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PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume X • Number 16 • May 26, 2009 Cynthia Golden Named Director of Pitt’s CIDDE Pitt to Host Working Class Studies By John Fedele Cynthia Golden, a vice president of the cially with its Learning Initiative, has Association Conference on Class Matters nonprofit professional association EDU- brought her into close contact with key lead- CAUSE, has been named the new director ers and practitioners in teaching and learn- of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center ing. She is responsible for the association’s for Instructional Development and Dis- conference and professional development tance Education (CIDDE), activities and leadership effective August 1, 2009, and management programs Pitt Provost James V. and institutes, as well as its Maher has announced. content and knowledge man- Based in Washington, agement initiatives. D.C., and Boulder, Colo., Prior to joining EDU- EDUCAUSE serves higher CAUSE in 2001, Golden held education information senior management posi- technology professionals tions at Duquesne University, in the areas of instruction where she led the educa- and learning, research tional technology area and and scholarship, and man- served as executive director agement and leadership. of computing and technology Golden, who works for services and codirector of the EDUCAUSE out of its Center for Distance Learn- D.C. office, earned her ing. Her work at Duquesne Master of Science degree Cynthia Golden included leading all aspects in information science at of instructional design, dis- Pitt in 1983 and graduated cum laude with tance education, computer labs, media a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University services, and other technology units, and of Pennsylvania in 1980. working closely with the provost, deans, and “Cynthia Golden is an experienced faculty. Prior to her work at Duquesne, she By Patricia Lomando White manager and leader, with a strong back- was a manager in the Information Systems ground in strategic planning, budgeting, and group at MIT. Golden’s career began in The 2009 conference of the Working Union, and Nelson Harrison and the Pitts- organizational development. I look forward 1984 at Carnegie Mellon University, where Class Studies Association (WCSA) will burgh Jazz Network All-Stars; a dramatic to working with her as she and members of she held the position of associate director of be held June 3-6 in the University of Pitts- adaptation of Thomas Bell’s “Out of This the CIDDE staff continue to strengthen the administrative systems. burgh’s William Pitt Union. The biennial Furnace”; and “The Point of Pittsburgh,” instructional development and support ser- Golden has written extensively for gathering—four days of panels, workshops, a history of the city told through readings, vices available to faculty of the University,” professional publications and edited and and performances—draws hundreds of music, and visual art. In addition, tours Maher commented in announcing Golden’s contributed to the EDUCAUSE book Culti- activists, artists, educators, scholars, and have been arranged to historical sites in appointment. vating Careers: Professional Development students from around the world. the valleys of the Monongahela, Ohio, and Golden’s work at EDUCAUSE, espe- for Campus IT. The conference comes to Pittsburgh Allegheny rivers. after stints in Youngstown, “The conference Ohio, and St. Paul, Minn. caps off the Pittsburgh This year’s conference “Pittsburgh is the right 250 celebration by look- theme is Class Matters. ing at the city’s history of PITT ARTS Cheap Seat Sales Soar 20 Percent “Pittsburgh is the place for an event on production and struggle, right place for an event the theme of Class how time and again the played a key role in the program’s success. on the theme of Class aims of political and cor- In 2006, Pittsburgh Opera was the first Matters,” said Nicholas Matters. Aside from porate elites collided with participating arts presenter to develop a Coles, conference orga- homegrown, organized Web site that allowed Pitt constituents to nizer and a professor in being attractive to resistance—how this pay the same price for a Cheap Seats ticket Pitt’s Department of Eng- class-based resistance purchased online that they would have lish. “Aside from being visitors, the city has a often created improved paid at the PITT ARTS office. The Pitts- attractive to visitors, the conditions,” said confer- burgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh city has a deep tradition deep tradition of indus- ence cochair Charles Public Theater, Pittsburgh Civic Light of industry, labor, and try, labor, and ethnic McCollester, director of Opera, MCG Jazz, and Pittsburgh Ballet ethnic migrations, and the Pennsylvania Center Theatre followed suit. Patrons making now the turn to a greener migrations, and now the for Labor Relations and purchases online or at the PITT ARTS economy. The time is professor of industrial office in the William Pitt Union pick up right, too. Understand- turn to a greener econ- and labor relations at their tickets at the performance venue’s ing how class affects us Indiana University of Will Call window, where they show their socially and economi- omy. The time is right, Pennsylvania (IUP). Pitt IDs. cally may be more impor- The conference is The total 2008-09 participation num- tant now than any period too. Understanding how supported by WCSA, bers for PITT ARTS programming was since the 1930s.” class affects us socially IUP’s labor center, and By Sharon S. Blake 42,843, 11.5 percent more than in 2007-08. Conference speak- Pitt’s School of Arts and The Free Visits program, which allows ers include labor histo- and economically may Sciences, as well as by PITT ARTS, which connects Pitt stu- students to swipe Pitt IDs for free admis- rian David Montgomery, programs and volunteers dents to the city’s cultural hub, reached a sion to five Pittsburgh museums and the the Farnam Professor be more important now from Pitt’s Departments new milestone during the 2008-09 academic Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gar- of History Emeritus at of English, Anthropol- year with more than 12,000 tickets sold in dens, benefited 19,018 students in 2008-09, Yale University, on class than any period since ogy, History, and Soci- its Cheap Seats Program. 250 more than in the previous year. Nearly and empire; educator Ira ology and the Cultural The program allows Pitt students, 8,000 Pitt undergraduate students took Shor, a professor in the the 1930s.” Studies and Women’s faculty, and staff to purchase deeply dis- advantage of Arts Encounters, which pro- City University of New —Nicholas Coles S t u d i e s p r o g r a m s; counted tickets to the Pittsburgh Symphony vide Pitt students with free transportation York’s Graduate Center, Carlow University Wom- Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh to performances, catered receptions, and on class in the classroom; en’s Studies Program; Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, opportunities to meet artistic directors or Bill Fletcher Jr., director of Field Services Carnegie Mellon University Department Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh performers; that number was also higher and Education, American Federation of of English; Chatham University; Duquesne CLO Cabaret Theater, Quantum Theatre, than the previous year’s figure. Government Employees, on the current University Women’s and Gender Stud- MCG Jazz, and other area arts presenters. PITT ARTS was founded in 1997 as economic crisis; and Fred Redmond, inter- ies Center; Youngstown State University The ticket total—12,182—represents a way for Pitt undergraduate students to national vice-president, United Steelwork- Center for Working-Class Studies; the a 20 percent increase in Cheap Seats ticket experience arts and cultural programming ers, on labor and globalization. United Steelworkers of America; and the sales compared to sales during the 2007-08 at little or no cost. The PITT ARTS staff There also will be evening perfor- Battle of Homestead Foundation. For more academic year. conducts regular surveys to observe and mances, including music by Anne Feeney information, visit the conference Web site at PITT ARTS director Annabelle Clip- understand what young adults value in arts and Friends, Mike Stout and the Human www.workingclassstudies.pitt.edu. pinger says online ticket purchasing has experiences. 2 • Pitt Chronicle • May 26, 2009 UniversityUpdate
leadership,” and as one are very important to those organizations can provide connections to more than 100 of “the larger cities but so is the fact that direct connections destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and that are hubs for jet can be made from most major European the Middle East from Paris. The initial flight airlines so that faculty cities to important business destinations schedule is as follows. can come and go.” in other parts of the world. In private con- Flight 188: Departs Pittsburgh at 6:15 Any comments versations, some major p.m. Arrives in Paris the next that I might make regional employers, with day at 8:20 a.m. about the first two of current leadership that “Now, of course, it is Flight 189: Departs those factors will need is very loyal to Pitts- most important that Paris at 10:40 a.m. Arrives to wait for another day. burgh, have gone so far in Pittsburgh at 1:55 p.m. However, as now is as to predict that without business and leisure Frequency of both painfully clear to all such nonstop air connec- flights: Monday, Wednes- of us, Pittsburgh’s loss tions, their companies travelers going from day, Thursday, Saturday, and of its “hub status” has almost certainly will Sunday. made it far less con- be forced to move their Pittsburgh to Europe, The aircraft to be uti- venient for members headquarters to some lized on this route will be a of our administration, better-served region. Asia, Africa, and the Boeing 757-200, with seat- faculty, and staff to Having provided Middle East take advan- ing for up to 174 passengers, discharge responsi- that brief sense of con- including 16 seats in Delta’s bilities requiring either text, let me say that the tage of this service. business class and 158 seats domestic or interna- acquisition of the new in its economy class. tional air travel. nonstop airline service Obviously, as we make As noted, this commit- What may be less to Europe—which starts ment by Delta could prove clear to many of us is June 3, when Delta Air- travel plans, each of us to be of enormous economic that the consequences lines begins flying non- benefit to our community. of the dramatic reduc- stop between Pittsburgh will need to consider Solid usage of these flights tion in air service and Paris—is a vital cost and convenience will help ensure that con- that this region has component of ongoing venient nonstop service to experienced in recent efforts to stimulate this factors, as we always Europe remains available to years extend well region’s economy. Delta us for years to come. In fact, beyond whether our was convinced to invest have. In making those if this route proves to be suc- own people can easily in the implementation cessful, it may provide some “come and go.” This of this service through determinations, though, incentive for others to enter service reduction also the determined work of the market. On the other represents a very real political, civic, and cor- it also is important to hand, if this effort fails, limitation on economic porate leaders, coordi- remember that develop- it seems unlikely that any To: Members of the University Community growth, and, in the end, nated by the Allegheny other carrier will consider the progress of our Conference on Commu- ing a base of business Pittsburgh for nonstop inter- From: Mark A. Nordenberg University is tied to the nity Development. Pitt, national flights for many economic strength and as most of you know, is that will sustain this years to come. Date: April 30, 2009 general vitality of our a member of the Allegh- In making travel plans home region. eny Conference, and we service is vital to our for trips to Europe, Asia, Re: Rebuilding Pittsburgh’s Air Service I have been espe- were involved in the Africa, or the Middle East, cially surprised by the efforts to secure a non- home region and also, then, please consider whether level of priority that stop airline connection then, to our University.” this flight service, which has ifteen years ago, Clark has been assigned between Pittsburgh and been specifically designed to Kerr—who, during his to nonstop air ser- Europe. —Mark A. Nordenberg serve the Pittsburgh region, distinguished career, had vice between Pitts- Now, of course, it can meet your needs. Please served as chancellor of the burgh and Europe is most important that also spread the word. Our University of California at by f i r ms —f rom business and leisure travelers going from home region stands to benefit from any help Berkeley, president of the manufacturers to Pittsburgh to Europe, Asia, Africa, and that you can provide. University of California professional service the Middle East take advantage of this ser- system, and chair of the providers—that vice. Obviously, as we make travel plans, Carnegie Council on Higher Education— are headquartered each of us will need to consider cost and wrote a book entitled Troubled Times for here but that have convenience factors, as we always have. In AmericanF Higher Education: The 1990s and a sizeable inter- making those determinations, though, it also Beyond. It is a volume that I have found to national com- is important to remember that developing a be a source of many useful insights ponent to their base of business that will sustain this service PittChronicle In a chapter entitled “The New Race to business. Non- is vital to our home region and also, then, to Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh Be Harvard or Berkeley or Stanford,” Chan- stop f lights our University. And in terms of convenience, cellor Kerr avoids specific predictions about to and from of course, there are decided practical advan- PUBLISHER Robert Hill rising institutions but identifies a number of Europe itself tages to avoiding the need to make flight ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith factors, tied to location, that could aid par- connections in other North American cities EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer ticular universities in their quest to become when flying back to Pittsburgh from abroad EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet comparatively stronger. Pittsburgh was and to clearing customs here. ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener identified as an advantageous location To provide a bit of additional informa- STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake for three different reasons: as a “reno- tion, Delta, which is the world’s largest John Fedele vating center” of economic activity, airline, will provide nonstop service to and Morgan Kelly because of its “aggressive industrial from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Amanda Leff Together with its partner, Air France, Delta Anthony M. Moore Patricia Lomando White CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Clare Collins Emily Martin Anita Srikameswaran HAPPENINGS EDITOR Anthony M. Moore
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A Dedication to Nursing By Emily Martin
Bashira Charles wanted to leave a full- a nursing student who was pursuing a time nursing career to return to school and PhD. Then that person could one day earn her doctorate. But there was one factor use the education to teach other nurses,” that was key to making that happen: “I knew Mrs. Wilkes added. that it would not be possible to accomplish Charles, the most recent recipient my goal without scholarship support,” she of the Wilkes Scholarship, seized the recalled. opportunity offered by the scholarship. Thanks to the Margaret E. Wilkes Instead of working part-time to make Scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh ends meet, Charles was able to immerse School of Nursing, Charles (NURS ‘03G, herself in her studies and research in ‘08G) received exactly the kind of help she Pitt’s School of Nursing. “My research needed. is focused on the genetic basis of The scholarship was created and gen- complications of diabetes, particularly erously funded by James (A&S ’59) and diabetic retinopathy,” she said. “And Margaret Wilkes, longtime Pitt supporters during a research conference following a JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE who met while Mrs. Wilkes was working as presentation of my work, someone from a nurse at the Western Psychiatric Institute the NIH [National Institutes of Health] & Clinic. invited me to talk with them about con- After graduating from nursing school, tinuing my research at their facilities in Continued on page 6 Mrs. Wilkes landed a job at Western Psych Bethesda, Md., after graduation.” and met her husband James, who was a Speaking from her new apartment Pitt student working as an attendant in the in Washington, D.C., where she is a hospital. “I didn’t work as a nurse for very research fellow at the National Institute long, maybe a year or so, but my time at of Nursing Research, Charles reiterated the hospital had quite an impact on me. To her thanks to the Wilkeses for their gen- this day, I have an affinity for nurses. I find erosity. “Without scholarship support, myself reading newspaper articles and books none of this would have been possible,” about medicine or attending lectures about she said. health care, so I’m still very interested in the “We knew that we wanted to con- field,” she said. tinue supporting Pitt,” Mrs. Wilkes The Wilkes Scholarship was designed said. “My husband is a proud alumnus, with these interests in mind. “I know that and we feel very connected to the Uni- there’s a real scarcity of nursing educators versity.” By creating the Margaret E. today, so when my husband and I thought Wilkes Scholarship, the Wilkeses will about creating this scholarship, we wanted enhance the lives of nursing students to provide money specifically to support in perpetuity. Margaret E. and James Wilkes
Alcohol Drinkers Zone Out and Are Unaware That They Do, Pitt Study Shows
that alcohol disrupts an individual’s ability likely to do so than was the placebo group. to realize his or her mind has wandered, Participants in the alcohol group would suggesting impairment of a psychologi- have had many more opportunities to catch cal state called metaconsciousness. These themselves because they zoned out much findings suggest that distinct processes are more often—but they did not: They were responsible for causing a thought to occur, impaired in their ability to notice their own as opposed to allowing its presence to be mind-wandering episodes. noticed. “Researchers have known for a while Led by Pitt professor of psychology that alcohol consumption can interfere with Michael Sayette, researchers Erik Reichle, our limited-capacity powers of a professor and chair of Pitt’s cogni- concentration,” said Sayette. tive program in psychology, and “But this ‘double-whammy,’ Jonathan Schooler, professor of (i.e., more zone-outs that psychology at the University take longer to recognize) of California, Santa Barbara, may explain why alcohol studied a group of men, half often disrupts efforts to of whom had consumed alco- exercise self-control—a hol and half of whom had process requiring the been given a placebo. After 30 ability to become aware minutes, the participants began of one’s current state in reading a portion of Tolstoy’s War order to regulate it.” and Peace from a computer screen. These findings have If they caught themselves zoning potentially important implica- out—having no idea what they had Michael Sayette tions for understanding the just read or thinking about something disruptive effects of alcohol, other than the text—they pressed a key on according to Sayette. For example, the the keyboard. They also were prompted observation that alcohol increases mind at intervals to see whether they could be wandering suggests another reason why “caught” mind wandering before they real- alcohol makes driving dangerous: Drunk ized it themselves. drivers may lose track of what they are The results revealed that while the study doing. By Sharon S. Blake participants were reading the text, those who Moreover, the finding that alcohol had consumed alcohol were mind wandering reduces metaconsciousness may explain A new Pitt study suggests that a moder- paper, titled “Lost in the Sauce: The Effects without realizing it about 25 percent of the why people drive when they are drunk: By ate dose of alcohol increases the likelihood of Alcohol on Mind Wandering,” explores time—a percentage more than double that reducing their ability to assess their current of a person’s mind wandering, while at this phenomenon and is published in the May of those who had not consumed alcohol. But state, intoxicated people may fail to realize the same time reducing the likelihood of issue of Psychological Science. as far as “catching themselves” zoning out, how intoxicated they are and thus inad- noticing that one’s mind has wandered. The The study provides the first evidence those who had been drinking were no more equately appraise the danger of driving. 4 • Pitt Chronicle • May 26, 2009 Science&Technology
Changes in Gene May Stunt Lung Development in Children By Clare Collins
Mutations in a gene may cause poor the International Study of Asthma and lung development in children, making them Allergy in Children, they discovered more vulnerable to diseases such two common SNPs associ- as chronic obstructive pulmo- ated with poorer lung func- nary disease (COPD) later in life, tion. One of these SNPs likely say researchers in the University alters the expression levels of Pittsburgh Graduate School of of SOD3. Lung function was Public Health and the German tested with spirometry, which Research Center for Environ- measures the amount and mental Health. Their study, pub- speed of exhaled air. lished online in Physiological Previously, genetic vari- Genomics, measured expression ants in SOD3 have been associ- levels of the gene and its variants ated with loss of lung function in both mouse lungs and children in COPD, which is mainly ages nine to 11. George Leikauf caused by cigarette smoking. The study was led by George “We know SOD3 protects the Leikauf, a professor of occupational and lung against injury caused by chemi- environmental health in Pitt’s Graduate cals in cigarette smoke, and it could be School of Public Health, and Holger Schulz, a link between childhood exposure to a professor of medicine in the Insti- environmental tobacco smoke and poor Alexander Star tute of Lung Biology and Dis- lung development,” said Leikauf. ease, German Research Center In the future, it might be possible for Environmental Health, in to identify at-risk children and Munich. It focused on a gene to develop a medication that Pitt Researchers Identify Protein That called superoxide dismutase would foster optimal lung 3 (SOD3), previously shown development, he added. The Is Key to Pulmonary Emphysema to protect the lungs from the researchers also are explor- effects of asbestos and oxida- ing sex differences in SOD3 By Anita Srikameswaran tive stress. gene expression and lung “People lose lung development, and girls Scientists at the University of may contribute to the pathogenesis of function as they age, appear to be at greater risk Pittsburgh School of Medicine emphysema.” so it’s important to than boys. are blazing a trail down a Cells cannot replicate for- identify possible COPD is the molecular pathway that ever, he explained. After a genetic targets fou r t h -le a d i ng could lead to new treat- certain number of divisions, t h a t c o n t r ol c a u s e o f ments, and perhaps even the cycle stops because of healthy devel- death in the prevention strategies, for a cellular aging process opment of United States, the lung disease emphy- called senescence. Oxidative the lungs accounting sema. stress, meaning increased d u r i n g f o r m o r e Their study indi- production of free radicals, child- than 120,000 cates that blocking the can induce that process pre- hood,” said deaths annu- activity of a structural pro- maturely. Leikauf. ally and costing tein called caveolin-1 stops In Galbiati’s study, normal Leikauf, more than $30 free radical-induced aging Ferruccio Galbiati mice began to show signs of pre- Schulz, and col- billion per year. and damage of fibroblasts, mature aging in lung fibroblasts leagues compared It is estimated that a kind of lung cell, in an animal model after six weeks of exposure to cigarette SOD3 expression levels more than 16 million of emphysema. smoke and developed pul- in strains of mice with Americans have COPD. Emphysema typi- monary emphysema after poor lung function to a The study was funded cally occurs after long “Our findings six months. But premature strain with more efficient by the National Institutes periods of cigarette senescence and emphy- airways and lungs two times of Health and the German smoking. Toxins in the indicate that the sema induced by smoke the size. As with people, the Research Center for Envi- smoke destroy the walls free radicals or exposure were signifi- lungs of mice fully form as ronmental Health. of the alveoli, the tiny air- cantly prevented in mice they mature to adulthood. filled sacs in lung tissue oxidants produced that lacked the gene to The better-functioning strain where oxygen exchange make caveolin-1. maintained higher levels happens, impairing lung by smoking acceler- “For our next step, of SOD3—levels in these “People lose lung function and ultimately we would like to identify mice were four times higher leading to death owing to ate the aging of lung drugs that can reduce the than the lesser-functioning function as they age, respiratory failure. amount of caveolin-1 to mice at the final stage of lung so it’s important to “It was thought that fibroblasts, which see if they affect emphy- development. They also found smoking-induced lung may contribute to sema development,” Gal- the presence of single nucle- identify possible inflammation was the biati said. “That way, we otide polymorphisms, or SNPs, main reason for destruc- the pathogenesis of might be able to slow down variations in DNA sequences, in genetic targets that tion of alveoli,” said or perhaps prevent some SOD3 that were linked to lung senior investigator Fer- emphysema.” of the lung damage that function in mice. control healthy ruccio Galbiati, a profes- —Ferruccio Galbiati smoking causes.” The researchers went on sor of pharmacology and The research was to assess SOD3 mutations in development of the chemical biology in the supported by a grant from children ages 9 to 11 by test- lungs during School of Medicine. “Our the National Institutes of ing for SNPs linked to lung findings indicate that the free radicals or Health. The study appeared in the Feb. 27, function. After analyzing DNA childhood.” oxidants produced by smoking acceler- 2009, issue of the Journal of Biological from 1,555 children in Munich ate the aging of lung fibroblasts, which Chemistry. and Dresden who were part of —George Leikauf May 26, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 5
Newsmakers Marriage, Men, and Money
EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW BRADEN WOLFE/CIDDE M. Belinda Tucker, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the University of California at Los Angeles, was the keynote speaker during an April 22 luncheon sponsored by Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP). Tucker’s speech was titled “Marriage, Men, and Money: African American Women’s Continued Investment in the Romantic Ideal.” The talk in the Cathedral of Learning was part of the center’s JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE Reed Smith Spring 2009 Speaker Series. Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, delivered the May 15 commencement address for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The University conferred 232 Juris Doctor degrees, 15 Master of Laws degrees, eight Master of Studies in Law degrees, and one Certificate FAREWELL WISHES FOR GOLDY in Disability Legal Studies. The ceremony was held in Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum.
PITT JAZZ ENSEMBLE 2 About 20 Pitt jazz student musicians who make up the Pitt Jazz Ensemble performed April 9 in the William Pitt Union’s Assembly Room. 1. Mark Whitfield, critically acclaimed as one of the most dynamic guitarists on the New York jazz scene, joined the ensemble for the evening. 2. Sean Polun (A&S ’09) plays the double bass. 3. Sophomore Michael Robinson (left) plays the tenor sax and Eric Bray, a junior, performs on the baritone sax. The group played under the direction of Leon Lee Dorsey, Pitt assistant professor of jazz studies and coordinator of the Jazz Studies Program. JIM BURKE/CIDDE
PHOTOS BY MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE The University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs held an April 14 retirement celebration for 1 Professor Donald M. Goldstein in honor of his 35 years of service to the University. Goldstein, pictured above with his wife, Mariann, is an internation- ally renowned scholar with expertise in a wide range of subjects, including 20th-century military history, public administration, political science, arms control, national interest and national security, and the theory and practice of international affairs. The event, which featured “Goldy” bobble- heads, was held in the University Club. A separate celebration was held April 6 in Washington, D.C.
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Regenerative Medicine and Rolling Stone Alan J. Russell, director of the the magazine said it is “wowing Awards&More McGowan Institute for Regenerative lecture audiences with photos of Medicine, was named by Rolling gruesome wounds that are Stone as one of “The 100 miraculously healed from his People Who Are Changing futuristic therapy.” America” in the maga- In addition to being zine’s March 18, 2009, director of the McGowan issue. Institute, which is a Pitt Rolling Stone said and UPMC venture, Rus- Russell is changing sell serves as University “how we heal. Russell Professor of Surgery and is pioneering regenera- has secondary appoint- tive medicine—ways for ments in the Departments of damaged tissues and organs to Alan J. Russell Chemical Engineering, Bioen- repair and rebuild themselves. gineering, and Rehabilitation Current project: an artificial ovary Sciences and Technology. Russell so women with cancer could undergo also is the executive director of the radiation treatment and still be able to Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Ini- have children.” tiative and director of the National As for Russell’s “signature move,” Tissue Engineering Center.
presented March 23 in Baltimore, Md. Joe Miksch, the associate editor of Pitt Med magazine, received the Journalism Public Affairs received a Gold award award for his coverage of research, clinical, in the category “Special Events: Indi- and curricular advancements in the Pitt vidual Events” for its Feb. 1, 2008, world- School of Medicine. premiere screening of Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania’s Tuskegee Airmen, a Donna J. Haworth, a Pitt doctoral WQED-produced video documentary student in bioengineering, received the Post- about the Tuskegee Airmen. Funding for Secondary Student Award. the documentary was provided by Pitt, the Alcoa Foundation, and the Pittsburgh The awardees were honored May 8 Foundation. JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE during a celebration in Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland. The by-invitation premiere, which Pitt Office of Public Affairs’ representatives attended the 26th Annual Robert L. Vann Awards and Reception, spon- marked Pitt’s inaugural event in the K. sored by the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation. From left, Sharon S. Blake, senior news representative; Amanda Leroy Irvis Black History Month Pro- Leff, news representative; Ervin Dyer, Pitt Magazine senior editor; Anthony M. Moore, news and information special- gram, was held in Soldiers and Sailors ist; and Cindy Gill, Pitt Magazine editor-in-chief. Blake, Leff, Dyer, and Gill won awards for their writing during the Daniel Budny was elected a fellow in Military Museum and Memorial in May 7 event held in the William Pitt Union. the American Society for Engineer- Oakland. The Tuskegee event also won ing Education. He is a professor a Silver award in the “Individual Special of civil engineering and direc- Public Relations Projects” category. The The University of Pittsburgh’s Office tor of freshman engineering invitations to the world-premiere screen- of Public Affairs received six awards programs in Pitt’s Swan- ing won a Silver award in the category during the Pittsburgh Black Media Fed- Three researchers, an associ- son School of Engineering. “Visual Design and Print: Single Page eration’s 26th Annual Robert L. Vann ate dean, and a journalist from Publication.” Awards and Reception on May 7 in the the University of Pittsburgh Paul Daniel Patterson, a William Pitt Union. received 2009 Carnegie research assistant professor Finally, the world premiere also won Science Awards, which rec- in the University of Pittsburgh a Bronze award in the category “Com- Photographer Harry Giglio and Gary ognize and promote individu- School of Medicine’s Department munity Relations Programs, Projects, and Cravener, art director for Pitt Magazine, als and corporations in Western of Emergency Medicine, received a Special Events.” were the sole winners in the “Magazine Pennsylvania who contribute to and Yuan Chang grant from the ASHRM Foundation. Illustration” category for “Flying Les- support outstanding science and The grant will help fund Patterson’s Gold Accolades awards were won sons” in the magazine’s Winter 2008 technology achievements. research proposal, “The Effect by both Pitt Med magazine and Pitt issue. of Communication Patterns in Magazine in the general “Staff Writing” This year’s awardees the Emergency Department on category. In addition, Pitt Med Associ- In the “Magazine Features” category, included Yuan Chang and Quality and Performance.” The ate Editor Joe Miksch’s article, “The Pitt Magazine won a first-place award Patrick Moore, an interna- foundation was established in Investigator’s Path,” in the magazine’s with Senior Editor Ervin Dyer’s “Charles tionally renowned husband- 2004 by the American Society Summer 2008 issue won a Gold award Florence, the Great Debater” article in the wife research team at the Uni- for Healthcare Risk Manage- in the “Best Article” category. That same Summer 2008 issue. Pitt Med took a third- versity of Pittsburgh Cancer ment. Pitt Med issue won a Silver award for its place award with Cassandra Zinchini’s Institute and professors in Pitt’s “Showtime” cover in the “Visual Design article, “Twins: A Pitt Partnership Helps School of Medicine. Chang is a and Print: Covers” category. Train Mozambique’s Newest Doctors” in professor of pathology, and Moore Patrick Moore the Spring 2008 issue. is a professor in the Department of Tia-Lynn Ashman, a professor of The PITT ARTS Web site (www. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics as plant evolutionary ecology in the Univer- pittarts.pitt.edu
Marc Bamuthi Joseph: the break/s, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, May 27-28, August Wilson Center, 425 6th Ave., Down- town, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 412-258-2700, www. Happenings pgharts.org. Among the Best: The Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays, by Rob Penny, May 28-June 13, 7th-floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland, Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 412-624-7298, www.kuntu.org. Harry’s Friendly Service, by Rob Zellers, May 28-June 28, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-434-7590, www.ppt.org. Mojo, by Jez Butterworth, May 29, The Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland, The Performing Arts Center of Point Park University, 412-621-4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com. Viva, by Anna Biller, May 29, The Andy The Analytical Eye: Photographs by Aaronel deRoy Gruber, Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, The Warhol: Movies, 412-237-8300, Silver Eye Center for Photography, through June 27 www.warhol.org. Rock ‘n’ Roll, by Tom Stoppard, through May 30, Henry Heymann Theatre in Concerts Lectures/Seminars/ the Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Our Majestic Pipes, organ recital fea- Readings Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Irish & turing Stephen C. Price, organ scholar at Classical Theatre, 412-561-6000, www. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Norwalk, “Find a Job Fast in a Tough Econ- picttheatre.org. Conn., noon May 28; The Blava Quar- omy,” Chris Posti, executive coach and tet of New York City, part of the Music human resources consultant, 10 a.m. the Spirit Concert Series, 2 p.m. May 31, May 27, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pitt PhD Dissertation First Presbyterian Church of Pitts- Squirrel Hill Branch, 5801 Forbes Ave., burgh, 320 Sixth Ave., Downtown, Squirrel Hill, 412-442-9650, www.carn- Defenses 412-471-3436, www.fpcp.org. egielibrary.org. Sandrine Arons, School of Arts and Sci- Honeck: Mozart and Beethoven, “Understanding Investing—Taking ences’ Department of French and Italian featuring Manfred Honeck, conductor; Care of Ourselves and Our Kids,” Languages and Literatures, “Self-recon- Frank Peter Zimmerman, violin, 1:30 p.m. Larry Garvin of Pennsylvania Treasury struction Through Alternative Genres of June 4 and 8 p.m. June 5-6, Heinz Hall, Department, 6 p.m. May 27, Carnegie Personal Writing,” 10 a.m. May 26, 1218 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Library of Pittsburgh, Main Branch, 4400 Cathedral of Learning. Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3151, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. www.carnegielibrary.org. Harvey M. Morris, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Neuroscience, “Alterations in GABA-related Transcripts Exhibitions in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex of Theatre Wraps Up Season Miscellaneous Subjects With Schizophrenia,” 11 a.m. By Sharon S. Blake Gallerie Chiz, Clay: The Cutting Edge, May 27, 2nd-floor Auditorium, Learning featuring work of artist Tom Ladousa, 2009 Working Class Studies Associa- Research and Development Center. through May 30, 5831 Ellsworth Ave., tion Conference, featuring numerous The University of Pitts- will be on display, and former Shadyside, www.galleriechiz.com. economic experts and activists, June 3-6, Jerrod A. Poe, School of Medicine’s burgh’s Kuntu Repertory Crawfords pitcher and out- William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Graduate Program, “Bimolecular Fluo- Theatre brings to an end its fielder Ted Toles will sign Carnegie Museum of Art, Laboratory Oakland, Working Class Studies Associa- season of plays by the late autographs. Some of the items of Architecture, exhibition about works tion, Pitt, 412-624-6506, www.working- rescence Complementation Reveals That of Mexican architect Fernando Romero, classstudies.pitt.edu. (See page 1) HIV-1 NEF Oligomerization Is Essen- playwright Rob Penny with will be for sale, with proceeds through May 31; Matsubara: A Celebra- tial for CD4 Downregulation and Viral Among the Best: The Pitts- benefiting the Josh Gibson tion in Pittsburgh, woodblock prints by Steve Byrne, stand-up comedian, Replication,” 10 a.m. May 29, 1295 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower. burgh Crawfords and the Foundation. Sean Gibson, Matsubara Naoko, through June 7, 4400 8 p.m. May 28-31; Lavell Crawford, Homestead Grays, based on the foundation’s president Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, stand-up comedian, 8 p.m. June 5-7, www.cmoa.org. Improv, 166 East Bridge St., Homestead, Kristi L. O’Neal, School of Arts and two famous baseball teams in and great-grandson of leg- 412-462-5233, www.symfonee.com. Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, “Non- the Negro Leagues. The play endary catcher Josh Gibson, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Neighbor- covalent Interactions in Perfluorinated Media,” 10 a.m. June 2, 307 Eberly Hall. runs May 28 through June 13 has helped coordinate the hood Mosaic Project, featuring the work in the Seventh-floor Audito- event. Sean Gibson will be in of Daviea Davis, through June 14, 5472 Opera/Theater/ Penn Ave., Friendship, 412-365-2145, Michael W. Cole, School of Arts and rium of Alumni Hall. Penny attendance May 30, and other www.pittsburghglasscenter.org. Dance Sciences’ Center for Neurosciences, “The was Kuntu’s playwright-in- former players’ friends and Biological Basis of Rapid Instructed Task Learning,” 10 a.m. June 3, 2nd-floor residence for many years and families also are expected to Wood Street Galleries, Machine Impro- 8-Track: The Sounds of the 70’s, a Pitt professor of Africana attend. visations, through June 20, 601 Wood by Rick Seeber, through September Auditorium, Learning Research and St., Downtown, 412-471-5605, www. 27, Theater Square Cabaret, 655 Penn Development Center. Studies. Among the Best will be woodstreetgalleries.org. Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO, Performances are Thurs- directed by Talvin Wilks, a 412-456-6666, www.pittsburghclo.org. Dana L. Tudorascu, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biosta- days through Saturdays at 8 New York City-based play- Silver Eye Center for Photography, p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. A wright, director, and drama- The Analytical Eye: Photographs By Spring Awakening, musical by Michael tistics, “Partial Least Squares on Data Aaronel deRoy Gruber, retrospective Mayer, May 26-31, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn With Missing Covariates; A Comparison matinee is scheduled for 1 p.m. turg, whose works include exhibition featuring more than 50 prints, Ave., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across Approach,” 1:30 p.m. June 4, 109 Parran Saturday, June 6, and 11 a.m. Tod, the Boy, Tod; The Trial through June 27, 1015 E. Carson St., America, Pittsburgh 2008-09 Season, Hall. Thursday, June 11. of Uncle S/M; The Life In South Side, 412-431-1810, www.silver- 412-392-4200, www.pgharts.org. The story tells the tale Between; and American Trip- eye.org. Idella Johnson, School of Arts and Sci- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor ences’ Department of Music, “Develop- of some of the most talented tych. He has been a guest Senator John Heinz History Center, Dreamcoat, by Andrew Lloyd Webber ment of the African American Gospel baseball players in the Negro director and lecturer at SUNY/ The Darkest Month: Coal Mining Disas- and Tim Rice, May 26-June 7, Benedum Piano Style (1926-1960): A Socio-Musical Analysis of Arizona Dranes and Thomas Leagues—Josh Gibson, Stony Brook, Antioch College, ters of December 1907, exhibition com- Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Princeton University, and memorating 100th anniversary of regional Pittsburgh CLO, 412-456-6666, www. A. Dorsey,” 1 p.m. June 8, 302 Music mining disasters that took the lives of pittsburghclo.org. Building. Bell, Buck Leonard, and Ted Howard University. He was more than 600 miners, through “Double Duty” Radcliffe. a professor of theater at the June 28; Portrait of the Allegheny, a When these legendary athletes University of Massachusetts 25-photo exhibition documenting recre- return to Greenlee Field in at Amherst and served as the ational and industrial uses of Allegheny River, through July 31; Lincoln: The Pittsburgh’s Hill District, they interim artistic director for Constitution and the Civil War, May contemplate the impact Jackie New WORLD Theater. 30-Jan. 15, 2010, 1212 Smallman St., Robinson and the integration Admission to Among the Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.hein- of the Major Leagues had on Best is $20 for adults; $14 for zhistorycenter.org. their careers. The stories of Pitt faculty and staff; $13 for Mattress Factory, Thaddeus Mosley: their struggle parallel the dis- senior citizens, students, and Sculpture (Studio/Home), through appointment experienced by a children ages 4-18; and $5 for July 19, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, young girl, Kemiya, who has all Pitt students with a valid ID. 412-231-3169, www.mattress.org. been rejected by a local male Groups of 10 or more receive Society for Contemporary Craft, baseball team. a 25 percent discount. May 28 Beyond Shared Language: Contemporary Attendees at the May 30 and 29 are Dollar Nights for Art and the Latin American Experience, performance will be treated to Pitt students. For more infor- through Aug. 29, 2100 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-261-7003, www.con- a 7 p.m. preshow reception in mation, call 412-624-7298 or temporarycraft.org. the lobby of the Seventh-floor visit www.kuntu.org. For more Auditorium. Photos, uniforms, information on the Josh Gibson 709 Penn Gallery, Threadline: Works and other memorabilia from Foundation, call 412-771-6949 by Lee Renninger, June 4-July 18, 709 the Crawfords and the Grays or visit www.joshgibson.org. Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Honeck: Mozart and Beethoven, Trust, 412-471-6078, www.pgharts.org. Heinz Hall, June 4-6
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8 • Pitt Chronicle •May 26, 2009 Pitt ‘Green’ Design Contest Winners Combine Household Wind Turbine With Tips for Low-cost Power Conservation
The turbine could power either a battery David Kennedy, and mechanical engineering bank that appliances could be plugged into student Benjamin Kwadwo Som-Pimpong directly, or it could connect directly to a netted the third-place prize for a device that household circuit breaker. would transmit home power-use data to a “We wanted to generate as much sus- personalized Web site, reducing consump- tainable power as possible, but still make tion by informing people of how much power something the average family could use,” they burn. said Toll, the turbine’s primary designer. The Mascaro Center initiated the con- “Commercial turbines generate more power, test because buildings are one of the largest but a nuclear family doesn’t want to wait five energy drains. Older buildings in particular or 10 years for it to pay for itself. This is a commonly hemorrhage energy because of low-cost investment with a short payback poor insulation, old wiring, and outdated period and a small sacrifice of power.” lighting. To fix these shortcomings, property The accompanying booklet comple- owners typically pay contractors large sums ments the turbine by encouraging less for solutions with a long payback time. The energy use, explained Espenshade, who retrofitting of older buildings with energy- compiled energy saving tips from various conserving features is a considerable issue sources. The booklet includes such well- in such areas as Pittsburgh, where many known advice as planting trees on the sunny buildings and homes were built before side of the house to more creative pointers 1940. The Mascaro Center, housed in Pitt’s such as not keeping TVs, lamps, and other Swanson School of Engineering, specializes heat-producing appliances near the thermo- in sustainable-design research and innova- stat because they can distort the reading. tion. Support for the design challenge also Toll and Espenshade are from Lebanon, came from the Heinz Endowments. Pa. Toll, 20, started the company Disaster More information on the contest and the Rebuilding Solutions, LLC, in 2007 to Mascaro Center is available on its Web site, market a type of construction beam he www.mascarocenter.pitt.edu. invented for quick construction in such By Morgan Kelly locations as refugee camps, disaster areas, and war zones. The beams are made of a An affordable wind turbine coupled were selected from five finalist teams to corrugated plastic shell with a foam core, with a book of energy-saving tips is the win- receive the $5,000 first-place prize. A $2,500 require no tools for construction, and are PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of ning idea in the sustainable-design contest second-place prize and a $1,000 third-place lightweight, weatherproof, and fire resis- Pitt Chronicle will be published June 8. hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Mas- prize also were awarded. tant. The product earned Toll induction Items for publication in the newspaper’s caro Center for Sustainable Innovation. Twenty-nine proposals were received into the National Gallery for America’s Happenings calendar (see page 7) should Young Inventors in 2007. He is working on be received six working days prior to the Launched in August 2008, the Energy and judged for originality, possibility of desired publication date. Happenings items Efficient Building Technologies Challenge successful implementation, and the degree to starting a second company for a separate should include the following information: asked undergraduate students from universi- which they would allow people to maintain invention. title of the event, name and title of speaker(s), ties in Southwestern Pennsylvania to create their quality of life. Toll and Espenshade For the second-place prize, Pitt date, time, location, sponsor(s), and a phone a technique for “greening” old buildings constructed a lightweight plastic wind mechanical engineering student Patrick number and Web site for additional infor- that would reduce electricity consumption turbine and backed it up with a rundown of Wetherill and industrial engineering stu- mation. Items may be e-mailed to chron@ and pay for itself within one year. Juniors useful—and often obscure—tips for reduc- dent Stephen Palmer combined cooling and pitt.edu, faxed to 412-624-4895, or sent by Micah Toll, a mechanical engineering stu- ing home-power consumption. The turbine heating systems into a single device with a campus mail to 422 Craig Hall. For more dent in Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineer- consists of a plastic rotor and tower—they solar-assisted window fan/heating unit. information, call 412-624-1033 or e-mail ing, and Shaun Espenshade, a rhetoric and built one six-foot and one 12-foot tower— From Carnegie Mellon, chemistry [email protected]. classics student in Duquesne University, that homeowners could install themselves. student Jacob Mohin, architecture student