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Pitt showcases work of its emerging artists...... 3 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume VIII • Number 14 • April 16, 2007 University and City of Pittsburgh Officials Dedicate Pitt’s New Public Safety Building Pitt’s police, environmental health and safety departments housed at 3412 Forbes Ave. JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE

Dick Thornburgh (LAW ’57) displays a souvenir from his first, unsuccessful run for public office. Campaigning in 1966 as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress, he promised to “stir things up” if elected. University Dedicates Dick Thornburgh Room In Hillman Library By Sharon S. Blake

Pitt dedicated the Dick Thornburgh Room in the University’s Hillman Library on April 5. The event also marked the establish- ment of The Dick Thornburgh Forum in Law and Public Policy, which will provide Participants in the ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate Pitt’s new Public Safety Building were, from left: Jay Frerotte, director an organizational framework for activi- of the University’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety; Pitt Executive Vice Chancellor Jerome Cochran; Allegheny ties and programs based on Thornburgh’s papers, career, contributions, and interests. County Chief Executive Dan Onorato; Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg; Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl; Pittsburgh Police An endowed fund has been established to Chief Nathan Harper; Pitt Police Chief Timothy Delaney; and State Senator and Pitt Trustee Jay Costa. support the forum, and plans are under way for an advisory committee to assist with By John Fedele ongoing fundraising and provide input on programming and activities. City of Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Raven- safety staff necessitated this move to the Thornburgh, a 1957 graduate of Pitt’s stahl and Chief of Police Nathan Harper new facility. The new facility ensures that School of Law and a member of the and Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan our public safety personnel have the most University’s Board of Trustees, served as Onorato joined Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nor- modern facilities and equipment to do their Governor of Pennsylvania, Attorney General denberg, Executive Vice Chancellor Jerome jobs of keeping faculty, staff, students, and of the United States under two presidents, Cochran, and Police Chief Timothy Delaney residents safe.” and the highest-ranking American at the in officially dedicating the University’s new The $6 million, four-story building United Nations. Currently, he is counsel to Public Safety Building, at 3412 Forbes Ave., houses the University’s Police Department the international law firm of Kirkpatrick Oakland, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony and Department of Environmental Health & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP in its and open house April 9. and Safety (EH&S). The new building Washington, D.C., office. An estimated 150 people—including was needed, Pitt officials said, because the Public Safety Building at 3412 Forbes Ave. “The name Dick Thornburgh is syn- local government and public safety officials, University’s Police Department has grown onymous with accomplishment and with business owners, and community leaders to more than 130 employees, including 74 into the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny integrity in public service,” said Pitt Chan- as well as members of the University com- commissioned officers, making it the third- County’s 911 system. In addition, the police cellor Mark A. Nordenberg. “Throughout a munity—attended the event. largest police force in Allegheny County. areas include rooms for evidence storage and distinguished public career that has spanned “The University of Pittsburgh’s public The facility will serve as a command post protocol and interrogation and observation. more than a quarter century, University of safety operation has been a great partner during major emergencies, and sharing the There is also a holding room, separate detec- Pittsburgh trustee and alumnus Dick Thorn- that we could always rely on in our efforts space will assist the two departments in tive area, and ammunition safe. burgh has made extraordinary contributions to make our city safer,” Ravenstahl said. coordinating their activities. The University of Pittsburgh Police to the public good. His legacy of achieve- “The new facility is another example of the The new facility not only provides the Association donated exercise equipment in ment and impact is chronicled in the exten- University’s commitment to that mission, for Police Department and EH&S with added the building’s first-floor gym. sive Dick Thornburgh Archive Collection, the students, the faculty and staff, and the space but also creates a visible police pres- Occupying the fourth floor, EH&S which is accessible through the beautifully Oakland community. We wish them nothing ence for visitors entering Oakland from has office space for 18 staff members and designed Dick Thornburgh Room. Both the but continued success in their new home.” Forbes Avenue, the primary route into a training classroom. The department is Thornburgh Room and the Dick Thornburgh “Community safety—and particularly Oakland from the west. responsible for developing, implementing, Forum for Law and Public Policy are trea- the safety of a community where large The 26,000-square-foot building and administrating a variety of health and sures from which students, scholars, and the numbers of young people study, work, and includes a parking deck and surface parking safety programs, which are established to public will benefit in perpetuity.” live—has been one of our University’s ongo- to accommodate police and EH&S vehicles, ensure worker safety, environmental pro- Designed to showcase Thornburgh’s ing priorities,” said Nordenberg. “And the as well as a secure structure for motorcycles tection, and compliance with local, state, legacy, The Dick Thornburgh Room is a University’s sizeable investment in this new and bicycles. and federal regulations. EH&S conducts glass-enclosed reading and research room Public Safety Building is also another sign The Police Department’s areas feature such services as fire drills and emergency with natural teak walls and floor-to-ceil- of Pitt’s broader commitment to its Oakland a state-of-the-art campuswide security preparedness exercises (65 in 2006), indoor ing windows. Large glass cases flank the neighbors, to the City of Pittsburgh, and to monitoring and command center with three air-quality assessments, hazardous materials entrance and provide museum-quality dis- the members of our own community of Pitt dispatch desks and a bank of four 52-inch training, and fire protection system review. play space for items from the Dick Thorn- faculty, staff, and students.” video screens that can be configured in The department educates 5,500 attendees at burgh Archive Collection—a chronicle of Cochran said, “The growth in size and multiple ways to display security camera live and online training sessions each year, Thornburgh’s more than 25 years in public scope of responsibilities of Pitt’s police video, dispatch and call screens, and weather force and of our environmental health and information. The system is fully integrated Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 3  • Pitt Chronicle • April 16, 2007 New Public Safety Building Dedicated BrieflyNoted Pitt Alumnus Will Talk About His Experiences as a Hollywood Executive, Producer, Lawyer Benefits Fair Scheduled for JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE April 17-18; Open Enrollment During an April 19 appearance in 324 Cathedral Period Begins This Week of Learning, Pitt alumnus and New Castle native John perform under the direction of Dellaverson will talk about his experiences as a Hol- Eligible Pitt faculty and staff members may Nathan Davis, head of the Pitt Jazz lywood executive, producer, and entertainment lawyer. change their current benefits elections during Studies Program. The ensemble The free public event, scheduled to begin at 5 p.m., the University’s annual benefits open enrollment has served as artists-in-residence is being cosponsored by the Steeltown Entertainment period, April 17 through May 9. Changes will be for one week every year since Project, Pitt In Hollywood, and the University’s Film effective July 1, 2007. 1980 in Jamaica, performing for Studies program. See www.steeltown.org for more Apart from this annual open enrollment schoolchildren in rural villages, information. period, the only time faculty and staff may absorbing Caribbean culture, Dellaverson will discuss his journey from Pitts- change their benefits elections, according to IRS and building goodwill and burgh to becoming executive vice-president of Lions The new Public Safety Building’s command center regulations, is when a change-in-status (i.e., life friendships. Proceeds from this Gate Entertainment and chair of its subsidiary Cinegate event) occurs—marriage, divorce, birth of a child, year’s concert will help fund the as well as his career as an entertainment attorney and Continued from Page 1 a spouse’s gain or loss of employment, etc. annual trip. producer. Gate Entertainment is a leading independent Pitt’s Office of Human Resources will sponsor Curtis Fuller is regarded reviews all laboratory designs and renova- studio that has produced and distributed such movies tions, and conducts annual inspections in a benefits fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 17 as one of the most distinctive as Crash and Saw and such television series as Weeds more than 1,750 University labs. In 2006, and 18 in the Alumni Hall Ballroom. During the trombone stylists in jazz. He emerged and Kill Pitt, an upcoming series currently filming in EH&S reviewed and provided safety analysis fair, faculty and staff may talk with representa- from the thriving Detroit music scene Pittsburgh. of more than 1,600 research protocols. tives of Pitt’s benefits department and the of the late 1940s and early ’50s, From 1983 to 2000, Dellaverson was a partner at With staff experienced in hazardous University’s insurance carriers. and after just eight months in New Loeb & Loeb, LLP, one of the world’s largest entertainment materials management and spill remedia- For information about open enrollment, York City, the 22-year-old had recorded law firms. There, he specialized in motion picture and tion, EH&S oversees environmental compli- visit www.hr.pitt.edu and click on “Open six albums as a leader and appeared on 15 television financing and talent representation. His client ance and manages the proper handling and Enrollment.” others. He performed and recorded with list included film and television producers, distributors, and disposal of the University’s biological and John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, talent. In 2001, he joined Lions Gate as executive vice chemical waste. Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Art Blakey, The building features an emergency Pitt Jazz Ensemble president and chair of Cinegate, one of the company’s generator to ensure power to the campus’ Concert to Feature Curtis and many others. subsidiaries. In 2005, he entered into producer’s agree- safety systems, which include digital video Fuller and Jimmy Owens Jimmy Owens began playing the trum- ment with the company. Recently, he joined the law firm surveillance, building access, and emergency pet when he was 10 years old and later studied of Miller Barondess, LLP. dispatch operations connecting to the Uni- Jazz trombonist Curtis Fuller and trumpeter with his mentor, Donald Byrd. By his mid-20s, Owens had Born and raised in New Castle, Pa., he received versity data and telephone networks, all of Jimmy Owens will be the featured guest performers been a sideman with Lionel Hampton, Hank Crawford, his Bachelor of Science degree in political science from which support 24-7 operations. In case of a in the Pitt Jazz Ensemble’s Spring Concert, titled “The Charles Mingus, Herbie Mann, Gerry Mulligan, and Duke Pitt in 1968 and was the Frances Perkins Fellow at campuswide emergency, the building’s phone Brass Connection,” to be held at 8 p.m. April 16 in the Ellington. He played on Billy Cobham’s Spectrum album in Cornell University from 1970 to 1972. In 1977, he system can operate independently, allowing William Pitt Union’s (WPU) Assembly Room. Tickets 1973 and worked extensively in Europe. received his J.D. degree from the Fordham University it to remain online as the key emergency are $10 for general admission and $5 for students Greg Humphries on drums, Dwayne Dolphin on bass, School of Law. contact center for the University. and senior citizens and can be purchased at the WPU James Johnson on piano, and Cecil “Valdez” Washington on The building was designed to be envi- The event will be moderated by Carl Kurlander, ronmentally friendly and energy efficient: box office. For more information, call 412-624-4187. Latin percussion will accompany Fuller and Owens. visiting distinguished senior lecturer at Pitt and The carpeting and many of the products The 25-piece student jazz ensemble will —Sharon S. Blake cofounder of the Steeltown Entertainment Project. used in construction are made from recycled materials, and the heating and mechanical equipment has a high-efficiency rating. The building’s mechanical and temperature systems are electronically controlled by a central computer, which automatically Partnership for Food Collecting This Month regulates temperatures. By Stephanie C. Lilavois Chronicling The Public Safety Building project was funded entirely by the University. Pitt’s An ongoing series highlighting Office of Facilities Management was respon- Pitt’s annual Part- lobby of Parran Hall; the School of Informa- University of Pittsburgh history sible for project administration and worked nership for Food is tion Sciences’ 5th-floor lobby; and the lobbies with the architectural firm Strada LLC and collecting contri- of Alumni Hall, the Biotechnology Center, the construction manager P.J. Dick Inc. butions throughout Craig Hall, and the Litchfield Towers. April to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Nonperish- Chronicling able foods and house- hold items are being PittNewspaper ofChronicle the University of Pittsburgh accepted at desig- nated campus collec- PUBLISHER Robert Hill tion sites. The collec- ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith tion effort will help EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer to replenish the food April 1861—Following the fall of Fort EDITOR Bruce Steele bank’s supplies, which Sumpter to Confederate forces and President ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener are depleted each winter. STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake The most needed items are Lincoln’s call for a Union Army of volunteers, the largest room in Pitt’s main building is turned into John Fedele canned foods such as peanut butter, tuna, Morgan Kelly meats, baby formula, chunky soups, and a gymnasium and military training facility for students. An Army officer is stationed there to Amanda Leff stews. Dry cereal, bulk goods, and household Patricia Lomando White items such as paper products and cleaners Top: Alan J. Rus- instruct the students in military drill and tactics. CONTRIBUTING WRITER Stephanie C. Lilavois also are accepted. sell delivered his Col. Samuel W. Black, who graduated from Pitt in This year, Pitt will match every unit of 1834, takes command of the Union Army’s 62nd inaugural lecture HAPPENINGS EDITOR Audra Sorman food contributed with another unit of food as University Pro- Regiment, the first to leave Pittsburgh to fight in through an arrangement with Bay Valley fessor of Surgery the Civil War. Black will be killed in the Battle of Foods. In the last 10 years, contributions to Gaines’ Mill in July 1862. Pitt’s Partnership for Food have provided on April 10 in Posvar Hall. The lecture was The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by more than 1 million units of food for distri- University News and Magazines, University of bution in the Greater Pittsburgh area. titled “The Fertile Interface Pittsburgh, 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, Pitt collection sites include the Cathe- Between Chemistry, Biology, and Materials.” Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, dral of Learning ground floor elevator lobby; Inset: “HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction Programs for Drug E-mail: [email protected] the William Pitt Union’s Fifth Avenue lobby Dependent Persons” was the title of an April 11 lec- Web: www.umc.pitt.edu/media/pcc/ information desk; the circulations desks at ture here by Larry M. Gant, a University of Michigan The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, Hillman Library and all other University social work professor. His lecture was part of the Pitt equal opportunity institution that does not discriminate Library System libraries; Posvar Hall’s main School of Social Work Speaker Series. upon any basis prohibited by law. floor; the Barco Law Building library and lobby; the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower entrance lobby; the 1st-floor April 16, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • 

“outstanding service to the community, state, November 1992 and were corecipients in and nation.” In 2001, he was selected as a 2003 of the Henry B. Betts Award presented lifetime National Associate of the National by the American Association of Persons with KARI PEYTON/ULS Academies of Science and Engineering in Disabilities, the proceeds from which were recognition of his pro bono service to its used to establish the Thornburgh Family programs. Lecture Series on Disability Law and Policy Thornburgh, born July 16, 1932, is at the University of Pittsburgh. married to Ginny Judson Thornburgh. The Thornburgh’s autobiography, Where Thornburghs were featured speakers at the the Evidence Leads, was published by the Vatican Conference on Disabilities held in University of Pittsburgh Press in 2003. JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE

The Dick Thornburgh Room in Hillman Library University Dedicates Dick Thornburgh Room

Continued from Page 1 service, his five political campaigns, and Service Center, 7500 Thomas Blvd., Point his notable legal career. Custom-designed Breeze, the collection comprises 1,007 boxes teak study tables feature drawers to display of documents, thousands of photographs, and artifacts and original documents under glass many hours of video and audio. It includes table tops. Thornburgh’s personal scorecard from the Dick Thornburgh and philanthropist Elsie Hillman. The displays will change periodically to 1960 World Series, the textbooks he used create a living, evolving exhibition. while a student at Pitt’s School of Law, and The room’s media center displays more his well-documented experience as governor than 500 photographs on a rotating basis during the historic nuclear accident at Three and can be used for other visual exhibits or Mile Island. Chronicling presentations. The Thornburgh Room has Pitt’s Digital Research Library has been designed to be fully compliant with the encoded and scanned selected materials, Americans With Disabilities Act, reflecting which are available worldwide at www.

Dick and Ginny Thornburgh’s lifelong library.pitt.edu/thornburgh. BRADEN WOLFE/CIDDE commitment to improve the qual- A native of Pittsburgh, Thorn- ity of life for people with dis- burgh received the Bachelor abilities. Housed within The of Engineering degree from Dick Thornburgh Room Yale University and the LLB is a seminar room named degree from Pitt’s School of after the late Judge Jay C. Law, where he served as an Waldman, a long-time col- editor of the University of league of Thornburgh. That Pittsburgh Law Review. He room will be officially com- has been awarded honorary memorated in the fall. degrees by 31 colleges and The Dick Thorn- universities. The annual Studio Arts Student Exhibition, showcasing works by Pitt art students, will continue through burgh Archive Collection, Thornburgh is a member April 28 in the Frick Fine Arts Building’s University Art Gallery. Exhibition hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays donated to Pitt in 1998, of the American Law Insti- provides a comprehensive Prior to the dedication of the Dick Thorn- tute, the American Bar through Saturdays and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursdays. A number of the students exhibiting their art in this year’s record of Thornburgh’s burgh Room, Pitt’s School of Law, led by Foundation, the American show will be in the gallery at noon April 18 to discuss their work. life, from his community Dean Mary Crossley (pictured), hosted Judicature Society, and the participation in the early a program during which Thornburgh and Council on Foreign Rela- 1960s to his career that Samuel Alito Jr., associate justice of the tions. In 2006, he received included service as gover- U.S. Supreme Court, fielded questions from a Lifetime Achievement nor of the Commonwealth Pitt law students. Award from the Ameri- BRADEN WOLFE/CIDDE of Pennsylvania (1979- can Lawyer Magazine for 1987), attorney general of “important contributions to the United States (1988-1991), and under- the public life.” In 1992, he was honored secretary-general at the United Nations by The American Legion with its highest (1992-1993). Housed at the Pitt Archives award, the Distinguished Service Medal, for

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Among the guests who spoke during the Dick Thornburgh Room dedication ceremony were, from left: Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Thornburgh, and U. S. Senator Arlen Specter.

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Lecture, “Stopping by Woods Asian Languages and Literatures, Award Ceremony, Pitt Asian on a Snowy Evening: SERMs, 412-624-5562, [email protected]. Studies Center’s Annual Gradu- Subtype Selective Estrogens, ation Ceremony, 2-3:30 p.m., April 16-29, 2007 and TSECs—The Evolving Story April 21 William Pitt Union’s Lower of Estrogen Pharmacotherapy,” Lounge, 412-648-7367, dakis@ Happenings Chris Miller, researcher, Wyeth Workshop, “Management ucis.pitt.edu. Laboratories, 7:15 p.m., Skills,” 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Scaife 12 Chevron Science Center, Pitt Hall’s 4th-Floor Lecture Room 2, Department of Chemistry, www. Pitt’s Survival Skills and Ethics April 26 chem.pitt.edu. Program; to register, 412-578- MasseyFest, celebration mark- 3716, www.survival.pitt.edu. ing the retirement of Gerald J. Musical Performance, Pitt- Massey, Pitt professor of history Greensburg Chorale Spring Con- Lecture, “Costimulation Block- and philosophy of science, cert, 7:30 p.m., Pitt-Greensburg’s ade, Chimerism, and Tolerance,” 1:30-5 p.m., 2500 Posvar Hall; Ferguson Theater, 724-837-7040. Christian P. Larsen, director, Pitt’s Department of Philosophy, Emory University School of Center for Philosophy of Science, Medicine’s Transplant Center and Department of History and April 19 10 a.m., Scaife Hall’s Lecture Philosophy of Science; 412-624- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Room 5, Pitt’s 2007 Thomas E. 1052, www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr. by Ibrahim Turan, Pitt School Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immu- of Education, “Requisites of nology Lecture, 412-383-8884, Individualized Technology- [email protected]. April 27 April 16 Enhanced Education Program Workshop, “The Second Step: Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by nections, 3495 Bates St.; Greater Audubon Print Exhibition, for History to Meet High School Developing a Business Plan,” Antonio Gómez, Department of Pittsburgh Student Voices, Downey Woodpecker, through Students’ Needs,” 11 a.m., 5140 April 22 7:30-10 a.m., 209 Mervis Hall, Hispanic Languages and Litera- B-PEP, the League of Women April 30, Hillman Library ground Posvar Hall. Musical Performance, organist Pitt Small Business Development tures, “El discurso latinoameri- Voters, and the Oakland Commu- floor, Pitt Department of Special Carol Williams, 4 p.m., Heinz Center; registration required, cano del exilio: extraterritori- nity Council, 412-421-0661. Collections, 412-648-7715, www. Lectures, “Protein Synthesis Memorial Chapel, 412-731-0266, 412-624-2182, mrwholihan@katz. alidad y novella en Argentina y library.pitt.edu/images/audubon. Using Tandemly Activated www.pitago.org. pitt.edu. Cuba desde los años 70,” 9 a.m., Art Exhibition, Studio Arts tRNAs,” Sidney Hecht, John W. 1301 Cathedral of Learning. Student Exhibition, through Mallet Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. Dissertation Defense April 29, Frick Fine Arts Build- April 18 University of Virginia, April 23 by William D. Hula, School of Panel Discussion, “China’s ing Auditorium, Pitt’s Studio Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by 2:30 p.m.; and “Gas-phase Radi- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Health and Rehabilitation Sci- Silent Genocide,” 11 a.m., Arts Department, 412-648-2423, Ivan Jimenez, Pitt Department of cal Ion Chemistry for Biomolecu- Nacer Khelouz, Pitt Department ences, “Resource and Bottleneck William Pitt Union’s Kurtz- www.pitt.edu/~studio. Music, “Textural Depth, Struc- lar Structural Characterization,” of French and Italian Languages Mechanisms of Attention in man Room; 5:30 p.m., Carnegie tural Depth, Expressive Depth: Kristina Hakansson, assistant and Literatures, “Le Roman Language Performance,” 9 a.m., Mellon’s University Center Ladders From Line to Sonority professor of chemistry, Univer- Algérien de Langue Française 4013 Forbes Tower. McConomy Auditorium; Pitt’s April 17 in Arvo Part and Henryk Mikolaj sity of Michigan, 4 p.m.; both in de L’Entre-Deux Guerres À Amnesty International and Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Gorecki,” 10 a.m., 114 Music 12 Chevron Science Center, Pitt L’Épreuve du Politique,” 9 a.m., Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, by Kathleen A. Feltes, School of Building. Department of Chemistry, www. 1325 Posvar Hall. by Yasumasa Komori, Graduate Carnegie Mellon’s Intervarsity Nursing, “Depression, Anger, chem.pitt.edu. School of Public and Interna- Christian Fellowship; fazhen@ Anxiety, and Smoking in a Lecture, “WMD: Lessons From Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by tional Affairs, “The Construc- edoors.com. Sample of Pregnant Adolescents,” Iraq; Lessons for Iran,” David Musical Performance, Pitt Jazz Christine Alex, Pitt Department of tion of Regional Institutions in 10 a.m., 446 Victoria Building. Kay, senior fellow, Potomac Ensemble, directed by Nathan Sociology, “Twenty-five Century the Asia-Pacific and East Asia: Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Institute for Policy Studies, noon, Davis, 8 p.m., William Pitt Participation in Two U.S. Greek Origins, Motivations, and Evolu- by Dana Thompson, Pitt School Luncheon Discussion, “Careers 3911 Posvar Hall, Pitt’s Matthew Union’s Assembly Room. Orthodox Churches,” 1 p.m., 2431 tion,” 1 p.m., 3600 Posvar Hall. of Education, “An Unequal and in Science Law,” noon, 1104 B. Ridgway Speakers Series, (For details, see p. 2.) Posvar Hall. Unlevel Playing Field: Critically Scaife Hall, Pitt’s Survival Skills www.ridgway.pitt.edu. Examining the Race-Conscious and Ethics Program, 412-578- Film Screening, In the Cut Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by April 29 Affirmative Action Legal Debate 3716, www.survival.pitt.edu. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by (2003), directed by Jane Campion, Huanyu Chen, Pitt Department 2007 Pitt Commencement Through the Eyes of the Council Darinda Congdon, Pitt Depart- 7 p.m., Alumni Hall’s 7th-Floor of Biostatistics, “Experimental Ceremony with featured speaker on Legal Educational Opportu- Lecture, “Bios, Praxis, and the ment of Music, “Tibetan Singing Auditorium; Pitt’s Department Design for Unbalanced Data Tom Ridge, former governor nity (CLEO),” 11:30 a.m., Unity of Life in Aristotle,” James Bowls: Myth, Marketing, Spiri- of English, Women’s Studies Involving a Two-Level Logistic of Pennsylvania and the first 5702 Posvar Hall. Lennox, professor, Pitt’s Depart- tuality, and Politics in Musical Program, and School of Arts and Model,” 1 p.m., 109 Parran Hall. Secretary of the U.S. Department ment of History and Philosophy Representations of Tibet in the Sciences; 412-624-6564, www. of Homeland Security, 1 p.m., Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of Science, 12:05 p.m., 817R United States,” 1 p.m., 114 Music pitt.edu/~filmst/WomensFilm- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Petersen Events Center. by Daniel Murray, Pitt School of Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Building. Series/index.htm. by Kenan Foley, Department of Education, “Teleliteracy in the Center for Philosophy of Sci- Music, “The Interpretation of Neighborhood: Seeking and Edu- ence, 412-624-1052, www.pitt. Awards Ceremony, Pitt Center Experience: A Contextual Study cative Pedagogical Framework edu/~pittcntr. for Latin American Studies’ April 20 of the Art of Three Pittsburgh Jazz PUBLICATION NOTICE and Finding an Encoded Praxis of Honors Day, 4-6 p.m., William Ed.D. 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Lichun Chia, School of Nursing, Coutu, associate professor of Economics’ Center for Indus- “The Characteristics That Associ- tion for Happenings, should Hall, Pitt’s William Pitt Debating be submitted to chron@pitt. physics, Penn State University, try Studies’ Pitt/CMU Applied Union, 412-624-8531. Lecture, “Engineering Lanthanide ate With Health-Related Quality 4:30 p.m., 7500 Wean Hall, Microeconomics Seminar, 412- Probes for Use in Assays, Sens- of Life in Patients with Type-2 edu. Happenings items should include the following informa- Carnegie Mellon University, 648-1765, [email protected]. Film Screening, Personal ing, and Imaging,” David Parker, Diabetes,” 3 p.m., 350 Victoria Pitt-Carnegie Mellon University Velocity: Three Portraits (2002), professor, Durham University’s Building. tion: title of the event, name Physics Colloquium Series, Panel Discussion, “Arts and directed by Rebecca Miller, Department of Chemistry, 3 p.m., and title of speaker(s), date, www.phyast.pitt.edu/Events. Culture in the Metropolis,” 7 p.m., Alumni Hall’s 7th-Floor 12 Chevron Science Center, Pitt time, location, sponsor(s), Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Auditorium; Pitt’s Department Department of Chemistry, www. April 25 and a phone number and Web Panel Discussion, “Pittsburgh associate social research analyst, of English, Women’s Studies chem.pitt.edu. Workshop, “The First Step: site for additional informa- Youth City Issues Forum” featur- RAND Corporation, 4-6:30 p.m., Program, and School of Arts and Mechanics of Starting a Small tion. Items also may be faxed ing Pitt and Carnegie Mellon Benedum Center’s 2nd-Floor Sciences; 412-624-6564, www. Film Screening, My Boyfriend Business,” 7:30-10 a.m., 209 to 412-624-4895 or sent by University students and other Studio A, 719 Liberty Ave., pitt.edu/~filmst/WomensFilm- Is Type B (2004), directed by Mervis Hall, Pitt Small Business campus mail to 422 Craig local young people addressing downtown, Greater Pittsburgh Series/index.htm. Choi Seok-Won, 6:30 p.m., 4130 Development Center; registration Hall. For more information, city issues, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Con- Arts Council, 412-391-2060, Posvar Hall, Pitt’s Asian Studies required, 412-624-2182, mrwholi- call 412-624-1033. [email protected]. Center and Department of East [email protected].