation applies engineering school. Research and Quality and others, drilled are relatively few in com- communities with very low gov- to labs where work is done with The project cost is covered as well as a training grant from parison. ernance capacity,” she said — for pathogens that may cause serious through $30 million in state fund- the National Library of Medicine. q example, communities in which or deadly disease when inhaled. ing and $6.6 million in education The department’s fiscal year 2011 Whether regions rich in Mar- local leaders are unpaid, or have Pitt has two BSL-3 labs in BST3 and general debt. direct grant support totals $11.4 cellus shale formations will reap no staff. and others in Scaife Hall, Hillman q million. a long-term benefit remains to Christopherson noted that Cancer Center and the Starzl BST. The property and facili- The lease extension begins be seen. Marcellus shale drilling is concen- (Experiments with certain danger- ties committee has authority to in March 2011 and continues In contrast to western states, trated in three counties in Penn- ous pathogens, such as smallpox approve all University construc- through February 2016, at an where much drilling is on public sylvania and parts of four in New and ebola, require a BSL-4 desig- tion projects in excess of $1 million annual cost of $304,938, with an land, Christopherson said that York, noting that Pennsylvania’s nation and, per University safety and to report its actions to the option for a five-year extension. 70 percent of the money coming northern tier and the adjoining guidelines, are not permitted in budget committee so the approved The agreement may be termi- into the Marcellus shale counties southern tier of New York make University facilities.) projects can be included in the nated by the University should is going into the pockets of private up a single labor market. • $50.6 million to build an operating and capital budgets. program funding be discontinued. land owners. The southern tier commu- addition to Salk Hall that will John Fedele, Pitt’s associate • A five-year lease for the How that money is used is nities of Elmira, Corning and add laboratory and administrative director of news, said the Salk Department of Neurological Sur- important, because long-term Binghamton already are feeling space for the School of Dental Hall, Starzl BST and Benedum gery’s 4,575 square feet of labora- economic development depends the expansion, she said, in com- Medicine’s Center for Craniofa- Hall projects already had gone to tory, classroom and administrative in part on capturing that income parison to the Pennsylvania coun- cial Regeneration and the School the budget committee. space in the Parkvale Annex Build- of Pharmacy’s Center for Pharma- q ing at 3520 Forbes Ave. cogenetics and Center for Clinical The leases approved by the According to background Pharmaceutical Sciences. The committee were: information presented to the project also includes aesthetic and • A five-year lease exten- trustees committee, the depart- pedestrian safety improvements to sion to retain the Department of ment’s Laboratory for Computa- Sutherland Drive and will allow Biomedical Informatics’ 11,294 tional Neuroscience will occupy for future renovation of Salk Hall. square feet of research, teaching part of the building’s second floor. (See July 22 University Times.) and office space in the Parkvale NIH’s National Heart, Lung and The project is funded through Building at 200 Meyran Ave. Blood Institute provides annual $50 million in state funding and The space includes classroom funding of $586,465 for the pro- $622,000 in gifts. and research facilities for master’s gram and other grants are pend- • $39.9 million to begin Phase and PhD students in the depart- ing with future program growth IIA of renovations to Benedum ment’s biomedical informatics expected. Hall, which is home to the Swan- training program. The lease with Cityview Prop- Bernard Gold- son School of Engineering. This According to background erties runs February 2011-January stein, former dean of GSPH, phase includes renovation of floors provided to the committee, 2016 at an annual cost of $123,525, outlined health 3, 6, 7 and 8 as well as construction the department has research with an option for a five-year and safety of an 8,000-square-foot mezza- grant funding through NIH, the extension. The agreement may considerations of fossil fuel nine level and extensive work in National Science Foundation, be terminated by the University extraction that the sub-basement. Centers for Disease Control and should program funding be dis- go beyond environmental The renovated areas will Prevention, the Department of continued. issues. include laboratories, support Homeland Security, the Penn- —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in terms of the mortgage meltdown, American Experience lecture or will they choose to go for the headlines investigating issues like ACORN, the group working for Democratic turnout that used After the election: Can they govern? Black Panthers in an attempt to intimidate voters, at least in one lections, as Barack years, like right here in Pennsyl- unemployed for more than half the tion of what voters are saying.” instance?” Obama was so fond vania, in Ohio and in Iowa. Very year — double the percentage in In addition, not only Demo- So the battleground areas — “Eof reminding Repub- significantly, the Republicans also that situation during the recession crats are unpopular with the taxes, spending cuts, government licans last year, have consequences. picked up at least 19 state house of 1982-83. electorate. “Both pre- and post- efficiency — already are drawn. I think the president will soon chambers, in this state as well “What I would submit, how- election polls consistently say the “My best guess over the next discover this is the case,” said — significant because we know ever, and even some Republican Republicans are viewed favorably few weeks is that the Bush-era tax Judy Woodruff, national news state legislatures are going to be leaders themselves admit this: by only 34 percent and unfavor- cuts are going to be extended for veteran reporter and co-anchor redrawing congressional districts The election results are not ably by 42 percent, just about the everyone, including the wealthy, and senior correspondent of “PBS based on the 2010 census. Every a widespread affirmation or a reverse of the Republicans who for at least a year or two, and per- NewsHour,” in a presentation advantage counts going into the clear endorsement of the general controlled Congress in 1994, haps longer for the middle class,” here last week. next election when those lines are Republican prescription to slash when we had the big Republican Woodruff said. Woodruff honed her expe- being drawn.” taxes, drastically cut spending, sweep under Newt Gingrich,” She also predicted some spend- rienced eye on the recent mid- Voter demographics reflected undo health care reform, undo Woodruff noted. ing cuts will be enacted. “There is term elections, analyzing results, the sharp shift to the Republican financial regulation reform and “One other important point: movement in both political parties breaking down exit polls and Party, Woodruff noted. “Women other regulatory changes,” Wood- Among the 60-plus incumbent to do something about attacking making some predictions, in who turned out to vote divided ruff maintained. Democratic House members the deficit, although the plan her Nov. 15 University Honors almost evenly between the two Other results from the exit who lost their seats, almost half that came out of the Republican College American Experience parties, favoring Democrats by polls, which tend to be more were moderates, members of the leadership of the House to cut Distinguished Lecture titled just 2 percentage points, accord- reliable than pre-election polling, so-called blue-dog caucus, who something like $100 billion — a “After the 2010 Elections: Can ing to exit polls. This was a major Woodruff said, highlight the sharp urged their party to try to adopt a 21 percent cut in discretionary They Govern?” — a reference to blow to Democrats, who have divides among voters: business-friendly, fiscally conser- spending — could end up being potential political gridlock. consistently won a majority of • Regarding the new Con- vative agenda. So the remaining more political rhetoric than a For the first time, the American the female vote over the past gress’s top priority, 39 percent said Democrats in the House are, on realistic legislative goal, because Experience Distinguished Lecture few decades,” she said. “The tiny it should be to reduce the federal balance, more liberal,” she said. it would entail making huge cuts series, launched 39 years ago, majority among women was easily deficit; a similar percentage, 37 In contrast, more Republicans in programs like Pell Grants for was co-sponsored by Pitt’s Dick overcome by the 12-point margin percent, said Congress should are conservative than before, middle class college students, and Thornburgh Forum for Law and men gave Republicans.” spend more to create jobs, and because many of them were backed cuts for the National Institutes Public Policy. Former Pennsyl- The only age group that voted another 18 percent said Congress by the tea party movement. of Health for things like cancer vania Gov. Thornburgh was in Democratic were the 18-29 year needs to cut taxes, which would “There’s no real official tally and Alzheimer’s research. Those attendance. (See box on page 6.) olds, by a lopsided margin, but add to the deficit. of who was supported by the tea cuts are not politically popular,” “Everybody’s on edge, espe- they made up only one out of • When voters were asked party, but the number of winners Woodruff pointed out. cially we in the news media, as every nine voters, she added. Every about the new health care law, who claim some tea party backing “Curiously to me, one of the we wait to see what happens as other age group, and especially 48 percent said repeal it, but 47 includes at least five new Republi- great uncertainties and almost a result of the mid-term election those 65 and over, voted heavily percent said either expand it or can senators and as many as 40 new completely absent in all of the earthquake,” said Woodruff, who for Republicans. leave it the way it is. House members,” Woodruff said. intense pre-election debate were has covered politics for more than “Probably the most politi- “If all that sounds confusing, it “The result: It sets up a Con- the issues of national security three decades, previously serving cally important demographic are is,” Woodruff said. “The voters are gress that is even more divided and the war in Afghanistan. We as news anchor and senior corre- the independents, people who very clear about what they don’t philosophically than the current know there are several hundred spondent for CNN for 12 years, describe themselves as going back like, but they are far less certain Congress. And it raises serious thousand brave young Americans and as NBC News White House and forth between parties depend- about what they want, other than questions about what they are risking their lives around the globe correspondent, 1977-1982. ing on the election, who favored to say, ‘We want times that are going to be able to work together and, shamefully, politicians in both Unlike the 2008 elections, Republican candidates 55 to 40 better.’ I see that dichotomy of on, what it is they are going to be parties largely ducked the issue,” when 130 million Americans — 61 percent. That is a big swing from Nov. 2 playing out in the weeks able to accomplish,” she said. she said. percent of eligible voters — turned 2008, in which they went solidly and months to come. It centers Woodruff doubts that much “At some point, important out, only 88 million, or 40 percent, Democratic and solidly for Barack on what are quite different inter- of the tea party agenda will be decisions are going to have to be turned out for the Nov. 2 elections. Obama,” Woodruff pointed out. pretations of the results by both enacted, at least in the short term, made, and it astonishes me that “That is on par with typical What voters were trying to political parties.” due to the Senate’s Democratic there was almost no debate about mid-term turnout, but still dis- say when they cast their ballots, Many rank-and-file Repub- majority and the president’s veto it over the several months of the appointing in our democracy,” however, is open to interpretation, licans say this election was a power. campaign.” said Woodruff, who has garnered she said. mandate to pursue their agenda: “But they will certainly help to Regarding the national debt, numerous awards, including the Based on the approximately Repeal health care reform, extend frame the agenda in the next few while there is a broad consensus Edward R. Murrow Lifetime 15,000 voters nationwide sur- the Bush-era tax cuts indefinitely years on spending cuts, taxes, on to tighten monetary policy in the Achievement Award in Broadcast veyed in exit polls, 62 percent for all, even the very wealthy, regulations and on investigations, short run because of the poor Journalism/Television. “And it’s a said the economy was the main and institute large cuts across with subpoena powers” now in shape of the economy, she said, reminder that the electorate that issue that influenced their vote, the board in domestic programs, the hands of the House majority “there is in this country a serious, turns out in 2012 almost certainly which indicates a rejection of the federal agencies and the number of Republicans, she said. long-term chronic debt problem. will be different again, and will White House’s economic agenda, government employees, she said. “The question there is: Will When we talk about the debt, the include many of those voters who Woodruff said. That rebuff was “The White House and the Republicans focus on productive issue of record consumer debt, we know did not turn out in this driven by 9.6 percent unemploy- rank-and-file Democrats are oversight of issues like outsourc- household debt, is every bit as election: young people, Latinos, ment nationally, and the fact that saying that would be an enormous ing, lack of transparency in many serious as the public debt, the other minorities and others who 41 percent of the jobless have been over-reach and a misinterpreta- agencies, what really happened to CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 for a variety of reasons decided to sit this one out.” The most obvious result of the elections is that the Republicans won across the board. “A few races are still undecided, but out of almost 100 new members of the House of Representatives, at least 84 are Republicans,” Woodruff noted. “Of those new members, at least 63 were flipped from the Democrats. Only nine new mem- bers of the House are Democrats, and only three of them flipped from the Republicans.” Fewer Republican gains occurred in the U.S. Senate, with the GOP gaining six seats (now that the Alaska race has been decided), to make the breakdown in the upper chamber 53 Demo- crats, including the independents who caucus with them, and 47 Republicans. Republicans also gained six additional governorships for a Judy Woodruff, co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” delivered the Joining Woodruff on stage was panelist former Pennsylvania total of 29, including, she said, American Experience Distinguished Lecture Nov. 15, speaking on Gov. Dick Thornburgh. The lecture was co-sponsored by Pitt’s Dick “in states critical in presidential “After the 2010 Elections: Can They Govern?” Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy.

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Obama carried by a comfortable that we cannot predict now for margin in 2008, he could have the next two years: How will the After the election: Can they govern? trouble carrying in 2012, based economic recovery go? Does the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 on the recent election results, health care law become any more government debt. Both of them in the media do a somewhat better debate to have,” with Americans she said. popular? What will happen in the long run imperil our prosper- job than normal in covering this divided equally over its merits, “He does have one advantage Afghanistan? Will there be any ity and the country as a whole.” tough issue, but you also need to she said. at this stage and that is there is terrorist attacks? All that is what She said the recent plan pro- hold our feet to the fire.” “Whether much occurs or not, no obvious strong Republican makes my job so interesting,” posed to reduce the national debt The point is not to embarrass the next year is certainly going to candidate to defeat him, but we Woodruff said. by the Erskine Bowles-Alan Simp- anyone, but to raise the level of set the agenda for the 2012 presi- know there are a lot of possible She warned Republicans not son bipartisan commission “shows the debate by not letting politi- dential election. Make no mistake, names out there,” Woodruff said. to underestimate Barack Obama. the one thing that is clear in all cians get away with misleading Barack Obama will have his work She downplayed the possibility “On the other hand, four years serious analyses for minimizing statements. cut out for him over the next two of a third-party candidate getting ago in 2006, no one could antici- the deficit, let alone reducing it, “We allowed that in the cam- years. His coalition has frayed, the elected president, based on Ameri- pate that the junior senator from and that is it is impossible to do it paign; now we’re getting to crunch best prospect for economic recov- can political history, but noted Illinois would have won the without cutting back entitlements time when everyone on both sides ery is an unemployment rate of 8 that third parties have influenced nomination and gone on to win like Social Security and Medicare of the aisle agrees that hard deci- percent and uncertainty abounds election outcomes in the past. the White House.” and raising taxes.” sions have to be made and they in Afghanistan,” Woodruff said. “There also are a lot of issues —Peter Hart n Woodruff urged the American owe it to the American people to “Moreover, it’s been more than citizenry, as well as the national be honest about what the options nine years since there’s been any media, to drive home that point. are,” Woodruff said. successful terrorist attack in the “So when politicians engage As for her near-term predic- United States, and yet every single Thornburgh on tax cuts, in these vague statements that we tions, Woodruff expects that the terrorist expert says it would be need to ‘cut government,’ make health care reform law will not foolish to assume there will not be U.S. governance system them talk specifics! When they be repealed, although she said it’s a terrorist attempt on this country. say cut, ask ‘Cut what’? When pretty clear there will be tinkering There are bad people out there and he Nov. 15 American Experience Distinguished Lecture they say, ‘We need to get rid of around the edges. they’re trying every day to find series, long housed in the University Honors College, for waste, fraud and abuse,’ hold their “We’re going to hear a lot new ways to attack us,” she said. Tthe first time was co-sponsored by Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh feet to the fire,” she said. “I think about it, and I think it’s a healthy Even Pennsylvania, which Forum for Law and Public Policy. Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania governor and former U.S. attorney general, introduced Judy Woodruff, who delivered ULS offers free e-journal publishing service the lecture, and joined Woodruff in the Q&A session that followed. The University Library System literature such as working papers, submission through peer review He led off with a question about the Bush-era tax cuts, and (ULS) now offers free e-journal white papers and technical reports. and final online publication and whether they should be extended, for how long and for which publishing services to support Using free open-source soft- indexing. This comprehensive segments of society. researchers worldwide by pub- ware developed by the Public platform allows international “These tax cuts were adopted for a limited time at a time when lishing peer-reviewed academic Knowledge Project, ULS provides editorial boards and staff to com- this country had surpluses as far as the eye could see. Therefore journals in a variety of disciplines. the highly configurable Open municate and operate through a the source of the tax cuts was clearly identified,” Thornburgh said. By providing free hosting services Journal Systems platform to single multilingual interface while “Now, all that’s gone and we have exactly the opposite — we now using open-source software, ULS accommodate a variety of editorial making journal content available have a record deficit. It strikes me that the political underpinnings is able to help academic journals workflows. to a global audience. of the tax cuts in the past have gone kaput, and yet nobody seems eliminate the high cost of print The ULS program builds on The e-journal publishing to make that connection. That may sound heretical coming from production and distribution and publicly available academic con- program also assists journals by a life-long Republican, but I’m puzzled as to why that is.” increase the visibility of their tent by partnering with journals providing ISSN registration; Woodruff responded: “You are in the same school, whether content to a global readership. that currently are without an assignation of Digital Object Iden- you want to be or not, with [former head of the Federal Reserve] The ULS e-journal program online presence or are unable to tifiers; web site usage statistics; Alan Greenspan, who started saying several months ago that the evolved as an offshoot of its larger continue with the high cost of consultation on editorial workflow Bush-era tax cuts should all end, the debt crisis is so enormous and D-Scribe digital publishing pro- print publication, as well as by col- and management, and marketing so imminently catastrophic. We simply cannot afford the $4 tril- gram, comprised of more than laborating with start-up journals. services. These services are offered lion over 10 years, but that is, as you say, a very unpopular view in 100 thematic digital collections Open Journal Systems pro- free of charge by ULS. the Republican Party. In an election year, there hasn’t been much containing photos, manuscripts, vides an inclusive journal manage- For more information about courage in either party about deficits, and the Democrats now are maps, books, journal articles, ment and publishing system that the ULS e-journal publishing wavering about temporarily, as least, extending the cuts for the electronic theses and dissertations, channels the flow of new schol- program, see www.library.pitt. very wealthy.” government documents and other arly content from initial author edu/e-journals/. n Later, Woodruff was asked if she thought the British parlia- mentary system is superior to the U.S. system. She replied, “I don’t. I think that the principle of one person, one vote that is at the root of our democracy, our system of gov- ernance, is one of the things that makes us unique and makes us so strong as a country. I still believe that our system of government Holiday Open House is a remarkable thing that allows us to have these debates, and the ability to have these mid-course corrections makes us stronger as a country.” Join us for holiday shopping and cheer! Thornburgh disagreed somewhat, noting that certain features of the British system “would certainly raise the level of debate in our Congress, [where] there is very little debate. What masquerades as debate are prepared statements that are introduced into the record by members of the House and Senate. Those of us who watch the Thursday, December 9th parliamentary debates in the House of Commons can see a marked difference in the kind and quality of the questions that are asked from 9am to 6pm. and the answers that are given.” He continued, “I once had the privilege of debating at the Oxford Union in the U.K. and I barely got through that ordeal. I Enter to win beautiful gift baskets. was debating the then-attorney general [for England and Wales] Patrick Mayhew, who was then-president of the Oxford Union and a very skilled debater, who just made mincemeat out of me. Sample treats from gourmet vendors. I couldn’t help but reflect on what a healthy situation we would have in our country if Cabinet members like myself and other members of the administration were to appear in Congress and Special promotions from Brighton, had the opportunity to lay out our thoughts and answer questions from members of either the House or Senate. 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making everyone happy. of and in which he was a major “Kurt and Adolf set a fan- player at the time. He was also a Kurt E. M. Baier tastically cooperative tone for marvelous human being — gentle, Renowned moral philosopher can only be resolved by force. the department. When it came yet firm, with a wonderfully dry Kurt E. M. Baier, Distinguished No, said Kurt, morality and law to new hires, for instance, each sense of humor. I remember feel- Service Professor emeritus and are human artefacts designed to would always defer to the needs ing quite intimidated by the idea former chair of Pitt’s Department achieve harmony and justice, as and wants of the other, thus bind- of graduate study in philosophy, of Philosophy, died Oct. 24, 2010, his favorite philosopher Thomas ing together those with interests but being reassured that such a in Dunedin, New Zealand. He Hobbes had maintained.” in the philosophy of science and major figure could be so kind and was 93. q logic and those whose interests humane.” A native of Vienna, Baier Baier’s arrival here in 1962 was were in ethics, epistemology and Philosophy department studied law in Austria. His partly part of the University’s rise to dis- other traditional areas of philoso- administrator Collie Henderson Jewish ancestry forced him to cut tinction in philosophy that began phy. Those were the days. That likewise remembered Baier’s short his studies and flee in 1938 in 1960 with the appointment cooperative tone has lasted down warmth as well as his charm and to England after the Nazi takeover of Adolf Grünbaum as Mellon the five decades between then and dry wit. “He was the quintessential of his homeland. Classified as a Professor and was magnified by now, and to my mind is an indel- European gentleman. A gentle- “friendly enemy alien” in Britain, the subsequent recruitment of ible hallmark of Pitt philosophy.” man and a gentle man,” she said. he was deported in 1940 to an Wilfred Sellars, Nuel Belnap, Philosophy faculty member “He introduced me to the world internment camp in Australia. Alan Anderson and Schneewind Robert Brandom said Baier was of philosophy” when she came to He earned a BA and an MA at the from Yale’s philosophy depart- impressive in his sensitivity and the department 37 years ago. University of Melbourne and in ment, as well as Rescher’s arrival flexibility as a supervisor, adding Baier’s scholarly interests in 1952 earned his D. Phil at Oxford in 1961 at the newly established that the professor likewise had a ethical issues related to law and under Stephen Toulmin. He later Moral Point of View; Values and Center for Philosophy of Science, unique style in directing students’ medicine were among the more returned to Australia and taught at the Future” (edited with Nicholas among other notable additions to dissertations. Sought after by accessible areas of study in philos- the University of Melbourne and Rescher); “The Rational and the the faculty. many graduate students, Baier ophy, she noted. “We all talk about the Australian National University Moral Order: The Social Roots of Grünbaum, who said he rec- tailored his dissertation direction these at some point, but maybe (ANU). In 1958 he married New Reason and Morality”; “Reason, ommended Baier to then-Provost to the individual’s needs. “With don’t realize we’re discussing a Zealand native Annette Stoop, Ethics, and Society: Themes from Charles Peake as the first chair some, he was incredibly directive philosophical topic. His philoso- a professor at the University of Kurt Baier, With His Responses” of the “new” department, was with a lesson plan; others he turned phy was accessible on that level,” Sydney. (edited by Jerome B. Schneewind), among several colleagues who loose onto their own resources,” said Henderson, who continued to The couple came to Pittsburgh and “Problems of Life & Death: commended Baier’s fine admin- Brandom recalled. assist him with manuscripts even in 1962 after Baier left his position A Humanist Perspective.” istrative abilities. Stephen Darwall, now a phi- after he and his wife returned to as head of the philosophy depart- In eulogizing Baier, Alan Rescher said, “He was a good losophy faculty member at Yale New Zealand in 1996. ment at ANU to chair Pitt’s phi- Musgrave of the University of person to have at the helm when and Distinguished University Pro- “He was a wonderful man, losophy department. He retired Otago (New Zealand) philoso- the department was growing and fessor emeritus of the University delightful to work with,” she said. from the University in 1995. phy department noted a pair of building itself,” citing Baier’s of Michigan, studied under Baier “It always felt as if I worked with Annette Baier, herself a noted remarkable aspects of the pro- approachability and convivial at Pitt. “Kurt Baier was my adviser them, not for them.” philosopher and Hume scholar, fessor’s work. First, while Baier nature. Baier went out of his way at Pitt, and I can’t imagine having The philosophy department first took a faculty position at the “relied on ordinary language as to be helpful, not only extending had a better one,” Darwall stated. is planning a gathering in Baier’s Carnegie Institute of Technology the key to understanding moral- himself to prospective faculty but “He introduced me to the whole memory next fall. No date has and later joined Pitt’s philosophy ity and law, the ordinary language also going the extra mile to help field of philosophical ethics, which been set. department, from which she that he relied upon was not his those leaving the department he had a magisterial knowledge —Kimberly K. Barlow n retired as Distinguished Service native German, but his second find suitable positions elsewhere, Professor of Philosophy emerita. language, English. He said that Rescher said. Among numerous honors and he found it very difficult to lecture Belnap elaborated, “As chair- Memorial service planned professional activities, Kurt Baier or discuss philosophy in German,” man, Kurt was instrumental in was a fellow of the American Musgrave stated. generating support for the depart- for poli sci’s Holbert Carroll Academy of Arts and Sciences. “The second and more impor- ment from the provost, Charles A memorial service will be held Dec. 10 for Holbert N. Car- He served as president of the tant thing is that, despite his own Peake, and from the chancellor, roll, professor emeritus of political science, who died March 11, American Philosophical Associa- early experiences, he remained Edward Litchfield, support which 2010. He was 88. tion’s Eastern Division in 1977 and optimistic about the power of has been sustained through bad The memorial service will be held 4-6 p.m. in the University chaired the APA board 1983-86. reason and of rational discus- times and good. When Kurt Club’s Fraternity Grill. Baier retained his interest in sion to achieve a just society. He assumed the chairmanship, there Carroll joined the University as an instructor in 1946. He was law, having served as the philoso- opposed the then-fashionable remained significant numbers of promoted to assistant professor in 1950, associate professor in 1955 phy department’s liaison to the law views that moral judgments are folks from the existing staff, folks and professor in 1960. He served as acting chair of the department, school. In 2001 he was awarded merely expressions of personal who did not have national or inter- 1958-59, and chair, 1960-68. He specialized in U.S. government an honorary Doctorate of Juris- feelings or disguised commands national reputations. Kurt did a and politics, U.S. civil liberties and U.S. foreign policy. prudence from the Karl Franzen that other folk do as you wish magnificent job of managing the Carroll earned his PhD at Harvard after completing his BA University in Graz, Austria. them to do. Such views, if correct, two cohorts and, later, of finding and MA degrees at Pitt. He also spent a year studying at Yale. n His publications include: “The mean that moral disagreement fresh positions for the latter group,

Shinozuka developed a research City Hospital and Missouri Pacific Hisashi Shinozuka program in experimental car- Hospital, respectively. He enrolled Hisashi Shinozuka, professor of hepatic carcinogens. cinogenesis of the liver and the as a graduate student at McGill emeritus of pathology, died Sept. His early work demonstrated pancreas. He then extended this University School of Medicine in 20, 2010, while visiting family that duplicating DNA is more sen- research into the characteriza- Montreal, and obtained a PhD in members in his native Japan. He sitive to the carcinogenic action tion of the pre-neoplastic lesions experimental pathology in 1963. was 81. of chemicals than nonduplicating in the human pancreas utilizing During his graduate training, he Shinozuka and his colleague DNA, an important contribution human autopsy material. Later, set in motion what would become Benito Lombardi are credited with to the field of carcinogenesis. Sub- he investigated problems related the major scientific interests of his playing a pivotal role in laying sequently, his interests in ultra- to environmental and nutritional career, when he began his studies the foundations for academic structural pathology led him into pathology and studied the rela- on experimental carcinogenesis pathology at Pitt. Together, they a variety of studies involving acute tionship between nutrition and while mastering the discipline of developed the carcinogenesis become good friends, sharing cell injury, cell-drug interactions cancer. electron microscopy. research section of the Division mutual interests in gardening, and carcinogen-target cell inter- Shinozuka also taught pathol- Shinozuka was a member of the of Experimental Pathology. Pittsburgh’s football teams, a good actions. His work on organelle ogy students and lectured on cell American Society of Experimen- In 2008, the Department of meal and a nice glass of wine.” pathology, particularly that of the growth and neoplasia in biochemi- tal Pathology, the International Pathology created the endowed Shinozuka’s career at Pitt nucleus and nucleolus, were major cal pathology, including various Academy of Pathology, the Ameri- Lombardi-Shinozuka Experimen- began in 1963, when he served as a contributions to the field. aspects of organelle pathology, can Society of Cell Biology, the tal Pathology Research Chair in demonstrator for the Department In 1970, Shinozuka moved to cell injury, carcinogenesis and American Association for Cancer their honor. Lombardi, also pro- of Pathology, School of Medicine. Temple University’s Fels Research the behavior of malignant cells. Research, the American Associa- fessor emeritus of pathology, said, In 1966, he was appointed research Institute. There, he continued to He served as director of the tion for the Advancement of Sci- “Dr. Shinozuka was the best col- assistant professor and assis- produce work on the analysis of electron microscopy service of ence, the Japanese Association for league one could ever wish to have tant professor of pathology. He hepatic and pancreatic cell reac- the department, and supervised Cancer Research, the American — he was insightful, perseverant served in that capacity until 1970, tions to carcinogens. the residency training in ultra- Association for the Study of Liver and open to collaboration. He was during which time he developed a In 1975, Shinozuka returned structural pathology. Diseases and the American Col- also a man of dignity. He offered strong interest in the biochemical to Pitt as associate professor of Shinozuka received his medical lege of Toxicology. respect to all, irrespective of status, approach to the study of disease pathology. He spent the remainder degree from Keio University in his He is survived by his daughter, and was in turn respected by those processes. Shinozuka became pro- of his career at the University, hometown of Tokyo in 1949, and Terri White, and her husband, who knew him. ficient in this area, and extended and was promoted to professor subsequently served as an intern John; granddaughter Jennifer, “In retirement, he enjoyed a his studies from skin carcino- in 1979. He retired as professor at Norwalk General Hospital in and sisters Motoko Endo and variety of activities,” Lombardi genesis to liver carcinogenesis, emeritus in 1998, but stayed in Connecticut. Suiko Ohtsu. said. “He played golf regularly with particular emphasis on the close contact with departmental By 1960, Shinozuka had A memorial service for Shino- with a group of close friends. ultra-structural, biochemical and faculty and staff up until his death. completed his residency in both zuka was held Nov. 20. He and I also found the time to molecular mechanisms of action During his second stint at Pitt, pathology and surgery at St. Louis —Peter Hart n

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Michael Perloff Long-time philosophy depart- philosophy department and a Philosophical Quarterly, Studia and several cousins. ment faculty member Michael Perloff collaborator, said, “Mickey Logica and the Annals of Math- Donations may be made in Per- Perloff died at his home Nov. was assistant chair for a long time ematics and Artificial Intelligence. loff’s name to Bethlehem Haven, 19, 2010, following a stroke. He and he was the most un-officious His most recent article, 1410 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 15219. was 72. official I’ve ever known. He was “Future Contingencies and the The philosophy department A native of New York City, just a very sweet man. He seemed Battle Tomorrow,” written with is planning a yet-unscheduled Perloff earned a PhD at Pitt in to do everything for everybody in Belnap, is forthcoming in the memorial service in the spring 1974. He then taught at the Uni- the department — faculty, staff Review of Metaphysics. term. versity of Illinois-Chicago before and students.” Perloff is survived by a niece —Peter Hart n returning to Pitt as a part-time Perloff was co-author, with instructor in 1985. He became a Belnap and former Pitt visiting full-time lecturer here in 1989 and faculty member Ming Xu, of Elaine Y. Frampton at the time of his death was serving “Facing the Future: Agents and Elaine Y. Frampton, a former 1999, she was named associate in that capacity, as well as being Choices in Our Indeterministic in a branching-tree structure. Pitt employee who worked in Pitt’s director of Affirmative Action, assistant chair and undergradu- World.” His theory assumed that actions Office of Affirmative Action (now a position she held until her ate adviser in the Department of “We had a wonderful time, a are founded on choices made by the Office of Affirmative Action, retirement on Jan. 31, 2006. Philosophy. lot of fun working on that book,” agents who face an open future Diversity and Inclusion) for 20 Frampton earned an MSW Co-workers remembered Belnap said. “It’s about agents in replete with real possibilities, years, died Nov. 7, 2010, in John- in 1985, an MPA in 1981 Perloff as a pleasant colleague and action, and we looked around for some of which are realized by stown’s Memorial Medical Center. and a BA in 1971, all at Pitt. a favorite teacher among under- classical novels to use as examples, agents making choices. Central Frampton joined the Pitt staff Prior to working at Pitt, she graduates, having found his niche such as ‘The Three Musketeers’ to the theory is that choices and in 1985 and shortly thereafter was employed by J & P Manage- teaching elementary logic and and ‘Moby Dick.’” the actions they ground are inde- transferred into the Office of ment Co., Children and Youth introductory philosophy courses. Perloff’s work in the logic of terministic. Affirmative Action, where she Services, Allegheny Valley School Nuel Belnap, A.R. Anderson agents adopted a modal approach Perloff published articles in worked with faculty, staff and and the Family Welfare Society in Distinguished Professor in the to agency, with agents represented Theoria, Synthese, the American students on all Pitt campuses. In Johnstown. n

P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S The People of the Times column features recent news on faculty Pitt-Titusville President promotion of excellence in pro- was among 15 women in media and staff, including awards and other honors, accomplishments and administrative appointments. William A. Shields has been fessional, international affairs honored this month during the We welcome submissions from all areas of the University. Send appointed to the Northwest education worldwide by sharing Women and Girls Foundation information via email to: [email protected], by fax at 412/624-4579 Pennsylvania Workforce Invest- information and ideas among gala awards ceremony, sponsored or by campus mail to 308 Bellefield Hall. ment Board. member schools and with other by UPMC. For submission guidelines, visit www.utimes.pitt.edu/?page_ NWPA WIB comprises mem- higher education institutions, the The Pittsburgh-area women id=6807. bers representing business, labor, international affairs community were recognized for “leading the education, social services and and the general public. way in print, radio, PR, TV, film The New Yorker and U.S. News Her mother died from the disease governmental agencies through- and on the Internet, and those uti- & World Report. in the mid-1980s, and the mother out northwest Pennsylvania. GSPIA faculty member lizing multiple media to promote of former Pitt player Sophronia Shields brings Nuno Themudo received the and amplify the voices of women The Pittsburgh affiliate of Sallard lost her battle with breast wide experience 2010 Best Article on Nonprofit and girls.” Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cancer in 2007. to WIB, having and Voluntary Sector Research Skrzycki joined the English named Agnus Berenato, head To help raise awareness about held numerous Award for his article “Gender and department in 2004. Under her coach of the women’s basketball the disease, Berenato initiated economic devel- the Nonprofit Sector.” guidance, students have landed team, as honorary chair of the Pink the Petersen, an annual opment posi- Themudo’s research showed internships at such outlets as 2011 Komen Pittsburgh Race fundraising event that takes place tions throughout that there is a strong relationship Bloomberg News, Dow Jones for the Cure. The race will take at one home game each season. the country. between women’s empowerment, News Service, the Pittsburgh Post- place on Mother’s Day, May 8, in This season’s Pink the Petersen He served as chair of the Mon- volunteerism and the nonprofit Gazette, The Washington Post, Schenley Park. event will be on Feb. 19 when the tana Board of Natural Resources sector worldwide. CBS, CNN, NPR, Congressional Berenato’s connection to Panthers host Big East rival West and Conservation. In Rockford, The award is given by the Quarterly, The New Republic, breast cancer is a personal one. Virginia. n Ill., he was a member and chair Association of Researchers on of the Council of One Hundred, Nonprofit Organization and a major economic development Voluntary Action, the largest organization in the region. He association of scholars interested currently serves as a member of in philanthropy and the nonprofit the board of the Titusville Rede- sector. velopment Authority. Themudo’s paper examined The WIB board focuses its whether women’s inclination development activities on key toward altruistic behavior and industry segments that include participation in the nonprofit electronics, manufacturing, food sector translates into stronger processing, construction, health nonprofit sectors in countries with care, metal fabrication, plastics higher women’s empowerment technology, lumber and hard- — defined as women’s relative woods, oil and gas, transportation control over resources and their and mining. participation in political and eco- NWPA WIB is committed to nomic forums. a quality system that coordinates The paper, which originally and customizes services that appeared in the August 2009 optimize community workforce Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector resources; simplifies access to Quarterly, used two cross-national education, training and employ- datasets: the World Values Survey, ment opportunities; supports a a transnational survey of social communications network for the and political values and behavior, public and private sectors, and and the Johns Hopkins Compara- leads to workforce job attainment, tive Nonprofit Sector Project, a retention and career advancement. cross-country mapping of national statistics on the nonprofit sector. John Keeler, dean of the Themudo’s paper suggested Graduate School that the nonprofit sector has of Public and largely failed to acknowledge International the influence of women and that Affairs (GSPIA) there is a need for a gender theory and vice presi- that offers new insights into the dent of the Asso- nonprofit sector. Despite being ciation of Pro- the majority of workers in the fessional Schools U.S. nonprofit sector, women still of International are much less likely than men to Affairs (APSIA), will become occupy leadership positions. president of that association in December. Cindy Skrzycki, a faculty APSIA comprises 34 member member in the Department schools in North America, Asia of English and business corre- and Europe dedicated to the spondent for GlobalPost.com,

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