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VOLUME 49 • NUMBER 12 FEBRUARY 16, 2017 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Teaching, research, public service chancellor award winners named he 2017 chancellor’s awards fessor in the Department of teaching excellence. for distinguished teaching, Chemistry, Dietrich school. Full-time faculty members Tresearch and public service In the senior scholars category: with at least five years’ service at honored 10 faculty. • Mark T. Gladwin, distin- the University are eligible, pro- Distinguished teaching award guished professor and chair in the vided they have been active as winners are: Department of Medicine, School a teacher and have not won the Sean Garrett-Roe Melissa Marks • Sean Garrett-Roe, assistant of Medicine; award previously. professor in the Department of • Thomas W. Kensler, profes- Up to five awardees are chosen Chemistry, Dietrich School of sor in the Department of Phar- each year. Each award consists of Arts and Sciences; macology and Chemical Biology, a $2,000 cash prize and a $3,000 • Melissa Marks, associ- School of Medicine; and grant to support the faculty mem- ate professor in the Division • Ronald Stall, professor in ber’s teaching activities. of Behavioral Sciences, Pitt- the Department of Behavioral Greensburg; and Community Health Sci- Sean Garrett-Roe • John Schumann, associate ences, Graduate School of Public Garrett-Roe was recognized professor in the Department of Health. for his work with the Process Neurobiology, School of Medi- q Oriented Guided Inquiry Learn- cine; and The distinguished public ser- ing (POGIL) approach, which • Cindy Skrzycki, senior vice award winner is: uses a flipped classroom model, lecturer in the Department of • Anthony S. Novosel, under- multisensory input and incorpo- English, Dietrich school. graduate adviser and senior rates technologies to encourage John Schumann Cindy Skrzycki q lecturer in the Department of students to engage, derive and Distinguished research award History, Dietrich school. interpret the materials of physical winners are: Awardees will be recognized chemistry. In the junior scholars category: Feb. 24 at the University’s annual He has also shared his peda- • Kara Anne Bernstein, assis- honors convocation. gogical models in such venues tant professor in the Department as Pitt’s Summer Instructional of Microbiology and Molecular TEACHING Design Institute and the Ameri- Genetics, School of Medicine, and The Chancellor’s Distin- can Chemical Society’s national • Haitao Liu, associate pro- guished Teaching Award honors CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Flat funding proposed for Pitt ov. Tom Wolf’s $32.34 now up to the General Assembly no surprise, given the state’s billion state budget pro- to hammer out a final budget lagging revenue collections and Kara Anne Bernstein Haitao Liu Gposal for fiscal year 2018 before the July 1 start of the growing budget deficit. includes a 2 percent increase for fiscal year. At the fiscal year’s midway State System of Higher Educa- To that end, appropriations point in December, general fund tion schools, but holds funding hearings are underway. The state- collections were 2.7 percent, or flat for state-related universities related universities are scheduled $367 million, below estimate, Pitt, Penn State, Temple and to present their budget testimony according to the state Depart- Lincoln. March 1 to the Senate appropria- ment of Revenue. And the Pitt’s state appropriation tions committee. In a departure department’s monthly revenue stands at $146.77 million, made from past years, no hearing before report shows that collections, up of $144.21 million in general the House appropriations com- as of the end of January, are support and $2.56 million for mittee is scheduled, although $416.8 million, or 2.5 percent, rural education outreach. The Pitt’s budget briefing package below estimate. University had asked for a 5 will be sent to the committee, The state’s Independent percent increase in state support Paul Supowitz, vice chancellor for Fiscal Office is estimating in the coming year. (See Oct. 13, Community and Governmental revenues will be $716 million 2016, University Times.) Relations, told the University below estimate by the end of The governor’s proposed Times. the fiscal year. In addition, advocates will “We appreciate the gover- Mark T. Gladwin Thomas W. Kensler budget reduces academic medi- cal center funding in the Health plead the University’s case March nor’s effort to at least protect and Human Services budget — 21 at the annual Pitt Day in Har- the small increase we’ve gotten down 17.7 percent — due to an risburg. (See www.alumni.pitt.edu.) in the past two years,” Supowitz anticipated decrease in federal q said, adding that the state’s dire medical assistance payments University administrators have economic circumstances are to academic medical centers, braced for a tough budget year to magnified by the political situ- including Pitt’s medical school. come. In remarks to the University ation in Harrisburg. Wolf’s proposed budget, Senate in December, Chancellor Wolf, a Democrat, must presented Feb. 7 before a joint Patrick Gallagher cautioned that work with strong Republi- legislative session in Harrisburg, the University wasn’t ruling out the can majorities in the General included a $571.5 million, 1.8 possibility of a cut in funding, in Assembly. Sen. Scott Wagner percent increase in spend- light of the state’s bleak financial (R-York), who has criticized ing with no broad-based tax outlook. (See Jan. 5 University Times.) the governor’s economic plans, increases. Supowitz acknowledged to has launched his campaign for The governor’s proposal the University Times that the the 2018 gubernatorial election. Ronald Stall Anthony S. Novosel represents a starting point. It’s proposed flat funding comes as —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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U N I V E R S I T Y S E N A T E M A T T E R S / Calum Matheson Debate in the classroom Teaching is not limited to the be skeptical about what I heard, ence, and rely on teamwork. Its mation paradoxically discourages of mind that can benefit them process of imparting informa- synthesize what I knew, and make ludic aspects excite many students students from encounters with for a lifetime. As instructors, tion to our students. As concern judgments about the quality of an and keep their attention. I have people who disagree with them. we all compete with the myriad over “fake news” and “alterna- argument based on logic rather watched otherwise apathetic stu- Social media, niche ideological demands and diversions of tive facts” demonstrates, the than preference. Argumentation dents invest hours into esoteric news sources, and homogenous college life to capture students’ primary danger when it comes skills foster better information subjects to guarantee a good peer groups lead to confirmation attention. Debate is one inter- to information is not starva- processing, and that is a vital performance. With guidance by bias and groupthink in the form esting way to do that, teaching tion but overconsumption. We capacity for students today regard- an instructor, students can learn of “filter bubbles” and “echo not just our own content but are exposed to a vast welter of less of what they study. The ability to pick apart arguments — both chambers.” In debate, students the skills to acquire and analyze information, and part of our to dissect arguments, analyze logic their own and those of their can be encouraged to research more in the future. Everyone responsibility as educators is not and distinguish good informa- classmates — to develop better and defend opinions that they do uses the skills of argument, from just to add to this deluge but to tion from bad is what in military positions. This is a kind of educa- not personally hold. There should scientists applying for grants to provide our students with the terminology is called a “force tion that we should be proud to be obvious limits on this practice, anthropologists explaining cul- capacity to judge what is good multiplier.” It makes us smarter, give. No student should leave their but when done well, students may tural change to undergraduates and what is bad. and it teaches us to communicate undergraduate education without learn to respect opposing views, supporting their views in term In grade school, I learned what we know. That is why when I some grasp of validity, sound- treat them more inclusively and papers. We should help our stu- how to convert Celsius to Fahr- joined the University faculty I was ness, cognitive biases, statistical develop a better grounding for dents hone their argument skills enheit, memorized the Pythago- pleased to learn that Argument significance and the whole range their own beliefs. Empathy often to prepare them for their futures rean Theorem, and recited the is offered as a general education of tools necessary to form well- seems as scarce as critical thinking in academia, government and amendments to the United States class; its methods are useful across grounded beliefs based on fact in our contemporary situation. business, and as members of a Constitution. I still can recall all the curriculum. rather than conjecture. No one With good instruction, students democratic society making the of this today, but then again, so Incorporating debate into has perfect information all the can learn that it’s not about playing hard choices that keep democ- can my iPhone. diverse classrooms is an excellent time, but when we can’t be right, the “devil’s advocate,” but under- racy afloat. n The most important part method for teaching both topical rigorous logic and information standing that someone else is not Calum Matheson is an assistant of my education did not come information and the vital skills of processing can at least make us the devil simply for disagreeing professor of public deliberation and from classroom instruction but evaluation. Debate is an active less likely to be wrong. with them. civic life in the Dietrich School of through my participation in com- learning method that incentivizes A key aspect of debate is its College is an exciting time for Arts and Sciences Department of petitive debate. Debate taught students to do their own research, emphasis on multiple sides of an our students and an opportunity Communication and director of the me how to research efficiently, tailor its presentation to an audi- issue. The modern glut of infor- for them to build good habits William Pitt Debating Union. Grad students Sean Sweeney kick off union Technology Corner CSSD Security card drive itt’s graduate student organiz- Technology topics and trends from Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD) ing committee has launched Multifactor authentication protects your personal information Pa card-signing campaign for representation by the Academic The University began offer- prohibits 90 percent of the phish- access to University information a notification to your smartphone Workers Association of the ing multifactor authentication to ing scams and malicious software and data, including confidential or tablet. Just tap Accept and you United Steelworkers (USW). address the increasing risks from from reaching the University retirement account details, pay will be logged in. (If you ever The committee (www.pittgra- phishing scams and malicious community, but of those that get statements or direct deposit receive a login request that you dunion.org) seeks to organize an software. Multifactor authentica- through, there usually are several information. were not expecting, tap Deny and estimated 2,000-3,000 Pitt gradu- tion provides an essential layer individuals who will be fooled into The University’s multifactor report it to the Technology Help ate student employees including of security that safeguards your clicking on a link or providing authentication solution, provided Desk right away.) research assistants, teaching personal information and Uni- account information. Accord- by Duo Mobile, means that to • “Call me” will dial your phone assistants, teaching fellows and versity data should you fall victim ing to the 2016 Verizon Data log in to a service, you will need and play a recorded message. Press lab techs. to a phishing scam or in some Breach Investigations Report, two “factors”: something you 1 to complete the login process. A Feb. 11 card-signing event in other way have your password 30 percent of phishing messages know (like your password) and • “Enter a passcode” will Oakland drew 75-80 people, said compromised. were opened nationwide, and 12 something only you have (like prompt you to enter a passcode organizing committee member Beginning March 5, multifac- percent of malicious attachments your mobile phone, on which you that has been sent to your phone. Ben Case, a graduate student in tor authentication will be required and links were opened. Our will receive a login confirmation This code can be sent to you as a sociology. He said the majority for all services that faculty and records show that the University’s notice). text message or generated using were graduate student workers staff access through the Univer- results are consistent with these the Duo Mobile app. A bypass who signed cards to kick off the sity’s single sign-on service, Pitt percentages. How does it work? code also can be provided by the effort. Passport, and when using the These threats pose an immedi- Protecting yourself with multi- Technology Help Desk. The Pennsylvania Labor Rela- Secure Remote Access service to ate risk to your personal informa- factor authentication begins with tions Board (PLRB) requires that connect to University resources. tion and the security of University registering a device, such as a You can start today 30 percent of those in a proposed The sophistication of phishing data. Through the efforts of our smartphone or tablet, at accounts. Don’t wait until March 5 to bargaining unit sign authorization scams has increased dramatically. security team, we identify and pitt.edu. You only need to do this take advantage of the added cards before an election can be The University’s security software routinely intervene to prevent once. Click the Add/Manage Pitt protection multifactor authentica- requested, but organizers tra- damage or exposure of data, but Passport Devices link and com- tion provides. The step-by-step ditionally aim to secure a much as the threats escalate, a more plete the brief registration. If you instructions at http://technol- higher percentage of signed cards U N I V E R S I T Y robust solution is required. register a mobile device, you also ogy.pitt.edu/multifactor will get before petitioning PLRB for an will be prompted to install the Duo you up and running immediately. election. Case said the organizing Why multifactor Mobile app. Once your device Keep in mind that if you do not committee aims to have signatures authentication? is registered, it’s a good idea to register a device for multifactor from at least 50 percent of Pitt’s TIMES Hackers are constantly search- register a second device — such authentication in advance, you graduate student workers before ing for ways to compromise your as your office phone — so you will need to complete the regis- filing the petition. EDITOR N. J. Brown password. If your password is have a backup in case you don’t tration process in order to access Signatures are good for one 412-624-1373 [email protected] guessed, hacked, stolen or shared have access to your smartphone. any service through Pitt Passport year from the date they’re signed. with someone, it can have serious Next, you will click the Secure beginning March 5. “We envision and hope for a much WRITERS Kimberly K. Barlow consequences — for you and the Pitt Passport Services link at Once you start using multifac- faster timetable than that,” Case 412-624-1379 [email protected] University. accounts.pitt.edu and select the tor authentication you’ll see how said, although he declined to The University has put in option to enable multifactor quick and easy it is. For example, estimate a timeframe. Marty Levine 412-624-1374 place a robust array of security authentication for all Pitt Passport you can choose to automatically The USW publicly launched [email protected] measures to protect you, includ- services. After March 5, you will receive a push notification on its organizing efforts at Pitt a year ing enterprise network firewalls, no longer need to complete this your phone whenever you log in. BUSINESS MANAGER Marsha Lee ago. (See Feb. 4, 2016, University 412-624-4644 required password changes, step because multifactor authen- All you have to do is tap Accept. Times.) [email protected] advanced email threat protection, tication will be enabled by default. The cybersecurity landscape In addition to the graduate phishing education programs and Now you are protected by is constantly evolving and new student union, the USW would EVENTS CALENDAR [email protected] the Pitt Passport single sign-on multifactor authentication. The threats are always emerging. The organize full- and part-time service. These protections play an next time you log in to a University good news is that Pitt’s defenses faculty on all Pitt campuses as a The University Times is published bi-weekly important role in the University’s service that utilizes the secure Pitt against security threats are evolv- second bargaining group. on Thursdays by the University of Pittsburgh. layered approach to security, but Passport login page, you will be ing, too. n A Pitt faculty organizing com- Send correspondence to University Times, 308 Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, they can be thwarted once your prompted to verify your identity mittee is active at the University Pittsburgh, PA 15260; fax to 412-624-4579 password has been compromised. with multifactor authentication. Sean Sweeney is the University’s chief (www.pittfaculty.org) but no or email: [email protected]. Multifactor authentication is You can do so in one of three information security officer. He can be timetable has been announced The newspaper is available online at utimes. an additional layer of security ways: reached at 412-624-5595 or swee- pitt.edu. for a faculty union card campaign. designed to prevent unauthorized • “Send me a push” will send [email protected]. —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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in high-impact journals. served for at least three years at One letter of recommendation the University is eligible. Chancellor award winners named from a peer noted that “Tom has Up to five awardees may be CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 repeatedly demonstrated that he chosen each year. Each award meeting. nomination. He is labeled “a true leader” is an excellent researcher, mentor consists of a $2,000 cash prize The chancellor in his letter Senior scholar awards are given by the chancellor, who also and colleague who continues to plus a $3,000 grant to support the stated: “[Y]ou make a challeng- to those who have compiled a sub- notes that “your enthusiasm engage in high-level, relevant, faculty member’s public service ing subject ‘come alive’ for your stantial and continuing record of and collaboration skills are not cutting-edge science that sets the activities. students, which enhances their outstanding research and scholarly only said to inspire and energize standard in [his] field.” ability to fully engage with and activity. Nominees must have those around you, but have led Anthony S. Novosel retain the principles you are achieved pre-eminence in their to the implementation of highly Ronald D. Stall Novosel is being honored for teaching. Additionally, you have field and be recognized in letters successful innovations, causing Stall was selected for this award “the important impact that you had a lasting impact on your col- of support from national and the continued growth of the in recognition of his “pioneering have had on communities and leagues both within and outside international leaders in the field. University of Pittsburgh’s Depart- efforts in the field of HIV pre- students in Northern Ireland and the Department of Chemistry, by Each award consists of a ment of Medicine as a nationally vention and LGBT health,” the on the ongoing peace process,” teaching them how to incorporate $2,000 cash prize plus a $3,000 renowned clinical and research award letter notes. He is praised the chancellor’s letter states. the POGIL approach into their grant to support the faculty mem- center. As a dedicated clinician as a leader in the development of “Through oral histories, presen- courses.” ber’s teaching and research. whose work has produced numer- behavioral risk reduction inter- tations, writing, panel discussion, ous clinical trials, you continually ventions because he has directed friendships and mentorships you Melissa Marks Junior Scholars attend in the ICU, while training this field to examine HIV from have had a powerful positive Marks’ role in developing an Kara Anne Bernstein the next generation of physicians new angles. He has published impact on political factions, com- education minor and major earned Bernstein’s award notes that on rounds.” The chancellor noted more than 200 peer-reviewed munities and students.” her the 2010 Pitt-Greensburg she received the 2016 American that Gladwin has had more than articles, and the ICI Web of Sci- Novosel’s work with the President’s Medal. Cancer Society Research Scholar 200 invitations to speak nationally ence chose him as one of the 200 Business Education Initiative The chancellor’s letter notes: Award, signaling her place as a and internationally and more than most cited researchers in the social (now called Study USA) is cited. “As the director of the Secondary young scientist of note who regu- 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts. sciences across several years. The initiative arose out of the Education Program, you continue larly is invited to speak at national The award letter also quotes The award letter also cites Northern Irish peace process to develop innovative programs and international conferences. peers who supported Gladwin’s his work among the group of in 1994 and gives students from and opportunities to foster “Kara is one of the most nomination: “Dr. Gladwin is, scientists who built the Center on Northern Ireland opportunities experiential learning for your exceptional and talented young truthfully, phenomenal ... He is LGBT Health Research: “[I]t has for international study. Since 1996, students. … [Y]our commitment scientists that I have encountered one of the true ‘luminaries’ in now become one of the leading Novosel has assisted and coun- to teaching and creating engag- throughout my career as a cancer the NO (nitrite and nitric oxide) centers for the study of LGBT seled nearly 2,000 young people ing situations in and out of the researcher,” wrote one peer in field. And is a true ‘triple threat’ health disparities in the world, who have visited the United classroom is deeply appreciated support of her nomination. — leading in academic, clinical and home to the only T32 training States and returned to help shape by your students and colleagues.” The chancellor’s letter adds its and research arenas alike at the program from the National Insti- the future of Northern Ireland. own praise for her accomplish- highest possible level.” tutes of Health” that focuses on Students here at the University John Schumann ments: “Your strong work ethic, HIV prevention among men who also are said to have benefited Schumann won the 2008 promoting quality and timely Thomas W. Kensler have sex with men, a group that from Novosel’s deep knowledge Kenneth E. Schuit Award recog- research, can be seen in your 23 Kensler is praised by the now suffers approximately two- of Northern Ireland’s culture and nizing him as a “Dean’s Master peer-reviewed publications, six awards committee for his scien- thirds of all new HIV infections political landscape. Educator.” review articles, and an impressive tific contributions in chemopre- in the U.S. “A caring mentor who The chancellor’s letter notes: The chancellor’s letter praises record of grant awards for your vention, and his extensive research pushes his students to their great- “Over the past 40 years you Schumann for “your impact on research ... An effective mentor funding from the National Cancer est potential, you share not only developed friendships across the students through a problem-based and teacher to a diverse range of Institute as well as decades of insight, but include your students political spectrum and listened learning approach … As the direc- students, from post-doctoral fel- funding from the National Insti- as authors and co-authors in the carefully to the stories of com- tor of numerous courses, you have lows to high school students from tutes of Health. majority of your LGBT Health batants and past and present continued to mentor and develop minority and socio-economically “With your move beyond Research Center papers.” leaders in that divided country. students of medicine and dental disadvantaged backgrounds, you basic science to clinical applica- One of the support letters for One of your Northern Ireland medicine.” have successfully integrated your tion,” the chancellor’s award letter Stall’s nomination states that “Ron colleagues described you recently The letter also notes mentorship and the productive notes, “your work as a clinician is is not only an outstanding scien- as ‘One of the best informed Schumann’s “very positive stu- operations of your laboratory, exceptional, with highly successful tist, who has had a major global academics understanding the dent and peer evaluations, which [with] a number of your students and groundbreaking clinical trials impact on the fields of HIV and causes of conflict in Ireland and include expansive comments of contributing to papers published in China, which led to your rec- LGBT health through his research the recent period referred to as praise and recognition.” from your laboratory.” ognition by Vice-Premier Zhang program, his impact has also been the Troubles.’” Dejiang of China as a recipient of felt through the work of students, One result, noted in Novosel’s Cindy Skrzycki Haitao Liu the prestigious Friendship Award. colleagues and researchers around award, was his 2013 book, Skrzycki’s work was recog- Liu is cited by the awards ... you are an excellent mentor and the world who have been inspired “Northern Ireland’s Lost Oppor- nized previously with the Tina committee for “your paradigm role model to your over 35 pre- by this vision.” tunity: The Frustrated Promise of and David Bellet Teaching Excel- shifting research in the area of and postdoctoral trainees, as well Political Loyalism.” lence Award. She teaches courses graphitic carbon materials, and as an inspiration to thousands of PUBLIC SERVICE Novosel also created com- such as Statistics in Journalism your contributions to the area of young scientists and many of your The Chancellor’s Distin- munity forums with the aim of and Boot Camp: Write Now, DNA nanotechnology … [Y]ou colleagues.” guished Public Service Award healing Loyalist and Republican which emphasize experiential and are a recognized growing leader Kensler also was recognized recognizes outstanding public divisions and encouraging their exploratory education. in your field with a bright future.” for publishing more than 400 service contributions. Any full- journey toward peace. “Through your commitment Liu has given more than 30 highly cited, peer-reviewed articles time faculty member who has —Marty Levine n to experience-based learning and invited talks at conferences and impact beyond the classroom,” University colloquia; received the chancellor’s award letter says, $2.1 million in federal funding; “including diverse student intern- and published 52 peer-reviewed Assembly OKs relationship policy ships with nationally recognized articles, which have been cited aculty Assembly approved a less accusations or administrative ments/RevisedConsensualRela- publications and organizations, 2,900 times. Liu also is a member revised draft of a consensual abuse. The latest revision now will tionshipPolicyFeb2017.pdf. you continue to mentor and pre- of the Scientific Reports editorial Frelationship policy at its Feb. be placed on Senate Council’s Feb. In other business: pare students for careers in the board, and was invited to serve 14 meeting in a 30-1 vote with 22 agenda. • Alex Jones, of engineering, midst of the digital transforma- as a guest editor for Chemistry two abstentions. Senate President Frank Wilson announced that the Assembly’s tion of journalism.” Materials. For the last few months, the thanked the Senate’s tenure and March 14 meeting agenda will In support of his nomination, Assembly has been reviewing academic freedom committee feature an ad hoc committee’s RESEARCH Liu’s peers noted: “Haitao has changes to the University’s policy (TAFC) and other Assembly draft report on student surveys The Chancellor’s Distin- bravely established several creative (Policy 02-04-03) that prohibits members involved in drafting and annual evaluations, promo- guished Research Award rec- new research directions, suggest- intimate relationships between the policy. tion and tenure. ognizes outstanding scholarly ing the ability to sustain a long faculty members and students “I hope what we’ve learned • Kacey Marra, of medicine, accomplishments. Full-time fac- and productive research effort. whose academic work, teaching from this process is that we can do who is co-chair of the Senate ulty members who are tenured or His achievements to date and his or research is being supervised or shared governance,” Wilson said. equity, inclusion and antidis- in the tenure stream are eligible promise for the future identify evaluated by the faculty member. In 2015, a provost’s ad hoc crimination advocacy committee, if they have served at least three Haitao as an emerging star in The revised policy expands committee began working to shared a statement from the work- years here. nanofabrication and nanocrystal the ban to include relationships update the policy, which had been ing group on international popula- Up to five awardees are chosen science.” between staff and students and in effect since July 1996. tions. That statement supported in two categories: prohibits supervisors from ini- “I still think this is an unwise Chancellor Patrick Gallagher’s Junior scholar awardees Senior Scholars tiating consensual relationships and unnecessary policy,” said Jan. 28 message responding to include faculty members who, Mark T. Gladwin with employees under their area Chris Bonneau, a political science President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 by virtue of the exceptional quality Gladwin was cited for major of responsibility. faculty member and a member of executive order on immigration. of their early contributions, have discoveries with tremendous The approval comes after two the Assembly and TAFC, who • The University Research demonstrated great potential as impact in vascular medicine, previous attempts to endorse nonetheless voted in favor of the Council and the Office of the Pro- scholars and have achieved some which have triggered the develop- drafts at meetings last fall failed. policy. “But I am convinced now vost anticipate sponsoring 15-20 international standing. Candidates ment of new fields of research, (See Oct. 13 and Dec. 8 University that faculty rights are protected awards funding diversity research. for this award must have received including nitrite biology and Times.) Of particular concern in this version.” For more information, visit www. their highest degree no more hemolysis-mediated vascular were provisions that some said The revised policy is posted pitt.edu/~vpres/URC/. than 12 years before the time of disease. left the faculty vulnerable to base- at www.utimes.pitt.edu/docu- —Katie Fike n

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the intersection to the chancel- they’re amenable — to push lor, provost, the Community and for intersection improvements, SAC targets safety problems Governmental Relations office, “there might be other concerns and to city officials and several raised,” Toner says, and other solu- Oakland organizations, including tions proposed, such as repainting Oakland Business Improvement the crosswalks to be more visible, at Fifth/Bellefield intersection District, Oakland Planning and or putting in new lighting to make he Staff Association Coun- to press for crosswalk improve- lets pedestrians cross Fifth Avenue Development Corporation, Oak- road signs more obvious. cil (SAC) hopes 2017 will ments. It is seeking meetings with for 20-25 seconds before vehicles land Transportation Management There certainly are other Tbe the year in which the multiple Oakland improvement get the green light to turn from Association and the Bellefield intersections with problems, he intersection of Fifth and Belle- and watchdog groups, and send- Bellefield onto Fifth; and Area Citizens Association. allows, and SAC may in the future field avenues becomes safer for ing Alex Toner, chair of SAC’s • ban right turns on red for Toner says numerous inci- aim for the proposed coalition to pedestrians. external relations committee, to vehicles turning onto Fifth from dents of vehicles striking walkers, target other road improvements. At the end of January, SAC those groups’ public meetings to North Bellefield. (Vehicles on wheelchair users and bicyclists “However, the persistent and upped its campaign, based on drum up support for the effort. South Bellefield already are pro- prompted the action. relevant staff concerns that have staff complaints about the inter- SAC hopes that together the hibited from making a right turn Stakeholders, including Pitt, he been raised to us have made [Fifth section, to bring University and groups can petition the city to: on red.) says, “are aware of the lingering and Bellefield] a priority at this Oakland stakeholders together • install a crossing signal that SAC also is urging the City hazard it poses to anybody cross- time,” he says. of Pittsburgh, which controls ing there. We are hoping we can “We very much want to work the intersection, to continue its build a coalition of like-minded with all stakeholders involved public forums concerning Bus individuals and organizations in in this,” he says of the current Search for new Rapid Transit planning and the the city to create a strong call effort, “to try to reach a desirable city’s Complete Streets project, to to action to implement some of outcome for everyone … where address broader concerns about the safety improvements we are the safety of everyone using that vehicle/pedestrian interactions seeking.” intersection is addressed and sr. VC progresses in Oakland. As a result of teaming with enhanced.” SAC sent its Jan. 27 letter about Oakland organizations — if —Marty Levine n short list of five candidates Spring encouraged the commit- for the new position of tee to ask the administration to A senior vice chancellor for identify the finalists and give them research has been submitted to the opportunity to make presenta- the chancellor, N. John Cooper, tions to the campus community. dean of the Dietrich School of While candidates’ names often Arts and Sciences, told the Uni- are kept confidential in order versity Times. not to jeopardize their current Cooper, who chaired the position, neither is it unusual for search committee for the posi- the final candidates to be named, tion, offered few details on the Spring said. finalists, except to say the com- q mittee reviewed a “spectacular In other business at the group of candidates” from diverse research committee’s meeting: backgrounds. • Anthony DeArdo, faculty “The finalist stage is all in the member in the Swanson School chancellor’s hands now,” he told of Engineering Department of the University Times on Monday. Mechanical Engineering and The senior vice chancellor for Materials Science, shared his research will report to the chancel- experience as an innovator in lor and will oversee the Univer- research of interest to the steel sity’s research support operations industry. In the 1990s he was and administration, research among the researchers who devel- compliance, research computing oped a lead-free “green” steel infrastructure, economic develop- that was more easily machined ment and innovation programs. than leaded steel. He stressed Members of the University the importance of understanding NJ Brown/University Times community offered input on the intellectual property implications qualities and qualifications they in mature industries, such as the desired in a new top administrator steel industry. Senate group plans session on for research during four town hall • Lina D. Dostilio, who joined sessions held on campus last fall. the Office of Community and (See Oct. 13 University Times.) Governmental Relations in Janu- minority student mentoring Details on the position are at ary as assistant vice chancellor he University Senate student cial Aid on how incoming students increasing mental health aware- www.pitt.edu/svcresearch. for Pitt’s community engagement admissions, aid and affairs are assessed, given recent SAT ness among grad students; Title IX q centers, has been invited to speak (SAAA) committee’s March re-centering and the increased education; diversity and inclusion; Former University Senate at the committee’s April 7 meeting. T 1 meeting will focus on minor- popularity of ACT testing, and and advocacy and community president Michael Spring wants q ity student mentoring. Sylvanus on how Pitt’s out-of-state recruit- engagement, Saver said. the finalists for the position to The research committee’s next Wosu, the Swanson School of ment efforts are progressing. GPSG’s annual graduate stu- make public presentations on meeting is set for 1 p.m. March Engineering’s associate dean for Committee member Lance dent body survey is being readied campus. At the Feb. 3 Senate 3 in 156 Cathedral of Learning. diversity, has been invited as a Davidson expressed interest in for release at the end of February. research committee meeting, —Kimberly K. Barlow n guest speaker. exploring Pitt’s ranking in a recent Saver welcomed suggestions for The committee also plans to comparison of economic mobility survey questions from the group. Global studies deadline nears reach out to student veterans to among U.S. college students and “It’s really the student body survey March 1 is the deadline for applications for the Global Studies determine how it can support this whether Pitt has any strategic that allows us to have information Center (GSC) faculty fellowship and the center’s global academic subset of Pitt’s nontraditional efforts for helping students move to issue recommendations,” he partnership grant competition. student population. SAAA co- up in economic status. said. “Without that data backing chair Harvey Borovetz, a former it up, it’s more difficult to issue • GSC selects a faculty member to advance and showcase Graduate student update scholarship related to one of the center’s current themes: global Army reservist, said he has been recommendations.” health, human rights and human security, or inequality. The fel- in contact with Pitt’s Office of Justin Saver, president of Saver expressed appreciation lowship includes a course release; up to $15,000 to organize a Veterans Services and the Pitt the Graduate and Professional to the Office of the Provost scholarly event; plus $5,000 for related research, travel and cur- student veterans affinity group. Student Association (GPSG), for providing Jennifer Walker as ricular development. The award year runs Aug. 28, 2017-June 30, SAAA co-chair Juan Taboas updated the committee on his GPSG staff adviser. “She’ll be 2018. The faculty fellow is expected to deliver a public lecture and said the committee has heard group’s recent activities and its a great keeper of institutional participate in activities that support the center’s research, teaching presentations on nontraditional goals for the remainder of the memory for the future,” he said, and outreach priorities. More information is available at www.ucis. students, but has not focused academic year. adding that Walker is planning pitt.edu/global/facultyfellow. specifically on student veterans. GPSG will host a graduate an expanded transition and inau- • The global academic partnership grant competition aims In brainstorming future areas research showcase focused on guration for new GPSG officers to amplify the center’s themes of global health, human rights/ of focus for the committee, Senate innovating a better Pennsylvania to smooth the leadership change vice president and former SAAA during the March 21 Pitt Day in each year. human security and inequality through interdisciplinary research q collaborations, curriculum development, student exchanges and chair Robin Kear expressed inter- Harrisburg, Saver said. Based other scholarly ties. One $40,000 grant will be awarded to sup- est in an update on how student- on nominations from the deans’ In other business, SAAA port ongoing campus programming that enriches the intellectual athletes are supported at Pitt. offices, a representative of each rescheduled some spring term environment at Pitt ($10,000 in 2017-18 and $30,000 in 2018-19). Penny Semaia, senior associate of Pitt’s graduate schools will be meeting dates to avoid conflicts This award is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the athletic director for student life selected to showcase their work with Senate Council meetings in University Center for International Studies. and a chancellor’s liaison to SAAA, as part of Pitt’s advocacy in the April and May. Submit proposals online at https://ucis.submittable.com/ offered to make a presentation. state capitol. The committee will meet submit/57142/gap-application-form-maximum-40-000. For more SAAA member Joanne Baird GPSG’s special initiatives this March 1, April 12 and May 10, all at information, contact Jessica Pickett at [email protected]. n suggested an update from the academic year have focused on 3:30 p.m. in 272 Hillman Library. Office of Admissions and Finan- improving alumni interactions; —Kimberly K. Barlow n

4 FEBRUARY 16, 2017 CL retains its power to inspire he Cathedral of Learning the first floor, you do “feel smaller may be celebrating the than God,” she says — one of the T80th anniversary of its traditional functions of a cathe- dedication, but it still embodies dral. “When we go up to the top the power literally invested in of the Cathedral and look out, it by masses of schoolchildren we get a sense of ourselves,” she donating their milk money for its adds: a higher sense. construction — and the power of Looking out the Cathedral’s all that Pittsburgh steel through upper floors makes one feel not which it took shape. smaller but more powerful, and JoAnna Commandaros, studio more enlightened, she explains. arts lecturer who creates sculp- “When you can see your whole tures and installations with local landscape, you get a sense of the steel, says the Cathedral acted bigger picture.” in 1937, and still acts today, as a The Cathedral frames the community builder. These images landscape below, showing us views by Pitt photographers Mike Draz- through petal-shaped openings, dzinski, Aimee Obidzinski and through latticework and through Monica Synett of the University other window-like forms — Center for Teaching and Learn- including, of course, its actual ing show the Cathedral from windows. The Cathedral becomes many angles, in many lights and the frame around a landscape seasons, and thus many moods, painting of Oakland and beyond, but all show its continuing power making what we see seem even to inspire. more significant. For one, it is monumental Today we see a new view simply because of its height, but of ever-shifting surroundings. also monumental in reflecting “How do I take refuge in con- our aspirations in its form. It is a stant change?” Commandaros cathedral that urges us to worship asks. The building’s frames never the god of learning. change, and so the Cathedral of “We can imagine that we are Learning is a kind of anchor, going up there,” Commandaros she says. “There is something says of the building’s heights. “It powerful about the strength of speaks to the possibility of higher this structure … the truth of its learning, to ascension” — both material.” It holds us aloft, and Photos by Mike Drazdzinski/Photographic Services, except as noted literally and figuratively. aims to broaden our perspective Seen from below, the Cathedral on life. Commandaros recalls living in tion foreman, she had trouble recalls conversing with a dean naturally creates such feelings, as q London as a resident artist and convincing steel producers to take about the effect on the University if one were faced with a mountain The community a building seeking steel for her work. As a her seriously until she mentioned of President Donald Trump’s and challenged to climb it. Inside constructs can be quite literal. woman in the arts, not a construc- the place where she usually lives recent order stopping travel from and works. seven mostly Muslim countries, “When I said ‘I’m and curtailing the immigration from Pittsburgh,’ they of refugees. The dean was facing just lit up,” she reports. multiple meetings trying to deal “These big, strong men with the executive order’s impact, just were like, ‘You’re even though it had been tempo- from Pittsburgh? Did rarily stayed. you know that Pitts- “We’ve got real issues and this burgh steel built this is a scary moment,” Commanda- city?’ All these barriers ros says. “But the University is fell away.” The steel thus standing tall on this. When we became “a beautiful think of the Cathedral of Learn- bridge” among cultures, ing, we can use that as a symbol, a she says. The Cathedral mirror, a bridge to connect to our still shows off its Pitts- ethical mandate that education is burgh steel connection for everyone. This is an extreme today, however cloaked moment and the Cathedral of in stone ornamentation. Learning standing for all these But the main com- higher philosophies is really para- munity the Cathedral mount now.” builds is as an educa- The Cathedral, as a sculpture, tional institution, of may work as the Greeks intended course. “We are the sculpture to work: as the ideal institution as it evolves,” figure to mirror the image of Commandaros notes. god in man. Perhaps the arcs of “We do not just look at the Cathedral’s strict geometry, it as a sculpture. We look pointing toward the sky, are like at it as an institution we “the arc of the moral universe inhabit. We can still feel … bend[ing] toward justice,” as a sense of pride in what President Barack Obama used it stands for.” to quote Martin Luther King Jr. Commandaros CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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Photos by Mike Drazdzinski/Photographic Services, except as noted Celebrating the CL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 q When photographers capture When the Cathedral has the building from unusual angles images projected on it, it becomes — from mid-air, looking skinnier most contemporary, focusing all than normal from the side, or in of our attention on the same idea. a panoramic shot from below, “It feels immediately like a link-up which severely foreshortens its to me,” Commandaros says — the form — they allow us to contem- Cathedral as social media, build- plate the Cathedral anew, she adds. ing its list of like-minded friends. If the building is isolated in the Lighted buildings can be their photo, especially when rendered in own art form, practiced most black and white, we cannot even prominently by Krzysztof Wod- be sure when during the past 80 iczko. They also can be purpose- years the picture was taken, unless fully frivolous — think of holiday we peer closely enough to spot light-up nights — “but because of street signs beneath it, or squint the Cathedral’s symbolism in the at the very top — could that be Pittsburgh landscape … it adds a cell tower? some gravitas,” she says. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Monica Synett/Photographic Services, Celebrating the CL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 q “There could never be another Cathedral of Learning built today,” Commandaros con- cludes — just as there will never be another David chiseled from stone by another Michelangelo. “Our consciousness moves too fast,” she says. “We don’t have the temperament for it.” q Can’t get enough of the Cathe- dral of Learning? The University photographers can’t either. For more images from photographers Tom Altany, Mike Drazdzinski, Aimee Obidzinski and Monica Synett, go to www.instagram. com/pittteaching/. —Marty Levine n

Create your own Cathedral To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Cathe- dral of Learning’s dedi- cation, the Pitt Alumni Association is sponsoring a contest to create Cathedral replicas out of any mate- rial — including virtual versions (www.alumni. pitt.edu/news-events/ cathedral-innovation-chal- lenge/). Pitt alumni, stu- dents, faculty and staff members, individually or in groups, should submit entries by Feb. 24. Winners will be chosen through an online ballot sent to all alumni on Feb. 27. A host of Pitt-centric prizes are at stake, from a dinner on the Cathedral’s 40th floor to football and basketball tickets. Winning entries will be on display in the Randall Family Big Idea Competi- tion Awards Showcase on March 14. n

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hen it comes to discuss- and ’round, what if we first talk ing race relations, and about: Do we have a system where Wparticularly the reality CRSP lecture everyone is treated fairly, or do we of white privilege, “a lot of what have a system where whites have we do seems to be a shouting an advantage?” Following such match,” a sociology professor honest conversations, he said, told those at the Feb. 1 Center for perhaps “we can actually move the Race and Social Problems lecture. WHITE PRIVILEGE needle on some of these policies.” Titled “White Privilege in When white privilege was America: Not So Invisible Any- thought to be invisible, “it didn’t more,” the talk by Paul R. Croll of make white folks accountable,” Augustana College aimed to bring Where do we go from here? he added. “How can we have recent data and a social scientific a situation where Americans, perspective to several central lege,’ it’s certainly not invisible likely these respondents were to action for colleges and universities including white Americans, are questions: What do Americans anymore,” Croll said — and the recognize white privilege. in the U.S.? aware” of white privilege and the think about white privilege, why data now back him up. q The Boundaries survey also problems it causes? Conversations does it matter and where do we Croll was one of the research- Whites were certainly aware asked whether Americans sup- among people who have different go from here? ers leading the 2014 Boundaries of white privilege, the Boundar- ported affirmative action, and if attitudes toward, and awareness White privilege, Croll said, is in the American Mosaic project, ies project showed, but not by an they did so to maximize society’s of, white privilege will do more “a term that we use to talk about a National Science Foundation- overwhelming majority. In fact, diversity or to ensure everyone to move the country forward the way whites have advantages funded survey of more than 2,500 more than a third gave contradic- equal access to education. than trading Facebook posts and in our society.” Those privileges Americans designed to measure tory answers to whether whites In total, 40 percent of people Twitter tweets among people we come without individual whites their awareness of white privilege. had advantages in America and supported affirmative action, already know, and whose attitude making any deliberate, conscious Overall, 70 percent of respon- whether race still mattered in this including a third of whites. But we already share. effort to acquire them, he said. dents agreed that whites have country. only 4 percent of those whites said q While the origin of white privilege advantages in American society Just 51 percent professed the they hoped to increase diversity; White privilege takes many is a lengthy U.S. history of seg- today. “It really challenges this view that whites had advantages instead, most said their affirma- forms today, Croll said. He cited regating and suppressing people notion of invisibility” for white and race still mattered, while 11 tive action support was based a 2009 study showing a severe gap of color, it unconsciously stems privilege, he said. percent took the opposite but still on a desire for equal access to between the total family wealth today from America’s majority- As the survey found, aware- consistent view that whites had higher education — even though that blacks and whites may depend white population being viewed by ness of white privilege cuts no advantages but race no longer the majority of white affirmative on in times of emergencies as a whites as “normal” or “regular.” across regions, races and political mattered here. action supporters also saw white legacy of decades of redlining The experiences and attitudes of parties, and neither gender nor The remaining 38 percent privilege as a reality. blacks into segregated neighbor- white people thus are assumed, income level influenced people’s seemed to hold two contradictory Similarly, only 13 percent of hoods: Homeownership today is by individuals and by our major perceptions. ideas simultaneously. A quarter whites said African Americans 70 percent among whites and 40 institutions, to be the experiences While a higher percentage of of whites surveyed believed should receive special consider- percent among blacks. and attitudes of all people — African Americans and Latinos whites did not have advantages ation in job hiring and school “If you are white, on average, even though different races tend agreed that white privilege exists, in America, but that race still admissions. Those who believed you tend to live in a space where to have different experiences two-thirds of white Americans mattered. Another 13 percent in white privilege were more than you have wealth, where you have in daily life, in everything from also acknowledged its reality. acknowledged white privilege twice as likely to believe in affir- better schools,” Croll noted. classrooms to encounters with And while more Democrats than but still said that race no longer mative action. He also cited studies that dem- law enforcement. Republicans agree that there is mattered for the nation. “Obviously that’s a hot-button onstrated that “black-sounding Thus, Croll noted, “being white privilege in America, 59 Still, factors that influenced issue,” Croll acknowledged. But, names” on resumes got people white is being in a place of relative percent of Republicans acknowl- an awareness of white privilege he added, it would be unfair to hired less often, and the fact that advantage.” edged white privilege as well. for all people, such as more edu- give blacks advantages in hiring 10 percent of black men in their The notion that white privilege “As your level of education cation, worked to move whites and admissions “only if we already 30s are in jail in America on any exists reverses decades of think- increases, your level of agree- toward greater understanding as have a level playing field” — only given day. ing. Previously, U.S. society termed ment that whites have privilege well. Even a majority of more if white privilege did not actually To his white students who anyone who did not experience in American society increases,” conservative whites — Republi- exist. believe that they do not benefit the “norm” of white experience Croll said. Even among those cans included in the Boundaries “We focus, I would even say from white privilege — who say, as “disadvantaged.” adults who had not graduated project — acknowledged white obsess, on what divides us,” Croll “‘I’m not a racist, I’m not a bigot, Instead, the term “white privi- from high school, two-thirds of privilege in the survey. In fact, said. “One of the things we could it’s not on me’” — Croll responds: lege” acknowledges, Croll said, survey respondents agreed: White a majority of white Republicans do alternatively is find common “Have you grown up in a space that the advantages enjoyed by privilege exists. agreed that white privilege was at ground. where you had privilege?” He whites are not normal, that it is The survey also found that play in American society. “Awareness of white privilege labeled “naïve” the idea that a true case of unfair advantage. the racial composition of respon- q actually cuts across social divi- racism is encouraged by all the q dents’ home counties, and of their Does an increase in awareness sions,” he noted. “That means current talk of race. Scholars in previous decades social networks, influenced their of white privilege translate to we have a space where we can One African-American grand- had concluded that white privilege opinions: The more diverse their support for programs to counter talk about [white privilege]. mother in the audience stood to was unnoticed by whites, Croll living environments, the more white privilege, such as affirmative Instead of just debating ’round say she worried for the well-being pointed out. Peggy McIntosh’s of her teenaged grandchildren, 1988 research, for example, found particularly the boys, as well as that “white privilege is an invisible her son-in-law, because fear of package of unearned assets” that non-white, non-American groups white people do not even realize, was used to help get President and concluded “if we would just Donald Trump elected. “Can you make people aware of it and see give me an answer how I can save it, we could make progress on it,” my grandson and son-in-law from Croll said. something crazy happening?” she Similarly, Ruth Frankenberg’s asked. “Because that door is now influential 1993 study of white open, people.” women found they “didn’t even “I think you’re right — I hate have the language to talk about to say it,” Croll answered. “I think whiteness … showing white there is a heightened risk. White women at the time viewed them- people and those who have been selves as race-less.” passive and less involved need to Such attitudes do not hold true be more active. More action needs today, Croll said: “The invisibility to be taken to fight these things. of white privilege is actually erod- We need to show your grandkids ing away.” that the majority of people are Following well-publicized on their side.” police shootings of black people Still, he acknowledged, even over the past several years and among those who today under- the contentious 2016 presi- stand white privilege, that their dential election, discussions of unconscious thoughts must also white privilege are cropping up be: “Who wants to give it up, and more often in public forums, in how would you? the media and on social media, “It’s just going to take time,” among a wider variety of people he concluded. “I think it’s going on the left and right, Croll added. to be years ahead, and I think the Conservative Fox television host youngest generation is going to Bill O’Reilly even talked about it, have to figure that out. denying it existed but, paradoxi- “We need to start having more

cally, acknowledging that groups Mike Drazdzinski/Photographic Services honest conversations about white other than whites have tougher Augustana College faculty member Paul Croll, who spoke on white privilege as part of the speaker series at privilege. We need to not be afraid the Center for Race and Social Problems, is flanked by Carlos Torres (left), executive director of the Pittsburgh times succeeding in America. Commission on Human Relations, who introduced Croll, and Larry Davis, director of the center and dean of of it.” “If Fox is using ‘white privi- the School of Social Work. —Marty Levine n

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S used to build a system to their rial also can be used to administer transportation, construction, use anti-inflammatory or antibiotic Higher BMI linked thyroid hormone levels in check. pediatric patients can be months and, eventually, the estimated end medications. The funding will be The two-year trial, which is and the patients can require of life. Although LCA has been used to provide proof-of-concept to lower-quality entirely funded by individual lengthy hospital stays anchored used to compare centralized and studies. Data from the successful end-of-life care donors affected by thyroid cancer, to large mechanical ventilators. decentralized water systems in completion of the studies will A study by a School of Medi- will investigate whether the To safely bridge the time different contexts, the Phipps CSL better position the innovation for cine researcher suggests that the UPMC-developed molecular between diagnosis and transplant research is the first to consider application to the Department of heavier someone is, the less likely genetic test ThyroSeq can cor- while allowing patient mobility, a both water supply and treatment Defense for funding to explore they are to receive quality end-of- rectly differentiate between thy- research team led by the Swanson at a comprehensive site or in the the therapeutic potential of the life care, including hospice care roid cancers most likely to spread School of Engineering, working context of a net-zero energy/ technology. Matching funds will and the chance to die at home. and require complete removal of with the McGowan Institute water building. come from the Center for Military The study was led by John the thyroid gland, and those likely for Regenerative Medicine, is Bilec noted that, while the Medicine Research, whose mis- Harris, an obstetrics, gynecology to be far less invasive, warrant- developing a compact respiratory research found that a decentral- sion is to address combat-related and reproductive sciences faculty ing a thyroid-preserving surgical assist device for children. The ized water system operates well injuries. member. Harris conducted the approach. Pittsburgh Pediatric Ambulatory for a facility like the CSL, the envi- • BodyExplorer: Autonomous research during his fellowship Said Linwah Yip, surgery fac- Lung (P-PAL) would replace tra- ronmental benefits or trade-offs Simulated Patient, proposed by at the University of Michigan ulty member and principal inves- ditional oxygenation methods as for such systems are dependent Douglas Nelson Jr., doctoral Institute for Healthcare Policy tigator of the trial: “We’re looking a bridge to transplant or recovery upon their lifetime of use, and candidate in bioengineering; John and Innovation (IHPI), and the at potentially saving patients from in children with lung failure. may not necessarily be practical O’Donnell, faculty member and findings were published in the unnecessary surgery.” The project received a four- or environmentally preferable. chair of nurse anesthesia; and Annals of Internal Medicine. Nearly 57,000 cases of thyroid year, $2.36 million award from For example, a similar system Joseph Samosky, bioengineering Researchers analyzed records cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. NIH’s National Heart, Lung might be more environmentally faculty member. This next-genera- from more than 5,600 senior every year, and about 2,000 people and Blood Institute. Program and economically efficient for a tion medical simulator is designed citizens who took part in the die of the disease, according to the director/principal investigator is development of multiple homes to help health care trainees learn long-running national Health American Cancer Society. William J. Federspiel, bioengi- or buildings, rather than one anatomy and physiology and and Retirement Study, examining Under current guidelines of neering faculty member. Co-PIs structure. practice treating patients through how their body mass index (BMI) the American Thyroid Associa- are William R. Wagner, director Conversely, the relative impact naturalistic interaction with an related to end-of-life measures, tion, when patients are diagnosed of the McGowan Institute for of a decentralized system built augmented-reality enhanced such as their use of hospice ser- preoperatively with thyroid cancer, Regenerative Medicine and sur- in a water-scarce region may be full-body simulated patient. The vices. Results indicated that people which means a small sample of gery, bioengineering and chemical more beneficial than its environ- team previously participated in with higher BMIs were less likely their thyroid has cancerous cells, engineering faculty member, and a mental footprint. The decision the Coulter translational part- to enter hospice care and, among they can start by having just half colleague from the Nemours Chil- as to what water system to build ners II program and the Idea those who did, seniors with obe- of their thyroid removed. Often, dren’s Health System in Florida. and its scale, she said, should be Foundry’s science accelerator to sity spent fewer days in hospice this allows the remaining part of Said Federspiel: “Standard evaluated within the context of advance prototype development than those with lower BMIs. the thyroid to continue function- existing therapy not only restricts the entire life of the structure or and usability testing. The new The study also found that ing naturally without longterm children’s mobility in the hospital site it supports. funding will assist in improving about 60 percent of the seniors medication. However, a second but can also cause lung damage She also noted that research the user interface and expanding in the study died at home, an thyroid operation then can be and/or worsening of the child’s such as this is valuable because of the BodyExplorer curriculum experience that most Americans required if the removed cancer health. Our new approach allows the community-minded approach modules to enhance access to say they would choose. But that is an aggressive type. Alterna- the patient’s lungs to rest and heal, shared by Pitt, MCSI and Phipps, the benefits of simulation-based percentage dropped as BMI rose. tively, under the current guide- and if the child is a candidate for and its impact on students. For learning for medical and nursing The researchers focused on lines, patients can skip the initial lung transplantation, the mobility example, Hasik is using the CSL students, first responders and Medicare claims in the last six removal of half the thyroid and afforded by the P-PAL will lead to study to inform his dissertation on other health care practitioners. months of the participants’ lives, proceed straight to full removal, better post-transplant outcomes.” resilient and sustainable systems. Idea Foundry is providing one- looking at use of hospice services but they will need medication for Co-investigators include Jona- Other Pitt co-authors included to-one matching cash support, in and controlling for gender, race, the rest of their lives. than D’Cunha of Pitt and a William O. Collinge and Vikas addition to $25,000 of additional marital status, multiple medical ThyroSeq is a genetic test faculty member from Mississippi Khanna. Colleagues from Clem- in-kind support, to assist in secur- conditions and household assets. developed by a scientific team State University. son and New York University also ing additional investment. They also had information from lead by Yuri Nikiforov, pathology contributed. Two projects received $35,000 surveys of the participants’ loved faculty member and director of awards without a matching ones about their end-of-life care UPMC’s Division of Molecular Water reuse requirement. in addition to all participants’ last and Genomic Pathology. UPMC’s systems assessed Innovation Institute • Nano-LED Technology measured BMI. latest version allows pathologists The decentralized water rewards proposals for Microdisplays, proposed by Fifteen percent of partici- to simultaneously test 14 genes system at the Center for Sustain- The Innovation Institute has Hong Koo Kim, Bell of PA/ pants were obese, with BMIs for 42 markers of thyroid cancer able Landscapes (CSL) at Phipps awarded $140,000 to four Pitt Bell Atlantic Professor in electrical over 30, and 2 percent were using just a few cells collected Conservatory and Botanical Gar- teams to help them move their and computer engineering, and morbidly obese, with BMIs over during the initial biopsy. dens, which treats all nonpotable discoveries toward commercial- doctoral student Daud Hasan 40. Another 31 percent were The test has performed well water on site, contributes to the ization, with the aim of making a Emon. They have developed overweight, with BMIs between at differentiating between cancer- net-zero building’s recognition as positive impact on society. nano LED structures that have 25 and 29.9. ous and noncancerous thyroid one of the greenest buildings in The Chancellor’s Innovation lower energy costs and longer The differences in end-of-life nodules, already sparing patients the world. Commercialization Funds were battery life than existing LED care also translated into differ- from unnecessary surgeries. However, research into the established to provide support technology. Applications include ences in cost. In the last six months Yip and her colleagues plan efficacy of these systems versus for promising early-stage Pitt mobile device displays and other of life for a person with a normal to enroll about 100 patients who traditional treatment has been innovations to assist in reducing micro-display devices. The fund- BMI, the Medicare system spent are newly diagnosed with thyroid practically nonexistent. Research the technical and/or market risk ing will support advancement of about $43,000 for all types of care. cancer. Each participant’s biopsy by Phipps and faculty members associated with the innovations prototypes to demonstrate the For an obese person, the costs sample will be tested with Thy- from the Swanson school has and make them more attractive breadth of the optimal applica- were about $3,500 higher. roSeq to determine whether the resulted in a greater understanding to investors or potential licensees. tions. The study was funded by the cancer has an aggressive or non- of the life cycle of water reuse One of the paths for identifying • Reactive Extraction of Water: Robert Wood Johnson Founda- aggressive genetic signature. The systems designed for living build- funding opportunities is through Desalination Without Membranes tion, the U.S. Department of patients and their doctors then can ings, from construction through a request for proposal program or Distillation, proposed by Eric Veterans Affairs and the National decide whether to remove half or day-to-day use. that was launched last November Beckman, distinguished service Institutes of Health (NIH). the entire thyroid. Published in Environmental and recently culminated in these professor in chemical engineering, Other authors included cur- In addition, the trial also will Science and Technology, the awards. has developed a chemical method rent and former IHPI members evaluate the quality-of-life param- research uses life-cycle assessment The teams were selected by a for desalinating water that requires and a co-author from the Dana eters associated with complete (LCA). The study was co-authored panel of judges from a pool of less energy than the longstanding Farber Cancer Institute. removal of the thyroid gland. by Melissa M. Bilec, civil and two dozen applicants that was nar- existing methods such as reverse This trial can be found on environmental engineering faculty rowed to a group of 10 finalists. osmosis or flash distillation. The Genetic thyroid ClinicalTrials.gov with the identi- member and deputy director of Two awards of $35,000 each award will fund testing to validate fier NCT02947035. the Mascaro Center for Sustain- were made for innovations with the technology. cancer test may able Innovation (MCSI), with a one-to-one matching partner: preserve gland collaborators at Phipps, and the • Thermoresponsive Hydrogel New clues show School of Medicine scien- NIH $2.36 million participation of PhD graduate for Orbital Volume Augmen- tists and doctors are embarking grant targets student Vaclav Hasik and under- tation, proposed by Morgan viruses entering on the first-ever clinical trial to graduate Naomi Anderson. Fedorchak, faculty member in intestine determine if a genetic test they development of Said Bilec: “As water becomes ophthalmology, chemical engi- Researchers at the School of pioneered could spare patients wearable artificial more of a precious resource neering and clinical and trans- Medicine and Washington Univer- with nonaggressive thyroid cancer lung for kids around the globe, there is a greater lational science, and Jenny Yu, sity in St. Louis have provided the from complete removal of their Acute and chronic lung dis- focus on developing new methods faculty member and vice chair first details of how enteroviruses, thyroid, a gland in the neck that is eases are the most life-threatening of water efficiency and water of clinical operations in ophthal- which cause millions of infections important to hormone regulation causes of hospitalization and conservation.” mology. worldwide annually, can enter the and development. Such thyroid- death among young children. According to Bilec, LCA This nondegradable hydrogel body through the intestine. The preserving surgery minimizes This is especially true for children scientifically analyzes the envi- material can be injected into the results of the study are published surgical complications, and many suffering from cystic fibrosis. The ronmental impact of a product orbit of the eye following ocular in Proceedings of the National patients also may avoid taking path to recovery often leads to a or process throughout the entire trauma or as a treatment for Academy of Sciences. medication every day to keep lung transplant, but the wait for life cycle, from the materials genetic eye disorders. The mate- CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S general of Pennsylvania, elected in System’s senior associate director 1996 and re-elected in 2000. Fisher to become assistant provost in the The University’s 2017 Nicho- man’s Mongolian PhD students The School of Law named has argued major cases in state and Office of the Provost. las Rescher Prize for Systematic have received “Best Dissertation senior federal appeals judge D. federal appellate courts, including Tannery came to HSLS as a Philosophy will be awarded Oct. Awards” from the Comparative Michael Fisher to its newly the 1998 precedent-setting case reference librarian in 1996, having 13 to Ruth Millikan, Board of and International Education created position of distinguished before the U.S. Supreme Court earned her MSLS degree after Trustees distinguished professor Society Higher Education special jurist in residence, effective Feb. 1. that ensured paroled criminals working as a research specialist for emeritus at the University of interest group. Fisher, who serves in the U.S. meet the conditions of their several years. She rose to assistant Connecticut. Court of Appeals for the Third release. director in 1998, then associate The prize was established Business administration faculty Circuit, also is an adjunct profes- Prior to being attorney gen- director in 2004, and senior asso- in 2010 in honor of Nicholas member Jay Sukits of the Katz sor at Pitt Law. He is to teach two eral, Fisher was a member of the ciate director in 2011. Tannery Rescher, distinguished University Graduate School courses every fall term and be on Pennsylvania General Assembly, oversaw the growth of HSLS’s professor of philosophy, who has of Business is the site during the spring term to meet serving six years in the House and instruction and research support been on Pitt’s philosophy faculty inaugural recipi- with students and participate in 16 years in the Senate. services, including library liaison since 1961. ent of the CFA other activities. Fisher, an emeritus trustee programs in the Schools of the Millikan’s body of work spans Society Pitts- Fisher was nominated to the since 2004, served as a common- Health Sciences and the molecular the philosophy of language, the burgh’s Excel- Third Circuit by President George wealth trustee 1984-97. biology information services. philosophy of mind, epistemol- lence in Financial W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. She received the Medical ogy, ontology and their intercon- Literacy Educa- Senate in 2003. Prior to becoming Nancy Tannery has resigned Library Association’s Brodman nections with the philosophical tion Award. The a judge, he served as the attorney as the Health Sciences Library CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 foundations of the biological and award recognizes educators who psychological sciences. best demonstrate a commitment Central to her project is the sys- to financial literacy education in tematic development of a deeply the spirit and tenets of the CFA influential treatment of thought designation. and meaning as biologically and Sukits was honored for his historically situated categories. efforts to expand financial literacy The Rescher prize is awarded among college students. Three biennially. Its aim is to reward and years ago, he created a one-credit showcase the work of scholars Personal Financial Planning who have addressed some of course for undergraduates, in the traditional “big questions” of which students create a personal philosophical interest in a way that financial plan to outline their commands the respect of special- financial goals. ists in the field. Winners receive a In addition, his work was gold medal and $25,000. instrumental in developing the organization’s annual Collegiate John C. Weidman, a faculty Personal Financial Planning Com- member in higher and interna- petition, launched in 2015. Sukits’ tional development education original format for a financial plan in the School of Education’s was adopted as the submission Department of Administrative criteria for participating students. and Policy Studies, has received an The CFA Society Pittsburgh, Exemplary Educator Award from a member of the CFA Institute the government of Mongolia. global network of societies, is an Weidman was nominated by association of local investment colleagues at the National Uni- professionals that promotes versity of Mongolia in recogni- ethical standards, professional Justin Pastrick Michael Dabrishus tion of his contributions to the development and exchange of Community leaders, archivists, and friends of the K. Leroy Irvis family gathered Feb. 10 outside the Irvis development of higher education information within the local Room at Hillman Library for a tribute to the civil rights leader during Black History Month. Irvis, a Pitt alum- in Mongolia through research, investment community and works nus and emeritus trustee who made contributions to education throughout his lifetime, also was an artist. Above: Cathryn L. Irvis presented to Pitt’s K. Leroy Irvis Archives two busts and two large African masks that technical assistance and advising to further public understanding of her husband created. Pictured with her is grandson Glynn Alexander Irvis Hill. The new pieces of artwork of Mongolian graduate students the CFA designation and invest- will be considered for a future display in the Irvis Room. Currently, the room highlights Irvis’ work associated dating from 1992. Two of Weid- ment industry. with education, the theme of this year’s Black History Month.

R E S E A R C H N O T E S CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Enteroviruses are a class of structures normally found in the and women with lower levels of El Khoudary and her team calcification in postmenopausal viruses that are the second most human intestine. estrogen at midlife, according evaluated clinical data, including women compared with pre- or common human infectious agents Using the mini-gut model, the to research led by the Graduate blood samples and heart CT scans, early-menopausal women. and are primarily transmitted researchers demonstrated that School of Public Health. on 478 women enrolled in the “Clearly, epicardial and peri- through close person-to-person echovirus 11, the enterovirus most The findings reveal a previ- Study of Women’s Health Across cardial fat are distinct types of contact, touching infected sur- commonly associated with NICU ously unknown menopause-spe- the Nation. The women were in heart fat that are found to be faces, or ingesting food or water infections, induced significant cific indicator of heart disease risk, varying stages of menopause, greater in postmenopausal women containing the virus. damage to the enteroids, which pointing to potential strategies to averaged 51 years old and were not for different reasons with differ- Enterovirus infections are could facilitate passage of the reduce that risk and a target for on hormone replacement therapy. ent effects on heart disease risk associated with diseases that virus into the bloodstream from future studies on the impact of In a previous study, the team — and thus should be evaluated can range from mild flu-like the infected intestine. hormone replacement therapy in showed that a greater volume of separately when searching for symptoms to much more severe The results also provided the improving cardiovascular health. pericardial fat, but not epicardial ways to help women avoid heart outcomes such as inflammation in first evidence that different types The results were published online fat, after menopause is explained disease,” said El Khoudary. the brain or heart, acute paralysis of enteroviruses could target in the Journal of the American by a decline in the sex hormone An analysis of previous and even death. distinct cells within the gastro- Heart Association. estradiol, the most potent estro- research found that heart fat Enterovirus infections intestinal tract and might vary Said lead author Samar R. El gen, in midlife women. The higher volumes could be reduced with acquired within neonatal intensive in their effectiveness at infecting Khoudary, faculty member in volume of epicardial fat was tied dieting and bariatric surgery. care units (NICU) can be devastat- intestinal cells. the Department of Epidemiol- to other risk factors, such as Given the uncertainty about ing as newborns are particularly Other Pitt authors of the study ogy: “For the first time, we’ve obesity. the cardio-protective effects of susceptible to infection by these included Coyne G. Drummond pinpointed the type of heart fat, In the new study, the research- hormone replacement therapy, as viruses. and Congrong Ma. Colleagues linked it to a risk factor for heart ers built on those findings to well as the lack of research on the Said senior author Carolyn from Washington University disease and shown that meno- discover that not only is a greater impact of such therapy on heart Coyne, faculty member in micro- School of Medicine in St. Louis pausal status and estrogen levels pericardial fat volume specific to fat volumes, El Khoudary is plan- biology and molecular genetics also contributed. are critical modifying factors of its menopause, but in postmeno- ning a study to evaluate hormone in the school: “Despite their The study was funded by associated risk in women.” pausal women and women with replacement therapy on heart fat major global impact, especially NIH, the Burroughs Wellcome There are two types of fat lower levels of estradiol it’s also accumulation, paying particular on the health of children, little is Fund and Children’s Hospital of surrounding the heart: associated with a greater risk of attention to the types of heart fat. known about the route that these Pittsburgh of UPMC. • Epicardial fat, the fat that coronary artery calcification, an Karen A. Matthews of Pitt viruses take to cross the intestine, directly covers the heart tissue early sign of heart disease that is was senior author. their primary point of entry. Our Heart fat linked (the myocardium) and is located measured with a heart CT scan. Colleagues from Allegheny approach has for the first time between the outside of the heart In the women studied, an Health Network, Rush University shed some light on this process.” to heart disease in and the pericardium (the mem- increase in pericardial fat volume Medical Center, Los Angeles Bio- In the study, researchers postmenopausal brane that encases the heart). It from the 25th percentile to the medical Research Institute and the isolated stem cells from pre- women is the energy source for the heart. 75th percentile (corresponding to University of Minnesota Medical mature human small intestines A higher volume of a certain • Pericardial fat, which is out- a 60 percent increase) was associ- School also contributed. and grew them in the labora- type of fat that surrounds the side the pericardium, anterior to ated with a 160 percent higher This research was supported tory into enteroids, or so-called heart is significantly associated the epicardial fat. There are no risk of coronary artery calcifica- by NIH and the American Heart “mini-guts,” which contained with a higher risk of heart dis- known heart-protective functions tion and a 45 percent increase Association. n the different cell types and tissue ease in women after menopause of this fat. in the extent of coronary artery —Compiled by Marty Levine

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John L. Goldsmith The Heinz Chapel Choir will had to say, and also what they building resonated in response,” Goldsmith’s final tour as direc- perform during a memorial ser- didn’t say — where the silences Root said. tor took the singers to Bulgaria, vice for former director John L. were,” Root said. “He listened in “His understanding of the Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania Goldsmith, who died Feb. 2, 2017. a way most people are not capable space and the ways in which and Croatia in 2014. The event is set for 11 a.m. of listening. He was able to listen music, sound and pure voices Goldsmith retired with a Feb. 24 in Heinz Chapel. deeply not only to the sound but — trained by him — can lift us “bucket list” of travel destina- Goldsmith, who joined the also the silences, because without beyond the ordinary experiences tions, visiting New Zealand, Japan music department faculty in 1989, silences there is no music. It’s the of this life” was perhaps most and Iceland with his wife. “They directed the chapel choir for 25 silences that frame it,” he said. powerfully demonstrated during still had more on their list,” Root years before retiring in 2014. Renowned nationally for his the chancellor’s Christmas concert said. Goldsmith’s love and passion abilities in training the ear, Gold- in 1991. Root recalled the gasps q were for a cappella singing, said smith taught musicianship, or ear from the audience as the Heinz A native of Westerville, Ohio, professor of music emeritus Don training, in which students learned Chapel windows were illuminated Goldsmith earned a bachelor’s Franklin, who was chair of the to comprehend the world aurally, for the first time as the choir sang degree in music education at music department when Gold- through the organizations and Goldsmith’s arrangement of the Capital University in 1969 and smith joined the faculty. structures of music. “He was a 19th-century gospel hymn “We’ll a master’s degree in conducting “He had a remarkable skill marvelous trainer of these young Walk in the Light.” at Westminster Choir College of training the ear of singers, minds and ears of understanding q in 1975. and in doing so achieved a fine- the world through those patterns,” Goldsmith took the a cappella He was an alumnus of the male tuned instrument” in the choir, Root said. choir to Europe, South America vocal ensemble Chanticleer and of Franklin said. Goldsmith’s influence reached and Asia, traveling to 26 coun- the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. Goldsmith was chorus master beyond the department as well. tries overall during international Among many honors, in and countertenor soloist for the “Very few in the Heinz Chapel performance tours. 2015 Goldsmith received the Bach and the Baroque concert Choir were music majors, yet The trips, during which the Pennsylvania American Choral series, which he and Franklin together they were able to make said. “He was particularly attuned choir made music in cathedrals, Directors Association’s Elaine founded in 1992. Through 2007, some of the most memorable to the spaces in Heinz Chapel,” chapels and on hillsides, contrib- Brown Award for Choral Excel- the ensemble presented perfor- and deeply affecting experiences with their varying properties and uted to Goldsmith’s wonderful lence, presented to an individual mances of works by J.S. Bach and for the whole campus,” Root said. acoustics. legacy, Root said. The tours for outstanding lifelong work in his contemporaries. In a memorial posted online, His ability to train the choir to were the experience of a life- the choral arts. Goldsmith served as the Root credited Goldsmith with be in tune with the building cre- time for many of the students. q music department’s undergradu- rebuilding the Heinz Chapel ated a transformative experience “For the majority, the choir trips In addition to his wife, Gold- ate adviser for many years, said Choir’s role at Pitt. “He quickly for all. Goldsmith famously would represented the first time they’d smith is survived by siblings Joan department chair Deane Root. restored it as the University’s begin holiday concerts with the been away,” he said. The shared Deamer, Edwin A. Goldsmith, “He worked with every single preeminent student ensemble choir singing from the gallery in journeys fostered choir members’ William C. Goldsmith and Joseph student who came through the through superb musicianship, the dark — their angelic voices strong ties with Goldsmith — C. Goldsmith; as well as nieces program, advising music majors resulting in packed concerts and emanating from the small high known as JG — and his wife, and nephews. and minors on their curriculum international attention for the space in the back of the chapel. Elaine, who would accompany The family requests donations and on their careers,” he said. University,” Root stated. Then singers would descend the the group as a chaperone. be made to the Heinz Chapel “I never heard him raise his Goldsmith trained the choir stairs and move out to sing from “There was a bonding through Choir, Department of Music, 110 voice, except in singing,” Root not only to be in tune with one around the sanctuary before pro- the shared educational experience Music Building, Pittsburgh 15260 said, remembering Goldsmith as another, but also with the spaces ceeding to the chancel. ... bonding that came from travel- or Catholic Hospice, 2605 Nich- a gentle, soft-spoken supportive in which they sang. “He had to train them to sing to ing together for weeks at a time olson Rd., Suite 3240, Sewickley colleague and adviser. “He understood how space the space and get them to respond. where they had to rely on one 15143. “He listened to what others affected the music itself,” Root And he could hear the way the another,” Root said. —Kimberly K. Barlow n John L. Yeager

Former administrator and Lesgold told the University Times. Cameroon, Chad, the Central pleted his graduate studies at Pitt, School of Education faculty Yeager joined the University’s African Republic, Kenya, Saudi earning a master’s of education member John L. Yeager died Jan. central administration as director Arabia, Indonesia and Thailand. degree in secondary education 24, 2017. He was 79. of University planning in 1973 He contributed to the School in 1963 and a doctorate in edu- He was a public school teacher under Chancellor Wesley Posvar. of Education’s role in helping cational research in 1966. in Bethel Park and Cleveland, then He worked in central planning and Thailand train administrators Initially an assistant professor became a state research bureau budgeting capacities for nearly 20 capable of running the nation’s of education, he was appointed field consultant for the Depart- years, ultimately becoming the expanding institutions of higher associate professor in 1970, and ment of Public Instruction before University’s vice president for education, and was involved in received a joint appointment in launching a University career that administration in 1989, a position a number of other international the Graduate School of Public spanned five decades. he held until 1992. comparative education efforts. and International Affairs in 1988. He joined the Learning “He certainly increased the Lesgold said Yeager was among Yeager was named emeritus Research and Development ability of the University to under- the faculty members sought out associate professor of administra- Center (LRDC) in 1964, initially as stand its current state and the by visitors from overseas, adding tive and policy studies in 2013. assistant director of field studies. implications of its plans, especially that international visitors were He is survived by his wife, He held several positions there, in financial terms,” said Lesgold. eager to sit in on his classes on Jean Hammerle Yeager; daughters ultimately rising to associate direc- Yeager left the University higher education management. Lauri Boerio and her husband tor of the center. administration, returning to the “John’s area of specialization as a Mark, and Kimberly Bryson and Former dean of the School School of Education to chair the professor was strategic planning, her husband Sean; sister Phyllis of Education Alan Lesgold, who Department of Administrative department’s higher education and both Pitt and a number of Boland; and nieces, nephews and met Yeager soon after arriving and Policy Studies 1993-96. In program, 2004-08. Asian universities benefited from grandchildren. at Pitt in 1971, commended the department, he was named Beyond the University, his his wisdom,” Lesgold said. Memorial donations may be Yeager’s administrative abilities. director of the Institute for Higher consulting and planning work Yeager earned a bachelor’s made to www.pittsburghpromise. “He handled the business side of Education Management in 1999, included activities in Mongolia, degree in mathematics at Clarion org. LRDC mostly, and did a great job,” and program coordinator for the Germany, China, Egypt, Jamaica, State College in 1960, and com- —Kimberly K. Barlow n

P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Award for the Academic Medical Middle Atlantic Region of the Award in the Newspaper Adver- Kane Republican, Warren Times received more than 900 entries Librarian of the Year in 2011. In National Network of Libraries tising-Series category for a series Observer and Daily News in St. from college and universities 2015, she was the first librarian of Medicine (NNLM MAR). A of print ads featuring current Marys, as well as papers in the throughout the United States. in 25 years to chair the literature national search for a new execu- students and alumni and a Silver Pittsburgh area. A panel of design and edu- selection and technical review tive director of the NNLM MAR Award in the Direct Mail-Series Diane Fitzgerald-Harris of cation marketing professionals committee of the National is in process. category for a series of postcards Rochester, New York, who has judged the entries on creativ- Library of Medicine. inviting prospective students to designed most of Pitt-Bradford’s ity, layout/design, typography, Following Tannery’s depar- Pitt-Bradford has received open houses. recruiting materials, designed the production, quality and overall ture, Renae Barger has been two awards in the 2016 collegiate Mark Zampogna, a 1988 award-winning postcards. The effectiveness. appointed HSLS associate direc- advertising awards program, Pitt-Bradford alumnus who series included four personalized Pitt-Bradford has received a tor for research, instruction and which recognizes U.S. colleges owns Laser Layouts in Bradford, postcards, each featuring scenes total of 11 awards from the colle- clinical information services. and universities for excellence designed the award-winning from campus and the dates of giate advertising awards program. Barger has been at HSLS since in communications, marketing print ads, which were published open houses for the 2016-17 Winners are posted at www. 2002. Since 2011, she has served advertising and promotions. in newspapers in the region, academic year. collegiateadawards.com. n as the executive director of the Pitt-Bradford received a Gold including The Bradford Era, The 2016 awards program —Compiled by K. Barlow

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C A L E N D A R February Chemistry Lecture UCSUR Lecture Thursday 16 “Elucidating Energy Storage in Soft “Building Community & Ecological Nanostructures Through Versatile Resiliency Through Obsolete Infra- HSLS Workshop Electrochemistry,” Joaquin Lopez, structure Removal,” Lisa Segedy, “EndNote Basics,” Andrea Ket- U of IL; 150 Chevron, 2:30 pm River Restoration/American Rivers; chum; Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 Black History Month Film 3911 Posvar, noon (rsvp: swpa@ am-noon ([email protected]) Screening pitt.edu) Molecular Biophysics/Structural “K. Leroy Irvis: The Lion of PA,” Philosophy of Science Lecture Biology Seminar Hillman Library Thornburgh Rm., “Political Science Methodology: A “Using Fluorescence to Illuminate 3 pm Plea for Pluralism,” Sharon Crasnow, the Secrets of Biology,” Don Lamb; A&S Open Door Project Panel Norco College; 817R CL, 12:05 pm 6014 BST3, 11 am “From Stonewall to the Supreme (www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/) Ctr. for Causal Discovery Lecture Court”; 3703 Posvar, 3 pm (open- Senate BPC Mtg. “Unmasking All Forms of Cancer: door.pitt.edu) 156 CL, 2 pm Toward Integrated Maps of All Chemistry Lecture GSWS Lecture Tumor Subtypes,” Josh Stuart, UC- “Interfacial & Bulk Structures of “The Dangerous Public Fantasies Santa Cruz; 407A/B 5607 Baum Ionic Liquids With Domain Dis- of Post-racialism & the Black Blvd., 11 am rupting Functionalities,” Edward Bogeyman,” Ronald Jackson, U of HSLS Workshop Castner, Rutgers; 150 Chevron, 4 pm Cincinnati; G24 CL, 3 pm “Painless PubMed,” Rebecca Abro- Humanities Colloquium/Work- Anthropology Lecture mitis; Falk Library classrm. 1, noon shop “Unruly Futures: Temporality, Scale ([email protected]) “Using Multimedia Technologies & & Speculation in Modi’s Statue of Pharmacology/Chemical Biol- Software in Conference Presenta- Unity,” Kairi Jain, U of Toronto; Hypercube, a quartet of saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion, is ogy Seminar performing its combination of chamber music and rock-n-roll Feb. 18 at tions”; 407 CL, 5:30 pm 4130 Posvar, 3 pm “Exosome-based Delivery of Pla- the Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side. The concert is part of the Bradford Campus Film music department’s Music on the Edge series. cental MicroRNAs,” Yoel Sadovsky; Friday 17 “13th”; Frame-Westerberg Com- 1395 BST, noon mons Mukaiyama U Rm., UPB, Shadyside Medicine Grand Biomedical Informatics Seminar 8:30 pm Concert OACD Workshop Rounds “A Systems Level Approach to “Beer & Brawls,” Infusion Baroque; “A Seminar for Advanced Doctoral “Infectious Disease Year in Review Understand the Seasonal Factors Saturday 18 Synod Hall, 8 pm (www.student- Students”; O’Hara Dining Rm., 2016,” Neel Shah; UPMC Shadyside of Early Development With Clinical affairs.pitt.edu/pittarts/cheap- noon (www.oacd.health.pitt.edu) west wing aud., noon & Pharmacological Applications,” Dhirana Indian Dance Com- seats/4485-2/) Molecular Medicine Research Health Services Research Semi- Mary Boland, Columbia; 4th fl. petition Seminar nar conf. rm. 5607 Baum Blvd., 9 am Soldiers & Sailors, 5:30 pm (www. “Genomic Insights Into the Genetic “A System Program to Improve Monday 20 Psychiatry Lecture studentaffairs.pitt.edu/pittarts/ Basis of Aging,” Andreas Pfenning, Palliative Care: How Can One Show “The Neuroscience of Major hotlist/) Hispanic/CLAS Lecture CMU; Rangos Research Conf. 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M2 The Whiffenpoofs of Yale Univer- Interactions in the Aging Liver,” UC-San Diego; 817R CL, 12:05 pm “Peace Under the Orange Tree: C-wing, noon sity; Heinz Chapel, 8 pm (whiffen- Bryan Brown, S123 BST, noon (www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/) Civil War & the Amity of Kinship,” East Asian Colloquium [email protected]) Humanities Symposium German Lecture Heonik Kwon, U of Cambridge/ “Visualizing Chinese Media Ideolo- Music on the Edge Concert “Looking Back & Moving Onwards: “German & Careers,” Thomas Trinity College; 602 CL, 12:30 pm gies: Biao Qing Yao & Its Devel- Hypercube; Andy Warhol Museum, Dzimian, German American Cham- Senate PUP Mtg. Excavating Feminist Media Histo- opment in the Chinese Internet North Shore, 8 pm (www.music.pitt. ries”; UClub Gold Rm., 2-5 pm ber of Commerce; Alumni event rm. 272 Hillman, 2:30 pm Culture,” Yixin Liang; 4130 Posvar, edu/mote) Senate EPC Mtg. 5th fl., 5:30 pm noon 826 CL, 3 pm Titusville Campus Black History Public Health Lecture Month Music & Poetry “Opioid Pilot Grant Research “Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes of Reports, Part 2,” Mary Halk, the Harlem Renaissance”; Henne Thomas Songer, Evelyn Talbott, Aud., UPT, 7 pm Zan Dodson; G23 Public Health, 3 pm Wednesday 22 UNIVERSITY A&S Open Door Lecture “Free Speech & Dissent in Today’s Molecular & Cellular Cancer TIMES Political Climate,” Megan Block & Biology Work in Progress Mtg. Mike Healy, ACLU Pgh. chapter; “Single Molecule Studies of XPA UClub ballrm. A, 4 pm (opendoor. on DNA,” Emily Beckwitt; Hillman publication schedule pitt.edu) Cancer Research Pavilion 2nd fl. Pgh. Liver Research Ctr. 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Scaife A wing, noon “Painless PubMed,” Michele Bradford Campus Black History Fedyshin; Falk Library classrm. 1, June 8-22 June 1 June 8 Month Discussion noon ([email protected]) “Black Activism Past & Present,”; Thornburgh Forum Discussion June 22-July 6 June 15 June 22 218 Frame Westerberg, UPB, noon on Governance Lecture (also A/B dining rm. Frame West- “Watchdog of the Dept. of Veterans July 6-20 June 29 July 6 erberg, UPB, 9 pm) Affairs: Ensuring Effective Services Senate CRC Mtg. for Veterans & Proper Spending of July 20-Aug. 31 July 13 July 20 230 Alumni, noon Taxpayer Dollars,” Michael Missal, The University Times events calendar includes Pitt-sponsored events as well as UPCI Basic & Translational Veteran Affairs; UClub ballrm. A, Research Seminar noon (register: www.thornburghfo- non-Pitt events held on a Pitt campus. Information submitted for the calendar Chakra Chennubhotia; Hillman rum.pitt.edu) should identify the type of event, such as lecture or concert, and the program’s Cancer Ctr., Cooper Conf. Ctr. specific title, sponsor, location and time. The name and phone number of a contact rm. D, noon person should be included. Information should be sent by email to: [email protected]. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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C A L E N D A R Chemistry Lecture Deadlines Julia Rice, IBM Research Ctr.; 150 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 Chevron, 4 pm Cathedral Innovation Challenge Bradford Campus Black History Concert Union of Pitt Faculty/United Classics Lecture Submissions due by Feb. 24. (www. Lecture Ken Karsh Trio; Nordy’s Place, Students Against Sweatshops “The Philosopher at Home: Recep- alumni.pitt.edu/news-events/ “American Botanist & Inventor noon Lecture tions of Classical Place in Synesius cathedral-innovation-challenge/) George Washington Carver,” Orin CTSI Workshop “University Endowments, Austerity of Cyrene’s Letter,” Alexander CTSI 2017 Pain Research Chal- James, biology; 205 Fisher, UPB, “Myths About Misconduct”; G74 & Student Debt,” Marcie Smith, Petkas, Princeton; 208B CL, 3:30 pm lenge 6:30 pm (rsvp: [email protected]) Hilllman, noon Responsible Endowments Coali- Round 1 applications due Feb. Senate Council Mtg. tion; Frick Fine Arts aud., 6 pm Saturday 25 27. (www.ctsi.pitt.edu/funding- 2700 Posvar, 3 pm Bradford Campus Miss & Mr. March innovation-kauffman.html) Bradford Campus Black History Blue & Gold Pageant Concert Steven Manners Faculty Devel- Lecture Bromeley Theatre, UPB, 8 pm (tick- Franciscan U of Steubenville stu- Wednesday 1 opment Award “Charles Dre, a Doctor, Surgeon & ets: www.upb.pitt.edu/TheArts) dent organ recital; Heinz Chapel, Letter of intent due Feb. 28. Medical Researcher,” Orin James, Pgh. Contemporary Writers 3 pm Diversity Awareness Program ([email protected]) biology; 205 Fisher, UPB, 6:30 (rsvp: Lecture Justin Brown; O’Hara dining rm., UCIS Int’l Collaborations on [email protected]) Maggie Nelson; FFA aud., 8:30 Monday 27 8 am Sustainable Innovations Grant pm (pghwriterseries.wordpress. Neuroscience Lecture Application deadline is Feb. 28. com/201415-lineup-of-writers/) Thursday 23 Neuroscience Lecture “Automatizing Actions: Probing (www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/content/ Bradford Campus Black History “Mechanisms & Functions of Syn- the Synaptic & Circuit Plasticity sustainable-innovations-grant) Month Midnight Breakfast OACD Workshop aptic Facilitation, “ Skyler Jackman, of Skill & Habit Learning,” David UCSI & MCSI Intl Collabora- The Diamond Steppers; KOA “Life After Postdoc: Career Oppor- Harvard; A219B Langley, 9:30 am Kupferschmidt, Integrative Neu- tions on Sustainable Innovations Dining Hall, UPB; 11 pm tunities in Academia”; S120 BST, Bradford Campus Lecture roscience/Natl. Inst. on Alcohol Grants Program 9:30 am (www.oacd.health.pitt.edu) “Journey From Homeless Child to Abuse & Alcoholism; A219B Proposals due Feb. 28. (btorres@ Molecular Biophysics/Structural Friday 24 Basketball Champion, Poet, Actor & Langley, 9:30 am pitt.edu) Biology Seminar Activist,” Monti Washington; Frame Critical Care Medicine Grand Global Studies Center Faculty “Structure & Function of the Cyto- Business Panel Discussion Westerberg Commons Mukaiyama Rounds Fellowship plasmic mRNA Export Platform “Sales & Operations Planning U Rm., UPB, 7:30 pm “Pediatric Critical Care,” Jeffrey Deadline for submissions March & Membrane Ring Component Opportunities”; 500 Alumni, 7-9:15 Burns, Harvard; 1105AB Scaife, 1. (www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/fac- of the Nuclear Pore Complex,” am (www.business.pitt.edu/katz/ Tuesday 28 noon ultyfellow) Seung Kim, UC-San Francisco; 6014 scm/breakfast-speaker-series/sop) Senate Benefits & Welfare Global Academic Partnership BST3, 11 am French & Italian Conf. HSLS Workshop Lecture Grant Competition Pharmacology/Chemical Biol- “Mosiacs Diversity,” 602 & 502 CL, “Painless PubMed,” Charlie Wessel; “Using Your Brain to Control Your Deadline for submissions March ogy Seminar 9 am-4 pm (keynote: Alison James; Falk Library classrm. 1, noon (cbw@ Gut,” Eva Szigethy, Visceral Inflam- 1. (www.ucis.submittable.com/ “Multiple Roles of Histone Meth- 602 CL, 4:30 pm) pitt.edu) mation/Pain Ctr.; WPU Kurtzman submit/57142/gap-application- yltransferase EZH2 in Myeloma Board of Trustees Mtg. Bradford Campus Black History Rm., noon form-maximum-40-000) Bone Disease: A Novel Therapeutic WPU Assembly Rm., 10 am Month Discussion Concert Pitt Sustainability Awards Target,” Deborah Galson; 1395 Senate CUC Mtg. “Post Election: Now What?”; 218 Kassia Ensemble; Nordy’s Place, Submit nominations by March 10. BST, noon 717 CL, 10 am Frame Westerberg, UPB, noon (also noon (www.engineering.pitt.edu/MCSI/ Health Services Research Semi- Memorial Service A/B dining rm. Frame Westerberg, HSLS Workshop Forms/Sustainability-Awards- nar For John Goldsmith, former music UPB, 9 pm) “PowerPoint for Conf. Posters,” Page/) “Improving Accuracy of Diagnosis dept. faculty member & director of Basic/Translational Research Julia Dahm; Falk Library classrm. McKnight Memory & Cognitive & Management of Acute Otitis the Heinz Chapel Choir, who died Seminar 2, 2 pm ([email protected]) Disorders Awards Media in Children,” Alejandro Feb. 2; Heinz Chapel, 11 am “Targeting Aberrant Ras Signal- Senate SAAA Mtg. Preliminary applications due March Hoberman; 305 Parkvale, noon Psychiatry Lecture ing in Cancer,” Kevin Shannon, 272 Hillman, 3:30 pm 27. (www.neuroscience.mcknight. Shadyside Medicine Grand “The Neurodevelopment of Irrita- UC-San Francisco; Hillman Cancer org/newsroom/upcoming- Rounds bility: A Multi-Modal Perspective,” Ctr. Cooper Conf. Ctr. rm. D, noon Thursday 2 deadlines/2017-mcd) “Morbidity & Mortality,” David Susan Perlman, Harvard; S100A ([email protected]) Levenson; UPMC Shadyside west BST, noon GI Lecture Ctr. for Simulation & Modeling Exhibits wing aud., noon Philosophy of Science Lecture “Journal Jeopardy 3,” Siobhan Symposium Black History Month Poetry “Methodological Individualism Proksell & Anna Evans; Presby UClub ballrm. A, 8:20 am-7:30 pm Falk Library Reading & Collectivism in the Social Sci- admin. conf. rm. M2 C-wing, noon (keynote: “Understanding Cities “Surviving & Thriving: AIDS, “The Works of K. Leroy Irvis,” Hill- ences,” Wang Wei, Tsinghua U; Molecular Medicine Research Through Embedded Systems & Politics & Culture”; display case at man Library Thornburgh Rm., 3 pm 817R CL, 12:05 pm (www.pitt. Seminar Data,” Charlie Catlett, Urban Ctr. 200 Scaife through Feb. 25; M-Th LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group edu/~pittcntr/) “Lung Vaso-Occlusion in Sickle for Computation & Data, 8:30 am; 7 am-mid., F 7 am-10 pm, Sat 9:30 Mixer Honors Convocation Cell Disease Mediated by Arte- www.sam.pitt.edu/arc-2017/) am-10 pm & Sun 11 am-mid. 5801 Video Lounge Café, Shadyside, Carnegie Music Hall, 3 pm riolar Neutrophil Platelet Micro- Chemistry Lecture Hillman Library 5 pm (rsvp: www.surveymonkey. Anthropology Lecture emboli,” Prithu Sundd, Yale; Rangos “Peptide Nanotechnology,” Rein K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month com/r/VN8QR96) “Futurities at the Border,” Bhaskar Research Conf. Ctr., noon Ulijn, CUNY; 150 Chevron, 2:30 pm exhibits; through Feb. 28, 1st fl. Sarkar, UC-Santa Barbara; 4130 Chemistry Lecture reading rm. & gr. fl. lobby, M-Th Posvar, 3 pm “Marine Natural Products Syn- 24 hours; F till 10 pm, Sat 9 am-10 thesis: A Platform for Chemical pm, Sun opens 10 am & Biological Discovery,” Joshua Bradford Campus Pierce, NC State; 150 Chevron, 4 pm “Pause.Repeat,” Chanda Zea, Humanities Ctr. Lecture ceramacist; KOA Gallery Blaisdell, “Place, Memory, Politics & Black- UPB, though March 3; M-F 8:30 ness,” Tonya Foster & Mabel am-6 pm (www.chandazea.com) Wilson; 501 CL, 6:30 pm Frick Fine Arts “Liminal Conjunction,” Sophia Defenses Sobers; “Dirty Work,” Eleanor Aldrich & Barbara Weissberger; U Art Gallery, through March 23; M-F Medicine/Molecular Virology & 10 am-4 pm Microbiology “The Development of Physiologi- cally Relevant Cell Culture Models Theatre for Intestinal Enterovirus Infec- tion,” Coyne Drummond; Feb. 16, UP Stages 402 Bridgeside Point 2, 2 pm “The 25th Annual Putnam County Medicine/Neurobiology Spelling Bee”; Heymann Theatre, “The Differential Regulation of through Feb. 19, Th-Sat 8 pm; Sun Synaptic Plasticity, Mood & Reward 2 pm (www.play.pitt.edu) Behavior by Circadian Genes,” Puja Parekh; Feb. 20, 1495 BST, 10 am Event Deadline Education/Instruction & Learn- ing The next issue of the University “A Longitudinal Study of Peer Times will include University & Review in High School,” Linda on-campus events of March 2-16. Kucan; Feb. 23, 4140 Posvar, 10 am Information for events during that Public Health/Epidemiology period must be received by 5 pm on “Perceived Barriers & Facilitators, Feb. 23. Send information to utcal@ Physical Activity & Functional pitt.edu. n The theatre department’s production,“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” runs through Feb. 19 at Limitations Among Older Adults,” the Stephen Foster Memorial’s Heymann Theatre. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. For more information, go to www.play.pitt.edu. Elizabeth Rodgers; Feb. 24, A719 Crabtree, 1 pm

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