Duquesne Opens New Pharmacy in the Hill District
Also in this Issue: Helping Haiti • Learning From the Holocaust • Lives of Purpose DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE is published three times annually by Duquesne University’s Office of Public Affairs Influencing Fluency Vol. 8, Number 3 Spring 2010 page 5 Editor Bridget Fare
Associate Editor Learning from the Megan Tressler Holocaust Editorial Board Ralph L. Pearson, Ph.D. page 18 Dorothy Bassett, Ph.D. Philip Clarke Carrie M. Collins Gregory H. Frazer, Ph.D. Rev. Raymond French, C.S.Sp. Linda Kinnahan, Ph.D. New Community Julie Shepard Pharmacy page 24 Writing Randy Cole Colleen C. Derda Camille Downing Karen Ferrick-Roman Emily Goossen Carolina Pais-Barreto Beyers Also in this issue: Rose Ravasio “The Catholic Church’s Best Kept Secret”...... 2 Kimberly Saunders Richard Tourtellott Snapshots...... 4 Bob Woodside New Mass Spectrometry Center...... 10 Recent Grants...... 11 Design Students in Action...... 13 Jeremy Neeley Taylor Tobias Catching Up with Paul Stumpf...... 14 Educating Agents of Change...... 16 Duquesne University Magazine Pittsburgh Business Times Honors Dougherty with Diamond Award...... 22 Office of Public Affairs On The Road...... 23 406 Koren Building 600 Forbes Ave. Alumni Relations Report...... 27 Pittsburgh, PA 15282 What’s New at DU...... 28 Tel: 412.396.6050 Gormley Named Law Dean...... 30 Fax: 412.396.5779 E-mail: [email protected] Lives of Purpose...... 32 Helping Haiti...... 34 It is the Spirit DU Professor Takes Kids Health Literacy to the Airwaves...... 36 Who Gives Life Athletics Update...... 38 Figures From the Past...... 40 Our Bluff in Brief...... 41 Alumni Updates...... 42 Homecoming Schedule...... 47 Living a Legacy...... 48 Alumni Calendar...... inside back cover
A Catholic University in the Spiritan Tradition 2 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 thoughts from the president
Thoughts from the President
Nearly four years ago, I wrote in this magazine about my trip to visit Spiritan missions in Haiti. My travels took me from the scenic but primitive countryside to the dusty slums of Port-au-Prince. No matter where I went, I was struck by the contrasts. In a land overshadowed by political instability and excruciating poverty, the people remained proud of their history, filled with faith and determined to build a better life for themselves and their children. That fortitude was literally shaken to its core by the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12. Our television and computer screens brought us images of despair far beyond the scope of anything I experienced on my visit. Recently, I welcomed the Rev. Paulin Innocent, C.S.Sp., provincial superior of the Spiritans in Haiti, to campus. He confirmed that the damage and suffering were as traumatic as they appeared from a distance—in many cases, even worse. Still, the people remain resolved to emerge from this crisis stronger and better than they were before the earth trembled. Father Paulin’s job was already difficult; it became nearly impossible with Spiritan schools, chapels, and residences crushed to rubble. Yet the Congregation and the nation will rebuild, led by the Holy Spirit and assisted by friends around the world—including the Duquesne family. I was privileged to present Father Paulin with $33,000 contributed by alumni, faculty, staff, and students. He was deeply touched by this outpouring of support, and I join him in thanking all the members of our community who reached out to help in this time of overwhelming need. In this issue, we profile several alumni who have been personally involved in the relief efforts. While sensitive to needs around the world, we also recognize and respond to conditions across the street. Just beyond our campus, for example, the residents of Pittsburgh’s Hill District lack a resource most of us take for granted—a community pharmacy. This fall, we will fill that void by opening a facility that will not only dispense prescriptions, but will offer health education and medication management services to a historically underserved community. Our Mylan School of Pharmacy is the first school in the nation to take on such an ambitious initiative; this facility will be the first community- based, university-operated pharmacy in America. Ironically, our new pharmacy is located just a stone’s throw from Duquesne’s birthplace on Wylie Avenue. Much has changed in 132 years, but we remain called by the Spirit to identify needs, develop creative solutions, and work together to create positive change. These pages document many such noble efforts. From Haiti to the Hill, Duquesne is making a difference.
Sincerely,
Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. Duquesne University President
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“The Catholic Church’s Best Kept Secret”: Its Social Justice Teaching
The Reverend David L. Smith, I would say that there are four C.S.Sp., professor emeritus and A: “...human beings are bare-bone principles. The concept former director of the Simon of the common good is the most Silverman Phenomenology Center never islands unto basic. It rests upon the reality that at Duquesne, recently shared human beings are never islands unto information about the Spiritan themselves—we are all by nature themselves—we are dedication to social justice in his social beings and share a common article, The Catholic Church’s Best Kept humanity and responsibility for one Secret: A Concise Survey of Papal Social all by nature social another. From our common humanity Justice Teaching. Here, he gives basic flows the principle ofsolidarity. information about social justice, the beings and share a Solidarity anchors the conditions Spiritans’ longtime dedication to it necessary for all citizens to enjoy the and how the Duquesne community means to support a decent human common humanity promotes social justice. lifestyle. The question of how these basic rights are to be respected and What exactly is “social justice” and responsibility for Q: fulfilled in any society brings us to as defined through the lens of the our third principle, subsidiarity—the Catholic Church? one another.” notion that no one can pull themselves up by their own boot straps if they If I steal your wallet, that is an A: don’t have a pair of boots. A fourth injustice inflicted by one individual principle, preferential option for the upon another. Social justice looks life and his fortune to educating poor poor, was already implicit in Pope beyond the single individual to focus young men for the priesthood who Leo’s teaching when he wrote that it on the social nature of all human in turn would lift up the poor by is the obligation of the government to beings and their relation to society their own service of educating them. protect and promote the “welfare and and the State. Since 1891 when Pope It was this same type of empathy comfort of the working people.” This Leo XIII wrote the first social justice for the underdog that motivated preferential option demands that the encyclical letter, On The Condition Francis Libermann, Poullart’s poor and powerless always be taken of Labor, the Catholic Church has successor almost 145 years after his into account when decisions are made repeatedly reminded us that injustice death, to devote his own life and that will affect their lives. is not just an individual sin but ministry to social justice. Long before can be social as well, inscribed in Rome jumped on board the train, The Spiritans were teaching the very structures and systems Q: he supported the new democratic about social justice many years of a society. For instance, tax laws political movements in France (1848) before the Church began to can be so written as to favor the against the monarchical systems formulate an explicit formal body wealthy and discriminate against the that had oppressed the poor, and he of doctrine on the topic. Why did poor. A powerful nation can write became a stout defender of religious it come to the forefront for the trade regulations so as to enrich freedom and diversity. Spiritans so early? itself and thus impoverish weaker nations. Leo based his social justice Q: What are some general The founder of the Spiritans, arguments upon the dignity of the A: examples of social justice issues at Claude Poullart des Places, was a human person and the need to secure play in the world today? wealthy young man who realized the rights required to protect and that his material wealth was not promote that dignity. A: The daily news media inundate something to be clung to for himself us with numerous examples. At alone, but to be used generously for What are the basic principles of the root of many of them is the Q: the good of others. He devoted his Catholic Social Justice? extremely inequitable distribution
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“...a passion for social justice expresses the very soul of the University’s mission and identity...”
of wealth. The top 10 percent of the B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at we must work for justice. In the population owns two-thirds of the the University of San Diego and Spiritan tradition, the University, national wealth while middle class another works for Catholic Relief with all due regard to its academic incomes have been stagnant for Services. In Africa they are involved nature, harnesses its resources to decades. While at least 35 million in advocacy for refugees, education liberate people from all that oppress individuals in the U.S. go without for young Masai women and air them. It has advanced these goals in health insurance, the health insurance medical service for the poor. Nearly recent years with the inauguration of industry reaps windfall profits. In every Spiritan parish in the United numerous new initiatives: a revitalized his recent encyclical, Charity in Truth, States is in service to some minority office of Mission and Identity, the Benedict XVI reminded us that all group, and in numerous countries Center for the Study of Catholic economic decisions are moral ones, from Australia to Zimbabwe, they Social Thought and The Center for issues of social justice, since they dedicate their ministry to the service Health Care Ethics; a chair in the impact the lives of human beings. of the poor and oppressed. School of Nursing for underserved populations; and sustainability Q: What are some examples of Q: Why do social justice concerns programs in the Palumbo Donahue specifically Spiritan work in the area touch the very heart of Duquesne School of Business. At the same time, of social justice? University and how does the total thousands of students, faculty, staff Duquesne community promote and administrators continue programs A: In more than 60 countries social justice? of service to the poor, often through almost 3,000 Spiritans are working to the offices of Campus Ministry and the promote social justice. The Spiritans A: As a Catholic University in the division of Student Life. partially funded and co-founded the Spiritan tradition, a passion for social Center for Haiti to advocate for the justice expresses the very soul of the To learn more about the Spiritans, please people of that country and they were University’s mission and identity visit www.spiritans.org. a founding member of the African and ratifies its motto, “It is the Spirit Center for Peace and Justice. Today who gives life.” Several Popes have a Spiritan serves as dean of the Joan reminded us that if we want peace
www.duq.edu 3 snapshots Snapshots 1 1. Meghan Moran, A’00, L’03, and Fred Allison enjoyed good company, food and music at the Alumni Association’s 2010 Valentine’s Day Dinner Dance.
2. Bill Bell, P’92, and Maureen Bell joined Matt Diehl, a fourth- year pharmacy student, at the 50th anniversary of Phi Delta Chi. The Bells host an annual Freshman Send-Off event in Philadelphia. Matt attended the very first Send-Off event hosted by the Bells and met his current roommates there. 2 3. & 4. More than 100 alumni, friends and children joined the Young Alumni Council for Duquesne’s very first Easter Egg Hunt. Shown are Paul Ewin, LPA’06, and his son, Nicholas.
5. & 6. Len Komoroski, A’82, the 2010 Duquesne University Downtown Luncheon keynote speaker, shared his career path with Dr. Maryellen Kelly’s product management class prior to the luncheon and with the Sports Marketing Association after the big event. He met with Duquesne President Charles Dougherty, and shared with a crowd of 800 alumni and friends the many Pittsburgh influences that have helped him to advance to his current position as the 3 president of the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Quicken Loans Arena Company. 4 7. The “Stepping into Spring” Fashion Show and Luncheon was held on April 11 in the Union Ballroom. Hosted by the Duquesne University Women’s Guild, the fashion show featured models Marla Bradford, of Duquesne’s Office of Human Resource Management; Eileen Zungolo, dean of Duquesne’s School of Nursing; Melanie Eberhardt, of Duquesne’s President’s Office, and her son Marques; Olga Welch, dean of Duquesne’s School of Education; Brittnea Turner, of Duquesne’s Vice President for Management and 5 Business’ Office; and Barcinna Bole, of Duquesne’s Office of Admissions. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Spiritan Campus Ministry mission trip and the Women’s Guild Endowed Scholarship fund.
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4 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 www.duq.edu 4 Rentschler gary rentschler monitors a stuttering therapy session.
Influencing InfInfluluencenciningg fluency – By Kimberly Saunders and Karen Ferrick-Roman –
Gary Rentschler knows how isolating “My life, from grammar school growing up can be for children who through college, was a continuing series stutter. He recognizes that sociable, of trying to avoid speaking situations, outgoing individuals can be paralyzed yet wanting so desperately to fit in to a by fear of words or situations that bottle world where I could not participate for up their mouths and stop words from over 20 years,” Rentschler says. coming out with ease. He understands While stuttering (also known as that people whose speech is muddied stammering or disfluency) has been by awkward breaks or repetitions feel a documented speech disorder for like second-class citizens in a world that centuries, researchers are still unable demands clear communication. to conclusively determine the cause of A speech-language pathologist with this complex problem that affects nearly more than 30 years of clinical experience, 1 percent of any population. Rentschler is the founding director of “Stuttering is a problem that cuts Duquesne’s Speech-Language-Hearing across all races, cultures and socio- Clinic and a board-recognized specialist economic classes. We know that about in fluency disorders. He also has more half of all people who stutter have than five decades of firsthand experience someone in their family who stutters. as one of the estimated 3 million We’ve also learned that stuttering Americans who stutter. affects more boys than girls and that
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about 80 percent of all children with fluency problems eventually recover—with or without therapy— usually within four years of onset,” explains Rentschler. Rentschler, however, did not fit Student clinicians these demographics. The elder child work closely with of loving parents with no family faculty who directly supervise their history of stuttering, the Buffalo, therapy planning and N.Y., native began stuttering in implementation. childhood and continued well into adulthood. His first memory of stuttered speech followed a distressing incident of being scolded by an adult when his parents weren’t present. “I was about 3 or 4 and sitting alone in my family’s parked car outside of our apartment. The car was rear-ended by our landlord, who got out of his car and proceeded to yell at me. After that, I remember my speech was not as fluent,” he says. When he approached school- age, his parents sought advice about his stuttering from the nearby University of Buffalo speech clinic. They were given the prevailing advice of the 1950s—just ignore it and the problem would eventually go away. “My parents did a wonderful job of downplaying the problem but the rest of the world was not as tolerant. I knew I was talking differently than everyone else but didn’t know it was a bad thing. When relatives, teachers or others asked ‘what’s wrong with his speech’ they were hushed. The problem with this theory of how to handle stuttering is that you begin to think that something is so wrong with have been very helpful,” he continues. you that your mom and dad can’t even talk After graduating with a business “When I found about it,” says Rentschler. administration degree, Rentschler went Despite another speech therapy on his first interview and had to introduce evaluation in 8th grade, no treatment himself. At that point, the interview was out there was recommended for Rentschler. He over before it began. continued to stutter throughout high “I reached a point where it was clear school, and began avoiding reading or that I couldn’t avoid confronting my was actually answering aloud in class with well-timed stuttering,” Rentschler recalls. “I was requests to “be excused.” ‘stuck,’ having a college degree but being something I At Baldwin-Wallace College, he unable to interview for a job. It was repeated his high school avoidance decision time; either get some help, or behaviors to limit communication, both in trickle life away, potential unfulfilled.” could do about and out of the classroom. It was a lonely At his mother’s urging, he went back time, he admits. to the same clinic that evaluated him 17 “I was a good student but didn’t years earlier. He can still recall driving to my speech talk much. I’ve learned now as a college his first appointment and stopping at an professor that it is a real handicap not to be intersection, pondering his decision. able to connect with students. Sometimes, “I had to turn right to go to the clinic or ...it was very instructors feel that they don’t have to go straight to head away. The light turned intervene with students who are not green and the steering wheel turned right. communicating but in my case that would It wasn’t even a conscious thought but it empowering.”
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According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by repetitions of words or parts of words (st-st-stuttering), as well as prolongations of speech sounds (ssssstuttering). These “disfluencies” are sometimes accompanied by unusual facial or body movements, such as eye blinks and lip tremors, or by tension that can block speech completely. Stuttering disrupts the normal flow of speech, interfering with the ability to communicate and often affecting the quality of life for those who stutter.
While signs and symptoms of stuttering are easy to identify, the exact cause of the disorder remains elusive.
“There is still so much misperception about stuttering among the general public. As we acquire more knowledge about stuttering and get more effective treatments, things are getting better, but it’s like a big ship—it’s hard to turn around,” says Dr. Gary J. Rentschler, director of Duquesne’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic.
Today, speech-language pathologists agree that there are three primary types of stuttering. The most common occurs in children, ages 2 to 5, as they are developing their language skills. Known as developmental stuttering, it affects about four times as many boys as girls and is thought to run in families. Developmental stuttering can last from a few weeks to several years. Adult-onset neurogenic stuttering can occur in individuals who have suffered a stroke, brain injury or drug overdose. Psychogenic stuttering, caused by emotional trauma or problems with thought or reasoning, is rare. Stuttering is not caused by nervousness or bad parenting.
Current research with brain imaging technology has revealed that many people who stutter use their brain in a different way than people who speak fluently. For most people, the left hemisphere dominates speech activity; the right hemisphere controls emotions. In people who stutter, neither hemisphere is dominant during speech, a possible clue.
“This is not a physical abnormality, but a functional difference,” changed my whole life,” he remembers. explains Rentschler. This time, he met a speech therapist, Dr. Lewis Stuttering also has been related to situational and psychodynamic K. Shupe, with a different treatment philosophy factors that are unique to each individual. about stuttering. Rather than not talking about it, he talked about it in positive ways, explaining not “Just as people who fear snakes feel anxious at even the only why people stuttered but how they could possibility of seeing a snake, someone with disfluent speech manage it. Rentschler attended weekly group tends to focus on the fear of certain words, sounds or situations therapy sessions for two years which provided that have resulted in them stuttering in the past,” he says. a supportive environment in which to practice the skills he was learning. Knowing what to do Stuttering isn’t a disease to be cured, but a disorder to be to improve his oral communication and being managed, with no single therapy technique effective for every inspired to do it were the key factors in his client, continues Rentschler. progress toward more fluent speech. “When I found out there was actually “Speech pathologists must take into account an individual’s age, something I could do about my speech to personal situation, communication goals and other factors. In make it smoother, softer and easier, it was very young children, for example, we often use an indirect approach, empowering. I was like a child learning to walk, working with parents to slow the environment and model good clumsy at first, but getting better and better with speech. Disfluent adults can take more responsibility for learning practice. I learned that speaking fluently was strategies to manage their stuttering. Once it is no longer something I had to work at a little harder than a problem for them, it won’t be a problem for others,” says other people, but that I could succeed,” he says. Rentschler. A watershed moment for Rentschler came
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At age 32, Dan Heffley had a blood vessel burst in his brain. To stem the massive bleeding and swelling, neurosurgeons removed more than half of his brain’s left hemisphere, the seat of language and logic. Although the radical surgery saved his life, Heffley lost the ability to walk, speak, understand language and recognize loved ones.
That life-changing event happened in 2003. Over the past six years, the former Army Ranger from Ben Avon, Pa., has made remarkable progress battling back from his stroke, the result of intense physical, occupational and speech-language therapy that began within months of his surgery—and continues today. Although his right arm and leg remain weak, he can now walk. And ongoing speech and language therapy from Duquesne’s Speech-Language-Hearing (SLH) Clinic has helped him develop new language centers in the right side of his brain, enabling him to communicate once again. Rachel Gasior, a first-year graduate student, works with a diverse client Heffley is just one of the estimated 100 clients who turn population at Duquesne’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, earning 80 to 100 hours of supervised clinical experience. to the University SLH Clinic each year for outpatient assessment and treatment of their communication “The on-site clinic is a definite advantage to this program. disorders. Established in 1998 as part of the University’s We receive clinical experience under the direct supervision Department of Speech-Language Pathology, the clinic of practicing speech-language pathologists in an intimate serves a dual purpose, says founding director Dr. Gary setting,” says speech-language pathology student David Ford. Rentschler: treating patients and educating students. The facility’s eight treatment rooms are equipped with state- It provides fourth-year students a hands-on laboratory of-the-art digital video and audio equipment to record therapy where they can integrate classroom theory with practice sessions so that students can critique themselves, as well as and also offers direct, affordable care to people of all document their client’s progress. Each room is adjacent to an ages from the Pittsburgh area. Under direct supervision observation room with a see-through mirror, allowing members of licensed, nationally certified faculty, graduate students of clients’ families to watch sessions and incorporate therapy treat individuals with the following communications techniques at home. disorders: David Ricketts, who began a stuttering therapy program • Stuttering several years ago, recalls first feeling strange at having to • Communication difficulties after stroke and other change the way he spoke, but now describes the atmosphere neurological damage as “comfortable.” • Voice disorders or vocal strain for those in teaching Referred to Duquesne’s SLH Clinic by the Office of Vocational and singing professions Rehabilitation, the 25-year-old attends two sessions a week. • Difficulty with listening, understanding, “In group therapy I get to see different points of view and can remembering and responding to verbal information relate to others with the same problem. In individual therapy, I (auditory processing) can enjoy the personal attention from the therapist, who shows • Difficulty with phonics and sound awareness me activities that are relevant to everyday life,” he says. • Problems pronouncing certain sounds or being There is no standard timetable for treating communication understood disorders, says Rentschler, as clients can push themselves • Difficulty developing language skills in childhood or protect themselves. “Our job is to set goals and help our clients learn how to put stuttering in perspective. When “The clinic is a happy environment in which grad they find avenues where they can improve their speech and students can grow in their profession and knowledge. language skills, that gives them hope.” This creates a rich environment that complements Dan working towards conquering the language handicaps For more information about Duquesne University’s Speech- that are before him,” says Jim Heffley, Dan’s father. Language-Hearing Clinic, call 412.396.4200.
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“I still have difficulties at times...but they don’t bother me at all anymore. I’ve come to understand that what I want to say is way more important than how it comes out.”
Dr. Rentschler during a therapy session when his mind At Duquesne, Rentschler teaches enjoyable,” states David Ford, a fourth- began to drift from the assignment at graduate courses in stuttering, year student from Sewickley, Pa. hand to worrying about how he was professional ethics and legal issues Student clinician Rachel Gasior going to pay that month’s rent. for speech pathologists. As the clinic describes Rentschler as a role model and “I remembered wondering if I director, he leads and mentors graduate mentor, helping her seamlessly integrate was losing my motivation but then it students who conduct speech, language classroom knowledge into her clinic occurred to me that this was normal. and voice therapy in the University clinic practicum. Stuttering no longer overshadowed for clients ranging in age from 2 to 90. “He supervises a large caseload of everything in my life. I could now see “Gary’s initiative, creativity, clients and students, but it amazes me that there were bigger problems in life to compassion, and breadth of knowledge how willing he is to lend each and every be concerned with,” he says. has served our program, our clients who one of us a helping hand,” says Gasior. Wanting to learn more about the have come to the Speech-Language- “Dr. Rentschler not only teaches us how profession that had changed his life, Hearing Clinic for services, and our to become good clinicians, he helps Rentschler returned to grad school, students exceptionally well,” says Mikael guide us to be the best clinician that we earning both a master’s degree and Kimelman, chair of the Speech-Language can be while enjoying it along the way.” Ph.D. in speech pathology from State Pathology Department. Rentschler has written articles and University of New York at Buffalo. In “We can count on him to be on the presented papers on stuttering nationally addition to working with clients with a teaching technology forefront, creating and internationally, and gives continuing broad range of communication disorders, videos he posts on YouTube, developing education courses across the country he developed a special interest in and podcasts and using a variety of media on stuttering. He’s also involved with expertise with individuals who stutter. to engage students and make learning stuttering support groups, like the Combining his personal and professional enjoyable and memorable.” National Stuttering Association, and was experience enabled him to share a unique Students agree that the clinic recognized as Speech Pathologist of the perspective with his clients. director maintains a perfect balance of Year by the organization. “Many people who stutter feel professionalism and affability. His proudest accomplishment, isolated because they can’t communicate “Dr. Rentschler’s classes always however, is overcoming his own as well as they would like. The goal is contain some type of entertaining stuttered speech. to give them avenues to improve their activity. His teaching style combines “I still have difficulties at times—my communication so they can feel part of humor with a wealth of information, students will tell you that—but they the life they want to lead. One of the which makes dry material come to don’t bother me at all anymore. I’ve lessons that I learned is that everyone life. Whether it is a heated discussion come to understand that what I want to who stutters is not like me. There may be regarding the ethical issues of case say is way more important than how it common threads but there is no one-size- studies or playing ‘Test-Review comes out,” he says. fits-all approach to therapy,” he says. Jeopardy,’ his classes are always
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New Mass Spectrometry Center of Excellence New Center Will Study Diseases, Environmental Issues
A Center of Excellence (COE) for mass spectrometry at Duquesne, established earlier this year by the University and Agilent Technologies, Inc., will focus on a wide range of exciting research in the life sciences and environmental analysis. “Researchers at Duquesne University are doing fascinating work aimed at solving important problems, and we’re very pleased to be part of the team,” says Gustavo Salem, Agilent vice president and general manager, biological systems division. Agilent is a leading supplier of mass spectrometers. (Above) The new center, which is housed Research at the COE will include: in a clean room, will allow researchers • metabolomics and trace lipid analysis, the effects to delve further of chronic exposure to heavy metals into measurements • how residues of some veterinary drugs affect the (Above) Researcher and faculty member related to health and Dr. Mitch Johnson, left, discusses scientific food chain environmental issues. processes with President Charles Dougherty • analysis of toxins in food at the dedication of the mass spectrometry • identifying biomarkers for autism Center of Excellence in Mellon Hall. • factors affecting the immune system • researching inherited “knock-out diseases” like Fabry’s disease • an area of study called “environmental proteomics” “These powerful tools have become a mainstay for (the protein profiles of organisms as they’re exposed research and teaching in the school,” says Dr. David W. to different environmental compounds) Seybert, dean of Duquesne’s Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences. “We are educating the next The University received National Science Foundation generation of scientists and it is imperative that their grants totaling nearly $1 million to acquire the following research training incorporates the most current generation of Agilent instrumentation and software: instrumentation available.” • 1200 Series Rapid Resolution liquid chromatograph The center will serve as Agilent’s regional showcase (LC) for the latest technologies in mass spectrometry, where • 1200 Series HPLC-Chip/MS systems researchers can see Agilent equipment in use investigating • 6500 Series Accurate Mass Quadrupole Time of real problems. The center will provide a forum for the Flight LC/MS development of new applications and the testing of new • 6400 Series triple quadrupole LC/MS ideas in search of important advances in life sciences, • 6200 Series Accurate Mass Time of Flight MS biomedicine, bioengineering, materials sciences and other fields. The Duquesne scientists also use Agilent Spectrum Mill Next to instrument performance, flexibility is very for MassHunter Workstation software for rapid identification important to the COE due to the wide variety of experiments of large numbers of proteins and peptides. it runs, according to Dr. Mitch Johnson, associate professor in
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Duquesne’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “We also carefully evaluated service New Mass Spectrometry packages and what it costs to maintain Recent the equipment,” says Johnson. “We were impressed with Agilent’s approach.” Describing the impact of the new Center of Excellence equipment, Johnson continues, “The difference between what we can do now and what we could do before is incredible. It’s moved us into an entirely new Grants echelon of research that is now possible at Duquesne.” In addition to its own research, the Duquesne COE also works closely with other community organizations. For example, the lab supports research The Center for Environmental Research and Education, investigations of a number of genetic- $35,000 continuation award from The Institute of Professional based disorders by the Allegheny General Environmental Practice Hospital Allegheny-Singer Research Institute and autism studies at The The School of Law, $10,000 (for a total of $50,000) from the Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh. James P. and Mary S. McArdle Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh “As metrologists, we’re working to Foundation to support the law school’s moot court program (Dean solve important problems,” says Dr. H.M. Ken Gormley is the administrator) “Skip” Kingston, a principal investigator and a professor in Duquesne’s Department Dr. Melissa Boston, School of Education, $15,500 from the of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “We did a University of Pittsburgh for research collaboration with the study of the epigenetics of immune system Pittsburgh Public Schools and the University of Pittsburgh responses in autistic children screening Learning Research and Development Center 100 children for 70 toxins, and the TOF, Q-TOF and ICP-MS instruments were used for this. We’re now researching toxins Dr. Michael Cascio, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in food and their effects on children. For $63,764 subcontract from the University of Pittsburgh from the example, one form of selenium is healthful National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological for humans, but there are 40 species of Disorders and Stroke, for the project Determination of Glycine selenium and some of these are toxic.” Receptor Structure Using FT-ESR “We evaluated all the major vendors and used similar samples to evaluate all the Dr. Robert Furman, School of Education, $30,120 subcontract mass specs,” says Dr. Partha Basu, associate from the Pittsburgh Board of Education from the Broad Foundation professor in Duquesne’s Department of (Furman also received another $28,000 subcontract from the Chemistry and Biochemistry. “In addition Pittsburgh Broad Foundation) for financial support to design the to instrument performance, Agilent has principal certification program as a component of Pittsburgh’s been a very good fit in terms of support Emerging Leadership Academy and collaboration. We have even co- authored posters and papers with their scientists.” Dr. Jason Scibek, School of Health Sciences, $4,000 from The Basu is investigating the protein profiles Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association for the proposal Establishing a of organisms that metabolize nitrate in Reliable Method of Measuring Scapular AP Tilt the hopes of developing bioremediation methods for removing metallic Dr. Carl Anderson, Mylan School of Pharmacy, $6,805 Year contamination from the environment. He’s 1 subcontract from the National Institute for Pharmaceutical also studying the proteomic mechanisms Technology and Education for Reviewer Education in State-of-the-Art of how Roxarsone, an anti-parasite drug Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology (anticipated funding for administered to chickens, is converted to Year 2 will be $7,009 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) inorganic arsenic, which can then enter the food chain. Dr. Judith Griggs, director, Learning Skills Center Program, will “We hope to develop organisms that administer $86,576 from the state Department of Education to can do many amazing things,” says Basu. continue programs
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Dr. Michael Jensen-Seaman, Department of Biological Small Business Development Center, Dr. Mary Sciences, Bayer School of Natural and Environmental McKinney, director, $278,249 from the state to continue Sciences, $19,863 from the Wenner-Gren Foundation programs, as well as a training budget of $110,000 and for Anthropological Research for Comparative Proteomics of $100,000 for the Center for International Regulatory Hominoid Seminal Plasma Assistance
Dr. Khalid Kamal, Mylan School of Pharmacy, $44,556 School of Nursing, Dr. Bonnie S. Dean, administrator, from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. for The Impact $1,500 from the American Nurses Foundation for of Non-medical Switching Between Different Angiotensin Evaluation of the Synergy Model-Simulation Appraisal Tool Receptor Blockers on Continuity of Care and Blood Pressure Control School of Nursing, Dr. Carolyn Nickerson, grant administrator and co-investigators Dr. Mary Ann Dr. Linda Lengyel, School of Education, $40,000 from Thurkettle, Slippery Rock University, and Dr. Gibbs The Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Kanyongo, Duquesne University, $7,807 from National Network, a state Department of Education agency, for League for Nursing, for Reflective Judgement and Evidence- professional development of Marshall Middle School Based Practice Readiness Across Educational Program Levels teachers
School of Nursing, Nurse Managed Wellness Center, Dr. Wilson Meng, Mylan School of Pharmacy, $14,795, managed by Maureen Leonardo and Dr. Leni Resick, Hunkele Dreaded Disease Award, for Multi-functional $900 in additional funding from National Nursing Membranes for Localized Depletion of Tumor-Promoting Centers Consortium, bringing the total award to $7,850 to T-Cells continue the wellness program
Dr. John Stolz, Department of Biological Sciences, Bayer WDUQ, first of two installments of $120,590 from the School, a $121,286 subcontract from stimulus funding for Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the Radio the University of Pittsburgh from the National Institutes Community Service Grant. Also, $14,000 from Tourism of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Ireland for recording, producing, marketing and Sciences, for Mechanisms for Arsenic Induced Vascular distributing the 2009 Cork Jazz Festival in the U.S. Disease (Scott Hanley, director and general manager, will be the administrator) Dr. Diane L. Williams, Rangos School of Health Sciences, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Dr. Jana Patton-Vogt, Department of Biological Sciences, a $32,867 subcontract from stimulus funding for the $46,774 subcontract from Oregon State University on a University of Pittsburgh from the National Institutes grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for In Vivo of Health, for Biological and Information Processing Detoxification of Acetic Acid by Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Mechanisms Underlying Autism
WDUQ, $22,075 from the Corporation for Public Center for Environmental Research and Education, Broadcasting for a fiscal stabilization grant to maintain $40,000 from Turtle Creek Watershed Association for local programming services and preserve jobs threatened helping to implement the Irwin Discharge Passive by declines in non-federal revenue sources (Scott Hanley Treatment Project funded by the state Department will administer) of Environmental Protection (Dr. Stan Kabala will administer the award) Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, $63,000 from Washington Greene County Job Training Agency, Inc., Department of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor to provide services to Industry Partnership Participants of Biology Dr. John Pollock, administrator, $285,000 (Megan Grabski of the Center for Competitive Workforce from the U.S. Department of Education, for creating Development is the administrator) science and health literacy films under the University’s Partnership in Education project School of Law, $75,595 from the Internal Revenue Service for a low-income taxpayer clinic (Alice Stewart, director of School of Business Administration’s Center for the low-income tax practicum, will administer the funds) Competitive Workforce Development, Megan Grabski, program manager, and Barry Maciak, program consultant, $61,100, United Way of Allegheny County, for Be a 6th Grade Mentor Program
12 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 students in action Students inAction
Every day in many local Duquesne Law students continued The Military Law Society raised over communities, Duquesne their long tradition of philanthropy $750 for Wounded Warriors as part of in late 2009, making a significant its event on Sept. 11, 2009. students make a difference contribution to charities nationally. in the lives of those in The Black Law Students Association Law students set a Guinness world presented information to African- need. These students take record for the longest Wiffle Ball American male high school students Duquesne’s long-standing tournament, playing for 26 hours regarding their legal rights. straight, and raised over $2,000 for mission of service to heart In April, Duquesne’s occupational the LiveStrong Foundation. with their willingness to therapy students hosted an event give of themselves for the The Student Bar Association held for senior citizens called CarFit. Held benefit of others. Here are the annual Katie Westbrook Race/ at UPMC Passavant Hospital in Race Ipsa Loquitur 5K and raised over Pittsburgh’s North Hills, the program some recent examples of $6,000 for pediatric cancer research at focused on making sure older drivers Duquesne students in action: Children’s Hospital. are safe in their cars. The students inspected cars brought in by local Law students participated in the Light seniors to make sure the automobiles the Night Walk and raised over $3,000 were safe and fit the drivers correctly. for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Those who attended were given a Society. package of information that included The Women’s Law Association raised community resources and other over $875 for the Susan G. Komen activities within the region that are Foundation. working on keeping older drivers safe Steve Singhaus, Law School Dean in their cars. Ken Gormley, Ramma Barakat and Matt Lambach of the Student Bar Association at the Katie Westbrook Race/Race Ipsa Loquitur 5K.
Law students set a Guinness world record for the longest Wiffle Ball tournament, playing for 26 hours straight.
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Catching Up with Paul Stumpf
– By Camille Downing – the path to get the work done on the faraway planet. As a child, Paul Stumpf, S’02, With an excited tone in his voice, “We believe became fascinated by the solar Stumpf explains about flybys of system. In fact, during his first trip the planet’s moons; experiments there are clues to Pittsburgh’s Buhl Planetarium, he to determine the makeup of the decided he wanted to study the stars rings and the atmosphere of Titan, for a living and work for NASA. the planet’s largest moon; and from Saturn on After spending four years on our observations of the smaller moons Bluff studying physics and earning of the Saturnian system, such as a graduate degree in aerospace Enceladus, Rhea and Dione. how our early engineering at George Washington “We can learn so much about the University, Stumpf’s lifelong dream solar system from Saturn,” notes became a reality. He joined NASA’s Stumpf, as he explains the importance solar system Jet Propulsion Lab in California of the mission. “We believe there are in 2004, and works on the Cassini clues from Saturn on how our early project, the NASA mission to study solar system was formed.” was formed.” Saturn. These clues discovered about Stumpf is a navigator of the Titan show signs of a world that may robotic spacecraft. In this position, have been similar to Earth before he works with models and software the evolution of life. The discovery to determine the various maneuvers of geysers, lakes, rivers, mountains, for the remote craft, then figures out clouds and similar weather patterns
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“The interaction I had with the teachers and the hands-on approach—that’s where my education came from most.” have led to a decision to extend the Cassini mission until 2017. The extension makes Stumpf happy as he thinks about his future at NASA. “I still have seven more years on the Cassini project and then will do a mission of some type,” says Stumpf. “Maybe I’ll be designing the next flagship mission.” Though a career in astronomy seemed to be Stumpf’s destiny, the way to accomplish his goal was still slightly blurred when he visited Duquesne for the first time. “I thought about studying astronomy but I am stronger on the technical side,” explains Stumpf. “I told everyone at the school that I planned to work at NASA.” It was on that fateful visit that he met Dr. Thomas Davies, a physics professor who kindly listened to his lofty goal then encouraged him to consider the rigorous physics curriculum that would prepare him for his future. Stumpf was sold. While at Duquesne, he delved into his studies but also found time to get intimately involved with the Physics Department, setting up labs for student experiments and tutoring other physics students. During this hectic time, he continued to volunteer at the Buhl Planetarium and was eventually hired to do various jobs at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Science Center, including working on the laser and planetarium shows. “It was exciting to work at Buhl,” says Stumpf. “It had an aspect of space that fascinated me. It really was a dream come true.” Ironically, one of the shows that Stumpf produced and narrated focused on the Cassini mission, which was new at the time. No matter where his career takes him, Stumpf makes time to keep in touch with the Duquesne professors who taught him physics, especially Dr. Davies and Dr. Simonetta Frittelli. He even visited the school last summer and had lunch with current students who wanted to learn about how he is using his education in the real world. Stumpf was quick to provide advice, reflecting on how Duquesne prepared him for his time at NASA. “I learned the fundamentals at Duquesne,” explains Stumpf with gratitude. “The interaction I had with the teachers and the hands-on approach—that’s where my education came from most.”
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Educating Agents of Change Distance Learning Project Helps Prepare Spiritan Missionaries
– By Richard Tourtellott –
An innovative new project, the Justice, Peace and the Born in Rome, Created at Duquesne Integrity of Creation (JPIC) pilot program, soon will be The idea to have more extensive training for helping the priests and brothers of the Congregation of missionaries arose in Rome at the highest levels of the the Holy Spirit prepare for the entire range of challenges Congregation, but the planning and development of the presented by mission work. JPIC program has taken place at Duquesne. The program is scheduled to launch its pilot phase in The program will rely on talent and expertise from August 2010 in Africa, using Spiritans based in Zimbabwe across campus to create distance-learning lessons. Fr. to test its effectiveness. By August 2011, the plan is for the Kilcrann says that his first look at Duquesne convinced program to be open to any and all persons doing mission him that the University’s faculty strengths, its capacity work, regardless of their affiliation. to implement Web-related technologies in pursuit of Since their founding more than 300 years ago, Spiritans learning goals and the Gumberg Library, with its integrated have been community builders. Today, with missions in conventional and digital resources, would be essential for more than 60 countries, often in lands devastated by war, the initiative’s success. Fr. Kilcrann relied on the Duquesne poverty and systemic injustice, Spiritans need the skills to Spiritans as well as advice and orientation from various strengthen communities more than ever. deans at Duquesne to help him choose faculty members The Rev. John Kilcrann, C.S.Sp., a fellow of Duquesne’s for a planning team, which has been at work on the project Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought, who is since August 2009, and for creating course work. leading the effort to develop the JPIC program, says that, Evan Stoddard, associate dean of the McAnulty College worldwide, approximately 900 Spiritans are in formation, and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, who has worked the term used to describe the educational preparation closely with Fr. Kilcrann to organize campus resources for for their life’s work. These Spiritans receive an excellent the pilot phase of the program, saw a good fit between JPIC education, especially in the area of theology, which equips program goals and the McAnulty College’s strengths. them intellectually for mission work, but formation “Here in the college, [the JPIC program] resonated programs could also benefit from including academic with us and seemed like something we should be involved subjects such as economics, sociology, anthropology and with,” says Stoddard. political science, and the JPIC plans to offer courses in Delivery and Dialogue these areas. The pilot program will launch in August 2010. Though According to Fr. Kilcrann, these Spiritans must also be all of the course work will be accessible online, electrical prepared to work where strife, deprivation and the threat power and Internet connectivity in some African regions of violence hobble missionary efforts at every turn. Getting are unreliable, so the program modules also will be them prepared in this way, he says, has been a Spiritan distributed on DVDs. The pilot will be tested on two concern since the 1980s. groups of about 20 students each.
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Duquesne has formalized another affiliation with an African educational institution.
In February, Duquesne’s Theology Department established an association with Tangaza College in Nairobi, Kenya. Tangaza College is Fr. Paddy Roe, C.S.Sp., principal a theology school founded by three religious of Tangaza, and Dr. George Worgul Tanzanian Bishop Augustine Ndeliakyama sign the affiliation agreement. congregations, including the Spiritans. Shao, C.S.Sp., shown with President Charles Dougherty and the Rev. James McCloskey, The more than 1,000 students at Tangaza College can now obtain a master’s C.S.Sp., vice president for Mission & Identity. degree in theology or pastoral ministry from Duquesne. Tanzanian Bishop Visits “The effect of this kind of an affiliation–you have young men ready to be ordained, Duquesne sisters and lay people–it really multiplies Duquesne’s ability to support and sustain evangelization, which is at the heart of the Spiritan charism,” says George Worgul, Tanzanian Bishop Augustine Ndeliakyama professor of theology and department chair. “It’s one of the ways Theology can Shao, C.S.Sp., traveled to Duquesne during help keep the Spiritan ethos alive and moving, and it also enriches us because it Founders Week in February to address the brings their experiences and perspective into our University.” University community on the work of the Spiritans in his diocese of Zanzibar and The Tangaza partnership is an example of Duquesne’s new strategic plan–with Pemba, where the congregation has had its call for the University to take a leading role in outreach to Africa–at work. a presence for 150 years. Shao, who was According to Worgul, similar affiliations may be made in other parts of Africa. consecrated Bishop of Zanzibar in 1997, is also a member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. He believes creating a harmonious relationship between the Connecting to Africa country’s 11,000 Christians and 1 million Fr. Kilcrann explains how the JPIC program dovetails with the Muslims is a crucial factor in addressing University’s Strategic Plan as well as with the Spiritans’ goals. Spiritans, issues of social justice, education and he says, were among the first Catholic orders to focus on African missions, health care that affect all Tanzanians. and the University’s most recent Strategic Plan, by committing University resources to strengthening its relationships with the people of Africa, is also complementing long-standing Spiritan efforts. “While we struggle to build our schools The mission of the University has always had the effect of broadening the and dispensaries and to carry out related reach and potential of the work we do at Duquesne, Fr. Kilcrann says, and social services, we are called to live our the Strategic Plan’s new commitment to Africa could be a “two-way street,” faith openly, express our hope confidently, supplying students and faculty with unique learning opportunities and and show forth our love in the care we bringing a greater number of African students to campus. have for our neighbor, our society and Beyond the Pilot our environment,” stated Shao. “In that After the pilot project, by August 2011, the JPIC program will be open to witnessing, sharing and dialogue we can the entire English-speaking Spiritan community, and later the lessons will build together with our Muslim brothers and be available to Spiritans in the other two largest linguistic groups in the sisters a new Zanzibar, a new Tanzania, a Congregation of the Holy Spirit: French and Portuguese. new Africa, a new world.” The project will be designed to provide students with a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation (JPIC). At a later stage an M.A. program in pastoral theology with a concentration in Shao’s graduate studies at Duquesne JPIC will also be offered by Duquesne’s Theology Department. were interrupted twice by a call to religious JPIC program lessons will cover a wide range of subjects, from conflict service–first, in 1990, as Provincial Superior resolution to care for the environment. According to Fr. Kilcrann, there are of the East African Province and then as three essential themes in the lessons: social analysis, or the ability to size up Bishop of Zanzibar and Pemba. The bishop a situation according to sometimes less than apparent power relationships; received an Honorary Doctorate Degree pastoral planning, including the spiritual aspects of ministry, which helps of Pastoral Leadership from Duquesne determine the tasks that are most important; and spirituality, the constantly- in-need-of-renewal basis for the religious vocation and all missionary work. following his Founders Week presentation. Regardless of who studies the modules, the intention, Fr. Kilcrann explains, is for the students to develop what he calls “a personal toolkit for the ministry that will truly make them agents for change.”
www.duq.edu 17 holocaust
DU Faculty Experience Powerful Trip to Israel
– By Karen Ferrick-Roman –
18 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 holocaust
Photos by Kathleen DeRose
ld City Jerusalem was smaller “Nazism was as fundamentally focuses on literature, and learned than expected. The River anti-Christian as it was anti-Jewish,” about music and poetry as forms of Jordan would be dwarfed by says Burston, who helped to organize resistance. the mighty Ohio River that flows the effort but was unable to make the Discovering details of the through Pittsburgh. But Yad Vashem, trip. Holocaust operations, Baird the world center for Holocaust Spending 10 days with other says, “has been so important studies located in Israel, delivered educators discussing issues of to me because it made it even an exceptionally potent message to the Holocaust with some of the more horrific. Most scholarship four Duquesne faculty members who world’s most eminent scholars were is dedicated to survivors and were part of a recent 10-day trip for Duquesne faculty members who rescuers.” As she prepares upcoming educators—setting the stage for a team teach Holocaust and anti- Holocaust courses, she notes, “This continuing relationship between Yad Semitism classes with Burston: Dr. experience has caused me to place Vashem and Duquesne. Marie Baird, associate professor of more emphasis on scholarship on Since that trip, two Yad Vashem theology; Dr. Mark Frisch, associate perpetrators.” scholars have visited Duquesne, professor of modern languages; For Frisch, the seminar also and the University is exploring and Dr. Matt Schneirov, associate emphasized the progression of the possibility of students making professor of sociology. Dr. Kathleen events. “The Holocaust should be educational visits to Yad Vashem DeRose, administrator in the Mylan taught in a variety of contexts: life in and is considering a minor in Jewish School of Pharmacy who has taught the ghettos and (death) camp life, life studies. children’s and adolescent literature– after and the actual event is all part The November trip put the including a unit on Holocaust of this larger context,” he says. faculty members among the 14 local literature at Duquesne and Chatham “The Holocaust happened 60 Glimcher Fellows, a group of high University–was also part of the trip. years ago, but it seems like the world school and university educators Following an opening didn’t learn much, with genocide in participating in a specially arranged presentation by one of the most Rwanda and Yugoslavia,” says Dr. educational series supported by highly respected Holocaust scholars, Zipora Gur, director of advanced Yad Vashem, the Agency for Jewish Yehuda Bauer, the Duquesne education at the Agency for Jewish Learning and Duquesne University. faculty members were immersed Learning, who arranged the trip. “It’s Having four faculty members in examining the Holocaust from really important to impact teachers. from a Catholic institution spend many perspectives: the philosophy of Yad Vashem is where we study with their Thanksgiving on a pilgrimage anti-Semitism, life in Warsaw ghetto, top experts in the field.” for truth in Israel may seem unusual, Holocaust deniers, spiritual leaders, Being part of a select group invited but the educational venture meshes literature, music and other topics. to such a special program “was an perfectly with the University’s “The seminar, as a whole, was incredible way for me to broaden my commitment to moral and spiritual useful because it fleshed out details scope of knowledge,” says DeRose, values, says Dr. Daniel Burston, on the Holocaust, which is the most who has been involved in Holocaust co-chairman of Duquesne’s Jewish important, thoroughly studied 20th- studies for 12 years and has presented Faculty Forum. century event,” says Frisch, who papers in Italy, Hungary and Poland.
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Above left: An interior view of the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem [Yossi ben David/Yad Vashem/Editorial Use Only] Above right: The Hall of Names in the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem. The Hall contains information on 3.8 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. Efforts to identify all 6 million victims continue. [Yossi ben David/Yad Vashem/Editorial Use Only]
“I have gained a greater “My sense is there’s very, very Studying the attempt to destroy understanding of how the Jewish limited understanding by college- Jewish civilization and culture, people, both survivors and first- and age students from movies and then walking around Israel, hearing second-generations of victims readings in high school, but there Muslims called to prayer while cab and survivors, have overcome the is no knowledge of Jewish culture drivers argued in several languages most incomprehensible event in and the people at the time,” says “was uplifting and emphasizes how world history,” she says. “It was Schneirov, who co-chairs the Jewish Israel has been able to rebuild and enlightening to see how the Jewish Faculty Forum with Burston. “They maintain its existence,” says Frisch. people were determined to pick up have limited knowledge of issues of “It certainly will enrich my teaching.” the pieces and start anew. It was anti-Semitism, and there’s a lot for us The experience provided DeRose gratifying to observe not only Jewish to do.” with new ideas to share with students life after the Holocaust, but to also The impact, Burston says, reaches in a program offered through witness the blend of several different far beyond the Jewish community. Duquesne’s School of Education and cultures.” “This isn’t just a subject that is for with local teachers in continuing The seminar supplied in- and about Jews,” says Burston, noting education classes. depth context and details while the popularity of Duquesne’s 2006 A “Yad Vashem encourages suggesting approaches to teaching Blessing to One Another exhibit among educators to place emphasis on the students about the often-disturbing Christian and Jewish communities. lives of the Jewish people prior to the information from the Holocaust. “It is how you understand genocides Holocaust,” she says. “According to The professors also were interested happen and will happen, if we aren’t Yad Vashem, we cannot speak of the in the pedagogical approaches used vigilant.” tragedy of the Holocaust if we do not with younger students. “What are Even as the Duquesne faculty first of all know who and what we they getting before they come to us in members continue to assimilate have lost.” college?” asks Baird. the vast information and powerful The unfortunate answer may be emotional messages they received at very little. Yad Vashem, they plan to carry these lessons into their classrooms.
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Alumnus Earns National Award for Holocaust Education Efforts
James Lucot, N’89, who teaches history experts as an Alfred Lerner Fellow at and the Holocaust at Seneca Valley High Columbia University and on his own. School near Pittsburgh, has received the 2009 Robert I. Goldman Award for “Part of the mission and objective is to Excellence in Holocaust Education from educate for when there are no survivors the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. left,” he says.
The organization selected Lucot for “the “His constant self-learning and depth and quality of his course, as well constant desire to teach the Holocaust as his passion for extending his own to all manners of individuals within James Lucot and Debórah Dwork, knowledge through seminars, research the community is a very significant the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and the director of the and exploration.” perspective to award,” says Dr. Edie Naveh, his nominator and director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lucot, who conducted an independent Holocaust Center of the United Jewish at Clark University. study on the Holocaust while at Duquesne, Federation of Pittsburgh. met dozens of survivors, rescuers and
DU Scholars Focus on Heroes of the Holocaust
Two of Duquesne University’s top- “I have benefited immensely from An international notch Holocaust scholars, Dr. Marie the phenomenologists here I have expert on Raoul L. Baird and Dr. Ruth G. Biro, have known, many of whom were Holy Wallenberg, Biro uncovered the raw courage and Ghost fathers,” says Baird, noting finds a lifetime resilience of rescuers and survivors that the Duquesne University Press of inspiration in amid the hate-filled Nazi plan to published the first Levinas book the Swede who eliminate Jews. translated into English. Author of provided thousands On the Side of Angels: Ethics and of letters of “They were a light Post-Holocaust Spirituality, Baird protection, saving in the darkness,” is working on a second book, up to 100,000 says Baird, an has presented nationally and Dr. Ruth G. Biro Jewish lives. international internationally, and has translated expert on Levinas from Dutch and French. A Biro holds two certificates for Holocaust phenomenologist visitor to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust study from Yad Vashem, has presented Emmanuel memorial, she team teaches internationally with Duquesne Holocaust Levinas, a Duquesne’s Holocaust course. scholar Kathleen DeRose, and has Lithuanian-born been published by the National Catholic Orthodox Jew Biro, also touched by rescuers and Center for Holocaust Studies. Dr. Marie L. Baird and prisoner survivors, focuses on literature of war. Levinas addressed human that brings these lives to teens. She also headed two Fulbright-Hays behavior in terms of “ethical For more than two decades, Biro scholarships for the United States in responsibility,” the motivation that has examined the Holocaust Hungary in 1991 and 1992. Closing a drives acts from holding doors open in Hungary, which was the last full circle, she has discovered thousands for others to saving lives. country to be occupied by the were saved by border workers who Nazis—and, as a result, a country ignored fake documents—and that many “In a certain sense, his philosophy is whose Holocaust stories are rarely of the saved became resistance workers his answer to the Holocaust: not only told. Although she retired last in Hungary. am I not defeated, I am fighting back year as assistant professor in the with ethical responsibility. Ethical School of Education’s Department responsibility will have the final word,” of Instruction and Leadership after says Baird, an associate professor a 47-year affiliation with Duquesne, of theology affiliated with Duquesne Biro works so these voices from the since 1990. She received her master’s Holocaust continue to be heard. and doctoral degrees here.
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Pittsburgh Business Times Honors Dougherty with Diamond Award
Duquesne President Charles Dougherty has been presented with a 2010 Diamond Award by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The award honors presidents and chief executive officers (CEOs) of both for-profit and non-profit enterprises based on qualities including leadership, organizational success and efforts by the individual outside of the organization. Under Dougherty’s leadership, Duquesne University has: • moved into the top tier in the U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious annual ranking of America’s Best Colleges • established its first-ever Strategic Plan and has approved its second Strategic Plan • experienced record-breaking enrollment • earned its first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Rating (for the new Power Center) and LEED Gold Rating (for renovations to the Duquesne Union) from the U.S. Green Building Council Dougherty was one of only four winners named in the non-profit category. The other winners included representatives from The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh and Lemieux Family Center, Community College of Allegheny County and Dollar Energy Fund. Nominees for the Diamond Award must be CEOs or hold equivalent positions at organizations in the 10-county Pittsburgh region. A panel of judges made the independent selection of the winners from a finalist pool of approximately 75 nominations. Please see the sidebar to read the Diamond Award profile on Dougherty, A philosopher’s approach, as it appeared in the Pittsburgh Business Times.
22 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 on the road On the Road with the DU Magazine
In October, DU alumni gathered for the wedding of Sara (Wilson) Perez, A’95, at the Spa at the Norwich Inn, Norwich, Conn. Pictured are: Dawn (Scott) Michael Hogan, B’63, celebrated Lecker, A’95, Pam (Weber) Dixon, A’96, Cathy Assumption Thursday in the Old City (Costanzo) Stanford, E’96, Brady Lecker, P’95, Sara Jack Wojdowski, B’73, L’76, and his Square, Warsaw, Poland. daughter, Jessica Wojdowski, B’02, (Wilson) Perez, John Perez, Denny Horner, B’96, Ed took their Duquesne University Magazine Calimag, S’96, and Aileen (Zamora) Stacy, S’96. to Marrakech, Morocco.
Nancy Walko Climo, P’83, along with her nephew, Jonathan Wright, PharmD’09, and her daughter, Duquesne pharmacy John J. Cebula, B’68, and his wife, Maria L. student Victoria Climo, took the DU Fiscante Cebula, E’69, are shown in front of Magazine to the Parthenon in Athens, the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Greece. The site was one of many Alumni recently traveled together to stops they visited while on a 12-day Gulf Shores, Ala. Pictured are: Robert Mediterranean cruise. More “On the Road” photos are Anderson, P’72, Linda Wills Anderson, available on Duquesne’s newly upgraded P’72, Rosemary Charas Rynn, E’71, alumni Web site. To view photos, and Joseph Rynn, E’71, GE’77. visit: http://www.myduquesne.duq. edu/s/831/index.aspx?sid=831 New visitors to this site need to create John Marcus, an account using information from the B’62, and Patti mailing label of your Duquesne University Pitini Marcus, N’62, Magazine. After logging in, click “Event crossed the Arctic Photos” on the left menu. Then, click on Circle on their way north to Spitsbergen the folder that says “On the Road with Island, Norway. They the Duquesne Magazine.” sailed on the Polar Star last year.
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Duquesne to Open Community Pharmacy in Pittsburgh’s Hill District
Duquesne University’s Mylan It is also a unique opportunity for Pharmacy fellows and students flank, from left, School of Pharmacy will open student and faculty community Carl Redwood of the Hill District Consensus a pharmacy in Pittsburgh’s Hill engagement, professional education Group, Urban League President Esther Bush, Duquesne President Charles J. Dougherty, District this fall, making it the first and clinical care.” Pharmacy Dean J. Douglas Bricker and, far right, off-campus, community pharmacy in The pharmacy—the first in the Hill Associate Pharmacy Dean Thomas J. Mattei. the nation designed and operated by District in 10 years—will be staffed a school of pharmacy. by a director, licensed pharmacists, “Responding to the needs of Duquesne pharmacy faculty and According to Bricker, the others, particularly the underserved, student pharmacists. It will be located pharmacy health care team will work is at the heart of Duquesne’s mission,” at 1860 Centre Avenue in the Triangle to help community residents receive says President Charles J. Dougherty. Shops complex and will be open six the maximum benefit from their “The School of Pharmacy has been days a week. The University and the medication therapy and achieve their serving in the community for more School of Pharmacy are investing health care goals in a confidential, than 80 years and is pleased to move more than $600,000 in the project. convenient environment. “It will up to a new level of service. This In addition to providing affordable be personal and patient-centered, effort provides accessible, affordable access to prescription medication, the offering a comprehensive evaluation health and education services pharmacy will offer private patient of individual needs,” he says. designed to improve the health and consultations, health and wellness Residents will have the well-being of Pittsburgh residents. education, medication therapy opportunity to meet with pharmacy management services and health risk team members on an ongoing basis to The community pharmacy will be located assessments. ask questions, set goals and monitor here, in the Triangle Shops complex on “Understanding the needs of their progress. The University will Centre Avenue. the community is the first step, and seek additional qualification to building relationships with those operate the pharmacy under the individuals is a very important part federal “340B” program, which of the success of offering community will enable it to provide lower-cost pharmacy clinical services,” explains medications to patients of federally Dean J. Douglas Bricker of the Mylan qualified health centers (FQHC). School of Pharmacy. “This will not “Through our role as a community be your typical pharmacy. It will health care provider, creating a demonstrate the values of medication community pharmacy like this is management services to a pharmacy. important because it provides that Patient counseling will be the norm— critical, first step for residents to get not the exception—in this community the help that they need,” explains pharmacy.” Dr. Tom Mattei, associate dean of
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24 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 The Community Reacts community pharmacy Civic leaders and community representatives at the news conference expressed their support for Duquesne’s plans to open the new community pharmacy.
“When you see something like “I see Duquesne University as a “Welcome home to the this come to the Hill District, partner as well as an automatic neighborhood. I want to thank come to a community that member of the community,” the University leadership always has so much attention said State Rep. Jake Wheatley, and staff for being here. This for what’s trying to take place D-Hill District. “This is not just pharmacy will not only bring up here and to actually be here about a pharmacy, but about vitally needed services, but will as a part of reality of what is having an educational partner also add another step to the taking place and for it to be like Duquesne to address rebuilding of the Hill and Centre the first in the country—this is shortcomings in our community. Avenue corridor,” said Carl awesome,” said Esther Bush, This (space) was a church, Redwood, chairperson of the president and chief executive and Duquesne is a faith-based Hill District Consensus Group. officer of The Urban League of entity—so this can’t fail.” Greater Pittsburgh.
“I have hope that others across “We’ll embrace this because “Duquesne is thinking outside the community can take this we know the importance that the box, to the benefit not as an example of what they any community thrives through only of its students but to the can do in relationship to the a healthy community,” said Ed community,” said Mark Jones, community,” said Allegheny Gainey, coordinator for economic representing Allegheny County County Councilman William development for Pittsburgh Executive Dan Onorato. Robinson, D-Hill District. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.
“I can’t tell you how important “Since 2000, when the last “As we look at the Centre this is to the people…the pharmacy in the Hill District Avenue corridor, (revitalization people will be helped in their closed, the community has been efforts) have taken place. health efforts; the people will be devoid of a basic service which New and exciting things are helped in many, many ways,” it has had to access outside happening,” said the Rev. John said Victor Roque, interim of the neighborhood. It is Cook of the Allegheny Union president of the Hill House therefore with great excitement Baptist Association. “This will Association. that the Hill District anticipates provide an important resource the opening of Duquesne’s for residents.” pharmacy,” said Pittsburgh City Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle. www.duq.edu 25 community pharmacy
professional programs in the School of Pharmacy, who was instrumental in coordinating the efforts to establish the new pharmacy. “First and foremost, it is providing them access to pharmacy services, not just a pharmacy.” School of Pharmacy Committed “Duquesne’s pharmacy is a welcome addition to the to Community Outreach neighborhood,” says Carl Redwood, chairperson of the Hill District For more than 85 years, the Mylan School of Pharmacy has been a leader Consensus Group. “It will add to our in preparing graduates to deliver comprehensive pharmaceutical care that strategic community and economic promotes positive patient health outcomes. development efforts aimed at revitalizing the area.” The school operates numerous community initiatives designed to prevent “Empowering the African- disease and improve the health and well-being of community residents, American community is the mission particularly the underserved. These efforts exemplify the reputation of the of the Urban League, and as we Mylan School of Pharmacy as a leader in pharmacy education, research and work to ensure social, political and patient care. These initiatives are supported by: economic justice, we know that good health is the crucial foundation for The Center for Pharmacy Care: With a focus on health and wellness people to be able to reach their full education, the center offers educational programs, medication therapy potential in all aspects of their lives,” management services and health risk assessments for such chronic disorders says Esther Bush, president and chief as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes and osteoporosis. Since its executive officer of The Urban League inception in 2002, the center has conducted health assessments on more of Greater Pittsburgh. “Duquesne’s than 28,000 individuals. In 2007-08, the center: pharmacy will offer direct, personal and convenient health services and • participated in 135 health assessment programs to more than 5,600 people education options for residents.” • referred more than 1,000 patients to other health care providers for follow- The Hill District has long been a up care primary area of focus for Duquesne’s community service efforts, and • provided monthly health assessments and education information to more further enhancing outreach there is than 700 patients in Carnegie, Lawrenceville, Millvale, South Side Hilltop, specifically noted in the University’s the West End and the Hill District, utilizing the The Spirit of Health mobile unit second strategic plan. “This is an important application • administered more than 700 influenza vaccines of our new University strategic • implemented a Hepatitis C identification program in Lawrenceville and plan. And it is a homecoming for South Side Hilltop us. Duquesne was born in 1878 on Wylie Avenue, just a block or The Pharmaceutical Information Center: Established in 1998, this center two from the new pharmacy,” says answers more than 1,500 calls annually from health professionals and the Dougherty. public regarding new drugs, drug interactions, adverse reactions, identification of international medications, safe drug use during pregnancy and lactation, dietary supplements, and complementary and alternative medicines. Dr. J. Douglas Bricker, dean of the Mylan School Duquesne Medication Management (DM2) Services: Launched in the fall of Pharmacy, speaks at the news conference of 2007, this pharmacist-directed wellness program provides ongoing lifestyle announcing the community pharmacy. counseling and support to uninsured individuals or families dealing with chronic health problems that require multiple medications. The service is provided at no cost to eligible participants, who benefit from comprehensive counseling on medications, behavioral and lifestyle changes; various point-of-care tests (for example, cholesterol, bone density and glucose); development of medication care plans; and collaboration with other health care providers. Currently, the program serves approximately 40 families in the Pittsburgh area.
Academic Partners Program: This unique program enables the Mylan School of Pharmacy to share its knowledge and resources with a growing network of regional hospitals, health systems and health care providers, including UPMC Mercy, Ohio Valley Hospital, The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh, and Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh, among others. The program’s mission is to augment pharmacy practice, improving patient care and clinical research, while advancing the teaching, research and service activities of the school.
26 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 alumni relations Alumni Relations Recaps Past Work, Details Future Plans
The Duquesne University Alumni throughout the year; supports a Formal alumni chapters have Association/Office of Alumni group of “Student Ambassadors” been set up in Chicago, Cleveland, Relations recently published a report who represent Duquesne at alumni New York City, Philadelphia and detailing their work over the last year events and community service Washington, D.C. Each chapter will and plans for the future. initiatives; and offers special alumni host three to four events per year, The new online community, services and products. while also participating in community available via MyDuquesne.duq.edu, The Duquesne Alumni service, student recruiting, and other has been a great success, with 24/7 Recruitment Team (DART) is initiatives extending the University’s access to news and events listings, an working on behalf of our 74,000 impact across the country. alumni directory, class notes, alumni Duquesne alumni with an overall “If you loyally claim Duquesne chapters and groups, personal and goal of inspiring those alumni to University as your alma mater, or you professional networking, and much celebrate their passion for Duquesne simply have a great respect for who more. University by bringing new students we are and what we do, then we invite The Office of Alumni Relations into the University. you to join us as we advance the proud also offers special programs and Recent initiatives include 15 alumni legacy of the Duquesne experience for scholarships for legacy families recruiting on behalf of Duquesne past, present and future Dukes,” says (those with more than one generation at college fairs around the country, Julie Shepard, director of the Office of of alumni); oversees the Young alumni holding send-off parties Alumni Relations. Alumni Council, which was recently for freshmen in their area who are For the full Alumni Relations established to engage alumni who attending Duquesne, and a campaign Report, please visit www. are 10 years out (or less) from their in which distinguished alumni will MyDuquesne.duq.edu. final degree at Duquesne; plans a write letters of encouragement to packed schedule of alumni events prospective students.
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Union Renovation Achieves of the products used have been DUthis is the first time the University has LEED Gold Certification sourced regionally and more than 30 achieved the honor with distinction. percent of the furnishings come from recycled sources. The application compiled by the Duquesne University Volunteers Duquesne’s commitment to superior (DUV) office discussed some of environmental stewardship is also the ways that over 8,715 of the reflected in this major renovation University’s students spent more through significant reductions than 221,230 hours volunteering. in energy and water usage. The renovated space reduces water usage by half through the availability New Beard Institute Focuses of waterless urinals and public on Ethics, Sustainability lavatories with infrared-activated and Responsible Financial electronic faucets. An overall Management 25 percent reduction in energy A major renovation of the Duquesne consumption is accomplished Union has earned Gold certification The newly created Beard Institute, through an optimized heating, under the U.S. Green Building as part of Duquesne’s Palumbo- ventilation and air conditioning Council’s Leadership in Energy and Donahue School of Business, system, occupancy sensors for Environmental Design (LEED) for will encompass the disciplines of lighting and the use of Energy Star- Commercial Interiors rating system. business ethics, sustainability and compliant equipment. This renovation project is the first responsible financial management LEED Gold certification for the in discussions and events that University and the second LEED involve faculty, students and the certification for the campus. Government Applauds DU business community. The focus and Community Involvement scope of the institute, named for Through this $2.57 million renovation, benefactor and Duquesne alumnus Duquesne consolidated a number of For the fourth consecutive year, Eugene P. Beard, has grown from student services in the new space, Duquesne University has received The Beard Center for Leadership facilitating and improving delivery of the highest federal recognition for its in Ethics at Duquesne University to these services to students. commitment to volunteering, service- The Beard Institute, just as business learning and civic engagement. ethics, finance and sustainability The renovated second floor of the challenges have grown in the global building provides students with a On Feb. 25, the Corporation for marketplace. sustainable and healthy environment National and Community Service through an increased fresh air flow, named Duquesne to the Some activities falling under the additional air filtration system, use President’s Higher umbrella of The Beard Institute of low-volatile organic compound Education Community include: finishes and an extensive green Service Honor Roll cleaning program. The renovation with Distinction, noting • The annual November showcases wood that is certified by exemplary programs sustainability symposium the Forest Stewardship Council in and levels of student for executive officers, board all of the wood panels, cabinets and involvement. members and other doors. Duquesne has top managers, been named encompassing all The University partnered with to the honor three disciplines. RYCON Construction to divert roll since the • Regulatory nearly all of the waste generated inception of compliance and by construction operations from the federal best-practices landfills. The completed project also program four symposia in expands Duquesne’s campus-wide years ago, but recycling program. Over 35 percent partnership with the
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Greater Pittsburgh Compliance New Residence Hall to be therapeutic exercise. She is a Roundtable and Pittsburgh Ethics Constructed at Duquesne practicing physical therapist as well and Business Conduct Network. as a renowned educator who literally Duquesne’s plans to build a new “wrote the book” on rehabilitation • The semi-annual Distinguished residence hall to meet growing techniques for athletic training Ethics Speaker Series for on-campus housing needs comes students. Therapeutic Exercise students, faculty and guests. in the wake of continuous record- for Musculoskeletal Injuries, first • Service-learning projects in breaking enrollment, retention rates published in 2000, is used as an the Palumbo-Donahue School well above national averages and a academic textbook for more than 60 of Business that engage in desire voiced by students to remain percent of athletic training education community-based approaches on campus during their junior and programs, as well as a reference text to issues. senior years. for practicing clinicians.
• Financial literacy training of The new building will be located on She is a Hall of Fame member local high school students, the site of Duquesne’s Des Places of the National Athletic Trainers’ provided by a team of business Hall, which houses various academic Association and a member of the school upperclassmen in and non-academic units. Demolition Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ partnership with the Pittsburgh of Des Places is slated for November Society and the American Physical Chapter of the Chartered and construction will begin in spring Therapy Association. Financial Analyst Institute. 2011. Approximately 400 beds will be available for upperclassmen in • Programs such as the suite-style configurations. Speech-Language Emerging Women’s Leadership Pathologists Discuss Early In alignment with Duquesne’s Conference, which is designed Identification of Autism to develop skills in young, high- commitment to environmental potential women. stewardship, the building will be The inaugural Speech-Language constructed to earn Leadership in More information on The Beard Pathology Symposium at Duquesne Energy and Environmental Design University, held March 12, examined Institute is available at www. (LEED) certification of the U.S. Green business.duq.edu/beard. the early identification of autism Building Council. and increasing the communication of school-age children with the DU Offers New Teaching disorder. While autism is becoming Houglum Honored as Most more prevalent, most children are not Degree in Business, Influential Rehabilitation diagnosed until they are 2 to 3 years Computer and Information Therapist old—often because of the presence Technology or absence of certain behaviors. Dr. Peggy A. A new degree for teachers, focusing Houglum, The symposium was aimed toward on technology and business needs associate speech-language pathologists, in grades K-12, is being launched at professor in who often are involved because Duquesne this fall. Offered as both Duquesne’s of communication issues an undergraduate and graduate Rangos School of associated with autism. Topics program, the state-approved Health Sciences’ included: common barriers to early Business, Computer and Information Athletic Training identification of young children Technology (BCIT) specialty certifies Department, with autism, early social and teachers in computer applications was named by communicative behaviors, behaviors and business courses. Therapy Times as Most Influential that help in the decision-making Rehabilitation Professional in process of a diagnosis, and the Drawing on strengths in courses Physical Therapy for 2009. The implications of neurobiologic already offered in the schools award is presented to rehabilitation research findings for language of education and business, the specialists who demonstrate intervention with both low-verbal and new degree emphasizes not a “passion for therapy and an high-functioning school-age children. only knowledge of business uncommon dedication to high quality and technology, but how to use patient care.” technology to teach children and how to educate other teachers, including A faculty member at Duquesne those already in the classroom, to use since 2001, Houglum has more than technological tools. 30 years of experience in physical therapy and athletic training, and For more information, call specializes in rehabilitation and 412.396.1995.
www.duq.edu 29 law dean Gormley Named Law Dean – By Rose Ravasio –
Duquesne University has Archibald Cox: Conscience of a named Ken Gormley dean Nation, and his work has been of the School of Law. The published in Congressional announcement was made on Digest, Legal Times, USA Today March 29. Magazine and The Pennsylvania “We are delighted to have Lawyer. A popular and highly such an accomplished teacher- sought speaker, he has shared scholar, active member of the his expertise and opinions at Bar and influential author professional, university and leading our School of Law,” says legal gatherings across the Duquesne President Charles nation and abroad, including Dougherty. “Our aspiration is to engagements at Harvard be a nationally prominent law Law School, The Chautauqua school, and Professor Gormley Institution, Oxford University, is just the person to take us the Pennsylvania State Trial there. We’re very grateful for the Judges’ Conference, the work of an exceptional search National Council of Jewish committee in bringing us to this Women, the Federal Bar defining moment for our School Association and the R.I.Z. of Law.” Law Centre for European and Members of the committee International Cooperation in included Dr. John E. Murray, Jr., Cologne, Germany. chancellor and professor of law; Gormley is of counsel Alfred Peláez, distinguished with Schnader Harrison Segal professor of law; Mark Yochum, & Lewis LLP. He sits on the professor of law; Nancy Perkins, advisory committee for the associate dean and professor of Ken Gormley Dick Thornburgh Forum for law; The Honorable Joy Flowers Law and Public Policy and Conti, judge, United States District Allegheny County Bar Association, is an advisory board member for Court for Western Pennsylvania; was named interim dean of the the Bernard G. Segal Institute for The Honorable Cynthia A. Baldwin, school in December 2008. He also Appellate Advocacy. He has served as retired justice of the Supreme Court served as associate vice president executive director of the Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania and now general for interdisciplinary scholarship Legislative Reappointment counsel of Penn State University; and and special projects at Duquesne. Commission and, as a special clerk Duquesne Student Bar Association He joined the law school faculty in to the late state Supreme Court leader Abigail Faett. 1994. An expert in constitutional Justice Ralph Cappy, he consulted on “It is a great honor to be selected law, Gormley teaches courses on and drafted opinions dealing with to lead Duquesne’s School of Law at constitutional law, state constitutional Constitutional issues. this important time in its history,” law, political and civil rights, and the “I am deeply grateful to the says Gormley. “As we prepare to First Amendment. He has testified faculty, the search committee, our celebrate our hundredth anniversary before the United States Senate students, the Spiritan community, next year, the Law School is nicely on topics including wiretapping, our alumni, President Dougherty and positioned to build upon its rich presidential pardons and the the entire University administration tradition of training excellent, independent counsel law. for their confidence in me,” says ethical, highly-qualified lawyers. I Most recently, Gormley has Gormley. “Duquesne has been my am grateful for the opportunity to received accolades for his new professional home for 16 years; further contribute to and continue this book, The Death of American Virtue: Pittsburgh has been my home for 55 legacy.” Clinton vs. Starr, published by Crown years. There is nowhere else I would Gormley, who was the first Publishing Group in February rather make my contribution.” academic to serve as president of the (see sidebar). Gormley is author of
30 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 law dean New Book Explores Gormley Named Controversies of Clinton Presidency Law Dean Law Dean Ken Gormley’s Book Reveals New Information, Receives National Media Attention
While U.S. President Bill Clinton and his administration are credited with many achievements, including overseeing the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion, Clinton always will be remembered for being only the second president to be impeached. Although the two-term leader was acquitted by the Senate, his presidency is marred by the was among the most surprising, Gormley cites when he scandals that nearly destroyed it. literally “got his hands on” a draft indictment of first lady Hillary Clinton that no one else—including the Clintons In his new book, The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. themselves—had or have ever seen. Starr, School of Law Dean Ken Gormley not only gives a balanced and accurate account of the dark events of the “That was kind of a heart-pounding moment when I came Clinton presidency, but also reveals new information and across that document in a place that it shouldn’t have been,” relevant facts. says Gormley. “I was able to read it and record for the first time what the effort was by Ken Starr’s office to try to indict “The Death of American Virtue is geared toward a general the first lady.” audience and is about politics, history, government and one of the biggest political scandals in modern history,” says Gormley spent nine years working on the book, a decision he Gormley, who started working on the book in 2000. “It’s says was the right one. designed to read more like a novel, but to be completely accurate and documented so that it is hopefully considered “I set out to do this as a long-term project, and that turned to be the last word on this topic that people choose to read out to be a good decision because if I had rushed it I don’t 100 years from now when they look back on this period.” think that it would have turned out nearly as well in the end,” says Gormley. “There were a lot of days and nights holed up Gormley conducted extensive interviews with prosecutor in the study working away on a project like this, and it was a Kenneth Starr, Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Paula Jones, big commitment for our whole family, but it will be nice to sit Henry Hyde and various Supreme Court justices. After a back and enjoy the fruits of that labor.” preliminary discussion about the book with Clinton at a Pittsburgh hotel, Gormley did three interviews with Clinton, Named as an “Editor’s Choice” by the Sunday New York two of which were held at the president’s Chappaqua, N.Y., Times, The Death of American Virtue has received high home. Was he intimidated at the thought of interviewing praise from the likes of The Washington Post, Publishers Clinton about such personal and controversial issues? Weekly and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. Gormley has been interviewed by and made appearances “Certainly I was apprehensive. He’s bigger than life,” explains on The Today Show, NPR’s Fresh Air, Fox & Friends and Gormley. “He knows where he wants to go and what he Hardball with Chris Matthews. The book has also been wants to talk about, but there were times I had to interrupt selected to receive the prestigious Bruce K. Gould Book him in order to steer him back to the things I wanted to talk Award from the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law about. You question whether you should be doing that, Center. Past recipients include Bob Woodward, retired because it is the former president of the United States, but Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Senator your job is to get the story. It turned out that these were very Daniel Patrick Moynihan. engaging and interesting interviews for me.” “I have to say, I never got tired of working on the book—if I According to Gormley, The Death of American Virtue features had another year, I’d keep working away at it and enjoy it. a multitude of revelations. When asked which he thought This kind of writing for me is a lot of fun,” says Gormley.
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Lives of Purpose Alumnus Gives Ex-Offenders a Second Chance – By Colleen C. Derda, A’83 –
Phil Leffew says that his boss Randy Castriota, A’72, took marginalized around the world. The business owner says it a chance on him when others wouldn’t. started with helping one person and grew from there. “He allowed me to get on my feet and gave me the first “A man responded to an ad for an apartment I had for job I ever had in my life,” says the ex-offender, now gainfully rent,” says the owner of Castriota Metals and Recycling in employed. “I honestly don’t know where I would be without McKees Rocks/Stowe Township, Pa., “and we started to talk his help.” about his life.” Leffew is one of the men Castriota has helped turn from a When Larry Chisholm explained that he had been in life of drugs and prison sentences to full-time employment. and out of prison for more than 40 of his 60 years, Castriota As he quietly assists those in need in one corner of didn’t react with shock but rather asked what the ex-con Pittsburgh, Castriota in many ways reflects his alma mater’s wanted to do with his life from that point on. Chisholm said mission and the work of its founders with the poor and he wanted to get a job and eventually start a gym to teach
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boxing to young people. That same day Castriota offered the man a place to live, employment and a start on his dream. “I could tell he was determined to be a man of purpose,” says Castriota. “Randy Castriota treats everyone the same, regardless of a person’s background,” says Chisholm. “He has a real love for people and it shows.” Six years later, Chisholm is running the “Gym of Future Champs” boxing center in Wilkinsburg, Pa. The boxing center is helping to keep kids away from drugs and away from the type of life he experienced in and out of prison, says Chisholm. The day he met Castriota turned out to be a day that led to new chances for many people, he notes. Patrick Byrnes says the Urban League told him about Castriota’s willingness to give people a fresh start by considering hiring those with a record. “I went with work boots in hand,” says Byrnes, of his willingness to do whatever it took to get a job with Castriota’s company. The 33-year-old was hired two years ago and even hired back after he returned to jail for a parole violation. “Randy actually kept my job for me,” he says. “That gave me hope and a sense of security that I really needed.” Most of the men Castriota hires out of prison have a history of drug offenses. The combination of gainful employment and a commitment to a new start is critical. “Randy Castriota helped a lot of people including me,” says Byrnes. “I was able to save money for an apartment and make a new start. People out of prison need jobs.” And not only do they need jobs, but a vision for the future, says Castriota: “I think it’s important to ask people about their dreams.” Castriota launched Castriota Metals and Recycling in 1987, serving a handful of customers daily. Today, he assists more than 300 through two locations, the main site in McKees Rocks/Stowe, and a second in Brookline, Pa. He also started Pittsburgh Roll-Over Service and now has a fleet of trucks and Dumpsters available for clients. M. Dean Mosites, president of Mosites Construction Company’s building division, has done business with Castriota for 10 years and says the company is excellent at what it does. Mosites is aware that Castriota’s workers include ex-offenders, but points out that it is not readily apparent on the job. Above left: Milo, Milo’s son, Milo, and Larry Chisholm “This speaks to the success of what Randy is doing and Top right: Randy Castriota at his recycling plant in McKees Rocks. who he is hiring,” he says. “As a businessman, he doesn’t Bottom right: Gym of Future Champs in Wilkinsburg, Pa., run by need to do this. But he recognizes that sometimes people Larry Chisholm deserve a second chance.” Castriota credits his father with helping to develop his strong work ethic and ability to see an opportunity where “Randy Castriota treats others may not. Al Castriota was a city policeman who on his off hours drove a pickup truck and scavenged for scrap metal, making an extra $15 to $20 a day. His son, a student everyone the same, in a Catholic elementary school and high school, often accompanied him. Though he studied political science at Duquesne University and once thought about becoming an regardless of a person’s attorney, Castriota eventually saw opportunities in the scrap industry and began plans for his current business ventures. To visit Randy Castriota in his place of work is to watch background. He has a the mission of Duquesne University and the Spiritans in action. Here in one corner of Pittsburgh, people on the real love for people...” fringes of society are finding a second chance at life.
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For decades, the people Haitiof Haiti have suffered from – By Kimberly Saunders and Megan Tressler – extreme poverty. On Jan.12, 2010, their already uncertain future turned tragic and Duquesne Supports Spiritans in Haiti chaotic in the wake of a massive earthquake that While the utter destruction says, contributors know “that every devastated the island nation. caused by the earthquake that struck dollar we raised would be going to Haiti on January 12 stunned people someone on the scene.” worldwide, the impact on Duquesne Duquesne members responded The Duquesne campus University was personal and by raising $33,000 that was presented community, as well as profound. to the Rev. Paulin Innocent, C.S.Sp., The Spiritan Foundation, provincial superior of the Spiritan Duquesne alumni and the headquartered in Port-au-Prince Foundation in Haiti, at a special Spiritans already working since 1865, suffered tremendous campus event on March 30. in Haiti, joined the world in losses. A young seminarian, Stephane “The work being done in Haiti Dauge, was killed. The prestigious personifies the Spiritan legacy of lending assistance to the College of St. Martial, which served educating and serving the very people of Haiti. more than 1,400 students, was almost poor and marginalized,” says the completely demolished. Adjacent Rev. James McCloskey, C.S.Sp., vice facilities that housed the Spiritan president for Duquesne’s Office of administrative offices as well as the Mission and Identity. Spiritan formation center for those Alia Pustorino-Clevenger, studying for the priesthood were assistant director of student activities, also destroyed, displacing six priests, says that 15 student groups at eight students and 20 novitiates. Duquesne also united to aid the The Duquesne University cause, gathering over 12,000 toiletry administration rallied to help the items. The students also collected Spiritan congregation, appealing to monetary donations for the Spiritan faculty, staff and alumni, as well as fathers in Haiti as well as for Doctors to students for directed donations to Without Borders and the Albert the Duquesne Haitian Fund. Schweitzer hospital. “As the world’s only Efforts to support the Spiritan comprehensive Spiritan university, Foundation in Haiti will be ongoing. we have a special obligation to our More information on the appeal is Haitian-born Fr. Paulin Innocent, C.S.Sp., visited Duquesne Spiritan friends and the work they’re available at www.myduquesne.duq. University from March 29-31. doing in Haiti,” says President edu. Charles Dougherty. Additionally, he
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Alumni Send Aid, Work on the Ground
Mike Gomber, A’85, had the and, together with the community’s opportunity, means and motivation generosity, was able to make a to help the victims of earthquake- difference locally and globally.” ravaged Haiti. A consultant to a Fortune 500 company that markets health care products and services, the Washington, Pa., resident collected Marisol Wandiga’s, B’92, first more than five cases of surgical week at her new job at Global Links gloves, gauze, syringes, alcohol preps, coincided with the Haitian earthquake. Betadine Solution, splints, orthopedic As project manager for the Caribbean soft goods and other medical region, she immediately became supplies from distributors. He then involved in developing shipments combined his donations with those containing medical supplies and being shipped to Haiti by one of his equipment donated by U.S. hospitals. Francis Feld clients, Med Express Urgent Care of The job requires a high level of Pittsburgh. strategic planning and communication. member of the PA-1 Disaster Medical “Duquesne instilled a spirit in “You are planning shipments Assistance Team (DMAT). A certified me that helped me understand the that will happen six weeks into registered nurse anesthetist, Feld was importance of building bridges the future, but the logistics and assigned to administer anesthesia for with other people or countries and the needs on the field are changing surgical procedures on the DMAT’s working together to conquer disease, almost on a weekly basis. There first international mission. poverty, ignorance and hunger. When are times when I go home on a Once he arrived in Haiti, Feld was you unite with others who share Friday thinking, ‘OK we have a assigned to one of only two facilities that same spirit, it is a blessing to the plan, next week we can launch the established for treating critically world,” he says. first stage,’” says Wandiga. “Then I injured patients—a surgical field walk in on Monday and everything hospital operating at the Gheskio has changed—the government AIDS clinic in Port-au-Prince. While has implemented new changes on his surgical caseload was quite similar After learning that a plastic the customs process; the trucking to that which he sees regularly at surgeon from a neighboring Ohio company is looking at a new route work in UPMC-Mercy’s Level I town was traveling to Haiti to assist due to flooding concerns now Trauma Center—amputations, fracture the injured but needed medications, that the rainy season has started; stabilization, gunshot and stabbing Kelly Burke, P’96, sprang into action. and the hospital has received a wounds—his overall experience was As a specialty pharmacist, she drew on donation from another NGO (non- anything but routine. her health care knowledge as well as governmental organization) that Along with the surgical team, he her philanthropic character to organize changes its needs list.” worked from 8 a.m. until after dark, a community fund-raiser to purchase Though months have passed since managed emergency cases if they the necessary drugs. the initial tragedy, Wandiga’s work for arose during the night, and covered “We raised about $3,000 within Haiti will continue well into the future. the ICU for airway management of days from the community, including “Our earthquake relief project will many patients. the local employees of my company, be a two-year commitment to help the After nine days in Haiti, the North Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy. That Ministry of Health in Haiti rebuild Hills, Pa., resident returned to the money, coupled with additional their health system,” she says. “Global United States with a new appreciation donations from Diplomat’s corporate Links and the Pan American Health of how lucky Americans are: headquarters, resulted in the Organization are committed to not “The Haitians had so very little donation of thousands of doses of only fixing what was damaged, but before the earthquake and that had antibiotics, antihistamines, nutritional more importantly reassessing the been taken away from them. Their supplements and other drugs, worth health system and looking at ways existence boils down to survival and nearly $10,000. These were shipped health services can be expanded, nothing more. Yet the resiliency of directly to Haiti and arrived in time improved and sustained for the the children was remarkable—I saw for use by the medical team treating long-term.” kites flying over the tent cities, a boy earthquake victims and survivors,” playing with his toy truck in the dirt she explains. and kids playing hide and seek. I now Burke credits her parents for think how silly we are to worry about always encouraging her and her sister Soon after the Haiti earthquake so many things that are really not all to aid others who are less fortunate struck, Francis Feld, N’93, was that important. We are truly blessed whenever possible: “I did what I deployed to Haiti by the Department here in this country and we forget it all had to do to assist in the relief effort of Health and Human Services as a too often and easily.”
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Lili Reinhart, who plays the show’s main character, Leah, shows off her Scientastic! notebook, which she uses as a staple of the show.
DU Professor Takes Kids Health Literacy to the Airwaves
– By Randy Cole – literacy skills,” explains Pollock. basic principles to health; and third, “That’s basically half the adult the show addresses social issues Teaching kids and the community population. Health literacy has to be pertinent to kids. about health literacy is Dr. John a family decision—kids aren’t buying Take the pilot, for example. Pollock’s mission. He recently the groceries.” Leah, the show’s main character, is developed and filmed a pilot for a Pollock, who is a faculty member an athletic 12-year-old girl whose new family television series called in the Bayer School of Natural and best friend breaks her arm at soccer Scientastic!, aimed at engaging Environmental Sciences, hopes practice because she was pushed by a kids and their parents as active to teach kids those fundamental group of mean girls. Leah springs into participants in their own health and principles of health as they are action, going to the library, doctors’ lifestyle choices. The show, which is tied to basic science literacy. The offices and museums to learn about slated to air as a pilot on Pittsburgh’s half-hour show is geared toward bones. With her little brother in tow, PBS affiliate WQED this spring, is the late elementary and middle Leah learns about bones, how they culmination of many hours of work school students and works in an heal, and how nutrition and exercise and a labor of love for Pollock. interdisciplinary fashion on three affect bone strength and repair. The “Between 70 and 100 million levels: first, the show teaches basic show also addresses bullying in a adults in America have low health science principles; second, it ties those constructive way and offers kids
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practical steps they can take to help already developed a list of over 100 stop bullying. “Health literacy topics for future shows, including Pollock worked with local and diabetes, the flu and the immune national partners to make the dream has to be a family system. Each show ties its particular a reality. The show is set in Pittsburgh topic to general science and health and involves the local community literacy. The show also provides in a variety of ways. Pollock pushes decision—kids online resources for kids and their local libraries as an invaluable source families at www.scientastictv.com. of information. As such, Leah uses aren’t buying the On the site, kids can explore the Pittsburgh-area libraries as her home basics and fundamentals of science, base. She learns information relevant while parents and teachers can to the episode’s topic, and then groceries.” access teaching aids and lesson plans launches out into the community to developed by students in Duquesne interview scientists, museum curators University’s School of Education. and others. Pollock uses real doctors Pollock’s latest project was funded and scientists from the Pittsburgh show here. In the pilot, Leah goes from a number of sources, including area in his show as information around and learns about health and UPMC Health Plan, National storehouses and as entertainment science from orthopedic surgeons, Center for Research Resources of for the kids—in some episodes, pediatricians, the Carnegie Museum the National Institutes of Health, the doctors sing and dance right of Natural History, the McGowan The Pittsburgh Foundation and alongside the actors. Institute for Regenerative Medicine congressional-directed funding from “We wanted kids to ask questions and the National Aviary.” the U.S. Department of Education. of real adults. There’s such a great Pollock and his Partnership Once the pilot airs, Pollock hopes base of health-related resources in Education team at Duquesne the show will be picked up nationally in Pittsburgh, which is one of along with his production partner, by PBS. For more information on the the reasons we decided to set the Planet Earth Television, have show, visit www.scientastictv.com.
Lili Reinhart and Habiba Hopson, daughter of Dr. Rodney Hopson, Hillman Distinguished Professor of Education at Duquesne, pose for a publicity shot on set near lockers in the show’s school.
The show is interactive and viewers Cast and crew shoot at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in can visit www.scientastictv.com for Pittsburgh. The show is set and filmed entirely in Pittsburgh. more information and activities about the show, its characters and topics.
www.duq.edu 37 athletics AthleticsUpdate 2010 Football Schedule Released in the nation last season. It will be the first meeting between the Dukes and the Colonial Athletic Association Blue Hens. A total of six home games, including back-to-back The Dukes open NEC play with home games against season opening non-conference games against Bucknell four-time conference champion Albany on Sept. 25 followed and Dayton highlight the 2010 Duquesne football by a Homecoming clash with Monmouth on Oct. 2. schedule. DU’s first conference road game is at defending NEC In all, the Dukes, who return 17 starters from last champion Central Connecticut State on Oct. 9. year’s 3-8 team, play six games at home and five on the The following weekend, the Dukes return home to face road as they begin their third season as members of the Sacred Heart before finishing the regular season with three Northeast Conference. of four on the road: Oct. 23 at Wagner, Oct. 30 at Robert The six home games are the most since 2002. Morris, Nov. 13 at home vs. Saint Francis, Pa., and Nov. The Dukes, who are in their sixth season under head 20 at Bryant. For ticket information regarding the 2010 coach Jerry Schmitt, open under the lights at Rooney season, fans are encouraged to call 412.232.DUKE (3853). Field against Patriot League foe Bucknell on Sept. 4. The following weekend, Duquesne welcomes the Pioneer League’s Dayton Flyers to Pittsburgh. 2010 Duquesne Football DU hits the road for the first time Game times listed are subject to change. Please visit GoDuquesne.com when it travels to Newark, Del., to face for the most up-to-date information. traditional Football Championship Subdivision power Delaware on Sept. Date Opponent Time 18. The Blue Hens, who competed in Sept. 4 BUCKNELL 6:00 the FCS national championship game as Sept. 11 DAYTON Noon recently as 2007, return 26 players with Sept. 18 at Delaware 6:00 starting experience from a team that went 6-5 against the toughest schedule Sept. 25 ALBANY* Noon Oct. 2 MONMOUTH (Homecoming)* 1:00 Oct. 9 at Central Connecticut State* Noon Oct. 16 SACRED HEART* Noon Oct. 23 at Wagner* 1:00 Oct. 30 at Robert Morris* Noon Nov. 13 SAINT FRANCIS, PA.* Noon Nov. 20 at Bryant* Noon *Denotes Northeast Conference games
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Choice Seats
The A.J. Palumbo Center will have a new look this fall with the addition of chairback seating on the north side of the arena and the installation of a custom designed center-hung Daktronics video board and four lower level corner scoreboards. The new chairbacks will replace bleachers that were part of the original construction of the building in 1988. In addition, existing chairbacks on the south side of the court, opposite the team benches, Men’s and Women’s fourth in the Atlantic 10 for the are being replaced, leaving the end Basketball Advance to second consecutive season. The zones as the only bleacher seating in Postseason Play Dukes posted their first win over the facility. a ranked team since 1994, when As part of the face-lift, premium they defeated No. 19 (AP) Pitt 72-63 seating will be offered in the two lower For the second consecutive at Petersen Events Center in late bowl center sections on both sides season, both the men’s and women’s December. DU’s 11 road wins tied for of the court. Men’s basketball season basketball programs advanced to the seventh-most in the nation. ticket holders will be contacted by postseason play, with the men earning Junior Samantha Pollino was the Dukes ticket office and informed a bid to the College Basketball named second team All-Atlantic about new seating options. Invitational and the women playing 10. Pollino, and Jason Duty on the “The work being done at the in the Women’s National Invitation men’s team, both earned academic Palumbo Center further reflects Tournament. It marked the first all-conference honors. the institutional commitment that time since 1980 and 1981 (both NIT) that the men’s team—which played Damian Saunders has been made as we continue in last year’s National Invitation to move our athletics programs Tournament—advanced to postseason forward,” says Director of Athletics play in back-to-back seasons. The Greg Amodio. “The new seating will women, who made the first WNIT greatly enhance the fan experience appearance in school history in 2008- at basketball games and volleyball 09 have now made it two in a row. matches, and the addition of The men’s team, in its fourth premium seating will offer an amenity season under head coach Ron that was not available in the past.” Everhart, finished with 16 wins, The new seating configuration will marking the first time since 1968-73 alter the capacity of the Palumbo that a Duquesne team has won 15 Center, which was listed at 5,358 or more games in three consecutive last season. The new number will seasons. Forward Damian Saunders not be known until construction is led the way for the Dukes as just the completed in August. second junior in school history to earn first team all-conference honors. He was also the first DU player to be named Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year. Saunders, who finished the season ranked second nationally in steals per game (2.8 spg.), broke his own school record with 89 steals on the season. Saunders was also the 12th Duquesne player in school history to be named First Team NABC All-District joining former teammate Aaron Jackson who was named last year. Suzie McConnell-Serio’s women’s team finished at 20-12 and tied for
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Figures From the Past Eleanor McCann
A new 32,000-square-foot three- story addition to the University’s library opened in November 1961. The library, according to President Henry McAnulty’s own report, had “reached the critical point.” The much needed addition to the library was viewed as a temporary measure, yet it served the University for 16 years. The new addition was an ultra- modern structure of light gray brick that did not contrast well with the red brick of the original 1939 building, but the space it provided was crucial. The library, growing by 7,500 books annually, practically exploded into the extra space with its collection of 136,158 books. The new facility had room for 250,000 books, a statistic head librarian Eleanor McCann and her staff seemed determined to test. They began acquiring new titles at a rate that were the only known copies in founding the University Archives. of 15,500 per year and subscribed existence. This collection still resides She retired in 1969, after 24 years of to nearly 2,000 periodicals. A jewel in Duquesne’s library today. service to Duquesne as University in these holdings was the Rabbi The Eleanor McCann Collection librarian. Herman Hailperin Collection, a gift of Modern American Literature was from Pittsburgh’s Jewish community. established in her honor in 1999. It held 2,600 books on biblical She was especially well read in the – Excerpted from The Spirit interpretation, including six printed area of American studies. One of her that Gives Life by Dr. Joseph F. before 1550 and some volumes many significant contributions was Rishel, Professor of History, and BiblioTech (October 1999 Issue) –
Peeking INTO THE PAST
In the 1960s, the University’s library, located at the corner of Colbert and Locust streets in what is now the Law School Library (shown), was in desperate need of more space. In 1974, the University began investigating purchasing the old Geyer Garage (directly across the street from the original library) and rehabilitating that building for a new library. The garage, which was originally built as a printing plant in the 1920s, was still solid and with two more floors added, the amount of library space doubled. The new library opened in 1978.
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Duquesne Students Trace including Wolfman Luggage USA Muskie fellows perform community Historic Hoof Prints of Pony and Aerostich/Rider Wearhouse, service and complete summer Express both makers of specialty motorcycle internships. gear. For more information about the project, visit www.jma.duq.edu/alt. Typically, students selected as Muskie Fellows learn policy analysis in public administration from the Vestiges of Cold War Bring American perspective, then return to their homelands and work for their Three Muskie Fellows to DU governments, improving the quality of life in their countries. Through the prestigious Edmund S. Muskie Fellows program operated by the U.S. Department of State, three additional international Cornel West Addresses students from countries in the OMA Unity Banquet former Soviet Union are studying at Dr. Cornel West, the Class of 1943 The romance of the Pony Express, Duquesne. Graduate fellows Aida University Professor in the Center which marks its 150th anniversary this Bazarkulova from Kyrgyzstan and for African American Studies at year, and the wide-open spaces of Turan Jafarova from Azerbaijan are Princeton University, delivered the the West has been captured in a new studying in the Graduate Center for keynote address to a sold-out crowd documentary produced by students Social and Public Policy. Vladimir at the fourth annual Unity Banquet in Duquesne’s Journalism and Ivashchuk from Russia is enrolled and Scholarship Benefit on April 16. Multimedia Arts (JMA) program. The in the Donahue Graduate School of 70-minute film premiered on campus Business. More than 300 people heard on March 15. The students and the schools they West present Bridging the Gaps: The Importance of Courageous A crew of 10 Duquesne students, attend are selective, says Dr. Joseph Leadership in Duquesne’s Power faculty and alumni followed in the Yenerall, director of the Graduate Center Ballroom. An additional hoof prints of Pony Express riders, Center for Social and Public Policy 100 watched a simulcast of West’s who provided a speedy—and and coordinator of the Muskie remarks in the Bayer Learning dangerous—way to move mail Fellows program at Duquesne. Center on campus. During his across the country from April 1860 Only 5 percent of the applicants are remarks, West, who is described as a to October 1861. The record Pony picked as scholars, scoring highly champion for racial justice, focused Express time from St. Joseph, Mo., on tests, interviews and personal on ways to bridge gaps between to Sacramento, Calif., 7 days and statements. Those selected then different groups of people—with a 17 hours, provides the title for the attend a U.S. university, based upon special emphasis on race, class and documentary. their academic focus and areas of specialization. generational challenges. “We decided to take our modern Sponsored by the Office of horses and pace ourselves with that Duquesne has participated in the Multicultural Affairs (OMA), the Unity time,” says James Vota, the JMA program since 1997 and has had Banquet and Scholarship Benefit instructor who facilitated the project. 16 Muskie Fellows earn graduate degrees. The U.S. Congress was established to build a sense The crew began at the Pony Express established the Muskie Graduate of community on campus and to Museum in St. Joseph and followed Fellowship Program in 1992 to recognize a select group of students the route as closely as possible. encourage economic and democratic for their academic achievements This project received funding from growth in the 12 countries of the and leadership skills, particularly in The Wimmer Foundation, along with former Soviet Union. In addition initiatives that promote unity. support from private supporters, to their academic course work, all
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Claudio Manno, A’78, has been appointed as the assistant administrator for security and hazardous materials (ASH) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He is responsible for the Duquesne head internal security programs of the FAA, including lacrosse coach Michael personnel security, security of FAA facilities, Scerbo ran the Disney investigations, security of classified materials and World Marathon emergency operations planning. ASH also manages the agency’s on Jan. 10 to raise money for The hazardous materials program, which provides oversight of the rules Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s governing the air transportation of hazardous materials. Team In Training. In August 2008, Manno has been an executive with the FAA since 2001. He former Dukes attacker Caroline served as the deputy assistant administrator from February (Gallagher) Cranston, S’06, was 2005 until his appointment as assistant administrator. He diagnosed with leukemia. In her previously served as the director of emergency operations honor, Coach Scerbo pledged to and communications for the FAA. He also was the associate raise $5,000 to help with patient services and research. Scerbo administrator for intelligence with the Transportation Security exceeded his goal with help from Administration, as well as the director of the FAA Office of former teammates, Duquesne staff, Intelligence. Prior to that, he served in a number of other security- friends and family of Caroline, and related domestic and overseas assignments. Manno started his U.S. was able to raise over $5,600 toward government service as a special agent with the Air Force Office of blood-related cancer research. Special Investigations, where he served for 23 years. Here, Coach Scerbo is shown with Caroline, her parents and Duquesne Athletics Director Greg Amodio. quotations, memories of witnesses and vision and action in their profession and a Editor’s Note: Sadly, Caroline (Gallagher) the careful work of biographers.” He is the sustained commitment to diversity.” She Cranston passed away on May 8, 2010. author of more than 20 books. is the administrative/professional honoree The campus community is praying for and is the associate dean of research and Clare E. Wherley, A’66, CPA, CFP, and Caroline and her family. faculty affairs at the School of Medicine’s chief executive officer of Lassus Wherley, Springfield campus. She worked to was named one of New Jersey’s 2010 Best create the Office of Clinical Research 50 Women in Business. These awards 1940s Development, currently serves as editor- “recognize the impact women business John Binotto, E’42, is the oldest surviving in-chief for the American Association of owners and leaders have in creating jobs member of the Binotto family. He and his Laboratory Animal Science’s two journals and building communities in New Jersey.” family are in the process of assembling and maintains an active research career. Lassus Wherley is a wealth management photos and stories from his life. They have Her work has appeared in more than 100 firm with offices in New Providence (N.J.) already completed a booklet covering his peer-reviewed publications. and Bonita Springs (Fla.) “providing clients years playing football on our Bluff and the with a wide range of financial assistance Raymond Brian Isadore, N’74, is working year he spent in the NFL. The next booklet including fee-only financial planning, for the Veterans Administration. will cover his career spent educating investment management, tax preparation, children. trust and family office services.” Margaret Grejda Smith, B’76, is working for Highmark. 1960s Dr. Charles (C.T.) O’Donnell II, GE’77, 1970s has been named president and CEO of Bert Ghezzi, A’63, is the author of Voices Linda A. Toth, S’72, is one of two The Susan P. Byrnes Health Education of the Saints (Loyola Press). The updated Southern Illinois University Carbondale Center, Inc., in York, Pa. His goal will be “to edition “offers numerous ways to reference women to be cited as Women of lead the Byrnes Health Education Center well-known and lesser-known saints: Distinction. The honor, annually awarded in expanding the delivery and distribution chronologically, alphabetically, by feast day by the University Women’s Professional of health education services by growing and by theme. Most importantly, the book Advancement office, recognizes women regional and national partnerships and brings the saints’ stories to life through “who have demonstrated leadership, extending the international footprint.”
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Spencer G. Markle, B’78, principal of selected for the Maryland Super Lawyers The Markle Law Firm in Houston, has 2010 issue, published in January, in the Barbara M. Carlin, Esq., L’82, was been named a Texas Super Lawyer for business/corporate category. recently a recipient of Duquesne’s 2009. This is the 7th straight year he has Mind, Heart and Spirit Award. A photo received this honor. He is board certified James W. Saxton, JD’82, chair of Stevens in the Winter 2010 issue identified as in personal injury trial law and civil trial law & Lee’s health care litigation group and Barbara Carlin actually showed Carol by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, co-chair of the health care department, was L. Hesz, Esq., L’90, accepting the board certified in civil trial advocacy by the a presenter at the Tenth Annual Minimally award on behalf of Ms. Carlin. National Board of Trial Advocacy and is an Invasive Surgery Symposium (MISS) in San advocate level member of the American Diego in February, where he spoke about Board of Trial Advocates. the clinical dilemmas and potential legal consequences associated with bariatric and documentation.” He has co-authored John Konsin, B’79, was recently named surgery. He “outlined a risk continuum the with Todd Bartos a chapter, “Professional president and chief executive officer bariatric care team must take into account Liability: A Primer on Malpractice Insurance of RS Medical (Vancouver, Wash.), a in patient care, which begins with the and Risk Management” for Representing provider of physician-prescribed pain surgical procedure and can possibly end Physicians Handbook, published by the management and rehabilitation products in a lawsuit” and discussed “strategies American Health Lawyers Association. and services. He has worked for 30 years to minimize risks and liabilities at each David W. Brown, A’84, founder of in medical devices, diagnostic imaging and stage along this continuum.” He presented BrownPartners (one of Pennsylvania’s equipment. He has been responsible for Managing Surgical and Professional largest African-American owned advertising or played a key role in the development Liability Risk in 2010 and Beyond in the and public relations firms), has joined and introduction of approximately 500 new Cleveland Clinic’s Innovations in Surgery, a WURD Radio, LLC, and will serve as medical products. videoconference broadcast internationally executive vice president and general on Dec. 4, 2009. Topics included how manager of 900AM-WURD, WURD to achieve a ‘five-star’ culture and the Speaks (the station’s quarterly symposium ‘five-star’ principles which “are a series of 1980s series) and 900AMWURD.com. He will customer service and operational guidelines maintain his position as owner of the firm, Joseph S. Bielecki, A’80, GA’82, JD’85, designed to develop patient and employee BrownPartners, “and serve as chairman in was recently elected president of Sokol satisfaction and a culture of service providing strategic direction and counsel for USA, a large fraternal life insurance society. excellence, and to reduce liability exposure the agency.” through education, training, communication Paul J. Gitnik, A’81, JD’85, of Paul J. Gitnik & Associates, LLC, will serve as the chair of the 56th Annual Diamond Horseshoe Ball, which will open the Pittsburgh Opera 2010-2011 season. He Alumni Spotlight was also recently elected to the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Cynthia L. James, LPA’05, recently received board of trustees. The firm is located in the New Pittsburgh Courier’s Fab 40, an award the South Park area of Pittsburgh and the given to the top 40 young professionals in primary practice areas are estate planning the Pittsburgh area making a difference in the and administration, business, municipal, community and through their work. nonprofit, real estate and tax law. Since 2006, James has worked with the Coro Center for Civic Leadership, where she was Stuart M. Schabes, B’81, a principal in promoted to operate a new partnership opportunity with Public the business & tax group of the firm Ober/ Kaler, was elected to the board of directors Allies, Inc., a nonprofit organization that helps to build young of The Associated: Jewish Community leaders. Federation of Baltimore. The Associated James devotes more than 200 hours a year to volunteer “works to preserve and enhance Jewish work. She is a member and vice president of the board of life by addressing charitable, educational, directors of Umoja African Arts Company, and she has served religious, humanitarian, health, cultural on the Community Human Services Sleep-In for the Homeless and social needs of the Jewish community planning committee for two years and served as the volunteer locally, nationally, in Israel and throughout chair in 2009. James founded and choreographed an inner-city the world.” He serves on the board of step team and has mentored high school students. In her 10 the Jewish Community Center and is years with Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., James served as the active in the American and Maryland Pennsylvania state executive board secretary and the Pittsburgh state bar associations, the National Air Transportation Association and the National executive board secretary. Business Aircraft Association. He was also
www.duq.edu 43 Marie Milie Jones, A’85, JD’87, chair 1990s of the Board of Directors of Duquesne University and a partner with Meyer, Francis Feld, N’93, was deployed to Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, PLLC, Haiti by the Department of Health and is the recipient of the 2010 Susan B. Human Services as a member of PA-1 Anthony Award, the most prestigious Disaster Medical Assistance Team. He was honor bestowed by the Women’s Bar stationed at the Gheskio Field Hospital Association of Western Pennsylvania. The in Port-au-Prince and administered award is presented annually to an individual anesthesia for surgical procedures for “who most exemplifies the goals of the nine days. The average caseload was six Women’s Bar Association by demonstrating per day, including amputations, fracture dedication to encouraging and promoting stabilization, gunshot and stabbing women in the law and maintaining the wounds, and one emergency C-section. He highest standards for the legal profession.” is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at She is a defense trial attorney who UPMC Mercy Hospital. represents companies in employment Rochelle Pristera, E’95, an elementary matters and other clients in commercial teacher at Wilkins Elementary, has achieved disputes and has achieved prominence in national board certification from the her representation of counties and local Seated: Jay and Suzanne Canson. National Board for Professional Teaching governments sued by those who allege Standing: Michael Kuhn and Ronald Horner. Standards. National board-certified police abuse, excessive force and other teachers have “successfully demonstrated violations of constitutional rights. advanced teaching knowledge, skills and Dr. Ron Corey, P’86, has been promoted practices.” When the Somerset County Flag to vice president, clinical and project Committee in Pennsylvania, James W. Creenan, JD’96, has formed management, at Asubio Pharmaceuticals, formed in 1993, started to lose Creenan Law Offices in Murrysville, Pa. He Inc. He will assume “expanded active membership and had to focuses his practice on construction and responsibility for managing the project abandon its American flag plaza insurance litigation, as well as estates and management and clinical trial management near the Pennsylvania Turnpike, trusts matters. He can be contacted at groups, as well as QA/QC and document four alumni came together [email protected]. management for Asubio.” He will work by chance to help save the organization: Ronald Horner, closely with colleagues in Asubio’s Japan Jeff Wertz, JD’96, was admitted to The headquarters and clinical project teams in GM’88; Jay Canson, B’67; Honourable Society of the Inner Temple Suzanne Canson, E’69,GE’72; the U.S. He has an adjunct appointment in London. The Inner Temple is one of at the University of the Sciences in and Michael Kuhn, L’90. In June the four Inns of Court, “which hold the 2009, on Flag Day, the flag was Philadelphia and is executive director exclusive rights to call candidates to and CFO of the Pharmacy Leadership & raised again and the flagpole was practice law at the bar of England and dedicated to the Flight 93 heroes. Education Institute. Wales.” He is a civil and criminal trial attorney based in Aspen, Colo.
Alumni Spotlight
Oreste LeRoy Salerni, P’57, GS’59, recently chronicled time spent in Italy in a new book, The Youngest Son, Memoirs from the Motherland. The book records the odyssey of Salerni and his wife, Marti, in Italy. They were there while Salerni was on sabbatical from his teaching job at Butler University. His sabbatical, spent at the University of Pisa teaching medicinal chemistry and writing papers for his Pisa colleagues, intended to be a tribute to his hardworking Italian immigrant parents but became more of a pilgrimage to the motherland. After completing graduate studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Salerni was senior organic chemist at Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Mo. He then spent 36 years on the faculty at the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Currently, he is retired and living with his wife in Bradenton, Fla. For more information on Salerni and his book, visit www.theyoungestson.com.
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Jeremy Hartzell, B’97, JD/MBA’00, was Davis Medical Center in Sacramento elected treasurer of the board of directors in 2010. He has accepted a one-year of the Pittsburgh affiliate of Susan G. fellowship position in the Department of Komen for the Cure. Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Medical Center in the fields of medical simulation Stephanie Thum, GA’99, has joined and medical education, in preparation for Armstrong Teasdale LLP as the law firm’s a career in academic medicine. He and first director of client relations. She will be Alumni Event invitations and his wife, Nicole Daamen, MD, reside in University information are e-mailed responsible for “working with priority clients Vacaville, Calif. and their Armstrong Teasdale service teams on a regular basis to our alumni to ensure a positive experience with the Jason Tatrai, E’03, a sixth grade science around the world. If you are not firm’s lawyers and staff.” She is a nationally teacher at West Mifflin Area Middle School, receiving e-mail from the Duquesne published writer on customer service, social has been selected as Teacher of the Year University Alumni Association, we media, health care, construction, energy by the Mon Yough Area Council of PTA/ may not have a correct e-mail address and environmental topics. PTSA. He was selected from a field of 10 for you. PLEASE call Alumni nominees. Relations at 1.800.456.8338 2000s Jade Leung, S’05, E’05, GE’06, is a (1.800.I.LOVE.DU) or e-mail recipient of the 2010 Carnegie Science [email protected] to update Mindy (Martino) Furda, A’01, GE’02, and Honorable Mention: High School Educator, your records. Homecoming is Kristopher Furda, HS’02, are the parents which “recognizes educators for innovation around the corner—we don’t want of Anthony David (2008) and Mia Josephina in inspiring high school level students to you to miss a thing! (2009). understand, appreciate and apply science, and for the extent that these innovations volunteers in the firm’s Beginning with Anthony C. Sunseri, JD’01, has been are disseminated.” She is a physics and Books reading program in the Pittsburgh promoted to member of the firm Burns, biology teacher at Shaler Area High School. schools. White & Hickton, LLC, in the Wheeling She is also a member of the Pittsburgh office. As part of the insurance defense Tissue Engineering Initiative, where she Alice Sande Spataro, B’05, MBA’07, division, his practice involves litigation in “shares tissue engineering materials and marketing director and a member of the the areas of insurance law, personal injury, findings with students to engage their accounting and auditing team at Horovitz, professional malpractice, insurance bad curiosities.” Rudoy & Roteman LLC, has been selected faith and commercial matters. He has to the board of trustees for the Bethel Park appellate experience before both state and Stephanie Solomon, A’05, JD’08, is Public Library. She has done several years federal courts. an associate in the litigation group of the of volunteer work for libraries, including Pittsburgh office of Burns, White & Hickton, teaching Spanish at the Mt. Lebanon Dr. Joseph D. Barton, HS’01, GHS’03, LLC, “specifically defending professional Public Library. graduated from the University of Pittsburgh malpractice and commercial cases.” She School of Medicine in 2007. He then has participated in the Nike Women’s Nichole Humes, JD’06, has joined Burns, completed a 3-year residency in emergency Marathon, for which she raised funds for White & Hickton, LLC, in the litigation medicine at the University of California the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and group’s insurance defense team in its Pittsburgh office. Previously she was a litigator for a Chicago firm where she represented municipal, construction and transportation clients.
Duquesnefest Kimberly A. Zylinski, A’06, GE’09, is Sunday, June 13, 2010 the author of the recently published novel, Rules of Vegas. She is a former Duquesne employee and her Web site is www. Registration begins at 8 a.m. kimberlyzylinski.com.
Duquesnefest is an exciting and informative experience for Scott Rogerson, B’07, has joined both current high school seniors and for their parent/s. You can meet The Hill Group, Inc., as a business with representatives from the offices of Admissions and Financial Aid, as analyst. He specializes in data security, well as from other academic, administrative and student life departments. management and compliance, as well as You might even get to meet and chat with former classmates. the development of custom applications for data collection and analysis. He is an active member of the Pittsburgh Come and rediscover Duquesne University! technology community and serves on Register online and view the day’s itinerary at www.duq.edu/admissions. the Duquesne University Information Systems Management Advisory Board. He
www.duq.edu 45 leads seminars for local business leaders Gabriella Sofia and Mariella Kristine, on information systems and regulatory Marriages daughters of Caralynn (Fejka) Kassabov, compliance, and is a certified information Margaret Grejda Smith, B’76, married A’02, and Krassimir Kassabov, B’04. systems auditor and a certified associate in Raymond Brian Isadore, N’74. Aubrey Elizabeth, daughter of project management. Shannon Sara Wilson, A’95, married John Perez. (Zubek) Walylko, Pharm.D.’03, and Bo Allison Jockel, A’09, a marketing and Walylko. events planning professional at WHIM night Lori Campbell, GA’98, Ph.D.’02, married Carter, son of club in Pittsburgh, has been chosen as a Charles Tanner. John Korch, Pharm.D.’02, and Julie Korch. candidate for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Crystal Karlo, N’01, married Douglas Society’s (LLS) 2010 Woman of the Year. Young. William Shirey, son of Jessica Shirey, As a candidate, she will raise funds for B’03, MBA’05, GA’05, and Arvind cancer research and patient services. She Jessica Adams, A’03, GE’09, married Vasudevan. has been involved with LLS since she was Matthew Meyers, B’03, JD’06. 14 years old. Isabella Rose, daughter of Todd A. Amanda C. Chuk, Pharm.D.’04, married Fortney, Pharm.D.’05, and Melody J. Christopher G. Murrer, JD’09, in the Dr. Scott D. Phillips. English. estates & trusts practice group of Hodgson Russ (Buffalo office), has been admitted to Todd A. Fortney, Pharm.D.’05, married the New York State Bar. He concentrates Melody J. English. In Memoriam his practice in estates and trusts law, Michelle L. Rosky, GE’05, married including estate planning, and drafting wills Patricia L. Stoehr Douglas DeForrest. and trusts. Art Taylor, B’43 Briana Bailey, M’07, married Joshua Gresko. Mary Evanick Assmann, S’45
Patricia E. Giesey, Pharm.D.’09, married Barbara Ann Soltesz, N’62, GS’66 Brian K. Kowalsky, A’06. Thomas J. Chasler, A’69 www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu Donna (Trojanowski) Froelich, A’70 is your source of all alumni New Arrivals Mark V. Cromie, A’77, GA’79 information. You might surprise Emily Jane, daughter of Maria (McCurry) yourself with the former Lusk, B’96, and Keith Lusk, MBA’06. Joseph M. Olifierko, P’78 classmates you see in our “Event Photos,” the jobs that are listed Brendan Ryan, son of Kelley (Redmond) on “Alumni Jobs” and the fun Will, B’97, and Ryan Will. you and your family can find Grace, daughter of Colleen (McMillin) among our “Events.” Whether Hartzell, E’98, and Jeremy Hartzell, you’ve been out of Duquesne for B’97, JD/MBA’00. 5 weeks or 50 years, we have a lot to keep you connected to the Jack Michael, son of Angela (Kurtz) Please send us your personal and Denham, E’99, and Mike Denham. worldwide Duquesne network professional news for inclusion in Duquesne University Magazine: and your alma mater. Chase Michael, son of Rebecca (Seitzinger) Rinker, HS’00, and Jaison E-mail: [email protected] Rinker. Mail: Duquesne University Magazine Brooke Elizabeth, daughter of Bethany (Fedutes) Henderson, Pharm.D.’01, and c/o Alumni Updates Matthew Henderson. Duquesne University 406 Koren Building Ian Matthew, son of Lisa (Groen) Mager, 600 Forbes Ave. HS’01, and Matthew Mager. Pittsburgh, PA 15282 Sophia Marleane, daughter of Allison (Smiller) Rozycki, GE’01, and Robert Rozycki.
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Duquesne University will be celebrating the 125th anniversary of the building of Old Main/Administration Building during HOMECOMING Homecoming Weekend 2010. Check www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu for information about a special Mass in Schedule of Events the Chapel, a photo exhibit and other corresponding events. Additional details available at www.myduquesne.duq.edu/HC2010.
Friday, October 1, 2010 School of Nursing Breakfast Alpha Phi Omicron/Zeta Tau Alpha Pep Rally sponsored by Student Life Duquesne Room-Union Luncheon Rooney Field City View Law School Breakfast & Continuing Wine & Cheese Reception Legal Education Class AutumnFest Power Center Ballroom Law School College Hall Lawn
The Red Ring Greek Alumni Council Meeting Beef & Beer Pre-Game The Red Ring Restaurant Student Union Mellon Patio Saturday, October 2, 2010 Finding Health Information on the FOOTBALL: Duquesne Dukes vs. Internet Monmouth School of Education Breakfast Gumberg Library Rooney Field Gumberg Library Common Ground Coffee House and Continuous Campus Shuttle Service Resident Advisors Reunion Breakfast Legacy Breakfast Campus Wide Sean Hogan Student Dining Center Mellon Hall Lobby CARNIVAL! Pharmacy Program Rangos School of Health Sciences A.J. Palumbo Center Mellon Hall Program and Luncheon Room 613 Union Student Leader/10 Year Reunion Dinner Duquesne Room
Mass University Chapel, 5:30 p.m.
All Alumni Dinner/Dance Honoring the 3rd Alternative & Class of 1960 Union Ballroom
School of Music Concert & Reception PNC Recital Hall/McCloskey Field Sunday, October 3, 2010 3K Run Honoring the 3rd Alternative On the Bluff
Class of 1960 - Mass & Presentation of the Class Pin and Alumni Ring Blessing University Chapel
Class of 1960 Brunch Power Center Ballroom
www.duq.edu 47 living a legacy Living a Legacy
In 2007, the Wojeski family determined that the most effective way to utilize their parents’ bequest was to create an endowed fund that would The Wojeski Endowed provide faculty development grants. The Wojeski Endowed Accounting Department Faculty Development Fund supports research efforts and Accounting Department increases scholarly output among faculty of this particular discipline, thus raising the Business Schools’ recognition for offering “destination- Faculty Development Fund quality” programs. When the creation of this fund was first reported in the pages of this supports research efforts magazine in September 2007, the fund had yet to begin issuing grants and its true impact was unknown. Since then, the inaugural recipient, and increases scholarly Brian Nagle, Ph.D., has been selected and has begun to live the legacy of research and scholarship that the Wojeski family sought to preserve in output among faculty of perpetuity. Nagle, an associate professor of accounting in the A.J. Palumbo School this particular discipline, of Business Administration, joined the faculty in August 1993. A prolific author, Nagle’s research interests include auditor cognition, going- concern decisions (which involve an auditor’s assessment of a client’s thus raising the Business continued viability), and the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley. Nagle’s work has been published in a myriad of journals such as Accounting Enquires, Schools’ recognition for Journal of Accounting and Finance Research and the European Journal of Operational Research. offering “destination- Asked to reflect on the impact of the Wojeski fund, Nagle responded: quality” programs. “The Wojeski Research Grant accelerated the progress of my research project by providing me with financial support that allowed me to forego teaching a class during the summer term. Instead, the grant enabled me to focus strictly on my studies involving opportunistic judgment tendencies and principles and rules-based accounting standards.
“The topic of my research is timely given the heightened profile of IFRS (the International Financial Reporting Standards) in the accounting profession. Paper(s) that will result from this project will be submitted to journals sooner than they would have had I not received the grant, increasing the chances that the findings will impact the accounting discipline.
“Data collection has been completed and the paper has been presented at a national conference. I am expecting to have a paper submitted to a peer-reviewed journal by this summer. This timeline would have been significantly delayed had I not benefited from the Wojeski Research Grant.”
Nagle continues teaching, researching and producing scholarship, with all of his efforts enhanced by the Wojeski endowment fund. If you have made provisions for Duquesne in your estate plans but have not yet informed the University, or if you wish to become a member of the Father McAnulty Society by creating a plan that includes Duquesne Brian Nagle, Ph.D. University, please contact Carrie Matesevac Collins at 412.396.4272 or [email protected].
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Alumni Calendar
May 20, 2010 June 21, 2010 Aug. 7, 2010 Duquesne Night at the Spy Museum 16th Annual Rangos School of Health Duquesne Alumni Night at the with General Michael Hayden Sciences Golf Invitational Pirates Game (complete with 5:30-8 p.m., Washington, D.C. For Registration and lunch beginning at 11 fireworks and concert!) registration or details go to www. a.m.; shotgun start at noon; reception 5:30 p.m., pre-game reception; MyDuquesne.duq.edu or call at 5:30 p.m.; awards banquet at 6 7:05 p.m., game. PNC Park. Go to 1.800.456.8338. p.m. Diamond Run Golf Club. For www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu or call more information, contact Deb Durica 1.800.456.8338 for more information. May 21, 2010 at 412.396.5551 or e-mail durica@ “The Northern Rhone Wines” Alumni duq.edu. Sept. 23-24, 2010 Wine Tasting with Fr. John Sawicki, The Rita McGinley Symposium: C.S.Sp. June 28, 2010 “Exploring Social Justice for 7 p.m., Power Center Ballroom, Palumbo/Donahue School of Vulnerable Populations: The Face of Duquesne University. For registration or Business Golf Outing the Elderly” details go to www.MyDuquesne.duq. Scramble format shotgun start at For more information, please visit www. edu or call 1.800.456.8338. 12:30 p.m.; dinner, prizes, etc. at 6 duq.edu/social-justice/index.cfm. p.m. Southpointe Golf Club. For more June 4, 2010 information and registration contact Oct. 1, 2, 3, 2010 Forensic Fridays: Behavioral Science Mary Lou Grasser: [email protected], Homecoming/ Carnival/ 50th Year Evidence in Divorce and Custody 412.396.5701 or www.bus.duq.edu. Reunion Cases Go to www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu Room 204, Duquesne University July 27, 2010 or call 1.800.456.8338 for more School of Law. Featuring Allegheny Summertime Rock Concert information. County Common Pleas Court Family Duquesne University Campus. Go to Division Judge David Wecht, forensic www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu or call Oct. 7, 2010 psychologist Dr. William Fisher 1.800.456.8338 for more information. Law School Fall Reception and matrimonial attorney Candace 5:30-8 p.m., LeMont Restaurant, Komar. For information or registration, July 28, 2010 Pittsburgh. Please RSVP to Jeanine go to www.duq.edu/forensics/ Summertime Jazz Concert DeBor at 412.396.5215 or deborj@ forensic-fridays/pricing.cfm or call Duquesne University Campus. Go to duq.edu. 412.396.1330. www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu or call 1.800.456.8338 for more information. June 17, 2010 Duquesne Athletic Fund Cook-Out The Duquesne University Alumni Association 6-9 p.m., Scott Township Park (off 406 Administration Building Lindsay Road, Carnegie, Pa. 15106). 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282 Call 412.396.4662 or visit www. www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu goduquesne.com/daf to register online. [email protected] 1.800.456.8338 (1.800.I.LOVE.DU) or 412.396.6209
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