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!T the Following Resolution Was Unanimously Adopted INSIDE Chancellor’s Pa. House testimony.....................2 Black History Month........3 Teenie Harris program...7 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle 6OLUME8)))s.UMBERs&EBRUARY Honoring a Legacy of Building Greatness, Transforming Chancellor Names Lives, and Holding Fast to a Faith in Education Winners of Staff Awards This is the print version of Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg’s Winter 2012 Report &OR%XCELLENCEIN3ERVICE to Pitt’s Board of Trustees, delivered on By Baindu Saidu Feb. 24. The sainted Mother Teresa said this, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg has among many other memorable teachings: announced the winners of the 2012 Chan­ “What you spend years building, someone cellor’s Awards for Staff for Excellence could destroy overnight. Build anyway.” in Service to the Community and to the !"#$%&'#()$&"*+%&,*(-./01*(&$.23.4/*3/%& University. The honorees were recognized for Pitt today—as we prepare to celebrate a )0(.32&-"%&O3.+%($.-;P$&QK-"&A330*1&R#3#($& long and proud 225­year history of building Convocation on Feb. 24. better lives; as we press forward with our The Award for Staff for Excellence in own determined efforts to build further on Service to the Community recognizes staff an already impressive institutional legacy; members whose work in the community and as we continue to contend with serious surpasses the expectations of the organiza­ threats, through deep and disproportionate tions they serve and whose commitment and budgetary reductions, to a relationship with %55#(-&"*+%&6*)%&*&$.23.4/*3-&.6,*/-&#3&-"%& our home state that has been critical to much community. The two award recipients are of what we have been able to contribute to Peter L. DeNardis, a senior information its people. *3*1;$-&.3&G.--P$&<54/%&#5&-"%&I".%5&S.3*3­ On Feb. 28, 1787, the people of Pitts­ /.*1&<54/%(:&*3)&Penny Semaia, assistant burgh—led by our founder, Hugh Henry athletic director for student life in Pitt’s Brackenridge, and supported by state Department of Athletics. government—began building something HARRY GIGLIO The Chancellor’s Award for Staff very special here. Authorized by an act that Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg Excellence in Service to the University rec­ began with the simple declaration that “the ognizes staff members who not only exceed education of youth ought to be a primary coped with the ravages of economic disas­ take us across an extended time line. job standards and expectations in perform­ object with every government,” they built ter more serious than what we have just B&?3&-"%&CDEF$:&G.--&*$-(#3#6;&,(#5%$$#(:& .32&-"%.(&)0-.%$:&70-&*1$#&6*=%&*&$.23.4/*3-& the wilderness academy that would become %3)0(%)>&?3&-"%&5*/%&#5&)*6*2%&7;&@##)& Allegheny Observatory director, and avia­ impact on the University through their our world­class university. They did so *3)&4(%:&-"%;&(%70.1->&&A3)&'"*-&-"%;&70.1-& tion pioneer Samuel Langley launched the commitment and performance. The follow­ '"%3&$0(+.+*1&'*$&)%43%)&.3&5*(&6#(%&7*$./& and rebuilt, by any measure, was very good. 4($-&,#'%(H)(.+%3:&"%*+.%(H-"*3H*.(&@;.32& ing four Pitt staff members were chosen to terms than balance­sheet entries. And they In assessing two centuries of commit­ 6*/".3%$:&,*+.32&-"%&'*;&5#(&"06*3&@.2"->& receive the award: Natalie Arnold Blais, were driven by a clear commitment to future ment to “the education of youth,” this is Today, the Langley name adorns many recruitment and academic affairs admin­ generations and by a belief in the power of what our bicentennial historian concluded important Air Force and NASA facilities, istrator within the Graduate School of education. 25 years ago. The story of Pitt is “a happy just as it adorns our own Langley Hall. Public Health; Shawn E. Brooks, associ­ Those who succeeded our founders chronicle of a sound and worthwhile accom­ B&?3&-"%&%*(1;&CEFF$:&G.--&%32.3%%(.32& ate dean and director of residence life in kept building as the Pittsburgh Academy plishment. For almost 200 years, there has professor Reginald Fessenden proved that the Division of Student Affairs; Christina became the Western University of Penn­ been an output of a good product: an annual radio waves could be used to transmit the L. Graham, director of student activities sylvania and, finally, the University of harvest of young people admirably trained "06*3&+#./%>&<3&I"(.$-6*$&J+%&#5&CEFK:&"%& at Pitt­Bradford; and J. Andrew Holmes, Pittsburgh. They kept building as our prin­ to earn a living, to make a contribution to broadcast carols and a violin solo, by radio, machinist supervisor in the Swanson School cipal campus moved from downtown, to the their community, their profession, and their across the Atlantic Ocean. of Engineering. 8#(-"&9.)%:&*3)&43*11;&-#&<*=1*3)&*3)&*$&-"%& country.” B&?3&-"%&CELF$:&G.--&2(*)0*-%&M1*).6.(& Each awardee will receive a $2,500 University expanded to include important But from early times, this Univer­ N'#(;=.3&.3+%3-%)&*&!M&-(*3$6.--.32&*3)& cash prize and have his or her name added regional campuses in Johnstown, Bradford, sity became something even greater than receiving system employing cathode­ray to a plaque displayed in the William Pitt Greensburg, and Titusville. that—a place that changed the shape of lives tubes, an advance that was critical to the Union that is inscribed with the names of They sustained their important work through the transforming power of ideas. all recipients of the Chancellor’s Awards. even when the country was at war. They Let me offer just a few telling examples that Continued on page 4 Staff Excellence in Service to the Community The chancellor praised DeNardis’ commitment and service to the Interna­ tional Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia !TTHE&EBWINTERMEETINGOFTHE0ITT"OARDOF4RUSTEES Foundation (IWMF), a support organization formed for a rare type of blood cancer that T%8*().$&".6$%15&.$&7*--1.32>&?3&".$&S%7>&CK& the following resolution was unanimously adopted: 3#-.4/*-.#3&1%--%(&-#&T%8*().$:&-"%&/"*3/%1­ lor wrote that he was “struck by the fact that Resolution of the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees you not only are there to provide counsel and comfort to your fellow patients, but also Relating to Commonwealth Support for the University work to improve the IWMF itself through your service on its Board of Trustees, and as a discussion list manager, webmaster, 2%3/,6%$ that the members of the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees do hereby express their deep gratitude for past support from the and patient database coordinator …” The Commonwealth and further express their pride in the quality and impact of the work done by the University of Pittsburgh as a public, state-related chancellor also said that DeNardis, in his university; and be it further role as a senior information analyst at Pitt, has “earned the respect and admiration” 2%3/,6%$ that the members of the Board of Trustees do hereby reaffirm their belief that further reductions to the University’s state support, of his Pitt colleagues as well as those as recently proposed, should be eliminated and that the Commonwealth should re-affirm its intention to continue working with the University as an involved with IWMF. In a support letter for important partner in its status as a public, state-related university; and be it further DeNardis’ nomination, Judith May, IWMF 2%3/,6%$ that the members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh hereby commit themselves to advocating for these president, praised his work, saying it has U%3*71%)&-"%&5#03)*-.#3&-#&$.23.4/*3-1;& positions and look forward to joining forces with alumni, faculty, staff, students and other friends of the University in doing so; and be it further improve its outreach.” 2%3/,6%$ that this resolution be made a permanent part of the University’s records, and that it be suitably inscribed and presented to The award selection committee com­ the Honorable Tom Corbett, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the Honorable Joseph B. Scarnati III, President Pro Tempore of the mended Semaia for his “above and beyond” service in the community, the chancellor Pennsylvania Senate; the Honorable Dominic Pileggi, Senate Majority Leader; the Honorable Jay Costa, Senate Minority Leader; the Honorable said in his letter to Semaia. “On campus, Samuel H. Smith, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; the Honorable Mike Turzai, House Majority Leader; and the Honorable #0(&$-0)%3-&*-"1%-%$&/#01)&3#-&*$=&5#(&*&43%(& Frank Dermody, House Minority Leader. role model than to have a former standout Continued on page 8 2sPitt Chronicle s&EBRUARY h$RAMATICALLY$ISPROPORTIONATEv0ROPOSED Cynthia Miller, Director of University Budget Cuts Will Hurt Pitt’s Mission and Of Pittsburgh Press, to Retire in 2013 Cynthia Miller, direc­ tor of the University of Pitts­ )MPACTAS%CONOMIC%NGINE #HANCELLOR3AYS 70(2"&G(%$$&$.3/%&CEEY:&'.11& retire from the University, effective February 2013, Pitt Provost and Senior M./%&I"*3/%11#(&G*-(./.*& E. Beeson announced to the University community. “Under Cynthia’s lead­ ership, the University of Pittsburgh Press has grown and thrived,” said Beeson. “She has overseen the pub­ lication of more than 850 titles, the sustenance of eight long­standing series, and the founding of six more, including world­ renowned series in English composition, Latin Ameri­ can studies, creative writ­ ing, and the philosophy of science. “Cynthia also has served as steward to many important technological developments,” Beeson added, “including the COURTESY OF PA HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE establishment of an e­books Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg (right) and Penn State President Rodney Erickson listen intently during a Feb. 22 hearing on program and the introduc­ proposed budget cuts for higher education, held before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Appropriations Committee tion of the Espresso Book in Harrisburg.
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