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ship and other experiences — then sector. Compared to our peers, we we will have lost something very don’t do as well there, and there’s precious as well. some real opportunity to find new One on one with And that’s all embedded in this ways to form partnerships where whole discussion. we can participate in that activity. I don’t think it can be distilled No one knows this better into one thing: I don’t think it just than Pittsburgh: Universities play Chancellor Gallagher becomes about state support, or a key role in driving economic just about student-loan funding growth, whether it’s the ideas CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 mechanisms or just about value and intellectual property coming I did look at some potential metrics. It has to be dealt with out of our work, whether it’s the faculty positions, but I had been together. students coming out with new impressed with NIST through Certainly part of that is maxi- ideas wanting to start businesses, some earlier work. I became mizing the value that we manage whether it’s just the attractiveness very interested in this big-facility and provide to our students. and people wanting to locate near science and I ended up going to I also think the university com- the University because it provides NIST. munity nationally has to work to a source of talent and ideas. A whole unexpected series of drive this discussion and not have This region has changed so opportunities opened up there. it driven on us. much from the time I visited as And that was a very satisfying, We are stewards of an incred- a little kid. A lot of that is due very rich career experience. But ible enabler in our society. We want to Pitt and CMU and the other that wasn’t the game plan going in. to be in the middle of these dis- universities. cussions about how do we ensure Some of that we’ll do alone; a Your background is in science; the accessibility of education to lot of that is us working together – how will you lead the non- everyone who wants to work for (Carnegie Mellon President Subra science areas of the University? it; how do we make sure that the Suresh) and I are past colleagues I was a liberal arts undergradu- education that people receive and already in frequent discus- ate. No one person has a direct has the most value in their lives sions, looking at ideas where we academic background in every as possible, and how do we hold can work together to both advance area covered by a university. That ourselves accountable for making our universities but where the would either be an astonishingly sure that that happens. whole is greater than the sum of narrow university or a superhu- the parts. man individual. I will never pre- Partnerships were another key tend to have direct experience in issue. Where do you see opportunities every area. I think that’s an area that for expanding partnerships? I have always enjoyed work- leverages my background really In some R&D areas it’s very ing in very diverse organizations. well. My role in the Commerce hard for universities to work with a Commerce is one of the smallest Department was to engage with single particular company because government departments, about the business community and you get entangled right away with 40,000 employees. It’s probably the university community and what the company is trying to do. the most diverse, going all the way the nonprofit community quite That’s a place where companies from hard science to weathermen extensively. working more broadly by pooling to satellites to fisheries to trade The issues will be different funding into consortia opens up to spectrum management for the here, but a university, to carry out doors that would be very hard to country. its mission, has to engage. do one-on-one. In a diverse organization, to We’re not preparing students On the other hand if you’re succeed you don’t have to be able to thrive just within a university, trying to provide students with to do everybody’s job. What you we’re preparing them to thrive a direct business experience, have to do is set the conditions in the whole world — and what you’re better off working with that the best people in their fields faculty? How to get out to the undergraduate education was we do is we create experiences particular companies. Does the want to come work there. different schools? How do I see one of the expressed desires, for them where they can do that University have the tools to sup- So a lot of the University lead- what they’re excited about? My given that the value of college learning hands-on. That’s why port people, for example, who ership position, I think, is about calendar’s rapidly filling. education is being questioned. we have research activities and want to go start a business and setting the conditions where the Some of them are formal visits, I think it’s more than just “Is internships. be entrepreneurs? Or faculty who best faculty want to come work, some are joining board of visitors the value of a Pitt degree high?” want to come out and do that? and the best students want to meetings where programs are I think that’s important, but it’s What about research partner- Those are unique perspectives as come study. being assessed or reviewed. Some also frankly a discussion that the ships? well. And you wouldn’t do that are casual, where we can meet in country is having about the value In research, the rate of growth through consortia. What is your management less formal settings. of education. in federal R&D dollars is going to I don’t think the University style? One of my styles is “manage- This “affordability of col- be set by dynamics that are larger really has the luxury of just zeroing I tend to be a pretty collabora- ment by walking around.” I don’t lege” discussion is in front of us. than how much people think in on one thing. My experience in tive manager. I think sometimes even drink the coffee here in the That issue has so many differ- research is a great thing. partnerships is you’re much more the organization wants somebody office. It’s not that they don’t make ent perspectives: You can look And federal R&D is only effective if you flex the way of to take accountability for making great coffee, but for me getting a at it as a discussion about the about one-third of the total in partnering around the thing you’re the hard decisions: I always took cup of coffee is an excuse to leave role of government support for this country — most R&D in this trying to do rather than try to fit the view that I wanted everyone the office and go somewhere and education; you can look at it as country is funded by the private CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 to make me as smart as possible run into people. discussion around financing and when I had to make those deci- My style is to be quite open and affordability: How do you pay for sions on their behalf. accessible. The trick, of course, is something now that’s going to So I’ve always tried to be very that in a very large organization, derive long-term benefit to you open and very candid about where where you are one person, there over your lifetime? things are. It’s a little bit of the are just limits to walking around That’s a cash flow problem in teacher in me. I always wanted and having the door open and some sense, but it’s a big one. And to be able to explain why I was interacting with people. there’s a trillion dollars of student making the decision I was making That’s where we’ll be looking debt in this country and that’s a and what my thought process was. at other ways: whether it’s email lot. It has consequences. I’ve tried to err toward a or social media, participating in But it’s also impacting the value management style where you’re events where the community is transaction. What’s interesting trying to create the conditions getting together. That’s where I’m is the affordability issue: If I’m where others can thrive and you wide open to ideas. I don’t want paying this much for college now, try to create as many partnerships to get isolated. what do I get for it? And increas- and collaborations as you can, Let’s use the tools that people ingly, what do I get for it now? and then be as good an explainer would find most helpful, but these Any institution that’s providing and communicator as you can, so technology-based tools, in my education wants that education to people know what you’re trying experience, just can’t substitute for be of value and enrich people’s to do. face-to-face. So I want to get out lives. Certainly part of that value to the regional campuses, get out is: Can you be a productive citizen What is your plan for commu- to the schools and departments, afterwards? Can you get a job? Can nicating with faculty and staff ? and I want to meet people. you support yourself? But it also This is a relationship business gives you so many things that are and communication is about talk- The chancellor search com- long-term benefits. ing to people and interacting. mittee held 14 forums to If we only focus on the near- The focal point as we’ve laid gather input from faculty, term credentialing type education out for how I spend my time staff, students and alumni on — This education that gets you is: How do I engage with the the traits and experiences they into the first job — and not on students and spend time with desired in a successor to Mark some of the life skills — how do them? How do I engage with the A. Nordenberg. A passion for you work with others, and leader-

4 AUGUST 28, 2014 everything you’re trying to do into from that perspective, that desire What makes politics conten- And I like doing things with really think we are at an interesting one way of partnering. didn’t play out. tious, when we’re talking about my hands. I’ve always enjoyed it, time where we’ve got new under- And so you really have to be What’s more important is: Can state funding or federal funding, whether it’s woodwork or house standing about how learning hap- willing to adapt to what the goal we build a relationship? is that there are so many advo- projects or cooking. I just find pens. Pitt has played a major role is. It has to be purpose-driven: I think what’s much more cates; so just being aggressive that to be very satisfying. there. You have new technologies What are you trying to do? important is willingness to work isn’t enough. that are opening up new possibili- It’s very hard to be talking together and the receptivity. What’s important is an ability What’s your specialty in the ties and I just think that maybe about the way of doing something And in some ways, the advan- to engage and to show the value kitchen? we can make a real difference in — we should use the following tage of not having that perspec- of what you’re trying to do so Southwestern cooking, forging what education looks like mechanics or the following struc- tive is that I can bring a different that you can develop positive although that may be more going forward — which gets right ture — if you don’t have a clear perspective to problems. support, not just the negative nostalgia from my Albuquerque back to that value discussion. idea of what success looks like. The truth of the matter is, support of keeping bad things roots; recently it’s been more the It comes back again to: What’s it’s not my job to have every from happening. grillmaster — smoked salmon and What priorities have the Uni- an exciting idea that somebody has viewpoint that the University can I’ve spent most of my govern- grilling. I’m much more likely to versity trustees set for you? or a new program that somebody have. There are so many people ment career doing that: working fire up the smoker on the weekend, The board’s priorities are the wants to do? Then what defines here that I can draw on. Many of with Congress, working with other so I left it in Maryland. I’ll be in same ones they gave to Mark Nor- success? them will have had that faculty agencies, not just doing the lowest commuting mode this year. denberg: excellence in education, Then you work the other way experience: You can believe me, common denominator consen- The physicist in me is fasci- research, community develop- and find out what are the things I will be drawing on them. And I sus, but shaping an environment nated with the modernist cui- ment, international competitive- we can do to make it happen and will be listening to them and they where what you’re trying to do sine — it’s almost the chemistry ness, high value: These haven’t what is our ability to partner and will have a lot of influence on my is something that others want to lab taken into the kitchen. That changed. work with the right people. thinking. But I will also have the do as well. touches very directly on a lot of I think the issue is: How do ability to have seen things from a So, building supporters in the experimental techniques that those goals look to us based on How difficult is it for a univer- different perspective. some cases is much more impor- I used to use in the lab. the strong position we’re at right sity to have that flexibility? tant than fighting enemies. now, plus both the opportunities Frankly, a lot of those “insti- Another desire was commit- You have to have both: You Some members of the Uni- and headwinds that we’re going to tutional” things that make things ment to shared governance. have to have a backbone and you versity community asked the face in the coming years? hard sometimes were put there Shared governance is a key part have to be willing to engage and committee to clone Chancellor I will expect to be working because they’re protecting the of academic life. The creativity articulate the case for the organi- Nordenberg. Are you a match? with the faculty and staff and organization from disastrous and life of a university is driven by zation that you represent. You don’t want a carbon copy. administrators of the University in things that probably happened its faculty. That has to be the case. I think I can do that. But I You want someone who can lever- terms of refreshing our thinking in the past and the lesson was That’s also where all the great think what you really want to do age what they’re good at and draw about our goals going forward. learned. ideas are. You can find out what is you want to be armed with the on other folks to cover the other The board, I think, is receptive Some of that bureaucracy is are the big opportunities we’re best ideas and a case that’s excit- things ... That’s why it’s always a to doing that. there for a purpose. facing, what are the most excit- ing — a proactive case. And once team sport. That kind of very natural goal- On the other hand, it can ing things we should be getting in a while you have to be willing Mark has been such a success- setting will be a priority for us. It’s clearly become self-defeating. behind. Is there anything I can to fight as well. ful chancellor and he’s made such a very natural thing to do when a Universities are some of the most do to make that dream a reality? a difference to this University. I new leader comes in; it’s a good innovative places that we have in Our job in the administration is Chancellor Nordenberg cited think one of the things that made excuse to take a fresh look. the whole country. to set the conditions where those stamina and the ability to him so successful was his ability These are some of the few faculty and those departments manage stress as important to leverage all the things that he What are your own priorities organizations that can be good and those schools can thrive and factors in his success as chan- was so good at and use them in a as Pitt’s new leader? at both ends of that pendulum. be successful. cellor. How do you handle way that derived great benefit to My immediate priority is to The magic, I think, is know- stress? the University. engage and to listen: To talk to the ing when you want to be the Some felt a need for a chan- You have to have something It would be an enormous mis- students and to talk to the faculty entrepreneurial small element in cellor who would take off the that centers you. For me it’s always take for me to try to copy that if and the staff and the leadership a university and when you want gloves and fight for Pitt, espe- been family. those weren’t my strengths. My of the schools. to be institutional. The capacity to cially on budget issues. I’ve gotten good at changing job is to leverage my experiences It’s both listening to them and do both really well is here. A chancellor represents the mental gears and going into work and strengths and do as much as getting a sense of what’s most University and everybody wants mode and out of work mode. So I can for the University. important and where those priori- Several faculty felt the next their representative to be an effec- when I’m at work, I’m all in, and There’s always both the down- ties are. And also, what can I do chancellor should be someone tive and powerful advocate for when I go home I really try to side of a change and the disrup- to make a difference? who was not far removed from their interests. disengage. tiveness of it, and trauma, if you It’s also about building those the classroom. Do you see that Sometimes that’s fighting. But I find physical activity helps: I will. But there’s also the opportu- relationships so that we can work as a hurdle? not very often, I think — unless never do as much as I want. I’m nity to try new things. effectively together. I was always somebody who you’re using “fighting” to mean a not the world’s greatest athlete Because it’s a different person We haven’t mapped out what had aspired to be a teacher but strong and strenuous defense in but I love biking, I love swimming leveraging different strengths, it the strategic process will formally I went on a detour ever since, so representation. and walking. provides the institution (oppor- look like yet. When you plan, tunity) to try some things and you’re gathering as much input focus on things that might not as possible. Different ways of have been there before. gathering information work better for some people, so if you only What do you view as your pick one style and walk around strengths? informally, you’re going to miss I certainly have a lot of expe- input because some people are rience on the federal research waiting for a formal chance to front: it’s not in universities, but engage. If you only do meetings we worked so extensively with and do it formally, you’re going universities, and I think I can be to miss the kind of give-and-take a great advocate for the University that is sometimes better. in strengthening our perspective Initially I want to embrace there. the things that are there: Visiting Another is in economic devel- schools, working with the Senate opment in the community. Part- and the faculty leadership and the nering with business is something administrative leadership and also I think we should be doing even getting out informally and meet- more than we are. I think there are ing folks. so many opportunities there: How Planning never stops: Those do we set up those partnerships? discussions have to be ongoing. How do we work with the city You’re trying to build, not a and state? I think that’s an area one-time set of communications, where I have some ideas and some you’re trying to build a pattern experience that can be leveraged. of talking to each other because I’ve always been passionate we’re going to learn things as we about teaching and education — try to do things. and even though I haven’t been a If you only talk once in a while teacher in a university, aside from those things don’t happen. my two semesters of being a TA, I think that’s one of the most critical What changes do you think are missions you can have. needed at the University? It’s something that’s been a It certainly feels more like an passion of mine my whole life, evolutionary involvement, not a even though my career hasn’t revolutionary involvement. Convocation photos by Mike Drazdzinski/CIDDE touched on it in a teaching way. I think the areas that I would I’m excited by — maybe it’s be looking at are not stemming Left: At last week’s freshman convocation. more just enthusiasm and excite- from weakness per se, as much Above: Chancellor Gallagher with Clyde B. Jones III, president of the Medical and Health Sciences Foundation. ment than it is experience — but I CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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Rupert’s office runs full-day showed a few hidden-image slides. events called “So you want to When the crowd let out an “Ah…” be …,” geared to prospective at the realization that there were students from specific schools. two dancers in what previously Rupert’s boss, chief enrollment had seemed a Rorschach inkblot, officer Marc Harding, is the open- Harding announced: “That sound ing act for these events. is you connecting the dots that Pitt He really ought to be the is the greatest college….” headliner, because he kills. On a He ended his presentation with recent August morning he was a drawn-out but rapidly recited utterly personable and funny as joke about a mother mouse who he interviewed students and egged scares a cat from her “micelets” by on the parents to let their true barking like a dog. The punchline: feelings show: “Raise your hand “That, my children, is the value if this is the one who empties of learning a second language.” WORK the nest. There’s some rejoicing “When you come to Pitt, I Pitt’s senior administration grabs most of the headlines. The faculty here get noticed when they bring in research dollars, win teaching awards or publish in their fields. in the room!” don’t care what you study, take But behind the scenes, University staff, some 7,000 strong across five campuses, often toil in Harding dimmed the lights and CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 jobs ranging from the mundane to the esoteric. From mailroom workers to data entry specialists, costume designers to biosafety officers, photographers to accountants, staff at Pitt perform tasks great and small, year-in and year-out, for the greater good of the University. This is one in an occasional series profiling University staff, providing a glimpse of some of the less recognized employees whose primary business is making Pitt work.

ne summer Saturday, a Pitt experience, apply and enroll to had the right equipment on hand. Pathfinder — current stu- Pitt, everything from tours — Families have wandered off Odents trained to give tours offered on the hour from 9 a.m. Pitt bus tours and onto other to prospective students and their to 3 p.m. every weekday except tours and then had to be rescued families — called Debbie Rupert during finals week and holidays by van. One time on a tour the in a panic at 8 a.m. — to the major summer events father of a prospective student Rupert, senior director in whose popularity recently has left the group on Mt. Washington the Office of Admissions and forced a switch of venue to Sol- to ride the Duquesne Incline and Financial Aid, already had been diers and Sailors Memorial. found them gone when he got in Alumni Hall since about 5 Mishaps are not common, but back up; Rupert had to help him a.m., making sure food and facili- they are memorable. On another rejoin the Pitt tour. Tour groups ties were ready for the full day’s Saturday morning, Rupert showed get stuck in elevators. People fall recruiting event, which can attract up before dawn at Alumni Hall down escalators or pass out. On a more than 2,400 people. to find Tennyson Avenue, the recent afternoon there were three “They have shut down the street where her tour buses wait, attendees on crutches. Cathedral of Learning and we crammed with construction Rupert’s staff does everything can’t take tours through,” the cranes, 18-wheelers and concrete from giving out 5,000 pairs of sun- Pathfinder told Rupert. barriers. She and her staff had glasses for prospective students to The campus’s central show- everything moved or shifted in distributing baby clothes and little piece was closed so that equip- time for the tours to begin. T-shirts for the smallest family ment could be hauled in for a Another time she discovered members in attendance. charitable event that evening. a temporary stage from a previ- “Or dogs,” she says. “Two “They were bringing in air con- ous event still crowding the floor months ago we put six-month- ditioners while we were bringing where she had planned to seat olds’ T-shirts on two little Chihua- in 1,800 people for tours,” Rupert 1,000 people. The outside vendor huas. I tell the Pathfinders, this job recalls. Yet somehow she still had not removed it — and it will prepare you for anything in wrangled permission to get her required a special dismantling tool. life, because you will experience groups into the building. Facilities Management couldn’t everything. We always find a way “You should have been with help, nor could the Pitt Police. to make it work.” me!” she says. Finally, Rupert called in a favor Rupert is in charge of the from a Pitt staffer who ran a con- “So you want to be …” events that get students to visit, tracting company on the side and On five Fridays in the summer, Debbie Rupert Marty Levine/University Times

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printing tech- Last year, she began investigat- learning — is experimenting with nology isn’t new, ing how HSLS could help connect a recently purchased 3-D printer 3-Dbut its increasing the University community with and assessing interest among fac- affordability and availability is 3-D printing technology. ulty, said Michael Arenth, director creating new opportunities on While the library hasn’t ruled of classroom and media services. campus for members of the out having its own 3-D printer As one of its initial projects, University community to create someday, for now Dahm is serving Arenth said, CIDDE printed physical objects from digital files. as a liaison to existing 3-D printing structural models for a chemistry 3-D printing gets 3-D printers have been in resources on campus. She also has department faculty member. use in the Swanson School of developed an hour-long class to “We’re constantly looking at Engineering for a decade. More introduce users to the technology. what’s on the horizon of tech- recently, the University’s Health The workshop, “Create It nology,” said Arenth, noting that Sciences Library System (HSLS) Yourself With 3-D Printing,” is the education technology orga- and Center for Instructional offered periodically as part of nization New Media Consortium Development and Distance Edu- HSLS’s array of classes. In it, (NMC) includes 3-D printing cation (CIDDE) have been taking Dahm explains the terminology among a handful of important more attention a closer look at practical uses for and history of additive manu- developments to watch in edu- faculty, staff and students. facturing, rapid prototyping and cation technology for higher Once the domain of product the rise of today’s maker-culture education. developers — the technology was phenomenon. NMC, in its 2014 Horizon invented in the 1980s to facilitate The session includes video of Report, predicted broad adop- prototyping by enabling design her own project: the manufacture tion of 3-D printing in higher changes and the manufacturing of a library study room key tag education within two-three years, of parts without the expense of using a desktop MakerBot, and Arenth noted. on Pitt campus molds — 3-D printing is moving current examples of health- Arenth said CIDDE’s focus is into the consumer realm, thanks related applications for 3-D print- on the mainstream aspects of 3-D to the recent expiration of pat- ing, such as building customizable printing. The rise of maker spaces ents and user-friendly advances prosthetics for children, creating and increasing popularity of in computer-aided design (CAD) anatomical models as study aids maker culture brings students to software. for medical students and modeling campus “with different expecta- Consumer-grade 3-D printers medical scans to help surgeons tions, and Pitt wants to respond,” cost around $2,000 and myriad plan their approach to an opera- he said, noting that someday there designs are available — many for tion. could be stations around campus free — on sites such as thingiverse. While 3-D printing is becom- where individuals could print their com, which features digital design ing a more familiar concept, own 3-D files. files for items ranging from the “There’s not a huge demand yet,” The technology isn’t solely for practical to the whimsical. she said. “It needs to get more science-related fields, he said. For But it’s not all about toys, common and have more quality instance, theatre groups could tools and gadgets. Recognizing at the consumer level.” print 3-D models of stage sets the potential for aiding medical Large-scale manufacturing prior to their actual construction. research, the National Institutes remains cheaper, “and they have For now, his group is espe- of Health recently launched what you want,” Dahm said. “But cially interested in reaching out the NIH 3-D Print Exchange this fills a niche for things that to schools and academic depart- (http://3Dprint.nih.gov.). In can’t be mass produced.” ments that may lack the resources addition to tutorials on 3-D q to invest in the technology on their printing software, the public site CIDDE’s classroom services own. “We’re looking to hear from has designs for tools, labware, division — whose primary role is people who may have needs,” models of bacteria, body parts to help faculty and staff use tech- Arenth said. and chemical structures — even nology effectively in teaching and —Kimberly K. Barlow n a microscope adaptor for an iPhone. In a prepared release on the site launch, NIH director Francis S. Collins stated: “3-D printing is a potential game changer for medical research. At NIH, we have seen an incredible return on investment; pennies’ worth of plastic have helped investiga- tors address important scientific questions while saving time and money. We hope that the 3-D Print Exchange will expand interest and participation in this new and exciting field among scientists, educators and students.” q According to HSLS technol- ogy services librarian Julia Dahm, “There’s growing interest in offering access to 3-D printers in libraries.” She noted that the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh offers training and access to its 3-D printer free at the Oakland branch.

Dental school faculty member Thomas Kunkel, above, holds a prototype for a steel-cast die replicating an ideal crown preparation, created in the Swanson Center for Product Innovation using 3-D printing technology. The die will be used in research that aims to improve the fit of dental crowns.

At right, top: J. Andrew Holmes feeds plastic filament into a consumer- grade 3-D printer in the Swanson Center for Product Innovation in Benedum Hall. Below, mechanical engineering student Steve Sargent watches as the first layers of a two-part twisty box, similar to the one pictured at far- right, are printed.

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The center also has a high- quality fused deposition modeling (FDM) printer, a $35,000 machine Provost announces the size of a refrigerator that feeds a heated thermoplastic filament through a nozzle to build items distinguished faculty layer by layer, along with several 3-D printing gets consumer-grade MakerBot print- Provost Patricia Beeson has named 10 faculty members as ers that use the technology. distinguished professors effective Sept. 1. Consumer-grade machines can The 10 join another named Aug. 1 and two others named to be purchased for around $2,000, the distinguished rank in fiscal year 2014. but they can’t match the resolu- Those who will become distinguished professors next month are: tion and reliability of the more • Mark Gladwin, medicine. expensive models. Still, users can • Tao Han, high energy physics. create some amazing things. A • Jeremy Levy, condensed matter physics. more attention Pitt engineering student designed • John Norton, history and philosophy of science. and built his own brushless motor • Joel Schuman, ophthalmology. using one of SCPI’s MakerBot • Steven Shapiro, medicine. 3-D printers, which are available • Andrew Schwartz, neurobiology. to engineering students 24/7. • Rocky Tuan, orthopaedic surgery. Time-lapse video of his project • Simon Watkins, cell biology. is featured at http://hackaday. In addition, Marshall Webster will be named a Distinguished com/2014/07/30/a-3d-printed- Service Professor of Surgery effective next month. on Pitt campus brushless-motor/. Clifford Brubaker was named a Distinguished Service Professor Holmes, whose background of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in August. is in machining, has been at Pitt Scott Lephart and Jonas Johnson were named Distinguished hile 3-D printing is since 1986. Formerly part of the Service Professors in FY14. n increasingly accessible McGowan Center for Artificial Wat the consumer level, Organ Development team that the go-to guru and gatekeeper developed the Streamliner artifi- P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S for Pitt’s higher-end 3-D printing cial heart and blood pump, he has resources is J. Andrew Holmes of worked in the engineering school Patrick Manning, Andrew W. enforcement project hosted by the Swanson School of Engineer- since 2001. Mellon Professor of World His- Oakland Planning and Develop- ing’s Swanson Center for Product In addition to working with tory, is the new president-elect of ment Corp. It enforces codes on Innovation (SCPI). students — he speaks in senior the American Historical Associa- negligent property owners, hous- The printers, which turn a design classes and assists with tion. The organization is the larg- ing violations, parking violations, digital design into a 3-D object, product development projects est in the country devoted to the disruptive behavior, excessive are among an array of tools avail- — for a fee he assists individuals study and promotion of history, noise and underage drinking in able for prototyping and rapid from other areas of the University. and its 14,000 members represent Oakland. It has brought together manufacturing at SCPI, which Among his most recent proj- elementary school teachers, pro- community groups, institutions, also houses a machine shop and ects: creating a prototype for fessors of history, and people in local government entities, law electronics shop. School of Dental Medicine many other specializations and enforcement and others to col- Holmes said 3-D printing is researchers in prosthodontics professions. laborate in finding solutions to merely a tool to help people get who are studying how wear on Manning, who also directs Pitt’s challenges within the community. work done. “You have to know the cutting burrs that are used in World History what it’s good for,” he said. “It’s milling dental crowns affects the Center, says the Tony Berich, director of ath- not for building square things.” accuracy of the fit. association is letics at Pitt-Greensburg, has been There are other tools for that. “We want to know when to especially valu- elected chair of the NCAA Divi- “It’s for making things you change the burrs to ensure quality able at this time sion III national golf committee. can’t make in any other way.” restorations,” said prosthodontics for encourag- Berich has served the past Instead of making parts and faculty member Robert Engel- ing historical three years as a regional repre- putting them together, 3-D print- meier. Is the fifth or 10th or 15th analysis, both sentative to this committee, which ing can make it possible to create crown as accurate as the first? for recent con- oversees 299 golf teams as well pre-assembled items, with hinges Minimizing the gap between cerns and about as the rules regarding Division or movable parts, for instance. The the tooth and the restoration is our common III golf, the selection of the technology also enables shapes important in keeping bacteria ancestors. teams for the Division III golf to be optimized for weight and out, noted prosthodontics faculty “There has been a recent out- championship, and the Division strength without the limitations of member Thomas Kunkel. pouring of new knowledge III golf championship to be held traditional manufacturing. Certain Holmes took a sketch on about the past in many fields,” at North Carolina’s Grandover shapes that would be difficult to graph paper of a die replicating Manning said. “I hope to help Resort in May 2015. machine can easily be printed, an ideal crown preparation to a the association invest in alliances layer by layer, he said. digital design — “You can’t make with historians worldwide, focus Vladimir Zadorozhny, fac- Times have changed since a 3-D part without a 3-D dataset,” on graduate education, develop ulty member in the School of Holmes’ first encounter with 3-D he said — to the SLA printer to ties with other disciplines in the Information printing — in 1995, when the only create a prototype in epoxy resin humanities and social sciences, Sciences infor- machine in the area was at CMU, for the team to evaluate. and stay involved in the debate mation science and learning computer-aided Once the researchers are satis- about public education.” and technol- design was a weekslong endeavor. fied that the die is exactly right, ogy program, Pitt’s first 3-D printer had a it will be made in stainless steel. Pitt Police OfficerSteve Cetra has received a quarter-million dollar price tag And that’s the beauty of 3-D was honored with the annual Oak- Fulbright award a decade ago, said Holmes. That printing: “It has a lot to do with watch Ally of the Year Award for to Norway. professional-grade stereolithog- mass customizations. You design, his work with Oakland residents raphy (SLA) machine, which make, make changes,” Holmes and enforcement partners to Amelia uses a computer-guided laser to said. “You don’t need any tools reduce disruptive behavior and Acker, faculty member in the selectively cure and solidify a liquid to make this stuff.” educate off-campus students School of Information Sciences polymer, is still in use. —Kimberly K. Barlow n about responsible neighborhood library and information science living. program, received the 2014 Oakwatch is the Oakland code CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 Bowling league hosts open house The Pitt bowling league will launch its season with an open house at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association (PAA). League bowling begins Sept. 9 and continues on Tuesdays through April at the PAA lanes. The league is open to Pitt staff, faculty, graduate students, retirees and UPMC employees. No experience or skill is needed. The weekly cost is $10, which covers three games and shoe rental and funds the year-end banquet. Bowlers pay only when they bowl. League organizer Howard Goodman, a staff member in budget and financial reporting, touts the league as a good way to meet people from across the University. Attendance at the open house is not mandatory, but bowlers wishing to be added to a team should contact Goodman at hgood- [email protected] or Dan McCue at the PAA, Dan.McCue@paaclub. org, 412/586.2075. n

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S implement their plans. norm for patients with the incur- The next challenge seeks able and disabling illness. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 answers to the question, “From To look at the relationships become a substantial burden to Odds of correct Said co-author Yuri Nikiforov, cell to community: How can we between cognitive status and families and drive up health care pathology faculty member and individualize solutions for better implantation of a pacemaker, lead costs, noted senior investigator surgery for thyroid director of thyroid molecular health(care)?” investigator Nicole Fowler, an James T. Becker, faculty member cancer patients diagnostics at the UPMC/UPCI Solutions could involve per- Indiana University researcher for- in psychiatry. Some studies have increased Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center: sonalizing the medical experience; merly at the School of Medicine, predicted that lifestyle changes “We’re currently refining the panel tailoring treatments for a specific and her team examined data from such as a reduction in rates The routine use of a molecular by adding tests for more genetic disease using genetic informa- 33 Alzheimer Disease Centers of physical inactivity, smoking testing panel developed at UPMC mutations, thereby making it even tion; leveraging family history or (ADCs) entered between Septem- and obesity could lead to fewer greatly increases the likelihood more accurate. Thyroid cancer is other individually unique data, ber 2005 and December 2011 into cases of Alzheimer’s disease and of performing the correct initial usually very curable, and we are or developing patient-focused the National Alzheimer’s Coordi- other conditions of cognitive surgery for patients with thy- getting closer to quickly and effi- interventions. nating Center uniform data set. impairment in the elderly. The roid nodules and cancer, report ciently identifying and treating all Said CTSI director Steven Data from more than 16,000 antioxidant effect of omega-3 researchers from the University cases of thyroid cancer.” Reis, associate vice chancellor for people who had a baseline and fatty acids, which are found in of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute In 2009, the American Thy- clinical research/health sciences at least one follow-up visit at an high amounts in fish, seeds, nuts (UPCI), partnering with UPMC roid Association (ATA) revised and medicine faculty member: ADC were reviewed. At baseline, and certain oils, also has been CancerCenter. its guidelines to add that doctors “The success of the first PInCh 48.5 percent of participants had associated with improved health, The test, available at the may consider the use of molecular showed that scientists and other no cognitive impairment, 21.3 particularly brain health. UPMC/UPCI Multidisciplinary markers when the initial biopsy is community members can come up percent had a mild cognitive Said Becker: “Our study shows Thyroid Center and other diag- inconclusive. with creative approaches to tackle impairment (MCI), and 32.9 that people who ate a diet that nostic testing agencies, improved Remarked senior author Sally difficult problems. The competi- percent had dementia. included baked or broiled, but the chances of patients getting Carty, surgery faculty member tion provides a way of making The researchers found that not fried, fish have larger brain the correct initial surgery by 30 and co-director of the UPMC/ good ideas a reality.” participants with cognitive impair- volumes in regions associated with percent, according to the study UPCI Multidisciplinary Thyroid Since their selection at a public ment were significantly older and memory and cognition. We did published this month in the Center: “The ATA is currently judging event in May, the funded more likely to be male, have isch- not find a relationship between Annals of Surgery. revising those guidelines to take teams from the first PInCh have emic heart disease and a history of omega-3 levels and these brain Said lead author Linwah Yip, into account the latest research, been making great progress with stroke. Rates of atrial fibrillation changes, which surprised us a surgery faculty member in the including our findings. The molec- their projects, Reis noted. and congestive heart failure were little. It led us to conclude that we School of Medicine and UPMC ular testing panel holds promise The first step requires submis- similar among the groups. were tapping into a more general surgical oncologist: “Before this for streamlining and eliminating sion of a two-minute video by The likelihood of getting a set of lifestyle factors that were test, about one in five potential unnecessary surgery not just here Sept. 15 that introduces the team, pacemaker, a device that regulates affecting brain health of which thyroid cancer cases couldn’t be but nationwide.” defines the health problem that is the heart beat, was lowest for those diet is just one part.” diagnosed without an operation A previous study led by Yip being tackled and briefly outlines who had no cognitive difficulties Lead investigator Cyrus Raji, to remove a portion of the thy- showed the panel to be cost-saving the solution. Early round winners and highest for dementia patients. who now is in radiology residency roid.” Previously, “if the portion when used to help in the diagnosis will be invited to a final round on Said Fowler: “Participants who training at UCLA, and the research removed during the first surgery of thyroid cancer. Nov. 12 at a public event in which had dementia before assessment team analyzed data from 260 came back positive for cancer, a Additional Pitt researchers on teams will make short presenta- for a new pacemaker were 1.6 times people who provided informa- second surgery was needed to this study were Laura I. Wharry, tions to a panel of judges. more likely to receive a pacemaker tion on their dietary intake, had remove the rest of the thyroid. Michaele J. Armstrong, Ari Teams that bring together col- compared to participants without high-resolution brain MRI scans, The molecular testing panel now Silbermann, Kelly L. McCoy, laborators from different perspec- cognitive impairment, even after and were cognitively normal at bypasses that initial surgery, allow- Michael T. Stang, Nobuyuki tives, institutions and disciplines clinical factors were taken into two time points during their par- ing us to go right to fully removing P. Ohori, Marina N. Nikiforov, are encouraged, but at least one account. This was a bit surprising ticipation in the Cardiovascular the cancer with one initial surgery. Shane O. LeBeau, Christopher person must be a Pitt faculty because aggressive interventions Health Study (CHS), a 10-year This reduces risk and stress to the Coyne, Steven P. Hodak, Julie member. might not be appropriate for this multicenter effort that began in patient, as well as recovery time E. Bauman, Jonas T. Johnson The solution could be a device, population, whose lives are limited 1989 to identify risk factors for and costs.” and Mitch E. Tublin. a software application, an inter- by a severely disabling disease. heart disease in people over 65. Cancer in the thyroid, which This study was funded by a vention strategy or any other Future research should explore Said Raji: “The subset of CHS is located in the “Adam’s apple” grant from UPMC. approach the team identifies. how doctors, patients and families participants answered question- area of the neck, is now the fifth For more information and to come to make the decision to get naires about their eating habits, most common cancer diagnosed Pitt innovation register a team, go to www.pinch. a pacemaker.” such as how much fish did they in women. Thyroid cancer is one pitt.edu. There was no difference eat and how was it prepared. of the few cancers that continues challenge poses new among the groups in the rates Baked or broiled fish contains to increase in incidence, although health care questions of implantation of cardioverter higher levels of omega-3s than the five-year survival rate is 97 In the second competition Pacemakers more defibrillators, which deliver a small fried fish because the fatty acids percent. of its kind, Pitt will award up to likely after dementia shock to get the heart to start are destroyed in the high heat Previously, the most accurate $375,000 to teams of creative People with dementia are more beating again if it suddenly stops. of frying, so we took that into form of testing for thyroid cancer thinkers who have fresh ideas likely to get implanted pacemak- Pitt co-authors of the paper consideration when we examined was a fine-needle aspiration to solve tough, health-related ers for heart rhythm irregularities, included Jie Li, Charity G. their brain scans.” biopsy, where a doctor guides a problems. such as atrial fibrillation, than Moore, Samir Saba, Oscar L. People who ate baked or thin needle to the thyroid and As in the previous Pitt Inno- people who don’t have cognitive Lopez and Amber E. Barnato. A broiled fish at least once a week removes a small tissue sample for vation Challenge (PInCh), the difficulties, according to research- researcher from Duke University had greater grey matter brain testing. However, in 20 percent Clinical and Translational Science ers at the School of Medicine. In Medical Center also contributed volumes in areas of the brain of these biopsies, cancer cannot Institute (CTSI), in collaboration a research letter published online to the research. responsible for memory (4.3 per- be ruled out. A lobectomy, which with the University’s Office of in JAMA Internal Medicine, the The project was funded by the cent) and cognition (14 percent) is a surgical operation to remove the Provost and the Innovation researchers noted the finding runs Agency for Healthcare Research and were more likely to have half of the thyroid, is then needed Institute, also will provide winning counter to expectations that less and Quality and NIA. a college education than those to diagnose or rule out thyroid teams with project managers to aggressive interventions are the —Compiled by Marty Levinen who didn’t eat fish regularly, the cancer. In the case of a postop- researchers found. But no associa- erative cancer diagnosis, a second tion was found between the brain surgery is required to remove the differences and blood levels of rest of the thyroid. omega-3s. Researchers have identified “This suggests that lifestyle certain gene mutations that are factors, in this case eating fish, indicative of an increased likeli- rather than biological factors con- hood of thyroid cancer, and the tribute to structural changes in the molecular testing panel developed brain,” Becker noted. “A conflu- at UPMC can be run using the ence of lifestyle factors likely are sample collected through the responsible for better brain health, initial, minimally invasive biopsy, and this reserve might prevent or rather than a lobectomy. When delay cognitive problems that can the panel shows these mutations, develop later in life.” a total thyroidectomy is advised. Pitt co-authors included Kirk Yip and her colleagues fol- I. Erickson, Oscar Lopez, lowed 671 UPMC patients with Lewis H. Kuller and H. Michael suspicious thyroid nodes who Gach, joined by researchers received biopsies. Approximately from the University of Southern half the biopsy samples were run California and the University of through the panel, and the other Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. half were not. Patients whose The research was supported in tissue samples were not tested part by the National Heart, Lung with the panel had a 2.5-fold and Blood Institute, the National higher statistically significant Institute of Neurological Disor- likelihood of having an initial ders and Stroke and the National lobectomy and then requiring a Institute on Aging (NIA). second operation.

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Kevin Hyunkyung Kim

Kevin Hyunkyung Kim, a Department of Medicine. statistics, multilevel modeling and fornia State University in 1996, School of Education faculty “Kevin was extremely gener- Asian-American mental health. then his master’s and doctoral member, died July 18, 2014, at ous with both his time and his He published in methodologi- degrees in psychology from his home in Sewickley. He was 45. expertise,” said his department cal journals and journals in many UCLA with a concentration in Kim joined the school in 2003 chair, Suzanne Lane. other academic disciplines, and quantitative methodology. He as an assistant professor, and “He spent many hours with worked as a co-investigator on earned his graduate degrees in became an associate professor both students and faculty sharing federally funded grants with fac- 1999 and 2003, respectively. of research methodology in the his deep knowledge of quantita- ulty throughout Pitt and other Kim was born in South Korea Department of Psychology in tive methodology. His intellect, universities. and moved to Los Angeles when Education in 2009. wit and humor will be remem- In 2007, he co-wrote the book he was in elementary school. He had a secondary appoint- bered by all.” “Univariate and Multivariate Surviving are his mother and ment as an associate professor Kim’s scholarship was in sta- General Linear Models: Theory two brothers. of business administration in tistical methods as well as in the and Applications” with colleague The School of Education is the Joseph M. Katz Graduate behavioral and social sciences. Neil Timm. planning a memorial service in School of Business. He also was His work focused on structural He earned his bachelor’s September. an affiliated faculty member in the equation modeling, multivariate degree in psychology from Cali- —Marty Levine n

Robert Sutherland Lord

A memorial concert and “He knew how to draw you into it, returned for a visit and would note tribute is set for 3 p.m. Oct. 26 both emotionally and physically.” that Dr. Lord had both played at in Heinz Chapel for professor In performance, Root said their wedding as well as left them emeritus of music Robert Suther- Lord would start with soft intricate with an appreciation for music and land Lord, who died July 24, 2014. fingerwork, then build to gener- the arts that they never had before He was 84. ate a frisson — “literally pulling their educational experience at the Lord earned his bachelor’s out the stops and adding to the University.” degree in music at Dartmouth volume until you could feel the Beyond his work at the Univer- and his master’s and PhD in music whole building playing the piece.” sity, Lord’s broadcast organ music history at Yale. Root said he remembers series “Lord on Bach” and “Lord Lord began his teaching career watching bits of dust fall from on Buxtehude” aired in the 1970s in 1959 in Davidson College in the ceiling, catching light from on WQED-FM. North Carolina, where he was the chapel’s stained glass windows, He was organist and choirmas- college organist. as the whole building resonated ter at Christ Episcopal Church in He came to Pitt in 1962 as an with one of Lord’s performances. the North Hills for 22 years, and associate professor and University “It was just one person, one he helped found the Northland organist. He was granted tenure instrument. And the whole space Public Library and was its first in 1963, and was promoted to full and everybody in it was riveted.” board chairman. professor in 1984. That same year, Said Jon J. Danzak of the Pitts- Lord is survived by his wife Lord became chair of the music burgh chapter of the American Martha W. Lord; four children: department, initially serving a Guild of Organists, “Dr. Lord was Benjamin Webster Lord, Wendy three-year term. an inspiring teacher with a crusty Lord Vlahakis and her husband, Lord, who served as University no-nonsense New England atti- John; Beth Lord Esmont and her organist at Heinz Chapel for 37 committed to playing at the cha- make the whole building feel as if tude to anything that didn’t meet husband, Jeff, and Holly Suther- years, performed more than 160 pel’s many weddings and accom- it’s going to lift off the ground,” his exacting standards. While land Lord and her husband, Rich; organ concerts and played for modating brides’ musical requests. Root said. some may think that would seven grandchildren and a great- more than 4,000 weddings at the To assist in their selections, he When the organ installation cause him to be overly harsh, it granddaughter. chapel. created a listening library of sug- was complete, “he was delighted was only that he demanded the Memorial donations may be He also performed at high- gested music. with it,” Root said. Lord played best of what people could give made to the Christ Episcopal profile chapel events, including Lord’s academic interests the dedication recital for the within their abilities. He had the Church Endowment, 5910 Bab- the chancellor’s holiday concerts were focused on 19th and 20th 4,272-pipe instrument in 1995. unique ability to communicate his cock Blvd., Pittsburgh 15237; and memorials for Vira Heinz and century French organ music. He Often spoken of as “The vast knowledge in practical and Animal Friends, 562 Camp Horne for Sen. H. John Heinz III. was an authority on the music of Lord,” Root said “he did have meaningful ways, which inspired Road, Pittsburgh 15237; or the In 2006, Lord was commis- French composer and organist authority. Many people wanted to anyone who had even a remote Historic Roberts Organ Restora- sioned to “transplant” a theme Charles Tournemire and he wrote have access to the chapel organ. interest in music.” tion Fund, P.O. Box 840, Urbana, from Mozart into a piece for extensively on the “St. Clotilde If they wanted it, they had to go Danzak, who volunteered Ohio, 43078, to restore the first organ in honor of noted trans- tradition” of music by organists through him.” at Heinz Chapel, said “It was a tracker organ donated by Andrew plant surgeon Thomas Starzl’s at Paris’ St. Clotilde basilica: Cesar Still, he was easy to get along constant source of amazement Carnegie. 80th birthday. Lord’s “Mozart Franck, Tournemire and Jean with, open to new ideas and fun to speak to University alums who —Kimberly K. Barlow n Transplantation for Organ” was Langlais, with whom Lord studied. to be around, Root said. “I rarely an improvisation on an aria from Music faculty member Deane heard him even express conster- the opera “Don Giovanni.” Root, director of Pitt’s Center nation, except when there were George Plutchok Lord’s final faculty organ for American Music, said Lord, problems with the organ that recital at Heinz Chapel, given in a fellow musicologist, was among needed repair.” George Plutchok, professor respectively. March 1999, shortly before his the first people he met when he Root noted that being Univer- emeritus of social work, died July His early work included serv- retirement, drew nearly 600 guests. arrived at Pitt in 1982. sity organist “wasn’t just playing at 21, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia. He ing as a group counselor for the Professor emeritus Don O. “He was an internationally Heinz Chapel. He also played the was 93. U.S. Committee for the Care of Franklin, former music depart- known scholar for his work on instruments that were in Carnegie He joined the University in the Refugees in 1947. Prior to joining ment chair, said Lord was a 20th-century French organists, Music Hall and in the Cathedral early 1970s and rose to become academia, he worked for 15 years teacher, a performer and a as a performer of that repertoire of Learning Commons Room associate dean of the School of as a leader in the Jewish Com- researcher. and a champion of it as well,” and the Frick Fine Arts building.” Social Work. munity Center in Newark, New He played a key role in trans- Root said. Lord’s Intro to Western Art “George Plutchok was truly a Jersey, and the YMHA & YWHA forming Pitt’s music department Root served as Heinz Chapel Music was among the University’s man for all seasons,” said former of Philadelphia. “from a service department to administrator for more than a most popular courses, drawing colleague Edward W. Sites, also a He came to Pitt after teach- one that offered an undergradu- decade, learning much about some 800 students to his class- professor emeritus in the school. ing at Atlanta University and the ate music major and a doctoral organ repair and construction room each year. “His academic, spiritual, pro- University of Kentucky. program in musicology,” Franklin at Lord’s side in the 1980s as Root said, “He brought stu- fessional and personal lives were Plutchok was a charter member said. plans to replace the chapel organ dents into these pieces using a seamless whole. He was well of the National Association of “He was a very lively presence, materialized. just a vinyl turntable. He got known for his graciousness, Social Workers and aided many both in interacting with the stu- Lord knew how he wanted the them deeply engaged. That’s selflessness, social activism, Jewish organizations and causes. dents and the faculty,” Franklin organ to sound, and he wanted it why students really remember fierce loyalty, humor and kind- He is survived by four chil- said. “He was integral to faculty to have the most modern, reliable those classes so fondly. He gave ness. A musician, theologian, dren and their spouses, nine discussions,” Franklin said, adding technology, Root said. them something really rare: not award-winning social worker and grandchildren and three great- that Lord could be both colorful Lord insisted that the new just intellectual knowledge but public citizen, he was a colleague grandchildren. and bombastic. instrument be equipped to record knowledge that was felt in their extraordinaire.” Contributions may be sent to “He was a very active chair,” and play back music — technology bodies and in their brains.” Born in New York City on Oct. The George Plutchok Student Franklin said. Lord’s primary that would allow tour groups to Root added, “Most students 30, 1920, Plutchok earned his BA Resource Endowment Fund at focus was on strengthening music hear the organ play, even in his were not familiar with classical from New York University in 1942 the School of Social Work, 2117 performance, particularly for absence. music or music history. Lord knew and his master’s and doctorate of Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh undergraduates. He also had a deep bass stop how to make it dramatic — there social work from the University of 15260. Franklin said Lord was quite installed above the transept, “to and in performance,” Root said. Pennsylvania in 1949 and 1963, —Marty Levine n

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Burkart Holzner Burkart Holzner, former who told the University Times: local, regional, state, national ity Construction in Society” and director of the University Center “Burkart Holzner was a seminal and international organizations. co-author of “Transparency in for International Studies (UCIS), thinker about international educa- Your leadership has enhanced the Global Change: The Vanguard Distinguished Service Professor tion. His influence was enormous understanding of international, of the Open Society.” of International Studies and at Pitt and continues to be felt here commercial and political ties and Former director of the Center emeritus professor of sociol- in centers he created and programs has raised the consciousness of for Russian and East European ogy and public and international he developed. More generally our students regarding interna- Studies Robert M. Hayden, who affairs, died Aug 25, 2014. He though, his vision was critical in tional issues.” stepped down from the position was 83. establishing regional, national and Holzner’s scholarly interests earlier this year, said, “Burkart A native of Germany, Holzner international organizations that included work on policy studies appointed me to that job in 1998, studied at Munich University and have shaped the way we approach and leadership in the international and the longer I served, the more the University of Wisconsin. He internationalization.” dimension of higher education I appreciated his accomplishments earned a PhD in psychology at In 1998, Holzner was a recipi- and in community development; in building international studies the University of Bonn. ent of the Chancellor’s Distin- in building institutional capacities here, and also in supporting his Holzner came to Pitt as an guished Public Service Award in in higher education, and in socio- directors. He both put Pitt on assistant professor in sociology in recognition of his “enormously logical theory including sociology the national map for international 1960, after two years as a lecturer impressive record of contribu- of knowledge and of science and studies, and international studies at the University of Wisconsin. He tions to internationalizing the technology. on the map of Pitt.” was named professor and chair University of Pittsburgh, the Pitts- Visiting assignments through- Holzner is survived by his wife, of Pitt’s sociology department burgh region and higher education out his career took him around the Leslie Salmon-Cox, a former asso- in 1966. in the United States and abroad.” globe, with work at universities in ciate in Pitt’s Learning Research He became UCIS director In his commendation to Canada, Germany, India, Poland, and Development Center, and a in 1980, following the death in Holzner, Chancellor Mark A. Japan, Libya, China, Hong Kong, son and daughter. 1979 of founding UCIS director Nordenberg recognized him as “a Taiwan and Thailand, in addition An on-campus memorial ser- Carl Beck. consummate institution-builder, to the United States. vice is being planned, but no date Holzner was succeeded at who has established, nurtured Among many publications, has been set. UCIS in 2000 by Lawrence Feick, and maintained linkages with Holzner was the author of “Real- —Kimberly K. Barlow n

P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 ASIST ProQuest Dissertation and Rehabilitation. in the 2014-2015 American Psy- convention, or else served their the national association’s Interna- Award for “Born Networked The award recognizes an chological Association (APA) fellow writers and artists in out- tional Conference in San Antonio Records: A History of the Short individual in mid-career who has Leadership Institute for Women standing ways. this month. Message Service Format.” She advanced musculoskeletal phys- in Psychology. Established by the In addition to writing, Lillis Zimmerman also has served earned her PhD at UCLA. iatry through clinical care, edu- APA committee on women in psy- has put her literary and library as the chair of the Department This is the first time the award cation, service and/or research. chology, the institute’s mission is skills together to create a curated of Instruction has gone to an archival studies to prepare, support and empower bookselling service. She holds and Learning dissertation. Several members of the Learn- women psychologists as leaders pop-up book sales at art events and coordina- ing Research and Development to promote positive changes in around Pittsburgh as the Small tor of the spe- School of Social Work faculty Center have won awards recently. institutional and organizational Press Pittsburgh Bookstand, cial education member Rafael Engel has been • Einat Heyd-Metzuyanim life and to increase the diversity, featuring the output of Pittsburgh program. Prior named the co-editor-in-chief of was selected by the AERA for number and effectiveness of writers, poets, publishers and art- to arriving at the Journal of Intergenerational the Special Interest Group for women psychologists as leaders. ists alongside independent press Pitt, Zimmer- Relations. Research Career Publication • Tessa Warren has won a books. man taught at The journal helps scholars, Award in Mathematics Education. Women in Cognitive Science Lillis also invented Small Press Boston College practitioners, policymakers, edu- • Melissa Libertus received Mentorship Award. Roulette, a mail-order bookselling and Vanderbilt cators and advocates stay abreast a Mind, Brain and Education • Jingtao Wang was invited service. With Small Press Roulette, University. of the latest intergenerational Society Early Career Award for by Google to visit the company’s readers choose a price point and In addition to his academic research, practice methods and 2014. This award is designed to Android team in Mountain a basic genre (such as poetry, work, Zimmerman has held posi- policy initiatives. recognize early-career research- View, California, this summer to fiction, comics, creative nonfic- tions with the Texas Commission ers who have made significant continue his research on innova- tion), and Lillis sends a surprise for the Blind and the New Hamp- The Executive Council of research contributions to the field tive sensor-based interaction on small-press package including a shire low-vision program. the Pennsylvania State Modern of mind, brain and education. mobile devices. recommended book or two. Established in 1968, the Languages Association (PSMLA) • Diane Litman won Google’s Blaha award is the highest honor selected Pitt-Greensburg’s Silvina Faculty Research Award. She is Karen Lillis has won the Pitt’s Holger Hoock, the J. bestowed by the association’s Orsatti, part-time Spanish researching how to enable com- 2014 Acker Award for Avant Carroll Amundson Professor orientation and mobility division. instructor, to receive the 2014 puters to derive meaning from Garde Excellence in Fiction for of British History, is starting a It recognizes professionals who PSMLA Educator of the Year human language so the computers her body of work, especially four five-year term have made outstanding contri- Award. The award, to be pre- can analyze student peer assess- experimental novels/novellas as editor of butions to the field of orienta- sented to Orsatti at the PSMLA ments in “massively open-access published 2000-12. the Journal of tion and mobility and who are conference in October, recognizes online courses,” or MOOCs. Lillis is a staff member of the British Stud- dedicated to serving people with individuals and organizations • Director Charles Perfetti Dietrich School of Arts and Sci- ies. Cambridge visual impairments. for their distinguished teaching received the 2014 Distinguished ences (program assistant for the University and professional contributions Scientific cultural studies program and for Press publishes Karen Bursic, faculty member in world languages and cultures. Contribution the gender, sexuality and women’s the quarterly and undergraduate program direc- Award from studies program). journal on tor of industrial engineering, Gwendolyn Sowa, faculty the Society for Her latest published works behalf of the received the Swanson School of member in the Department of Text and Dis- include a chapbook of poems North Ameri- Engineering’s 2014 Outstanding Physical Medi- course Aug. 4 called “The Paul Simon Project” can Confer- Educator Award. cine and Reha- at the society’s and inclusion in an anthology ence on British Studies. Hoock’s bilitation and annual meet- of experimental women writers, team of associate editors includes Research productivity of Pitt’s assistant dean ing and deliv- “Wreckage of Reason Two.” She Pitt history department faculty business faculty members in four of medical stu- ered the open- also is the author of “Watch the members Janelle Greenberg of the top marketing journals is dent research ing ceremony Doors as They Close”; “The and Marcus Rediker as well as No. 16 in the world, according to a in the School address, “Reading Comprehen- Second Elizabeth”; “Magenta’s English faculty members Bruce report by the American Marketing of Medicine, is sion: From Words to Multiple Adventures Underground,” and Venarde and Jennifer Waldron. Association’s DocSIG’s Group. the 2014 recipi- Texts and Back Again.” “i, scorpion: foul belly-crawler The journal will operate from Over the past five years, Katz ent of the Physiatric Association • Christian D. Schunn was of the desert.” offices in Posvar Hall with Julie faculty were authors or co-authors of Spine, Sports and Occupational elected a fellow in the Association The Acker Hakim Azzam as assistant editor. of 38 articles. Rehabilitation Legacy Award and for Psychological Science. award recog- Faculty members J. Jeffrey Lectureship by the American • Natasha Tokowicz has nizes mem- George J. Zimmerman, a Inman, Cait Lamberton and Academy of Physical Medicine been nominated to participate bers of the faculty member in the School of Andrew Stephen received indi- avant-garde Education and the coordinator vidual honors. Inman published The People of the Times column features recent news on faculty and staff, including awards and other honors, accomplishments and admin- arts commu- of the University’s vision studies 10 articles in the four top journals istrative appointments. nity who have program, has won the Lawrence during the past five years, ranking We welcome submissions from all areas of the University. Send made out- E. Blaha Award from the Associa- him No. 10 in the world. Lam- information via email to: [email protected], by fax at 412/624-4579 or by standing con- tion for Education and Rehabili- berton ranked No. 18 with eight campus mail to 308 Bellefield Hall. tributions in tation of the Blind and Visually articles and Stephen ranked No. For submission guidelines, visit www.utimes.pitt.edu/?page_id=6807. their discipline Impaired. 34 with seven. in defiance of The honor was bestowed at —Compiled by N.J. Brown n

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VOLUME 47 • NUMBER 1 • SECTION 2 AUGUST 28, 2014 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s NEW at PITT? The hustle and bustle that marks the beginning of the aca- The University Times asked deans, unit heads and others: demic year has returned: The proliferation of laundry carts and “What’s New at Pitt?” The summaries that follow are over- upperclass student volunteers pointing the way to newcomers views of school news based on material submitted by the units. and their families during Arrival Survival. Information previously published in the University Times was But for many at Pitt, the hazy days of summer have been not included here. anything but lazy: Facilities were renovated; faculty and staff The listings were coordinated by Kimberly K. Barlow and came and went; academic programs were established. Marty Levine.

PEOPLE Josh Weis/Student Affairs Arts and sciences politics of environmental sustainability catastrophes. Francis has been appointed a lecturer The Department of Political Science and international and comparative politi- Aklin received his PhD from New York and will serve as one of the two advisers welcomes new faculty members Michael cal economy, he is particularly interested University. During the 2014-15 academic for the department’s undergraduate majors. Aklin and Katherine Francis. in understanding why some countries are year he will be on leave as a fellow at the She received her PhD this year from the Aklin joins the department as an able to reduce their vulnerability to major Christopher H. Browne Center for Inter- University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, assistant professor. A specialist in the risks such as economic or environmental national Politics at Penn. and is interested in American politics,

1 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s new particularly legislative politics and the U.S. and memory. papers in progress and collect data for a designer at the Hunting Theatre Company Congress. This fall he will teach a graduate seminar new book project. and has been a freelance costume designer. on mixed effects statistical modeling. In 2009 she won the African-American Kevin Binning joins the Department Inagaki, whose research interests are in New in the Department of Theatre Arts Council of the Arts Award for Best Cos- of Psychology as an assistant professor social affective neuroscience, social rela- are assistant professor Dennis Schebetta, tume Design for August Wilson’s “Seven from the University of California, where he tionships and health and social connection lecturer on costume design Karen Gilmer Guitars.” was a visiting and postdoctoral scholar. He will join the department in winter 2015. and teaching artists Kimberly Griffin and Her lectures and research interests also is a research scientist at LRDC. Bin- Lecturer Jennifer Ganger will teach Ricardo Vila-Roger. include costume, dress and fashion history, ning completed his PhD in psychology at undergraduate courses in developmental Schebetta, whose MFA is from Virginia African American theatre and history, mask the University of California-Santa Barbara psychology, language development, experi- Commonwealth University, is a writer, design and construction, millinery, textile with an emphasis on social psychology mental child psychology and behavior director, actor and teacher of film and dyeing and painting. and a minor in quantitative methods. His genetics. She earned a PhD in cognitive theatre. He has taught acting, directing, Griffin, an actor and educator, holds an research focuses on how status and respect science at MIT and completed postdoctoral screenwriting and playwriting at schools MFA from the University of San Diego and influence personal and organizational well- work in developmental psychology at Pitt. including Carnegie Mellon, University of The Old Globe in classical performance. being in ethnically diverse contexts. Washington, Bellevue College and VCU. She will teach voice and movement and Also appointed assistant professor were Christina Simko is a new postdoctoral He will head the MFA pedagogy program introduction to performance, and will Scott Fraundorf, whose PhD is from the fellow in the Department of Sociology. and will teach acting I in the undergradu- serve as a mentor and acting coach for University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, She received her PhD at the University ate program. undergraduate performers. and Tristen Inagaki, whose PhD is from of Virginia, where her dissertation exam- Most recently, Schebetta won the Ellen Vila-Roger, a Pittsburgh-based actor, UCLA. ined political discourse in times of crisis Weiss Kander Award in the Steeltown Film singer and director, studied acting, directing Fraundorf, most recently a postdoctoral in American history, including an analysis Factory Competition for his script “My and voice at the University of Colorado. research associate at University of Roch- of political discourse in response to the Date With Adam.” He has worked as an He will teach introduction to performance ester, will be a research scientist at LRDC. 9/11 terrorist attacks. She has a contract actor in several off-off-Broadway theatres and serve as a mentor and acting coach for He will conduct research on how long- with Oxford University Press for a book and has been seen locally in “August: Osage undergraduate performers. term learning and experience contribute on the politics of consolation, based on County,” “Shining City” and “Camino.” to reading and language processing and her dissertation research. She will use her Gilmer’s MFA is from Boston Uni- The Department of Philosophy has two on how learners judge their own learning fellowship to complete the book, work on versity. She worked as assistant costume new assistant professors, Jessica Gelber and Michael Caie. Gelber comes to Pitt from Syracuse University. She earned her PhD at the University of California-Berkeley. Her research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, history of modern philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology. Caie, whose PhD is from the University of California-Berkeley, works primarily on issues in philosophical logic, epistemology and philosophy of language. The Department of Mathematics has added three new lecturers: ShiTing (Ellen) Bao, Thomas Everest and Linhong Wang, who will teach courses ranging from beginning calculus to the advanced undergraduate level. Bao’s expertise is in partial differential equations. She has been a visiting assistant professor at Pitt since 2011 and holds a PhD from Rutgers. Everest, who earned his PhD at Pitt, has expertise in functional analysis. He joins the department from Indiana University, where he was an assistant professor. Wang’s expertise is in associative rings and algebras. Her PhD is from Temple and she comes to Pitt from Southeastern Louisiana University, where she was an assistant professor.

Above: The longest-serving Pitt staffer, Jerome Rosenberg, at right, joins in welcoming the newest Mike Drazdzinski/CIDDE Lara Putnam has been appointed chair members of the Pitt community at freshman convocation. in the Department of History. She is the

Below: Pitt staffers join students at freshman convocation. department’s first female chair. The history department has five new faculty members this fall: assistant profes- sors Niklas Frykman and Mari Webel and visiting assistant professors Michel Gobat, Emily Winerock and Michael McCarty. Frykman, whose PhD is from Pitt, taught at Claremont McKenna College. He specializes in 18th-century U.S. and Atlantic history. Webel, whose PhD is from Columbia, specializes in African history. She most recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory. Gobat, currently on the faculty at the University of Iowa, will teach courses this year on Latin American history. Winerock, who received her PhD from the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern British history and the his- tory of dance. McCarty, who received his PhD from Columbia, will teach courses on Japanese and East Asian history. Jacques Bromberg joins the Depart- ment of Classics as an assistant professor. Most recently a visiting assistant professor at Duke, he completed his PhD at Penn. His

Tom Altany/CIDDE research interests focus on Greek and Latin

2 AUGUST 28, 2014 PEOPLE literature (especially drama and rhetoric), Labor Economics and Labor Market ancient athletics, history and philosophy Analysis II. of science/medicine/technology, Indo- Hanley is completing his PhD in eco- Iranian philology and classical reception nomics at Penn. His research interests studies. He will be teaching Beginning focus on endogenous growth, technological Greek I and Greek Tragedy this fall. change and firm dynamics. He will teach Intermediate Macroeconomics and Com- Christopher Nygren has joined the putational Methods in Economics. Department of History of Art and Archi- tecture as an assistant professor. Nygren, The Department of French and Italian whose PhD is from Johns Hopkins, has Languages and Literatures is welcoming spent the past year as a Mellon postdoctoral new faculty: fellow at Emory. He will teach undergradu- • James Coleman, who holds a PhD ate courses on topics in Renaissance and from Yale, will be a visiting assistant pro- Baroque art, and will team-teach a graduate fessor of Italian. Coleman comes to Pitt seminar on historiography and methodol- from Johns Hopkins. He is a scholar of ogy in the discipline. the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance Rachael Heiser, formerly under- whose work is particularly concerned graduate program administrator in the with the connections between literature, Department of Industrial Engineering, philosophy and politics, as well as with has joined the Department of History of the interactions among Italian humanists Art and Architecture as administrator for during this period. undergraduate and graduate programs in • Rémi Fontanel, maître de con- art history and architectural studies. férences in the Department of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at the Université Joining the Department of Hispanic Lumière Lyon 2, will be the first scholar Languages and Literatures are: to come to Pitt on a newly established • Maria Dolores Bollo-Panadero, a exchange with Lyon 2. During his fall- lecturer/language coordinator in Hispanic semester visit he will teach courses on languages and literatures. Her PhD is from French cinema. Michigan State. • Dario Biocca, who holds a PhD from • Lecturer Tania Perez Cano, whose Berkeley and currently is at the University PhD is from the University of Iowa. of Perugia, Italy, will be the Italian Fulbright • Kahlil Chaar-Perez, a postdoctoral Distinguished Scholar in the spring term. Barbara DelRaso/University Times fellow who holds a PhD from Harvard. Biocca will teach a course on the history His work centers on the intellectual world of human trafficking in Italy and France. Mong, whose PhD is from the University services and admissions. of 19th-century Cuban and Puerto Rican • Patrick Samzun, whose PhD is from of California-Berkeley. Christine Wankiiri-Hale is now elites and its links to hemispheric and trans- Université de Grenoble, is a visiting scholar • In statistics, Zhao Ren, a PhD can- associate dean of student affairs. She has Atlantic flows of ideas, capital and peoples. in residence in the department for the entire didate at Yale. taught in the Department of Restorative • Mike Gonzalez, emeritus professor academic year. His work focuses on the Dentistry/Comprehensive Care and served of Latin American studies, University of notion of Diderot, Restif de la Bretonne Non-tenure stream faculty hires in the as vice chair of that department. Elizabeth Glasgow. He will join the department as and Charles Fourier as “co-operators” in Dietrich school include: Bilodeau, who was co-chair of admis- a visiting professor of Spanish for the fall the imagination of a “liberal” sexual utopia. • Kyongok Joo, an assistant instructor sions in the Office of Student Services term. in East Asian languages and literatures. Joo with Wankiiri-Hale, is now director of • Camila Pulgar Machado, a visit- Patrick Fogarty joins the Dietrich holds an MA from Columbia and an MS admissions. ing scholar through the Fulbright faculty School of Arts and Sciences as graduate from Connecticut State. Kathleen Vergona retired after serv- development program. She will work with administrator for six departments: French • Susan Rice, a senior lecturer in music. ing on the faculty for 37 years. She taught Juan Duchesne-Winter. and Italian languages and literatures, His- Her doctorate is from the University of anatomy and histology and contributed panic languages and literatures, classics, Illinois/Urbana-Champaign. heavily to the geriatric initiative at the Joining the German department are German, East Asian languages and litera- • Debra Artim, a lecturer in neurosci- University. Mihaela Petrescu as a visiting lecturer tures and Slavic languages and literatures. ence. Her PhD is from Pitt. Alumnus Chloe Huey joined the dental for the 2015 academic year and Olivia Fogarty holds a BA in international studies hygiene program as an instructor. Landry as a postdoctoral fellow. Both from Allegheny College and has Peace Business Matilda Dhima was appointed as an earned PhDs at Indiana University. They Corps experience as an English teacher in At the Katz school, Rabi Chatterjee assistant professor in the Department of will teach courses in the beginning and Kazakhstan. has been named associate dean for mas- Prosthodontics. intermediate language sequence as well as ter’s and executive programs. Chatterjee In the Department of Restorative on minorities in post-war Germany. Anne Carlson joins the Department of joined the Katz faculty in 1996 and has Dentistry and Comprehensive Care, Ron Biological Sciences as an assistant professor extensive research and consulting expertise DeAngelis became vice chairman and The Department of Chemistry wel- from the University of Washington, where in customer-focused development and Filip Barbaric and Sarah Grafton are comes assistant professor Peng Lui, who she was a postdoctoral fellow. Carlson management of products and services. new full-time assistant professors. will teach the graduate advanced organic completed her PhD in physiology and chemistry I course. He earned his PhD at biophysics at Washington. Her research Center for Instructional Development Education UCLA and most recently served a post- utilizes electrophysiology and structural and Distance Education New faculty in the school include: doctoral appointment there. His research biology to study the function and small Instructional designer Meiyi Song, • Elizabeth Hufnagel, visiting assistant focuses on computational modeling to molecule-mediated regulation of voltage who worked at the Defense Language professor of science education, Depart- quantitatively describe the origins of reac- gated K+ channels in the Ether-a-go-go Institute in Monterey, California, has joined ment of Instruction and Learning. Huf- tivity and selectivity in organocatalytic and (Eag) family. the teaching support staff, working with nagel earned her PhD in curriculum and transition metal-catalyzed reactions. faculty on a variety of projects, including instruction from Penn State. Her research Peter Bell joins the department as Other new tenure-stream faculty in the video learning classes, new workshops and centers on the intersection between emo- a recitation and laboratory instructor in Dietrich school, all assistant professors, are: course redesigns. tions and learning about environmental Chemistry for Health Related Professions • In anthropology, Tomas Matza, Laurie Cochenour, senior instruc- science topics using discourse analysis. and Organic Chemistry I. He earned his whose PhD is from Stanford. tional designer, joined the Pitt Online team She was a high school science teacher PhD at Pitt. His research involves the • In communication, Caitlin Bruce, from the University of North Carolina- and professional development instructor preparation of phenylenevinylene conju- whose PhD is from Northwestern. Chapel Hill, where she was e-learning at the Urban Ecology Institute, both in gated dendrimers for use in dye sensitized • In computer science, Adriana policy coordinator. Massachusetts. Before becoming a teacher, solar cells. Kovashka, PhD candidate at the University Hufnagel was an AmeriCorps National of Texas-Austin, and Daniel (Wonsun) Dental medicine Civilian Community Corps member and The Department of Economics has Ahn, whose PhD is from the University Alumnus Joseph Ambrosino is a new worked as an environmental scientist. hired two assistant professors, Rania of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign. instructor and director of the Center for • Lori Delale-O’Connor, associate Gilheb and Douglas Hanley. • In English, Peter Campbell, whose Continuing Dental Education. He has been director of research and development Gilheb is completing her PhD in eco- PhD is from the University of Illinois/ in private practice as well as practicing from at the Center for Urban Education and nomics at Boston University. Her research Urbana-Champaign; Robert Clift, whose a community health perspective in western research assistant professor of educa- looks at couple labor supply decisions to PhD is from Indiana University, and Jiny- Pennsylvania. tion. She holds a PhD in sociology from understand the role that the husband’s ing Li, whose PhD is from New York Joseph Giovannitti, most recently the Northwestern. A former social studies level of education plays in determining a University. interim chair of the Department of Dental teacher in the Boston Public Schools, she woman’s labor supply decision. She also • In linguistics, Karen Park, whose D. Anesthesiology, assumed the chairmanship most recently was a research scientist at uses a novel instrument (heterogeneity Phil is from Oxford, and Matthew Kanwit, of that department on July 1. Child Trends, a nonprofit research center across dioceses in the availability of nuns a PhD candidate at Indiana University. Charles Sfeir, interim associate dean focused on improving the well-being of to teach in Catholic schools that arose due • In physics and astronomy, Tae Min for research, was appointed on July 1. children across the life span. Her research to Vatican II) to evaluate the educational Hong, whose PhD is from the University Kenneth Etzel has retired as associate interests include youth transitions to college success of Catholic schools. She will teach of California-Santa Barbara, and Roger professor and associate dean for student and career, parent involvement in education

3 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s new and school choice. tant professor, and Joseph T. Samosky, St. Louis. He comes to Pitt from a faculty in China. • Gina Garcia, assistant professor assistant professor and director, Simulation position at Northeastern University. His Brian Gleeson, Harry S. Tack Chair, of higher education management in the and Medical Technology Research and research interests are in statistical signal professor of materials science and direc- Department of Administrative and Policy Development Center. processing and machine learning with tor of Pitt’s Center for Energy, succeeds Studies. She holds a PhD in higher edu- Beschorner received his PhD in bioengi- applications to radar signal processing, Chyu as department chair of mechanical cation and organizational change from neering at Pitt. His research includes devel- biologically inspired sensing, noninvasive engineering and materials science. UCLA, where she was a research analyst at oping and applying innovative methods to electroencephalography (EEG) based brain the Higher Education Research Institute. model and assess the tribological interaction computer interface systems, and physiologi- General studies Her research interests center on issues of between shoe and floor surfaces in order cal signal analysis for health informatics. Jennifer Engel has been named equity and diversity within higher educa- to prevent slips and falls; identifying the Kwasinski’s field research included director of the Osher Lifelong Learning tion, with an emphasis on the organizational personal and environmental factors that studying the aftermath of hurricanes Institute. culture and identity of Hispanic-serving contribute to falls from ladders and devel- Katrina, Ike and Sandy, and the 2011 Engel comes to Osher following 15 institutions and the retention, success and oping strategies to reduce these falls, and earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, years with the Sarah Heinz House, a Boys identity development of Latina/Latino assessing the negative effects of multifocal and how microgrids could help return & Girls Club on the North Side, where college students. lens glasses (bifocals/progressive lenses) power to damaged areas more quickly than she most recently served as director of • Lindsay Page, assistant professor on walking balance and identifying com- traditional infrastructure. outcomes and performance management. of research methodology in the Depart- pensation strategies that improve balance. His PhD in electrical engineering is She holds an MS in applied developmental ment of Administrative and Policy Studies Samosky received his doctoral training in from the University of Illinois/Urbana- psychology from the School of Education. and research scientist at LRDC. She most the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Champaign. recently was a lecturer in statistics and a Sciences and Technology and received a Following several positions in industry, Health and rehabilitation sciences researcher at the Center for Education PhD in medical engineering from MIT. He he joined the faculty of UT-Austin as an New faculty are: Andi Saptono, Policy Research at Harvard. She earned most recently was a researcher and systems assistant professor of electrical and com- health information management; Juleen an EdD in quantitative policy analysis in engineer with the Simulation Group of puter engineering. Rodakowski and Lauren Terhorst, education at Harvard. Her research interests CIMIT, the Center for the Integration of • In the Department of Industrial Engi- occupational therapy; Andrew Lynch and are in the areas of quantitative methods Medicine and Innovative Technology at neering, Mohammad Mousavi, who will Joel Stevans, physical therapy; Goeran and their application to questions regarding Massachusetts General Hospital, and was join the faculty in January as an assistant Fiedler, Mary Goldberg and Jason Hare, the effectiveness of educational policies an instructor at Harvard medical school. professor. rehabilitation science and technology, and programs across the preschool-to- His research focuses on user-centric design Mousavi received his PhD from the and Matthew Darnell, Megan Frame, postsecondary spectrum. and engineering of real-time interactive Department of Management Science and Yosuke Kido, Corey O’Connor, Kather- • Laura Roop, director of the Western systems that enhance learning and improve Engineering at Stanford. His research is ine Perlsweig, Kathleen Poploski, Scott Pennsylvania Writing Project (WPWP), a patient care and safety. broadly focused on the formulation and Royer and Joshua Winters, all in sports teacher-centered professional development He is the co-developer of the Combat analysis of stochastic models of complex medicine and nutrition. program hosted by the School of Educa- Medic Training System (COMETS, cur- systems. He is particularly interested in the tion. Roop earned her PhD in English and rently commercialized by CAE Health- areas of stochastic modeling and simula- Health sciences education at the University of Michigan. care as the CAE Caesar simulator), an tion, and their synergistic application to Brian Primack has been named assis- She directed the Oakland Writing Project, interactive, sensor-enhanced full-body problems arising in financial and energy tant vice chancellor for research on health a Michigan-based National Writing Project autonomous simulated trauma patient that markets, call centers, health care and online and society. Primack will continue as associ- site; more recently she was coordinator supports field training in casualty care. markets. ate professor of medicine, pediatrics, and of school-research relations and lecturer • In the Department of Chemical and • In the Department of Mechanical clinical and translational science. at the University of Michigan School of Petroleum Engineering, Chris Wilmer, Engineering and Materials Science, Tevis In the newly created position, Primack Education. Roop will develop and promote assistant professor. D. B. Jacobs, assistant professor. will work with all of the health sciences core WPWP programs; offer outreach Wilmer received his PhD from North- Jacobs received his PhD in materials schools to advance research on the impact and professional learning opportunities to western. He most recently held a nine- science and engineering from Penn, where of societal changes on health. writing project teacher fellows and other month postdoctoral fellowship in chem- he also did his post-doctoral work. His pri- Primack graduated from Emory educators; raise funds on behalf of WPWP, istry at Harvard. His research focuses on mary expertise is in conducting mechanical medical school. He completed his medical and develop and promote partnerships designing new hypothetical materials and testing using in-situ electron microscopy to residency and earned a PhD in clinical and with local, state and national organizations. exploring their potential using computer directly quantify behavior under ultra-low translational science at Pitt. He combines • Sharon Ross, assistant professor in simulations. He has worked on metal loads. His research focuses on uncovering his expertise in the social and biological the Department of Health and Physical organic frameworks (MOFs) that showed the atomic-scale processes governing the sciences by studying both the positive and Activity. Her research focuses on physical promise for improving natural gas fuel mechanics of materials and interfaces at negative effects of complex social phe- activity promotion and obesity prevention tanks in cars, and in helping to capture the nanoscale, with application to nanoscale nomena on health outcomes. His current in children, with a special interest in His- greenhouse gases. He co-founded a com- devices and nanomanufacturing. grant from the National Cancer Institute panic/Latino populations. Ross received pany, NuMat Technologies, that currently Also in the Swanson school, Minking examines emerging forms of tobacco use. her PhD in biobehavioral health from is mass-producing MOFs and developing K. Chyu, Leighton and Mary Orr Chair Penn State. She was a postdoctoral fellow them into products. Professor and former chair of the Depart- Dietrich A. Stephan has been named in the Children’s Physical Activity Research • In the Department of Electrical and ment of Mechanical Engineering and chair of the Department of Human Genet- Group at the University of South Carolina. Computer Engineering, Murat Akcakaya, Materials Science, has been appointed the ics and associate director of the Institute assistant professor, and Alexis Kwasinski, inaugural associate dean for international for Personalized Medicine, a collabora- Engineering R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Energy and initiatives, as well as the inaugural dean of tive initiative between the Schools of the New faculty in the Swanson school are: associate professor. the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute Health Sciences and UPMC. He will lead • In the Department of Bioengineer- Akcakaya received his PhD in electrical in China. When SCUPI opens in fall 2015, the institute’s efforts in population genet- ing, Kurt E. Beschorner, research assis- engineering from Washington University in Chyu will spend part of the academic year ics and translational acceleration of new discoveries. He was the founder and head of Silicon Valley Biosystems, a diagnos- tics company. Stephan received his PhD from Pitt. Health Sciences Library System Rose Turner has joined HSLS as a reference librarian. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Her experience includes employment at Hewlett Packard in Denver and the Health Sciences Library at Univer- sity of Colorado Anschutz medical campus. Pharmacy Lucas Berenbrok was named assistant professor of pharmacy and therapeu- tics. He received his doctorate from Pitt and completed a post-graduate year one residency in community practice with Kerr Drug/Walgreens and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill. Jennifer Pruskowski is a new assistant professor with special practice in pain and palliative care. She received her doctorate from Wilkes University and completed both a post-graduate year one residency in pharmacy practice and a post-graduate year two pharmacy residency in geriatrics Kimberly K. Barlow/University Times

4 AUGUST 28, 2014 PEOPLE at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Vet- director of podiatric medical education at interests include molecular mechanisms of erans Affairs Medical Center in Columbia, UPMC Mercy and also provides teaching inflammatory and neoplastic disease, with South Carolina. and resident oversight for UPMC Mercy’s emphases on oncoprotein promotion of Bridget Walker, named assistant podiatric residency program. lymphoid malignancy and the contributions professor of pharmacy and therapeutics, John Fowler is an assistant professor in of G-protein coupled receptor-dependent is director of the pharmacy business the Division of Hand and Upper Extrem- signaling in cancer pathogenesis and inflam- administration program. She completed the ity Surgery. He received his MD from matory disease. executive Master of Business Administra- Temple University and did his orthopaedic Bryan McIver Hooks, assistant pro- tion program at the Katz school. residency training at Temple University fessor of neurobiology, received a PhD Hospital. in neurobiology from Harvard and comes Information sciences Luke Henry is an instructor in the to Pitt from a postdoctoral associate posi- David Thaw joined the school’s faculty sports medicine/concussion division. He tion at the Janelia Farm research campus with a secondary appointment in July. Hired earned his doctorate in clinical neuropsy- of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, by Pitt’s School of Law, Thaw is a law and chology from Université de Montréal. Ashburn, Virginia. His research focuses on technology expert and frequent presenter His clinical practice specializes in neuro- understanding the development, function on issues of cybersecurity, privacy regula- psychology patients with mild traumatic and plasticity of primary motor cortex tion and cybercrime. brain injuries. circuitry. Amelia Acker joined the library and MaCalus Hogan, an assistant profes- Bradley Molyneaux, assistant profes- information science program as assistant sor in the foot and ankle division, graduated sor of neurology, received his MD and neu- professor. She received her PhD from with an MD from Howard University. At robiology PhD at Harvard, where he was UCLA in 2014. Her research interests are the University of Virginia he completed chief resident in neurology and completed in archival science, cultural informatics, a year as an NIH musculoskeletal tissue fellowships in neurocritical care and in the infrastructure studies, mobile commu- repair and regeneration research fellow. Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative nication and information technologies, Kevin Bell is a research assistant Biology. Molyneaux’s research interests personal digital archives and science and professor in the Orthopaedic Robotics include mechanisms of cerebral cortex technology studies. Laboratory and the Ferguson Laboratory development and repair, genes controlling for Ortho and Spine Research. He received the development of cortical projection Innovation Institute his PhD in bioengineering from Pitt and has neuron subtypes and early corticospinal Babs Carryer, a serial entrepreneur been a laboratory manager in the Ferguson motor neuron specification events. and educator, has been appointed director Laboratory since 2006. Roderick O’Sullivan, assistant profes- of education and outreach. In addition, sor of pharmacology and chemical biology, biotechnology industry executive Evan Other new faculty in the school are: earned his PhD in molecular biology from Facher joined the institute’s Office of Louise D’Cruz, assistant professor of the Institute for Molecular Pathology in Enterprise Development as associate immunology, earned her PhD in molecular Vienna and completed a postdoctoral director. biology from the Institute of Molecu- fellowship at the Salk Institute for Bio- lar Pathology in Vienna and completed logical Studies. His investigations focus Medicine postdoctoral training at the University of on telomere replication, disruption of In the Department of Physical Medi- California-San Diego. Her research inter- ASF1 protein-mediated histone exchange Barbara DelRaso/University Times cine and Rehabilitation, Peter Hurh ests include molecular mechanisms that became the medical director of the UPMC regulate the development and survival of Rehabilitation Institute, which opened at natural killer T cells and the cells’ function Monroeville’s UPMC East on July 1 and during infection. provides specialized rehabilitation care Marijn Ford, assistant professor of after stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury cell biology, received his PhD from the and surgeries. Cambridge (UK) Medical Research Council Beth Stepanczuk joined the depart- Laboratory of Molecular Biology. His work ment as assistant professor after earning focuses on structural biology, with par- her medical degree from Case Western ticular emphasis on protein X-ray crystal- Reserve University School of Medicine lography and characterization of dynamin- and completing her residency in physical related protein fusion and scission. medicine and rehabilitation, where she was Daniel Forman, professor of medi- chief resident. cine, comes to Pitt from the Harvard medi- Christine Cleveland became an assis- cal school faculty. He completed training tant professor in the department after com- in cardiovascular medicine and nuclear pleting its spinal cord medicine fellowship. cardiology at Beth Israel and Brigham and She received her medical doctorate from the Women’s Hospitals. His current investiga- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill tions involve cardiovascular disease, heart and completed the physical medicine and failure and myocardial infarction; vascular rehabilitation residency at UNC hospitals. and skeletal muscle function in Gulf War Matthew Maxwell is a new assistant veterans, and sleep apnea. professor and assistant director of sports Robin Lee, assistant professor of medicine. He is a graduate of the depart- computational and systems biology, ment’s physical medicine and rehabilitation received a PhD in cellular and molecular residency program. medicine from the University of Ottawa David Stone, a new assistant professor and completed a research fellowship in and a faculty member in the sports medicine cancer biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer fellowship program, received his doctor- Institute. His research focuses on under- ate from the University of Medicine and standing TNF-induced signal transduction Dentistry of New Jersey and completed circuits and regulation of NF-Kb-driven the physical medicine and rehabilitation transcription through competition on target residency at New York University and a promoters. sports medicine fellowship at Braintree Peter C. Lucas, associate professor of Hospital in Massachusetts. pathology and of pediatrics, received his MD and PhD at Vanderbilt University. He Kimberly K. Barlow/University Times The Department of Orthopaedic Sur- taught most recently at the University of and the role of the alternative lengthening of ophthalmology, received his PhD in gery has added new faculty: Michigan medical school and has clinical of telomeres (ALT) pathway for telomere neural science from New York University Alicia Puskar, an instructor in the expertise in molecular anatomic and breast homeostasis in normal and cancer cells. and completed postdoctoral training at sports medicine/concussion division, surgical pathology. He studies the relation- Inderpal (Netu) Sarkaria, assistant Carnegie Mellon and Pitt. His research received her PsyD from Indiana University ship between chronic inflammation and the professor and vice chair of clinical affairs, interests include visual system evaluation of Pennsylvania. She was a neuropsychol- development of vascular, metabolic, and Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, using neurophysiological and computa- ogy postdoctoral fellow in Pitt’s sports neoplastic diseases, particularly the role of received his MD from the University of tional approaches and characterization of concussion program and specializes in an NF-Kb signaling pathway controlled by Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. functional connectivity among neurons and concussion management at all levels of the three-protein CBM (CARMA, Bcl10 Sarkaria completed general and thoracic how connectivity patterns relate to visual sports participation including professional, and MALT1) complex. surgery residencies at New York Pres- perception and cognition. collegiate, high school and recreational. Linda McAllister-Lucas, associate byterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan- Jianhua Xing, associate professor of Patrick Burn is a full-time assistant pro- professor of pediatrics and chief, Divi- Kettering Cancer Center. His research computational and systems biology, earned fessor in the Department of Orthopaedic sion of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, focuses on minimally invasive and robot- a PhD in theoretical chemistry from the Surgery. He received his DMP degree from earned her MD and PhD at Vanderbilt. She assisted pulmonary and esophageal surgery University of California-Berkeley and the Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine also comes to Pitt from Michigan, where approaches, as well as molecular profiling completed postdoctoral fellowships there and completed his podiatric surgical resi- she was associate director of the medical of esophageal diseases and lung cancer. and at the Lawrence Livermore National dency at UPMC South Side. He is program scientist training program. Her research Matthew Smith, assistant professor Laboratory. Current investigations focus

5 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s new on quantitative systems biology studies of Dario A.A. Vignali has been recruited here and was program director and research intervention program and for monitoring mechanisms that regulate the epithelial- to the Department of Immunology, where coordinator for the mood disorders treat- student progress. In the classroom, Gleason to-mesenchymal transition and its role in he serves as professor and vice chair. At the ment and research program at Western teaches one section each year of Freshman cancer and other diseases. University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Seminar and several management courses Vignali is co-leader of the cancer immunol- Christine Feeley joined the faculty as within the Division of Management and Associate dean for faculty affairs Ann ogy program and co-director of the Tumor assistant professor in the Department of Education. E. Thompson will become vice dean of Microenvironment Center. Health Promotion and Development. She the School of Medicine on Oct. 1. completed her doctoral studies at the Uni- Pitt-Greensburg Thompson is professor and vice chair The Department of Medicine, Division versity of Alabama-Birmingham and was a Three new division chairs have been (professional development) of the Depart- of Hematology/Oncology, has recruited post-doctoral fellow at Emory University. chosen at UPG. Dean Nelson, associate ment of Critical Care Medicine and medical three sickle cell experts: Solomon F. Ofori- Christopher Imes is an assistant pro- professor of statistics, will chair the natural director for clinical resource management Acquah, Laura De Castro and Gregory fessor in the Department of Acute and sciences division. Sayre Greenfield, pro- at Children’s Hospital. She was chief of J. Kato for the Ryan Clark Cure League Tertiary Care. He recently completed a fessor of English, will chair the humanities pediatric critical care 1981-2009 and was under the University’s Heart, Lung, Blood two-year term as a post-doctoral scholar division. Paul Adams, associate professor interim chair of the Department of Critical and Vascular Medicine Institute (VMI) here after earning his PhD at the University of political science, will chair the behavioral Care Medicine 2006-08. and UPMC. of Washington. sciences division. Thompson received her medical degree Ofori-Acquah will lead a newly created Dan Li, assistant professor in the Jacqueline Horrall has been appointed from Tufts. After completing her pediat- Center for Translational and International Department of Health and Community assistant vice president for academic affairs ric residency training at the Tufts New Hematology, part of VMI, which will guide Systems, earned a PhD at the University at UPG. England Medical Center and Children’s new research programs and partnerships of Miami. Also at UPG, Matthew Blair was Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), she with sickle cell disease programs in Africa. Carolyn Weiner, joining the school as promoted to technology support manager trained in anesthesiology at the Hospital De Castro will lead efforts to develop assistant professor in the Department of in the computing services and telecom- of the University of Pennsylvania and did novel clinical and translational research Acute and Tertiary Care, completed her munications department. a fellowship in pediatric critical care and programs, along with several related clini- doctorate at Florida State. New faculty at UPG are Thomas research at CHOP, which is where she held cal services. Crowley, a 2014 UPG graduate, visiting her first faculty position. Kato, professor of medicine, and De Pitt-Bradford instructor of theatre; Glenson France, Castro, associate professor of medicine, Marietta Frank is the newly appointed visiting professor of economics; Jennifer Luis De la Torre has joined the school are with the UPMC adult sickle cell disease director of Hanley Library at UPB. A Paul, biology laboratory instructor, and as an associate professor of surgery in the program. Ofori-Acquah, associate profes- librarian at Hanley since 1989, she most Geoffrey Wood, assistant professor of Division of Pediatric General and Tho- sor of medicine, is a research scientist. recently was its interim director. sociology. racic Surgery. He is also founding director Kato, a former director of the sickle cell Sue Gleason has been named direc- Bradley Miner joined the Pitt-Greens- of the Colorectal Center for Children at vascular disease section at the National tor of the Academic Advising Center at burg staff as study abroad coordinator. Children’s Hospital. The center will provide Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the Pitt-Bradford. Previously, Gleason was Sheila Kudrick is now coordinator of multidisciplinary medical and surgical care National Institutes of Health, will lead the the center’s academic adviser, an assistant alumni affairs at UPG. for children with disorders of the bowel UPMC Sickle Cell Disease Research Center director of financial aid and administra- Stephenie Przepiora joined the Pitt- or rectum. De la Torre pioneered a less of Excellence. tive assistant for the Admissions Office Greensburg housing and residence life invasive surgical approach to the treatment and Office of Financial Aid.In her role as office as the graduate resident director of Hirschsprung’s disease and was found- Nursing director, Gleason works closely with fac- of College Hall. She also will serve as ing director of the Colorectal Center for Judith Callan is a new assistant pro- ulty, including providing advising training co-adviser of the outdoor adventure and Children and chief of pediatric surgery at fessor in the Department of Health and for new faculty. She assists with student community service living community. This the Hospital Ángeles Puebla in Mexico. Community Systems. She earned her PhD orientations and is responsible for the early is a two-year appointment.

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6 AUGUST 28, 2014 PEOPLE Hadara Katarski joined the UPG interests include international organiza- athletic department as the assistant cross tions, international law, globalization, country coach. Daniel Keefe is UPG’s comparative political economy and the new assistant men’s soccer coach. political economy of development. Patricia M. Duck, director of Pitt- Greensburg’s Millstein Library and coor- Public health dinator of Pitt’s regional libraries, retired Todd Reinhart has been named associ- after 28 years of service. ate dean for faculty affairs, overseeing all UPG’s “Nurse Patty,” Patty LaMantia, faculty activities including appointments, retired after 18 years as director of UPG’s promotions and tenure. He takes over from campus health center. Robert Ferrell, who has retired. Reinhart Elected as officers of the Pitt-Greens- joined the faculty in 1997. burg Staff Association were Matthew Ron Voorhees has been appointed D. Zidek, president, and Sherra Moors, Center for Public Health Practice direc- secretary. tor and associate dean for public health Zidek is assistant director of admissions practice. Voorhees is professor of public for transfer and continuing education, and health practice in the Department of Moors is an event coordinator with The Epidemiology and a senior program Conference Place. adviser to the Allegheny County Health Gayle Pamerleau, director of coun- Department, where he served previously seling, is the UPG staff association vice as chief of the Office of Epidemiology president and Robert W. Smith, senior and Biostatistics. systems analyst, is treasurer. Mark S. Roberts became the director of the Public Health Dynamics Labora- Pitt-Johnstown tory. Roberts is chair of the Department Joining the UPJ faculty this academic of Health Policy and Management, and year are: holds secondary appointments in medicine, Laura Aughinbaugh and Elizabeth industrial engineering, and clinical and Katrancha, both assistant professors of translational science. nursing; Kimberly Douglas, instruc- David Finegold has been named the tor in English composition; Tuangtip director of the multidisciplinary Master Klinbubpa-Neff, assistant professor of of Public Health program. Finegold, who English literature; Jacqueline Myers, specializes in biochemical genetics and instructor in early childhood education; pediatric endocrinology, holds appoint- Serdar Tumkor and Kurt Klavuhn, ments as professor of human genetics, both assistant professors of mechanical pediatrics and medicine. He succeeds engineering technology; Luis Bonachea, Ronald LaPorte, who has retired. assistant professor of biology; Ryan Ker- In the Department of Behavioral and rigan, assistant professor of energy and Community Health Sciences, Tiffany Mike Drazdzinski/CIDDE earth resources; Marsha Grimminger Gary-Webb has joined the Center for Members of the Class of 2018 attempt to break a world record in what has become an and Robert Grimminger, both assistant Health Equity as an associate professor. annual event for Pitt’s freshman class. This year, approximately 3,800 students gathered on the Petersen Center lawn Aug. 20 to form a globe with glow sticks, attempting to break the professors of chemistry; David Goldberg, Formerly of Columbia University. world record for the largest torch-lit image formed by humans. assistant professor of history, and Rick She researches interventions to prevent Kutz, instructor of psychology. and reduce morbidity associated with Joining the Pitt-Johnstown staff are diabetes. ogy support; Clinton Graham, systems a concentration in community organizing Kayla Fyock, alumni relations coordina- Supriya Kumar is a new assistant developer, and Evan Soward, systems and social administration. She has more tor; Edward Ostrowski, campus police research professor. He uses computational administrator. than 10 years of experience practicing in officer;Jesse Pisors, executive director of modeling to assess the effect of policy In ULS research and educational sup- the area of children and families. development and alumni relations; Kirstie changes, such as access to sick days in port, new staffers are Thomas Lee, library • Laura Krizner, administrative assis- Pividori, donor relations coordinator; workplaces, on transmission of infectious storage clerk; Bryan McGeary, overnight tant with the Center on Race and Social Luke Trotz, admissions counselor, and disease. building supervisor, and Justin Wideman, Problems. Krizner received her bachelor’s Mandy Waters, library associate. library specialist. degree in accounting at Pitt and previ- Registrar Other new library specialists are Shan- ously was a medical records coordinator Pitt-Titusville In the Office of the Registrar, Travis non Motter at Pitt-Titusville and Lauren at UPMC. Gerald Sayers was hired in June as Wisor has been promoted to senior associ- Murphy in the Frick Fine Arts library. campus police officer at UPT. Sayers has ate University registrar. Previously, he had University Center for 21 years of law enforcement experience. been an assistant University registrar and Social work International Studies Following a career with the Oil City police manager of information resources. An Joining the school are: Luke Peterson joins Pitt as the 2014- department, from which he retired in 2001, 11-year Pitt veteran, he is also the office’s • Mary Ohmer, associate professor. 2015 UCIS visiting professor in contem- he most recently was an investigator for communications liaison and one of the Ohmer received her PhD at Pitt. She porary international issues. The position is U.S. Investigations Services in Grove City, PeopleSoft student records functional has more than 25 years’ experience in funded by an endowed gift from William F. where he provided background checks for leads. community organizing and development, Benter and the Benter Foundation. government employees. Christopher Coat is the office’s new working with residents and community, Peterson will teach undergraduate Leslie Bailey joined the UPT staff in assistant University registrar for course and social service, corporate, government and and graduate courses on such topics May as student services coordinator and classroom scheduling. Previously he was philanthropic organizations to promote as Palestine-Israel, History and Conflict; works in the Office of Student Accounts the Pitt-Titusville registrar for five years as community change and sustainability. Modern Iran, and the Middle East in the and the Office of the Registrar. well as assistant professor of biology for • Jamie Booth, assistant professor. Media. In addition to teaching, Peterson will 20 years. He will be responsible for over- Booth earned her PhD in social work at participate in the Global Studies Center’s Public and international affairs seeing course and classroom scheduling Arizona State. Her research focuses on the outreach programs, presenting at schools, Joining the faculty as assistant professors operations and will serve as the PeopleSoft role of context and identity in the stress universities and community organizations are Jeremy Weber and Meredith Wilf. academic advisement functional lead. process and the impact of differential throughout the tri-state region. Weber specializes in the economics of Jennifer Bronson is associate Univer- stress experiences on health disparities in He comes to Pitt via Kings College at energy, with an emphasis on the impact of sity registrar for information technology. minority populations, and strives to identify the University of Cambridge. the natural gas boom and the economics She previously was Chatham University reg- protective factors that can be enhanced to of development. He most recently was a istrar for nine years. She will lead a team of mitigate these outcomes. University Center for research economist at the U.S. Department system analysts with Registrar’s office and • Tiffany Lumpkin, lecturer. She was Social and Urban Research of Agriculture and taught at Johns Hopkins University system support responsibilities. program director of two family engagement Noam Shoval has joined the UCSUR as an adjunct faculty member in its master’s She also will serve as one of the PeopleSoft models, family group decision making and faculty as a visiting scholar. An associate program in applied economics. He spent student records co-functional leads. conferencing and teaming, at Small Seeds professor at the Hebrew University of Jeru- a year in rural Peru researching the work- Development. Her research interests salem, his time at Pitt is sponsored by the ings of coffee grower cooperatives with University Library System include prevention and reduction of health, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. the support of the Fulbright program. He New people are: Charlotte Myers, social and economic disparities. Shoval is a geographer with expertise in earned his PhD in agricultural and applied reference and public services librarian in • Tony Gacek, director of constituent the implementation of advanced tracking economics at the University of Wisconsin- the business library; Berenika Webster, relations. He most recently was executive technologies in various areas of spatial Madison. coordinator of strategic assessment in director of a Habitat for Humanity affiliate. research such as health, tourism and urban Wilf, who specializes in international ULS administrative services; Yi Xu, visit- • Vanessa Beck and Cecily Davis, studies.He also will be teaching courses for political economy, currently is completing ing scholar in the East Asian Library and field education coordinators. Beck earned Jewish studies, religious studies and history, her doctoral dissertation at Princeton. Her Mandy Waters, library associate at Pitt- her master’s degree in social work at Pitt. urban studies, the Graduate School of expertise spans trade policy and financial Johnstown. She has her license in social work and is Public and International Affairs and the regulation, financial crises and ongoing New in ULS information technology working toward her clinical license. graduate certificate program in gerontol- financial global governance. Her teaching are Amanda Barber, instructional technol- Davis received her MSW at Pitt with ogy. n

7 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s new Heinz Chapel is getting air condition- ing. The upgrade will help preserve the building, its pipe organ and woodwork. The building will be closed January through May while the climate control system is installed. It will reopen June 1. Facilities Management recently con- solidated energy-related operations on the fifth floor of the Eureka Building. The Facilities Management Energy Center has been established to provide a culture of comprehensive energy conservation. It is designed and equipped to increase collaboration among energy managers, engineers and building automation system personnel and provide technicians and managers with integrated access to the building automation system and other diagnostic tools. The center will monitor, maintain and operate the University’s mechanical systems efficiently to conserve money and energy while maintaining comfort for building occupants and meeting environmental requirements of modern teaching and research facilities. Pitt placed first in the university cat- egory in its first year of participation in the Sustainable Pittsburgh 2013-14 Green Workplace Challenge. The challenge is a yearlong competition among businesses, nonprofits, municipali- ties and universities to track and measure improvements in managing energy, water, waste and transportation. The entrance to the Petersen Center has undergone a “green facelift” with planting beds, lawn areas and casual seating The College of General Studies’ new home in 1400 Posvar Hall. replacing concrete to make the sports facil- ity more sustainable and more attractive. At Posvar Hall, three sections of roof- moderate the urban heat island effect and The School of Rehabilitation Sci- ing totaling 5,400 square feet have been extend the life of the roof. ences Department of Physical Therapy The third floor of the William Pitt replaced with “green” roof technology. has moved to Bridgeside Point 1, 100 Union, which accommodates student Those roof sections have been topped The Mulert Memorial Classroom Technology Drive, Suite 210. group activities, has been renovated. with growing medium and low-mainte- in 204 Cathedral of Learning has been Updates included wall and ceiling finishes, nance, drought-tolerant plants that reduce refurbished with refinished flooring and The third and final phase ofBenedum lighting and mechanical systems, plus storm water runoff, improve the roof ’s woodwork, as well as rebuilt and reuphol- Hall upgrades is underway and the reno- restroom upgrades and workout facilities. insulating properties, improve air quality, stered student tablet armchairs. vated ground floor labs recently opened. Classrooms G36 and G37 have been upgraded to distance learning rooms with new monitors, cameras, lecterns, lighting and a fresh coat of paint. The ninth floor of Benedum Hall is the most recent project completed in the ongoing restoration. The floor is home to the Department of Chemical and Petro- leum Engineering and includes offices, labs and classrooms, as well as the Lubrizol Innovation Laboratory. The Pennsylvania Society of Profes- sional Engineers/Pittsburgh chapter rec- ognized the $154 million transformation of Benedum Hall with its 2014 Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award. Renova- tions to the 15-story building, constructed in 1971, include an annex housing the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innova- tion, a new Electric Power Systems Lab and other new laboratory, classroom and office space. A helium recovery and liquefaction plant is under construction as an expansion of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory. This facility will facilitate the continuation of research activity for scientists who rely on experiments conducted at extremely low temperatures. The facility will be online by the end of the spring term. The Department of Chemistry’s reno- vated undergraduate teaching laboratories on the first floor of theChevron Science Center are opening this fall term. The new design that has been incorpo- rated into all general and organic chemistry teaching laboratories provides laboratory bench space around the periphery of each Salk Pavilion, the School of Pharmacy and the School of Dental Medicine’s new research tower and atrium. lab where students will conduct their experi-

8 AUGUST 28, 2014 PLACES ments. Vented enclosures and fume hoods are available; laptop computers will allow At left: Posvar Hall’s more students to access up-to-date technology environmentally friendly roof. resources as they complete their assigned tasks. Each lab accommodates 24 students in both recitation (pre-lab) and laboratory sessions. The three labs feature the most modern air systems and building manage- ment systems. An integrated network enables teams Below: Pitt-Bradford’s new of students to take direct digital readings all-suite residence, Rice Hall. from their experiments and record experi- mental parameters on their wall-mounted touchscreen notebook PCs and on a central file server from which data can be shared and compared. To provide additional flexibility, one lab has been designed to accommodate space for instructor training and practice Bottom: The new green facelift of experiments. the Petersen Center’s entrance. Renovations at Chevron Science Center for the organic chemistry group are on track. Construction of ballroom research lab space on the 13th floor is scheduled for completion in December. The space will accommodate an expanding cadre of faculty who are working on organic synthesis and chemical biology. Built in the 1970s, Chevron Science Center houses undergraduate laboratories, graduate research groups and admin- istrative offices for the Department of Chemistry. In addition to modernizing the depart- ment’s facilities, the update will relocate the “Fish Bowl” (a popular location for undergraduates to receive tutoring assis- tance from teaching assistants) to the Ashe mezzanine, where it will be renamed “On the Balcony.” Clapp Hall is being renovated with significant Pennsylvania Department of General Services funding. The project will increase capacity for the expansion of biological sciences department research and new undergraduate biology labs in response to the continued growth of incoming fresh- man classes. Completion is scheduled for August 2015. National Science Foundation funding provided the impetus for replacing the antiquated research building (Building 12) at the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology.

9 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s new Officials from Pitt and Sichuan Uni- Sichuan University will cover not only versity in China participated in a ground- the institute’s operating costs but also breaking ceremony on July 2 at the Sichuan faculty startup funds. University campus in Chengdu to launch Courses will be taught in English and construction of a 300,000-square-foot students will spend the first two years of the building that will house the Sichuan program immersed in the Pitt curriculum in University-Pittsburgh Institute, a joint China with the option of transferring to the engineering institute to educate under- Pittsburgh campus during their third year graduate students and foster collaborative in the program. Students who transfer will research. earn a bachelor’s degree from both Sichuan The partnership between Pitt and Sich- University and Pitt; all students receive an uan University was established in 2013. institute certificate upon completion of With emphases on advanced sustainable their studies. manufacturing and educational innova- tion, the institute initially will offer three Groundbreaking for the Murtha Center undergraduate degree programs: industrial at Pitt-Johnstown is set for Sept. 26. engineering, mechanical engineering, and The $20 million project includes con- materials science and engineering. Students struction of the 8,000-square-foot center in the institute will be recruited from the and renovation of the 65,000-square-foot United States, China and possibly other Engineering and Science Building and countries, with the first class in fall 2015 Krebs Hall physics laboratories. expected to comprise 100 students. Enroll- The project is expected to earn LEED ment is projected to grow to a total of 1,600. certification. Sichuan University is investing nearly Also at UPJ, major interior renova- $40 million to support the construction and tions for biology and pre-medical sciences equipping of the new building to house the began on July 1. The $1.9 million project Pitt-Greensburg’s Ferguson Theater. institute on its campus; the Swanson school will upgrade 5,720 square feet of space in will oversee the curriculum development Krebs Hall, creating five new teaching and appliances, furniture, lighting and windows. students with expanded opportunities to and academic policies. research laboratories. The lab renovation The University will continue to update other purchase movie and concert tickets, pay Faculty from around the world will is expected to be completed in November. townhouses on campus. transportation deposits and get informa- be recruited to teach at the institute. The Interior renovations at UPJ’s Highland A student information station has been tion on campus events. institute welcomes Pitt faculty interested in Townhouses — the first renovation project built at UPJ’s student union. Located on The Larkspur Lodge commuter-in- a semester or yearlong sabbatical to teach identified in the campus’s 2014-2021 stra- the top level of the building, the station residence room at UPJ has been renovated. in the institute. tegic planning document — include new will be staffed 10 a.m.-10 p.m., providing The common space provides commuter students with a place to study and interact with other students. The space also includes a flat-screen television and lockers. Pitt-Greensburg’s Ferguson Theater underwent major refurbishing recently. Three speakers were replaced with high quality audio speakers and the audiovisual equipment was replaced to ensure compat- ibility with the new audio system. Stage equipment was updated. Over the summer, the theatre was painted and new seating, aisle carpeting and flooring were installed. Smith Hall Lounge, located next door to the theatre, also was recarpeted. In addition, the Chambers Hall gym- nasium floor was repaired and resurfaced. The University Library System contin- ues to add space for student use at Hillman Library. Rooms 201 and 406 have been converted from offices to group-study spaces, as have former storage spaces in rooms 380 and 480. The ground floor information desk area and map area, second-floor public space with tables and chairs and PhD rooms Above: The new research building at the Pymatuning Lab of Ecology. 401 and 402 also have been converted to Below: An artist’s rendering of the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute in Chengdu, China. student space. Six movable whiteboards have been added in Hillman Library; the number of tables has been increased to 191, with new electrified tables increasing the number of available power outlets to 146. Hillman Library also is adding mobile device charging stations on every floor. The stations hold multiple connections and can charge most standard mobile devices, including micro and mini USB connections and 30-pin and lightning connectors for Apple devices. Pitt-Bradford opened a new 109-bed, $9.3 million residence hall this fall. The all- suite residence hall, which will be named in honor of longtime supporters Lester and Barbara Rice, is the fourth such residence hall built in eight years at UPB to keep up with growing demand for on-campus housing. Pitt-Bradford now can house 1,028 students on campus. However, demand still outstrips available residence space. For the fifth time, UPB is partnering with Best Western to house students. This fall, approximately 20 students, two upperclass

10 AUGUST 28, 2014 PLACES student resident advisers and a live-in adjacent to Salk Hall, will open soon. It resident director staff member will reside will expand the school’s research space at the hotel. and includes meeting spaces, offices and an atrium/coffee shop on the first floor. Several renovation projects were com- pleted at Pitt-Titusville over the summer. The School of Nursing’s Victoria Upgrades to the Spruce Hall residence Hall has new lockers and flooring as well hall, based in part on responses gathered as upgrades to teaching technology in the in a student satisfaction survey, included a classrooms. lobby renovation in Pitt blue and gold, fresh paint and carpet with the Pitt seal. Floors Further renovations to the interiors of and ceilings in the building’s restrooms Parran and Crabtree halls will update also got a facelift. department offices, classrooms, conference Additional renovations included struc- rooms and collaborative spaces for faculty, tural repairs at Bennett Davis Hall that staff and students in the Graduate School added workspace to the building. of Public Health. Campus police offices now will be Parran Hall’s state-of-the-art laboratory stationed in this more centralized location. pavilion opened in September 2013, when The building, which houses the regis- the Department of Infectious Diseases and trar’s office, financial aid, student accounts, Microbiology labs moved to the second the business office and human resources, floor. was part of the original McKinney Estate. The human genetics and epidemiol- Restrooms on the ground floor of ogy departments moved in last Janu- Haskell Memorial Library received a make- ary. n over. Tile on the library’s ground floor was replaced with carpet tiles, complemented by fresh paint and new lounge furniture.

The College of General Studies and Above: The newly renovated third floor its associated units — the McCarl Center, of the William Pitt the Office of Veterans Services and the Union. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute — have moved from the Cathedral of Learning to 1400 Posvar Hall. The space provides improved access to University resources, CGS staff and support services and designated spaces for tutoring, quiet study and lounges. The Left: Bruce Hall, new space opened July 21. renovated as a living-learning The McCarl Center’s move included the community for relocation of the limestone slab from the College of Business Cathedral’s fourth floor. The new center Administration has a cyber-bar, plus new lighting fixtures, freshmen. furniture and wood treatment to create a warm and inviting atmosphere. A new seating and study area also has been added outside of the new center. The move frees up expansion space for English department faculty in the Cathedral of Learning. And the relocation of the Below: The renovated exterior of the McCarl Center has enabled the creation of Graduate School of clustered space on the fourth floor of the Public Health. Cathedral of Learning for several Dietrich school interdisciplinary programs. As part of the consolidation of Dietrich school studies programs, the fourth floor now will house cultural studies, film stud- ies and the gender, sexuality and women’s studies programs. Bruce Hall, which will be home to the College of Business Administration freshman living-learning community, has been renovated. The project included new bathroom facilities, lighting and security, flooring, surface treatments and upgraded mechanical systems. This living-learning community will give students the opportunity to interact with peers who are taking many of the same classes and make immediate con- nections with CBA faculty, advisers and fellow students.

The Lothrop Hall Fitness Center has been renovated to include LED lighting, a vinyl dance floor, updated televisions and equipment. The Korean heritage room committee has completed its fundraising. Its nationality room, based on a 14th-century academic structure, will be built in Korea, dismantled and shipped to Pittsburgh. Construction will begin in 307 CL in May 2015. Proposals to create Iranian and Moroc- can nationality rooms have been submitted to the chancellor for approval. Salk Pavilion, the School of Dental Medicine’s new research tower and atrium Alan Adams 11 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s new

The Office of the Registrar has imple- in the margin). The new version also incor- The Department of Occupational munity Organization. mented several new PeopleSoft Student porates several social media features and Therapy in the School of Health and The events are designed to encourage System projects, including: an improved interface. Rehabilitation Sciences has begun an positive behavior and help build relation- • My Planner, which provides students CIDDE worked closely with Comput- advanced practice Doctor of Clinical ships among students and community with an online place to store and organize ing Services and Systems Development to Science degree (CScD). Elizabeth Skid- residents. the courses that they need to take to com- test the latest version of Panopto over more is program director. Students choose In conjunction with the education, plete their major, and then easily move the summer. The new version (available among areas of concentration in geriatrics; engagement and enforcement aspects these courses into their shopping cart in now) is a lecture capture and video host- pediatrics; musculoskeletal rehabilitation; of the Be a Good Neighbor initiative, preparation for their registration enroll- ing solution. neurological rehabilitation, and pediatric Community and Governmental Relations ment appointment. CIDDE released a completely rede- practice, clinical education and professional has produced a new Student Guide to • Advisee Planner, which provides advis- signed website in 2014. It features leadership. Campus Life. ers with an online view of their advisees’ weekly blog updates, constantly changing The 2014 guide, useful to any newcomer Planner. educational and ed tech information, easy The School of Medicine’s Department to the Pittsburgh campus community, has • Advisee Shopping Cart, which pro- access to services and support and three of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation expanded sections on topics including bicy- vides advisers with an online view of their self-help areas: Knowledgebase on Educa- received accreditation for fellowships on cling, home weatherization, sexual assault advisees’ Shopping Cart. tional Technology, Teaching Support and both brain injury and sports medicine and community engagement. • Class Search Default Campus, which Courseweb for Students. from the Accreditation Council for Gradu- An online version is at tinyurl.com/ allows University administrators to set a The Pitt Online course LIS 2600, ate Medical Education, bringing to four the pittguide. default campus in PeopleSoft so this does Introduction to Information Technologies, accredited fellowships in the department. not have to be selected with each Class taught by Chris Tomer, received a Black- Pitt innovators were awarded a record Search. board Exemplary Course Award in 2014 The School of Dental Medicine has 74 U.S. patents from the U.S. Patent and • Redesigned Class Search Results, for the fourth consecutive year. established a new research center, the Trademark Office in fiscal year 2014 for which has been redesigned to be more The course introduces students to the Center for Informatics in Oral Health innovations developed at the University, flexible when viewed on various devices’ field of distributed computing with specific Translational Research. It will expand the up from 51 awarded in FY13. screens. reference to applications for libraries and scope of the previous Center for Dental Pitt’s portfolio has grown to 615 pat- The office also has upgraded to a new archives. Informatics by supporting research and ents since the inception of the Office of version of the existing classroom schedul- education aimed at improving the delivery Technology Management in 1996. OTM ing software, which is expected to provide The Graduate School of Public Health of dental care and patient outcomes, along now is part of the University’s Innovation more efficient scheduling and analytical Department of Behavioral and Community with the treatment of oral and maxillofacial Institute. forecasting. Health Sciences has developed a Public conditions, especially those associated with More information about the Univer- Health Behavior Lab, which will be led systemic health. The center will focus on sity’s innovation commercialization and Heinz Chapel’s ensemble in residence, by faculty member Chris Keane. improving translation of research to clinical entrepreneurship activities will be available OvreArts, will present a free Family The lab will use computerized public treatments, and improving the application in the Innovation Institute’s 2014 annual Weekend concert at 8 p.m. Sept. 20 goods games to assess decision-making of high-quality evidence in patient care. report, which is expected to be released in featuring new compositions and familiar relevant to health promotion and disease late September. school songs by young composers from prevention. Community and Governmental Rela- The Innovation Institute’s Pitt ven- Pittsburgh. tions has set three “Be a Good Neigh- tures program is running full-tilt now in Heinz Chapel will host a renewal of bor” neighborhood block party events its effort to transform more innovations The 2014 United Way Day of Caring vows ceremony on Nov. 22. The day this fall. emerging from Pitt research into potential is set for Thursday, Oct. 2. includes a photo opportunity and the cer- The North Oakland party is set for startup companies. Details on this year’s project sites, which emony at the chapel followed by a reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 4 at 234 N. Dithridge The team-based program provides were being updated as the University Times and dinner at the Twentieth Century Club. Street between Bayard and Centre avenues, intensive education, mentoring and busi- went to press, will be posted at www.unit- Registration details are at www.heinzchapel. in partnership with the Bellefield Area ness planning assistance for Pitt faculty, edway.pitt.edu. pitt.edu. Citizens Association. staff and students whose innovations have The Oakcliffe and South Oakland startup potential. The classroom services unit in the The new Learning Research and party is set for 4:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at So far in 2014, the program has worked Center for Instructional Development and Development Center’s Kids’ Thinking Community Human Services Community with 16 teams that include faculty, staff and Distance Education (CIDDE) recently Laboratory, under principal investigator Center, 374 Lawn Street, in partnership students, in partnership with local indus- acquired a 3-D printer to explore its use Melissa Libertus, studies how infants and with Community Human Services, the try, investors, entrepreneurs and regional an instructional technology tool. children perceive the world. Oakcliffe Housing Club and the South economic development leaders. In May, Courseweb was upgraded to Libertus is examining children’s emerg- Oakland Neighborhood Group. The program is launching an internship the most current version of Black- ing cognitive skills, their early concepts of The Central Oakland party is set for program this fall for students interested in board. New features include inline grading numbers and how they may contribute to 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Oakland Square Park entrepreneurship, business and science. It (allowing faculty to grade papers inside later math skills, as well as individual dif- on Dawson Street, in partnership with the expects to hire 10-12 paid interns who will Courseweb, providing extensive feedback ferences among children. Oakland Square Historic District Com- work with institute staff and mentors to provide commercial viability assessment and business opportunity development on behalf of Pitt innovators and innovations with startup potential. The institute will introduce a student entrepreneurship initiative Sept. 4 that includes numerous educational programs, competitions and startup incubation assistance. Activities will be open to undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students from all academic disciplines. For information, contact Babs Carryer at bcarryer@innova- tion.pitt.edu. This year’s annual Iris Marion Young Awards event will take the form of a panel discussion rather than a lecture. Organizers in the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program aim to reach a larger audience by hosting panels focused on activism and social justice. The first panel, to be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Twentieth Century Club, will discuss race and education in Pittsburgh. Young, a philosopher and social and political theorist, was a faculty member in the Graduate School of Public and Interna- tional Affairs during the 1990s, a member of the women’s studies program and an activist for gender equity, labor rights and other forms of social justice. The awards recognize those who work to promote justice in the University, at the local or national level or across the globe. 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Targeting a greater need for safety for Pitt students and faculty from multiple students must submit a portfolio of their engineers in industrial settings, especially disciplines to collaborate on inquiry-based best work from core culture and upper-level within the region’s growing energy and learning and applied research projects. courses and a 10-page formal summary health care fields, the Swanson School of UHC in March began awarding $2,000 and evaluation of the outcomes of their Engineering this fall will launch a cross- scholarships to Pitt undergraduate multidisciplinary Italian studies. disciplinary graduate certificate pro- students who have achieved a GPA of 3.5 gram in safety engineering. Housed in overall, who are in their third, fourth, or The gender, sexuality and women’s the Department of Industrial Engineering, fifth year at Pitt, and who have not received studies program will focus its program this the safety engineering program will target scholarship aid from the University. year on the theme “Embodiment,” includ- workforce needs and will include an online For the first time, faculty from the Uni- ing events on black masculinity, girlhood, format, allowing professionals to take the versity of Wyoming joined with Pitt faculty nature/nurture and reproductive rights. course either in the classroom or from any and members of the Carnegie Museum of location in the world. Natural History and The National Aviary The World History Center will host Under the direction of Joel M. Haight, in instructing the Wyoming field study the international workshop on a world- associate professor of industrial engineer- course. The multidisciplinary field course historical gazetteer Sept. 4 and 5. The ing, the safety engineering program will in geology, paleontology, ecology and envi- event is supported by a grant from the target the region’s construction, energy, ronmental studies has been conducted on National Endowment for the Humanities. health care, manufacturing and utility sec- UHC property in southeastern Wyoming The center will present a speaker series tors, among other industries. The curricu- each summer for the past eight years. this fall on “East Asia, Eurasia and the lum will prepare professionals as engineers This fall, UHC will roll out a series World.” Scheduled are: Sept. 12, Alexis rather than safety coordinators by focusing of one-credit honors supplements — Dudden; Oct. 10, Michael Khodarovsky; on the industrial engineering aspects of honors courses attached to regular, three- Oct. 24, Bin Wong; Oct. 31, Peter Perdue, injury prevention, dynamic engineering credit courses. These supplements provide and Nov. 21, Nile Green. principles, continuous function-based/ opportunities for a subset of students The center will hold a conference May quantitative analytical methods and design enrolled in regular courses to earn honors 8 and 9 on “Researching World History in principles. credit through in-depth exploration of the Schools: Nationwide and Worldwide.” standard course content. The World History Center, cohead- The Graduate Women in Engineer- quarters (with UCLA) of the national ing Network (GWEN) has been estab- The cooling and electrical systems Alliance for Learning in World History, lished at Pitt to retain women in STEM at the University’s Network Operations is cosponsoring the development of a fields, promote women in leadership Center (NOC) are being upgraded to sup- Grade 7 course in world history in the Barbara DelRaso/University Times capacities and create an official network port the increased demand for research Mt. Lebanon Schools in 2014-15, the first for women in engineering. computing. The upgrade has been under- step in a western Pennsylvania program. and cultural studies, will participate in this The network has held book club discus- taken with sustainability in mind. “Free” two-day event set for Nov. 14 and 15. sions, a speed-networking event for faculty cooling will be available from water chill- The Department of Sociology is offer- New courses in the Department of and students, and hosted guest lecturers. ers installed to cool high-density research ing a thematic cluster certificate in health, French and Italian Languages and Litera- Plans include at least one book club and computer infrastructure, and hot and cold environment and technology this fall. tures this fall are: “French Kiss: Love, Sex, one seminar speaker per semester. aisles will be isolated to allow for efficient Sociology courses within the new cluster France” and “Italian America on Screen: use of the equipment cooling the research will provide students with in-depth knowl- Beyond Scandal and Stereotype.” Both In addition to loaning laptops and iPads, infrastructure. edge of the challenges and issues of these courses will be taught in English, and are Hillman Library now loans Kill-a-Watt interrelated fields. To earn the certificate, designed as introductions to the fields of electricity monitors. The Kill-a-Watt A new Pitt Print Station for stu- students must complete three courses in French/Francophone studies and Italian monitors also are available at the Engineer- dents will be placed in Bridgeside Point, the health, environment and technology studies. ing Library. raising the total number of shared print- grouping. Beginning in January, the French and ers available to students on the Pittsburgh Italian department will celebrate its The Swanson School of Engineering campus to 60. A map of printer locations The School of Social Work has intro- 50th anniversary with a year-long slate and Center for Energy will host the ninth is posted at technology.pitt.edu. duced an integrated health certificate of visitors, events and commemorations, annual Electric Power Industry Confer- CSSD has added eight charging sta- program. The certificate prepares gradu- culminating in an international conference ence Nov. 17 and 18 at the University Club. tions in Alumni Hall for smartphones and ate social work students specializing in in the fall of 2015. The theme is “Industry and Technology in other mobile devices. Four of the Alumni direct practice with the knowledge and Transition.” The opening keynote speaker Hall stations will be available for general skills necessary to work with individuals, The German department introduced is Morgan K. O’Brien, president and CEO use and four will be used for special events families, groups and communities in a two new majors in spring 2014: German of Peoples Natural Gas and Peoples TWP; in the Connolly Ballroom. variety of institutional and community- language and cultural studies, and interdis- the evening keynote speaker is Pitt alumnus based health-related settings. With a focus ciplinary German studies. John A. Swanson, founder of ANSYS. Frank Dolce, a graduate student at Pitt’s on leadership and advocacy, the goal of The German language and cultural stud- Registration is free for Pitt students, Confucius Institute, coordinates the Asian the certificate program is to increase the ies major allows courses such as German faculty and staff. More information is at Studies Center’s weekly Culture Corner, number of students focused on health and for Professional Purposes and German for engineering.pitt.edu/epic. which brings together anyone interested in social work. Social Scientists to count towards the major. China, native speakers or not. The group The interdisciplinary German studies Pitt-Titusville will offer a new associate meets 3-5 pm on Fridays at Tang’s Cuisine “Configuring Disciplines: Fragments major allows students to enhance their degree program in petroleum technol- on Semple Street. For information, contact of an Encyclopedia,” will be on display study of German language and culture by ogy this fall. Courses will be delivered on Dolce at [email protected]. Sept. 4-Oct. 5 at the University Art Gal- earning credits in German-related courses the Titusville campus through a combi- lery. The exhibit is developed from one offered in other departments. nation of face-to-face instruction and Several majors in the Dietrich School of the Department of History of Art and Visit www.german.pitt.edu for details. distance education, in conjunction with of Arts and Sciences have been revised, Architecture’s first “constellations” col- Pitt-Bradford. effective in the fall term: laborative seminars, which bring together The Department of Hispanic Lan- The two-year degree will provide stu- • In the actuarial mathematics major, graduate and undergraduate students, the guages and Literatures will celebrate dents with the training they need to become MATH 1120 Actuarial Mathematics 1 will University Art Gallery and arts institutions its 50th anniversary in 2015. qualified petroleum technologists. Students be replaced with MATH 0470 Actuarial around the city. Anniversary events will include a series will learn how to develop and operate oil Mathematics 1 and a grade of B or better Students and faculty have drawn on the of talks by graduate alumni throughout the and natural gas extractions and processing in the course will be required for admission resources of local collections to develop academic year, publication of a booklet facilities, discover what it takes to drill for to the major. a display of how various disciplines in the featuring submissions from alumni, and a oil and natural gas, find out how the fuels • In the English writing major, arts and sciences are constructed, textually celebration in May that will include poetry are transported to other locations, explore ENGWRT 1120 Advanced Fiction is being as well as visually, through illustrated books, readings by alumna Ana Merino, a faculty the principles of the petroleum industry, replaced by a 1000-level elective for the atlases, photography and other media. member at the University of Iowa. and learn about geology, oil field map- fiction track; ENGWRT 1510 Advanced The speaker series will include a talk in ping, environment and safety, oil and gas Poetry is being replaced by a 1000-level Dietrich school faculty members Dan September by Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan chemistry and well logging interpretation. elective for the poetry track, and ENGWRT Balderston and John Beverley of the of Rice University on 19th-century 1340 Advanced Nonfiction: Long Form Department of Hispanic Languages and Venezuelan photography and its efforts The University Honors College began Narrative is being replaced by a 1000-level Literatures are organizing at Pitt an inter- to “whiten” the Venezuelan population. a health sciences summer research elective for the nonfiction track. disciplinary symposium on the Latin Mireya Camurati, professor emerita at program this summer. Modeled after the • The honors Italian language and lit- American “Pink Tide,” its achievements, SUNY-Buffalo, will speak in October on Brackenridge summer research program, erature major will require a GPA of 3.5 or its failures, its legacy and the ensuing Jorge Luis Borges as an intellectual poet. the new program targets Pitt undergradu- higher and students must write and defend critiques. In February, David Gies of the University ate students with interests in the health in Italian a 25-30 page research paper Six academics and independent research- of Virginia will speak on the representation sciences. developed in consultation with a faculty ers from Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, of the “indiana,” as Spaniards who made Also this summer, UHC launched its adviser and approved by a three-member Chile, the United Kingdom and the United a fortune in the New World colonies and Learning Lake Initiative in partnership faculty committee. States, with disciplinary backgrounds returned to Spain, in four 19th-century with Pymatuning State Park. The initiative • The honors Italian studies major including political science, economics, Spanish plays. In April, Hugo Achugar, the is designed to spur curricular opportunities will require a GPA of 3.5 or higher and history, philosophy, literature, journalism national director of culture in Uruguay, will

13 UNIVERSITY TIMES What’s new speak on a topic to be determined. around the country and as far away as delivery services. Instead of requesting an pean Studies was awarded 21 Department Shanghai in June for the American Soci- entire print copy of a book from another of Defense-funded Project GO (Global Pitt is among the sponsors of the ety of Civil Engineers’ annual national library, faculty and students may request Officer) scholarships for ROTC stu- Oakland Forever community celebra- concrete canoe competition. that a single chapter be sent to them elec- dents from across the nation to study tion, which this year will mark the 175th Twenty-three teams of engineering tronically. Visit www.library.pitt.edu/ILL intensive Russian language at Pitt’s Summer anniversary of the neighborhood’s identity students participated, including Pitt- for details. Language Institute (SLI). as Oakland. Johnstown, which has advanced to the Ten students took beginning or The event, set for Oct. 10 and 11, will national competition for the past seven Last spring the ULS undertook a intermediate-level classes at Pitt, while feature live music and performances at out of eight years. “strategic audit” of support for digi- 11 advanced-level students went abroad Schenley Plaza, art and photography exhib- tal scholarship on campus. The library to Narva, Estonia — a Russian-speaking its, lectures and symposiums, outdoor activi- Pitt-Johnstown alumnus Richard Bross interviewed Pitt faculty and support staff, city on Russia’s border. An additional 28 ties, family fun, an artist and craft market, has endowed the Bross Family Schol- talked with groups within ULS, and spoke Project GO scholarship recipients funded historical retrospectives, food trucks and arship in Business. The endowment with other research libraries that have by other universities — Indiana University, restaurant specials, plus free admission to will reward business majors who have developed services in this area. San Diego State University, University of museums and cultural amenities. demonstrated academic excellence, who In the coming months, the ULS will be Texas-Austin, University of Mississippi, Volunteer opportunities are available. possess strength in communication and formalizing support for various areas of and Virginia Tech — also enrolled in Pitt’s Details are posted at www.oaklandforever. interpersonal skills, and who have dem- digital scholarship. The process of creat- SLI Russian courses. org. onstrated ethical leadership. Bross and his ing a physical space in Hillman Library to wife, Susie, gave nearly $300,000 in initial support these efforts already has begun. The Slavic and East European SLI Pitt-Bradford and Pitt-Johnstown are endowment funding for the scholarship added a Near Eastern component to its featured among the best colleges in the and have pledged an additional $250,000. The Center for Latin American Stud- language offerings with an intensive eight- Northeast in the Princeton Review’s ies (CLAS) will mark its 50th anniver- week Arabic course this summer. SLI 2015 listing at princetonreview.com. The Computing Services and Systems Devel- sary with celebrations on Sept. 12 that plans to add Persian next summer. The Near campuses are among 226 institutions in 11 opment (CSSD) reports that color printers include an early afternoon welcome to Eastern language courses are cosponsored states plus the District of Columbia named are now available to students in each of former center directors and a late afternoon by the Global Studies Center. to the “Best in the Northeast” list. the six Pittsburgh campus computing labs. reception to be followed by a reservation- The Pitt Mobile site (m.pitt.edu) has only dinner with dancing. Two new study abroad programs to Pitt-Johnstown has developed and been refreshed, and will be available this fall The widow of former Pitt faculty Africa are being launched for summer 2015. implemented a seven-year strategic plan, in the form of free apps in both Google member and ULS Latin-American bibli- Pitt in South Africa is a five-week The Next Level: Distinctive Excellence Play and the App Store. ographer, poet and artist Eduardo Lozano program based at the University of Cape 2014-2021. A steering group led several has donated 27 of his paintings for silent Town. Students will study South Africa’s task forces in exploring the future of Pitt- The University Library System auction during the anniversary gala. Pro- history, contemporary literature and social Johnstown in an effort that included faculty, (ULS) will host a series of workshops ceeds benefit CLAS’s Eduardo Lozano entrepreneurship efforts. Students can take students, staff and community leaders. open to the entire Pitt community this fall. Prize. The paintings can be viewed at www. up to six credits and can fulfill two foreign The topics to be covered are PITTCat+, ucis.pitt.edu/clas/sites/www.ucis.pitt.edu. culture requirements. UPJ launched a new website Aug. 4, Google Books, Google Scholar, EndNote, clas/files/web-EDUARDO_LOZANO_ Designed for graduate students and following a yearlong redesign. Mendely and Box. Details and registration PAINTINGS.pdf. some undergraduates, Pitt in Zambia offers With about 4,000 individual pages, pic- information are available at www.library. the opportunity to complete research and tures, videos and other graphic elements, pitt.edu/instruction-services. A CLAS conference,“Reforming data collection in connection with the the project is the first major redesign of Communism: Cuba in Comparative Per- USAID-funded Read to Succeed Project, the UPJ website since 2004. A wine and cheese reception for fac- spective,” will be held Nov. 6-9 in Posvar which strives to improve student perfor- The updates focused on availability in ulty is set for 4-7 p.m. Sept. 23 at Hillman Hall. Fourteen speakers, coming from as mance in the public school system with a mobile formats, ease of navigation, conve- Library. The event will include details on far away as Cuba and the United Kingdom, specific focus on reading and math in the nient organization of helpful content, cus- ULS programs and services that support will address topics including leftist politics early grades. tomizable experiences and the celebration faculty teaching and research. in Latin America and Europe, reforms in The program is a cooperative effort of the achievements of Pitt-Johnstown’s health and social welfare, arts and literature, among the School of Education, the Afri- students, alumni, faculty and staff. ULS is adding RapidChapters to its gender and sexuality, and race and society. can studies program and Study Abroad, Pitt-Johnstown hosted teams from array of interlibrary loan and document The Center for Russian and East Euro- as well as the Institute for International

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14 AUGUST 28, 2014 THINGS Studies in Education and the University emony via the Internet. Anyone desiring to fit the decor of each room. The new dent needs as well as to a national emphasis of Zambia. to view the ceremony from their personal furnishings are in place in the French and on distinguishing PhD programs, which computer, tablet computer or smart phone Lithuanian rooms, with installations in the prepare researchers, from EdD programs, The School of Information Sciences is was able to log onto www.greensburg.pitt. Chinese, Greek, Italian and Norwegian which train professional educators for offering two new certificates of advanced edu/graduation/live to watch. rooms to follow. higher-level positions. study in security assured information Graduates will be prepared to be leaders systems (SAIS) and big data analytics. Pitt-Greensburg’s Village Coffeehouse The Nationality Rooms received a 2014 in K-12 schools and institutions of higher The certificates are available at the post- now features a “Proudly Brewed Star- certificate of excellence and are featured education in the U.S. and abroad; ministries bachelor’s and post-master’s levels. Courses bucks” and expanded hours that will have among the top attractions in Pittsburgh on of education and health; international non- will begin to be offered online for the SAIS it open when the Wagner Dining dinner tripadvisor.com. governmental agencies; community-based certificate in spring 2015. service ends. Later in the term students organizations; research and development Also at the school, the Andrew W. will be able to use their meal plan there. The Nationality Rooms website www. institutes; health care organizations; health Mellon Foundation has funded a new In addition, UPG’s dining services has nationalityrooms.pitt.edu has been and human service agencies, and the gov- doctoral fellowship program for infor- added three commuter declining balance updated with a new format that features ernment. mation sciences students worldwide who meal plans. better photographs and clearer narrations. The three-year program is cohort- are working on digital projects designed to based with clear timelines and milestones; enhance scholarly productivity and enrich Pitt-Greensburg has two new majors: The Health Sciences Library System will coherence in courses, including specifi- teaching. The $726,000 award will support a BS degree in public policy that draws on host the National Library of Medicine’s cally designed research methods courses; 10 “iFellows” who will supplement the work courses in philosophy, political science, eco- traveling exhibit “And there’s the humor and executive and hybrid course delivery of the Committee on Coherence at Scale nomics, statistics and communication, and of it: Shakespeare and the four humors,” structures to accommodate the needs of with independent dissertation research. a BS in Spanish education that augments Sept. 29-Nov. 8 in Falk Library. working professionals. The committee was formed in 2012 by the early childhood education major and Two lectures are planned to complement Areas of concentration are: special the Council on Library and Information secondary education major and prepares the exhibit content. Gail Kern Paster will education; language, literacy and culture; Resources and Vanderbilt University to students for certification as public school present “William Shakespeare and the Four science, technology, engineering and math; examine emerging national-scale digital Spanish teachers. Humors: Elizabethan Medical Beliefs” at 6 education leadership; higher education projects and their potential to help trans- p.m. Oct. 2 in 1105 Scaife Hall, followed by management and social and comparative form higher education in terms of scholarly Pitt-Greensburg’s manufacturing a reception in the library. Robin Maier will analysis in education. Additional areas for productivity, teaching, cost-efficiency and management program has become a present “A Clinician Looks at Shakespeare health and physical activity and applied sustainability. certificate program. Initiated in 2013, the and Medicine” at 6 p.m. Oct. 21 in Scaife developmental psychology are to be added program is designed for workers who have Hall lecture room 5. in fall 2015. A four-year, $1.2 million partnership technical training in manufacturing and An interdisciplinary aspect allows stu- between the Swanson School of Engi- have been identified by their employers Read Green is having an effect on paper dents in various areas of focus to work neering Department of Chemical and as candidates for future leadership roles. use in Mailing Services. In fiscal year 2014, together and introduce different ways Petroleum Engineering and The Lubrizol It provides courses in management and nearly 1.24 million pieces of paper were of thinking. The program also provides Corp. will give engineering students the related areas most relevant to current work saved by those who used Read Green. The opportunities to engage within Pennsyl- opportunity to learn about industry needs experiences and allows the 24 credits earned electronic delivery option for University vania through projects, internships and and to develop ideas and products in the to be applied toward a bachelor’s degree mailings reduced six tons of paper waste, research seminars. Lubrizol Innovation Laboratory in Ben- in business management. Classes meet one saved 102 trees, spared 18 cubic yards of edum Hall. Students will be able to access Friday and Saturday a month, with students landfill space and conserved 42,000 gallons Pitt-Bradford has launched a virtual the program as sophomores. taking two courses per semester for four of water, according to Mailing Services. campus tour. The tour also is optimized Lubrizol is an Ohio-based specialty- semesters. In addition, 2,280 gallons of oil were for mobile devices and is GPS integrated, chemical company that serves customers conserved, 360 fewer pounds of air pol- making it easier for first-time visitors to in the global transportation, industrial The Graduate School of Public and lution was added to the environment and get around while on campus. The virtual and consumer markets. Its technologies International Affairs has added an energy 24,000 kilowatts of energy were saved. tour provides a prompt when visitors with include lubricant additives for engine oils, and environment major as part of its MPA a mobile device are near a particular loca- other transportation-related fluids and program. The major addresses the policy Tapingo.com or the Tapingo mobile tion. They then can access that stop on industrial lubricants, as well as fuel additives implications of energy and environmental app can be used to pre-order coffee or their device to learn more. for gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition, issues both within western Pennsylvania lunch for pickup at many dining facilities Each of the 20 stops features photos, Lubrizol makes ingredients and additives and around the globe. As new technolo- on the Pittsburgh campus. The app allows links to more information and video narra- for personal-care products and pharmaceu- gies generate billions of dollars from the users to pay with campus funds or store a tion by a UPB student. Some stops include ticals and manufactures specialty materials, extraction of unconventional gas, creating credit card for payment. academic-related videos or 360-degree including plastics technology and perfor- thousands of new jobs, controversies have Tapingo can be used to order at: Cathe- panoramic photos. Visitors can navigate mance coatings in the form of specialty stemmed from issues ranging from the dral Coffee; Cathedral Café; Old World the tour by choosing stops from a menu, or resins and additives. environmental impacts of fracking to the Deli; Cathedral Cafe: Hometown Favorites; by clicking on an interactive map that will optimal mode of taxing the extracted gas. Cup and Chaucer; Common Grounds at zoom in on the stop and launch the student This spring, Pitt-Greensburg faculty Pitt; Einstein Bros. Bagels in Benedum and narration. In addition to highlighting on- member John Prellwitz, associate profes- The business school has initiated a Posvar halls; Cafe Victoria; Bunsen Burner, campus locations and activities, other tour sor of communication, and graduating new campaign, “From the Classroom, to and Cafe at the University Store on Fifth. stops focus on off-campus opportunities in seniors Nathan LaSor, Alicia DiPaolo and the City, to the World” for its undergradu- Bradford and on regional points of interest. H. Camdon Porterfield collaborated with ate program. The new brand articulates Panther Central is adding an online The tour can be viewed at tour.pitt- Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Shoulder to how undergraduate business students will chat feature to enable users to ask ques- bradford.org. Shoulder to film thedocumentary “Think obtain a well-rounded education geared tions live online with a customer service Small” in Honduras. toward real-world business experiences that representative. Pittsburgh campus shuttle service The documentary, which has five- demand student action, engagement and riders have seven new buses: Four 20-pas- minute, 30-minute and 45-minute ver- exposure to a variety of issues that affect Incoming freshmen were able to use the senger buses, two 43-passenger buses and sions, highlights the work of Shoulder the current market. RoomSync Facebook app to search for a new disability vehicle are being added to Shoulder brigades composed of U.S. See the brand video here: https:// a compatible roommate. Students created to the fleet. medical students and medical residents who www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHGi6_ a profile then searched other students in In addition, Buffalo-bound students provide health care in San Jose del Negrito, PoUk&list=PL5P7qxDYXHlb- their network. Once the students mutu- traveling via Buses Home for the Holidays Honduras, through a partnership with the IAJOReYoiwrmgFMg_2kO. ally requested and accepted each other, will have a new stop at the Kmart, 2055 San Jose Health Committee. the information was sent to the Housing Walden Ave., Cheektowaga, New York. The five-minute version can be The business school is launching a nine- database for assignment. viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/ credit undergraduate honors program The University now is offering 12-month The Katz Graduate School of Busi- watch?v=hjqpAQDJMuk. this fall for Bachelor of Science in business housing in Tower A (for freshmen) and ness’s full-time MBA program offers its The documentary was produced administration students. Details are at www. Tower C (for upperclassmen), so students graduates the highest immediate return through Pitt-Greensburg Media, a collab- cba.pitt.edu/academics/honors.php. The can contract to stay in the residence halls on investment (ROI) of any program in orative effort of faculty, students and staff business school also has created its own over the winter and summer recesses. the United States and the 19th highest ROI that seeks to provide hands-on experience version of the Outside-the-Classroom worldwide, according to a recent report by in digital media. curriculum. The program, which has 10 Pitt Panthers football will kick off its The Economist. The Katz MBA yields a different categories, will track the prog- 125th season this fall. Three-game mini- 42 percent ROI one year after graduation, Pitt-Greensburg has been awarded ress of students who complete extracur- packages are new this year. according to the report. $700,000 from the R. K. Mellon Foun- ricular activities that contribute to their Faculty and staff are eligible for a 20 The Financial Times found the Katz dation to support critical technology development into well-rounded business percent discount on season tickets with two-year MBA program yields a 132 percent infrastructure improvements, including professionals. payroll deduction payment plans available. increase in salary. a network infrastructure upgrade. Call 800/643-7488 or visit pitts - Wireless PittNet will be available this The University’s classroom manage- burghpanthers.com/facultyandstaff for The Dietrich school’s College in High fall in all student residential areas at Pitt- ment team has designed AV credenzas details. School program has added two courses: Greensburg as the campus finishes deploy- for the Nationality Rooms. Intermediate Latin: Prose, and Ameri- ment of its residence halls wireless project. The credenzas will hold a flat-panel The School of Education launched a can Politics. These offerings bring to 18 For the first time, Pitt-Greensburg screen and other technology-based teach- redesigned Doctor of Education (EdD) the number of courses offered through live-streamed its commencement cer- ing aids and exteriors will be customized program this summer in response to stu- regional high schools. n

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