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PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume XIII • Number 4 • February 13, 2012 RIC EVANS 2 • Pitt Chronicle • February 13, 2012 Annual Honors Convocation Feb. 24 Launches UniversityUpdate Observance of the 225th Anniversary of the

To: Members of the University Community Founding of the University of Pittsburgh From: Mark A. Nordenberg Pitt alumni, faculty, staff, and students to be honored; Chancellor Mark A. Date: February 7, 2012 Nordenberg to address the convocation Re: Closing a Tough, but Triumphant, Year and Facing Continuing Challenges The University of Pittsburgh will momentum in the years ahead.” launch the celebration of the 225th anniver- As the University’s chief executive, sary of its founding on Feb. 28, 1787, with Chancellor Nordenberg heads one of the its 36th Annual Honors nation’s leading public Convocation on Feb. 24. research universities and The convocation—which one of the oldest institu- recognizes undergraduate, tions of higher learning graduate, and professional west of the Allegheny student academic achieve- Mountains. He joined the ment; student leadership; faculty of Pitt’s School and the accomplishments of Law in 1977 and later Facing the Specter of of faculty and staff—will served as dean of the law be held at 3 p.m. Feb. 24 school and interim pro- in Carnegie Music Hall, vost of the University. In Enormous Budget Cuts 4400 Forbes Ave., Oak- 1994, he was elevated to land. Mark A. Norden- the special rank of Distin- Because of the wonderful work done berg, the University’s 17th guished Service Professor. by so many of you, the University of Pitts- chancellor, will deliver the The University’s Board keynote address. of Trustees elected him burgh is moving through what should be “The University’s interim chancellor in 1995 another banner year, building on its envi- commemoration of the and chancellor in 1996. able record of impact and accomplishment 225th anniversary of our The months-long founding is an ideal time anniversary celebration in education, research, and public service. to reflect on Pitt’s accom- will involve an initia- Pitt also is moving through an histori- plishments in providing tive titled “225 Acts of cally important year, with the end of this individuals with abundant Caring.” It will comprise opportunities ‘to build faculty, staff, students, month bringing the 225th anniversary of better lives,’ for them- and alumni participat- our founding. Unfortunately, what almost selves and their communi- ing in community vol- certainly will prove to be most memorable ties,” said Chancellor Nor- unteerism and outreach about 2012 is that an already brutal budget denberg. “As we celebrate activities. this special anniversary “The University has year has been made far worse by today’s with the theme of ’225 Years of Building had a longstanding commitment of outreach proposal for deep and disproportionate Better Lives,’ it also is a time to look forward to Pittsburgh and the surrounding communi- cuts emerging from the state capitol. To Mark A. Nordenberg to the University—as a leader in education, a ties,” said John Wilds, Pitt’s assistant vice pioneer in research, and a partner in regional put that proposal in perspective: development—continuing its upward Continued on page 10 • It would take our cumulative two-year cuts in state support well in excess of $100 million; • It would reduce our state support, in absolute dollars, to levels that we have not seen since the mid-1980s, more than a quarter century ago and when 225 Stories to Celebrate the state’s own budget was about one-third its current size; • It would reduce our state support, if adjusted for inflation, to the lowest level since Pitt became a state- related university; and Pitt’s Historic Impact The act of February 28, 1787, char- • It would reduce the per- Ending Polio’s Reign of Terror centage of our total budget tering the frontier academy that provided by the state appro- priation to less than 5 percent, would become our University began from a high of more than 30 percent in the 1970s, shortly with a straightforward declaration after Pitt became a state-related university. that “the education of youth ought In terms of proportional- to be a primary object with every ity, perhaps nothing is more telling than the proposed gen- government.” Even in that earlier, eral fund budget’s bottom line. Overall state funding would be simpler, more physically demand- reduced by less than one-tenth of 1 percent, or $22.456 mil- ing time, our founder, Hugh Henry lion. The cuts proposed just for Pitt are more than double Brackenridge, saw the development that amount. of the mind as both essential to What follows, then, is a somewhat longer account. At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, polio was killing or paralyzing more than a half-million individual success and critical to our people worldwide each year, especially children and young adults. The “lucky” survived to walk Abandoning a Focus on the on crutches. Others were so paralyzed they could no longer breathe on their own. Iron lungs, the collective progress. “We all know,” Future mechanical ventilators that sustained them, symbolized polio’s reign of terror. The act of February 28, In 1947, the University of Pittsburgh recruited Jonas Salk (above)—an expert in influenza he stated, “that the strength of a 1787, chartering the frontier whose flu vaccine is still in use today—to develop a virus program at Pitt. For more than seven state greatly consists in the superior academy that would become years, his team worked tirelessly to develop an effective killed-virus our University began with a vaccine. The senior scientist of that team, Julius Youngner, is still an active mental powers of its inhabitants.” straightforward declaration that “the education of youth member of Pitt’s faculty as a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus ought to be a primary object of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. with every government.” Even in that earlier, simpler, more physically demanding The efforts of Pitt’s polio research team culminated in the largest time, our founder, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, saw the development of the mind national controlled field trial in history. At the trial’s successful conclusion, as both essential to individual success and critical to our collective progress. “We the federal government approved licenses for the manufacture and public all know,” he stated, “that the strength of a state greatly consists in the superior distribution of the vaccine on April 12, 1955, an action that Newsweek mental powers of its inhabitants.” called “a summit moment in history.” More than two centuries of history clearly have established that Mr. Brack- enridge, and those embracing his message, were correct. Access to higher For more stories about Pitt's legacy of achievement or to share your own stories about the University, visit www.225.pitt.edu. Continued on page 8 February 13, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 3 Pitt Receives One of Largest Private Foundation Grants in Its History, $22 Million From Richard King Mellon Foundation By B. Rose Huber The Center for Energy in the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineer- ing has received a $22 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation—one of the largest private foundation grants in Pitt’s history. The gift will accelerate the research and education efforts of the center, which is dedicated to improving energy technology development and sustainability through the work of more than 70 world-class faculty members and their research teams. “This region and its citizens have benefited from the transformational impact of the Richard King Mellon Foundation’s philanthropy for more than 60 years,” said Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. “The foundation’s well-targeted investments in education, conservation, and health care, among many other areas, have strengthened Southwestern Pennsylvania’s economy and improved the quality of life in our home community. We at Pitt are deeply grateful for this most recent, and extraordinarily gener- ous, gift from an internationally renowned philanthropic institution that continues to dedicate private support to the public good. Finding ways to deal more effectively with a wide range of energy issues has become both a national priority and a key to regional pros- On Feb. 9, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg addressed a Benedum Hall audience of 125–including trustees, faculty, administrators, students, community leaders, and perity. With the support of the Richard King members of the media—who gathered to hear the announcement of a $22 million grant to the Center for Energy in Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering from the Richard King Mellon Mellon Foundation, our Center for Energy is Foundation. It was one of the largest private foundation grants in the University’s history. Seated, from left, are Robert Hill, Pitt vice chancellor for public affairs; Stephen R. Tritch (ENGR particularly well positioned to contribute to ’71, BUS ’77G), chair of Pitt’s Board of Trustees and the retired chair and CEO of Westinghouse Electric Company; Gerald D. Holder, U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering at Pitt; Brian Gleeson, our shared progress in this important area.” Center for Energy director, the Harry S. Tack Chair in Materials Science, and a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science in the Swanson School; and Gregory Reed, Pitt The majority of the Richard King professor of electric power engineering, Center for Energy associate director, and director of the Power and Energy Initiative in the Swanson School. Mellon grant will be used to create new faculty positions and graduate fellowships and to establish a fund for spurring innova- are enormous pressures to reduce energy omy, strengthen our security, and improve in key areas of energy research, facilitat- tive research. The grant—which also will consumption, there will continue to be sig- our environment,” said Cugini. “We are a ing technology transfer related to energy support research infrastructure and center nificant growth in the worldwide demand for proactive supporter of educational initiatives for economic development, increasing operations—is designed to bolster the cen- energy. The gap between energy consump- at all levels, funding hundreds of research energy support, and raising the stature of ter’s position as a powerful leader in energy tion and energy production must be met by and development projects at U.S. universities our region as a leader in energy. research. advances in energy-related technologies, to advance energy science and technology “The level of our investment reflects improvements in energy efficiencies, diver- and to provide a trained workforce for the Richard King Mellon Foundation our confidence in the academic and admin- sification of energy sources to reduce the energy industry of the future. Pitt and the For more than 60 years, the Richard istrative leadership of the University,” impact of carbon-based fuels, and training Center for Energy are among our most active King Mellon Foundation has invested in said Scott D. Izzo, director of the Richard of the scientific and engineering workforce collaborative partners in this effort.” the competitive future and quality of life King Mellon Foundation. “The center has to create the technologies that will address Expanding on the impact of the Rich- in Southwestern Pennsylvania and in the tremendous potential to make an impact in these issues. In that environment, the Uni- ard King Mellon Foundation’s gift, Dennis protection, preservation, and restoration Pittsburgh, as energy will be the major driver versity of Pittsburgh’s Center for Energy is Yablonsky, CEO of the Allegheny Confer- of America’s environmental heritage. The of our regional economy committed to building ence on Community Development said, foundation was created in 1947 by Rich- for years to come.” from its current strengths “Pittsburgh is the new center of innovation ard King Mellon (1899–1970), president “After graduating The majority of the Rich- to be an internationally in American energy. This region is imple- and chairman of Mellon Bank, a conser- from Pitt’s engineering prominent, university- menting a new model for collaboration vationist and leading figure in the finan- school, I immediately went ard King Mellon grant based energy program, across business, government, and academia cial and civic life of Pennsylvania. With to work for Westinghouse continuing the Univer- to maximize its competitive advantages in assets of more than $1.7 billion in 2009, and credit much of my will be used to create sity’s and the Swanson energy and related industries. Pitt’s Center the Richard King Mellon Foundation has success over the course of new faculty positions School’s 100-year tradi- for Energy has played a key role in these built on the vision of these founders. The a long career in the energy tion of energy-related efforts, and we applaud the Richard King foundation’s current giving priorities industry to the educa- and graduate fellowships research.” Mellon Foundation’s investment in enhanc- primarily serve Southwestern Pennsyl- tion I received at Pitt,” Established in 2008, ing the University’s capabilities.” vania with a program focus on regional said Stephen R. Tritch and to establish a fund Pitt’s Center for Energy To date, the Swanson School and Uni- economic development and conservation, (ENGR ’71, BUS ’77G), is dedicated to pursu- versity of Pittsburgh have invested $50 mil- along with education and human services chair of the University’s for spurring innovative ing studies in energy lion in facilities and programs, and faculty and nonprofit capacity building. Board of Trustees. “As research. The grant— delivery and efficiency, members in energy-related disciplines have President and CEO of advanced materials for attracted more than $35 million in sponsored Swanson School of Engineering Westinghouse, I came to which also will support demanding energy tech- research. The University of Pittsburgh’s Swan- more fully appreciate the nologies, carbon man- Funds from the Richard King Mellon son School of Engineering is one of the broader impact of the Uni- research infrastructure agement, and energy Foundation grant will be payable over three oldest engineering programs in the United versity, both in developing diversification. years. States. The Swanson School has excelled a well-educated workforce and center operations— “With this funding, in basic and applied research during the and as a powerful research we will be in a much Center for Energy past decade and is on the forefront of 21st- partner. The fact that Pitt is designed to bolster better position to attract Established in 2008, the Center for century technology, including energy reinvested in nuclear engi- top-notch faculty and Energy is dedicated to improving energy systems, bioengineering, microsystems neering, a field that most the center’s position as a students to our region,” technology development and sustainability, and nanosystems, computational model- engineering schools had powerful leader in energy said Center for Energy including energy delivery and efficiency, ing, and advanced materials development. largely abandoned, was Director Brian Gleeson, advanced materials for demanding energy Approximately 120 faculty members an important factor in the research. the Harry S. Tack Chair technologies, carbon management and uti- serve more than 3,200 undergraduate decision by Westinghouse in Materials Science and lization, and energy diversification. Joining and graduate students in six departments, to build its new corporate headquarters in a professor of mechanical engineering and the Center for Energy is a team of more including bioengineering, chemical Southwestern Pennsylvania, rather than relo- materials science in the Swanson School. than 70 faculty members already working and petroleum engineering, civil and cating to another part of the country. This “This will advance our creative and produc- in energy research from the Departments environmental engineering, electrical remarkably generous grant from the Richard tive partnerships with regional and national of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil engineering, industrial engineering, and King Mellon Foundation will help position companies and with national laboratories, and Environmental Engineering, Electri- mechanical engineering and materials sci- Pitt to expand its energy programs in ways particularly our region’s National Energy cal Engineering, Industrial Engineering, ence. For the two most-recently reported that also will advance this region’s strong Technology Laboratory (NETL).” Geology, and Mechanical Engineering and consecutive years, 2009 and 2010, the and growing energy industry.” According to NETL Director Anthony Materials Science for the purpose of lever- Swanson School has had the second- “Energy will be the defining techni- Cugini, NETL has enjoyed a particularly aging their work and expertise. The Center highest percentage of doctoral degrees cal, social, and political issue of the next strong collaborative partnership with Pitt’s for Energy’s key goals include attracting awarded to women in North America, century,” said Gerald D. Holder, U.S. Steel Center for Energy. “NETL is charged with more world-class faculty to Pitt, training according to the American Society for Dean of Engineering at Pitt. “While there advancing energy options to fuel our econ- high-level engineers and scientists to work Engineering Education. 4 • Pitt Chronicle • February 13, 2012 BlackHistoryMonth

Curtiss E. Porter, Penn State Greater Allegheny Chancellor, Leads Campus as It Expands Its Degree Offerings, International Scope

munity format, and engages faculty and stu- BAS’ best-known stand. University dents in contributing to a green environment. administrators negotiated with BAS In addition to performing his adminis- members and agreed to recruit more trative role, Porter also teaches. His course Black students, add additional Black offerings at Penn State Greater Allegheny administrators, and create a Depart- include African Americans in the 20th Cen- ment of Black Studies. tury and Civic and Community Engagement. Pitt’s administration negotiated Are today’s students different than stu- with the students and ultimately asked dents were when he was in school? “They Porter and Jack L. Daniel, a 1969 Pitt are different by virtue of the crucibles that PhD student who is now a Pitt Distin- have shaped them,” Porter answered. “The guished Service Professor of Commu- social issues shaped us—segregation, dis- nication, to help develop a framework crimination, and moving from accommoda- for the department and its curriculum. tion to outright challenge. For them [today’s A Black studies department was cre- students], the context for discrimination is ated, and Porter chaired it from 1975 subtle. They still have that to 1981. It is now youthful passion and energy the Department of and approach issues of racism In addition to per- Africana Studies, as not necessary. There is not housed in Posvar the day-to-day awareness of forming his admin- Hall. racism for them, and when Porter grew up they do encounter it, the istrative role, Porter in Braddock near response is, ‘This is ridicu- U.S. Steel’s Edgar lous.’” also teaches. His Thompson works, That world view con- where his father trasts sharply with the atmo- course offerings at worked and where, sphere and burgeoning racial Penn State Greater out of the family’s tensions that were sweeping home, his mother college campuses, including Allegheny include operated a bistro. He Pitt’s, during the late 1960s describes his mother and 1970s. Porter’s college African Americans in as a “strongly inde-

LINDA CURINGA career began in 1964 on the pendent woman who Curtiss E. Porter Penn State Greater Allegh- the 20th Century and was successful for eny campus, then known as her time and status.” By Patricia Lomando White Penn State McKeesport. (As Civic and Community Porter said he chancellor, Porter would be Engagement. learned the value of Curtiss E. Porter taps into a number • The management of fundraising cam- instrumental in changing working hard from of skills he’s honed throughout his paigns totaling $9.2 million; the school’s name to Penn both of his parents. career as he handles the responsibilities • The school’s receipt of numerous State Greater Allegheny in 2007 to more “My mother’s and father’s exam- of his current job: chancellor of Penn grants, including $900,000 from the Pitts- accurately reflect the campus’ expanded ples were of ordered perspective and State Greater Allegheny. His shaping burgh Foundation for Greater Allegheny’s mission.) He enrolled as a freshman at Penn outcomes,” he added. of that position is defined, in part, by a University Center for Community Engage- State after serving for five years in the U.S. When asked about his accomplish- panoply of roles and occupations he’s ment and Partnership and $550,000 annually Air Force and then working in the H.J. Heinz ments, Porter said: “When there was a held throughout his life: senior admin- from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Company’s data processing department. time for people to stand and be counted istrative leader, teacher, U.S. Air Force vocational education and career and training. In his junior year, Porter transferred to against the blatant evils of racism and veteran, college and graduate student, Porter said one of his biggest challenges Pitt, where he joined the Pittsburgh campus’ discrimination, I stood. Every outcome Black activist, and son, to name a few. is to make higher education more acces- Black Action Society (BAS). The BAS is in the process of standing for who Prior to joining Greater Allegh- sible to more people—something that has sought major change at Pitt by seeking to we are as opposed to who we are not." eny, Porter’s career placed him in been difficult during these economic times, convince the administration to increase the And reflecting upon his Pitt days, various positions, including service as public resources for higher education number of African American students, staff, he noted, "The thing I cite most often is as an instructor in Black studies at dwindle. faculty, and administrators, as well as social, the fact that we generated the Africana California University at Long Beach; The Penn State Greater Allegheny academic and community-based program- Studies department. It is there. The president and CEO of the Urban League chancellor also said he hopes to increase the ming. The 1969 takeover of Pitt’s computer institutional changes we fought for have of Southwestern Connecticut; director number of four-year programs offered at his center, in which Porter participated, was become part of the institution.” of diversity programs for Greenwich, campus so that more graduates can make Conn., Country Day School; vice an impact on the community. The school’s president for affiliate development for STEM (science, technology, engineering, the National Urban League; and direc- and math) summer bridge program recently tor of the University of Connecticut’s received the support of EQT Corporation, Stamford campus. which will provide funding to allow the The Pitt alumnus (A&S ’69, EDUC program to continue. ’84G) moved to Penn State Greater Porter said he also works to connect Allegheny in 1999, and as chancellor his campus to the wider world, with the he oversees operations in McKeesport school recruiting in South America, Asia, and White Oak. and Africa. An agreement with Duy Tan The Penn State Greater Allegheny University in Vietnam allows for that campus is continually evolving, and Southeast Asian institution’s faculty to be among the changes and developments taught American classroom and business that Porter has steered are: techniques. • The initiation of four-year degree Universities have a significant role to programs on the campus, including play within their communities, Porter said. degrees in business, communication, Penn State Greater Allegheny’s University English, information science technol- Center for Community Engagement and ogy, and psychology, among others; Partnerships, for example, recently received • The building of the 27,000-square- Heinz Foundation funding for a program to foot, $6.25 million Student Community work with African American males. In addi- Center, as well as the $1.7 million tion, he said, the school teaches courses on

refurbishing of the 2,000-square-foot civic and community engagement, provides LINDA CURINGA Fitness and Cultural Center; a forum for ideas to be presented in a com- Chancellor Porter talks with students on the Penn State Greater Allegheny campus. February 13, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 5

From Log House Academy to Leader in Education, Pioneer In Research, and Partner in Regional Development The University of Pittsburgh: 225 Years of Building Better Lives

to enroll in a university. That changed on Feb. 18, 1819, when the Pennsylvania legislature, upon the request of the Academy trustees, rechartered the school as the Western University of Pennsylvania. Its first principal, the Scottish-born Rever- end Robert Bruce, supervised enlargement of the curriculum and, with a five-year leg- islative grant of $2,400 per annum, oversaw construction of a three-story freestone- fronted college building adjacent to the Academy on Third Street and Cherry Way. It became the University’s new home in 1830. Fifteen years later, Pittsburgh’s Great Fire of 1845 destroyed several frame houses, along with the University’s records, books, and building. Classes met in the basement of the nearby Trinity Church during construc- tion of a new site on downtown’s Duquesne Way. But in 1849, calamity struck a second time when fire destroyed that structure and its contents. Disheartened, the trustees tem- porarily suspended University operations Sisters Margaret and Stella Stein were the first until 1855, when the Western University women to receive undergraduate degrees from reopened in a 16-room new brick building at the University in 1898. the corner of Ross Street and Diamond (later renamed Forbes Avenue) in the city’s center. An 1882 fire destroyed the Allegheny The two-and-a-quarter-century County Court House, and Western Univer- journey that Pitt has traveled, from a sity sold its Ross and Diamond property to private three-room frontier log academy An artist's drawing representing the Pittsburgh's Academy original 1787 log house. the county and relocated across the river to to a nationally ranked, world-renowned Allegheny City (today’s North Side), where public research university with a tripar- By Diane Hernon Chavis it remained for more than 25 years. During tite mission—leader in education, pio- that time, the University achieved racial neer in research, and partner in regional The Formative Years Thus was chartered Pitt’s progenitor log integration—William Hunter Dammond development—includes milestones at Two hundred twenty-five years house academy, a private school of higher earned a degree in civil engineering, with virtually every turn. Among them are ago, in 1787, delegates meeting at learning and—in the words of founder honors, in 1893 and became the University’s the following: Philadelphia’s State House replaced the Brackenridge—“a candle lit in the forested first African American graduate—and • Pitt’s School of Medicine— agreement creating a loose confedera- wilderness.” With a curriculum that included became coeducational, graduating its first founded as the Western Pennsylvania tion of sovereign states with “the Learned Languages, Eng- female students—sisters Margaret and Stella Medical College in 1886—opened an enduring blueprint for lish, and Mathematicks,” and, Stein—in 1898 and its first Black female admission to women 100 years ago, in democracy—the Constitu- later, astronomy, philosophy, student, Jean Hamilton Walls, in 1910. 1912. tion of the United States. and logic, the Academy became • The University of Pittsburgh at That same year, educator, one of the first institutions of Building a Permanent Home Johnstown, one of the first regional attorney, author, and distin- advanced learning west of the When the cornerstone for the first campuses of a major U.S. university, guished member of Pennsyl- Allegheny Mountains. building on the school’s new Oak- was established 85 years ago, in 1927. A vania’s General Assembly In the 1790s, the Acad- land campus was laid in October half-century ago, Pitt trustees approved Hugh Henry Brackenridge emy trustees used a $5,000 1908—to accommodate what the creation of regional campuses in successfully urged his legis- legislative grant to construct was envisioned to become Bradford, Greensburg, and Titusville. lative colleagues to establish a two-story, three-room brick one of the finest institutions Continued on page 6 a seat of higher learning in Hugh Henry Brackenridge schoolhouse on a corner lot in in the land—the Western Pittsburgh. His passionate what now is the heart of down- University of Pennsylvania pleas—“Academies are the furnaces town Pittsburgh. It—and a second building, publicly was renamed the The first building of the Western University of which melt the natural ore to real adjoining the first and erected in the early University of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania is shown here in a painting by metal; the shops where the thunder- 19th century—replaced the original log Russell Smith. Courtesy of Carnegie Library of bolts of the orator are forged”—engen- house, according to Pitt historian Robert Pittsburgh. dered “An Act for the Establishment of C. Alberts, who penned Pitt’s bicentennial an Academy or Public School in the commemoration volume, Pitt: The Story Town of Pittsburgh” on Feb. 28, 1787. of the University of Pittsburgh 1787–1987 The preamble to the act declared (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986). the legislature’s intent: From Academy to University In much the same way that a bud- The education of youth ought ding nation required a new form of gov- to be a primary object with ernment that would be more responsive to its emerging needs, so, too, did the every government … Be community of Pittsburgh—whose popu- it enacted … that there be lation had multiplied six times between 1794 and 1820—eventually require an erected … and established academic institution with full univer- sity powers to better accommodate the ... an Academy or School region’s rising generations. Pitt historian for the education of youth Agnes Lynch Starrett, in her volume Through One Hundred and Fifty Years in useful arts, sciences and – The University of Pittsburgh (1937), literature, the … name and reported that by 1819, “boys who became the leading men of Pittsburgh had been title of which shall be “The graduating from the Pittsburgh Academy for nearly thirty-five years” and, yet, they Pittsburgh Academy.” had to travel hundreds of miles to the east

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From Log House Academy to Leader in Education, Pioneer In Research, and Partner in Regional Development The University of Pittsburgh: 225 Years of Building Better Lives

Continued from page 5 most as the “Father of Transplantation”— educate Pennsylvania’s students. The part- who performed the world’s first human nership, which dramatically increased the liver transplant and the world’s first double University’s support from Commonwealth transplant, the latter in Pittsburgh in 1984. funds, also enabled Pitt to lower its tuition Twenty years later, in 2004, Starzl was for Pennsylvania residents, causing a surge awarded the National Medal of Science, in freshman applications. this country’s highest scientific honor, “for Among the students attracted to Pitt his pioneering work in liver transplantation was the legendary Tony Dorsett, a native of and his discoveries in immunosuppressive Aliquippa and one of the greatest running medication that advanced the field of organ backs in college and pro football history. transplantation.” Starzl received the presi- Starring at Pitt from 1973 to 1976, Dorsett dential honor at a White House ceremony in led the Panthers to the 1976 national cham- 2006. Closer to home, Pitt’s pionship with a season record Transplantation Institute, of 12-0. That triumph earned The Pitt research team’s Jonas Salk (left) and Julius the University’s original the Panthers the designation, Youngner at work on the vaccine developed at Pitt biomedical science tower, “one of the greatest teams of 1976 Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett in the 1950s. and an Oakland Street all all time,” and Dorsett’s stellar have been named after performance made him the Scholarships, five Truman Scholarships, five • A gold medal, which has been on Starzl. runaway choice for the 1976 Udall Scholarships, one Gates Cambridge display in the Hillman Library, awaited Joining the cast of Pitt Heisman Trophy. Scholarship, one Churchill Scholarship, and Pitt freshman John Woodruff as he luminaries are faculty, stu- The following year, 1977, 35 Goldwater Scholarships. sprinted from behind and passed the pack dents, and alumni who are marked the arrival at Pitt of • Pitt’s high-achieving faculty regularly of elite runners determined to cross the leading the way in areas someone who would become have won exceptional honors—including, in finish line in the 800-meter race at the as diverse as biotechnol- another Pitt champion—Mark recent years, the National Medal of Science; 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Wood- ogy, engineering, com- A. Nordenberg, who was the Charles S. Mott Prize, widely regarded ruff, who became Pitt’s first-ever gold puter modeling, creative preparing to begin a nine- as the highest honor in cancer research; medalist and the first Olympic medalist writing, the performing month stint as a visiting assis- and the MacArthur “Genius” Award, for from Western Pennsylvania, earned his and visual arts, education, tant professor at the Univer- extraordinary originality and dedication in Pitt Bachelor of Arts degree in sociol- gerontology, regenerative The Honorable K. Leroy Irvis sity of Pittsburgh School of creative pursuits and a marked capacity for ogy in 1939. He died in October 2007, medicine, health sciences, Law. Some 35 years later, he self-direction. Faculty also have been elected at age 92. government, law, nanotechnology, business, remains at Pitt; and for nearly 17 of the past to membership in esteemed groups, among • The cornerstone of the 42-story international studies, social innovation, 25 years, he has served as the University’s them the National Academy of Sciences, Cathedral of Learning was laid in philosophy of science, urban education, chancellor. the Institute of Medicine, and the American the Commons Room 75 years ago, on sustainability, sports, and public service, Association for the Advancement of Science. June 4, 1937, along with a statement among many other areas. “One of the finest and most productive • Pitt’s annual research expenditures that reads, “The Cathedral of Learning universities in the world” last year topped a record-setting $800 expresses for Pittsburgh a desire to live State-Related University During Mark Nordenberg’s first year of million, a well-acknowledged sign of insti- honestly in a world where kindness and One of the most important and influen- service, as interim chancellor, the Board of tutional strength. In fact, Pitt ranks fifth the happiness of creating are life.” tial public servants in Pennsylvania’s rich Trustees commissioned an external review among all U.S. universities in terms of the Also in 1937, U.S. President Frank- history, in fact, was K. Leroy Irvis, a 1954 of Pitt that highlighted problems such as fall- competitive grants awarded to its faculty by lin D. Roosevelt announced the estab- alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh ing enrollment, low morale, and the National Institutes of Health lishment of the National Foundation for School of Law, and a longtime Pitt trustee, inefficient business practices. In and ranks in the top 10 nation- Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), which later who, as Pennsylvania’s first African Ameri- response, the Board in early 1996 ally in total federal science and became known as the March of Dimes, can speaker of the House, was the nation’s adopted five priority statements engineering research and devel- to help conquer polio—a deadly and first Black speaker of any state House of that committed Pitt to aggres- opment support. crippling infectious disease whose vic- Representatives since Reconstruction. sively pursue excellence in under- • Pitt was the nation’s top- tims all-to-frequently were confined to Irvis sponsored more than 1,600 pieces of graduate education, maintain ranked public “Best Neighbor” mechanical ventilators (“iron lungs”) or legislation throughout his more than 30 excellence in research, partner in university in the 2009 edition of wheelchairs, and/or had to use crutches years in public life. Chief among them was community development, ensure Saviors of Our Cities: A Survey and wear braces. The worst polio epi- the bill, enacted in 1966, that made Pitt a operational efficiency and effec- of Best College and Uni- demic in our nation’s history occurred state-related university and saved it from tiveness, and secure an adequate versity Civic Partnerships. during the summer of 1952, with 57,628 financial disaster. resource base. By 2000, with Pitt Best neighbor universities cases. The following May, Pittsburgh According to Pitt historian Robert already having achieved some 2004 Nobel Peace are distinguished by their became the site of the first community- Alberts, this so-called “joint venture in measure of success, the Board Prize recipient Wangari longstanding efforts with based pilot trial of the polio vaccine public-private support for higher education” more generally declared that “[b] Muta Maathai community leaders to reha- developed at Pitt with NFIP funding by relieved the Commonwealth of the huge y aggressively supporting the bilitate the cities around a team of Pitt researchers led by Jonas capital investment that would have been advancement of Pitt’s academic mission, them, to influence community revi- Salk with now Pitt Distinguished Service required to build a state university that would we will clearly establish that this is one of talization and cultural renewal, Professor Emeritus Julius Youngner as the finest and most productive universities and to encourage economic senior scientist. Less than two years in the world.” expansion, urban development, later—on April 12, 1955—the country Holding fast to those broad and endur- and community service. breathed a collective sigh of relief as ing statements of aspiration has yielded • Pitt’s Building Our Future the polio vaccine publicly was declared striking and measureable results, among Together capital campaign— “safe, effective, and potent.” them: already the largest and most In 2005, during Pitt’s 50th anniver- • Pitt enrolled its strongest freshman successful fundraising cam- sary celebration of the confirmation of class from its largest applicant pool ever at paign in the history of Western the Salk vaccine’s efficacy, Pitt Chan- the beginning of this academic year, and the Pennsylvania—has exceeded cellor Mark A. Nordenberg invoked the level of student talent continues to soar. This $1.9 billion in gifts and pledges Journal of the American Medical Asso- past December, for example, Cory J. Rodgers and is well within range of its ciation, which heralded the development became the seventh winner of the prestigious landmark $2 billion goal. The of the polio vaccine as “one of the great- Rhodes Scholarship to have received a Pitt impact of that giving includes est achievements of the 20th century.” undergraduate education, and the fourth in ever-growing levels of endowed Imagination, hard work, and inge- the past seven years. That victory made Pitt scholarship, fellowship, and nuity sparked the Pitt research team’s one of only two public institutions in the faculty support as well as other development of the polio vaccine. These United States to have claimed the award at key investments in Pitt’s people, qualities continue to inspire Pitt faculty, least four times in the last seven years. programs, and facilities. staff, and students and contribute to Pitt’s • Pitt’s robust record of educating Any university makes reputation as a pioneer in research. One outstanding students who earn the highest many of its most important telling example is Distinguished Service Organ-transplantation pioneer and recipient of the National forms of national and international recogni- contributions through the Professor Thomas E. Starzl—known to Medal of Science Thomas E. Starzl tion also includes since 1995 six Marshall work of its graduates, February 13, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 7 The University’s Schools, Colleges, and Regional Campuses

Pitt’s schools and col- leges are at the heart of the University’s academic mission. WILLIAM P. DIETRICH SWANSON SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF As part of Pitt’s 225th anni- SCHOOL OF ARTS SCHOOL OF PHARMACY MEDICINE LAW versary observance, the Pitt AND SCIENCES ENGINEERING Chronicle pays tribute to the schools, colleges, and regional campuses that are cornerstones of Pitt’s legacy of ‘building better lives,’ not only for their students, but also for the com- munities in which they reside. The Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1822; the school has 92,897 alumni. The Swanson School of Engineering was founded in 1846; the school has 26,890 alumni. The School of Pharmacy was found in 1878; the school has 5,128 alumni. The School of Medicine was founded in 1886; the school has more than 11,000 alumni. SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF JOSEPH M. KATZ UNIVERSITY OF COLLEGE OF The School of Law was DENTAL MEDICINE EDUCATION GRADUATE SCHOOL PITTSBURGH GENERAL STUDIES founded in 1895; the school has OF BUSINESS AND AT JOHNSTOWN 9,622 alumni. COLLEGE OF The School of Dental BUSINESS Medicine was founded in 1896; ADMINISTRATION the school has 7,987 alumni. The School of Education 2003 Nobel Laureate in Medicine recipient Paul was founded in 1910; the school Lauterbur with Chancellor Nordenberg has 34,054 alumni. The Joseph M. Katz Grad- uate School of Business and and Pitt alumni are no exception. Some College of Business Admin- of their work, which has extended well istration was founded in 1923; beyond Pitt’s campuses, has contributed the school has 27,525 alumni. to the greater good and improved the The University of Pitts- human condition. Think of Pitt gradu- burgh at Johnstown was ate Paul Lauterbur, who was named a founded in 1927; it has 19,465 2003 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for alumni. his groundbreaking work in the science The College of General of magnetic resonance imaging, or of Studies was founded in 1932; Pitt graduate Wangari Muta Maathai, the college has 17,912 alumni. who a year later received the 2004 The School of Social Work Nobel Peace Prize for her con- was founded in 1934; the school tributions to sustainable devel- has 9,821 alumni. SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF GRADUATE SCHOOL GRADUATE SCHOOL SCHOOL OF opment, democracy, women’s The School of Nursing was SOCIAL WORK NURSING OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF PUBLIC AND INFORMATION rights, and peace. founded in 1939; the school has INTERNATIONAL SCIENCES Among the many other 10,718 alumni. AFFAIRS important forms of recogni- The Graduate School of tion that Pitt graduates have Public Health was founded won for the quality and impact in 1948; the school has 5,992 of their lives’ work are the alumni. National Medal of Science, the The Graduate School Shaw and Albany Prizes in of Public and International medicine, the Fritz Medal in Affairs was founded in 1957; engineering, the Templeton the school has 6,974 alumni. Prize, the Pulitzer Prize The School of Information for fiction, the National Sciences was founded in 1961; Book Award for Poetry, the the school has 12,712 alumni. Grammy award, the Goi The University of Pitts- Peace Prize, the MacAr- burgh at Bradford was founded thur Fellowship, and the in 1963; it has 9,767 alumni. Grainger Challenge Prize The University of Pitts- for sustainability. burgh at Greensburg was “Leader in education. founded in 1963; it has 6,198 Pioneer in research. Part- alumni. ner in regional develop- The University of Pitts- ment.” The tripartite mis- burgh at Titusville was founded UNIVERSITY OF UNIVERSITY OF UNIVERSITY OF SCHOOL OF UNIVERSITY sion of the 21st-century in 1963; it has 807 alumni. PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH HEALTH AND HONORS center of higher learning The School of Health and AT BRADFORD AT GREENSBURG AT TITUSVILLE REHABILITATION COLLEGE known as the Univer- Rehabilitation Sciences was SCIENCES sity of Pittsburgh bears founded in 1969; the school has repeating—and particu- 9,166 alumni. larly now, as Pitt, which The University Honors already has touched College was founded in 1987; four centuries, cel- students taking Honors College ebrates its 225th classes receive their degrees birthday by fur- through Pitt’s other academic ther extending its units. long and proud history of build- ing better lives. Artwork by Karen Scofield Design Inc. representing each of the University’s schools, colleges, and regional campuses reprinted from the April 27, 2003, Pitt Chronicle. Type modifications made by Gary Kohr-Cravener. 8 • Pitt Chronicle • February 13, 2012 UniversityUpdate Facing the Specter of Enormous Budget Cuts Continued from page 1 education has long been viewed as a key research and development support. During to individual pursuit of the American the last fiscal year, our research expenditures dream, and a well-educated populace exceeded $800 million—expenditures that To this point, then, our accumulated cuts for this fiscal year total is universally considered essential for are an accepted measure of institutional national and regional prominence and strength, that fund important work, and that $67 million. Without meaning to generate unnecessary anxiety but prosperity. These twin beliefs drove the support, directly and indirectly, more than conversion of Pitt and Temple, two well- 28,000 local jobs. wanting to be more contextually descriptive, let me try to give that regarded private universities, to state- Though our service mission takes very big number more practical significance. If we had tried to deal related status in the mid-1960s, a public many forms, none has been more important status already claimed by Penn State. than the role that we play as an engine for with a $67 million cut solely through work-force reductions, that In effecting this change, there was a economic development and as a generator desire to meet the growing demand from of jobs. We sit at the heart of the education would have required us to eliminate more than 1,000 Pitt staff jobs Pennsylvanians for reasonably priced, and health services “supersector”—by far, but high-quality, university experiences, this region’s largest employment sector and carrying average levels of compensation and benefits. Or if we had and there was a desire to invest in anchor a source of what has been substantial and institutions that could help drive the dependable job growth, even as the country tried to deal with a $67 million cut solely through tuition increases, economies of Pennsylvania’s two major moves through the “jobless recovery” from that would have required an average tuition increase of about urban areas. the Great Recession. Just last weekend, The most thoughtful in a succession respected analyst Harold Miller wrote in $2,600 for each of our in-state students. of state master plans, issued shortly after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that, while a the creation of the State System of Higher recent surge made this region the national Education, labeled leader in job growth, 22 percent—or $40 million—combined maintain employment levels while Pitt, Penn State, and many still had been left reduction to our education and general dealing with part of our deficit by Temple as the “Com- After a past decade behind. He described appropriation and our academic medical delaying salary increases for most monwealth Universi- the situation in the fol- center support lines. As another reminder, employees. We also did not impose ties” and described that brought cuts to our lowing way: “Most of this 22 percent reduction to our state sup- the level of tuition increases that might their expected contri- the new jobs were cre- port came during a year in which overall have been justified by pure “budget butions in the follow- appropriation almost every ated in sectors such as state spending decreased by only 4 percent. math.” Instead, we imposed more ing way: health care and higher Late in the fall, we also were notified that temperate increases, with tuition rising The Common- year and a past year that education, where we’ve our annual capital projects support would be by 8.5 percent to $15,272 for in-state wealth Universi- brought the steepest cuts become accustomed cut in half, from $40 million to $20 million. undergraduates in the arts and sciences ties . . . serve as the to seeing growth. Then, just last month, we were directed to in Pittsburgh and by 4.0 percent, to state’s major public in our history, the budget . . . The strong job put another 5 percent—or $7 million—into $11,736, for in-state undergraduates in research universities. growth in sectors such “budgetary reserve.” This is a polite term of the arts and sciences on our regional Together, these insti- proposal released today as health care and art for a mid-year budget cut. And to return campuses. And, in the spirit of shared tutions offer a broad higher education is to the issue of proportionality, the state- sacrifice, we made up for much of this range of educational hits us very hard again. masking the fact that related universities, whose appropriations massive loss of state support through programs and ser- more than 21,000 jobs account for less than 2 percent of the state’s budget reductions that either were vices and carry spe- The Governor has proposed lost in manufacturing, budget, were directed to shoulder nearly 16 managed centrally or were distributed cial responsibilities an additional cut of 30 construction, retail, percent, or about eight times that amount, of by senior leaders to the units reporting for research, advance and the information this midyear reduction. to them. We believed that this approach graduate instruction, percent to our education sector still haven’t To this point, then, our accumulated was fairer in human terms and also and for education returned.” cuts for this fiscal year total $67 million. made good business sense, because the in the professions, and general appropriation Given this impres- Without meaning to generate unnecessary demand for our services remains high including law, medi- sive record of success, anxiety but wanting to be more contextu- and does depend upon the quality of cine, engineering, for the next fiscal year and the Commonwealth’s ally descriptive, let me try to give that very those services. business and agri- current retreat from big number more practical significance. If After a past decade that brought culture. . . . The scope a 10 percent reduction to support for its public we had tried to deal with a $67 million cut cuts to our appropriation almost every and quality of their our academic medical line research universities solely through work- year and a past programs and their may be even more sur- force reductions, that year that brought geographic distribu- items, a blended reduction prising than the belief would have required us the steepest cuts tion permit them to in the power of edu- to eliminate more than Both the Governor and the in our history, serve the needs of the of about 29 percent and cation that drove the 1,000 Pitt staff jobs car- the budget pro- state and nation in the creation of that frontier rying average levels of Secretary of Education have posal released fields of undergradu- totaling nearly $42 million. academy 225 years ago. compensation and ben- personally committed to me today hits us ate, graduate and first However, it is abso- efits. Or if we had tried very hard again. professional educa- lutely clear, both from to deal with a $67 mil- that there will be no attempt The Governor tion, research and public service. Along last year’s cuts and from the state budget lion cut solely through has proposed an with the major independent universities proposed today, that these institutions—long tuition increases, that to advance preconceived additional cut of in the state, the Commonwealth Universi- exceptional contributors to the social vitality would have required an 30 percent to our ties are the principal centers for research and economic strength of the Common- average tuition increase policy results through this education and and development in Pennsylvania. wealth—once again are being targeted for of about $2,600 for general appro- Pitt’s performance in this assigned dramatically disproportionate budget cuts. each of our in-state stu- process. And in a fair and priation for the role has been nothing short of remark- dents. For an in-state open process, the unique next fiscal year able. The strength of our educational Successive Waves of Deep Cuts undergraduate student and a 10 percent programs at all levels has made us a To be fair, the budget pressures faced enrolled in the arts and contributions tied to the work reduction to our magnet for ambitious, hard-working, by our elected leaders are daunting. Dealing sciences on the Pitts- academic medi- high-potential students from across the with them can involve painful funding deci- burgh campus, that done by public research cal line items, a country and around the world. However, sions, with success depending upon a spirit would have been an blended reduc- consistent with our public mission, we of shared sacrifice. But to be clear, those of 18.5 percent increase universities should provide a tion of about 29 have attracted particularly large numbers us at Pitt never have resisted doing our fair and would have taken percent and total- of Pennsylvania students, increasing the share. And what we must resist—not only tuition to $16,676 per strong case for enhanced, not ing nearly $42 likelihood that, over the longer term, for ourselves but for the many who depend year. For an in-state reduced, support. million. Though they will live, work, and contribute here. upon us—are disproportionately deep cuts undergraduate student this is somewhat We also have become an internationally that threaten our ability to continue making enrolled in the arts and harder to discern respected center for pioneering research, critical contributions, either to deserving sciences on a regional from the early ranking among the top five American individuals or to a vibrant, more productive campus, that would have been a 23 percent releases, it also appears that this budget universities in support attracted from society. increase and would have taken annual tuition proposal would totally eliminate a long- the National Institutes of Health and To repeat what I said earlier and what to $13,886. standing program that has invested among the top 10 American universities you knew before today, this has been a brutal Of course, we did not adopt either of in total federal science and engineering budget year. This fiscal year began with a those approaches. Instead, we worked to Continued on page 9 February 13, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 9

Facing the Specter of Enormous Budget Cuts Continued from page 8 tobacco settlement fund revenues into by assessments of what funds can be most course, stand as a primary contributor to In the weeks ahead, we also will health-related research. The dollar easily seized and not by more reasoned rising public university tuition and its impact need to move forward with the pro- amounts flowing to Pitt have varied judgments tied to determinations of the on access and affordability. Virtually every- cesses of fashioning an operating from year to year but have averaged relative returns produced by particular state one who has seriously examined these issues budget for the next fiscal year. Sadly, more than $9.2 million annually over investments. Put another way, there appears has fairly called for colleges and universities we will do so knowing that the budget the course of the last 11 years. to have been no analysis of current Com- to do even more to control their costs but also almost certainly will be built on a The state budget spreadsheets monwealth needs as we move further into has recognized that the key culprit is reduced foundation of substantially dimin- covering the Governor’s general fund the innovation economy or of the long-term state funding. The situa- ished state support. budget proposal do present the cuts to social and economic impacts likely to flow tion described in a recent But we also move our appropriations from these massive reduc- Washington Post editorial It might be said, in fact, forward knowing in the same format tions in support for public has direct application to that we already have used for all state gov- In the weeks ahead, research universities. Pennsylvania: that our basic activity built a record of suc- ernment agencies The creation of a new States facing dwin- cessfully meeting a and for other institu- we also will need to commission, announced by dling resources have cut is the business of build- broad range of dif- tions receiving state the Governor today, may back on support to public ficult challenges. funding. That is, to move forward with the provide the first opportu- universities and colleges. ing dreams. We do that I n t o d a y ’ s give the primary nity for a longer-term look It’s been seen as an easy through the power of budget address, the Pitt example, those processes of fashioning at the educational needs of way out, since the institu- Governor declared, budget sheets show an operating budget the Commonwealth and its tions, unlike many others higher education, as “We cannot allow a 30 percent cut to people. Both the Governor receiving public funds, the debts of today our general appro- for the next fiscal and the Secretary of Educa- could fall back on rais- we help position tens of to crowd out the priation, which accu- tion have personally com- ing tuition. But the con- dreams of tomor- rately depicts that year. Sadly, we will do mitted to me that there will sequences of this disin- thousands of students, row.” Unfortunately, reduction. However, be no attempt to advance vestment are a decline in it is hard to look at the subsequently so knowing that the pre-conceived policy quality and more students each and every day, to the cuts proposed issued media release results through this pro- denied affordable access more effectively pursue for Pitt and Pennsyl- masks the depth of budget almost certainly cess. And in a fair and open to higher education. . . . vania’s other public the reduction by will be built on a foun- process, the unique con- To be sure, colleges need their own goals for life. research universi- avoiding any mention tributions tied to the work to be smarter about how ties without feeling of the appropriation dation of substantially done by public research they spend their money. And we do it, often more that this is just what cut itself and refer- universities should provide But the challenges con- has happened—that ring, instead, to a “2.1 diminished state sup- a strong case for enhanced, fronting public higher dramatically, through our dreams are being percent decrease in not reduced, support. education go far beyond sacrificed in an its [Pitt’s] operating port. But we also move That general mes- the savings that can be programs of research. effort to deal with budget.” That form sage was supported by the realized through effi - Sixty years ago, all of crushing current of calculation essen- forward knowing that National Science Founda- ciency. A commitment of debt. tially imposes a math- we already have built tion’s recent release of its ideas and resources [is] America was desperately It might be said, ematical penalty on a report, Science and Engi- needed if America is to in fact, that our basic research university a record of successfully neering Indicators 2012. continue its grand tradi- dreaming about a cure activity is the busi- like Pitt for import- In commenting on it, the tion of its citizens bet- ness of building ing $800 million of meeting a broad range Chair of the National Sci- tering themselves—and for polio, and that dream dreams. We do that research funding into ence Board stated, “The itself—through education. through the power the local economy. It of difficult challenges. decline in support for became a reality through of higher education, may also reflect a fun- postsecondary education, Pushing Forward work done at the Univer- as we help position damental misconcep- especially public research One can never predict tens of thousands of tion about such funds—which can only universities, is a cause for great concern how a group process ulti- sity of Pittsburgh. students, each and be spent on the projects for which they as we examine the condition of U.S. global mately will unfold, and it every day, to more were awarded and are not a source of competitiveness.” In Pennsylvania, of certainly would have been effectively pursue revenue that can used for more general course, public support for public research far better if the commission announced by their own goals for life. And we do it, purposes or to reduce tuition levels. universities began at a lower point, and the the Governor had been at work before we often more dramatically, through our In the budget address that he cuts imposed here have been steeper than were targeted for such deep and dispropor- programs of research. Sixty years ago, delivered one year ago, the Governor almost every other state. In fact, the report tionate cuts to our state funding. Still, if the all of America was desperately dream- described the process that he had ini- reveals that Pennsylvania already is in the commission lives up to its potential, it could ing about a cure for polio, and that tiated to deal with a large, inherited bottom quartile of the 50 states in terms shape the face of public higher education dream became a reality through work budget deficit in the following way: of “appropriations of state tax funds for in Pennsylvania for years to come. And if done at the University of Pittsburgh. In many ways, what we need to do operating expenses of higher education as returns on investment are fairly assessed, Thirty years ago, both physicians and is the same as reviving an abandoned a percentage of gross domestic product.” then Pitt and other public research universi- patients were dreaming about a future apple tree. If the tree isn’t tended and Diminished levels of state support, of ties should occupy an even more prominent time when human organ transplantation the branches pruned, that tree will grow position as we move further into the new might become a widely available treat- into a tangle of limbs and leaves. But it century. ment for a range of deadly diseases. To will bear no fruit. We need to take this Even while that assessment process is a large extent, that dream, too, became tree, so long overgrown, and cut back In today’s budget address, the Gov- getting under way, there are other important a reality through work at Pitt. Today, what isn’t fruitful. And we need to do ernor declared, “We cannot allow tasks at hand. This is just the beginning when people think of a world with- that essential pruning on all branches of the state’s budget-building process. We out Alzheimer’s disease or cancer or of government. We need to do the hard the debts of today to crowd out now will move through legislative hearings diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, they cutting so the tree can once again bear and will seek to advance our case in other often look to the work of Pitt research- fruit. And that fruit is jobs. the dreams of tomorrow.” Unfortu- settings as well. Knowing the daunting ers. The same also can be said about The process actually implemented challenge that we now face, we need to dreams of a world made better by more is quite different. It is a process that nately, it is hard to look at the cuts build upon the outstanding advocacy efforts accessible and less expensive energy chops rather than prunes, and it is a undertaken by students, faculty, staff, and or by the miracles of nanotechnology process that has targeted among the proposed for Pitt and Pennsylva- alumni during the budget-building process or quantum computing or by any of a most fruitful of the Commonwealth’s nia’s other public research universi- last year. Officers of the University Senate, number of other advances. investments, measured by job growth the Staff Association Council, the Student In a very real sense, the Governor or in almost any other way. ties without feeling that this is just Government Board, the Graduate and Pro- perfectly defined our challenge, but fessional Student Assembly, and the Pitt the deep and disproportionate cuts A Glimmer of Hope what has happened—that dreams Alumni Association already have stepped proposed will not let us travel to where Beyond the huge dollar losses it forward to express their desire to be advo- we hope to be. Now, we need to work has imposed, one distressing dimen- are being sacrificed in an effort to cates for Pitt. In the end, though, the success with him, with members of the Legis- sion of this two-year budget process of this effort depends upon even broader lature, and with others to find a better is that, at least in higher education, it deal with crushing current debt. participation throughout the University way to advance what should be our seems to have been driven principally community. shared goal.

10 • Pitt Chronicle • February 13, 2012 Grace Period for PAT Card Desmond King to Address Current Politics Problems Ends April 1 Of Race in U.S. as Pitt’s 2012 Roscoe Robinson Jr. Memorial Lecturer Feb. 16 By Audrey Marks

Despite President Barack Obama’s Christopher H. Browne Distinguished election as the first African American U.S. Professor of Political Science at the president, Desmond King, the Andrew University of Pennsylvania. Mellon Professor of American Government King is an Emeritus Fellow of St. John’s at Nuffield College—a social sciences College and a Fellow of the British Academy, graduate college of Oxford University in the UK’s national body for the humanities the United Kingdom— and social sciences. He argues that the role of specializes in the study race continues to define of the American state in American politics. King U.S. executive politics, will deliver the 2012 Roscoe race, politics in American Robinson Jr. Memorial political development, Lecture on Diversity and comparative welfare Public Service at 6 p.m. politics and labor market Feb. 16. The lecture, titled policy, democratization, “Race and Politics in and immigration policy. Obama’s America,” will The third annual take place in Ballroom A of Roscoe Robinson Jr. the University Club. Memorial Lecture on King will discuss how Desmond King Diversity and Public Service Obama’s election did not is hosted by the University usher in a new postracial America and how of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and race plays a role in the current presidential International Affairs. The lecture recognizes campaign. King is the author of Separate and the late Roscoe Robinson’s impact on Unequal: African Americans and the U.S. diversity in public service and the U.S. Federal Government (Oxford University military. A Pitt alumnus, Robinson (GSPIA Press, 2007) and coauthored Still a House ’64G) was the first African American four- Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s star general in the U.S. Army. Panther Central is reminding Pitt PAT vehicles should collect the following America (Princeton Studies in American For more information about the lecture, faculty, staff, and students who use the Port information and bring it, along with the Pitt Politics, 2011) with Rogers M. Smith, visit www.gspia.pitt.edu. Authority Transit (PAT) that the grace period ID, to Panther Central’s offices in Litchfield for card-reading problems on PAT vehicles Towers: ends April 1. After that date, any commuter • The rider’s name, phone number, and whose Pitt ID does not work on a PAT bus Pitt ID number (located on the back of the or trolley will have to pay full fare. ID above the magnetic strip); Newsmakers Panther Central “hopes to resolve • The four-digit bus number, located on any problems that Pitt commuters have the back and sides of the bus; Chancellor’s Alumni with the new technology before the April • The date and time of the occurrence; Faculty-Staff Luncheon 1 deadline, to help commuters avoid the • The route number, and whether the bus inconvenience and embarrassment of having was going inbound or outbound; their ID denied,” said John Fedele, a Pitt • The bus stop location, or nearest cross spokesperson. streets; and Any commuter who experiences • The error message on the electronic a problem with his or her Pitt ID on fare box. Annual Honors Convocation Feb. 24 Launches Observance of the 225th Anniversary of the

Founding of the University of Pittsburgh MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE About 400 people attended Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg’s annual luncheon for faculty and staff alumni. Continued from page 2 The gathering was held Jan. 25 in Alumni Hall’s Connolly Ballroom. The chancellor told his audience that every member of the Pitt community is helping to shape the current chapter of the University’s history. He said that chancellor for Community Relations, who Salvation Army. challenges posed by the dramatic cuts in the state appropriation exist, but that his early birthday wish for the chairs the 225 Acts of Caring committee. Also part of the anniversary com- University—ahead of the official start of its 225th anniversary observance—is for the University community to “During this anniversary year celebration, memoration will be the 225th anniversary stick together and advocate for Pitt’s noble mission, to succeed, and to keep moving forward. our ‘225 Acts of Caring’ Web site that includes some will help underscore Pitt’s 225 of the most notable commitment to ‘building Also part of the events and accomplishments Pitt Police, Student Athletes Take the “Polar Plunge” better lives,’ not only for in Pitt’s storied history. to Raise $2,600 for Special Olympics our students, but also for anniversary com- The site, which will offer a the communities in which steady stream of new stories we live.” memoration will be and celebration highlights The University has an through the year, is meant active Volunteer Pool, which the 225th anniver- to draw visitors back again is part of Pitt’s Office of and again into a showcase of Community and Govern- sary Web site that Pitt’s tradition of ‘building mental Relations, and this includes some 225 better lives’ through knowl- year’s anniversary volunteer edge, discovery, and service. projects vary in scope. They of the most notable The Web site also will will include overarching serve as a repository for TIMOTHY DELANEY institutional efforts, like events and accom- upcoming anniversary Two dozen University of Pittsburgh police officers helped to raise $2,600 for the Special Olympics of Pennsylvania Pitt’s United Day of Caring activities as well as a link on Dec. 11 during the organization’s annual “Polar Plunge” event. Members of Pitt’s Swimming and Diving team and the student-led Pitt Make plishments in Pitt’s to “225 Acts of Caring.” also participated in the plunge, raising $950 of Pitt’s $2,600 total for the event. Most of the University’s police a Difference Day, and those storied history. The site, www.225.pitt.edu, officers, organized by Lieutenant Holly Lamb, braved the cold Allegheny River: from left, Lieutenant Dave Basile, conducted by student orga- has a 225-year timeline of Sergeant Dan Papale, Officer Heather Camp, and Officer Cory Rogers emerge from the river. The event’s host, nizations and clubs, such as the history of the Univer- the Pitt Sigma Chi Fraternity’s Feb. 4 Wrap sity, downloadable photos, and a special former Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swan, praised the Pitt officers for the stylish fur hats they all wore on dry land to Up Pittsburgh event, in which more than feature that allows Pitt alumni and friends celebrate their underwater feat. The day’s event raised a total of more than $260,000 for the Special Olympics, 300 students participated, resulting in the to share personal memories of their Pitt twice the amount raised last year. donation of nearly 2,000 blankets to the experiences. February 13, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 11

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Happenings The Warhol, About Face, a series of three-dimensional large-format portraits by photographer Anne Svenson; Warhol and Cars: American Icons, examining Warhol’s enduring fascination with automobiles as products of American consumer society, both through May 13; I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video, and Television, ongoing, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237- 8300, www.warhol.org.

Wood Street Galleries, Cell Phone Disco, ongoing, Tito Way, Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. Lectures/Seminars/ Readings “Building Sustainable Neighborhoods: Powering Sustainable Development in Allegheny County,” symposium with discussions between legislators, innovators, and industry experts about Allegheny County’s potential as a Music as Inspiration, leader in sustainable growth and energy Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, development, keynote address by Mike February 17-19 Doyle, U.S. Congressman for the 14th District of Pennsylvania, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 13, Phipps Conservatory, One Schenley Park, Oakland. Pitt School “Why We Kill: Lebanese Fighters in of Law’s Innovation Practice Institute Everyday Life,” Sami Hermez, visiting and Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental assistant professor, Mount Holyoke and Public Health Law, www.law.pitt. College, 11:30 a.m. Feb. 17, 4430 Posvar edu/events. Hall, Pitt Global Studies Center, Center for International Legal Education, tfa3@ “Garay Street and Being-in-the- pitt.edu. World: Human Spatiality in Borges’ ‘El Aleph,’” William Richardson, Andrea Parkins & Iris, professor of Spanish, The National Miscellaneous William Pitt Union, University of Ireland in Galway, 6 p.m. February 17 Feb. 13, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Midwinter Russian Classics, classic Department of Hispanic Languages and Russian theater, poetry, music, and Literatures, [email protected]. refreshments with proceeds benefiting the Nationality Rooms scholarship through Feb. 19, Henry Heymann “Bell Inequality and Common fund, 8 p.m. Feb. 17, Frick Fine Theatre inside the Stephen Foster Causal Explanation in Algebraic Arts Auditorium, Pitt’s Department Memorial, and March 2-4, August Quantum Field Theory,” Gábor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Hofer-Szabó, visiting fellow and Bolyai The Intercultural Project, http:// Downtown, Pitt Repertory Theatre, Research Fellow of the Hungarian theinterculturalproject.blogspot.com, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Academy of Sciences, 12:05 p.m. [email protected]. Company, 412-624-7529, www.play. Feb. 14, 817R Cathedral of Learning, pitt.edu/content/gammage-project. Lunchtime Talk Series, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, Opera/Theater/ Ruthless! The Musical, featuring [email protected]. crazy antics of a homicidal eight- Dance year-old aspiring actress, through “The Fires of Inflammation May 6, CLO Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Midwinter Russian Classics, Driving the Genesis of New Anti- Shen Yun Performing Arts, classical Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, inflammatory Drugs,” Bruce A. Chinese dance and music, 7:30 p.m. www.pittsburghclo.org, 412-325-6766, February 17 Freeman, UPMC-Irwin Fridovich Chair Feb. 15-16, Benedum Center, 237 7th PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624- in Pharmacology in Pitt’s School of St., Downtown, Philadelphia Falun Dafa 4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Medicine, 4:30 p.m. Feb. 14, Lecture Association, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Concerts Room 6, Scaife Hall, Pitt Provost’s 412-456-6666, www.trustarts.org. Inaugural Lecture Series, www.provost. Sean Jones Valentine’s Day: Soiree ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. pitt.edu. Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Pitt PhD Voyage D’Amour, award-winning jazz pittarts.pitt.edu. a benefit production to raise funds musician Sean Jones takes the audience “An Ill Wind That Blows No Good? A for and awareness of violence against Dissertation on a musical journey through an Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, a Reinterpretation of the Depiction of women and girls, proceeds donated evening of love, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. friendly but spirited rivalry of jazz Abe no Nakamaro in the Kibi Daijin to Planned Parenthood of Western Defenses Feb. 14, Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 drumming, 8 p.m. Feb. 18, Byham Nittô Emaki Scroll,” Sara L. Sumpter, Pennsylvania, 7:30 p.m. Feb 16-18, Penn Ave., Downtown, Jazz Live @ The Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, doctoral student, Pitt Department of 7th-Floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, Kan Xiong, Kenneth P. Dietrich Cabaret, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412- Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Cohen & History of Art and Architecture, noon V-Day University of Pittsburgh, Pitt School of Arts and Sciences’ 456-6666, www.trustarts.org. Grigsby Trust Presents Series, 412-456- Feb. 16, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Campus Women’s Organization, Department of Chemistry, “UV 6666, www.trustarts.org, PITT ARTS Lunch Series, Pitt Asian Studies Center, [email protected]. Resonance Raman Studies of Peptide Trey Anastasio, solo performance by Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. 412-648-7370, [email protected]. Folding, Peptide Fibrillization and the Phish front man, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14, pittarts.pitt.edu. Dance Works Rotterdam’s Cl-èH2O Charge Transfer Transition,” Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, “Race and Politics in Obama’s Anatomica, an exploration of danger, 1 p.m. Feb. 13, 307 Eberly Hall. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412- America,” Desmond King, Andrew beauty, and consequences of the human 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Exhibitions Mellon Professor of American body by a leading modern dance Collin Diedrich, School of Medicine’s Government at Nuffield College, Oxford company from the Netherlands, 8 p.m. Molecular Virology and Microbiology The Ortner-Roberts Duo, Yiddish/ Carnegie Museum of Art, Picturing University, 6 p.m. Feb. 16, Ballroom A, Feb. 18, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Graduate Program, “HIV Increases Creole Fusion featuring clarinetist the City: Downtown Pittsburgh, 2007- University Club, 2012 Roscoe Robinson Downtown, Pittsburgh Dance Council, Susceptibility to Tuberculosis by Susanne Ortner and pianist Tom Roberts, 2010, through March 2; Teenie Harris, Memorial Lecture, Pitt Graduate School Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, Manipulating M. Tuberculosis-Specific noon Feb. 17, free, Cup & Chaucer Café, Photographer: An American Story, of Public and International Affairs, www.trustarts.org. Immunological Responses,” 10 a.m. ground floor, Hillman Library, Emerging through April 7; Maya Lin, imaginative www.gspia.pitt.edu/AboutGSPIA/Events/ Feb. 16, 1101 Scaife Hall. Legends Series, Calliope: The Pittsburgh recreations of natural forms transformed tabid/69/Default.aspx. As You Like It by Shakespeare, through Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse. into objects of contemplation, through Feb. 19, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Claudia Heske, Kenneth P. Dietrich org/legends.htm. May 13; Hand Made: Contemporary “U.S. Policy and the Israeli- Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public School of Arts and Sciences’ Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, Palestinian Peace Process: Legacies Theater, 412-316-8219, www.ppt.org Department of English, “Avoiding Common Threads, ensemble of local ongoing, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, and Challenges,” Husam Mohamad, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, Dystopia: Documenting Warfare, folk artists, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17, Pittsburgh 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org. professor of political science, University www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Britain 1914-1920,” 1 p.m. Feb. 17, Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., of Central Oklahoma at Edmond, 512 Cathedral of Learning. Shadyside, The Roots Cellar: Music on Westmoreland Museum of American 3:30 p.m. Feb. 16, 4130 Posvar Hall, The Gammage Project by Pitt theater a New Level, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Art, The Art of Seating: 200 Years Pitt Global Studies Center, Center for arts professor Attilio “Buck” Favorini, an Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse. of American Design, includes The International Legal Education, tfa3@ original docudrama exposing emotions org/legends.htm. Jacobsen American Chair Collection, pitt.edu. that affect race relations in Pittsburgh, a comprehensive private collection of Andrea Parkins & Iris, electroacoustic iconic and historic chairs from the mid- free-improvisational quartet from New 1800s to pieces from today’s studio York and Europe, 8 p.m. Feb. 17, Lower movement, through April 8, 221 N. Lounge, William Pitt Student Union, The Main St., Greensburg, 724-837-1500, Consortium, WPTS-FM, 412-361-2262, www.wmuseumaa.org www.garfieldartworks.com, Pitt Student Union Ticket Office, 412-648-7814. The Frick Art & Historical Center, Draw Me a Story: A Century of Music as Inspiration, Manfred Honeck Children’s Book Illustration, survey conducting Pittsburgh Symphony of drawing styles and techniques Orchestra in Stucky’s Silent Spring, spanning more than 100 years, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, and, including watercolors, pen drawings, with soloist Nikolaj Znaider, the Sibelius and experimental combinations from Violin Concerto, Feb. 17-19, Heinz artists like Randolph Caldecott, Chris Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY van Allsburg, Ernest Shepard, and Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, Maurice Sendak, through May 20, Warhol and Cars: American Icons, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT The Warhol, through May 13

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12 • Pitt Chronicle • February 13, 2012 More Than Half of Hookah Tobacco Web Sites Don’t PittChronicle Include the Word “Tobacco,” Primack-Led Study Finds Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh

By Jennifer C. Yates PUBLISHER Robert Hill ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith Of the growing number of businesses “Hookah tobacco smoking is growing EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer promoting hookah tobacco smoking on the in popularity in the United States, but many EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet Internet, fewer than 1 percent included a people are unaware of the health risks. It’s The study also found that, while ART DIRECTOR Gary Kohr-Cravener tobacco-related warning about the practice believed that one session of smoking tobacco cigarette-related Web pages often STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake on the first page of their Web sites, accord- through a hookah can deliver about 50 to 100 John Fedele ing to a University of Pittsburgh School times the smoke volume, 40 times the tar, are required to verify users’ ages, B. Rose Huber of Medicine study available online in the and twice the nicotine usually delivered by Audrey M. Marks American Journal of Preventive Medicine. a single cigarette,” Primack said. “Hookah none of the hookah tobacco Web Patricia Lomando White The study also found that, while cigarette- smoking has been linked to CONTRIBUTING WRITER Diane Hernon Chavis related Web pages often are required to serious diseases like cancer pages required any type of age Mark A. Nordenberg verify users’ ages, none of the hookah and cardiovascular disease, Jennifer C. Yates tobacco Web pages required any type and people should be aware verification. Researchers say the HAPPENINGS EDITOR Baindu Saidu of age verification. Researchers say the of these risks.” findings suggest more health edu- The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by findings suggest more health educa- The researchers University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, tion may be valuable in countering examined the contents cation may be valuable in counter- 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. misinformation about smoking of U.S.-based Web sites Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895. tobacco through hookahs. that promote hookah- ing misinformation about smoking E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu Brian Primack, smoking establish- The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal a professor of ments. They scrutinized tobacco through hookahs. opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any medicine and 144 Web sites and coded basis prohibited by law. pediatrics in them for their content and Pitt’s School format. Research- pages and 15 percent having of Medicine ers found many of Twitter. who led the the hookah busi- “Many people seem study, said nesses had similar to have the misconception many Web characteristics that there is no tar or nicotine PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of sites stated glamorized hookah associated with this type of Pitt Chronicle will be published Feb. 20. or implied tobacco smoking as tobacco use. I think we need Items for publication in the newspaper’s that smok- a fun, social activ- to step up our educational Happenings calendar (See page 11) should ing tobacco ity: 79 percent efforts to help them under- be received at least two weeks prior to the event date. Happenings items should through the served food, 41 stand what the risks may include the following information: title pipes was safer percent served be,” Primack said. of the event, name and title of speaker(s), than cigarette alcohol, 53 Collaborators on date, time, location, sponsor(s), and a smoking. In fact, percent offered Brian Primack the study include other phone number and Web site for additional only 26 percent dancing, and 37 researchers from Pitt’s School information. Items may be e-mailed to of the Web sites percent offered live of Medicine; from American University in [email protected], or sent by campus mail to included the word music. Many also Beirut, Lebanon; and from the University 422 Craig Hall. For more information, call “tobacco” some- had a social media of Florida. 412-624-1033 or e-mail [email protected]. where on their presence, with 31 per- The study was funded by the National opening Web pages. cent having Facebook Cancer Institute.