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The Uni- If you’re on the Oakland campus v e r s i t y Feb. 5, you’ll be seeing red...... 2 Times kicks Combine some blank walls and a off a new librarian with a fine arts background — you get the Barco Law Library series, On art gallery...... 3 Health. In U N I V E R S I T Y this issue, Pitt experts weigh in on what the CDC is calling “ an urgent public health concern”: the increasing number of autism cases. See pages 8 & 9. TIMES VOLUME 42 • NUMBER 11 FEBRUARY 4, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Expansions to Posvar, GSPH proposed he Pittsburgh planning ment plan, Tymoczko said. erty south of Bouquet Gardens. Two citizens spoke against the housing, telling planners that “the commission on Tuesday The planners approved Pitt’s According to the IMP update, University’s proposal. University is a better landlord than Tapproved updates to the request to rezone property at 315 development would be no higher One Thomas Boulevard resi- many landlords in Oakland.” She University’s master plan that out- Oakland Ave. from its current than five stories with a maximum dent expressed concern about also requested that historical doc- line potential expansions to Posvar high-density residential zoning to area of 100,000 square feet. Front potential uses for the Oakland umentation be collected for the Hall, the Concordia building and the Educational/Medical Institu- setbacks would match adjacent Avenue property. existing Victorian-style building Parran/Crabtree halls, as well as a tion (EMI) district designation. properties. Zoning administrator Tymoc- on the Oakland Avenue property zoning change for property near Pitt purchased the Oakland • Restoration and an addition zko clarified that although the before it is demolished and asked the Bouquet Gardens residences Avenue property, which includes to Parran and Crabtree Halls EMI zoning permits a number that green building certification on which Pitt plans to build addi- a house once used as office space, along North Bouquet Street. Uses of uses, Pitt’s stated purpose was be pursued for new housing to be tional student housing. from Children’s Hospital for could include academic, adminis- for new student housing and that constructed on the site. The planners’ recommen- nearly $1.4 million. trative, education, residential and any development would need Shorak agreed that photo- dation must go to Pittsburgh EMI zoning is intended to parking with a maximum area of to go through the city planning graphs could be taken to document City Council for final approval. accommodate educational and 15,000 square feet per floor and process. the history of the home. Council could consider the matter medical institutional uses while a height no greater than eight Carlino Giampolo, who has He would not commit to seek within a few weeks, said city zoning minimizing adverse impacts that stories on the Fifth Avenue side campaigned against litter and LEED certification for the student administrator Susan Tymoczko. can occur when such uses are of the building. other blight in South Oakland, housing, but noted that Pitt’s Approval of the changes to the located near neighborhoods. • Renovation and expansion cautioned that the development design standards call for efficient, master plan is not a green light for Property in the EMI district must of the former Concordia Club at would bring 200 additional stu- sustainable construction. any of the proposed development be developed within the frame- 4024 O’Hara Street, which Pitt dents to the community, exacer- “I’m not committing that this to take place. Individual projects work of an Institutional Master purchased in December for $2.1 bating problems with drunken- specific building will meet a certain would need to come before the Plan (IMP), which, according to million. According to the IMP, ness, traffic and parking. design standard, but if you look at planning commission as a develop- the city zoning code, “is intended the maximum height would not “Pitt has other campuses where all the design criteria that we put to permit flexibility for a large exceed Thackeray Hall or the they can pursue their expansion into a building, there’s a good institution which is not possible on University Club and possible uses plans,” he told planners. chance that it will,” he said. a lot-by-lot basis, while providing could include academic, adminis- Oakland Planning and Devel- “Sustainability is something a level of understanding to the trative, research, residential and opment Corp. executive director that is very important to the public and the community about parking. Wanda Wilson spoke in support of institution.” the potential growth of institu- q the proposal for additional student —Kimberly K. Barlow n tions and the resultant impacts.” IMPs must include descrip- tions of the institution’s plans for development within 10- and Regional faculty leaders unhappy 25-year time frames. The so- called “development envelopes” represent the maximum amount of proposed development. Accord- with role in picking benchmarks ing to the zoning code, “The aculty leaders at the Brad- intent of this provision is to pro- ford, Greensburg and In response to a University Times request for com- vide the institution with flexibility Johnstown campuses are ment on the regional faculty leaders’ criticism of their

Mary Jane Bent/CIDDE F regarding the future development frustrated by what they termed the role in the benchmarking selection process, Provost Provost to address potential of its campus, while “marginalization” of faculty input James V. Maher issued a written statement, which can addressing the potential impacts into a Provost’s office proposal be found on page 4. honors convocation of that development on the sur- to establish a list of institutions James V. Maher, Pitt provost rounding neighborhoods.” for benchmarking their faculty faculty representatives who have struggled for years to agree and senior vice chancellor, will be Associate Vice Chancellor for salaries. attended the BPC meeting dis- on a common list, which has the keynote speaker at the 34th Business Eli Shorak said IMPs The frustrations were voiced puted that all three faculty gov- been a prerequisite to seeking the annual honors convocation, to be represent a broad view of what in response to a report at the Jan. ernance groups had agreed to the approval of the Provost’s office, held at 3 p.m. Feb. 26 in Carnegie an institution is planning 10 years 26 Faculty Assembly meeting and provost’s recommendation, as did Gaddy noted. Music Hall. down the road. re-visited at the Jan. 29 University faculty leaders at Bradford and She said a faculty-developed The convocation recognizes He noted that Pitt intends to Senate budget policies committee Johnstown who were contacted shorter list of institutions that faculty accomplishments; staff post its master plan documents on (BPC) meeting on an issue that by the University Times. had been approved unanimously service; undergraduate, graduate the Facilities Management web has been debated for a decade Kimberly Bailey, secretary of by all three faculty senates — a and professional student academic site (www.facmgmt.pitt.edu) in and prompted several alternative the Pitt-Bradford Faculty Senate, proposal that became known as the achievement, and student leader- the coming weeks. benchmarking list proposals. stated in an email last week: “I “Greensburg list” — matched the ship. q Reiterating a report delivered talked with our Senate president provost’s proposal except that it Maher, who plans to step Pitt’s updated IMP describes at last week’s Faculty Assembly, [Don Ulin] on this issue and we eliminated the religious schools. down from his current position the following “areas of opportu- BPC chair John Baker reported agreed there was no vote taken “The benchmark group we when a successor is named and nity” within a 10-year develop- on a Dec. 21 letter from Pro- because no one perceived a need. all unanimously agreed to is a return to the Pitt faculty, has ment envelope: vost James V. Maher to Senate Without a vote, we were neither fair list,” Gaddy said. “It includes been Pitt’s chief academic officer • An addition to Posvar Hall President Michael Pinsky, which rejecting nor endorsing the those institutions that are most since 1994. on the existing plaza along Clem- stated that there is a consensus provost’s list.” similar to us in size, mission and Prior to becoming provost, ente Drive and under the building on a “mutually agreeable group” Pitt-Greensburg faculty presi- market. Our proposed benchmark Maher was chair of the Depart- cantilever along Schenley Drive. among the regional campus presi- dent Beverly Gaddy, who attended of approximately 128 institutions ment of Physics and Astronomy. Possible uses include academic, dents and their faculty senates to the Jan. 29 BPC meeting, said that includes all II-B public and private He came to Pitt in 1970 as an research, administration and adopt as the official institutional while her campus faculty did in institutions in the [same] three assistant professor of physics. library space with a maximum area benchmark list “all Carnegie fact vote to accept the provost’s regions.” He served as director of Pitt’s of 35,000 square feet per floor. II-B institutions from the three list of approximately 250 public, Following their separate Scaife Nuclear Physics Labora- The addition would be no taller geographic districts that come private and church-related insti- campus senate approvals, faculty tory and has been a longstanding than the existing Posvar Hall and together near western Pennsylva- tutions in the II-B category, “We representatives jointly sent their resident fellow of the University’s would go no closer to the roads nia” (Middle Atlantic, East North understood it to be a ‘take it or proposal to Maher last April, Center for Philosophy of Sci- than the existing plaza. Central and South Atlantic). leave it’ proposal.” Gaddy said. ence. n • The Oakland Avenue prop- However, Greensburg campus Faculty at the three campuses CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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U N I V E R S I T Y S E N A T E Campaign urges women to MM AA TT TT E E R R S S / Gordon/ Nathan R. HersheyMitchell Disseminating research Release of the University Senate library committee’s report on last spring’s plenary session, “Scholarly Publishing Today and adopt heart-healthy habits Tomorrow,” refocuses attention on what keynote speaker David Shulenberger called a “crisis in the distribution of research.” Dis- he fashion forecast for family and getting together to integration of the financial models for publishing and distribut- tomorrow, Feb. 5, is red. School of Medicine fac- eat became the rewards. “There ing academic research, systematic erosion of authors’ intellectual Stylish champions of heart ulty members Madelyn are tons of good benefits to these T property rights and sheer information overload all are factors that health will be sporting red dresses, Fernstrom of psychiatry, things,” she said. But while tra- Shulenberger said combine to create an “obligation” for universities ties or accessories to raise aware- epidemiology and surgery, ditional local foods are delicious, to revisit their approaches to dissemination of scholarly research. ness about women’s heart disease and Jeannette E. South- many are horrible for your health The University Library System’s D-scholarship repository, an risks during the annual National Paul, chair of the Depart- — swimming in butter, fried or open access digital archive of Pitt scholarship (at http://d-scholar- Wear Red Day, part of the Ameri- ment of Family Medicine, both, South-Paul noted. ship.pitt.edu), is one response to the crisis; the library committee’s can Heart Association’s Go Red will be the keynote speakers No single ethnic cuisine can follow-up report outlines other recommendations. To gain perspec- for Women campaign. at the March 9 Go Red for take the blame, she said. “The tive on these issues, our study group, composed of students enrolled During the lunch hour, vol- Women Conference spon- thing that unifies them all: They’re in a Department of Communication graduate seminar last term, unteers wearing red scarves plan sored by Magee-Womens all high-calorie, high fat.” analyzed open-access policies, reviewed landmark articles central to take to the streets of Oakland Hospital. South-Paul said she isn’t sug- to the history of open-access and its broader implications, and to distribute red dress pins and The event will feature gesting people should abandon consulted with key figures in the field via Skype. spread the word about women’s a healthy heart fair, health their family favorites, “but be In addition, our group gained practical experience with Pitt’s heart health. Others will wear screenings, educational conscious and modify those family D-scholarship repository by attempting to complete 20 original red to show their support for the breakout sessions and a recipes to be more healthful.” For submissions to the archive. In the process, we learned about issues AHA’s efforts to educate women reception at the Byham instance, she suggested, substitute involving the acquisition of author, journal and copyright holder about their risk of heart disease. Theater and Renaissance a different type of oil for saturated permissions; the formatting and preparation of documents for sub- More attention needs to be Hotel, Downtown. fats; substitute turkey for ham mission; the preparation of video and audio media; the categorization drawn to heart disease in women, South-Paul and Jean Fer- hocks in that favorite collard of different types of documents on the D-scholarship web site, and said Jeannette South-Paul, chair ketish, assistant chancellor greens recipe. the increase in visibility as a result of submission to D-scholarship. of Pitt’s Department of Family and secretary of Pitt’s Board Also, cut back on red meat, A full report on our team’s research will be released later in the Medicine. “This is not a male of Trustees, are conference eliminate salt and trade mini-mart term; this column highlights findings that are particularly relevant disease. This is not just for old chairs. foods for choices from the farmer’s to the Senate library committee’s recent report. fat folks with white hair. And this Information on the market, she advised. Recommendation #1: Task force. We endorse the library is not an inevitable disease,” said event is available by calling South-Paul said she hopes the committee’s call for the formation of a task force to “continue the South-Paul, who is co-chairing 412/702-1194 or online at tug of family ties also will motivate conversation” on this issue. However, we feel that any such body Pittsburgh’s Go Red for Women www.americanheart.org/ women to improve their heart should include students. As stakeholders with vested interests in the Conference on March 9. presenter.jhtml?identifier= health: Your kids — do you want design of open-access repositories, students (particularly graduate The event is designed to 3070729. to see them a long time? Spend students) should have a say in the creation and implementation of demonstrate that most factors time with your grandkids? Live policies that they eventually will inherit. contributing to heart disease “We’re actually pretty bad in a lot to fulfill your career or personal Recommendation #2: Opt-out model. Noting that currently are things that are amenable to of ways.” goals? “You’ve got to take care of participation in the D-scholarship repository is voluntary, the library change, she said. Most people have more than yourself,” she said. committee recommends “that the University open a discussion According to the AHA, one one risk factor, and most can’t Women tend to write off about moving toward a model of expected participation for faculty in three women has some form name them all, she said. “Family warning signs such as shortness of with an opt-out clause.” The current trickle of contributions to the of cardiovascular disease, and in history, plus smoking, plus obesity, breath, decreased exercise capac- D-scholarship repository (only 26 since its digital doors opened last Pennsylvania, 65 women die each plus cholesterol, plus diabetes, ity or fatigue. “Most of the risk fall), and the myriad difficulties we have encountered in attempt- day of heart disease or stroke. plus hypertension, plus sedentary factors don’t hurt until they really ing to submit material through an “opt-in” system, convince us The message is a particularly lifestyle — every time you add one hurt you. It’s not like a broken leg that the impetus behind this recommendation is sound. However, apt one here: In Pittsburgh, 60 to the other, you increase your that hurts the second you get it,” we are leery of institutional pressure to “expect” participation in percent of women are overweight risk of being affected,” she said. she said. D-scholarship without providing requisite resources. Tasks such or obese; 61 percent don’t reach “Add one risk to another and you Often women are juggling as standardizing permissions forms and preparing/formatting recommended exercise levels, and exponentially increase your risk of many other responsibilities and documents for submission require staff to effectively administer more than 20 percent smoke. being unhealthy.” put their own needs last. “If the program. We encountered many hurdles in our own submis- Of the 200 largest metro areas High on the list of risks that women are healthy, the family is sions to D-scholarship. Because maintaining staff is costly, funding in the nation, Go Red for Women can be reduced: “We’ve got to stop more likely to be healthy,” she said. is paramount in considering any move toward “expected” open- ranked Pittsburgh fourth from the smoking,” South-Paul said, noting “Go take care of yourself.” access participation. bottom in its 2008 study of most that the percentage of female “Everyone is a potential vic- The most effective “opt-out” digital repositories — at Harvard heart-friendly cities for women, smokers in the Pittsburgh region tim,” South-Paul said. “Regardless and MIT — were established through unified faculty action to based on risk factors, women’s ranks high, as does the number of of weight, color, neighborhood establish a blanket, nonexclusive license reserving rights to post current heart health and mortality pregnant women who smoke. or background. Everyone’s vul- any Harvard or MIT faculty publication to the relevant institution’s statistics. Taking charge of one’s diet nerable.” open-access repository. A similar agreement at Pitt would make “We’re not doing well in all of and exercising more also are individual faculty negotiations with publishers unnecessary. When the areas that confer additional important. “We have to own the fact that the process is easier and less administratively burdensome, it pro- risk for women,” South-Paul said. South-Paul attributes some of our health is our responsibility,” motes compliance with mandatory open-access submission policies the reasons behind the region’s said Denise Edmonds, a staff and reduces administrative costs. Discussion of University licensing poor health status to its work- member in the School of Educa- therefore should accompany or even precede discussions about ing-class industrial heritage — a tion’s Department of Health and mandating or even “expecting” D-scholarship participation. culture in which basics such as CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 Recommendations #3 and #4: Education. Regarding the L E T T E R S library committee’s call for University-wide education about U N I V E R S I T Y authors’ rights and the implications of open-access for tenure and Input sought on accreditation promotion, we think that it also would be necessary to educate scholars about the possible benefits and drawbacks of participating TIMES To the editor: must include a signature and in open-access initiatives. Faculty and graduate students must be EDITOR The Department of Commu- can be emailed to accreditation made aware of what is at stake by signing publishing agreements N. J. 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turning down those whose work reception arranged. Informa- doesn’t meet the gallery standard. tion for insurance purposes must “We’re not looking for amateurs,” be gathered — the University he said. insures the artwork and, fortu- q nately, Silverman said, nothing In the early days, Silverman untoward ever has happened to had his doubts about whether his any of the exhibits. MAKING concept would take root. The shows are hung two or “I wasn’t immediately sure three days prior to the opening whether students appreciated it,” night and the process typically he said, but after getting some takes an entire day. direct feedback, as well as over- Some artists come in well hearing some of their discussions prepared, having measured the about the exhibits, he was con- space and mapped where each vinced that students were paying work should go. Others simply attention and the exhibits were a show up and allow Silverman to valuable addition. decide. There has been a learning Shows typically are booked curve along the way — early on, at least a year in advance and when Silverman used fishing line opening receptions usually draw to suspend the works, hanging the 50-200 people. Currently, Silver- shows took a couple of days. And, man has shows lined up through PITT having a gallery inside a library fall 2011. space presented some unique chal- “Most people want six months lenges. Once, Silverman recalled to prepare,” Silverman explained. there was a painting so large that Works need to be selected and it had to be brought in on a rented framed, or prints of photographs truck. It barely fit into the Barco made and matted. And some artists building’s elevator, squeezed in choose to create work specifically diagonally. for their Barco gallery show, he q said. The gallery has come a long For the most recent show, way from plain white walls and “Spin Art Meets Photographic displays hung with fishing line. Art” by Michael Rosella, Silver- A formal gallery space with man worked closely with the artist new lighting and a professional who, over the course of two years, hanging system was worked into shot photographs to accompany the plans when the library was carnival-style spin art paintings. renovated in 2004, creating a The next exhibition, “Nego- more professional display area tiable Ambivalence,” will feature in the midst of the library’s law paintings and drawings, some reference collection. based on ancient Roman court- Gallery preparations take time, house scenes, created for the gal- but Silverman and his assistant lery by Nationality Rooms tour Helen Jarosz are accustomed to coordinator Michael Walter. It the routine: Press releases and opens Feb. 12 and runs through invitations must be prepared May 28. and catering for the opening —Kimberly K. Barlow n

WORKPitt’s senior administration grabs most of the headlines. The faculty here get noticed when they bring in research dollars, win teaching awards or publish in their fields. But behind the scenes, University staff, some 7,000 strong across five campuses, often toil in jobs ranging from the mundane to the esoteric. This is one in an occasional series profiling University staff, providing a glimpse of some of the less recognized employees whose primary business is making Pitt work. n art gallery in the Barco work of a photographer friend of “To hear people’s ideas and talk Law Library that sprang Silverman’s. “Originally, it was to them about things they want from a distaste for empty A people I invited,” he said. to do is interesting,” he said, Above: The invitation card for the art gallery’s upcoming show, space is continuing to draw visitors About a quarter of the artists adding that typically he seeks which opens Feb. 12. to its displays a decade later. The have University ties; the rest are artists who have been working in gallery on the library’s main floor a mix of local and out-of-town their chosen medium for 15-20 Below: Marc Silverman, the law school’s associate director of hosts three or four shows each aca- artists. years. He admits that the hardest public services and art gallery impresario, amid a show featuring demic year, showcasing the work Among them are former part of the job is diplomatically spin art paintings. of artists and photographers from classmates of Silverman: Willie within the University community Osterman, now a photography and beyond. professor at Rochester Institute Marc Silverman, the law of Technology, and Ohio-based school’s associate director of photographer Ken Frick. Char- public services, envisioned the lie Lume, who once worked for gallery after some stacks were Silverman and now is a faculty removed from the library, leaving member in the Department of behind bare white walls. Art and Design at the University Officially, his library job is of Wisconsin-Stout, has been administrative: He manages the another Barco exhibitor. day-to-day details of the public “As time went on, people side of the law library, teaches started to seek me out for this. research classes and guest-lec- Rarely do I have to beg my friends tures. to show their work here,” he said But he also has an under- with a laugh. graduate degree in fine arts and a In addition to building an master’s degree in art history. artist’s resume, the shows can “Rather than live with a boring generate some sales. “Just about space, I thought it would be nice if everything is for sale,” Silverman we could do something with this,” said, adding that the University said Silverman. takes no commission. Given the okay and a small Not just anyone can show his budget, the initial exhibition or her work in the gallery. Silver- appeared in 2000, featuring the man vets each artist in advance. Joe Kapelewski/CIDDE

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Provost responds to criticism over benchmarking process Statement from Provost James V. sions with them, the regional faculty have Central, and South Atlantic districts the reads as follows: Maher regarding benchmarking salaries always been the ones who have driven the salary benchmarking group for our regional Implement Faculty Senate resolution for faculty at the three regional campuses discussions toward adoption of some new campus faculty salaries, I would accept this to bring average salaries of faculty across all that have four-year undergraduate pro- benchmarking group, with my participation as defining a “mutually acceptable group” ranks to at least the averages of institutions grams. better described as acquiescence.). in the sense of the Senate document of classified as AAUP II-B within the Middle After quite a few years of unproduc- April 1986. Atlantic, East North Central, and South For a number of years, there has tive discussion, I suggested that, lacking It is my understanding that, during Atlantic geographic groupings. been an ongoing discussion with our any ideal group of peer institutions for the recent Senate discussions, one of the In the current strategic plan, the fac- regional campuses about the appropriate our regional campuses, we adopt the large regional campus representatives to the ulty asked that this strategic initiative be group of institutions of higher education group of Carnegie II-B institutions from Faculty Assembly challenged the accuracy modified to reflect more general word- against which to benchmark the salaries the three geographic districts that come of my statement that I had a statement ing to possibly accommodate a new list of our regional campus faculty. When together near Western Pennsylvania from the president of the Bradford Campus of benchmarking institutions that might the Senate was working with the Posvar (Middle Atlantic, East North Central, and affirming the agreement, under their gov- emerge from deliberations with other administration to develop a salary policy South Atlantic). While this group is far ernance rules, of that Campus to adopting regionals. We modified the language (a process that took several years and was from perfect, it has many attractive features the proposed benchmark. In response to with the understanding that the relevant only completed well into the O’Connor including diversity of mission and geo- my request for clarification of what has strategic initiative would apply to the administration), one of the first items of graphic location while retaining similarity transpired at Bradford, Dr. Livingston larger list of II-B institutions if no alter- agreement involved comparing Pittsburgh to our regional campuses in enrollment and Alexander, President of the University native benchmarking list were endorsed Campus salaries to salaries at the flagship general instructional emphasis. This group of Pittsburgh at Bradford, has provided by the regional presidents and approved campuses of AAU universities and com- includes both private and public universities me with a statement which I reproduce by the Provost. The regional presidents paring regional campus faculty salaries to and so, for purposes of assessing relative below. endorsed the II-B list; and the Provost salaries of faculty at “regional campuses of market problems between the University has not approved an alternative list. The AAU universities or some other mutually of Pittsburgh Schools that are our Regional President Alexander’s statement follows: relevant strategic initiative that is in our agreeable group.” Campuses and the Schools that reside on I’d like to re-iterate that my recom- current strategic plan (2009-2-14) reads The regional campuses of other AAU the Pittsburgh Campus, I would probably mendation is to adopt the comprehensive as follows: universities are very varied and generally have to return to using the full AAU flagship list of II-B institutions (249 institutions in Bring average salaries of faculty across quite different from ours in enough ways campus group (whereas I have been using the mid-Atlantic, south-Atlantic, and north all ranks to the averages of appropriate that I have not found that group to be the public AAU group for the Pittsburgh central regions) as the benchmark group for benchmark groups. a useful benchmark when I must decide campus for some time). the University of Pittsburgh regional cam- As I stated yesterday, it was my under- how to apportion “market/equity” salary As of this Fall Term I had received let- puses. In advance of adopting this position, standing that regional presidents were pool funds amongst the various schools of ters from the presidents of our Bradford, I discussed this matter at length with the expected to consult and receive feedback the Provost’s area, and I have been very Greensburg, and Johnstown campuses last three presidents of the Faculty Senate at from the faculty and then issue a recom- forthright in telling this to the regional recommending that we adopt the new Pitt-Bradford and several of the members. mendation to the Office of the Provost on campus representatives at UPBC meetings benchmarking group for the salaries of During the previous five-year strategic plan a list of Benchmarking institutions. It was (I have always been able to reassure them their faculty and affirming that for each (2004-2009), the Faculty Senate actually not my understanding that our recommen- that the share of such funds that I have campus their faculty governance group approved a resolution for inclusion as a dation was to be preceded by a vote of the been allotting them is if anything higher had agreed to this recommendation. I then strategic initiative in our strategic plan faculty on that II-B benchmarking list. than available evidence might suggest, so sent this recommendation on to the Senate that committed our institution to seeking Livingston Alexander agreement on a benchmark group will with my agreement that, if the Senate is to bring the averages of our faculty salaries President not necessarily increase their share of agreeable to making the Carnegie II-B to the averages of the comprehensive list of University of Pittsburgh the salary increase pool. In all my discus- Schools in the Middle Atlantic, East North II-B institutions. That strategic initiative at Bradford Regional faculty leaders unhappy What are II-B schools? Category II-B schools, drawn from the Carnegie clas- sification but used in the AAUP survey, are four-year public, private-independent and church-related institutions charac- with role in picking benchmarks terized by an emphasis on undergraduate baccalaureate-level CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 education, as opposed to graduate degrees. The number of II-B institutions fluctuates as schools reach “The faculty senate presi- campus group, transcending and “[We} earnestly engaged the a threshold of three discrete graduate programs and thus are dents (Don Ulin of Bradford, weakening the roles of the campus provost on the issue of bench- reclassified. Valerie Grash of Johnstown and presidents.’” marking for many years,” Grash I), with the assent of our campus Gaddy added that Maher’s stated in an email last week. “The presidents, sent a letter to Provost letter advised the campus leaders fact that our sincerest efforts have present two proposals to Faculty recent Pitt fiscal year, there was Maher informing him that we had that the proper means by which been stifled for an extended period Assembly in response to Baker’s no salary pool increase due to the agreed to a list, and attaching our regional faculty could influence of time is further demonstrated report. Faculty Assembly next University-wide salary freeze. report,” Gaddy said. the issue was through their rep- by the heavy-handed manner meets Feb. 23. For 2009, the inflation rate is She said their letter acknowl- resentatives on the University in which this particular salary At the meeting, the two BPC 2.7 percent, Wion said, noting that edged that no benchmark list is Senate and the Senate budget benchmarking ‘agreement’ was resolutions, the wording of which the figure needs to be taken into perfect, but added “that some policies committee, which, she achieved. It was indeed presented currently are being crafted, were account by the University plan- reasonable benchmark must be said, prompted her attendance at to us, as Beverly noted, as a ‘take summarized as follows: ning and budgeting committee established if only for the purpose the Jan. 29 BPC meeting. it or leave it’ offer which, after 1. The committee’s recommen- when considering its recommen- of honest internal assessment of Gaddy also attended the Jan. years of dedicated, yet constantly dation to “accept” the provost’s list dations on the salary pool for the the size of [any salary] gap and its 26 Faculty Assembly meeting at frustrated, work, we decided to of benchmarking institutions in upcoming fiscal year. fluctuations from year to year.” which the provost, via Baker’s accept as better than nothing.” the interest of moving forward, Wion also urged BPC to The letter further suggested report, was seeking Assembly Grash added, “At this time, coupled with a request that salary request that University adminis- the willingness of the campus approval of his list prior to solicit- we do not wish to step back and data derived from one or more trators provide their annual report faculty presidents to meet with the ing Senate Council approval. quibble about the substance of other proposed benchmarking on Pitt faculty and staff salaries, in provost or his designee for further “As one of Greensburg’s repre- the benchmark — regardless lists of the regional faculty sen- spite of the current wage freeze. discussion, Gaddy said. sentatives to the Faculty Assembly of which one is used they all ates’ choosing be included as The report, prepared by Pitt’s “We received a written and the Senate Council, I spoke still verify that regional faculty addenda to the annual report on Management Information and response from Provost Maher to the issue at [the Jan. 26 Faculty members are underpaid. What faculty salaries prepared for BPC Analysis office, offers a snapshot on May 1, 2009. The response Assembly] meeting and requested we do oppose is presenting the by the Management Information of faculty and staff salaries for each focused solely upon our offer to the one-month delay in order to issue as if the regional faculties and Analysis office. BPC annually responsibility center, categorized meet with Provost Maher or one permit representatives from Brad- were forthrightly engaged by the tracks faculty salaries as part of its by faculty rank or staff job clas- of his representatives,” Gaddy ford and Johnstown to also speak provost, and a willing consensus mission. sification. said. “It read, in part, ‘It would to the issue,” Gaddy said. was agreed upon.” 2. A resolution expressing “Asking for the reports to be be inappropriate for me to meet Pitt-Johnstown faculty presi- At the BPC meeting, Gaddy frustration with the process as reiterated every year, even in years with a faculty member to address dent Valerie Grash said her said, “Which list becomes the having marginalized regional of a freeze, I think is appropriate,” an agenda so closely tied to that Faculty Senate also voted last Sep- benchmark is the smaller issue. faculty input, and recommend- Wion said. “There’s going to be faculty member’s advisory role to a tember to approve the provost’s Far more significant from my ing improving communication some fluctuation in those data even regional campus president without list. “When it became glaringly perspective is the marginalization channels for future issues affecting in the year of a freeze. I wouldn’t having that president attend the evident that the [larger] II-B list of the regional faculty senates this regional faculty. assume that a salary report for the meeting. In addition, there is no was the only one that was going last year regarding agreement on q past year was absolutely identical recognized fused identity to the to be accepted by the provost, a benchmark. The integrity of In other business, BPC co- with the one we received for the three campus advisory groups the decision was made that any the process, and the prevention secretary Phil Wion updated his year before.” He noted that new that would attend such a meeting, benchmarking list was better than of genuine faculty input, has now running tally that notes the annual hires, promotions and retirements and there would be the danger none; thus our faculty resignedly become the principal issue.” rate of inflation and University were among the factors that could that you or others could construe supported the only permitted As a result of their discussion, salary pool increase. He noted that impact the report. such a meeting as conferring a option,” she told the University BPC members voted to divide the in calendar year 2008, inflation was —Peter Hart political identity to such a supra- Times. issue into two parts and plans to 0.1 percent and that in the most & Kimberly K. Barlow n

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ing cities around the country, “We can’t force people to stay they’re not growing because of the here. I can’t force African Ameri- birth rate alone; they’re growing cans to choose to come back here. because of the open environment I can’t force people to allow for where people from the outside, our immigrants to come here and immigrants, move in. They’re feel welcome with their language growing because they’re open to differences and the challenges they people’s life choices; if you’re gay face in school. I can make noise or lesbian, for example, they’re about it, but it will take a collective open to that, not combative to effort from all those politicos and Why the lack that. They’re open to creative all the communities to be willing ideas of young folk and old folk to welcome them,” he said. and folks who come from wher- When he looks for diversity ever to pursue whatever. They’re among legislators in Harrisburg, cooperative with those with viable he finds it lacking. Wheatley cited ideas. They provide opportunities the telling statistics of 37 women, of support for to succeed,” Wheatley said. 21 African Americans, one His- Pittsburgh is recognized as a panic, one Asian and one Native city that has maintained better American among the 253 House employment rates than most and Senate members. others, but the statistics are deceiv- “But when we talk about diver- ing, he said. “Our unemployment sity and inclusion, it is not just higher ed? numbers for the last couple years sheer numbers,” Wheatley said. are lower than the national aver- “I’m still not convinced having age, but when you break that down more women and minorities further, some communities are makes it a better process, if they drastically hit and hidden from come from the same old perspec- those numbers. tives. More diversity and more A Pa. legislator shares his theories “There are neighborhoods inclusion does not automatically [here] that are at 15, 20 percent equal a better outcome, when you hy is higher edu- zhoover or to Hazelwood below them 3 percent across the board. unemployment, and groups, stay in your enclave and see and cation chronically Second Avenue, or when I go to Then there’s a negotiation process African-American males between hear only like-minded people. The underfunded in the Hill District, for the most that might whittle it down to 1.5 16 and 25, are hitting 50 percent question is: Are you going to come W Pennsylvania, part. You all have this perspective, percent and that’s what they end unemployment or underemploy- kicking and screaming and remain especially as compared to other it’s rational, based on fact and up with.” ment,” he said. isolationists until change is forced states? it’s driven by the probabilities of Instead, Wheatley advocated Some legislators try to paint upon you, or are you going to be While there are many reasons, success,” he told the audience of a K-20 system that targets invest- the employment problem as one open and creative, and how will the biggest culprit may be the high mostly Pitt and Carnegie Mellon ments based on potential eco- of local jobs being taken by illegal elected officials reflect that? percentage of senior citizens in the faculty and students. nomic impact. immigrants. “If people really knew “So we have challenges and state, according to Pennsylvania “Most people who I represent “That really requires individu- their history they would realize we should talk boldly and hon- Rep. Jake Wheatley. and most that the mayor repre- als to be committed to education, that a lot of us are illegal immi- estly about race and gender,” he Wheatley spoke Jan. 22 on “A sents are dealing with survival. from K through 20. And, by the grants,” Wheatley joked. “What concluded. “We all need to agree Perspective From the Pennsylva- How do I survive? I don’t care way, I think our fiscal challenges we have to figure out is a way to that we all have needs that must nia State House,” as part of the if you’re black, white, whatever. will force us over the next few increase diversity and inclusion. be met; that we should be clear Graduate School of Public and So the challenge is: How do we years to rethink how we do our When I talk about diversity, I mean about those needs; that we com- International Affairs (GSPIA) bring the higher education folks investments in higher ed and it from a broader perspective; it municate openly and honestly, Roscoe Robinson Jr. Memorial to become connected with folks K through 12,” he said. “For means more than racial diversity. and that we respect each other. If Lecture Series on Diversity and from everyday life who are just example, in all the debate about It means social, gender, lifestyle we do those four things, there are Public Service. trying to survive? And, just as expanding gaming, there was no choices.” no challenges, no problems that A GSPIA alumnus with a importantly, how do we then get consideration, none whatever, to But talk is cheap with no action, cannot be resolved.” master’s in public administration, things done when you’re dealing use the gaming money to add to Wheatley said. —Peter Hart n Wheatley since 2002 has repre- with politicos who only think in our educational support.” sented the 19th District, which terms of two- and four-year elec- All of the gaming revenue is includes the Pittsburgh neighbor- tion cycles?” going toward property tax relief hoods of the Hill District, North Many elected officials fail to and support for seniors, Wheatley Side, South Side, Allentown, realize that the positive ramifica- said. Hazelwood, Downtown, Knox- tions of funding higher educa- “We have a mentality in Har- ville, Beltzhoover, Manchester, tion include job growth, start-up risburg that we need to get over, Arlington, Arlington Heights, companies and a solution to a because everyone cowers to the West End and South and North hemorrhaging population base, strength of the voting bloc of Oakland. which is key to the state’s future, senior citizens,” he said. He serves on four committees he said. Solving the related problem of in the state House of Representa- “Here’s my particular chal- making the commonwealth more tives: appropriations, health and lenge: I’ve been having a very conducive to young people staying human services, education and hard time understanding why all and prospering is an even more dif- transportation. He also chairs the the time we have to vote for our ficult challenge, Wheatley said. appropriations subcommittee on seniors. I love seniors. We are an The problem is especially education, which annually makes aging state. However, while we acute in the African-American recommendations on higher edu- have to protect our seniors, we community, he noted. “As an cation funding. have to do things to make this African American, I’m not devoid “I learned a lot of important environment better for young of the feelings that most African lessons at GSPIA, but in Harris- folks to grow and survive. At some Americans in Pittsburgh have,” burg, unfortunately, we don’t use a point you’re going to need more he said. lot of those skills I was trained here people working than are retiring Wheatley said that his native Harold Aughton at Pitt to provide,” Wheatley said. or retired, if you’re going to grow Detroit, in contrast to Pittsburgh, Rep. Jake Wheatley “There’s not a lot of cost-benefit your economy. I can’t get my col- has a majority of African Ameri- analysis on impacts of fiscal deci- leagues to believe in this, because cans who form a viable middle class sions, not a lot of rational discus- guess what? — Seniors vote, young and offer a model for its citizens Pitt honored for veterans services sions on the merits of the issues. people don’t. But young people, to stay and prosper. Pitt has received top honors for the support services it provides to But the one important thing I did even if they don’t vote, are critical “When I walked around in my veterans and for creating a military-friendly atmosphere on campus. learn here is that whatever we do to our survival.” neighborhood back in Detroit, I “Military Advanced Education’s 3rd Annual Guide to America’s it is supposed to further service Wheatley praised Pennsylva- was seeing African Americans who Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities” — a magazine for service for the public and do good will nia’s higher education institutions were lawyers, doctors, mayors, members taking advantage of their education benefits — lists Pitt as for people who otherwise wouldn’t as among the best in the country, city council members. It wasn’t a one of the top military-friendly universities. have servants looking out for their despite minimal state support. strange thing to see that. You had The magazine recognizes Pitt’s recently expanded Office of Vet- best interests. I take that with me “What we don’t have is a rational an African-American middle class erans Services (www.veterans.pitt.edu), including its academic and wherever I go.” system of funding them,” Wheat- that was fairly influential,” Wheat- financial-aid guidance, career and long-term goal counseling and However, the higher education ley maintained. ley said. “In Pittsburgh, you don’t tuition-benefit assistance. The office also offers orientation sessions community is somewhat insulated “In the budget process, every have the same type of experience specifically designed for veterans. from the real world, Wheatley year we just look at the numbers as an African American.” “We’ve accomplished one of our main goals — to create a said, and that puts pressure on and say, ‘Okay, we think our A recent survey showed that veteran-friendly campus across the entire University,” says Ann elected officials to compartmen- budget can support, let’s say, 3 per- seven out of 10 African-American Rairigh, director of the office. “We support veterans from the talize, rather than combine, their cent growth for higher ed and we’ll college students in the Pittsburgh application process, with pre-admissions appointments and admis- constituents’ concerns. do it across the board and be done area plan to leave as soon as they sions essay workshops, to academic and social support while they “You all are a different set of with it, regardless of the outcomes graduate. That is an alarming are a student. The support continues through graduation, with folks than the ‘normal people’ we’re anticipating, the resources, number, he noted. career fairs and military-to-civilian resume-writing workshops.” I talk to when I go out to Belt- the needs, the challenges. We give “When you look at the grow- Approximately 300 veterans are enrolled here. n

 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES U.S. role in international criminal justice explained he United States is unlikely indicated that it is “premature” ambassador-at-large by Obama in raped, maimed. After the fact, for the foreseeable future to introduce the treaty, which September, Rapp had a high-pro- members of the U.N. Security Tto become a signatory of has been signed by 110 of the 192 file career as senior trial attorney Council for the first time granted the Rome Statute, a 1998 treaty United Nations members, to the and chief of prosecutions at the the courts powers under Chapter that established the International U.S. Senate, Rapp said. International Criminal Tribunal 7. They decided not to send in Criminal Court (ICC), according He cited concerns that United for Rwanda, 2001-2007, and, soldiers with arms and ammuni- to an American diplomat. States officials could be subjected since 2007, as a prosecutor of the tion but attorneys and judges with “Even though we are not sign- to politicized prosecutions and Special Court for Sierra Leone, laws and procedures.” ers of the Rome Statute treaty, we that the U.S. court system is better where he led the prosecutions What is the role of the United have not been silent in the face of equipped than the ICC to investi- of former Liberian President States, if not as a member of the crimes against humanity, crimes gate and prosecute Americans who Charles Taylor and others alleged International Criminal Court? that call for our condemnation allegedly commit crimes against to be responsible for atrocities Rapp said that the United in the strongest possible way,” humanity, which is the primary committed during Sierra Leone’s States should be front and center said Stephen Rapp, U.S. ambas- focus of the ICC. civil war. in a three-pronged system for sador-at-large for war crimes But that does not mean this During his tenure as pros- ending international impunity, issues, whose job is to advise the country will cease cooperating ecutor, Rapp and his colleagues that is, ensuring that perpetrators U.S. secretary of state on policy with the ICC, including with expanded the reach of interna- of serious international crimes responses to atrocities such as criminal investigations and wit- tional criminal justice by achiev- against humanity are not able to genocide and war crimes. ness protection, said Rapp, who in ing the first-ever convictions for secure safe haven based on strict Rapp was on campus Jan. 28 November led the first delegation sexual slavery and forced marriage Stephen Rapp, U.S. ambas- sovereignty rules, which up until delivering a lecture titled “The of American observers to an ICC as crimes against humanity, as sador-at-large for war crimes the Nuremberg trials prohibited issues Role of the United States in conference in Rome. well as convictions for attacks on one country from trying a citizen International Criminal Justice,” “That gave me an opportunity peacekeepers and for impressment incites genocide and persecution, of another state. sponsored by Pitt’s Center for to address the delegates and talk of child soldiers as violations of and speech that is protected, and First, he said, the United States International Legal Education. about our historic commitment to international humanitarian law. for first time in history to make must work to strengthen national Although the United States international criminal justice that Rapp also headed the trial team it a crime against humanity,” he court systems, which under the signed the ICC treaty during the really dates back to the Nurem- that achieved convictions of the said. ICC charter take precedence in Clinton administration, it was berg trials,” Rapp said. “We’ve principal operatives of the RTLM Rapp noted that it was the prosecutions. “The ICC basically not brought to the Senate for worked shoulder to shoulder with radio station and Kangura news- opening speech at the Nuremberg says it’s up to the country to do it ratification as is required by the other states in supporting account- paper in Rwanda for the crime trials by Supreme Court Justice themselves and it’s only when it Constitution. President George ability for crimes committed in the of “direct and public incitement Robert H. Jackson, chief U.S. can’t or won’t that the ICC steps W. Bush later “unsigned” it by former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, to commit genocide” — the first prosecutor at Nuremberg, that in,” Rapp pointed out. notifying the United Nations that Rwanda and elsewhere, to answer such convictions for leaders of the inspired him to enter the field of Second, the United States there would be no attempt to initi- these historic, horrific crimes with mass media. international criminal law. must work with countries that ate ratification, Rapp said. historic justice.” “That case clearly sets the “I try to work Judge Jackson’s employ the principle of universal President Obama since has Prior to his appointment as boundary between speech that quotes into every speech I make, jurisdiction, that is, when states and when I was taking my oath can claim jurisdiction over indi- for this job, I quoted from the viduals, regardless of nationality opening paragraph: ‘The wrongs or country of residence, whose which we seek to condemn and alleged crimes are committed in punish have been so calculated, so another country on the grounds malignant and so devastating that that the crime is considered a civilization cannot tolerate their crime against humanity. Under being ignored because it cannot universal jurisdiction, states are survive their being repeated,’” authorized to try criminals who Rapp said. “And later in Judge commit crimes too serious for Jackson’s speech, ‘We must never “jurisdictional arbitrage,” where a forget that the record on which we criminal could choose a jurisdic- judge these defendants today is the tion with less-serious legal conse- record on which history will judge quences, Rapp explained. us tomorrow. To pass these defen- “In addition, prosecutions dants a poisoned chalice is to put need not happen in the home it to our own lips as well.’ These country of the crimes. Sometimes are my guiding principles.” it’s appropriate to try cases in After Nuremberg, interna- another country when the country tional criminal justice was stymied is unstable, for example,” or when by the Cold War, and lay more or the power structure is corrupt, less dormant until the dramatic he said. turn of world events in Bosnia, the Crimes against humanity in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. places such as Rwanda and the “The world had failed to former Yugoslavia have been pros- respond to the humanitarian crises ecuted successfully in Switzerland, by sending in peacekeeping forces Belgium, The Netherlands and in the former Yugoslavia and Canada, he noted. Rwanda under chapter 7 of the “The point is to provide no safe U.N. charter, instead of authoriz- haven for criminals. The existence ing the use of force to protect civil- of international prosecution shuts ians,” Rapp said. “The result was off the alternatives, which deters the loss of hundreds of thousands crime,” Rapp said. Deterrence of people who were murdered, is a key, because justice by itself does not replace victims of crimes. “People are not brought back, and wounds are not healed by justice,” he said. “And, finally, there is the ques- tion of international justice when crimes cross borders,” he said. The United States should continue to participate in prosecu- tions under ad hoc international criminal tribunals, which unlike the ICC have time limits and a finite scope attached to their mission. While international tribunals are important both for achieving Pitt’s “Bucket Brigade for Haiti” continues through justice and for their symbolism, Feb. 8. The University is col- ultimately they handle a small lecting personal care items: number of cases. If more justice is bar soap, toothpaste, tooth brushes, baby wipes, wash- to be achieved, “it should happen cloths, hand towels, combs in each individual country,” Rapp and brushes. For more information, call 4-7709. said. —Peter Hart n

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Princeton’s Marta Tienda spoke here Texas admissions policy change Jan. 14 on “Diversity and Its Discontents: Lessons From Higher fails to pull in low-income students Education.” as a radically different and it only predicts at the tail ends that connection sometimes. approach to higher educa- of the distribution pool, which is They’re focused instead on drop- Htion admissions in Texas not where the majority of students out rates and graduation rates so succeeded in broadening access who are admitted are,” Tienda they can show it’s not a failing to the state’s two flagship public pointed out. school. There is something wrong institutions for economically dis- The rationale behind the 10 with this picture. College orien- advantaged students? percent law is that it is race-neu- tation has to be stressed in high The answer is a qualified tral, “and the way we are going school, even middle school. Just no, according to Marta Tienda, to get our diverse college classes because your parents don’t have professor of sociology and public is from the highly segregated money doesn’t mean you can’t go affairs at Princeton, who spoke high schools’ applicant pool,” to the best schools, or that you here Jan. 14 on “Diversity and she said. can’t succeed at the best schools,” Its Discontents: Lessons From What the law does not do is Tienda said. Higher Education.” affect admissions policies that are In a survey of Texas high The lecture was sponsored by based on non-racial or non-ethnic school seniors who were asked at Mary Jane Bent/CIDDE Pitt’s Center on Race and Social diversity, Tienda said. “Everybody what point in their lives did they Problems. needs a quarterback and every- first believe they would attend that changes in admissions criteria, who can succeed at selective public Tienda was referring specifi- body needs a tuba player, so we college — with answers ranging such as the guaranteed admission institutions than are enrolled cally to the state law, known infor- make those [admissions] decisions from “always” to “in elementary of ranked students, do little to alter currently, Tienda recommended mally as the Texas 10 percent law, for athletics and other specialty school” to “in high school” — 68 the overall socioeconomic profile more aggressive recruitment that grew out of legal challenges to talents, but somehow when it percent of whites and 71 percent of the application pool, she said. efforts aimed at talented students affirmative action. The state law comes to race or ethnicity, we can’t of Asians said either in elementary The corollary is that changes in from resource-poor schools; guar- went into effect in 1998, follow- have it. It’s the one attribute that school or always, compared to 27 admission criteria designed to anteeing financial aid to increase ing a ruling by the Texas Supreme we simply cannot base admissions percent of Hispanics, the largest broaden access for low-income enrollment probabilities, and Court in the Hopwood v. Texas case on,” she said. minority group in the state. students will not alter the socio- shifting aid packages away from that let stand a lower court ruling While the rationale for the 10 Students who know earlier economic composition of college loans to need-based grants. proclaiming a University of Texas percent law appears sound on the that they will go to college make campuses unless the applicant pool “These measures are all the law school admissions policy ille- face of it, the results fall short of informed decisions about taking also is changed. more important in light of gal on the grounds that it preferred the goal of diversifying the student college preparatory courses and “The challenge, then, is raising demographic trends that show minority applicants over better- bodies at the two flagship public thus increase their chance of suc- application rates among the low- rapid growth in the number of qualified white applicants. universities, Tienda maintained. cess in college, Tienda noted. income students,” Tienda said. students attending poor schools,” Taking a completely differ- Citing a 2008 research study The biggest lesson to be On the premise that there are she concluded. ent tack, the 10 percent law now that used a classification scheme learned from the Texas system is many more low-income students —Peter Hart n guarantees admission to any Texas to sort public high schools by public college or university for all student socioeconomics status Texas high school seniors who into the categories affluent, aver- graduate in the top 10 percent of age and poor, Tienda concluded their class. that graduates from affluent high One of the goals of the law schools were twice as likely to was to try to increase access to the seek admission to one of the University of Texas-Austin (UT) public flagships compared with and the Texas Agriculture and those who graduated from high Mining University (Texas A&M), schools that served students of the two higher education public low socioeconomic status. institutions with the most selective In addition, Tienda’s data admissions, while simultaneously show that admission guarantee increasing diversity in the student had highly uneven impacts at the population, Tienda explained. two public flagships. The increase At the time of the Hopwood in rank-eligible applicants to UT, ruling, students from 28 high while significant, largely was schools in Texas made up 25 per- driven by students from affluent cent of the freshman class at UT, high schools. and 20 percent at Texas A&M. “In other words, socioeco- “Why use class rank? Because it nomic diversity was not signifi- is a strong predictor of college suc- cantly increased,” she said. cess,” Tienda maintained. “Texas Texas A&M actually witnessed was trying to level the playing field a drop in application rates from top by saying all schools, small and 10 percent graduates, particularly big, rich and poor, concentrated those who attended poor-resource minority, concentrated white, if schools. they rank their students and if These results are troubling, they have at least 10 seniors, their despite the law’s best intentions, top 10 percent are guaranteed Tienda said. The reasons that admission to any public institu- the law fell short of its goals are tion,” she said. numerous. She said one reason is “But, of course, this means that economically disadvantaged you’re changing the definition of students believe they cannot merit and the criteria for prefer- afford to attend a flagship public ence. The appeal is: It does rely on university. merit, and no one will argue that “Students need to know that you shouldn’t admit your most scholarships are there,” and col- meritorious students, whatever leges should make more need- merit is.” based scholarships available, she The law also equalizes the said. status of all high schools regardless “There were many high of their racial or socioeconomic schools that did not send a single profile, Tienda said. graduate to one of the flagship In addition, the policy elimi- universities,” Tienda said. “The nates SAT scores as a factor in ‘idea’ of going to college should be admitting the top-ranked stu- institutionalized, not only for the dents, which she views as a good local community college, but for thing because comparatively lower the more selective schools.” SAT scores traditionally have High schools are at fault, she worked against talented poor and said, when many disadvantaged minority students in the admis- students don’t bother to apply sions process. because they believe they can’t “We have institutionalized the succeed in college and are not SAT test as a measure of merit, told otherwise by their guidance and yet we know it doesn’t predict counselors. success beyond freshman grades, “Even principals don’t make

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Early diagnosis Campbell noted that autism is classified as a disorder of infancy, “but we can’t diagnose it in infancy, even though parents can tell you there’s something wrong.” Currently, it’s difficult to diag- nose autism reliably before 30-36 months of age, Iverson said. That means there can be a substantial gap between the time parents notice something amiss in their child’s development and an actual diagnosis is made. “Many parents go to a pedia- trician with concerns about their child’s development, sometimes as early as 12 months, but at the same ON time, many children don’t receive an autism diagnosis until they’re 3 and sometimes even older,” she said. “This is a very stressful time for parents because they don’t get services, they don’t get anything for their child, but they know something’s wrong. The work we’re doing is designed to address that issue and to reduce this gap HEALTH by coming up with a set of early risk markers.” How early could profession- als diagnose autism? “This is the open question now,” Iverson said, noting that for some children there are indications by the age of 18 months that a diagnosis is on the horizon. “It’s not perfect by any means and that’s a big concern,” she said, noting that it can be difficult to distinguish autism from other Pitt experts examine the issues developmental delays. Campbell added, “It’s partly difficult because early in develop- Increasingly, studies have shown, people are seeking health-related information. A ment kids’ development is uneven. recent Pew Internet study found that 80 percent of Americans with Internet access So, we may notice something that turn to the web for answers to their medical and health questions. looks a little different about a child, But three-quarters of consumers fail to check how reliable and how current that but it might be something that’s information is, the study revealed. going to resolve, or it might be something that’s really telling us In an effort to detangle some of the overload of health information that is out there, there is something wrong. So it’s a this new occasional University Times series, On Health, is turning to Pitt experts balancing act to decide when you for current — and reliable — information on some of today’s major health-related are over-diagnosing, when you are topics. under-diagnosing.” However, Strauss noted, their ore people than ever are the University’s Center for Excel- • Pervasive Developmen- known as a disorder only since the goal isn’t simply earlier diagnosis, being diagnosed with lence in Autism Research, one of tal Disorder-Not Otherwise 1940s. “Even back then, most kids but also how to chart differences Mthe developmental dis- five such National Institutes of Specified (PPD-NOS) or atypical who had the disorder were labeled in early development. orders classified as autism. Health centers. autism, which includes people as schizophrenic,” he said. “The evidence clearly suggests The condition, which impacts Directed by psychiatry and who meet some of the criteria for As late as the 1960s and ’70s, autism has early origins, pre-age 2 social interaction and communi- neurology professor Nancy Min- other ASDs. it was thought that autism came or 3,” he said. “There are markers cation, affects an estimated 1.5 shew, Pitt’s center is dedicated to Why the number of autism from bad parenting by distant that show up very early,” such as million Americans, and has been seeking the causes of and treat- diagnoses is increasing is the “refrigerator moms,” adding fur- differences in brain volumes or labeled an “urgent public health ments for the condition. subject of much debate. “It’s not ther stigma to the condition. head sizes, which are identifiable concern” by the U.S. Centers for Because autism is a spectrum that the disorder is burgeoning. “In terms of being a disorder well before 2 years of age. Disease Control and Prevention disorder, its effect on an individual It may be increasing. We don’t that we recognize as a clearly “Partly what we’re trying to do (CDC). can range from mild to severe. know,” said center researcher neurologic disorder that is not due is understand what is happening The CDC recently increased While symptoms can vary widely, and psychology professor Mark to bad parenting and that needs to early and what’s different in chil- its estimate of the prevalence of common attributes include engag- Strauss. be studied, that’s only happened dren who end up with diagnoses autism. A December 2009 CDC ing in repetitive behaviors and One factor, said center within the last 20 years,” Strauss of autism. So, even though it may report indicates that 1 in 110 difficulties with social interaction researcher and psychology faculty said. “That’s very new, so of course not lead to diagnoses as early as American children have autism, and communication. member Sue Campbell, is that you’re going to have this burgeon- 6-12 months, we’ll have a handle up from an estimated 1 in 150 According to the CDC, there many children who previously ing of recognition that there are on how the course of the develop- in 2007. are three types of autism spectrum would not have been diagnosed many more kids with it and a better ment is different.” A study in the October 2009 disorders (ASDs): with autism now are getting an notion of how to define it.” journal Pediatrics found the rate • Autistic Disorder, or classic autism diagnosis. “The net got Strauss noted that individuals Early markers for parent-reported autism to autism, which includes social and wider,” she said. with autism vary widely in their Babies and toddlers should be one in 91 children, including communication difficulties, lan- Strauss acknowledged that intellectual capacity, ranging from be screened for developmental one in 58 boys, based on data guage delays, repetitive behaviors, awareness is changing because children with IQs in the 20-30 milestones during their regular from the 2007 National Survey unusual interests and, in many autism is becoming a better-stud- range and no language skills to a well-child checkups, but parents of Children’s Health. cases, intellectual disabilities. ied and better-diagnosed condi- small number at the other extreme should not wait to request an The causes behind autism • Asperger Syndrome, which tion. Earlier detection and broader with genius IQs. evaluation if they have a concern and effective treatments for it is marked by milder symptoms criteria for an autism diagnosis Many high-functioning indi- about developmental delays. are not yet well understood, but of autistic disorder, but typically both impact the numbers. viduals previously may not have For an interactive chart of Pitt researchers are contributing without language problems or He noted that the history of been identified as having autism, developmental milestones for to the quest for answers through intellectual disabilities. autism is brief; autism has been Strauss noted. “When I think back children through age 5, visit www. to my elementary school days, the cdc.gov/ncbddd/act early/interac- kids we used to ostracize socially tive/milestones. — I’m sure many of those kids Iverson said the early markers probably had autism,” he said. most widely replicated in current And, added Jana Iverson, a research literature are in the realm center researcher and psychology of early social communication. faculty member, lower-function- Most infants are saying a few ing children with autism might words by the age of 18 months, have received a diagnosis of mental but nearly all are using gestures to AUTISM retardation. convey their interests and wants

 FEBRUARY 4, 2010 and needs to the people around “There’s no cure, but interven- all together. Each of us is coming based thimerosal preservative has them, she said. tion does help,” said Strauss, who at it from our own perspectives, been seriously questioned and “Infants who end up with an studies infants at risk for autism as but in combination. By the time recent studies show no associa- autism diagnosis generally aren’t well as older children and adults we’re finished, we’ll have so many tion. Now some parents wonder doing that even at 18 months. who have been diagnosed with measures on this common group whether administering multiple And if they are, it’s extremely autism. of children that we can really start vaccines at one time may be infrequent.” “There are indications that to look at not just specific profiles problematic. Campbell added, “The impor- early interventions do help these in our individual domains of A 2008 federal court decision tant part of that is it’s sharing — the children. It’s not that you’re curing interest, but look across domains found the administration of nine social part of the pointing.” them, but you’re giving them skills and try to think about how early vaccines in one day significantly Research has shown if by to cope with the problems they behavior in one domain might be aggravated underlying mitochon- that age a baby isn’t pointing at have. You’re helping them learn related to patterns that we see in drial disease in a young girl, caus- objects to show interest in them, alternative ways to do things, another domain later on.” Sue Campbell ing autism-like symptoms. it’s a potential red flag. “That in compensatory ways to do things, She said the practical goal is to Autism and mitochondrial particular is the marker that most so in fact the outcome in some develop an early screening tool for disease organizations are join- people would feel most comfort- children looks fairly decent if autism. “The basic question that ing forces to look into anecdotal able saying is pretty good. It’s you can get the intervention early we’re all addressing from different reports that mitochondrial dis- not perfect, but it’s a good one,” enough,” he said. perspectives is can we come up orders may be more prevalent Iverson said. Pitt is part of an international with a set of signs that are appar- in people with autism spectrum Fine-tuning the list of observ- consortium of universities where ent in infants at 12 months, or disorders. able behaviors is one aspect, but researchers are studying babies at even younger if possible, that are Environmental exposures underlying them may be much risk for autism in hopes of finding good predictors of a future autism or stress also may contribute to more subtle differences, Strauss ways to identify them sooner. diagnosis?” autism, Iverson said. noted. “You’re not going to be The research teams are work- Part of the reason for studying A 2008 Harvard Medical able to study those underlying ing with infants who have an older infants, Strauss added, is that by School study of babies born in subtle differences unless you take sibling who has been diagnosed the time a child is older and has Louisiana found that autistic a research approach by studying with autism. Studying babies at exhibited symptoms, it’s too late disorders were more prevalent in the babies early and following higher risk means that a smaller to learn how they developed the Jana Iverson those who were exposed to hur- them up,” he said. group of infants is needed in order symptoms or to trace their origins. ricanes in utero, with the preva- to yield a group who eventually “So if you want to try to sort out lence increasing not only with One diagnosis or many? will be diagnosed with autism, whether there are different ways the severity of the storm, but also While there may be a common Iverson said, noting that the recur- to get there, you really have to depending on their gestational age set of diagnostic features, one rence risk for families in which study the developing abilities,” when the storm occurred. problem in diagnosis is that there already is a child with autism he said. Iverson said the incidence children may have those features is about 15-20 percent. Another reason for working was highest during the 5th and for different reasons — reasons “We would need thousands with babies, Iverson said, is that 6th months and the 8th and 9th that aren’t yet well understood, from the general population intervention research isn’t moving months of pregnancy. “That sug- Strauss noted. versus needing a group of about in lockstep with early identifica- gests something about stress that Iverson said, “One of the issues 100 infants to end up with 20 tion research. While some profes- potentially could be important, in DSM (Diagnostic and Statisti- infants who will have an autism sionals argue for intervening as but also the timing of the stress,” cal Manual of Mental Disorders) diagnosis,” she said. early as 12-18 months, current Mark Strauss she said. criteria is it takes a Chinese menu Strauss noted that Pitt research- practices are appropriate for use “There’s never going to be approach — one from here, one ers are studying various aspects of with 3-year-olds, not babies who to middle childhood — because a universal cause,” Iverson said, from there. You have a group of the babies’ development. “We’re have different skill sets and differ- children’s development can take noting that an overemphasis of children who all have social com- somewhat unique in that we are ent interests. many different trajectories. “This attention on one potential cause munication deficits, but some of taking a broad approach,” he “We make it to a point where long-term picture is so critical so can short-change research into them have it in the area of early said. His part of the research we feel confident identifying we can look to see: The kids we other factors. pretend play, but their language is is focused on cognitive ability, infants who might be at risk, but identified as kind of being suspect, developing fairly normally. Others attention, memory and how then the problem is the inter- do they actually stay that way? Or Long-term outlooks are not developing any language knowledge develops. Iverson is vention we have to offer doesn’t is it the case that we see a totally Although intervention is not at all. And they’re all kind of sub- focusing on communication skills match. That’s one outstanding different child emerging several a cure, earlier intervention can sumed into this one large category. such as language and gesturing, problem,” Iverson said. years down the road? We just don’t have long-term implications, the Most people who have experience and Sue Campbell is focusing on Recruitment of babies is con- know that yet,” Strauss said. researchers say. with autism would tell you they early social development with a tinuing, but Strauss said some Long-term study is needed While autism is considered a get a definite sense that there are particular attention to mother- preliminary data should be avail- to show whether the screener disorder of childhood, it’s actually subgroups of kids who function infant interactions. Strauss and able within the next year. researchers develop is related a lifespan disorder, Iverson said, in very different ways. Campbell are studying at-risk He is optimistic that a set of reliably to the diagnosis. “If you adding that few services — such “We are absolutely not there infants and a control group in the early markers will emerge. don’t have this long-term picture as help with finding and keeping at all in understanding what those lab; Iverson’s research observes the “Assuming that in fact we can you don’t know if your screener is a stable job, or succeeding in col- subgroups are about in terms of babies at home. pick these up, obviously they’ll going to be worth it,” he said. lege, for instance — exist for adults the etiology. Just that they exist,” “So we’re really covering all the need to be studied in a lot more with autism. Iverson said. major things that are developing detail in the future, but it’s cer- Addressing the causes Individuals with autism, Strauss in infants among the three of us,” tainly conceivable that we could Getting to the root causes said, “tend to be very good at any Research Strauss said. “You can take one start talking about interventions of autism is complicated. “It’s a course that requires any sort of Autism research today aims common thing that’s developing, based on the problems we’re multiple pathway, with multiple logic or deductive reasoning. for a better understanding of the like language and interaction, finding. indicators to this hodgepodge They do very well at mathemati- causes underlying the condition as where all three of us are looking “The other critical thing we’re of symptoms,” Campbell said. cal courses, computer science and well as ways to identify and treat at components or subcomponents geared for doing is that even if you “There’s lots of variability in the engineering. On the other hand, autism sooner. Several teams of of it. We aim to bring it together pick up differences, as we expect, causes, in the clinical picture, but they have difficulties with abstract Pitt researchers are working to to get a picture of why it looks very early — the big issue is what’s it’s subsumed under this group of or inductive reasoning. So English further what is known about risk wrong in particular kids who end the long-term implication of the autism.” and philosophy courses can be very factors in hopes of contributing up with the diagnosis.” differences you’re picking up?” Although many potential difficult,” he noted. to earlier diagnosis and the devel- Iverson acknowledged theirs That determination will genetic markers have been iden- “So you have very high-IQ opment of earlier treatments for is a unique approach. “We’ve require longer study of the tified, Campbell said, “There individuals sometimes, but get- people with autism. converged on this one problem infants — at least through early are going to be multiple genetic ting through college can be very pathways with multiple genes in hard,” he said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- each pathway as well as potentially Likewise, people with autism tion, those with an autism spectrum disorder might: other events, like maybe some kind tend to be very detail-oriented, of pregnancy complication, or ill- which would be a strength in cer- • Not respond to their name by 12 months of age. ness during pregnancy.” tain jobs. “There are a lot of things • Not point at objects to show interest (for example, point at The controversial debate link- they could potentially bring to the Some an airplane flying over) by 14 months. ing autism to vaccines continues, table that would be very useful to • Not play “pretend” games (pretend to “feed” a doll) by 18 although the CDC states that many employers,” Strauss said. signs & months. “evidence from several studies “The problem is helping them stay • Avoid eye contact and want to be alone. examining trends in vaccine use there,” he said, citing the case of • Have trouble understanding other people’s feelings or talking and changes in autism frequency one study participant who holds symptoms about their own feelings. does not support such an associa- a civil engineering degree and is • Have delayed speech and language skills. tion.” a math savant, yet recently was • Repeat words or phrases over and over (echolalia). While vaccines are not com- fired from his job stocking grocery • Give unrelated answers to questions. pletely safe — some people do store shelves. • Get upset by minor changes. have reactions to them — Strauss “It’s a terrible problem and • Have obsessive interests. said there is no indication they there’s been very little publicity • Flap their hands, rock their body or spin in circles. cause autism. on older individuals with autism • Have unusual reactions to the way things sound, smell, taste, He noted that the initial study and their needs and outcomes,” look or feel. that ignited the controversy link- Strauss said. ing autism and vaccines’ mercury- —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S it to expand faster over time. But the redshift of the farthest, New cancer tucked deep inside the cerebral their success at the other tasks. faintest visible galaxies can only therapy is cortex, profoundly influence a The latter approach, called be gauged with indirect calcula- patented person’s ability to refine his or variable-priority training, encour- tions. Estimations off by a mere School of Medicine research- her motor skills, learn new pro- ages the kind of flexibility in deci- 0.5 percent would result in an ers have been awarded a patent for cedures, develop useful strategies sion-making that often is required incorrect answer to what dark the development of a new DNA and adapt to a quickly changing in daily life. Studies have shown energy may be. therapy for head and neck cancers. environment. that variable-priority training is Newman’s technique will be The therapy targets the epidermal “This is the first time that we’ve more likely than other training critical for future projects such growth factor receptor (EGFR), been able to take a real-world task methods to improve those skills as the Large Synoptic Survey a protein found on the surface of like a video game and show that people use every day. Telescope (LSST), a 14-year effort many types of cancer cells that the size of specific brain regions The researchers found that involving 23 universities includ- causes them to multiply. is predictive of performance players who had a larger nucleus ing Pitt. The powerful telescope Standard treatments for head and learning rates on this video accumbens did better than their will record how the sky changes and neck cancers often are ineffec- game,” said Pitt psychology fac- counterparts in the early stages from night to night, allowing for tive and tend to have debilitating ulty member Kirk Erickson, the of the training period, regardless the authors state. “Or, for retail unprecedented study of elusive side effects, explained Jennifer study’s lead author. of their training group. food stores, a gourmet grocery dark matter and dark energy, R. Grandis, a faculty member in Research has shown that This made sense, Erick- that caters to a more knowledge- which has greater pull on the otolaryngology and pharmacology expert video gamers outperform son said, because the nucleus able ‘foodie’ may build a happier, universe than dark matter. and director of the head and neck novices on many basic measures accumbens is part of the brain’s better-informed consumer base Newman’s work on the LSST is program at the University of of attention and perception, but reward center, and a person’s by presenting items in more essential in studying these cosmic Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. other studies have found that motivation for excelling at a video novel and exotic formats (by components and for determining The new treatment is based on training novices on video games game includes the pleasure that season, optimal wine pairings or how far back in the universe’s his- a form of genetic therapy called for 20 or more hours often yields results from achieving a specific country of origin, for example), tory the telescope is looking for “antisense,” or AS, in which a syn- no measurable cognitive benefit. goal. This sense of achievement whereas retailers at the edge of each galaxy observed. thesized strand of DNA or RNA These contradictory findings and the emotional reward that a college campus may help their Newman also is on the execu- targets the EGFR genes within suggest that pre-existing differ- accompanies it likely are highest novice college-age shoppers most tive committee of the All-wave- a tumor. The therapy blocks the ences in the brain might predict in the earliest stages of learning, by grouping items in the most length Extended Groth Strip production of a protein produced variability in learning rates, the he said. traditional formats — all fruits International Survey, or AEGIS, by the gene. According to Gran- authors wrote. Players with a larger caudate together, all coffee together, all a massive project involving nearly dis, expectations were exceeded Animal studies that showed nucleus and putamen did best on bread together, etc.” 100 researchers worldwide to map in a phase I study of the therapy that the striatum becomes active the variable-priority training and The study also found that a distant region of the universe that was designed primarily to during habit formation and skill players in whom those structures highly knowledgeable consumers — the Extended Groth Strip determine the safety and potential acquisition led the researchers were largest learned more and were “notoriously complacent” — and document the past 10 bil- toxicity of EGFR AS injections in to explore whether the striatum learned more quickly during the when it came to paying attention lion years of galactic evolution patients with advanced head and might be related to human learn- training period, he said. to product information: People with telescopes around the world neck cancers. ing ability. “This study tells us a lot about who consider themselves experts and in space. Newman will use data “Not only were the AS injec- They focused on three brain how the brain works when it is in a domain generally breeze past from the AEGIS project to test tions well tolerated, but tumors structures: The caudate nucleus trying to learn a complex task,” potentially new and important and perfect his algorithm. disappeared or shrank consider- and the putamen in the dorsal Erickson said. “We can use infor- information, while novices employ ably in 29 percent of the patients,” striatum and the nucleus accum- mation about the brain to predict all of their cognitive capacity when said Grandis. “These results show bens in the ventral striatum. who is going to learn certain tasks making a purchase decision. that EGFR AS therapy has great The caudate nucleus and puta- at a more rapid rate.” The data were collected from potential as a safe, effective treat- men are involved in motor learn- Such information might be 123 undergraduate students who ment.” ing, but research has shown they useful in education, where longer completed a two-part study as part A phase II clinical trial evalu- also are important to the cognitive training periods may be required of their course work. Both parts ating the safety and efficacy of flexibility that allows one to shift for some students, or in treating were carried out online where the EGFR AS injections in combina- quickly between tasks; the nucleus disability or dementia, where presentation of information could tion with the drug cetuximab and accumbens is known to process information about the brain be manipulated. radiation therapy soon will be emotions associated with reward regions affected by injury or dis- Students first were placed in open for eligible patients. Accord- and punishment. ease could lead to a better under- two different groups based on their ing to Ethan Argiris, a faculty The researchers began with a standing of the skills that also level of prior knowledge, then member in medicine and principal basic question about these struc- might need attention, he said. asked to make selections based investigator of the trial, the study tures: Is bigger better? The study was funded by the upon information presented to will enroll patients 70 years of age Using magnetic resonance Office of Naval Research. them in various formats. or older with advanced head and imaging to analyze the size of these Researchers analyzed the neck cancers who aren’t eligible brain regions in 39 healthy adults students’ choices based upon an (aged 18-28; 10 of them male) who Marketing to algorithm that assessed product for cisplatin, the chemotherapy expert, novice Dental school often used to treat head and neck had spent less than three hours a learning and satisfaction. cancers. week playing video games in the consumers According to the research, the research previous two years, they compared differs way to establish the most satisfied funded the volume of each brain structure Organizing products based and well-informed consumer can Two dental school faculty Bigger striatum with that of the brain as a whole. on customers’ knowledge levels be determined only by considering members recently received grants = better gaming Participants then were trained can improve consumers’ learning consumer familiarity with product for their research. Researchers can predict your on one of two versions of Space and their degree of satisfaction, categories and their expectations • Mary Marazita, director of performance on a video game Fortress, a video game that according to a study co-authored about the retail environment. the Center for Craniofacial and simply by measuring the volume requires players to try to destroy by Cait Poynor, a faculty member Dental Genetics, vice chair of of specific structures in your brain. a fortress without losing their own in business administration in the the Department of Oral Biology A new study published in the ship to one of several potential Joseph M. Katz Graduate School Astro prof and associate dean of the Office journal Cerebral Cortex found hazards. of Business. funded to study of Research, was granted nearly that nearly a quarter of the vari- Half of the study participants Expert consumers like to be far-off galaxies $3 million from the National ability in achievement seen among were asked to focus on maximiz- surprised by unusual product Physics and astronomy faculty Institute of Dental and Craniofa- men and women trained on a new ing their overall score in the game presentation, while novices crave member Jeffrey Newman was cial Research for her work on the video game could be predicted by while also paying attention to the familiarity, she and a colleague among 69 researchers chosen by genetics of cleft lip and palate. measuring the volume of three various components of the game. from the University of South peer review from among 1,750 Marazita’s research will focus structures in their brains. The other participants had to shift Carolina found in their work, applicants for the U.S. Depart- on laying the groundwork to The study adds to the evidence priorities periodically, improving “Smart Subcategories: How ment of Energy’s early career improve the ability to identify that specific parts of the striatum, their skills in one area for a period Assortment Formats Influence research program. The $85 mil- genes, genetic counseling in fami- a collection of distinctive tissues of time while also maximizing Consumer Learning and Satisfac- lion initiative is funded by the lies with cleft lip and palate, and tion.” The paper is to be published 2009 American Recovery and will eventually lead to improved in the June issue of Journal of Reinvestment Act. therapies for these birth defects. Consumer Research; a preprint Newman, who studies the • Alexandre Vieira, a faculty can be found at http://journals. distant universe, will refine an member in the Department of uchicago.edu/jcr. algorithm he devised to improve Oral Biology and director of the What works for one consumer calculations that measure the University’s Dental Registry and may not work for another. The distance to the farthest visible DNA Repository, was awarded authors found that highly knowl- galaxies. a $1.9 million grant from the edgeable consumers liked being The distance to a faraway National Institute of Dental and surprised by product formats; on galaxy is determined by measuring Craniofacial Research for his the other hand, novice consumers its redshift, or how its emitted light project on the genetics of caries, had an easier time when familiar is stretched out by the universe’s or cavities. with product groupings. expansion. These distances are Vieira’s work will examine “Results may explain why vital in determining the nature of genes that control enamel forma- expert cooks love the chaos of the as-yet undetected dark energy tion, saliva function or composi- farmer’s markets, whereas novice that appears to make up most of tion, and immune response. cooks find them overwhelming,” the universe’s mass and is causing CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

10 FEBRUARY 4, 2010 Program would promote community service across schools he president of the Uni- service projects to be considered areas. Faculty in the School of would provide students with field session. versity Senate wants to in faculty salary, promotion and Social Work would oversee the experience, he added. • Pinsky reported the results Tcreate a faculty-led pro- tenure decisions, he said. group, which would be housed The longer-term outcome of of the recent election for faculty gram to promote community “A few years ago the Uni- in Pitt’s Community Outreach the program could be a cohesive members to the search committee service projects across multiple versity Senate was instrumental Partnership Center (COPC), approach to community service to identify a successor to Provost Pitt schools. in getting the faculty handbook Pinsky said. and rejuvenation. “If realized, James V. Maher, who is stepping “The concept of this initiative changed so that it now reads that “The goal will be to address we may become a model for how down from his post to return to is to create a resource group of community service that leads specific projects that need a holis- university-community engage- the faculty. (See Jan. 21 University academic leaders from many of the to durable knowledge would be tic approach to maximize their ment can work to promote both,” Times for winners of the election; schools in the University to jointly considered as academic credit,” effectiveness,” he said, citing as Pinsky said. www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=10953.) review, organize and implement Pinsky said. “It now allows us to an example a project to establish To help launch the program, The turnout for the election programs to improve social ser- develop community service pro- a homeless shelter, which might last month Pinsky and Tracy was 55 percent of Arts and Sciences vices within our local geographic grams across schools that will not require engineering expertise in Soska, COPC co-director, and faculty voting and 73 percent of area,” Michael Pinsky told Faculty only help communities but forge building design and green tech- John Wilds, assistant vice chan- the Provost-area professional Assembly Jan. 26. new methods and approaches to nology; education expertise in cellor for Community Relations, schools. Tentatively called the “cross- doing so.” homeless children’s schooling and met with community leaders and “However,” Pinsky said, departmental partnership to The group likely would include adult job retraining, and business organizers to gather feedback. “[voter turnout] for the Health promote community use,” the ini- faculty from the schools of educa- expertise in business development “We then met with the deans Sciences was a dismal 11 percent. tiative builds on recent changes in tion, engineering, business, law planning. of schools of education, engineer- This is an ongoing problem since Pitt policies that allow community and public health, among other Such projects potentially ing and social work [to discuss] the School of Medicine faculty also leveraging skill sets to approach have a upmc.edu email address a broader problem [and] we got that they are required to use for R E S E A R C H N O T E S their tacit support.” medical issues. Approximately CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Interested faculty should con- half the [medical school] faculty Art gives kids creates valuable data about their new bone. Teriparitide, a form tact Pinsky at [email protected] or do not regularly use their pitt. a visual voice life experiences.” of naturally occurring parathy- Soska at [email protected]. edu account.” q Identifying the public health “The heart of Visual Voices is roid hormone, currently is the • Pinsky read a report prepared and safety needs of children from to ask and listen,” said Jessica G. only FDA-approved anabolic or In other Faculty Assembly by John Baker, immediate past low-income communities may Burke, study co-author and fac- bone-building agent in the United developments: president of the Senate and chair be best accomplished through ulty member in the Department States. The experimental drug • Pinsky reported that April 8 of the budget policies committee, art, report Pitt researchers in of Behavioral Community Health PTHrP, another protein made is Pitt Blue, Gold and Green Day, on recent developments regarding the online issue of Progress in Sciences in Pitt’s Graduate School naturally by the body, also is an which focuses on sustainability a proposed benchmark group of Community Health Partner- of Public Health. “You need to first anabolic agent and appears to be efforts across the University. The peer institutions against which ships: Research, Education and ask what it is people care about unique in its ability to stimulate sustainability subcommittee of to compare salaries at the Brad- Action. in order to develop public health bone formation without simulta- the Senate’s plant utilization and ford, Greensburg and Johnstown In their paper, available at interventions that are appropriate neously increasing bone break- planning committee is helping regional campuses. (See story on www.upmc.com/MediaRelations/ for specific communities.” down. Both drugs are given as to organize the event, which will page 1.) n NewsReleases/2010/Documents/ The project was funded by a daily injections. replace the Senate’s spring plenary —Peter Hart Yonas.pdf, researchers describe grant from the Centers for Disease “When we studied PTHrP the success of Visual Voices, an Control and Prevention to the several years ago in small num- arts-based program that engages Johns Hopkins Center for Injury bers of postmenopausal women Looking for community members as partners Research and Policy. with osteoporosis, we found that in research. Kimberly Rak of the Depart- bone density increased by nearly 5 something to do? As an artist who specializes ment of Behavioral and Com- percent after only three months of in painting, Michael Yonas, a munity Health Sciences and treatment, and even at the highest Check out faculty member in the School of anthropology was among other doses, the side effects were neg- Medicine’s Department of Family co-authors of the study. ligible,” said senior investigator Medicine, created Visual Voices Andrew F. Stewart, chief of the Eventur in 1993 to bring youth together Osteoporosis Division of Endocrinology and in a common venue for artistic drug test Metabolism, who also is a member The School of Information Sciences has launched a new web site expression. He has conducted the begins of Osteotrophin, which holds the that combines a citywide events calendar with a social networking program in nine cities across the Endocrinologists at the School patent for PTHrP. site á la Facebook. United States. of Medicine and UPMC are In findings recently published Eventur (http://eventur.us/) provides a central listing where The study was based on Visual launching a clinical trial of a new online in the Journal of Clinical users post and browse hundreds of events drawn from the city’s Voices programs conducted with osteoporosis drug. Endocrinology and Metabolism, museums, galleries, theatres and dance companies. Events can be 22 children ages 8-15 in two Participants will receive either Horwitz, Stewart and colleagues viewed by type, venue or the local organization presenting them. low-income and predominantly teriparitide (Forteo), which already identified the maximum tolerable People who register on Eventur — which has enrolled 132 African-American communities in is FDA-approved for osteoporosis dose and therapeutic window of members since its debut in November and averages more than 1,000 Baltimore and Pittsburgh. During treatment, or an experimental PTHrP and showed that PTHrP, weekly hits — also can craft profiles that allow them to specify the the sessions, participants created agent called parathyroid hor- at the tolerable doses, stimulated kinds of events they favor as well as create and join groups of like- paintings and drawings to share mone-related protein (PTHrP), bone formation after only three minded users. Patrons can recommend events, write reviews and their perceptions, both positive explained principal investigator weeks of treatment. rate the personal tastes and reliability of fellow Eventur-ers. and negative, of community safety Mara Horwitz, a metabolic bone Pitt co-authors of the paper But Eventur is more than just a calendar; it also is an experi- and violence, as well as their hopes specialist at UPMC and faculty included Mary Beth Tedesco, ment in building digital communities, explained Peter Brusilovsky, for the future. member in the medical school’s Adolfo Garcia-Ocana and Linda faculty member in the information science and technology pro- Afterward, they combined Division of Endocrinology and Prebehala of the Division of gram, whose graduate student Danielle Lee created the site for her their individual art projects into Metabolism. Endocrinology and Metabo- doctoral dissertation. Eventur relies entirely on the willingness of two “visual voice” exhibits that “We are very eager to find out lism; Alessandro Bisello of the its members to participate because of their common interests, said were displayed publicly in each how this new drug compares to Department of Pharmacology Brusilovsky, who researches digital “societies,” social web sites and city. a therapy that is currently avail- and Chemical Biology, and Susan human-computer interactions. Yonas and colleagues reviewed able,” Horwitz said. “Our previous Sereika of the Graduate School “Our site, like Facebook or Google, spreads information through and coded themes represented in studies suggest that it may increase of Public Health. ‘swarm intelligence,’ when a large group works to keep one another the artwork. bone density more dramatically The research was funded by informed,” Brusilovsky said. “There are so many things happening Factors that participants iden- with fewer side effects, but this the National Institutes of Health in this city, but there is no central repository. With Eventur, the tified as important to safety is the first head-to-head com- and the University of Pittsburgh community makes sure an event is posted and that the right people included school and social net- parison.” Clinical Translational Sciences get the right information. It’s essentially word-of-mouth, which works — family, friends and the On the cellular level, bone con- Award. n is typically the most effective communication, except that social local community. stantly is broken down and rebuilt networks connect more people than real places do.” Places that they identified as in a process called resorption. In The University Times Eventur most likely will provide a more complete idea of how unsafe were corner stores, streets osteoporosis, this balancing act is Research Notes column digital communities interact because it taps into the more popular and alleys with poor lighting and off-kilter, leaving bones less dense reports on funding awarded to world of arts and culture, Brusilovsky said. n abandoned houses. Other con- and more vulnerable to fracture. Pitt researchers and on find- textual factors identified as unsafe Many drugs, such as alendro- ings arising from University were drugs, smoking, drinking, nate (Fosamax) and raloxifene research. gambling, guns and violence. (Evista), work by decreasing bone We welcome submissions from all areas of the University. R E A C H “Community members are resorption. They can improve Submit information via email experts in their own lives much bone density by 2-10 percent over to: [email protected], by fax to the University community. more so than those who reside several years and reduce fractures, 412/624-4579 or by campus outside their communities,” said but many patients’ bone density mail to 308 Bellefield Hall. Yonas. “Visual Voices helps incor- already has been reduced by half For submission guide- porate residents’ unique expertise by the time treatment begins. lines, visit www.utimes.pitt. 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million in FY08, and $96 million in FY09, but has invoked the floor FY09: Worst year for endowments, survey shows in FY10 to maintain prior-year itt had plenty of company cial statement, the University’s better, with returns averaging tutions increased their spending in support levels. when it came to the steep endowment returned a -21.3 -16.8 percent. dollars, “indicating that colleges He said next year’s NACUBO Pdrop in its endowment percent. Ramicone said the fact that and universities stepped up spend- report will be interesting in terms last year. The value of Pitt’s endowment, smaller endowments did better ing to maintain programs and of the adjustments universities Fiscal year 2009 took its toll which takes into account not only was unusual, but not surprising, services central to their missions will make in light of the recent on institutional endowments as endowment earnings but also given that they usually hold even as their endowments lost endowment performances. investments tanked and donors gifts, distributions and transfers, higher percentages of cash and value,” the study stated. The University will see its peak tightened their purse strings. The declined from $2.34 billion at fixed-income assets — the only Pitt’s formula for endowment endowment year, 2007, fall off the benchmark National Association the beginning of FY09 to $1.84 two asset classes that yielded posi- spending, adopted in 1996, calls calculation of the prior three-year of College and University Busi- billion, a 21.7 percent decrease, tive returns for FY09. for the University to distribute average. ness Officers (NACUBO)-Com- at the fiscal year-end. (Due to The NCSE showed the aver- 4.25 percent of the endowment’s Trustees committees decide on monfund Study of Endowments reporting differences, the values age spending rate was 4.4 percent, average market value based on the asset allocation and investment (NCSE) survey of 842 American cited in the NCSE differ from with 43 percent of study partici- preceding three fiscal years. How- policy with discussions typically colleges and universities, released those on the University’s annual pants reporting they had increased ever, a “floor” built into that policy occurring in March. Ramicone last week, found the institutions’ balance sheet.) their spending rate. A quarter of ensures that recipients of endow- said his office, in conjunction with endowment investments aver- Pitt Vice Chancellor for the institutions decreased their ment funding will not receive less consultants, is working to prepare aged a -18.7 percent return in Budget and Controller Arthur spending rate and 28 percent than in the previous year. options to present to trustees for FY09. That was the worst in the J. Ramicone noted that although reported no change. Ramicone said the University consideration this spring. 37-year history of the survey and January 2010 was a down month, Fifty-four percent of the insti- distributed approximately $84 —Kimberly K. Barlow n the second year in a row with Pitt’s endowment value now is negative investment returns. hovering around the $2 billion P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S Average returns in FY08 were a mark. -3 percent. q The College Art Association emeritus. made significant contributions to The overall value of the Institutions participating in the (CAA) has awarded its 2009 the field of medical informatics. schools’ endowments also declined NCSE represent $306 billion in Frank Jewett Mather Award to “The Odds,” a mystery thriller Schleyer is one of only five dentists an average of 23 percent by year- endowment assets. In a prepared Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon by Kathleen George, a faculty ever to be elected to ACMI. end. Changes in endowment statement, NACUBO President Professor of member in theatre arts, is a finalist • Heiko Spallek of the Depart- values are impacted by investment and Chief Executive Officer John Contemporary for the Edgar Allan Poe Award as ment of Dental Public Health and returns, but also by other factors D. Walda said, “These results Art History best novel of the year. Information Management was such as gifts and distributions illustrate the extreme difficulties and Theory, The “Edgars” are presented by named a fellow of the American made during the fiscal year. colleges and universities faced at for his recent the Mystery Writers of America Dental Education Association Harvard, which had the larg- the height of the global economic book, “What Is and honor the best in mystery Leadership Institute. The institute est endowment in the study, saw crisis. Our hope is that the strong Contemporary fiction, nonfiction and television is a year-long program designed to its endowment value fall 29.8 first half of FY2010 augurs well Art?” published and produced in 2009. develop the nation’s most promis- percent to $25.66 billion, down for the full fiscal year and that a S m i t h ’ s This year marks the 64th year of ing individuals at academic dental from $36.56 billion at the end year hence the story will be much book was cited the competition. institutions into future leaders of FY08. more positive.” by CAA as a significant art George’s novel features Pitts- in dental and higher education. Pitt’s endowment value, 27th Commonfund Institute Execu- criticism work. According to the burgh detec- Spallek will graduate from the largest among the 842 institutions, tive Director John S. Griswold association, the book “contains tives Colleen program in March. fell from $2.33 billion at the end of stated, “Many educational institu- a series of interrelated essays G r e e r a n d FY08 to just under $1.84 billion, tions have taken steps to adapt to that unpack a range of topics John Potocki Jessie Ramey, a visiting a 21.3 percent decline, according the realities imposed by endow- and issues and take the reader on and “is also a scholar in the women’s studies pro- to the survey. ments that have been buffeted a theoretical tour through some poignant tale of gram, is the 2010 recipient of the Part of the drain on Pitt’s by losses averaging nearly 20 of the world’s most influential four abandoned John Heinz Dissertation Award endowment was attributable to percent. Future NCSE reports art museums, laying bare their children strug- for her Carnegie Mellon disser- the alleged securities fraud involv- may well reflect fairly significant conflicted missions and studying gling to live tation titled “A Childcare Crisis: ing the operators of Westridge changes in investment manage- the heightening distinction and with dignity against all odds.” Poor Black and White Families Capital Management and related ment, spending, debt practices dispute between modern and The winner of the award will and Orphanages in Pittsburgh firms with whom Pitt had invested and governance policies.” The contemporary art.” be announced in April. 1878-1929.” The award is pre- endowment money. The Univer- institute is the education and sented by the National Academy sity’s FY09 financial statement research arm of Commonfund, Linda Winkler, vice presi- The following faculty mem- of Social Insurance for the best reported the value of its invest- which manages endowments for dent for Academic Affairs and bers from the School of Dental dissertation from any discipline on ment with Westridge as $34.9 educational institutions and other a faculty member in anthropol- Medicine are among those who the topic of social insurance. million, representing a 50 per- nonprofit organizations. ogy and biology recently have been honored for Ramey was the founding cent write-down from previously q at Pitt-Titus- their achievements: director of Carnegie Mellon’s recorded fair value. (See Oct. 29, Institutions with endowments ville, has been • Joseph Giovannitti Jr., Undergraduate Research Office 2009, University Times.) of more than $1 billion had the invited to serve director of anesthesia services — an organization for which she Gifts to the University in worst investment returns, with as a reviewer in the Center for Patients with raised grant money to support FY09 also were down, falling from the 52 schools in that category for the 2010 Special Needs and acting chair of women and minority students $21.27 million in FY08 to less than averaging a -20.5 percent return. funding cycle the Department of Dental Anes- in nontraditional fields. She also $19.39 million. Schools with the smallest endow- of the National thesiology, was named president directed grant-making through According to Pitt’s FY09 finan- ments, under $25 million, fared Science Foun- of the American Dental Board of the Women and Girls Fund at dation. She will Anesthesiology. the Westchester Community review grants submitted to the • Edward Heinrichs of the Foundation/New York Commu- graduate research fellowship pro- Department of Periodontics and nity Trust. gram as part of a panel of faculty Preventive Dentistry has been Ramey also is the co-founder and scientists. named a faculty member of Omi- of the Flying Pig Theater, which The review panels are orga- cron Kappa Upsilon, a national specializes in new works by nized by specialty or academic dental honor society. Faculty women. area and generally are composed membership is bestowed upon of 15-25 reviewers from across dental school faculty who have Patrick R. Martin of the Katz the United States, representing made an outstanding contribution Graduate School of Business is hundreds of universities. Each to the art, science or literature of one of 10 recipients nationally of panel reviews more than 500 grant dentistry, and have at least six a Deloitte Foundation’s 2010 Doc- proposals submitted by students years of teaching experience. toral Fellowship in Accounting seeking support for graduate • Herbert Ray of the Depart- grant, which supports the comple- school and research projects. ment of Restorative Dentistry tion of their PhD programs. and Comprehensive Care, who is The foundation, a not-for- George Klinzing, vice pro- interim director of the endodontic profit arm of Deloitte, supports vost for research, has been named residency program, was named a teaching, research and curriculum to the board of directors of the fellow of the International College innovation in accounting, business Pittsburgh Life Sciences Green- of Dentists. The college serves and related fields. It supports an house, which provides capital to advance the art and science of array of national programs that investments and customized dentistry for the health and welfare are relevant to a variety of profes- company formation and business of patients across the world. sional services and that benefit growth services to the region’s life • Titus Schleyer of the middle and high school students, sciences enterprises, particularly Department of Dental Public undergraduates, graduate students those with promising innovations Health and Information Manage- and faculty. in biotechnology tools, diag- ment, who is director of the Center Fellows receive $5,000 during nostics, health care IT, medical for Dental Informatics, was named their final year of coursework and devices and therapeutics. a fellow of the American College $20,000 to complete their doctoral Current board member Chan- of Medical Informatics. ACMI dissertations the following year. cellor Mark Nordenberg will is a college of elected fellows Marin was nominated by transition into the role of director from around the world who have CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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Beth Ann Dudley Robert Taylor Services will be held Feb. 6 for Longtime Trees Pool men’s knew him.” Beth Ann Dudley, office adminis- locker room attendant Robert Dianne Drish, a longtime trator and test coordinator in the Taylor of Wilkinsburg died Jan. colleague in the Department of Office of Disability Resources 25, 2010. He was 58. Health and Physical Activity, said, and Services (DRS), who died A Pitt staff member since “He had a way with people that unexpectedly at her Bellevue home 1978, Taylor won friends among made them feel special,” adding, Jan. 29, 2010. She was 40. faculty, staff and students alike as with a laugh, “He gave the fluffiest Dudley joined the Pitt staff as the man who handed out towels towels to his favorites. a secretary in the Office of Tech- and locker keys with a ready smile “He did his job very well and nology Transfer and Intellectual and a friendly word. “Anyone made a lot of friends that way,” Property in 1995, before transfer- who used the pool, he was the she said, adding, “It’s not easy to ring to the dean’s office in Arts and face of the pool,” said Taylor’s work in the basement of Trees Sciences in 1996. She joined the supervisor, aquatics director Kevin Hall all day.” staff of DRS, part of the Division McLaughlin. Taylor good-naturedly endured of Student Affairs, in 2002. “It was more personal than just teasing and pranks, including the As DRS office administra- a key and a towel with Bobby,” year he turned 40 when, Drish tor, Dudley was responsible for McLaughlin said, recalling how recalled, a co-worker posted coordinating testing services for Taylor took interest in the people “Happy 50th Birthday” messages students with disabilities, working had an outstanding work ethic who crossed his path, asking about around the building, prompting with Pitt faculty and staff to ensure and often put in extra effort for their families and inquiring how to swim, took care of them,” he numerous well-wishers to offer that systems and processes were divisional events to assist our their day was going. said. “All the athletes remember their congratulations and tell in place for the proper testing of students.” Taylor’s attitude was consis- him. He was the first one they’d Taylor how good he looked for a students. Noreen Mazzocca, a disability tently professional, happy and see.” Knoles said Taylor “consid- man of 50. Kathy Humphrey, vice pro- specialist who worked closely with energetic, said McLaughlin, who ered Trees Pool his pool and he Although he had endured vost and dean of students, said, Dudley for more than seven years, first met Taylor when McLaughlin was very protective of the pool,” health problems in recent years, “My deepest sympathies go out added, “Beth really worked hard came to Pitt as a student-ath- adding that when Taylor was “He would always come back — he to Beth’s family, her coworkers to make sure that the students had lete and found Taylor’s warmth working, the swimmers could felt best when he was at work,” in DRS and the division and the a seamless transition to testing extended to faculty, staff and rest assured that Taylor would Drish said, noting that Taylor’s many students that she served here. She was diligent about doing students alike. see to it that everything would death came as a surprise. “We so remarkably well. Beth always everything she could to help both Taylor treated his University run smoothly. thought he’d snap back as usual,” seemed to be smiling and she will students and faculty, like using friends as an extension of his family Chancellor Mark A. Norden- she said. be missed dearly.” Courseweb to convert documents and the pool as his second home, berg commented, “Back when McLaughlin said it is difficult Lynnett Van Slyke, DRS direc- for students who were blind.” McLaughlin said. “Over 32 years I had a little more time in my to adjust to Taylor’s absence at the tor, said Dudley worked diligently In addition to serving students, he built up a lot of friendships,” he life — before moving into the pool. “It’s different that it’s not to make sure that the highest Dudley was pursuing a Pitt degree said, adding that many longtime Cathedral of Learning — I regu- him in there,” McLaughlin said. standards were upheld and that in communication. swimmers were among the visitors larly swam for exercise at Trees “It’s going to take a lot of people the testing process was seam- She is survived by her father, who paid their respects at Taylor’s Pool. One of the benefits of that a lot of time to get used to that. less. “Beth was very dedicated to George Dudley, and several aunts funeral last week. experience was that it gave me I’m not sure some of us are ever the testing process and she took and uncles. Head swimming coach Chuck frequent opportunities to interact going to get used to it.” great pride in her work,” said Friends will be received 11 Knoles also remembered Taylor with Bobby. He was unfailingly Taylor is survived by his wife, Van Slyke. a.m.-noon on Feb. 6 at the T.B. for his cheerful disposition and friendly and upbeat, and no matter Marna; children Robert Bailey, “She matured in her position Devlin Funeral Home, 806 Perry his dedication to the pool. how things were going, just talk- Heath Bailey, Shane McCrom- and made sure that the profes- Hwy., North Hills. Contributions “He always afforded a smile to ing to him made it a better day. mon and Yolanda Taylor; 13 sors and students who dealt with may be made to Animal Friends, absolutely everyone. He tried to He was an important member of grandchildren, and three great- the system didn’t experience any 562 Camp Horne Road, Pitts- brighten everyone’s day, greeted the University community who grandchildren. disruptions or complications. She burgh 15237. n all the faculty and staff who came will be missed by everyone who —Kimberly K. Barlow n

P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 the Katz accounting faculty. ence coach of the year by United ary Educator Award. Health Trust and the world’s first tor of Pitt’s Adipose Stem Cell Press International and Football Legg designs programs aimed environmental oncology center. Center, who was cited in the Head football coach Dave News. at breaking barriers between the • Bryan Brown, doctoral Emerging Female Scientist Award Wannstedt will speak at Pitt- In all, he spent 16 years coach- lab and the classroom by making student in bioengineering, won category. B r a d f o r d ’s ing in the NFL, 11 of those as head cutting-edge science accessible the University/Post-Secondary Marra focuses on regenera- c o m m e n c e - coach — six with the Bears and five to K-12 students. Since its incep- Student Award. tive medicine, particularly using ment exercises, with the Miami Dolphins. tion, the program has benefited Brown has received fellow- fat-derived stem cells for tissue set for 2 p.m. Wannstedt was named head nearly 35,000 students in western ships from the National Institutes regeneration, as well as the devel- May 2 in the football coach here in December Pennsylvania. of Health and National Science opment of novel biomaterials. campus’s KOA 2004. He led the Panthers to a • Charleen T. Chu, a fac- Foundation and awards from • The McGowan Institute for Arena in the bowl game each of the last two ulty member in pathology, won tissue engineering, regenerative Regenerative Medicine, which Sport and Fit- years. the Emerging Female Scientist medicine and biomaterials soci- was honored with the Corporate ness Center. Award. eties. His interests include tissue Innovation Award. As a left Members of the Pitt com- Chu, also a 2010 winner of the engineering, regenerative medi- The McGowan Institute was tackle for Pitt, Wannstedt was munity were among the winners American Society for Investigative cine and immunology. recognized for the development of part of the 1973 team that went announced last week of the 2010 Pathology Outstanding Investi- Honorable mention awards therapies that are aligned with the to the Fiesta Bowl. He graduated Carnegie Science Awards. gator Award, is making seminal went to: regenerative medicine paradigm. in 1974. Pitt winners were: discoveries at the forefront of • Thad Zaleskiewicz, pro- While earning his master’s • Transplant pioneer Thomas Parkinson’s disease research, fessor emeritus of physics at The School of Law’s Drew degree here, Wannstedt began E. Starzl, Distinguished Service highlighting the importance of Pitt-Greensburg, who was cited Chelosky, director of develop- his coaching career as a graduate Professor of Surgery and director well-regulated cellular recycling in the University/Post Secondary ment, and Lisa Sciullo, charitable assistant in 1975 and continued emeritus of the Thomas E. Starzl and autophagy in maintaining Educator Award category. relationship manager, have been coaching in 1976, the year the Transplantation Institute, won the healthy brain connections. Zaleskiewicz co-developed an appointed to the board of directors undefeated Panthers won the Chairman’s Award. • Andrew B. Schwartz, fac- integrated natural science course of the Pittsburgh Planned Giving national championship. Starzl was recognized for ulty member in neurobiology, won that serves more than 300 students Council, a group of professionals Wannstedt stayed on to coach making transplantation a clinical the Life Sciences Award. annually. He is science liaison for committed to promoting gifts to receivers and special teams during reality through the development Schwartz’s research has con- the new education degree program charity as a positive way to achieve the 1977 and 1978 seasons. While of immunosuppression thera- tributed to the development of and coordinates the summer sci- individual estate planning objec- at Pitt, he met Jimmy Johnson, pies. current brain-controlled pros- ence math experience for junior tives through education. who made Wannstedt part of • Di Gao, a faculty member thetic arms and hands. He is a high students. Founded in 1984, PPGC is his coaching staff for Oklahoma in the Department of Chemical pioneer in the field of neural • Kacey Marra, a faculty affiliated with the Partnership State, the University of Miami, the and Petroleum Engineering, won engineering. In 2004, he estab- member in surgery and co-direc- for Philanthropic Planning. n Dallas Cowboys and the Miami the Advanced Manufacturing lished Pitt’s neural engineering Dolphins. Award. program. Wannstedt also served as Gao was honored for devel- • Devra Davis, a faculty The People of the Times column features recent news on defensive line coach for the Uni- oping the first anti-icing super- member in epidemiology and faculty and staff, including awards and other honors, accom- versity of Southern California, hydrophobic coating that is able founding director of the Center plishments and administrative appointments. 1983-85. to prevent icing of freezing rain for Environmental Oncology We welcome submissions from all areas of the University. He was head coach of the on a solid surface. at the University of Pittsburgh Send information via email to: [email protected], by fax at Chicago Bears, 1993-98, finish- • Alison Slinskey Legg, a fac- Cancer Institute, won the Envi- 412/624-4579 or by campus mail to 308 Bellefield Hall. ing as the third-winningest coach ulty member in biological sciences ronmental Award. For submission guidelines, visit www.utimes.pitt.edu/ in team history and was selected and director of outreach programs, Davis was recognized for ?page_id=6807. 1994 National Football Confer- won the University/Post-Second- creating both the Environmental

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opposed to medication to combat — you are worth a half-hour,” these chronic conditions, much of she said, pointing out that current the research returns to the fact recommendations for daily activ- Campaign urges women to that staying active can ward off ity call for 30 minutes of moderate these ailments, she said. “It seems exercise five days a week. so simple.” “We say we don’t have time,” adopt heart-healthy habits Often, more attention is but being busy is no excuse. “We placed on the aesthetic aspects need to do an honest assessment CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 of maintaining a healthy weight of the things we do, the places we Physical Activity. accompany her passion for the advertisements entice viewers rather than the health impact, go. How can we make good use of Women need to do more than teaching, she began studying part- to stop in for a breakfast that she noted. a lot of our time?” she said. simply wear the red dress pin in time for a master’s degree in Pitt’s may contain a whole day’s worth “Lower blood cholesterol isn’t “If you keep a log of what February, she said, challenging exercise physiology program. of calories. The car-oriented as powerful an argument as is you’re doing when you’re not women to commit themselves to Now completing her doctoral suburban culture contributes to wanting to look like Halle Berry,” working — Are you Facebooking? 30 minutes of exercise a day. “We degree in exercise physiology, a sedentary lifestyle, all to the she said. Did you Tivo a program you’re sit- owe it to ourselves,” she said. Edmonds works as an interven- detriment of good health. However, women need to take ting in front of for an hour or two? Edmonds, 42, said she began tionist, coaching an African- Women are facing increas- their health seriously. You might have to give something exercising at a Downtown gym to American cohort of participants ing stress levels as their roles at “Ultimately we have not up,” Edmonds said. relieve stress that built up in her in the RENEW diet and exercise work and home become more prioritized our health as women “The only way is to find the accounting job. Her 30th birth- study. demanding. and as families,” she said, urging time. Write it down. A diary helps day became her personal turning She has committed herself “We feel compelled to be women to eat better, eat less and you to see, I do have 30 minutes point and she committed to run to personal fitness as well as to everywoman. It is not to our move more. without waking up early.” the Great Race 5K with her dad, encouraging others to do the same. benefit,” Edmonds said. People view personal training Short bouts — 15 minutes a long-distance runner. “Exercise like your life depends on Minority women in general, as a luxury, she said. “It’s easier to of walking before work and 15 “Society had me so scared it” has become her slogan. and African-American women in go to the doctor and get a pill for minutes after work, for example about turning 30, I got myself Americans are heavier than particular, fare more poorly than your hypertension or medication — are as good as one 30-minute together,” she said. ever — current statistics indicate white women in health measures, for controlling your diabetes.” session, she said. In the gym, she fell in love with that 7 in 10 are overweight, and with higher rates of hyperten- Gym memberships aren’t Finding time may take a little spinning classes and later began the others, although they may sion, kidney disease and diabetes, free, but it’s a matter of priority, creative thought, but it’s pos- to teach spinning, group exercise maintain a healthy weight, may she said. “I was really concerned Edmonds maintains. Family cell sible: Walk while the kids are at and personal training. Because not necessarily be in good health, about that and why isn’t anybody phone plans might cost $200 a soccer practice or ballet lessons, she didn’t have the education to Edmonds said. Slick fast food doing anything?” While she’s not month; cable TV bills easily can rather than sitting and waiting for rise above $100 a month. Cut back them; buddy up with neighbors or and “there’s your gym member- friends to keep motivation high. ship,” she said. Involve your spouse or children It’s not necessary to exercise in to make exercise time double as a gym, but if you choose not to, family bonding time, she sug- “have a plan if you’re not able to gested. get out,” she said. “You need a lot of different sup- Plenty of exercise programs port systems,” Edmonds said. and channels are available on Educating yourself about television. Walking at lunchtime exercise is another motivator. or before and after work is another “Knowledge is power,” she said. “If free option. you feel a level of comfort because Maintaining activity levels and you know what you’re doing then a healthy weight must be viewed you have less apprehension about as a lifestyle, not a chore, she said. performing the task.” Resources “It should be part of what you do are available online, in books and every day, like brushing your teeth. magazines, or through personal There are a lot of things you can trainers and gym staff. be ambivalent about, but this isn’t In addition, speak positively one of them,” she said. about your ability to reach your “Exercise is time to yourself health goals. Nike’s famed “Just do it” tag- line isn’t just for athletes. “Make it your own,” she said. —Kimberly K. Barlow n State cuts end UPB program Jan. 29 was the last day of operation for Pitt-Bradford’s mobile science lending library, which provided high-tech sci- ence equipment and expertise to 35 rural schools and to home- schooled children. Funded by the state with the help of private donations, UPB’s popular Science in Motion pro- gram was one of 11 such programs in Pennsylvania, all of which were cut in the 2009-10 state budget. In addition to the loss to students, teachers and school districts, two full-time positions were elimi- nated by the closure, said James Baldwin, UPB assistant dean of academic affairs and Science in Motion director. Since its inception at UPB in 2001, the program had made more than 182,000 student contacts. The value of the labs provided to schools saved districts in the region more than $4 million. “I am saddened that this pro- gram, which had so much potential to support science, technology, engineering and math educa- tion, has been cut from the state budget,” Baldwin said. “I hope that other existing programs are capable of filling the void that our termination will create.” n

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C A L E N D A R Geology & Planetary Science Bradford Campus Exhibit Colloquium “The Content of Becoming: CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 “Coastal Sedimentary Pro- Mixed Media Exhibition by Pathology Research Seminar HSLS Lunch With a Librar- Wednesday 17 cesses,” Katie Farnswort, IUP; Shaqe Kalaj,” through Feb. 26; “New Insights on Nuclear Recep- ian 11 Thaw, 4 pm (4-8780) KOA Gallery, Blaisdell, UPB, tor-Mediated Liver Growth & “What Are RSS Feeds? How Can M-F 9 am-4:30 pm (814/362- Bradford Campus Webinar HCC Development,” Amedeo They Make Your Life Easier?” PhD Defenses 0248) “Partnering: Industry & Local Columbano, U of Cagliari; Melissa Ratajeski; Falk Library Barco Library Exhibit Business Panel”; 162 Swarts, 8- 1105A Scaife, 10 am conf. rm. B, noon A&S/Neuroscience “Negotiable Ambivalence,” 9:30 am (814/362-5078) WPIC Meet the PI Lecture World History Ctr. Lecture “High Affinity Group III Michael Walter; Feb. 12-May Religious Studies Collo- “The Neuroscience of Emo- “Global Networks”; 3703 Posvar, mGluRs Regulate Mossy Fiber 28, reception Feb. 12, 5-8 pm, quium tion: Toward Brain Imaging noon Input to CA3 Interneurons,” Barco Library “Helena Valero’s Yanomamo Biomarkers of Bipolar Illness Kathleen Cosgrove; Feb. 10, Captivity Narrative,” David in Adulthood & Adolescence,” A219B Langley, 9 am Deadlines Tuesday 16 Brumble, English; 2628 CL, Mary Phillips; 2nd fl . aud. Detre, GSPH/Genetics noon 11 am-12:30 pm “Expression & Regulation of OED 3rd Annual Innovation Basic & Translational Research European Colloquium Medical Education Grand let-7d in Idiopathic Pulmonary Speed Dating in Lung Disease Seminar “The Civil Wars of the 19th Rounds Fibrosis,” Kusum Vijay Pandit; Feb. 24, WPU; register by Feb. Bruce Pitt; NW628 Montefi ore, Century: Revolution & Recon- “Evaluation of Educational Inno- Feb. 18, NW628 Montefi ore, 5 at 4-3152. noon struction in Germany, Africa & vations for Students & Residents: 9:30 am UCIS-FLAS Undergraduate Health Services Research the United States,” Andrew Zim- Principles to Enhance Medical & Graduate Fellowship Seminar merman, George Washington U; Education Research,” Judy Shea; Deadline is Feb. 15. (info: ssh13@ “Veterans’ Decision-Making 3703 Posvar, 2 pm Theatre Scaife 4th fl . lecture rm. 3, noon pitt.edu) Preferences & Perceived Involve- Limbach Lecture (8-9000) Kuntu Repertory Theatre Johnstown Service to Com- ment in Care for Chronic Heart “Managing the Butterfl y: The Bollywood & Indian Film “Raisin”; through Feb. 6, 7th munity Award Failure,” Keri Rodriguez; 305 Challenges Facing Medical “Bioscopewallah”; FFA aud., 7 fl . aud. Alumni, Th-Sat 8 pm, Nominations due Feb. 19. Parkvale, noon Start-Up Companies,” Alan pm (4-5578) Th matinee 11 am (www.kuntu. (forms: 814/269-2080 or www. Magee-Womens Work-in- West; S123 BST South, 4-6 Bradford Campus Improv org) upj.pitt.edu/AdvisoryBoard) Progress Conference pm Show Pitt Repertory Theatre HP Faculty Grant Program “The Hypothalamic Drive for World History Ctr. Seminar “A Night With the Pitt Improv- “Scapin”; through Feb. 14, Tue.- Applications due March 1. (info GnRH Release & Therefore “Lumina Sophie: The Era- ers”; Bromeley Family Theater, Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 pm, CL Studio & procedures: http://www.ucis. Gonadal Function in Man sure of Cultural Amnesia in Blaisdell, UPB, 7:30-9 pm Theatre (4-7529) pitt.edu/main/hewlett_interna- Requires More Than KiSS,” Martinique,” Brenda Berrian, Men’s Basketball Bradford Campus Play tional.html) Tony Plant; Magee clinic patient Africana studies; 3703 Posvar, Vs. WVU; Petersen, 9 pm “America Amerique”; Feb. GSPIA Johnson Award for conf. rm., noon 4-5:30 pm 15, Bromeley Family Theater, Best Paper in Ethics, Account- Pharmaceutical Sciences Classics Lecture Blaisdell, UPB, 7 pm (814/362- ability & Leadership Saturday 13 Seminar “The Mosaic of the Birth of 5113) Submissions due April 2. (info: “Nitro-Fatty Acids, a New Class Helen & the Dioscuri From www.johnsoninstitute-gspia. Greensburg Campus Open of Signaling Molecules, Activate Leptiminus,” Nejib ben Lazreg, org/ or 8-1336) House TRP Channels in Sensory Neu- Institut National du Patrimoine; Exhibits UCSUR Steven Manners Fac- Mary Lou Campana Chapel & rons,” William de Groat; 456 208A CL, 4:30 pm ulty Development Awards Lecture Hall, 9:30 am (to regis- Salk, noon ULS Concert African-American Alumni Applications due April 9. 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Alzheimer Disease Research Endocrine Conference Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Lecture “Part 2—The Changing Natural Care Medicine “Functional Assessment of History of Type 1 Diabetes Com- “Fellows’ Research in Progress Disability in Late-Life Depres- plications: An Update From the Presentations”; NW628 Mon- sion,” Joan Rogers, occupational EDC & DCCT/EDIC Studies,” tefiore, noon (also Feb. 15) therapy & nursing; S439 ADRC Trevor Orchard; 1195 Starzl Men’s Basketball conf. rm. Montefiore, noon BST, 8:30 am Vs. RMU; Petersen, 8 pm Epidemiology Seminar Bradford Campus First “Prevention of Coronary Heart Friday Tuesday 9 Disease in the 21st Century: Information session; Mukaiyama Insight From the ERA JUMP U Rm., Frame-Westerberg Basic & Translational Research Study,” Kim Sutton-Tyrrell & Commons, 10 am (to register: in Lung Diseases Lecture Akira Sekikawa; A115 Crabtree, 1-800/872-1787) “Embryonic Stem Cell Differ- noon Sr. VC’s Research Seminar entiation Through an Integrated Film Studies Lecture “New Frontiers in Structural Experimental & Theoretical “Going, Going, Grindhouse: Biology: X-ray Studies of Mac- Approach,” Ipsita Banerjee; Digital Effects & the Economies romolecular Complexes,” Guill- NW628 Montefiore, noon of Cinematic Nostalgia,” Caetlin ermo Calero; aud. 6 Scaife, Health Services Research Benson-Allott; 501 CL, noon noon Seminar (4-5568) Greensburg Campus Home- “Understanding Vaccine Deliv- UCIS Asia Lecture coming & Family Weekend ery & Distribution Strategies “Fate, Fortune & Risk Control: Feb. 5 & 6. (info: http://www. Using Computational Models,” A New Interpretation to the upg.pitt.edu/homecomingand- Rachel Bailey & Tina Assi; 305 High Rate of Cesarean Section familyweekend) Parkvale, noon in Taiwan,” Shih-Hsiang Sung; Music Lecture Magee-Womens Work-in- 4130 Posvar, noon (8-7370) “Opera at the Court of Frederick Progress Conference UCIS Lecture the Great: ‘Montezuma’ as Royal Magee clinic patient conf. rm., “Limpopo: The Case of Tatyana Autobiography,” John Rice; 132 noon Tolstaya’s African Woman,” Jen- Music, 3-5 pm (4-4125) UPCI Basic & Translational

nifer Wilson, Princeton; 4217 Titusville Campus Concert Research Seminar FJ Hartland Posvar, noon Sweaty Betty Blues Band; Henne “The Retinoblastoma Protein Gale McNeely performs the title role in Pitt Repertory Theatre’s HSLS Workshop Aud., UPT, 8 pm (814/827- Pathway & the Tumor Initiating production of “Scapin,” running through Feb. 14 in the Studio Theatre. For ticket information, call 4-7529. “PubMed Basics,” Michele 4503) Cell,” Philip Hinds, Tufts; Hill- Klein-Fedyshin; Falk Library man Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. EOH Seminar classrm. 1, 2-3:30 pm Saturday 6 B & C, noon (412/623-7771) Wednesday 10 “Health & Environment Linked Biostatistics Seminar Pharmacology & Chemical for Information Exchange “Careers in Government, Bradford Campus Improv Biology Seminar Orthopaedic Surgery Grand (HELIX),” Amanda Niskar; Applied Research & Teaching,” Workshop “High Content Screening Assays Rounds 540 Bridgeside Pt., noon Doug Landsittel; A115 Crabtree, Pitt Improvers; Blaisdell, UPB, to Investigate the Roles of the “IL-IIRa as a Potential Target for Epidemiology Seminar 3:30 pm 10 am-4 pm (to register: kaa54@ Androgen Receptor in Prostate the Treatment of Osteosarcoma,” “The Comparative Effective- Geology & Planetary Science pitt.edu) Cancer,” Paul Johnston, DDI; Valerae Lewis, U of TX; LHAS ness of Treatment Strategies for Colloquium Men’s Basketball 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm aud. 7th fl. Montefiore, 7 am Coronary Disease & Diabetes: “Microbially-mediated Fe Vs. Seton Hall; Petersen, 6 pm UCIS Lecture Clinical Oncology & Hematol- Results from BARI 2D,” Maria Cycling in Acid Mine Drain- Bollywood & Indian Film “Achieving Goal 5 of the MGDs ogy Grand Rounds Mori Brooks; A115 Crabtree, age,” John Senko, U of Akron; “Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flow- in Uganda: Are We Registering “Targeting NF-kB for Treating noon 11 Thaw, 4 pm (4-8780) ers”; FFA aud., 7 pm (4-5578) Successes?” Moses Katende, Inflammatory Diseases, Aging UCIS Asia Lecture Greensburg Campus Talk H.J. Heinz fellow; 1st fl. lounge & Cancer,” Paul Robbins; 2nd “‘Number-One’ Lord: The “The Story Behind the Pulit- Sutherland, 8 pm (8-5085) fl. aud. UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Unlikely Life of Hayashi zer: An Investigative Reporter’s 8 am Tadataka, 1848-1941,” Armen Diary,” Deborah Nelson; Village, Bradford Campus Webinar Mihran Bakalian; 4130 Posvar, UPG, 7 pm “Local Business Success Stories noon (8-7370) & Lessons Learned”; 162 Swarts, A&S Teaching Excellence UPB, 8-9:30 am (814/362- UNIVERSITY Lecture 5078) “Trajectories of Efficiency & Pathology Research Seminar Innovation in Teaching & Learn- TIMES “Disorders of Cytoskeletal- ing,” Daniel Schwartz, Stanford; Directed Membrane Biogen- 343 Alumni, 3-5 pm esis: An Emerging Disease Geology & Planetary Science publication schedule Paradigm,” Jon Morrow, Yale; Colloquium 1105AB Scaife, noon “Water Contaminant Fate/ Renal Research Seminar Events occurring Submit by For publication Transport/Remediation,” Willie Ossama Kashlan; F1145 Presby, Harper, civil & environmental noon Feb. 18-March 4 Feb. 11 Feb. 18 engineering; 11 Thaw, 4 pm UCIS Lecture (4-8780) Feb. 25 “Higher Education in Turkey,” March 4-18 March 4 Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Enes Gok; 4130 Posvar, noon “Green Design & Radical Inno- March 18-April 1 March 11 March 18 (8-5085) vation: A Marriage Long Over- SAC Mtg. due,” Eric Beckman, engineer- April 1-15 March 25 April 1 1175 Benedum, 12:15-2 pm ing; 2500 Posvar, 4 pm HSLS Workshop UCIS Teacher Workshop April 15-29 April 8 April 15 “EndNote Basics,” Patricia “Teaching Global Issues Weiss; Falk Library classrm. 2, April 29-May 13 April 22 April 29 Through Narrative Film”; 4130 1-3 pm Posvar, 5-8 pm (dan@globalso- HSLS Workshop May 13-27 May 6 May 13 lutionspgh.org) “Pathways Analysis Tools 1,” William Block Senior Writer Ansuman Chattopadhyay; Falk May 27-June 10 May 20 May 27 Presentation/Interview Library conf. rm. B, 1-3:30 pm “The Future of the Book,” Sven June 10-24 June 3 June 10 Women’s Basketball Birkerts & Maud Newton; FFA Vs. Georgetown; Petersen, 7 aud., 8:30 pm June 24-July 8 June 17 June 24 pm Pitt Symphony Orchestra July 8-22 July 1 July 8 Bellefield aud., 8 pm (4-4125) Friday 12 July 22-Sept. 2 July 15 July 22 Thursday 11 Endocrine Conference “Thyroid Hormone Early Ad- Information submitted for the calendar should identify the type of event, such as lecture or con- justment in Pregnancy (THER- HSLS Workshop cert, and the program’s specific title, sponsor, location and time. The name and phone number of a APY Trial),” Erik Alexander; “Advanced PowerPoint for contact person should be included. Information should be sent by email to: [email protected], by FAX 1195 Starzl BST, 8:30 am to: 412/624-4579, or by campus mail to: 308 Bellefield Hall. We cannot guarantee publication of Presentations,” Sam Lewis; Falk events received after the deadline. Library classrm. 2, 10 am-noon CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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