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Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & U N I V E R S I T Y Construction is underway for two Museum is sponsoring a public event more nationality rooms...... 4 at 11 a.m. on Sept. 11, the 10th From Bradford to Cameroon: anniversary of the terrorist attacks A UPB nursing professor gets some on the United States, honoring the hands-on experience...... 8 victims of the attacks and military TIMES personnel who have died fighting terrorism since 9/11. For information, call 412/621-4253 ext. 226.

VOLUME 44 • NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Pitt directory going paperless he University’s telephone the case as users increasingly easily added on units’ sites.” For directory is going the turn to online sources that are instance, maps that appear in the Tway of party lines and pay more convenient and often more general campus information sec- phones. The 2011-12 edition of current. tion of the directory can be found the book will be the last to appear The largest section of the in the Pitt Fact Book or on regional in print form as Pitt phases out its directory — faculty and staff list- campus web sites. phone books. ings — already is available through Hart said the changes are user- Fewer copies of this year’s book Pitt’s online “Find People” func- driven. “If there were high demand are being printed, and instead of tion. A searchable, browsable for paper-based phone books, we being delivered University-wide, directory that would contain would respond,” he said. they will be sent on request, said departmental listings is in the “Most people have moved away Brian Hart of Computing Services works to supplement it, Hart said. from looking for paper-based and Systems Development. Other information, he said, “is sources of information.” Some 15,000 copies were all available elsewhere or could be —Kimberly K. Barlow n printed last year, but CSSD has cut the print run to 5,000 for the edition that is expected to become available sometime ID card “tapping”system around Thanksgiving, Hart said. Next year, the printed directory will be eliminated altogether. on buses still needs work “Enthusiasm for the printed he new system of Pitt ID- John Fedele, Pitt associate books seems to be reduced,” Hart holders tapping their cards director of News, said, “As with said, noting that making the books Ton “smart card” fareboxes any new program, there is a learn- available by request will reduce for free rides on local transit ing curve and there have been the number of copies that end up vehicles is experiencing some some minor issues.” being discarded. growing pains, officials admitted. One such issue, he said, He had no estimate of the Launched Aug. 1 by the Port happens when a Pitt ID-holder amount of savings to the Univer- Authority of Allegheny County as follows a cash-paying passenger. sity. While printing fewer copies a pilot program for Pitt employ- “The cash payment has to be will cut the publication costs ees and students, the new system pushed through and accepted by Kimberly K. Barlow roughly in half, he said the bigger replaced the process whereby Port the driver and the light on the motivator was to reduce waste. Authority drivers pushed a “Pitt farebox must be green before the Congestion “Years ago, the directory was button” as riders flashed their ID next passenger taps [an] ID. If A Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority project to replace a 12-inch water main is closing sections of Bates Street between the way to get information to cards while boarding. this is not done, the card will not the Boulevard of the Allies and South Bouquet Street. For details people,” he said. That’s no longer (See July 21 University Times.) CONTINUED PAGE 3 on the project, see page 3.

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their interest in offering healthier In some cases, healthful dining of oil used in cooking. options. They then brainstormed is part of a restaurant’s business Even healthful options such as ideas, several of which are being plan — such as at the Red Oak salads could be boosted by serving incorporated into the ACHIEVE Café, which emphasizes organic dressings on the side and offer- initiative. and local foods, said Muir. In ing low-fat or fat-free dressing Among the ideas was to pro- other cases, the prospect of tap- choices. She also suggested adding mote chefs from Oakland restau- ping into a new potential customer proteins such as chickpeas, nuts rants through appearances at the base appealed to owners’ business or beans to green salads to make weekly farmers’ market, in addi- sense. Some restaurants already them a more filling meal option. tion to devising the promotional had healthful menu items that In the ice-cream shop, Bea- campaign that will recognize incorporated fresh vegetables, trice suggested creating “reverse businesses for their commitment grilled dishes or low-salt/low-fat sundaes” with more fruit and less to offering smarter food choices. items, but they hadn’t specifically ice cream, or using fruit, pretzels The survey asked about current promoted them, she said. or graham crackers instead of healthy food options and business Several restaurant operators chocolate-based toppings, she owners’ perception of customers’ got some advice from Britney said. For people who can’t resist demand for them. Beatrice, a Pitt graduate student ordering a double-dip, making at Responses were mixed. in dietetics who also has been least one scoop low-fat or low- “Those who see themselves as working with Community Human sugar is an improvement. Kimberly K. Barlow healthy restaurants really feel like Services to incorporate healthier Beatrice suggested that res- they are responding to a demand dining options there. taurant patrons choose dishes for nutritious and convenient She visited five restaurants to with lots of vegetables in order to Healthy food campaign food,” Donovan said. “They are make recommendations on incor- feel satisfied. Filling up on a salad hearing from people that they porating small menu changes that then taking home a portion of the want more convenient, quick, wouldn’t require them to develop entrée is another good strategy, planned for Oakland nutritious food. Fast-food restau- a completely new menu. she said. Dining at a restaurant rants think that people don’t come One chain sandwich shop had that offers healthy options is a ealthier lunches will be Management Association, Com- into their restaurants looking for little leeway to make changes, but good start, “but the choices people getting a higher profile munity Human Services, Oakland healthy food. The bars in town she suggested it could emphasize make matter more,” she said. Hthrough the Oakland Community Council and People’s — when people come in, they’re its healthiest options in its adver- Muir said she hopes additional Business Improvement District Oakland). looking for munchies and food to tising. For an Italian restaurant, restaurants will join in the Eat (OBID) “Eat Smart! Eat Here!” Other aspects of ACHIEVE go with their beers.” she suggested introducing whole- Smart! Eat Here! promotion, promotion. focus on encouraging healthful Most of those surveyed had wheat pizza crust and pastas, or adding that OBID may revisit the The initiative, which will be activities among Oakland resi- some level of interest in tapping using part-skim provolone and idea of promoting an inexpensive rolled out later this month, will dents, but Eat Smart! Eat Here! into the healthy food movement ricotta cheeses. Indian dishes healthy lunch special similar to highlight restaurants that offer aims more for the lunchtime and were thinking of changes such could be reduced in fat by replac- the popular $5 lunch deals offered healthful menu items and specials, restaurant clientele — predomi- as reducing salt, using healthier ing heavy cream with evaporated last January by some Oakland said OBID executive director nantly Pitt and Carnegie Mellon oils, steaming foods or cutting skim milk or low-fat half-and-half restaurants. Georgia Petropoulos Muir. Eat students, faculty and staff and portion sizes, she said. and cutting back on the amount —Kimberly K. Barlow n Smart! Eat Here! is part of a larger UPMC employees. initiative to encourage healthier Eat Smart! Eat Here! res- living, funded through the Cen- taurants will be designated with ters for Disease Control and window decals and listed on a map Prevention Action Communities that will be distributed later this for Health, Innovation and Envi- month. Details will be posted on ronmental Change (ACHIEVE) the East Smart! Eat Here! link at grant program. www.onlyinoakland.org. Partners in the ACHIEVE Graduate students in Pitt effort include the School of Nurs- nursing faculty member Heidi ing, the Allegheny County Health Donovan’s health promotion Department and the five organi- course have helped shape the zations that comprise the Oak- initiative. Earlier this year they land Neighborhood Partnership surveyed 15 local restaurants and (OBID, Oakland Transportation food-oriented businesses to gauge L E T T E R S Thanks! To our friends at the with a concern: Their pet-owning University of Pittsburgh: clients were unable to feed their On behalf of Animal Friends, pets. Some families were forced thank you so much for your incred- to relinquish their pets to shel- ible support of our Chow Wagon ters. Sadly, other families were pet food bank! going hungry, as they shared Five years ago, a local food their meager resources with their bank came to Animal Friends companion animals. Animal Friends responded by creating the Chow Wagon. Our community pet food bank now provides donations of pet food to 20 local food pantries. Today,

U N I V E R S I T Y over 1,200 local families depend Kimberly K. Barlow on Animal Friends’ Chow Wagon Procurement specialist Carl B. DePasquale, left, and sustainability coordinator Renee Galloway, both of Purchasing Services, check out a sampling of supplies that are being delivered to campus in to feed their pets. reusable containers as part of Office Depot’s new GreenerOffice delivery service. TIMES On Aug. 3, Animal Friends EDITOR N. J. Brown 412/624-1373 received a visit from the University [email protected] of Pittsburgh police dog, Officer WRITERS Riggs, and his handler Officer Program bags a greener campus [David] Nanz. They brought with n an effort to make the Uni- recycled material. delivery program nationwide last Kimberly K. Barlow 412/624-1379 them a delivery truck filled with versity campus “greener,” Pitt Items weighing more than 20 month. The company estimates it [email protected] Peter Hart 412/624-1374 4,000 pounds of pet food that had Iis participating in a program pounds or large orders, such as will save the equivalent of 20,000 [email protected] been donated by members of the designed to reduce the number cases of paper, will not be delivered trees in the first year of the pro- Pitt community. We also received of boxes used to deliver supplies. in the totes. gram by replacing 5 million boxes BUSINESS MANAGER donations totaling nearly $2,000 Office Depot, a preferred Pitt Purchasing’s Carl B. with bags. Barbara DelRaso 412/624-4644 from Pitt’s People for Pet Chow supplier for office supplies, is DePasquale said the change Office Depot has made a com- [email protected] Wagon fund drive. reducing packaging as part of its could eliminate 16,000 boxes — mitment to green initiatives. The Events Calendar: [email protected] Thanks to your generosity, ongoing sustainability initiatives. the equivalent of some 3.5 tons company has an environmental The University Times is published bi-weekly fewer families will be forced to Many items that would have been of corrugated cardboard — per strategy adviser, Yalmaz Siddiqui, on Thursdays by the University of Pittsburgh. sacrifice their own food budgets delivered to campus in corrugated year at Pitt. He had no estimate of who was the featured speaker at Send correspondence to University Times, 308 Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, to feed their pets … or face sur- cardboard boxes now are being how much money the University Pitt’s “Buy It Green” supplier Pittsburgh, PA 15260; fax to 412/624-4579 rendering their animals to an brought in paper bags. might save as a result of having less showcase in April. or email: [email protected]. uncertain future. On behalf of The bags are transported in cardboard to handle and recycle. Information on sustainable Subscriptions are available at a cost of $25 for all of us at Animal Friends, thank green plastic tote boxes that the However, the new delivery purchasing at Pitt, including the publishing year, which runs September- July. Make checks payable to the University you! We are so grateful! delivery drivers then carry back to system fits in with Pitt’s sustain- commodity-specific guidelines, of Pittsburgh. Jolene Miklas their vehicles to be reused. ability efforts, he said. can be found at www.cfo.pitt.edu/ The newspaper is available electronically at: Director of Communications Both the boxes and the bags Following a pilot program, purchasing/sustainability. www.pitt.edu/utimes/ut.html Animal Friends contain some post-consumer Office Depot rolled out the new —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 Law professor files age discrimination lawsuit against Pitt former tenured professor During the academic years in Pitt’s School of Law 2007-09, Pitt conducted two Alast week filed an age searches for a tax law professor; discrimination civil lawsuit against in 2009 Pitt hired a woman in her the University. early 30s for a tenure-stream tax In an Aug. 24 filing with law position, the complaint says. the U.S. District Court for the Brown’s part-time contract Western District of Pennsylvania, was not renewed for the 2009- William J. Brown, 73, alleges 10 year, although the complaint that University administrators acknowledges that Pitt offered discriminated against him because Brown adjunct faculty status with of his age by hiring a less-expe- much lower compensation. rienced, younger person for a The complaint states: “During tenured position. faculty meetings, and in subse- Brown initially was hired by quent discussions, [the school] Pitt in 1968 as a tenure-stream considered the fact that the faculty member and was awarded median age of the law school tenure less than a year later. After faculty had increased, and deter- teaching tax and business-related mined that this was a negative law here for three decades, factor that needed to be addressed. he retired from Pitt in 2000, ... Defendant failed to hire Brown accepting a job as director of the to a tenure-track faculty position graduate tax program at Duquesne for the 2009-10 academic year University. because of his age in violation According to the complaint, in of the Age Discrimination in Facilities Management 2006 Brown was invited to return Employment Act.” As Pitt students were surviving arrival, the 121 University Place office building was faring less well last week as demolition crews moved in. The building is being razed to make way for a new to the full-time Pitt law faculty by The complaint notes that undergraduate residence hall. (See March 17 University Times.) The 11-story, 578-bed dorm, which Dean Mary Crossley for the 2006- Brown’s qualifications include is to be ready for occupancy in fall 2013, will include first-floor retail space and room for Pitt’s 07 academic year, in order to teach being a three-time winner of the Counseling Center and Student Health Service on the second floor. A traffic light will be installed at the corner of University Place and Fifth Avenue as part of the project. courses for two law professors who law school’s annual outstanding University Center for Social and Urban Research offices were relocated in August from 121 Univer- were on leave. teaching award, including one as sity Place to 3343 Forbes Ave. The complaint states that recently as 2008, as well as the Brown “had reason to believe 1991 Chancellor’s Distinguished that [one of the on-leave faculty Teaching Award. members] would most likely not According to the complaint, Work on Bates St. continues return from his leave of absence Brown is seeking reinstatement to n response to a history of water Traffic on Coltart Street can the intersection at Semple and and that therefore a tenure-stream his previous position as a full-time line failures, the Pittsburgh cross Zulema Street and turn right Bates will be maintained by a position would become available tenured professor and unspecified IWater and Sewer Authority on Bates to access the Boulevard police officer during work hours. at the conclusion of the 2006-07 compensation for damages and (PWSA) is replacing a 12-inch of the Allies. Traffic on McKee Place will be academic year.” lost wages and benefits. water main on Bates Street Each of the phases is expected able to turn right onto Bates Street Brown repeatedly made it Pitt Public Affairs spokes- between the Boulevard of the to last six weeks. Phase 2, which and go down the Boulevard of the known to school officials both person Patricia Lomando White Allies and South Bouquet Street. began Aug. 8, is on track to finish Allies, but traffic will not be able verbally and in writing of his told the University Times, “The Bates Street is closed between on schedule sometime during to turn left from McKee Place to desire to be hired “for any avail- University does not comment on Zulema Street and McKee Place the week of Sept. 12, according Bates Street. able tax law professor position,” ongoing litigation.” as phase 2 of the six-phase project to PWSA spokesperson Melissa Details on subsequent phases the complaint states. Brown’s lawyer, Samuel continues. Rubin. of the project are expected to be Instead, the complaint states, Cordes, did not return a Univer- The intersection of Bates During phase 3, Bates Street released at the midpoint of the Brown was offered a part-time sity Times telephone call seeking Street and McKee Place is being will reopen from Zulema Street to phase 3 work, Rubin said. teaching position for 2007-08, a comment. maintained by a police officer McKee Place, but will be closed Final paving of the roadway post that was renewed for 2008-09. —Peter Hart n during work hours and traffic between McKee Place and Semple will begin once all six phases are on McKee Place is able to cross Street. complete. Bus schedules to change Bates Street. During the ensuing six weeks, —Kimberly K. Barlow n chedules are being adjusted peak hours will be increased from ID “tapping”system still needs work for about 30 bus and light- every 25 minutes to every 22 min- Srail transit routes starting utes. Saturday frequency is being CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sept. 4. For weekday-only routes, increased from every 30 minutes be read appropriately even if it is week of the pilot, [Panther “All students, staff and faculty changes will go into effect Sept. to every 27 minutes. Trip times in fact a valid card,” Fedele said. Central] received some calls are responsible for paying [the $20 6, due to the Labor Day holiday. are adjusted for all days. The pilot program roll-out because recently [issued] IDs were fee] for the replacement of their The Port Authority of Allegh- • G2 West Busway-All Stops: stipulates a grace period that will not working due to the timing card if damaged by punching a hole eny County said it adjusts sched- Scheduled times on one early continue through this month for of the Port Authority vehicle in it,” Fedele said. “If they need ules four times per year to improve morning trip are being adjusted. Pitt riders using the new system. file upload. That issue has been to wear them on their person at service. Some of the adjustments • P3 East Busway-Oakland: Heather Pharo, a Port Author- resolved and as a result calls have work there are several card holders are designed to alleviate over- Three a.m. trips and three p.m. ity spokesperson, said, “There is declined considerably. available ... that will allow them to crowding, officials said. trips are being added. Nine a grace period in effect through “The majority of IDs being wear their ID without punching Printable online schedules for inbound trips during p.m. peak Sept. 30, and our operators will reported to us as denied are invalid a hole in it.” all routes are available at www. hours will be discontinued. Trip be manually registering Pitt cards or damaged IDs,” Fedele added. Pharo told the University portauthority.org. times are being adjusted. that don’t work [for any reason] “We have only come upon a hand- Times this week, “The system Among the Oakland service Other affected routes include: during this time. Beginning Oct. ful of issues where an ID is valid is working well overall and there adjustments starting this month 2 Mt. Royal, 6 Spring Hill, 8 1, if a card does not work the in our system as well as the Port haven’t been any reports of major are: Perrysville, 13 Bellevue, 14 Ohio rider will be asked to pay the fare. Authority system and it is still not issues. Out of approximately • 61D Murray: Thirteen new Valley, 16 Brighton, 19L Ems- Cards will not be confiscated [by working. These occurrences are 68,000 Pitt rides registered last outbound short trips will be added worth Limited, 38C Greentree operators].” rare. We do issue new IDs free- week, 55,000 were tapped IDs. to help alleviate overcrowding in Express (which will be renamed Pharo said that during the of-charge if this has happened, Keep in mind, though, that a the Oakland-Squirrel Hill corri- 38 Greentree), 44 Knoxville, grace period, transit operators as long as they turn in their most manually registered card doesn’t dor. These trips will operate from 48 Arlington, 51 Carrick, 51L have been instructed to refer riders current ID at the time.” necessarily mean an error or Forbes Avenue at Atwood Street Carrick Limited, 74 Homewood- to Panther Central if their card is The University Times was problem with the system — it to Murray Avenue at Hazelwood Squirrel Hill, 82 Lincoln, 86 Lib- not deemed valid by the scanning informed that some employees could be an invalid card user [such Avenue. erty, O1 Ross Flyer, P12 Holiday system. who are required to wear their as] a student who has graduated • 69 Trafford, 71 Negley, 71C Park Flyer, P16 Penn Hills Flyer, Panther Central, located in the IDs so they are visible while they attempting to use his or her ID.” Point Breeze and 75 Ellsworth: P68 Braddock Hill Flyer, Blue Towers Lobby, can be reached at are doing their jobs had punched The Port Authority hopes to Trip times are being adjusted. Line-Library, Blue Line-South 412/648-1100 or online at www. holes in the cards to accommodate implement the system for the gen- • 82 Lincoln: Weekday fre- Hills Flyer and Red Line. pc.pitt.edu/card/photoid.html. lanyards, effectively damaging the eral public in 2012, officials said. quency during midday and p.m. —Peter Hart n Fedele said, “In the first cards for farebox scanning. —Peter Hart n

3 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION wo new Nationality Rooms are scheduled to open next spring, bring- ing the total number to 29 of the authentically appointed classrooms Tin the Cathedral of Learning that symbolize the ethnic foundations of the City of Pittsburgh. Construction on the new Swiss Nationality Room (room 321) and Turkish Nationality Room (room 339) is expected to be completed by the end of 2011, with official dedication ceremonies in the planning stages for next spring. The first Nationality Rooms were completed in 1938, soon after the dedication of the Cathedral of Learning. The original rooms are located on the Cathedral’s first floor, and the more recently constructed rooms circle the third-floor corridors overlooking the Commons Room. Like all its companions, the two new nationality rooms represent an out- standing architectural or design tradition from before 1787, the year of Pitt’s founding. Additional Nationality Rooms in the development stage include Danish, Finnish, Iranian, Latin American, Philippine and Thai. —Peter Hart n Kimberly K. Barlow Turkish Nationality Room The spatial concept of the Turkish Nationality Room is based on an interpretation of the bas oda (main room) interior of a traditional Turkish residence, called hayat. The Turkish hayat had a specific rural character, with an open gallery on the upper floor, affording a view of the nearby landscape. Typically constructed with an iwan opening (a vaulted space walled on three sides) at the central axis, the hayat traditionally was the center of daily domestic activity. The room’s entryway will simulate a characteristic receiving room prominent in Anatolia, a region in eastern Turkey. A focal point will be a ceramic panel of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938), the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, who in 1928 unveiled a new Turkish alphabet based on a modified Latin alphabet, which replaced Arabic. The room also will feature murals depicting Turkish history and reflecting the three major historic cultures — the Uyghurs, the Seljuks and the Ottomans. The new room’s ceiling and walls will feature kundekari — wood- working that forms geometric patterns and was common in Turkish architecture dating to the 12th century. —Peter Hart n

Swiss Nationality Room The image below, at right, is an replicating details of the common The Swiss Room final design dating back to the 13th century. will hang on the back wall. earlier concept illustration by Fred room in the Landesmuseum, the has been amended. It calls for The leaded windows include The kachelofen, or ceramic tile Carlson, vice chair of the Swiss Swiss national museum located four long thin trestle tables that small stained-glass elements oven, shown in this view will be Nationality Room committee, near Zurich. represent languages spoken in highlighting the first three cantons constructed in the corner to the Switzerland — French, Italian, that unified in 1291 against the far right. German and Romansch — instead Hapsburg monarchy. The map is an antique map of one large table as depicted here. The portraits of Jean-Jacques in Latin of the Swiss region circa The stabellen, or country style, Rousseau (1712-78) and Johann 1700, with the Latin name for chairs feature images that repre- Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Switzerland being Helvetia. sent the 26 cantons (Swiss states) two Swiss educator-philosophers, —Peter Hart n

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Galloway searched online for the name inscribed inside. The ring No finders-keepers had been lost some 38 years ago by the man’s girlfriend, who had been a student at Pitt. “He was tickled to get it back,” for this HSLS staffer Galloway said, adding that the pair of young sweethearts have since elson Galloway knows away,” he said. become husband and wife. how it feels to lose a However, among the papers The McKeesport ring pre- Npiece of jewelry that has was a bag of keys. And among the sented more of a challenge. Gal- sentimental value. keys were several pieces of jewelry Nelson Galloway’s loway read the initials RME inside So, when he found several rings that he said either had been found sleuthing skills the women’s ring; when he phoned helped him to and a pin while emptying some in the library or brought to the reunite owners with the high school’s records clerk, he old filing cabinets in Falk Library, library’s main desk — exactly how some long-lost jew- was told no one with those initials he was determined to locate their long ago, he couldn’t say for sure. elry, which Galloway was in the 1982 class. Undaunted, discovered when he long-lost owners. When the items went was cleaning out Galloway got a second opinion on Galloway has worked at Pitt for unclaimed, they apparently were some Falk Library the initials inside and decided the 23 years, currently as an admin- taken to the director’s office and filing cabinets. lettering actually was RMS. Those istrative specialist at the Health set aside for safekeeping. initials yielded one female match, Sciences Library System (HSLS). Out of sight, out of mind, they who likewise was surprised and His job duties? In short, “If it sat in the file cabinet for decades pleased to have the ring returned. needs done, I do it,” he said, adding until Galloway rediscovered them: Galloway said he was happy to that, as an assistant to HSLS direc- a wedding band; a 1967 St. Francis be able to reunite the lost pieces of tor Barbara Epstein, he takes care School of Nursing pin, and two jewelry with their owners. “I found of such varied tasks as purchasing, class rings — one from Sewickley the rings, looked [the owners] up coordinating construction and High School’s class of 1971 and and gave them back. It was very handling maintenance and house- another from McKeesport High direct,” he said. keeping issues around the library. School’s class of 1982. Galloway hasn’t been so lucky in finding his own class ring, which That’s how he came to be Galloway, a 1971 graduate Kimberly K.Barlow assigned to conduct a little spring of United Local High School in met an unconventional end. cleaning on the file cabinets that Hanoverton, Ohio, lost his own “I always liked figuring things school’s former director prompted “My pig ate it,” he said, needed to be moved from their class ring many years ago. His out,” he said. a search of the alumni database explaining that, pigs being pigs, his spot near what at one time had sense of empathy motivated him Galloway holds little hope of and produced a matching set of family’s porcine pet snapped it up been the administrative offices. to try to reunite the lost items with ever finding the wedding band’s initials. In a matter of days the and swallowed it when it slipped With a colleague, he began their owners. “I thought people owner, given that it had no inscrip- pin was mailed to its owner, who from Galloway’s hand. sorting through the files. A few would be interested in hearing tion, but names and initials on the said she had lost it at Falk Library Although he’d watched for the documents pertained to Falk that someone found their class pin and class rings made his search years ago. ring to reappear, “It was never Library’s history, but most were ring,” he said. for their owners easier. Likewise, the Sewickley High recovered,” he said. mundane office papers: old con- Although Galloway is not A call to the St. Francis nursing School ring was returned after —Kimberly K. Barlow n tracts; purchase orders, and the a librarian, he admitted he is like. “We threw almost everything skilled in gathering information. UPCI renewed as comprehensive center The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute’s status as a comprehensive cancer center, the highest distinction NCI grants. UPCI is one of only 40 such centers nationally with this designation. With the status comes recognition that UPCI is a center of excellence in basic and clinical research, prevention and control programs and population sciences, as well as for cancer education and outreach. Last fall, NCI renewed UPCI’s cancer center support grant. The grant supports UPCI’s broad range of clinical, research and educational programs and its mission to lessen the burden of cancer for people throughout western Pennsylvania and beyond. The grant renewal, a review of the quality of UPCI’s research and clinical care, was the first step in UPCI’s designation renewal. The second step evaluated UPCI’s programs in patient education, community service and community outreach. 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5 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES Ethics panel finishes review of controversial syphilis research Former Pitt prof did work for Public Health Service n ethics panel assigned to Cutler, who died in 2003, left treatment. investigate Public Health PHS to join the Pitt faculty in 1967 Commission chair Amy Gut- AService (PHS) studies and later donated his papers to the mann, in an Aug. 29 statement, done in Guatemala during the University. They since have been said that with the historical investi- 1940s has completed its work moved to the National Archives gation completed, the commission and will report to the president in Atlanta. would turn its attention toward this month. When Reverby’s discovery of reviewing current standards for The Presidential Commission the unethical research practices protecting research subjects and for the Study of Bioethical Issues’ was published, the ensuing outcry present its final report by the end work was sparked by details found led to lawsuits on behalf of the sub- of the year. in Pitt’s archives among the papers jects and an apology by President “It is important that we accu- of former Pitt public health pro- Barack Obama to the Guatemalan rately document this clearly fessor John Cutler, who as a young government. unethical historical injustice. We PHS doctor conducted the study, Reverby recounted her do this to honor the victims,” Gut- 1946-48. research and the subsequent reac- mann stated. “In addition, we must While conducting research in tion in a symposium on campus look to and learn from the past so Pitt’s archive for a book on the earlier this year. (See March 31 that we can assure the public that Tuskegee syphilis study, Wellesley University Times.) scientific and medical research College faculty member Susan Following his apology last today is conducted in an ethical Reverby uncovered Cutler’s docu- October, Obama gave the bioeth- manner. Research with human mentation of how PHS doctors ics commission a two-fold mission: subjects is a sacred trust. Without infected Guatemalan prisoners, to oversee a fact-finding investiga- public confidence, participation mental hospital patients and tion into details of the research will decline and critical research soldiers with syphilis without in Guatemala and to assure him will be stopped. It is imperative their permission in order to study that current rules protect research that we get this right.” treatment of the disease. subjects from harm or unethical —Kimberly K. Barlow n

Kimberly K. Barlow Pitt-Bradford’s 2011 Allegheny River Scholars participants — a group that included faculty, staff and students — departed early on the morning of July 29 just below the Kinzua Dam. Over the course of the three-day canoe trip, the group of nine paddlers covered a 46-mile stretch of the Allegheny River between the Kinzua Dam and Tionesta.

Information on the annual program is available at www.upb.pitt.edu/ars.aspx.

Sexual assault can be sexual harassment Sexual assault/sexual harass- ment is illegal; the University of Pittsburgh will not tolerate such illegal activity. The University’s Sexual Harassment Policy can be found in its entirety at http://cfo. pitt.edu/policies/policy/07/07- 06-04.html. This policy provides a variety of individuals on each University of Pittsburgh campus who should be contacted with questions or concerns. It is important that individuals who believe they are victims of any form of sexual harassment or sexual assault immediately contact the University’s Title IX coordinator on the Pittsburgh campus at 412/648-7860, Sexual Assault Services on the Pittsburgh campus at 412/648-7856 or the Title IX liaison or sexual harass- ment contact designated for each regional campus as indicated in Policy 07-06-04 (link above). It is equally important that all criminal activity be reported to the Campus Police.

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itt-Bradford nursing pro- “You write directly in their fessor Tammy Haley is medical book. Any tests are written Pfinishing her dissertation directly in the medical book. Then for a PhD in nursing and her thesis Cameroon clinic provides that medical book is given to the for a master’s in public health — lab and the lab writes the results. more than enough to keep her Then if you give medicines, you busy over the summer. hands-on experience write the medicines … and if they Still, when the opportunity needed to go to the pharmacy, they arose to spend a month using her simply took their medical book nursing skills at a new health clinic for Bradford nursing prof to the pharmacy and had their in the western African nation of medicines filled,” she said. Cameroon, she was eager to go. viding patient care, the volunteers from high blood pressure to HIV. gual — residents speak French If prescription refills were As a nurse practitioner with helped put documentation and “I diagnosed more HIV there or English. Although Haley was necessary, patients would need a focus on rural medicine, the recordkeeping systems in place for than I have in my practice here, in an English-speaking part of to return to their provider each mission was a natural fit, she the new clinic, she said. “It was a ever,” she said. Although the clinic Cameroon, “Their English is not month to have them written into said. “The idea of being able to really tall task.” could provide pre- and post-HIV our English,” she said, adding that the book. Some aspects of the provide health care, the area of A nurse had been providing testing counseling, it was not a translator often was needed, system were convenient. “Some my specialty, made it a unique care but the clinic had been func- equipped to treat the disease, especially for communicating patients brought 10 years’ worth opportunity.” tioning only in a skeletal capacity so patients were referred to the crucial instructions, such as how of records,” Haley said. That Haley, coordinator of Pitt- until recently, when it obtained government-run medical facili- to use prescribed medications, or made it quick and easy to review Bradford’s bachelor of science in nongovernmental organization ties. “It seemed to me that most the importance of boiling drink- what treatments already had been nursing program, returned in mid- (NGO) status. That made it an people that had a diagnosis did get ing water. tried. But patients who wanted to July from the medical mission. She officially recognized entity, Haley treatment,” she said. “It was really important that withhold information easily could traveled as part of a five-member said. “This was a huge expansion However, most of the illnesses a local person provided clinical “forget” their book, she said. group that included UPB nursing in services for them.” Although and disorders the team treated instructions,” Haley said, adding q student Amy Silvis and Christina additional Cameroonian staff had were largely a result of poor that a local nurse explained what Although Haley said she would Siewe, the wife of Youmasu Siewe, been hired, they didn’t start work- hygiene and sanitation, Haley said. she was saying to patients. “They like to return to the clinic, it’s likely director of the Center for Rural ing at the clinic until after the U.S. “It was something that could be had a hard time understanding me that future service there would be Health Practice at UPB. group came, Haley said. Now the addressed in a meaningful way.” sometimes,” Haley said. in a different capacity. “The need The group also included Sil- clinic has nurses and a midwife on Haley said she had traveled to q potentially for me to go as a health vis’s younger sister, Rachel Avey, staff, as well as a physician who sees Africa twice before, albeit not as a She found many cultural dif- care provider might not be as great who recently graduated from patients there one day a week. In health care volunteer. “One of the ferences in the course of providing as it was initially,” since the clinic high school, and Patricia Rouse, addition to outpatient services, it big things for me that was different care for patients in Cameroon. now has a medical staff in place. a nurse from Arkansas, where the can house eight patients in four in this village than in other villages: There is no health insurance However, she sees a potential Siewes resided prior to coming hospital rooms. Animals run free in the streets.” system, so care is pay as you go. role as a trainer, given that many to Bradford in 2009. “It was an The establishment of the clinic Pigs, goats, chicken and cattle “If you don’t have money upfront of the supplies that were shipped interesting mix of people. We makes health care more acces- roam in town, she said, noting that for care, you don’t get care,” to the clinic from America were all brought different skills to the sible to some 28,000 people who a flock of chickens wandered into Haley said. unfamiliar. table,” Haley said. live in or near the Ekona region. the clinic lobby one day. In addition, in Cameroon “Really basic stuff like tape Siewe, a nurse, founded the While a government hospital is “When you’re thinking of there are no hospital meals or that we use in the hospital,” she Good Samaritan Health Center nearby, “This is closer and more the impact of biologic agents on hospital gowns. Patients rely on said, was completely foreign to with her sister through efforts that acceptable,” she said, noting that health and you have pigs roaming their families to bring them food, the Cameroonian staff, who were began about five years ago, Haley many of the people who live in the street and chickens roaming clothes and other necessary items, accustomed to cutting adhesive said. Information on the clinic is the farming community are poor the street … to me that would Haley said. sheets called plasters into strips. available at www.goodsamaritan- and must walk to get medical care. be something that public health Another difference: “Patients’ They didn’t realize that the rolls cameroon.org. q education efforts could remedy or medical records were kept by the of tape sitting unused on their The two-story cement clinic On clinic days, Haley and the make a difference with,” she said. patient. And they transported their shelves could be used in same building stands on the site of the staff saw about 40 patients a day, q own medical books with them to way, she said. sisters’ childhood home in the diagnosing problems ranging Cameroon is officially bilin- the provider,” said Haley. “It’s hard to expect somebody Ekona district of Cameroon. to utilize all these really great That connection, Haley said, things that we can bring and “made it personal.” provide if they don’t have any idea Haley learned about the clinic what to do with them,” Haley said. last fall through fundraising efforts Reflecting on her trip, Haley by Holly Spittler, UPB associate said, “I think it’s going to be a really dean of student affairs and director great teaching tool.” Although of career services. Spittler attends she has taught concepts of cul- Bradford’s First Presbyterian tural sensitivity and awareness Church, which took on the project previously, actually facing such as part of its mission work after dramatic cultural differences pro- the Siewes became active in the vided a new perspective, she said. congregation. “It was good hands-on experi- Haley, a nurse practitioner, ence.” asked whether volunteers were —Kimberly K. Barlow n needed. “There were some nurses going but because there were some donations of medications going as well, they needed someone who could prescribe medications. I filled that bill,” she said. Making the commitment to the month-long trip meant Haley needed to brush up on her family medicine skills. While her back- ground is as a family nurse practi- tioner, her current clinical practice is in family planning and women’s health. “My practice is very differ- ent than this practice. The point was to provide them better health care, so to go unprepared would From left: Tammy Haley, Rachel Avey, Amy Silvis, Christina have been a real disservice.” Siewe and Patricia Rouse. She found a mentor in another member of the congregation, The Panther Bowling League is looking for members of the Pitt physician Anita Herbert. “She community who have a little time to spare as the league prepares gave me the tools and knowledge Bowling league to launch its 2011-12 season. and really made sure as soon as The social group, which meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the I committed to this that I was as seeks members Pittsburgh Athletic Association, is starting the new year Sept. 6. prepared as I could be.” Haley While the league prefers members committed to full-time partici- spent three months brushing up pation, part-timers also are welcome. No experience is necessary. on routine problems that might be The $10 cost per week includes shoes and a ball. A cash bar is seen in a family medicine practice available and lockers can be rented. and preparing for treating less- Participants can join as four- or five-member teams or come familiar tropical illnesses such as on their own to be assigned to a team. malaria and typhoid. For more information, contact Dan McCue at the PAA, 412/586- q 2075 or [email protected]. n In Cameroon, along with pro-

8 SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 Kimberly K. Barlow Incoming freshmen and their families locate the new students’ names on this welcome sign erected on the William Pitt Union lawn. What’s NEW at PITT?

The hustle and bustle that marks the beginning of the aca- The University Times asked deans and other school officials demic year has returned: The proliferation of laundry carts, to provide a brief look at “What’s New? People, Places and redirected traffic, upperclass student volunteers pointing the Things” in their areas. way to newcomers and their families during Arrival Survival. The summaries that follow are not all-encompassing, but But for many at Pitt, the hazy days of summer have been rather are overviews of school news based on material sub- anything but lazy: Facilities were renovated; faculty and staff mitted by the units. Information previously published in the were hired; academic programs were established. University Times was not included here. PEOPLE ew faculty in the School of Arts and Andrew Lotz holds a degree from Pitt. and specifically examines animal coloration. in hydrogen bonding in ambient water. Sciences include associate profes- Laura Brown joins the Department Jonathan Pruitt, a graduate of the He was awarded his PhD in chemistry Nsors Marta Lewicka in mathemat- of Anthropology this fall as an assistant University of Tennessee, also joins the from the University of California-Berkeley ics and Pierre Landry in political science; professor. Brown earned her PhD in anthro- department as an assistant professor. for his work that led to development of assistant professors Jonathan Fenderson pology from the University of Michigan. The chemistry department has two new both theoretical and experimental tech- in Africana studies; Michael Meyer, Lily She specializes in the study of language assistant professors. Jill E. Millstone comes niques to understand electron dynamics Saint and Peter Trachtenberg in Eng- and culture and the relationship between from the University of California-Berkeley at the interface between a metal surface lish; Chloé Hoggin in French and Ital- market commerce, ethnopragmatics and where she completed her postdoctoral work and a thin molecular film. He received his ian; Nadine McQuarrie in geology and speech events. studying organic-inorganic hybrid photo- undergraduate degree in chemistry from planetary science; Mina Rajagopalan in Loukas Barton will join the anthropol- voltaics. She received her undergraduate Princeton. history of art and architecture; Robin Ming ogy department in January as an assistant degree in chemistry and English from Garrett-Roe’s research at Pitt will focus Chen, Michael Joseph Neilan, Hisham professor. Barton earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. She earned on the development of multidimensional Sati and Song Yao in mathematics; Gavin the University of California-Davis and is a her PhD at Northwestern. IR techniques (2D and 3D) to study ion Steingoin in music; Marlene Cohen and specialist in the study of early human social Her research focuses on the study of uptake and selectivity in a variety of sys- Anne-Marie Oswald-Doiron in neurosci- organization and patterns of evolutionary nanostructure surface architectures, with tems, including ion channels, ion sensors ence, and Sungkyu Jung in statistics. development in relation to hunting and the goal of developing highly tailored and ionophores. Also new are English lecturers gathering subsistence. materials for use in medical devices and Also new to the chemistry faculty are Mark Best, Marylou Gramm, Tom Nathan Morehouse joins the Depart- alternative energy systems. lecturers Carol Fortney and Susan Mal- McWhorter, Pamela O’Brien, Uma ment of Biological Sciences as an assistant Sean Garrett-Roe most recently was eckar, both of whom hold degrees from Pitt. Satyavolu and Ellen Smith, as well as Pitt professor from the Université de Tours, a postdoctoral associate at the Graduate New faculty in the Department of Com- graduates Sten Carlson, Robin Clarke, where he served as the European Union School of Chemical and Molecular Sci- putational and Systems Biology include Barbara Edelman, Jeff Martin, Dana Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow ences, University of Zurich. Garrett-Roe Jeremy Berg and Nathan Clark. Och, Amy Murray Twyning and Brenda in the Institut de Recherechesur la Biologie developed a new ultrafast nonlinear infrared Berg, who has been named associate vice Whitney. de l’Insecte. Morehouse earned his PhD spectroscopy (3D-IR) technique that was chancellor for Health Policy and Planning, New in mathematics is assistant instruc- from Arizona State. His research focuses on awarded the 2009 Editors Choice Award by is the outgoing director of the National tor Eugene Trofimov, who holds a degree the evolution and maintenance of multiple the Journal of Chemical Physics. This tech- Institute of General Medical Sciences and from Pitt; in political science, new lecturer phenotypes within populations and species, nique has revealed heterogeneous dynamics senior investigator of the Laboratory for

9 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new Molecular Biology at the National Insti- department as an associate professor. tute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Gotkowitz completed her PhD from Diseases. the University of Chicago, and taught at Clark, who will join the department Harvard, Swarthmore and the University in December, researches adaptive evolu- of Iowa. She is a historian of Bolivia, with tion and co-evolution between proteins particular interest in social movements; using computational and experimental indigenous politics and cultures; gender techniques. The main goals of his work are and race/ethnicity, including the history of to understand the functional mechanisms political violence, and human rights. Her behind protein adaptation in entire protein research traces conflicts over land, labor, networks and to identify the evolutionary justice and nationhood in Bolivia from the pressures that are driving them to change. liberal reforms of the late-19th century to Clark earned his PhD in genome sciences the revolution of 1952. at the University of Washington. New assistant professors in history are Seungjae Baek joined the department Vincent Leung, a specialist in ancient in July as a post-doctoral research associ- China whose PhD is from Harvard, and ate. He most recently was chief research Gregor Thum, a specialist in Germany engineer at Peromnii. He earned a PhD and central Europe who comes from the in computer engineering at Dankook University of Washington. University in Korea. He will be working in Also new in history are lecturers Leslie the Computer Architecture, Systems and Hammond, who is a Pitt graduate, and Technology Laboratory. Liann Tsoukas. Charles Exley and Kun Qian have Diego Holstein is the new associate joined the faculty in the East Asian lan- director at the World History Center. guages and literatures department as An associate professor of history, he assistant professors. comes from a faculty position at Hebrew Exley graduated from Yale with a PhD University of Jerusalem, where he received in Japanese literature and taught at the his PhD in 2002. He is author of a book University of Montana. on social interaction and change in 13th- Qian received her PhD in East Asian century Toledo. literature from Cornell. Her teaching and The center has two new postdoctoral research interests include modern Chinese fellows: Elizabeth Campbell in world fiction, drama, film and intellectual history. history, and Daniel Rood in world history Her current research project deals with the of science. ways that modern Chinese writers and film Mazviita Chirimuuta joins the Depart- producers have represented the pre-modern ment of History and Philosophy of Science Chinese Empire. as an assistant professor from the University Also new in the department is assistant of Birmingham, where she was a postdoc- instructor Fan Fan. Fan recently completed toral research fellow. She completed her her master’s degree in Chinese language PhD in physiology-visual neuroscience at pedagogy at Indiana University-Bloom- the University of Cambridge. ington, where she also taught Chinese. Her recent work has been on color Before coming to the United States, Fan vision, developing a theory of color that received her BA in journalism and language acknowledges the complexities of visual Kimberly K. Barlow education at Shandong University, China, function revealed by recent perceptual phonology of Catalan, English and Spanish. Lecturer Michael Kessler, whose PhD and worked for a year as an intern teaching science. Alongside experimental work on Anja Jauernig joins the Department of is from Harvard, will serve as the depart- Chinese in a secondary school in Thailand. visual cognition, her latest research looks at Philosophy as an associate professor. She ment’s undergraduate adviser. His areas The Department of Economics has the implications of neuroplasticity for ques- comes from a faculty position at Notre of interest include political philosophy, four new assistant professors: Allison tions concerning mechanistic explanation Dame, where she also was a faculty fellow philosophy of law, ethics, bioethics and Shertzer; Roee Teper; Stephanie Wang, in the philosophy of neuroscience. at the Reilly Center for Science, Technology philosophy of religion. and Alistair Wilson. Marta Ortega-Llebaria has been and Values and at the Nanovic Institute for The Department of Physics and Shertzer, who comes to Pitt from named an assistant professor in the Depart- European Studies. Astronomy has established the Pittsburgh UCLA, works at the intersection of public ment of Linguistics. She earned her PhD Jauernig completed her PhD in phi- Particle Physics, Astrophysics, Cosmology economics, economic history and economic at Indiana University and was a faculty losophy at Princeton. Her philosophical Center (PITT-PACC) and appointed Tao demography and is conducting research member at the University of Texas-Austin research focuses on the periods from the Han as its director. This center’s mission on the political economy of immigration. before coming to Pitt as a visiting profes- mid-17th to the early-20th century. is to enhance research activities for par- Teper’s main fields are microeconom- sor last year. Ortega-Llebaria’s research Also new in the philosophy department ticle physics, astrophysics and cosmology; ics, game theory and decision theory. His focuses on the intonation in non-tonal is assistant professor Kristen Inglis, whose strengthen interactions and collaborations research focuses on individual and multi- and tonal languages and L2 intonation; PhD is from Cornell. Her areas of interest among theorists and experimentalists in agent decision-making in the presence of cross-language speech perception and pro- include ancient philosophy, ethics, history those fields, and promote outreach in these uncertainty. He comes to Pitt from Tel duction, and laboratory approaches to the of ancient philosophy and history of ethics. areas to the community. Aviv University. Han joins the department as a professor Wang is an experimental economist who from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explores topics in behavioral game theory, where he was a professor and co-director finance and judgment and decision-making. of the Institute for Elementary Particle Most recently a postdoctoral scholar at Physics Research. the California Institute of Technology, He completed his PhD at the University Wang completed her PhD in economics of Wisconsin-Madison. at Princeton. Han is a theoretical particle physicist Wilson, who comes to Pitt from whose research focuses on phenomenology. New York University, is an experimental His phenomenological predictions have economist who uses economic theory, been at the center of detection concepts econometrics and computational methods designed to lead to the discovery of the to analyze a broad range of issues including Higgs boson, which is a particle hypoth- communication in groups. esized to exist within what is called the Todd Reeser, associate professor in standard model of nuclear and particle the Department of French and Italian Lan- physics and is believed to be the origin of guages and Literatures, is serving as acting mass in all particles. director of the Center for Humanities this Other new faculty in physics and academic year. astronomy include assistant professors The center welcomes two fellows: Carlos Badenes, whose PhD is from the Donald Pease of Dartmouth will be in Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, and residence for the fall semester; Benjamin Sergey Frolov, who earned his PhD at the Kahan of Louisiana State will be in resi- University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. dence for the full year. Badenes is an astrophysicist whose Holger Hoock, Amundson Professor of research addresses key observational and British History, comes to the Department of theoretical aspects of type IA supernovae. History from the University of Liverpool. He comes to Pitt from the Weizmann Hoock specializes in Britain in the 1700s, Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. art history and military history. Frolov is an experimentalist in con-

Laura Gotkowitz joins the history Peter Hart densed matter physics and nanoscience 10 SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 PEOPLE who is working in the areas of quantum the University of Michigan and a BA in mation systems; Frank Pietryga, electri- Bockius, and Tucker Arensberg. nanowires, Majorana fermions in nanowires sociology/anthropology and psychology cal engineering technology, and John and nanowire quantum bits. Frolov comes from Denison University. Since 2009, she Teacher, theatre arts. Jan Drappatz, an expert in brain cancer from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, has been on the research faculty at the Paul Bond has joined Pitt-Johnstown’s treatment and research, has been appointed Delft University of Technology. University of Virginia. Owen Library as library instruction coordi- associate director of UPMC Cancer Lecturer Matteo Broccio comes to Her research interests are on improving nator. Bond most recently worked at Bryant Centers adult neuro-oncology program, Pitt from Carnegie Mellon University. early school success with an emphasis on and Stratton College as an information and associate professor of neurology and Broccio received his PhD at the University promoting self-regulation. literacy instructor. He received his BA medicine in the School of Medicine. He of Messina. His research interests include from the Rochester Institute of Technol- comes from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, experimental biophysics. Anna Mary Williford has been named ogy in graphic design and his MLS from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Har- Kathryn Monahan has joined the public services librarian at Pitt-Greens- the University of Buffalo. vard Medical School, where he served on Department of Psychology as an assistant burg’s Millstein Library. She held the Sherri Rae has been promoted to the faculty and as an attending physician in professor. She was a postdoctoral research position as a temporary employee since fall director of Student Activities at UPJ. Rae the departments of neurology and oncology. scientist at the University of Washington 2009. Williford, who earned her MLIS at began her career at Pitt-Johnstown in 2001 Drappatz received his MD from the and the University of California-Irvine Pitt, earned a BA in classical studies and as Greek coordinator. She earned her BA Johannes Gutenberg University School of after completing her PhD at Temple. She is English at the University of Richmond. in history and MA in student personnel at Medicine. He completed residency train- the recipient of a Jacobs Foundation Young Slippery Rock University. ing in neurology at Massachusetts General Scholar Award and the American Psycho- New faculty member Jacob Easley II Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hos- logical Association Dissertation Award in has been named professor of education The School of Law announced the pital and completed his fellowship training Developmental Psychology. Her research and chair of Pitt-Johnstown’s Division of appointment of two new faculty members. in neuro-oncology at Dana-Farber. focuses on socio-emotional development Education. Easley, who previously served David A. Garrow joins the faculty in adolescence, with a particular emphasis as associate professor at Mercy College as research professor of history and law, The School of Nursing has made a on the development and prevention of in New York, received his PhD from holding a joint appointment in the history number of recent administrative appoint- antisocial behavior, substance use and risky Penn State. His research interests include department. Prior to joining Pitt, Garrow ments. sexual behavior. education policy and politics; contextual- was a senior research fellow at Homerton Alice Blazeck, assistant professor in Rachel Kranson joins the Depart- ized leadership; schools as organizations/ College, University of Cambridge, UK. He the Department of Acute/Tertiary Care, ment of Religious Studies as an assistant organizational change and effectiveness; is the author of “Liberty and Sexuality: The was named the department’s vice chair for professor of modern Judaism and religion understanding ways in which the socio- Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe administration. in America. Kranson is completing a dis- political, economic, cultural and ideological v. Wade,” a comprehensive history of the Annette DeVito Dabbs, associate pro- sertation called “Grappling With the Good factors in and around urban schools shape struggle for reproductive rights in America. fessor in the Department of Acute/Tertiary Life: Jewish Anxieties Over Affluence in and define the formal processes of school- Garrow has taught at Duke, the Uni- Care, has been named the department’s vice Postwar America, 1945-1967” in a joint ing, and intercultural and international versity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, chair for research. program in history and Jewish studies at 21st-century perspectives in educational City University of New York, The Cooper Jan Dorman, professor in the Depart- New York University. She is co-editor of “A leadership. Union, the College of William and Mary, ment of Health Promotion and Develop- Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women Easley recently published the book, American University and Emory. ment, was named the department’s vice in the Postwar Era,” which was a finalist “The Audacity to Teach! The Impact of He graduated magna cum laude from chair for research. for the 2010 Jewish Book Awards-Barbara Leadership, School Reform and the Urban Wesleyan University and received his PhD Ann M. Mitchell, associate professor in Dobkin Award in Women’s Studies. Context on Educational Innovations.” from Duke. the Department of Health and Community Jackie Smith has joined the Depart- Other new faculty joining Pitt-John- Jasmine Gonzales Rose joins the law Systems, was named the department’s vice ment of Sociology from Notre Dame as an stown this year are assistant professors faculty as an assistant professor, coming chair for administration. Mitchell also is assistant professor. Her scholarship is in the Christopher Cook, political science; from a post as a teaching fellow at California an assistant professor of psychiatry in the field of social movements and globalization Christine Dahlin, biology/vertebrae biol- Western School of Law-San Diego. She is in the School of Medicine. research, with particular focus on the global ogy; Nickole George, nursing; Charles a graduate of Harvard Law School, where Carol Stilley, research associate pro- justice movement that operates through the Kanyi, chemistry; Ross Kleinstuber, she served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard fessor in the Department of Health and World Social Forum and other people-to- justice administration and criminology; Latino Law Review and as a member of the Community Systems, was named vice chair people meetings. Bethany McConnell, special education; Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Her research for research in her department. Lecturer Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, Raghvendra Sengar, chemistry; Scott focuses on the intersection of race, language Faculty joining the School of Nursing who is a Pitt graduate, also has joined the Tracy, secondary education; Paul Wash- and citizenship. include Na-Jin Park as an assistant pro- sociology department. ington, energy and Earth resources; Brian Also at the law school, Jacki Herzog fessor in the Department of Health and Cynthia Croot comes to the Depart- Moyer, mechanical engineering technol- joined the administrative staff in July as Community Systems. ment of Theatre Arts as an assistant profes- ogy, and Manisha Nigam, organic/green director of employer recruitment. Herzog Tonya Rutherford-Hemming joined sor from a faculty position at Whitman Col- chemistry. received her MA in human resources man- the Department of Health and Community lege. She completed her MFA at Columbia. Also joining the Pitt-Johnstown faculty agement and her professional in human Systems as an instructor. Croot specializes in directing. Her work are instructors Halvor Aakhus, English resources certificate from Washington includes classical and experimental texts, writing; Daniel Broyld, history; Victoria University-St. Louis. At the School of Pharmacy, Joshua theatre history, dramatic theory and criti- Czarnek, mathematics; Shailesh Kadakia, After earning her law degree from Thorpe has been appointed as an associate cism, interdisciplinary collaborations, set electrical engineering technology; Ahmad Duquesne, she practiced employee ben- professor in the Department of Pharmacy design, theatrical adaptation, playwriting Massasati, cartography/geographic infor- efits law at Reed Smith; Morgan, Lewis & and Therapeutics. Thorpe is a nationally and viewpoints. Jessie Ramey, currently a visiting scholar in the women’s studies program, will be an American Council of Learned Societies fellow in the program beginning in January. She earned her PhD in history at Carnegie Mellon.

The School of Dental Medicine has appointed Seth Weinberg of oral biol- ogy as an assistant professor. Other new assistant professors are David Anderson of prosthodontics; Matthew Cooke of dental anesthesiology; Elizabeth Bilodeau of diagnostic sciences; Konstantinos Verdelis of restorative dentistry/com- prehensive care, and Kelly Williams of periodontics/preventive dentistry. In addition, Mark Wrigley was appointed as an instructor in the Depart- ment of Diagnostic Sciences and Sally Farah was appointed as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Prosth- odontics.

Shannon Wanless joins the School of Education as an assistant professor in the applied developmental psychology program, Department of Psychology in Education. Wanless completed her PhD in human development and family sciences at Oregon State University, and holds an Kimberly K. Barlow MA in early childhood education from Members of the Pitt Green Team collect cardboard for recycling during last week’s Arrival Survival.

11 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new recognized pharmaceutical health services at Penn State’s School of Public Affairs. Lovie Jackson has been appointed He recently completed his term as researcher with interests in quality of care, His research focuses on Islamic activ- assistant professor of health and social work. president of the Pennsylvania Council for pharmaco-epidemiology and patient-cen- ism in Spain, the United Kingdom and Jackson earned her PhD in social work at the International Education and will continue tered outcomes of vulnerable older adults’ Morocco. He recently was appointed as University of Washington. She completed a as a member of the council’s board of informal caregivers. the lead reviewer for the Department of three-year postdoctoral research fellowship directors. Thorpe also has been appointed as a Homeland Security review panel assessing in child and adolescent psychiatry at Pitt. Tevya Zukor will take over as director core faculty member of the Department of university-based Centers of Excellence Jackson’s research interests include of the Counseling Center Sept. 19. Zukor Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity on research and education in the study of the multidisciplinary study of health and has been the director of the Counseling Research and Promotion. terrorism. health care disparities; collaborative care and Psychology Services Center at the He earned his PhD in pharmaceutical Luke Condra has been appointed models to address the health and mental University of Mary Washington in Fred- outcomes and policy at the University of assistant professor of international affairs at health of traumatized underserved youth ericksburg, Va. Prior to his tenure at Mary North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Prior to join- GSPIA. Condra earned his PhD in political and families in diverse settings, and health Washington, Zukor worked at the Thomas ing Pitt, he was an assistant professor at the science from Stanford. services research using community-based E. Cook Counseling Center at Virginia University of Wisconsin-Madison School His research interests are in interna- participatory research and health informa- Polytechnic Institute. of Pharmacy and has served as a statistical tional security and the micro-dynamics tion technology. Zukor earned both an MA and PhD in service fellow for the Agency for Healthcare of political violence. His current work on Jackson is a 2011 fellow of the Family clinical psychology from George Mason Research and Quality. Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia Research Consortium and the M. Alfred University. He is a licensed clinical psychol- Carolyn Thorpe has been appointed as focuses on elements of state building in Haynes Research Training Institute on ogist and certified group psychotherapist, an assistant professor in the Department of areas characterized by conflict. Health Disparities. and is a member of the American Group Pharmacy and Therapeutics. Her research New assistant professor Ryan Grauer Beth Mulvaney joins the social work Psychotherapy Association. aims to improve the health of older adults earned his BA with honors at the University faculty to teach in both the MSW and facing multiple chronic conditions by focus- of Chicago and is completing his doctoral BASW programs. She has served as the Lawrence A. Carr has been named ing on three areas: comparative effective- dissertation on “Commanding Military school’s first coordinator for the Hartford assistant professor of business and Mer- ness of strategies for treating complex, older Power: Organizational Sources of Victory partnership program for aging education edith B. Kenyon has been named assistant patients with multiple chronic conditions; on the Battlefield” at the University of since 2005. professor of English at Pitt-Titusville. quality medication prescribing and patient Pennsylvania. While at Penn he won the Mulvaney earned her MSW from the Carr, who had been a part-time instruc- adherence, and multiple health behavior School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill tor at UPT for many years, received his change in older adults. for Distinguished Teaching and served and a BA in psychology from the University AA in business administration from Com- Thorpe also has been appointed as a as head teaching assistant for courses in of Virginia. She has 14 years of experience munity College of Allegheny County and core investigator in the Veterans Affairs international security and American for- as a gerontological social worker, providing his BS in business administration and MBA Pittsburgh Healthcare System’s Center for eign policy. care management and program administra- from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Health Equity Research and Promotion. tion, as well as experience in long-term care, Kenyon received her BA and MA in She completed her PhD in health behav- The School of Social Work has hired with an emphasis on behavioral care plan- English literature from St. Bonaventure ior and health education at the University five new faculty members this year. ning, dementia care and end-of-life care. University. North Carolina School of Public Health, Azadeh Block has been named Bachelor Mulvaney’s current research and prac- followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in of Arts in Social Work program director. tice interests include gerontology, ethics, Karen Calhoun is joining the Univer- health services research at the Durham Block previously taught in the undergradu- palliative care and problem gambling pre- sity Library System as assistant university Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke ate social work program at Slippery Rock. vention for older adults. librarian for organizational development University. She holds an MPH in health In her scholarly interests, Block has Marlo Perry has joined the school’s and strategic initiatives. Calhoun will be promotion from George Washington focused on adolescent mental health treat- child welfare education and research pro- supporting ULS’s efforts to deliver state- University. Before assuming her current ment and improving methods of mental grams as a research assistant professor. Perry of-the-art community-centered library position, she was the associate director of health treatment engagement in commu- earned her PhD in school, community and services for 21st-century research, teaching quantitative research for the health innova- nity social service agencies. clinical child psychology and her MSEd in and learning. She comes to the University tion program in the Department of Popula- Former director of Pitt’s Counseling psychological services from Penn. She has from Online Computer Library Center, tion Health Sciences at the University of Center James A. Cox has joined the social worked with several large child- and family- a nonprofit computer library service and Wisconsin-Madison. work faculty this fall. Cox worked at the serving systems to conduct policy-relevant research organization, where she served on Counseling Center for 18 years, and had applied research that benefits low-income the senior executive team. She also worked The Graduate School of Public been its director for the past eight years. children and families. for 10 years at Cornell University Library, Health has hired a number of new faculty He earned his bachelor’s degree from the where she was senior associate university members. State University of New York-Albany and Charles Nieman is the new director of librarian for information technology and Ruosha Li joins the school in the holds two graduate degrees from Pitt — the Office of International Services, part of technical services. Department of Biostatistics as an assistant an MEd in counseling and an MSW — as the Division of Student Affairs. Calhoun was the principal investigator professor. well as an advanced certificate in industrial Prior to coming to Pitt, Nieman served for “The Changing Nature of the Catalog Abimbola Fapohunda and Chongyi social work. as director of international student and and Its Integration With Other Discovery Wei join the Department of Behavioral Cox has worked in a variety of counsel- scholar services at Kent State. He also has Tools,” a Library of Congress-commis- and Community Health Sciences as visiting ing/mental health positions at Walter Reed held appointments as an adjunct faculty sioned study that proposed new directions assistant professors. Army Medical Center, the Hershey Medi- member in the executive MBA program for national and research library services in In the Department of Environmental cal Center, Dickinson College, Duquesne, in Pitt’s College of Business Administra- the digital era. and Occupational Health, Krishnakumar Carnegie Mellon, the Sickle Cell Society tion and in the higher education program She holds a bachelor’s degree from Balasubramanian and Sameera Sayeed and Health America. His areas of inter- in the School of Education. Nieman has Bucknell University, an MS in library and have been appointed as visiting research est are in multicultural counseling, brief concentrated on advanced leadership stud- information science from Drexel University assistant professors, Jane Clougherty as treatment and alternative approaches to ies, international education administration and an MBA from Franklin University. an assistant professor and Kyra Naumoff treatment. and cross-cultural team building. —Kimberly K. Barlow & Peter Hart n Shields as an assistant professor of public health practice. The Department of Epidemiology has added Samar El Khoundary and Ping Tepper as assistant professors and Yahtyng Sheu as a visiting assistant professor. Quasar Padiath is a new assistant professor and John Shaffer a new visiting research assistant professor in the Depart- ment of Human Genetics. In the Department of Health Policy and Management, Jagpreet Chhatwal joins the faculty as a visiting assistant professor and Julia Driessen as an assistant professor.

Three new faculty are joining the Grad- uate School of Public and International Affairs this year. Michael Kenney has been appointed associate professor of international affairs. Kenney received his PhD from the Uni- versity of Florida and has held research fellowships at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford Uni- versity and the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. Since 2003 he has been a faculty member Peter Hart 12 SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 PLACES n the School of Arts and Sciences, for optimum viewing without obstructing ics research labs already have been built 12.3-acre Olympic sports complex that Thackeray Hall is being renovated to the view of the instructor teaching the class. or renovated. They include renovations houses three NCAA-regulation venues Imeet program needs and to upgrade The shelves also can be retracted completely of new introductory undergraduate for men’s baseball, women’s softball and the building’s infrastructure. Approxi- to provide a flat desk surface. laboratories on the 3rd floor of Old men’s and women’s soccer, now is open mately 5,700 square feet of space on the Ashe Auditorium has received updated Engineering Hall, a computer machine for competition. All three Department of ground floor consolidates theOffice of the finishes and seating in the lobby, wireless room in the building’s basement and a Athletics venues have artificial turf playing Registrar’s departments, and the student Internet access throughout the space and faculty center and seminar room on the surfaces, regional broadcast sports lighting, service area has been expanded to support a new main entry to the building. 3rd floor of Allen Hall. scoreboards and press boxes. The venues the volume of visitors. The Chevron Annex, built above Ashe Work on experimental research labs in seat 725 for soccer, 900 for baseball and On the 1st floor, approximately 935 Auditorium, will provide additional lab particle physics, condensed matter phys- 600 for softball. The baseball and softball square feet of space was redesigned for the space to support the Department of Chem- ics and nanoscience in the nuclear physics venues include team dugouts, bullpens and Office of Student Records. The expan- istry’s research in organic synthesis and laboratory is expected to be completed by batting cages. The complex is anchored by sion includes a larger reception area that chemical biology. The 31,331-square-foot next summer. a two-story, 23,000-square-foot support will house state-of-the-art computer kiosks annex is perched on steel support columns New classrooms have been created in building housing public restrooms, locker and a plasma screen television. that sit on bedrock and rise through the 3,350 square feet of renovated space on rooms and training facilities. On the 2nd floor, approximately 1,000 dividing walls of the auditorium’s lecture the 4th floor of Old Engineering Hall. square feet of office space is being con- halls. Two physics teaching laboratories were A new dining option is available at structed for the new Office of Under- The 20,800-square-foot annex will upgraded to incorporate additional seating, Pitt-Bradford. Intermetzo Express! in graduate Research, Scholarship and house synthetic organic chemistry using new experiment tables, additional equip- the Hanley Library lobby will serve coffee, Creative Activity (formerly the Office of the ballroom design approach. The annex ment storage space and updated finishes. cappuccino, bottled juices, tea and water, Experiential Learning) and the College in includes new laboratories, student seat- Offices on the 4th floor also were upgraded. pastries, salads, fresh fruit, sandwiches and High School program, which temporarily ing areas, faculty offices, a conference The project provided new restrooms and wraps, 8 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Monday-Friday. is in Old Engineering Hall while renova- room, a kitchenette and restrooms on circulation spaces, and all areas received tions are underway. each floor. mechanical and electrical upgrades and In Sennott Square, renovations to the The undergraduate research office will Facilities Management is pursuing new windows. 2nd floor have created anew office suite for move from Thaw Hall to Thackeray later Leadership in Energy and Environmental In the Frick Fine Arts building, a the College of Business Administration this academic year. Design, or LEED, Gold Certification new Visual Resources Lab is being con- Center for Student Success. The project An additional 1,500 square feet in designation for the Chevron Annex project. structed on the 1st floor. The lab will bring included upgrades to approximately 8,400 Thackeray was renovated to consolidate Department of Physics and Astronomy professional-level equipment and facilities square feet of space, upgrades to the student the registrar’s administrative offices and facilities are undergoing significant renova- to students and faculty working on the team-training rooms and interior finish information resources area. tions supported by a grant from the National digitizing and cataloging of the University’s upgrades to the main corridors and student On the 3rd floor, approximately 2,085 Institute of Standards and Technology. The artistic and photographic slide collection. seating/study areas on the floor. The new square feet was renovated to accommodate work will continue for the next several center includes a large interactive waiting the relocation of three classrooms and the years but a number of experimental phys- The Petersen Sports Complex, a area to accommodate an expanding student administrative offices for the Office of Freshman Programs, which will move from Thaw Hall. These upgrades will enable smaller class sizes and new pedagogical approaches in the Freshman Studies course, which introduces A&S freshmen to University life and the At left: The new resources that Pitt has to offer. student lounge Approximately 3,300 square feet on the in the law school 4th floor was renovated to accommodate faculty offices, graduate student offices, a seminar room and a conference room for the Department of Mathematics. The former Math Library is being con- verted to office space. The area will house scholars who will join the math department as part of a National Science Foundation- funded research program. Building renovations also included Below: The renovated mechanical, electrical and plumbing infra- 9th floor of the structure upgrades and the installation of William Pitt Union a new sprinkler system. In the Chevron Science Center, an accelerated renovation schedule began when the spring term ended. Approximately 7,500 square feet of space on the 2nd floor has been renovated to create four new

general chemistry laboratories. Facilities Management The redesigned labs incorporate a horseshoe shaped design with “wet-lab” student work areas positioned around the perimeter of the room. Separated by glass partitions in the center of the room is the “dry-lab” area, which is designated for instructor presentations and student discussion sessions. The labs include instructional space along the walls and a glass partitioned lecture space in the middle of the room. Approximately 8,300 square feet of lab space is being renovated on the 5th floor to house “ballroom-style” (multipur- pose) wet labs. In addition to providing flexible laboratory furnishings and fixtures, the work will replace obsolete mechanical systems and laboratory controls. The design reclaims previously underutilized circula- tion areas for use as student research areas. Energy- and water-saving upgrades and Americans With Disabilities Act improve- ments also will be included. The chemistry department’s computer classroom, formerly located in Eberly Hall, has been relocated to the Ashe Audito- rium mezzanine in Chevron. This new glass-walled classroom has 30 computers

mounted on shelves that position monitors Facilities Management

13 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new population; an alumni networking lounge the suite sits the new English Commons and conference room; enhanced interview Room, where artistic interpretations of the rooms, and upgraded advising and career original architectural plans for the Cathe- services offices. dral adorn the walls. A glass wall affords a view of Heinz Chapel but, with the flick of Renovations are underway in Trees a switch, the glass becomes frosted, creat- Hall to update space for the health and ing privacy for lectures and other events. fitness programs offered to faculty, staff • A group of Pitt students led by Engi- and the community through the School neers for a Sustainable World teamed up of Education’s Department of Health with the Swanson school’s Mascaro Center, and Physical Activity. The renovated space Facilities Management, the non-profit also will provide enhanced service for organization SEEDS, the Department of Community Leisure Learn programming. Geology and Planetary Science and SMG The space will include a state-of-the-art (the management company of the Petersen exercise room with cardio and strength- Events Center) to create a student commu- training equipment, and two group nity rain garden on the northwest corner exercise spaces to support classes such of the Petersen Events Center lawn. It will as yoga, Pilates, aerobics and cycling. The capture rainwater and hold it in a shallow new space is expected to open in January. pond-like garden structure until it can penetrate the soil naturally. The garden is The Office of Facilities Management designed to reduce the amount of run-off is overseeing a number of capital projects. that floods both Pittsburgh’s sewer system Among them: and the grass on The Pete’s lawn. The • Phase IIA renovations to Benedum project was initiated via a 2011 student

Hall continue to upgrade the building’s community project grant award from the Facilities Management outdated utilities infrastructure, ventilation Mascaro Center. The new greenhouse on top of the connector bridge between Clapp and Langley systems and programmatic spaces to meet • A new 155-bed apartment-style halls current standards for research and teach- undergraduate student housing building ing facilities. The renovated spaces also has opened. The building includes four the Barco Café coffee shop. Pitt-Titusville is opening a “seren- are receiving updated fire alarm, automatic stories plus a basement with a total area of In addition to a lounge, the lower-level ity house” in the space that formerly was sprinkler and security systems. This phase approximately 64,800 gross square feet. locker area of approximately 500 square feet the McKinney estate summer house. The involves renovations to 106,000 square feet This project added 48 units of three- and has been upgraded to create several offices remodeling project was made possible by a of the building on the basement level, 3rd four-person apartments to the current for student organizations. All renovated gift from the estate of UPT alumnus Scott floor and the 6th-8th floors. Bouquet Gardens housing complex, located areas include upgraded finishes, lighting, Kriner and is expected to be complete later A new basement mezzanine level between Oakland Avenue and South Bou- signage, heating, ventilating and air condi- this month. was created in the former high-bay sub- quet Street. tioning systems and wireless access. The serenity house will provide students basement level and now houses three new Similar to the existing residences, each with a tranquil place to study and interact computer classrooms that were moved unit consists of single bedrooms, full kitch- Major construction at the Graduate between classes. Upgrades include new from the 3rd floor, as well as supporting ens and a living room. The building also School of Public Health has begun. A furniture, electric and heat installation and offices and one new lab. The addition of contains a resident director’s apartment, a new laboratory facility and classroom fresh paint. the mezzanine level added approximately campus police substation, laundry facilities, upgrades are on the docket. In addition, groundbreaking is expected 8,000 square feet of usable space. a mail room, a fitness room and indoor The 56,000-square-feet of additional later this month on a 10,000-square-foot The 6th floor has been renovated and bicycle storage. lab space is expected to be complete by addition to the dining facility in UPT’s recently reopened for the Department of summer 2013. J. Curtis McKinney II Student Union. Mechanical Engineering and Materials The School of Health and Reha- The renovations to Parran and Crab- The expansion at the student union will Science. The renovated space includes bilitation Sciences Human Engineering tree halls, which have not been renovated replace the current facilities at Ball Hall administration offices and research Research Labs moved to Bakery Square since they were built in 1957 and 1966, and is expected to make dining services for labs. Some space on the 3rd floor will be in July. The labs are involved in research respectively, will include energy and main- students, faculty and staff more efficient. converted into computer classrooms. related to wheelchair and assistive devices tenance efficiencies and Americans With The project also will provide multiple-use • In the William Pitt Union, approxi- design, robotics particularly related to dis- Disabilities Act compliance features. The space to accommodate campus events and mately 9,200 square feet of space on the abilities assistance, spinal cord injury and renovated space, which is expected to be activities. 9th floor has been renovated. The renova- traumatic brain injury disabilities. complete by 2015, will include “smart” tion provides a new student study area/ The school’s Department of Rehabilita- classrooms and common spaces designed The University Center for Social and lounge; offices for Residence Life, Pitt tion Science and Technology labs also are to enhance the learning environment. Urban Research (UCSUR), formerly at Arts and Student Volunteer Outreach; a housed in the development, located on the 121 University Place, now is housed at 20-person conference room; a kitchen/ site of the former Nabisco plant in East The Staff Association Council’s office 3343 Forbes Avenue, directly across from coffee area, and file/storage areas. The Liberty. has a new location. Formerly in Bellefield Magee-Womens Hospital. The center’s HVAC systems also were upgraded and Hall, the SAC office now is located in 504 former building is being razed to make room new energy-efficient lighting was installed. The Health Sciences Library System Craig Hall. for a new undergraduate residence hall. • A 1,600-square-foot greenhouse (HSLS) computer lab is moving out of The phone number — 412/624-4236 — UCSUR’s main phone number remains facility has been constructed on the roof the computer and media center in Falk remains the same. SAC also can be contacted the same, 412/624-5442. of the connector bridge between Langley Library. In the next several months, the at www.sac.pitt.edu/contact.aspx. —Peter Hart & Kimberly K. Barlow n and Clapp halls for the Department of help desk, desktop computers and public Biological Sciences. A structural frame printing stations will be moved to a new and floor were constructed to support the location on the upper level of the library. installation. The two-zone greenhouse In addition, HSLS is increasing the number is equipped with a computerized envi- of circulating tablet and laptop comput- ronmental control system that regulates ers available. plant growth factors by allowing variable set points for temperature, humidity and Biddle Hall, one of Pitt-Johnstown’s light. An automatic fogging system controls primary academic buildings, underwent a temperature and humidity. complete renovation during the summer, The perimeter heating system, horizon- the first major renovation since it was built tal air-flow fans and chilled-water cooling more than 40 years ago. The building has units under the plant benches are part of become the new home to the business the energy-efficient design. Each zone is department and Jazzman’s Café and equipped with motorized retractable shade Bakery, and now features four additional and heat retention roof curtain systems classrooms. As part of the project, all class- and motorized roof and sidewall vents. A rooms in the building are technology ready. motor-controlled height adjustable light Briar Lodge residence hall also fixture support rack system and two types received an extensive upgrade over the of growth light fixtures over the mobile summer. The project included installa- plant benches allow for flexibility and a tion of new flooring, lighting and wall variety of conditions within each zone. coverings, along with a renovation of the The greenhouse facility increases research bathroom facilities. capacity for undergraduate and graduate students in biological sciences. The Barco Building’s student lounge, • The recent renovation of suite 501 located on the ground floor, has reopened. in the Cathedral of Learning began with This $1.8 million, 10,000-square-foot Facilities Management the restoration of the space’s original vaulted renovation added more seating options, Part of the new College of Business Administration Center for Student Success on ceilings and woodwork. In the center of flat-screen televisions, new lockers and the second floor of Sennott Square

14 SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 THINGS he School of Arts and Sciences will renamed the Office of Undergraduate users to conveniently view information from The School of Dental Medicine has host the biennial conference of the Research, Scholarship and Creative the parking web site. Users will be able to established a PhD in oral biology with two TAssociation for the Study of the Activity. Laura Dice, assistant dean and view maps of parking lot locations and rates areas of concentration (craniofacial tissue Worldwide African Diaspora at Pitt Nov. director of freshman programs, is the office’s by launching their web browser and going engineering and craniofacial genetics) and 3-6. Local organizing committee co-chairs acting director. to the parking icon at m.pitt.edu. an MS in oral biology. are Brenda Berrian of Africana studies and The Arts and Sciences Undergraduate • The technology.pitt.edu site now Three-six students will be matriculated Patrick Manning, director of the Depart- Council approved revisions to depart- features short “how to” videos to address in the MS or PhD programs per year. Early ment of History’s World History Center. mental bylaws to allow internal approval some common questions from the Pitt applications are being accepted for next Conference information is available at www. of new courses for the Department of community. Users now have the option to year’s fall term. aswadiaspora.org/conferences.html. Psychology and the Department of Slavic watch videos as part of help materials for The Department of Anthropology Languages and Literatures. specific topics such as resetting passwords, The Pennsylvania Department of Edu- will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a sending text message updates or adjusting cation recently approved the new pre-K-8 seminar and a series of public lectures. The In Athletics, the women’s soccer team spam filters. special education instructional I certifi- Dec. 9 seminar will feature presentations will host its Pitt Soccer Classic Sept. 2 New sustainability efforts through cate, offered at the School of Education. by distinguished alumni on their work in and 4 at the Petersen Sports Complex; the CSSD include: Faculty members in the school, partner- relation to the intellectual history of the men will host the Pitt/Nike Invitational • The use of 30-percent recycled ing with faculty from Indonesia and Florida department and developments in the field there on Sept. 9 and 11. paper in student computing lab printers. State University, created a new e-journal, as a whole. Event details will be posted at In response to student requests, self-service Excellence in Higher Education. EHE is the www.anthropology.pitt.edu. Pitt-Bradford has introduced a printing will be the default for printing first English-language academic journal in The architectural studies program 22-credit minor in counseling psychol- from the labs. Self-service printers will be the field of higher education in Indonesia is offering a new minor in historic pres- ogy. located outside the labs and will not use a and is supported by the Consortium of ervation. Through class work and on-site The Bradford campus also will have banner sheet. CSSD expects to save more Indonesian Universities-Pittsburgh, which study, students will gain experience working a new writing center this fall. Visiting than 600,000 sheets of paper through these works to form global, national and regional on the conservation of building materi- faculty member Daneryl May Nier-Weber changes, which also increase convenience partnerships to meet national education- als; researching and documenting major is director of the center. Previously, she for students. reform mandates. building sites, and exploring the theoretical was the interim writing center director at • Approximately 700 faculty and staff The education school, through its foundations and policy frameworks of the Eastern Oregon University. have signed up for the Read Green Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, is discipline. In addition to teaching composition program through which participants can launching a new writing fellowship for The Department of Computer Sci- courses, Nier-Weber will work with faculty receive University mass mailings from outstanding after-school youth workers and ence has been selected as a CUDA Teach- and oversee all activities in the writing University Mailing Services as email alerts teachers across the region. Awarded by the ing Center. CUDA (Compute Unified center, which aims to strengthen the aca- instead of in print. Faculty and staff can Heinz Endowments and the Robert Bowne Device Architecture) is a parallel computing demic writing skills of students in all majors. sign up for the service through their profile Foundation, the fellowship includes schol- architecture developed by Nvidia. UPB has launched a blog for college- link in My Pitt. arships, writers’ retreats and publication for The CUDA teaching center program bound students and their parents. 13 leaders of the field who will exchange is designed to support teaching to include “Preparing for College — No Need to In association with the Schools of the evidence-based pedagogy with the National graphics processing unit (GPU) comput- Panic” can be found at http://pittbradford. Health Sciences, the Clinical and Trans- Institute of Out-of-School Time at the ing using CUDA C/C++ as part of their wordpress.com. lational Science Institute (CTSI) has Wellesley College Stone Center. course offerings. NVIDIA will donate updated its Digital Vita application, a The school will be a host institution for CUDA-enabled GPUs to be installed in The Katz Graduate School of Busi- free online resource for Pitt’s scientific the annual convention of the University teaching lab computers as part of this award ness has launched an online version of research community. Digital Vita 2.0 Council for Educational Administration, for hands-on CUDA C/C++ development, its management essentials mini-MBA contains new features and enables inves- which is set for Nov. 17-20. This year’s debugging and experimentation. certificate. The 11-week online pro- tigators to: program theme is “Forecasting the Future Applications will be accepted for admis- gram focuses on business ethics, financial • Search for and connect with potential of Leadership Preparation and Practice: sion in fall 2012 for a new PhD program accounting, marketing, leadership and com- collaborators who have shared interests or Reclaiming Ground Through Research, in film studies. The interdisciplinary and munication. For information, visit www. specific expertise; Policy and Politics.” interdepartmental degree will stress the online.pitt.edu/business/business.php. • Quickly create custom versions of CVs history, theory and esthetics of international and NIH biosketches for grant applications, The Department of Environmental cinema, video, television and new media. New in Computing Services and annual review and online profiles; Health and Safety will be holding the Students will earn a PhD granted by Systems Development (CSSD) technol- • Assemble research teams and share 20th annual Fire Safety Day Oct. 4. The the film studies program, but also will ogy offerings this year: NIH biosketches among team members; event strives to serve the Pitt community be a full member of one of six associated • Faculty will be able to see student • Automatically import publications and by offering fire safety education through departments (English, French, German, photos in class rosters. grants from MEDLINE, with an option to hands-on demonstrations and displays. Hispanic, history of art and architecture • New features in Pitt’s web con- indicate which publications may be most or Slavic) with additional requirements. ferencing service let users easily share relevant to individual applications, as sug- The Office of Veteran Services (OVS), The history major has been revised to documents and applications. In addition, gested by NIH guidelines; housed in the College of General Studies, require a two-course capstone sequence the new system automatically displays video • Automatically transmit CV informa- is organizing Veterans Recognition Day to incorporate more training in research of the participant who is speaking. tion such as publications and presentations at the Sept. 10 Pitt football game. and writing into the major. • More than 70 of Pitt’s public iTunes to co-authors, and OVS also is hosting a presentation on The history department is continuing its U tracks — those not meant specifically • Access an online “help desk” for Nov. 8 by Col. Edward Shames, a soldier series of symposia on new books by his- for students in a particular course or other questions. from the unit featured in the “Band of tory faculty. Two such events are scheduled internal audience — now are collected in Digital Vita 2.0 also makes it easy to Brothers” HBO miniseries. for the fall, one on Rob Ruck’s “Raceball: the Apple Store, while all 400-plus Uni- delegate access to profile and document On Dec. 2 OVS will offer a new career How the Major Leagues Colonized the versity iTunes U tracks remain accessible management functions to selected staff and development workshop for veterans on Black and Latin Game,” Sept. 15; the through Pitt’s iTunes U page via a link on faculty. More than 600 Pitt faculty members how to apply for federal jobs. other on Bruce Venarde’s “The Rule of St. the MyPitt portal. currently use the system. More information on OVS program- Benedict,” Oct. 26. • SSL certificates for servers now To create an online profile, visit http:// ming is available at 412/624-6919 or vet- The World History Center will host will be provided free to University depart- researchgateway.ctsi.pitt.edu/digitalvita. [email protected]. Ross Dunn of San Diego State, the creator ments. These server security certificates of “World History for Us All.” A reception can be used to encrypt network traffic and and presentation open to all teachers to validate the authenticity of the server. of world history is set for Sept. 16. Visit • Increased services are available to www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/events.php for Pitt network account holders through the reservations and information. Shibboleth/InCommon program. Users The Department of Music will pres- now have access to information from ent the Pitt Choirs Showcase, bringing Internet2 sites, to Educause materials and together the Heinz Chapel Choir, Pitt — for students — to Microsoft’s Dream- Men’s Glee Club and Women’s Choral Spark program, which allows students to Ensemble in a free concert Oct. 9. download educational and development “On a Lucky Day a Surprising Balance software for free. of Forms and Spaces Will Appear,” an • Stata software is available at a exhibition by faculty of the Department reduced rate for Pitt students, faculty, of Studio Arts, will be on display Sept. staff and departments. This data analysis 8-Oct. 21 in the University Art Gallery. The and statistical software puts hundreds of opening reception will take place Sept. 8. statistical tools at the users’ fingertips and Noontime conversations with artists makes it easy to generate publication- are set for Sept. 21 and 28 and Oct. 5 and 12. quality graphs. See http://www.technology. The women’s studies program will pitt.edu/software.html for a complete list celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2012. of available software. The Office of Experiential Learning, • A new “Pitt Mobile” Pittsburgh

which connects undergraduate students campus parking location feature will be Facilities Management with research opportunities, has been rolled out this fall to enable mobile device A new community rain garden near The Pete

15 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new The School of Health and Rehabilita- The Division of Student Affairs is nies in the areas of computer software and global history of postcolonial writing. It tion Sciences celebrated Cliff Brubaker’s rolling out a new version of the Outside medical devices. comprises more than 250 volumes of fiction, 20th anniversary as dean with an Aug. 25 the Classroom Curriculum (OCC) pro- Pitt-based startup ALung has procured poetry, drama and nonfiction prose. For reception at the University Club. gram, designed to help students receive a $9 million-$14 million in private funding more information, visit www.library.pitt. well-rounded education, get connected to to support its growth. And, Pitt-based edu/articles/database_info/african_writer. The School of Law’s Innovation Prac- their peers and the many programs and startup Cohera Medical Technologies has html. tice Institute is launching a new program- resources at Pitt and ultimately gain a com- been successful in clinical trials in Europe The Global Studies Center is hosting ming series, including a co-sponsorship of petitive edge when applying for graduate and soon will be able to launch its medical a Sept. 18-20 conference titled “Silent the February 2012 symposium, “Building or professional schools, internships and adhesive product there. No More: Rape as a Weapon of Political Sustainable Neighborhoods.” employment. Violence.” The interdisciplinary confer- New this year is the Pitt Law Academy, a The OCC changes include a reformat- This academic year, the School of ence will explore the range of available speaker series on lawyers’ roles that will ted curriculum with both required programs Nursing’s Department of Continuing approaches for assisting women and provide first-year students with exposure to and electives, similar to an academic course Nursing Education will offer its pharma- children who have suffered physically and the variety of roles that lawyers play in the of study. Students will be required to com- cology update series at Pitt-Titusville psychologically from such violence. profession and society. plete fewer programs and experiences, but for professional nurses in northwest The Russian and East European Stud- the programs will be more demanding. In Pennsylvania. ies (REES) program announced a new The School of Nursing has added a addition, students now can complete the short-term study abroad program for third admission cycle for the accelerated program at their own pace. Units within the University Center undergraduate students, set for next May. second degree BSN program for students A new software system has been rolled for International Studies have announced Students will travel to the Czech Republic, with a previous baccalaureate degree who out, making it easier for students to record some new developments. Slovakia and Poland to learn about Roma want to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nurs- their involvement, track their progress and The European Union Center of (Gypsy) music and culture in the East ing degree. view upcoming events. Excellence (EUCE) was awarded a grant Central European region. Student Affairs also initiated the Pitt from the European Union Delegation in Parking, Transportation and Services Green Team this year. The Green Team Washington, D.C., to be recertified as a The University Library System’s has added a GPS system to its shuttle enrolled 105 incoming freshmen in a pilot Center for Excellence. EUCE has been PittCat+ catalog has new features that fleet. The system will allow users to view project coordinated by Residence Life, First designated a center since 1998, when enable users to find articles, books and real-time vehicle location maps via the web. Year Experience and Housing Services to the program began, as a way to support other library items in a single search. Web The system will benefit riders by telling give students a greater appreciation for teaching, research and community activi- services librarian Jeff Wisniewski said, “It them both where the shuttle buses are sustainable action. Green Team members ties devoted to the European Union and takes everything we have access to and located on the route and when they will made presentations in campus residence EU-U.S. relations. The current designation pre-indexes all of it.” arrive at the bus stop. halls during last week’s move-in, talking to will carry the center through 2014. The new search function, available at The information can e accessed via the students and their families about making Two new subject themes now are http://pitt.summon.serialssolutions.com/, Internet at www.pittshuttle.com; via a smart the move-in process more environmentally available through the West European has a Google-like interface that can be phone at www.pittshuttle.com/m, or via friendly. For example, incoming students studies certificate program. The German viewed in any of two dozen languages in iPhone and Android applications (Search were encouraged to drop off their cardboard studies theme is designed for students who addition to English. for Ride Systems in the App store.). boxes to be recycled. complement their major with coursework Users of the new PittCat+ can refine Access to these features is free. Users Student Affairs also has developed a focusing on the contemporary or historical their searches in multiple ways, including also can subscribe to the Pitt shuttle Twitter program called “Healthy U” designed politics, society, culture or international selecting only those materials available in feed and receive announcements of closures, to help students become more purposeful relations of Germany. The modern full text online, limiting results to scholarly reminders for special events and other about maintaining optimal heath — not just European humanities theme is geared to and peer-reviewed publications or search- system notices. For additional information physical health, but also emotional, social students interested in European literature, ing only for items located in a specific Pitt and updates visit www.pittshuttle.com. and spiritual health. The University has art, theatre and music. To have a theme library. launched an interactive web site — www. added to their West European certificate Limiting a search to a particular time The School of Pharmacy this summer healthyu.pitt.edu — and will host a Sept. designation, students complete 15 credits period can be done either by typing spe- teamed with Giant Eagle Pharmacy in a 14 Healthy U Fair. of theme-based coursework and three years cific dates or by using a slider to set the new program to offer high school students of an appropriate foreign language. time frame. the opportunity to learn about careers in The Office of Technology Manage- The Global Studies Center, in col- Users can hover over a title to preview pharmacy during a three-day summer ment will celebrate its 15th anniversary laboration with the University Library details or add items to a temporary folder. boot camp. this year. System, has acquired online access to Materials available online in full text are Students housed on-campus partici- OTM has launched an executive in the Heinemann’s African writers series. identified with bright icons. In addition, pated in a broad range of learning experi- residence program to identify promising With key texts of modern African literature, the system can sense whether users are ences, including basic skills in pharmacy technologies and promote startup compa- this series has a unique importance in the accessing PittCat+ via a mobile device and practice; the role of pharmacists in manag- automatically deliver a mobile-optimized ing chronic diseases such as diabetes; the version, Wisniewski said. various roles of pharmacy practitioners in Saved items can be exported or emailed the hospital; compounding in a pharmacy in any of five selected citation formats, laboratory, and a shadowing experience in simplifying referencing of source materials. a local community pharmacy. Users can use the RSS function to The school also helped to develop a receive an email whenever new materials partnership with Phipps Conservatory and matching a specific search become available. Botanical Gardens. Pitt and Phipps are All databases to which the University has developing programming for a medicinal access are included, eliminating the need garden at Salk Hall that will include a hill- for users to manage multiple database alerts, side rain garden and flowering medicinal Wisniewski said. plants, shrubs and trees. Although PittCat classic will remain, the more recent version of the online catalog The Graduate School of Public — the one that features a word cloud of Health and the Swanson School of Engi- related terms — will be phased out later neering have established a new graduate this year, Wisniewski said. certificatein health care systems engineer- ing. The program is designed to provide The University of Pittsburgh Press students a multidisciplinary curriculum is celebrating its 75th year of publishing necessary to better influence the costs, risks, scholarly and general interest books. utilization, distribution and outcomes of The Press has signed an agreement health care services. with On Demand Books, the company Students enrolled in the Master of behind the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), Health Administration or the Master of Sci- to distribute nearly all Press paperback ence in Industrial Engineering programs are titles through EBMs in bookstores and eligible to apply to the certificate program. libraries and on university campuses around the world. The School of Social Work is offering Essentially an ATM for books, the EBM two new certificates. and its EspressNet software system are The undergraduate certificate in linked to a vast network of book publish- behavioral health case management will ers and distributors, enabling the instant be administered through social work, in distribution of books on demand. The collaboration with the Department of machine prints, binds and trims a high- Psychology. quality paperback book in any language,

The children, youth and families cer- Kimberly K. Barlow with a full-color cover, in minutes. One of tificate is available to MSW students who Accompanied by Pitt’s pep band, cheer squad and dance team, more than 3,000 the first such machines on the East Coast incoming freshmen attempted to break the Guinness world record for the “World’s want to focus on providing services to at-risk Largest Glow Stick Design” Aug. 25 in The Pete by forming the image of the Cathe- is at Pitt’s Book Center. youth and families. dral of Learning. —Peter Hart & Kimberly K. Barlow n

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S NSF funds cine and director of the UPMC increases the activity of growth comp sci Asthma Institute at the School of factor and stabilizes it. research Medicine. Her team showed in In this first-ever report of using The National Science Foun- 2009 that the enzyme plays a role a coacervate (an aggregate of tiny dation has awarded grants to the in mucus production. oil droplets) for the controlled following primary investigators “In this project, we found delivery of a heparin/growth in the Department of Computer out 15 HETE is conjugated to a factor complex, using fibroblast Science: common phospholipid,” she said. growth factor-2, the team grew • Alexandros Labrinidis, “That complex, called 15HETE- new blood vessels in mice. Wang Panos K. Chrysanthis and Liz PE, and 15LO1 behave as signal- said, “We had structures that Marai have been awarded $1.6 ing molecules that appear to have resembled arterioles — small million for “Understanding the a powerful influence on airway arteries that lead to a network of Universe Through Scalable inflammation.” capillaries.” The new blood ves- By examining lung cells from sels remained a month after the bone morphogenetic proteins, properties are the result of its Navigation of a Galaxy of Anno- and many others. “In all cases, the unique structure, which resembles tations.” 65 people with asthma, the injection. researchers found that both The trick, they discovered, was controlled delivery using coacer- a complex ceramic microfabric. • Chrysanthis and Labrinidis vate was much more effective,” “Enamel starts out as an also have received a $200,000 15LO1 and 15HETE-PE dis- to use a polycation — a molecule place an inhibitory protein called with multiple positive charges said Wang. organic gel that has tiny mineral Early-Concept Grant for Explor- “This treatment is very prom- crystals suspended in it,” he said. atory Research (EAGER) for PEBP1 from its bond with another — to neutralize heparin’s many protein called Raf-1, which when negative charges and bring it out ising in bench-to-bedside transla- “In our project, we recreated the “Energy-Efficient Transaction tion,” he said. His research plans early steps of enamel formation so Processing.” freed can lead to activation of of solution into a coacervate. extracellular signal-regulated Heparin-growth factor com- include eventual human clinical that we could better understand • Chrysanthis was awarded trials. His team also will use a the role of a key regulatory protein $50,000 for a workshop on sus- kinase (ERK). Activated ERK plexes typically are water-soluble commonly is observed in the and dissolve within seconds after disease model to investigate the called amelogenin in this process.” tainable energy-efficient data efficiency of the treatment in Beniash and his team found management. epithelial, or lung lining, cells in being injected. However, the asthma, but until now the reason coacervate prevents that, allowing heart attacks. that amelogenin molecules self- • Sangyeun Cho received Pitt co-authors were Johnny assemble in stepwise fashion. Just a $100,000 EAGER award for for that was not understood. the growth factor to do its work of Mark T. Gladwin, chief of regenerating blood vessels. Huard of bioengineering and like connecting a series of dots, “Foundations for Predictive the departments of orthopaedic amelogenin assemblies stabilize Resource Management in Next- the medical school’s Division of Because the coacervate is not Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical very viscous, it could be injected surgery, molecular genetics and tiny particles of calcium phos- Generation Multicore Processor pathology as well as MIRM; and phate, which is the main mineral Systems.” Care Medicine, said, “This is through a catheter to treat heart an important study as it directly disease — a huge advantage over Hunghao Chu, Jin Gao and phase in enamel and bone, and • Adam Lee was awarded Chien-Wen Chen, all of bioen- organize them into parallel arrays. $150,000 for “Collaborative explores the important role of open-heart surgery. 15-lipoxygenase 1 in the airway The growth factor complex gineering and surgery. Once arranged, the nanoparticles Research: Improved Privacy fuse and crystallize to build the Through Exposure Control.” epithelial cells of patients with could be injected soon after a heart asthma, which immediately estab- attack to change how the heart Formation of highly mineralized enamel struc- lishes the relevance to human repairs itself. “Our hope would be enamel studied ture. Education “The relationship isn’t clear research grants disease.” to reduce scarring, keep as much Dental researchers are piecing Other experiments showed of the muscle alive as possible and together how tooth enamel forms, to us yet, but it seems that amelo- awarded that knocking down 15LO1 induce quick blood vessel forma- which could lead to new nanoscale genin’s ability to self-assemble is The School of Education decreased the dissociation of tion to bring as many nutrients as approaches to developing bio- critical to its role in guiding the recently announced the following Raf-1 from PEBP1, which in turn possible in order to re-establish an materials. Their findings were dots, called prenucleation clusters, grants to faculty members: reduced ERK activation. The environment for muscle growth,” reported online in the Proceed- into this complex, highly orga- • John Jakicic of the Depart- pathway ultimately influences the Wang said. ings of the National Academy of nized structure,” Beniash said. ment of Health and Physical production of factors involved in Wang has gone on to use Sciences. “This gives us insight into ways Activity received a five-year $2.5 inflammation and mucus produc- his unique delivery platform to Dental enamel is the most that we might use biologic mol- million National Institutes of tion. study the controlled release of mineralized tissue in the body ecules to help us build nanoscale Health grant to use advanced Wenzel said, “These results other growth factors that bind and combines high hardness with minerals into novel materials, MRI technology to examine the show us on both a molecular and heparin: nerve growth factor; resilience, said Elia Beniash, an which is important for restorative influence of exercise within the mechanistic level and as mirrored vascular endothelial growth oral biology faculty member in the dentistry and many other tech- context of weight management by fresh cells from the patients factor; epidermal growth factor; School of Dental Medicine. Those CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 on cardiac structure. This will be themselves that the epithelial cells one of the first studies to quantify of people with asthma are very the structural changes of the heart different from those that don’t structure and function in response have it. It also gives us a poten- to weight loss and exercise in over- tial treatment strategy: If we can weight and obese adults. prevent Raf-1 displacement, we This research is expected to might have a way of stopping the impact exercise recommendations downstream consequences that for overweight and obese adults. lead to asthma.” • Chris Lemons of the Pitt co-authors included Jin- Department of Instruction and ming Zhao and John B. Trudeau Learning received a three-year of medicine and Claudette M. $1.45 million grant from the St. Croix of environmental and Institute of Education Sciences to occupational health. create interventions for teaching The study was funded by the reading to children with Down National Institutes of Health syndrome. (NIH) and the American Heart Asthma Association. research published Researchers School of Medicine research- grow new ers have identified a molecular blood vessels pathway that helps explain how an Bioengineering faculty enzyme that is elevated in asthma member Yadong Wang has patients can lead to the increased developed a minimally invasive mucus production and inflamma- method of delivering growth tion that is characteristic of the factor to regrow blood vessels lung condition. using a unique delivery platform. Their findings, reported online His research, which could lead in Proceedings of the National to new treatments for heart dis- Academy of Sciences, reveal a ease, appeared in the Aug. 1 issue unique molecule that could be of the journal Proceedings of the targeted to develop new asthma National Academy of Sciences. treatments. Wang also is a faculty member An enzyme called epithe- in the medical school’s Depart- lial 15-lipoxygenase 1 (15LO1) ment of Surgery and is affiliated metabolizes fatty acids to pro- with the McGowan Institute for duce an eicosanoid known as Regenerative Medicine (MIRM). 15 hydroxyeicosaetetranoic acid Typically, the body quickly (15 HETE) and is elevated in destroys free-floating growth the cells that line the lungs of factor. But the addition of hepa- asthma patients, explained Sally rin, which bonds growth factor E. Wenzel, professor of medi- to its receptor on the cell surface,

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S MPNs include essential throm- bocythemia, primary myelofibro- The University Times CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 sis and chronic myeloid leukemia. Research Notes column nologies.” skin cancer called Merkel cell car- lar process called “cap-dependent PV is a rare illness that causes reports on funding awarded Co-authors include Ping-An cinoma (MCC). Their findings, translation” that allows certain the body to make too many red to Pitt researchers and find- Fang of oral biology and James published recently in the Journal cellular oncoproteins to be made, blood cells, according to the ings arising from University F. Conway of the Department of of Clinical Investigation, could Moore explained. Agency for Toxic Substances and research. Structural Biology. improve diagnosis for MCC and Although the cancers caused by Disease Registry (ATSDR). It can We welcome submis- The research was funded by may help in understanding how MCV are rare, the virus is impor- lead to blood clots, heart attacks sions from all areas of the NIH and the Commonwealth of other cancers arise. tant because it helps scientists and strokes. Its cause is not known, University. Submit informa- Pennsylvania. Three years ago, Yuan Chang pinpoint cell pathways that are key but the ATSDR reports that some tion via email to: utimes@ and Patrick S. Moore of the to more common cancers. These studies published more than 25 pitt.edu, by fax to 412/624- Pharmacy, UPCI cancer virology program cancers also might activate cap- years ago indicated that PV pos- 4579 or by campus mail to dental research discovered a new human cancer dependent translation through sibly could be caused by exposure 308 Bellefield Hall. funded virus called Merkel cell polyoma- a DNA mutation rather than to chemicals such as benzene, For submission guide- The Schools of the Health virus (MCV), which causes most through a virus infection. embalming fluid and petroleum lines, visit www.umc.pitt. Sciences recently announced the cases of MCC. But it was not clear In related studies recently products, or radiation. edu/utimes/deadlines.html following awards: how the virus triggered cancer published in Emerging Infectious This investigation, funded by online. • Heiko Spallek, a faculty development. Diseases, the team showed MCV the Pennsylvania Department member in the School of Dental To figure that out, a team infects four out of five healthy of Health and ATSDR, will run Institute and Harvard Medical Medicine, received $190,000 led by UPCI research associate adults, where it remains a silent through fall 2012. It is a followup School, decided to study a Pitt from the National Institute of Masahiro Shuda examined the resident in skin cells without caus- to a 2008 study and is designed to collection of 74 pairs of tumor and Dental and Craniofacial Research viral proteins that might trigger ing any symptoms. Only when get a better idea of the true rate of normal tissue samples using the to explore how to share clinical cancer cell growth. specific mutations occur in the PV and MPNs in the area. Broad Institute’s capacity to per- research with practicing dentists After establishing human DNA of the virus — for example, The team includes Jeanine form whole-exome sequencing. quickly and effectively. MCC cell lines, the scientists by ultraviolet light exposure — Buchanich of biostatistics and The exome represents the • Xiang Qun Xie of the School learned that knocking out a viral does it have potential to cause Kristen Mertz of epidemiology. tiny fraction of the genome that of Pharmacy received a $412,711 protein called “small tumor pro- cancer. The researchers now are For more information on PV encodes proteins. Focusing on just grant from NIH to study a promis- tein,” or sT, stopped the cancer working to identify new agents and the earlier study, visit www. these protein-producing genes ing approach to design new drugs cells from replicating. When they to target MCC cancer cells that atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/polycythe- allows scientists to zero in on for hematopoietic stem cell thera- introduced sT into healthy cells may be more active and less toxic. mia_vera/index.html. mutations that alter key proteins pies that may have a significant in the lab, the cells took on the MCV is the first virus in the involved in cancer growth. impact on future stem cell drug characteristics of cancer cells. family of polyomaviruses shown Squamous cell Another collaboration was research and development. “This was a surprise because to cause human cancer, but six cancer unfolding among cancer geneti- the viral sT proteins from other other polyomaviruses that infect mutations ID’d cists, sequencing experts, clini- similar viruses that cause cancers humans recently have been dis- Pitt researchers are among cal researchers and surgical MCC cancer in laboratory animals do not covered and scientists actively teams of scientists who have not oncologists at Johns Hopkins, MD trigger found directly increase cancer activity in are seeking to find out if they are only confirmed some genetic Anderson and Baylor College of Researchers at the University cells,” Shuda said. “Once we found cancer-causing viruses as well. abnormalities previously sus- Medicine to study 32 pairs of head of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute this, we had to next understand MCV is the second human cancer pected in head and neck squamous and neck tumor and normal tissue (UPCI) have identified the onco- the biological mechanisms that virus found by the Chang-Moore cell cancer but also found unex- samples by whole-exome sequenc- protein that allows a common and make MCV sT a cancer-causing laboratory, which previously dis- pected ones. ing and validate the findings in an usually harmless virus to transform protein, or oncoprotein.” covered the virus causing Kaposi’s In papers published online in additional 88 samples. healthy cells into a rare but deadly The MCV sT triggers a cellu- sarcoma — the most common Science, researchers from Pitt, Both teams found mutations in cancer among AIDS patients. the Broad Institute, Dana-Farber the p53 gene in a little more than Other co-authors were Hyun Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins half of the tumors they studied. Alzheimer’s pilot grants available Jin Kwun and Huichen Fung, Kimmel Cancer Center and the The next most common muta- both of the cancer virology pro- tion occurred in NOTCH1, which The Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) seed monies University of Texas MD Anderson gram. showed up in about 15 percent of grant program is seeking proposals for pilot grants to stimulate Cancer Center have confirmed The research was funded by tumors. NOTCH1 controls how new research relevant to Alzheimer’s disease. the involvement of defects in NIH, the American Cancer Soci- cells differentiate into other kinds The research proposals can range from basic to psychosocial the tumor suppressor gene p53 ety and UPCI. of cells, mature, stop dividing science in methodology, with priority given to novel approaches. and found that mutations in the NOTCH family of genes also may and ultimately die. In head and Proposed research may involve humans, other animals or in-vitro neck cancer, mutations turned studies. The patient registry, clinical and neuro-pathological data- GSPH play a role in these cancers. investigates Jennifer R. Grandis, a fac- NOTCH1 off, blocking differ- bases of ADRC are available resources for approved proposals, as entiation and trapping cells in a is the database of the National Alzheimer Coordinating Center. blood disease ulty member in the School of cluster Medicine’s otolaryngology and proliferative, pro-cancer state. A brief description of the proposed pilot study should be emailed Garraway said, “Head and An investigation led by pharmacology and chemical biol- by Sept. 9 to Leslie Dunn, ADRC administrator, at dunnlo@upmc. neck cancer is complex and there researchers from the Graduate ogy departments, director of the edu. The application deadline is Oct. 3. are many mutations, but we can School of Public Health is seek- head and neck program at the The funding period for the grants is April 1, 2012-March 31, infer there is a convergence on ing to determine whether there University of Pittsburgh Cancer 2013, with $25,000 in direct costs available per project. a cellular process for which we is a continuing cluster of a rare Institute and a senior author of one Full-time Pitt faculty members and post-doctoral fellows are previously did not have genetic blood disorder in a tri-county area of the Science papers, said, “There eligible; previous recipients of ADRC seed monies are not. evidence. It shows that if you do of eastern Pennsylvania. was a really big gap in knowledge For more information, contact Dunn at 412/692-2731. n a genome sequencing project of Investigators traveled to that was an obstacle to doing the this size you can gain major new Carbon, Luzerne and Schuylkill right kind of research” about head biological insights.” counties in August to provide and neck cancer. Co-author Kenneth W. information about polycythemia “If we didn’t know the spec- Kinzler, a Johns Hopkins faculty vera (PV) and related blood trum of the mutations that were in member, said, “The mutational disorders known as myeloprolif- our patients’ tumors, we couldn’t analysis of NOTCH clearly indi- erative neoplasms (MPNs) and to begin to develop more appropriate cated the power of genetic changes interview residents who have been therapies.” determining the function of these diagnosed with, or suspect they She and co-author Levi A. Gar- genes. It gives us an important clue have, PV or MPNs. Researchers raway, a senior associate member to start studying their function.” plan to return to the area this of the Broad Institute and faculty month. member at Dana-Farber Cancer CONTINUED ON PAGE 19

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S and Sciences and professor of psy- pened in a couple days in the chiatry in the School of Medicine. schizophrenia-model rats. “It fits CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 Schizophrenia is made up of very well with the time course we NOTCH1’s inactivation in Institute, the National Human COPD exacerbation was 266 days three different types of symp- see in human patients,” said Grace. head and neck cancer was surpris- Genome Research Institute, the in the azithromycin group and 174 toms. Antipsychotic medications He hypothesizes that the dif- ing because in other cancers, such National Cancer Institute, the days in the placebo group. Also, work best on so-called positive ference is due to the schizophrenic as leukemia, too much NOTCH Starr Cancer Consortium, the exacerbations occurred 27 percent symptoms, which are added onto brain’s dopamine system working signaling leads to cancer. Novartis Institutes for BioMedi- less frequently in the azithromycin a “normal” personality. They overtime. Current antipsychotic Kinzler said, “Our study sug- cal Research and the American group. There was a slightly greater include hallucinations and delu- drugs work by blocking dopamine gests that a gene’s role can depend Cancer Society. likelihood of hearing problems in sions, such as hearing voices, receptors and stopping dopamine on the tumor type. In some cases, a the azithromycin group, which is thinking people are after you or neurons from firing. “Using these gene can act as a growth promoter Bioengineering a known risk of prolonged use of thinking you’re being targeted by drugs, we’re fixing the overreactiv- in cancer, and in other cases, such research the antibiotic, and the presence aliens. These are the symptoms ity by causing the neurons to be as head and neck cancer, the same funded of antibiotic-resistant organisms most likely related to a neu- inactive,” said Grace. “It would gene behaves as a growth sup- The National Institute of Neu- was detected in some patients, rotransmitter called dopamine, be better to fix overreactivity by pressor.” rological Disorders and Stroke has although the infection rate was said Grace, who since 1978 has correcting what causes it. It’s like Efforts to combat the mutated awarded funding through May not higher. studied the role dopamine plays fixing a car that’s going too fast p53 tumor suppressor gene with 2016 for bioengineering faculty More research needs to be in the schizophrenic brain. by taking out the engine instead targeted drugs, for example, so far member Aaron Batista’s project, done to assess the safety of using The other two categories of of lifting your foot off the gas.” have been unsuccessful. “Differential Contributions of azithromycin in COPD patients symptoms are negative (what’s The next step, he said, is to try The next step, the scientists Frontal Lobe Areas to Eye/Hand for longer than a year, and it’s missing from the normal personal- to fix the problem at its source. agree, is to tease out how the genes Coordination.” not clear what impact that might ity — the ability to interact socially In the schizophrenic brain, it’s function in normal cells, whether The institute’s funding for the have on antibiotic resistance, said or hold down a job; or emotional not just the dopamine system they form the lining of the larynx, project in 2011 totaled nearly co-investigator John Reilly, a Pitt flattening) and cognitive (the abil- that’s hyperresponsive. The hip- pharynx or another anatomical site $325,000. faculty member in the Depart- ity to think linearly or concentrate pocampus also is hyperactive. affected by head and neck cancer. ment of Medicine. on one thing at a time). Grace’s research shows that this Grandis said, “The race will According to the National These two really aren’t hippocampal hyperactivity prob- be on to figure out the function Antibiotics Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, addressed well by antipsychotic ably causes the dopamine system and particularly the therapeuti- quell COPD COPD affects over 12 million drugs, he said. “Blocking the to go into overdrive. cally relevant function of these A multicenter team that people in the United States and dopamine system seems to fix clas- Grace recently published a mutations.” includes researchers from the is the third leading cause of death sic hallucinations and delusions a paper in the Neuropsychophar- Translating these discoveries School of Medicine has found that in the United States. whole lot better than it fixes the macology in which he looked at into therapies for patients will take patients with chronic obstructive For more information about other problems.” a novel compound that works on more studies and more time, but pulmonary disease (COPD) had projects at the Emphysema/ It’s long been known that after another neurotransmitter, called the revelations set a course for the fewer episodes of acute worsening COPD Research Center, visit several weeks of treatment with GABA. “What we found in animal future, the scientists said. of their lung disease and a better www.dept-med.pitt.edu/paccm/ antipsychotic drugs, dopamine- models, and others have found Nishant Agrawal, a head and quality of life if they took a daily ebli.html. producing neurons are inacti- postmortem in schizophrenic neck surgical oncologist at Johns dose of a commonly used antibi- vated. “It would suggest to us that patients, is that the hippocam- Hopkins and a lead author of otic. The findings were reported in schizophrenia there is not too pus is lacking a certain type of one of the Science papers, said in the New England Journal of Schizophrenia’s much dopamine, but rather the GABA-ergic (GABA-producing) the studies offer few clues about Medicine. roots probed dopamine system is too respon- neuron that puts the brakes on the significance of NOTCH Even patients who are treated In the Journal of Neuroscience, sive,” said Grace. Therefore, by the system,” said Grace. “What mutations, adding that further with standard bronchodilator and Pitt researchers report progress inactivating the neurons, this we’re trying to do is fix the GABA studies will be needed to define steroid inhalers to control COPD in understanding how drugs act over-responsivity should be able system that’s broken and, by doing its role in prognosis, diagnosis symptoms commonly have one on dopamine-producing neurons to be treated. “If there were just that, stabilize the system so the and/or treatment. “The idea is or more flare ups of the disease, that could enable them to create too much dopamine in the brain, dopamine system responses are to use these genetic alterations explained Frank Sciurba, a faculty more targeted treatments. one would expect the biggest treat- back to normal, so that we can to predict a patient’s prognosis member in medicine and leader of Schizophrenia’s symptoms of ment effect would be at the begin- actually fix what’s wrong rather and define personalized treatment the local arm of the study. — paranoia, hallucinations and the ning and then it would diminish,” than trying to patch it several steps strategies tailored to their cancer’s “Several small studies sug- inability to function socially — can Grace said. But the actual effect is downstream. The dopaminergic genome,”Agrawal said. gested that antibiotics called be managed with antipsychotic different — it builds over a couple system is easier because we have a Jeffrey N. Myers, professor macrolides can have immune- drugs. But exactly how these drugs days and then is constant, without good handle on what’s going on,” of head and neck surgery at MD modulating and anti-inflam- work has long been a mystery. the tolerance seen with other drug he said. “Cognitive symptoms are Anderson, said both groups’ work matory effects that led to fewer Now, Pitt researchers at Pitt treatments. more complex. We’re trying to get highlights the complexity of the exacerbations of COPD,” he said. have discovered that antipsy- This didn’t fit with clinical a handle on how to approach those. disease and its multiple gene “Our large trial shows it is true, chotic drugs work akin to a Rube observation. “Patients respond Hopefully we can use some of this abnormalities. “It has told us new and provides a way to improve Goldberg machine — that is, in the first few days, but we took novel compound that we think is things that will give us both clini- the quality of life for patients they suppress something that in weeks to see results in our normal going to fix more of the symptoms cal and scientific opportunities to whose breathing has been terribly turn suppresses the bad effects of animals,” Grace said. and test in these domains.” study in the near and long term,” impaired by this progressive and schizophrenia, but not the exact Grace’s team developed a rat Co-authors were Kathryn Myers said. “I think that we’re deadly disease.” cause itself. model that approximates some of Gill, a postdoctoral fellow in neu- also in a position to design very For the study, which was In a paper published in the the key features of schizophrenia. roscience; and Pierangelo Cifelli specific clinical studies to further conducted by the COPD Clini- Journal of Neuroscience, they say Using these antipsychotic drugs, and Ornella Valenti, researchers understand the significance of cal Research Network led by the that pinpointing what’s actually they found that what takes weeks who have returned to positions in these mutations, as well as to begin University of Colorado Denver causing the problem could lead to occur in a normal rat hap- Italy. n to think about potentially target- Health Sciences Center, more to better avenues of schizophrenia ing some of the abnormalities.” than 1,100 COPD patients from treatment that more directly and Those studies could include 17 sites in 12 academic centers efficiently target the disease. looking at patients with different participated in the trial. About half Senior author Anthony Grace mutations in addition to p53 and of them were assigned randomly said, “In the past five years or so, the NOTCH family to see how to take the macrolide antibiotic we’ve really started to understand well they fare. azithromycin every day for a year, what may be going wrong with The research reported by the while the rest took a placebo daily the schizophrenic brain.” Grace Pitt, Broad and Dana-Farber for the same time period. The Pitt is a Distinguished Professor of group was supported by fund- arm enrolled 91 participants. Neuroscience and professor of ing from the Carlos Slim Health The median time to first psychology in the School of Arts

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P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S research interests include Ital- and an organization with Inclusion ian theatre, opera and 17th- and Champion Awards for making Audrey J. Murrell, a faculty industry worldwide. of environmental science and 18th-century Italian literature and significant efforts to promote member with appointments in Loughner has worked at the technology and to foster coop- cultural history. inclusion and diversity in the business administration, psychol- University for 23 eration between scientists and workplace and the community. ogy and public and international years, 15 of them decision-makers in environmen- David Anderson, a faculty The honorees include Diane affairs and director of the David as a parking office tal protection and management member in prosthodontics at the Collins, an associate adjunct Berg Center for Ethics and Lead- administrator. strategies. The awards are given School of Dental Medicine, has faculty member in the Depart- ership in the business school, was According to annually to three researchers who been selected as the recipient of ment of Rehabilitation Science honored for her volunteerism and press materials have made outstanding achieve- the 2011 National Dental Associa- and Technology at the School of service to the City of Pittsburgh from the insti- ments or significant contributions tion Foundation/Colgate-Palmo- Health and Rehabilitation Sci- with a proclamation from Mayor tute, Loughner to research on environmental sci- live Faculty Recognition Award in ences, who was honored in the Luke Ravenstahl. is considered by ences, environmental technology the category of administration/ Workplace Champion category, Ravenstahl had proclaimed her staff to be the backbone of and environmental management. service. The award honors indi- and the Institute of Politics, which Aug. 12 as “Mayor Luke Ravens- the office, and she is credited with The awards ceremony will viduals who have demonstrated was recognized in the Inclusion in tahl’s Citizens Service Recipient, creating and maintaining a profes- take place in Yixing, China, in excellence in professional devel- the Community category. Dr. Audrey Murrell Day.” The sional environment. “Without a November. opment and a willingness to help Launched in 2008, the UPMC proclamation recognizes Murrell’s dedicated IT staff for the parking Wu’s research focused on risk others in their quest for knowledge Center for Inclusion serves as a accomplishments, including edu- department, Loughner’s IT skills analysis, management and com- and advancement. resource for UPMC employees, cating and encouraging students are self-taught, and she made the munication as applied to environ- business and community partners in service learning; dedicating implementation of new parking mental and health issues, such as Ralph Roskies, scientific and residents in the Pittsburgh her research to opportunities software seamless. She also estab- genetically modified organisms; co-director of the Pittsburgh region. for women, and championing lished a new system and database foodborne mycotoxins; domestic Supercomputing Center (PSC), diversity among organizations. with payment information, which and international food policy; has been appointed to the board Mary Beth Happ of the She has served numerous groups has improved customer relations,” indoor air quality, and waterborne of regents of the National Library Department of throughout the city as a volunteer the institute stated. microbial and chemical contami- of Medicine (NLM), part of the Acute/Tertiary consultant and mentor. nants. National Institutes of Health. The Care, School of The award recognizes “com- Felicia Wu, a faculty member appointment, for a four-year term, Nursing has been munity leaders who have con- in environmental and occu- Pitt-Greensburg President was made by the U.S. Secretary appointed to the tributed exceptional levels of pational health Sharon P. Smith has been elected of Health and Human Services. UPMC Health service towards the advancement at the Gradu- as vice chair of the Excela Health NLM is the world’s largest System Chair in of Pittsburgh communities,” ate School of board of trustees. She also serves biomedical library. As a developer Nursing Science. Ravenstahl wrote in an Aug. 12 Public Health, as chair of the Excela finance of electronic information services, Happ’s letter to Murrell. will receive committee, as well as serving on it delivers trillions of bytes of data research focuses In his proclamation, Ravens- 2011 SCOPE- its human resources committee. to millions of users every day. on understanding and improving tahl also cited Murrell’s contribu- Zhongyu Young Excela Health is the largest At PSC, Roskies was princi- communication with nonspeak- tion as lead author of the books Scientist Award provider of health care in West- pal investigator of the National ing patients in acute and critical “Intelligent Mentoring: How IBM on Environmen- moreland County. Resource for Biomedical Super- care settings. She has studied Creates Value Through People, tal Issues for her research on computing (NRBSC), the first the processes of care and com- Knowledge and Relationships” environmental management. Francesca Savoia, a faculty external biomedical supercom- munication among patients with and “Mentoring Dilemmas: The SCOPE-Zhongyu Envi- member in the Department of puting program funded by NIH. prolonged mechanical ventilation Developmental Relationships ronmental Awards recognize and French and Italian Languages NRBSC has developed software and have explored the feasibility of Within the Multicultural Orga- encourage outstanding scientists and Literatures and director of tools used with the NLM’s Visible using electronic communication nization.” who contribute to the improve- undergraduate studies in Italian, Human project, which enhances aids with nonspeaking ICU and ment of the world environment was awarded the American Asso- anatomy training through innova- postoperative head/neck cancer Andrea Loughner, parking through promotion of environ- ciation for Italian Studies’ prize tive, interactive viewing. patients. office manager in the office of mental sciences, technology for the best book published in A Pitt physics faculty member, She is a member of several Parking, Transportation and Ser- innovation and sustainable policy 2010 in 18th- and 19th-century Roskies has been scientific co- nursing and interdisciplinary pro- vices, was named 2011 Supervisor and management. Italian studies. director of PSC since it was fessional associations including of the Year by the International Through these awards, The title of the book is “Fra established in 1986. the American Academy of Nurses, Parking Institute, the largest trade SCOPE and Zhongyu Environ- letterati e galantuomini. Notizie e American Association of Critical association representing parking mental Technologies Corp. seek to inediti del primo Baretti inglese.” UPMC’s Center for Inclusion Care Nurses, American Thoracic professionals and the parking sustain and guide the development Savoia’s fields of study and has recognized a Pitt individual Society and the Gerontological Society of America. Happ holds a secondary appointment at the Center for Bioethics and Health Law and is a participating faculty member at the Institute to Enhance Pal- liative Care.

Several pharmacy faculty members have been recognized recently. • Sandra Kane-Gill of phar- macy and therapeutics has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Critical Care Practice and Research Network (PRN) Research Award for her outstanding contributions to the field of critical care. She will be honored during the ACCP annual meeting in Pittsburgh in October. The ACCP Critical Care PRN is a group of more than 1,000 pharmacists who share an interest in and who focus on the pharma- cotherapy of critically ill patients. • Thomas Nolin, also of phar- macy and therapeutics, has been elected as a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Fellowship in ACCP recognizes and rewards the highest levels of excellence in the practice and science of clinical pharmacy and is the highest honor ACCP can bestow on its members. Nolin will be inducted at the upcoming ACCP annual meeting. • Amy Seybert, interim chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, also has been

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A memorial service is sched- difficult to find a replacement at uled for Oct. 2 at noon in Heinz Lisa J. Vecchione Children’s Hospital.” Memorial Chapel for Lisa J. Vec- Christopher Gessner, presi- chione, assistant clinical professor went on to attend Pitt-Bradford, With colleagues, she published dent of Children’s Hospital, said of surgery at the School of Medi- earning a bachelor’s degree in widely on the subject of pediatric in a statement, “Dr. Vecchione’s cine and director of orthodontic chemistry in 1993. In 2000, she facial fractures. death is tragic. She was very services at the Cleft-Craniofacial graduated summa cum laude with Vecchione was a member dedicated in meeting the needs Center of Children’s Hospital of a doctorate in medical dentistry of the American Association of of her patients and their families. Pittsburgh. Vecchione died Aug. from Pitt’s School of Dental Orthodontics, the International It’s a very sad day for all of us at 7, 2011, from injuries sustained Medicine, followed by a master’s Association of Dental Research Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in a vehicular crash. She was 44. of dental science degree in 2003 and the American Cleft Palate- of UPMC.” According to the Ohio State from the dental school’s Depart- Craniofacial Association. Vecchione is survived by her Highway Patrol, Vecchione was ment of Orthodontics. Parents of Vecchione’s patients father, Thomas P. Vecchione Jr.; driving east on Interstate 70 near Following a fellowship in remembered Dr. V., as she often her sisters Patti Vecchione and St. Clairsville, Ohio, at approxi- craniofacial orthodontics at New was called, as caring and kind, Bette Vecchione-Seibert; her mately 6 p.m. when her auto- York University, in 2004 she was someone who had a passion for brother Thomas Vecchione III, mobile was struck from behind recruited to the Cleft-Craniofacial her work with children. and her aunt Bette L. Steele. by a tractor-trailer, beginning a Center at Children’s as its first Damian Davilla of Pittsburgh Efforts are underway to estab- chain-reaction that involved four director of orthodontics. said, “Dr. Vecchione was a huge lish the Lisa Vecchione Memorial vehicles. Vecchione sustained fatal Vecchione’s practice focused part of the team that helped us Lectureship at the Cleft-Cra- injuries and was declared dead on providing care for children with my son’s cleft repairs. She niofacial Center. Gifts to help at the scene, according to police born with cleft and craniofacial Vecchione maintained a free- was sweet to us and to my son establish the lectureship can be reports. Her St. Bernard, Diesel, anomalies. She developed from lance career as a medical illustra- Damian Elias. She had a tremen- made to Children’s Hospital of also perished in the incident, the ground up a fully operational tor, creating computer graphics dous sense of empathy that made Pittsburgh Foundation (www. which is under investigation. hospital-based orthodontics pro- and illustrations of surgical pro- us all calm and gave us a feeling givetochildrens.org/SSLPage. A native of Warren, Ohio, gram that includes naso-alveolar cedures. She also was a principal that everything was going to be aspx?pid=535), or memorial dona- Vecchione attended the Rochester molding, pre-surgical orthodon- or co-principal investigator in okay prior to the surgeries my tions can be made to Gentle Ben’s Institute of Technology, gradu- tics, ear molding and the surgical several research studies, including son had to endure at such a young Giant Breed Rescue, P.O. Box 533, ating in 1989 with a bachelor’s treatment planning for children the roles of the muscle fiber char- age. She was so smart, talented Zelienople, PA 16063. degree in medical illustration. She with dento-facial deformities. acteristics in facial morphology. and dedicated that it will be so —Peter Hart n

Chong-Yun Chao, professor was the dissertation adviser to 14 emeritus of mathematics, died Chong-Yun Chao doctoral students during his 43 Aug. 26, 2011, after an extended years on the Pitt faculty.” illness. He was 71. abstract algebra and combinator- publications of the Mathematical Whitehead continued, “As A native of Kumming, China, ics, especially graph theory, fields Association of America. He also a friend, he helped me plan my who became a naturalized U.S. in which he published widely. was an associate editor of the trips to the People’s Republic of citizen, Chao came to the then- Prior to coming to Pitt, Chao Journal of Mathematical Research China during [the 1980s]. We Department of Mathematics and was a research mathematician at and Exposition. enjoyed many meals in Chinese Statistics as an associate profes- IBM and a graduate fellow at the Retired departmental col- restaurants in Pittsburgh. Some- sor in 1963. He was promoted University of Michigan, where league Glen Whitehead said times he would go into the kitchen to professor in 1966 and taught he earned his PhD in 1961. Chao Chao was a mentor to him when and speak directly to the chef in undergraduate and graduate received his BS and MS degrees he first came to Pitt in 1973 and Chinese. He had a very pleasant mathematics until he retired in from Iowa State University. later the two co-authored three personality. He was honest, loyal, 2006, when he was named pro- Chao served as a referee for a research papers. sincere and trustworthy.” fessor emeritus. He continued number of journals, including the “C.-Y. was both a colleague Chao is survived by his wife, to teach courses in Pitt’s external Journal of Combinatorial Theory, and a friend to me,” Whitehead Theresa; his son, Karl, and his studies program through 2009. the Journal of Graph Theory, said. “He was very dedicated to daughter, Evelyn. Chao’s research interests were Discrete Mathematics and several both teaching and research. He —Peter Hart n

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20 elected as a fellow of the American Cancer and co-director of the oncology program. cine, comes to Pittsburgh from College of Clinical Pharmacy. The scientist-entrepreneur lung and thoracic malignancies He also co-chairs the National Duke University Medical Center, Seybert directs the cardio- who led efforts to map the first program at the University of Cancer Institute thoracic malig- where he was as a faculty member vascular specialty and critical draft of the human genome, as well Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. nancy steering committee. in pediatrics and immunology. care specialty residencies at the as the complete diploid genome, This month Socinski will While at Duke, he established an School of Pharmacy and is the and to construct the first synthetic become the first member of Pitt’s Barbara Epstein, director independent research program pharmaceutical care coordina- bacterium has been named this Department of Medicine faculty of the Health Sciences Library that combined basic and clinical tor for critical care at UPMC’s year’s recipient of the University to have a joint appointment as System, will chair the Medical investigations focused on under- Department of Pharmacy. She is Dickson Prize in Medicine. professor of surgery in the Depart- Library Association’s task force standing the biology of immune associate director for pharmacy J. Craig Venter, founder and ment of Cardiothoracic Surgery. for advocating scholarly com- reconstitution and allo-reactivity programs at the Peter M. Winter president of the J. Craig Venter Socinski is an expert in the munication. after cord blood transplantation Institute for Simulation Education Institute and founder and CEO development of novel chemo- Also at HSLS, Melissa and developed immunotherapy and Research. of Synthetic Genomics, will therapy agents and treatment Ratajeski, reference librarian, strategies to prevent or treat • Kristine Schonder of accept the School of Medicine’s strategies for advanced non-small was appointed as chapter council leukemia relapse after cord blood pharmacy and therapeutics was most prestigious honor during cell lung cancer and small cell liaison to the Medical Library transplantation. selected as a co-chair of the Science 2011. lung cancer. Association’s membership com- Szabolcs, an NIH-funded National Quality Forum renal Venter will deliver the Dickson He has played a leading role mittee. researcher, has developed novel endorsement maintenance steer- Prize in Medicine lecture Oct. 6 in developing aggressive and reduced-toxicity transplant condi- ing committee for end-stage renal in Alumni Hall. In a talk titled innovative combined-modality Paul Szabolcs, a pioneer in tioning regimens to improve the disease. The committee evaluates “From Reading to Writing the approaches to treat patients with reduced-toxicity cord blood and safety of cord blood transplanta- measures for public reporting and Genetic Code,” he will describe locally advanced non-small cell marrow transplantation, has been tion for children afflicted with a quality improvement addressing some of his team’s best-known lung cancer, and he is at the fore- appointed as chief of the newly variety of non-malignant diseases, quality of care for patients with achievements, including in 2001 front of integrating novel targeted established Division of Blood including immunodeficiencies and kidney disease. Measures recom- completing the first draft of the agents with cytoxic chemotherapy and Marrow Transplantation and sickle cell anemia. mended for endorsement by the human genome, which was a com- regimens. Cellular Therapies at Children’s Szabolcs is a graduate of Sem- steering committee are used by posite of several individuals, and in Most recently, his clinical Hospital. melweis University School of national organizations and regu- 2007 completing the first diploid research has focused on incorpo- Under Szabolcs’ leadership, Medicine in Budapest. n latory agencies. Schonder is the human genome — Venter’s own. rating personalized medicine and physicians in the new division will only pharmacist on the steering the use of molecular biomarkers design and test disease-specific The People of the Times column features recent news on committee. Mark A. Socinski, an expert in the treatment of lung cancer. and biologically rational novel faculty and staff, including awards • Susan Skledar, vice chair of in lung cancer research, has been Socinski received his MD from reduced-toxicity transplantation and other honors, accomplishments pharmacy and therapeutics and appointed the director of the lung the University of Vermont. He regimens for patients with high- and administrative appointments. director for the drug use and dis- cancer section of joined the faculty of the Medical risk leukemia or lymphoma, and We welcome submissions from ease state management program, the Division of Center Hospital of Vermont and for those afflicted with life-threat- all areas of the University. Send received the 2010-11 Pharmacy Hematology/ University of Vermont in 1989 ening inherited conditions that information via email to: utimes@ Residency Preceptor of the Year Oncology at the and then was recruited to the can lead to bone marrow failure, pitt.edu, by fax at 412/624-4579 award. This award is given annu- School of Medi- University of North Carolina- immune deficiency, autoimmune or by campus mail to 308 Belle- ally to recognize a preceptor who cine, co-director Chapel Hill and the Lineberger diseases and neurodegenerative field Hall. has served as a role model, mentor of the UPMC Comprehensive Cancer Center in conditions. For submission guidelines, visit www.umc.pitt.edu/utimes/ and educator of pharmacy resi- Center for Excel- 1995, where he served as director Szabolcs, also a faculty member deadlines.html online. dents at Pitt and UPMC. lence in Lung of the multidisciplinary thoracic in pediatrics at the School of Medi-

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Experience in biochemistry, of developing Type 2 diabetes. 5 visits & com- molecular biology & confocal microscopy is pensation for your time. Call 412/692-2973 or July 5 advantageous; must have PhD, excellent skills email [email protected]. July 12-26 July 12 in written & spoken English & strong team July 26-Aug. 30 July 19 July 26 attitude. Contact Theresa Hayden at tlh19@ pitt.edu. EEO/Affirmative Action employer. Find it in a The University Times events calendar includes Pitt-sponsored events as well as non-Pitt events held on STUDENT HELP WANTED a Pitt campus. Information submitted for the calendar should identify the type of event, such as lecture Need responsible, reliable, hard working stu- or concert, and the program’s specific title, sponsor, location and time. The name and phone number of dent—upperclassman or grad student with car University Times a contact person should be included. Information should be sent by email to: [email protected], by FAX for part-time help. 5-8 hrs./wk. on weekends. to: 412/624-4579, or by campus mail to: 308 Bellefield Hall. We cannot guarantee publication of events Flexible timing. Help with yard work, inside work, some heavy jobs. Prefer year-round avail- CLASSIFIED ! received after the deadline. ability. Good hourly rate. Start immediately.

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