Celebrating 75 Years THE School of Caring and Commitment of Nursing Also in this Issue: School of Education Round-Up President’s Trip to Africa Economic Development Award DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE is published three times annually by Duquesne University’s Office of Public Affairs A Powerful Education Vol. 10, Number 2 Winter 2012 page 2

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Associate Editor Megan Tressler Educating Africa Editorial Board page 12 Ralph L. Pearson, Ph.D. John Plante Dorothy Bassett, Ph.D. Philip Clarke Gregory H. Frazer, Ph.D. Rev. Raymond French, C.S.Sp. School of Nursing Linda Kinnahan, Ph.D. Answering the Call Writing Michelle Boehm page 22 Colleen C. Derda Karen Ferrick-Roman Dave Jakielo Lia Morrison Rose Ravasio Also in this issue: Valerie Rodell Richard Tourtellott Capital Campaign Surpasses Fundraising Goal Early...... 8 Alyson Walls Dietrich Gift Will Create Duquesne’s Largest Scholarship Fund...... 9 Bob Woodside DU Pharmacy in the Hill District Marks One-Year Anniversary...... 11 DU Receives Federal Economic Development Award...... 15 Design Connie Gartland Duquesne, Pharmacy School Partners to Receive Up to $35 Million...... 17 Doug Miller Popular Writing Course Simulates Law Firm Environment...... 18 Jeremy Neeley On the Road...... 19 Taylor Tobias What’s New at DU...... 20 Duquesne University Magazine Students in Action...... 28 Office of Public Affairs New Mural Celebrates African Spiritans, DU Commitment...... 29 406 Koren Building Recent Grants...... 30 600 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15282 Tammies Mark Milestone...... 32 Tel: 412.396.6050 Snapshots...... 33 Fax: 412.396.5779 Catching Up With Kylee Witchey Clements...... 34 E-mail: [email protected] Research Update...... 35 Duquesne Helping Poland...... 38 It is the Spirit Athletics Update...... 39 Who Gives Life Figures From the Past...... 40 Our Bluff in Brief...... 41 Alumni Updates...... 42 The Mechanics of a Bequest...... 48 Alumni Calendar...... 49

A Catholic University in the Spiritan Tradition 2 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Winter ’12 thoughts from the president Thoughts from the President Over the years on our Bluff, we have grown and adapted to new technology, a changing economy, a more connected world. But, even though we have had to adapt to achieve new goals, there are fundamentals that never change. Our mission, the core of who we are as a University community, is the same as it was in 1878. It never waivers. The heart of that mission—serving God by serving students— drives us to continue our founders’ belief that education is the key to a better life. In 2008, we announced the public phase of an ambitious capital campaign, Advancing Our Legacy. It was designed to raise funds to help current and future students have access to the transformative experience of a Duquesne education. I am happy to report that our capital campaign, the most ambitious in University history, has surpassed its goal of $150 million a year ahead of schedule. We are fortunate that so many people—alumni, faculty, staff, foundation and corporate leaders— stood with us in this campaign despite trying economic times for our nation. As part of the campaign, we received the largest single gift in University history from the late business leader and philanthropist William Dietrich. I had the pleasure of meeting with Bill in his office last year. He told me how impressed he was with the progress of the University in recent years. He admired the fact that Duquesne had become a major player on the regional and national higher education landscape. He respected our deep and widely-known commitment to ethics. His generosity has already started helping students with the creation of The William S. Dietrich II Scholarship Program. In addition to celebrating the success of our capital campaign, we are marking a milestone in the history of Duquesne’s School of Nursing. Our cover story commemorates the school’s 75th anniversary and focuses on what those first nursing students knew and what the nursing students of today know. The science and technology of nursing has changed considerably but compassion for patients has always been the heart of a Duquesne nursing education. It was the Holy Ghost, Spiritan vision of the importance of higher education that led to the establishment and flourishing of Duquesne. Their work and that vision are global. I recently traveled to West Africa to advance our Strategic Plan and deepen our links with Spiritan colleges there. I saw firsthand how Spiritans’ devotion to education is creating new opportunities for African men and women who also yearn for better lives. Elsewhere in the magazine, our focus is closer to home. You will read about pharmacy faculty members who are fighting cancer and revolutionizing the manufacture of drugs, a researcher exploring the mysteries of autism, and a professor combating cyber threats to small business. You will also read about faculty, students, and alumni in education, occupational therapy, biology, law, and a host of other programs and activities. They are not only advancing their respective fields, but also touching countless lives, here in our own neighborhood and around the world. Guided by the Spirit and heartened by the accomplishments of our past, the University forges ahead with faith and confidence. The dynamic combination of commitment to our mission and your ongoing support helps us build new levels of greatness on all that has gone before us. As always, the whole University community is grateful to you for representing our values so well in your families and your careers—and for all you do for Duquesne. Sincerely,

Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. Duquesne University President

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A Powerful Education Duquesne’s School of Education Combines Cutting-Edge Programs with Spiritan Tradition of Caring for Unique Student Experience

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— By Valerie Rodell and Megan Tressler —

A sign greets every member of the School of Education staff when they enter Canevin Hall, reminding them of the ideals that guide the work of the school:

School of Education Identity: Educational leaders – we’re preparing the future leaders of the profession. Scholarship for schools – our scholarship informs educational practice and policy. Spiritan tradition of caring – we serve God by serving students and the larger community. This vision is what differentiates us and makes us proud to be the School of Education. The prominent placement of the sign is no coincidence, as Dean Olga Welch wants school faculty, students and staff to be constantly aware of what is important to the school. The content of the sign does not reflect Welch’s thoughts alone. Five years ago when she arrived at Duquesne to serve as dean, Welch asked the school’s faculty to not only formulate the identity of the school, but to be able to benchmark their ideas. “You have to produce the finest professionals to transform the lives of children and youth—if you don’t do that, you don’t survive as a nation.”

“In effect, we all own the School of Education and we have an obligation to live out the identity,” says Welch. The school’s faculty and staff are living out that identity by offering cutting-edge programs and curriculum that are the driving force behind producing outstanding graduates who use their degrees to make a difference across the nation and the globe. “If you’re going to be a school of education of distinction, it has to be about more than honors and scholarship,” says Welch. “You have to produce the finest professionals to transform the lives of children and youth—if you don’t do that, you don’t survive as a nation.”

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One of the unique ways the School of Education prepares Education its students is through the Leading Teacher Program, a state- of–the-art undergraduate curriculum for teacher preparation created through a collaborative effort of School of Education Graduates Find faculty, school district personnel and other community partners. Nationally accredited, the Leading Teacher Program Success in Many meets standards of excellence for teaching in the 21st century. Aspiring teachers are challenged throughout the program to Different Fields develop expertise and to pursue continuous improvement in areas including learning theories, instructional strategies, curriculum design and understanding diversity. Learning and Though the School of Education sets out field experiences that reflect themes of leadership, diversity and to prepare educational leaders, graduates technology are infused throughout the Leading Teacher Program. have found that an education degree can be Specifically, a leading teacher is a lifelong learner inspiring used successfully in a variety of fields. School children to pursue continuous improvement and growth; of Education alumni can be found in the an advocate, creating learning experiences that demonstrate classroom, in principal and superintendent sensitivity, acknowledging students of all abilities and positions, and in fields that range from valuing human differences; and an architect building learning finance to ministry. School of Education environments that acknowledge and incorporate the power of Dean Olga Welch recently attended a dinner technology. with a School of Education alumna who was “We must produce educational leaders,” says Welch. “We’re accepted into law school. constantly asking, ‘How can we do this better?’” “Education is a wonderful foundational In addition to producing leading teachers, one of the School degree for a career in law, business and a of Education’s goals is preparing teachers for urban settings number of other professions because of ways through the only Barbara A. Sizemore Urban Education Initiative of thinking, problem solving and the ability in the country. The Sizemore Urban Education Initiative seeks to assess,” says Welch. “An education degree to prepare teachers for the challenges and opportunities found is a marvelous opportunity.” in the urban classroom, and for the critically important task of The following graduates reflect the helping all children, regardless of socioeconomic background, flexibility and versatility of an education to achieve ambitious learning goals. The goal of the Sizemore degree: Initiative is to create innovations in urban education and live out Bishop David A. Zubik, A’71, GE’82 Duquesne’s Spiritan mission of concern for every human being. “Education is a social justice right for all children, especially Bishop David A. Zubik’s classroom is the the marginalized and oppressed,” says Welch. entire Pittsburgh region, with students both Though many of the school’s programs are unique, they young and old. Every day, he spreads the are designed with national standards in mind. In fact, seven word of God through his work as Bishop of programs in the School of Education have received national the Diocese of Pittsburgh. recognition by their respective Specialty Professional Association “I love to teach—it’s an important part of in preparation for the review that will be conducted by the my work as Bishop,” says Zubik, who made National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education a pastoral visit to campus in November to (NCATE) in March 2012. meet with faculty, staff and administrators. NCATE helps to ensure high-quality teacher, specialist and During his visit to Duquesne, he reflected administrator preparation programs through its professional accreditation process. The U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation recognize the NCATE as an accrediting body for teacher preparation programs. NCATE determines whether the university designs, manages and evaluates programs effectively. It currently accredits 656 colleges of education across the nation, including Duquesne, which is one of 19 others in Pennsylvania from the 93 teacher preparation institutions across the state. Dr. Susan Munson, associate dean for teacher education, says the School of Education is committed to maintaining NCATE accreditation as a means of measuring the quality of teacher preparation programs. “We are clearly aligned with the NCATE belief that every student deserves a caring, competent and highly qualified teacher, and we accomplish this goal by gathering evidence demonstrating that our graduates have a positive impact on the students that they teach,” says Munson.

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on the role of an educator—something he knows a lot “We study the phenomenon of blended learning— about. Early in his priesthood, he was assigned to serve as online and face-to-face instruction—and the impact it’s vice principal of Quigley Catholic High School outside of having on the public school system as a whole,” he says. Pittsburgh. At the same time, he began graduate studies “There’s just this sense of striving to have a visionary through the School of Education, where he took night perspective on public schools and actually making that classes after a full day of teaching. happen in a very pragmatic way.” “I was a bit surprised at how much at ease I was Stone advises students entering the education field with the curriculum because of the superb caliber of my today to make instructional technology part of their daily professors,” says Bishop Zubik. “I was able to make the practice. best of my five semesters there.” “It greatly increases your ability to engage students in He still keeps in touch with Sister Mary Frances an effective instructional message,” he says. Grasinger, a Sister of St. Joseph and professor in the School The combination of high-tech research and a sense of of Education, who taught him both in high school and at spirituality made his experience at Duquesne unique. Duquesne. “I loved the whole idea of being led by the Spirit,” Though he was assigned out of school administrative says Stone. “I had a sense of really being in touch with work in 1987, he credits the School of Education with spirituality in my education that I’d never experienced helping him tap into a whole new set of skills—success as before, and I loved that.” an administrator—that he didn’t realize he had. After receiving his graduate degree from Duquesne, he Andrea (Ferraco) Redinger, GE’02 went on to serve in many diocesan roles. In 2003, he was named the eleventh Bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, To Andrea (Ferraco) Redinger, Wis. In 2007, he was called back to Pittsburgh as the city’s education isn’t bound by the walls twelfth Bishop. of a classroom. He continues to serve on many local and national The biology and biotechnology boards and committees in addition to his work as Bishop. teacher at Greensburg Salem High And, each day, he draws on the skills he learned both at School has taken her students Duquesne and in the classroom. to observe open-heart surgery “Anybody who embarks on a career that has at its heart and accompanied others to a education realizes they have the most powerful job in the Puerto Rican rain forest. Her world,” says Bishop Zubik. students have also reached out to biology students in Germany via blog and video, and interacted with zoo and university biologists through “Anybody who embarks on videoconferencing. Redinger was recognized for her dedication to her a career that has at its heart students and for her contributions to education when she was named the 2011 Pennsylvania Outstanding Biology Teacher by the National Association of Biology Teachers. education realizes they have the “Everything I do, I do for my students,” says Redinger. Changing the lives of her students every day, she says, most powerful job in the world.” is the best part of her career. “The ‘change’ is not by any means limited to filling them with knowledge on biological topics,” she says. “I Dr. Alex Stone, EdD’07 am a mentor, a guidance counselor, a parent, a friend, a listener, a comedian, a disciplinarian, a coach, a sponsor— Dr. Alex Stone, president-CEO of Pittsburgh-based and the list goes on.” VLN Partners, has used his education degree from The daughter of a former school principal and Duquesne to blaze high-tech trails that enable public Duquesne alumnus, Redinger says her Master of Science school districts to stay competitive. in Education, Secondary Education degree extends far “We put a school district’s lessons online and provide beyond her school day. everything they need to offer it to kids who are thinking “It is not just from bell to bell,” she says. about going into a cyber charter school, or who already In addition to her many other achievements, Redinger are,” says Stone. “It’s inevitable: Public schools have to founded the 42-district Pennsylvania Science Curriculum move into the online environment. They can’t just not do it Council to provide local science teachers with a means anymore, but they don’t know how to do it. We give them to collaborate and share effective methods of science the how.” instruction and assessment. Stone, who taught at a cyber charter school and She advises education majors that, whether they choose worked as a multimedia developer for many years, says to go into teaching or not, they should observe education his company is a direct result of his doctoral research on all levels, not just in the classroom, but the other day- at Duquesne. His research continues today through a to-day activities educators must undertake. consortium he founded that will begin its work in the “You have to love what you do no matter what you spring. choose as your career.”

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Dr. Barry McCrary, EdD’03 Michael Crossey, E’72, GE’92 Dr. Barry McCrary spent Michael Crossey has come a long way since his days more than 20 years working working in Pittsburgh’s steel mills just after earning his in the juvenile justice field in bachelor’s degree at Duquesne. Now, he represents nearly Pittsburgh before earning his 193,000 educators as president of the Pennsylvania State doctorate through Duquesne’s Education Association (PSEA), the state’s largest teachers’ Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program union. for Educational Leaders (IDPEL). Back in 1972 when he received his undergraduate An assistant professor at degree, the Vietnam War was on and teaching jobs were Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill., since 2008, scarce. More schooling was the last thing on Crossey’s teaching courses in juvenile justice and criminal justice, mind when, unbeknownst to him, his student teaching McCrary credits his degree with opening the door to a supervisor applied for a fellowship to the College of Saint career in higher education. Rose in Albany, N.Y., for him. He won the fellowship, “Without my doctorate from Duquesne, there was earned his master’s degree in teaching students with no way I could have landed a job as a tenured professor learning disabilities and went on to a 35-plus year career at one of the largest law enforcement and justice as an educator, working for the Allegheny Intermediate administration programs in the country,” he says. “My Unit in Upper St. Clair, Chartiers Valley and Keystone doctorate really prepared me for the transition from a Oaks high schools, all the while maintaining union practitioner to a professor.” involvement. Part of the reason McCrary chose Duquesne was “My education has meant because the program enabled him to continue working everything to me. The fact that I full time during his studies. A program supervisor in the graduated from Duquesne gave Allegheny County Community Intensive Supervision me my fellowship to the College of Program while at Duquesne, he was also able to complete Saint Rose,” he says. “Duquesne is his research and dissertation in his field of expertise: one of those institutions that takes juvenile justice. care of its students.” Now, he’s found that his two careers have blended Crossey met his wife, Eileen perfectly to make him an effective educational leader. (Fay) Crossey, N’72, GE’93, now “It’s been a great learning and teaching perspective, the University’s health educator, where you can implement your discipline through at Duquesne, and they were married in the University an educational degree,” says McCrary, who speaks at conferences around the country and is also founding director of Maleness to Manhood Inc., a Pittsburgh “Duquesne is one of those nonprofit mentoring program. “It’s made me able to be an effective teacher in the field.” institutions that takes care of its students.”

chapel. Their children, Meghan and Michael Crossey, also graduated from Duquesne. Even though he’s not in the classroom anymore, Crossey—who has been president of the PSEA since May 2010 and served as vice president for four years prior— says he puts his degrees to use every day. (He also holds seven teaching certificates, including reading specialist and comprehensive social studies from Duquesne.) “I use my degrees in trying to negotiate with the state senate, state representatives and the governor’s office about education and how important it is,” he explains. “If we’re going to make education the opportunity for all that I had, then we need to look at how we spend our tax dollars. How do we make education available for everyone? Education is what’s made this country the great country it is. When I’m testifying, I’m speaking as a teacher. I never forget that I’m a teacher.”

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Allison (Pogue) Okel, S’09, GE’10 Allison (Pogue) Okel built the foundation for her teaching career both in and out of the classroom at Duquesne. While earning her bachelor’s degree in biology and her master’s degree in secondary education, she worked for the Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education, an interdisciplinary project led by Duquesne’s Dr. John Pollock, where she developed science curriculum for Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and the Carnegie Science Center as part of the Darwin 2009 project. With certifications in biology, chemistry and general science 7-12 in hand, she began teaching biology at South Fayette Township High School in 2010. “The education that I gained from Duquesne University provided me with the knowledge and ability Bryan O’Black, E’06, GE’08 to teach my students and manage my classroom,” says Bryan O’Black is “paying it forward” every day. His Okel. “Just as my professors broadened my knowledge dedication to helping young students, he says, is a direct about biology and teaching, I strive to spark my students’ result of his experiences at Duquesne. interests in science and in their own future careers.” O’Black, director of technology and assessment At Duquesne, Okel was the recipient of the School at Shaler Area School District since 2009, earned his of Education Dean’s Teaching Fellows Award and bachelor’s degree in elementary education and his Excellence in Student Teaching Award. master’s degree in educational administration, and is “I have been able to use many of the techniques and currently working on his doctorate at the University. He strategies learned in my education classes, as well as holds certifications in elementary education, instructional many of the lesson ideas that I developed as a part of technology, K-12 principal and supervisor of curriculum my classes, when designing lessons for the high school and instruction. biology students that I teach,” she says. “Thanks to my “Duquesne gave so much to me through the School professors, classmates and extracurricular activities in of Education. Now I have the opportunity to go and give both the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental back by what I do every day for students,” says O’Black. Sciences and the School of Education, I am well prepared He says his education at Duquesne—and its mission to educate the students in my classroom about biology of serving God by serving students—ingrained in him and the nature of science.” that students come first every day. “Duquesne really focuses on being ethical in your decisions and treating students as individuals, and doing whatever you need to do to make sure that that lightbulb in a student’s head has gone off,” he says. “You don’t get that everywhere. That’s what makes Duquesne unique.” O’Black, who received the Outstanding Young Educator Award from the Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in 2010, leads his department in managing all of the school district’s information technology areas, as well as its educational technology program, working with teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms to enhance the teaching and learning process. He says he found his niche while studying in the School of Education’s Leading Teacher Program. “I knew I wanted to work with teachers on how to use technology in a meaningful way to motivate students, to get them engaged in the classroom, to get them excited about learning,” says O’Black. A former student body president at Duquesne, O’Black says he “knew from the first moment I stepped on the Bluff as a high school student that that was where I wanted to be. And I keep choosing to go back. There’s a sense of community, a sense of family there. It’s a unique place, and we’re lucky to have it in Pittsburgh.”

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Duquesne has exceeded the largest capital campaign publicly announced the campaign’s $150 million goal, he goal in the school’s history a year ahead of schedule. The also listed individual goals for those priorities: Advancing Our Legacy fundraising effort has reached $151.3 million, $1.3 million over the goal announced in 2008. • Academic Quality Goal: $70 million “We are fortunate to have such generous donors—both Raised to Date: $75.3 million large and small—who recognize and embrace the fervent belief of our founders that higher education provides • Student Experience Goal: $30 million an opportunity for a better life,” says President Charles Raised to Date: $28.9 million J. Dougherty. “These funds will help current and future students benefit from a Duquesne education.” • Scholarships/Financial Aid Goal: $50 million The University has received tremendous support in Raised to Date: $47.1 million both donations and participation: “Teaching and learning have always been at the heart • More than 61,573 donors have supported of our identity. Exceeding the academic quality goal will Advancing Our Legacy and 30,081 were first- enable us to develop new programs, attract renowned time contributors. scholars, improve laboratories, libraries and other facilities, and strengthen our reputation locally and around the world,” says Dougherty. “Not only are these priorities • Corporations and foundations have made part of our campaign, they are at the core of our Strategic gifts totaling $38.2 million. Plan as well.” A cornerstone of the campaign is the Legacy Fund, • The University received its largest gift ever— which is aimed at ensuring access to a life-changing $12.5 million—from the late philanthropist Duquesne experience for those who cannot otherwise William Dietrich. afford it. The fund addresses three specific areas of need—general scholarship funding, support for students • Faculty and staff have made gifts totaling $2.1 experiencing unforeseen financial hardships and million, underscoring a deep commitment to proactive initiatives to empower students with special the University’s mission. socioeconomic needs through a Duquesne education. “There is nothing more central to advancing the mission, vision, values and Spiritan character of Duquesne The comprehensive campaign focuses on academic University than providing access to all deserving quality, student experience initiatives, scholarships and students,” says Dougherty. need-based student financial aid. When Dougherty The campaign began in 2004.

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President Charles Dougherty with the first group of Dietrich Scholars: (from left) Christiana Blahnik, Victoria Ruth, Cheyenne Warner, Logan Smith and Tanya Umstead.

Dietrich Gift Will Create Duquesne’s Largest Scholarship Fund $12.5 Million Gift is Largest in University’s History

Duquesne has received the largest gift in University history. “Mr. Dietrich’s remarkable gift will Late last year, the late business leader and philanthropist William S. Dietrich II arranged a dramatically change the lives of contribution of $12.5 million to Duquesne. Dr. Charles J. Dougherty, Duquesne president, many students who otherwise explained that Dietrich, who died in October, designated no specific purpose for the gift, might not be able to afford to requiring only that the distributions from The Dietrich Foundation be invested in the University’s further their educations.” endowment. The University will invest the gift in an endowment to create The William S. Dietrich II Scholars program, providing scholarship funds to deserving students.

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“Mr. Dietrich’s remarkable gift will dramatically change the lives of “...providing access to an education many students who otherwise might not be able to afford to further their educations,” says Dougherty. “Since regardless of ability to pay has 1878, when Spiritan priests began to educate the children of immigrant steelworkers, providing access to been an integral part of Duquesne. an education regardless of ability to pay has been an integral part of Duquesne. The Dietrich Scholars The Dietrich Scholars program program will ensure this important aspect of our heritage continues to will ensure this important aspect serve students today and tomorrow. We are grateful for his generosity and commitment to education.” of our heritage continues to serve The first five Dietrich Scholars, all freshmen, are: students today and tomorrow.” Christiana Blahnik, a music major from Valencia, Pa. Victoria Ruth, a liberal arts major from Evans City, Pa. and appreciated Duquesne’s Dietrich Industries had 19 plants in distinctive contributions to regional 17 states and employed more than Logan Smith, a physician assistant development.” 1,800 people before being sold to major from Grove City, Pa. In addition, Dietrich told Columbus, Ohio-based Worthington Tanya Umstead, a pharmacy major Dougherty of a situation in which one Industries in 1996. Dietrich remained from Williamsburg, Pa. of his financial advisers—a Duquesne a Worthington director until his graduate—had displayed an retirement in 2008. Cheyenne Warner, a physics major uncommon level of ethical behavior While building his company, from Slippery Rock, Pa. in a difficult business transaction. Dietrich earned master’s and “This alumnus made an doctoral degrees at the University Dietrich did not attend or have a exceptional effort to ensure that of Pittsburgh and pursued a parallel formal relationship with Duquesne, his clients’ interests werea served career as a scholar in politics, but according to Dougherty, he had before his own,” explains Dougherty. economics and history. Dietrich was been encouraged by the University’s “Mr. Dietrich had learned through a pillar of the local philanthropic recent progress. experience that this does not always community, serving on the boards “I had the pleasure of meeting happen, and he was impressed by of the University of Pittsburgh, with Bill this past summer in his office the ethical foundation Duquesne Carnegie Mellon University, the downtown, and found him to be a provides.” Allegheny Conference on Community fascinating and complex individual; After graduating from Princeton Development and the Southwestern not only an exceptional businessman University, Dietrich returned to Pennsylvania Growth Alliance, but also an accomplished scholar, help run his family’s small lumber among many others. An Eagle Scout, and passionately devoted to western and steel distribution company in his nonprofit affiliations also included Pennsylvania’s growth as a hub Blairsville, which he expanded into the Greater Pittsburgh Council of for education and health care,” the nation’s largest manufacturer the Boy Scouts of America and the says Dougherty. “He recognized of light steel construction framing. Pittsburgh Symphony and Ballet.

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DU Pharmacy in the Hill District Marks One-Year Anniversary

Duquesne’s Center for Pharmacy The pharmacy also helps patients on-call services. Over-the-counter Services recently marked its first to find the most affordable options, medications are available for purchase anniversary of helping Pittsburgh’s says Kim Spruce, Hill House Health after discussion with a pharmacist, but Hill District, a historic African- Care Center outreach worker. In a browsing is not an option. American community working to neighborhood with a poverty rate “The mission of Duquesne restore its vibrancy. In its first 10 three times the county average, that’s University is to serve God by serving months of operation, the pharmacy a critical piece to having patients take students, who then go out and serve. served more than 1,280 patients. their medications as scheduled. The mission of the pharmacy school “The day they opened up, I About 20 percent cannot afford is to improve health outcomes for was there,” says Barbara Strothers, to pay for their medications, but the patients and communities,” says Dean superintendent of Hope Square, a pharmacy provides services regardless J. Douglas Bricker of Duquesne’s retail and commercial building across of ability to pay, says Terri Kroh, Mylan School of Pharmacy. “There Centre Avenue from the pharmacy. director of Duquesne’s Center for are a lot of medically underserved “This truly was the best thing that Pharmacy Services. Then expense is no communities in Pittsburgh; this one is happened in the Hill in a long time, longer a reason to stop a medication. our neighbor.” and I tell everybody.” “They try to find a way to lower The Hill District, once one of the Strothers, as many of the your costs so your bills won’t be too most prosperous and influential pharmacy’s patients, has the chronic high,” says Strothers, whose payment African-American communities conditions of diabetes and high blood for diabetes medication dropped across the country, declined to the pressure. from $25 to $5 with the help of the point of losing both its grocery But their health outcomes pharmacy. store and its pharmacy by 2000. The are improving as they take their Through private, cutting-edge Hill has become home to a higher medications regularly and follow drug medication therapy management, percentage of medically vulnerable guidelines, thanks to the influence of patients discuss the drugs they populations—children and residents the pharmacy, say representatives of are taking, possible side effects 65 and over—than the rest of the the Hill House Health Care Center and interactions. This counseling city. But the community is persisting. across the street. It’s easier for patients is routinely offered before the The Pittsburgh Central Keystone to use their medications properly medications are in the patients’ Innovation Zone, co-founded by because of accessibility and services of hands and is provided for every new Duquesne in 2007, is funneling more the pharmacy center. prescription—and the knowledge is than $1 million into local fledgling The pharmacy is conveniently one more plus in helping patients to firms. Two years later, Duquesne located in the neighborhood, says Dara comply with the medication schedules. announced that its pharmacy school Moore, Hill House Health Care Center The pharmacy, which is more like would open and operate a pharmacy nurse manager. It’s within walking a doctor’s office than a typical retail in the Hill. Now, a new grocery store distance for nearly 850 senior citizens operation selling greeting cards and is under construction next door, and and across the street from the medical bags of snacks, also offers a battery the brick and steel skeleton of the new practice—and offers free delivery. That of free health screenings, including YMCA rises along Centre Avenue. eliminates the need for patients to blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol “I couldn’t have asked for anything get rides or take buses to pharmacies and body mass index, and pharmacy better—to be alive to see it,” says farther away. expertise is available through 24/7 Strothers, smiling. “We got it all going on, right here.”

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Educatin g Africa Duquesne President Charles J. Dougherty witnesses Spiritan educational initiatives in Ghana and Nigeria

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— By Duquesne President — Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. become Spiritans—around 250—than students and nation. Before I left, we anywhere else in the world. Plainly, signed a formal affiliation agreement hen I received an invitation to Nigeria and SIST are major players in between our two universities. Wparticipate in the celebration of the Spiritan Congregation now and I learned that the 50-60 minute the 40th anniversary of the presence of will be in the future. This is of great mass Catholics are used to in the U.S. Spiritans in Ghana, I knew I had to go. importance for the future mission and is a wholly foreign reality to Africans. Most importantly, outreach to Africa is identity of Duquesne University. Granted that the 40th celebration in a centerpiece of our current University Plans quickly fell into place. I Ghana was a special occasion with an strategic plan, particularly to Spiritan would fly to Accra, Ghana (nonstop Archbishop presiding, but the mass— efforts in Africa. I had never visited from Atlanta), with Fr. Fogarty and complete with an array of African the continent. This was an occasion for then we would be brought to the drumming, song, and dance—was a me to learn more and to put myself Spiritan University College and the stunning 4 hours long. The two other in a better, more concrete position of 40th anniversary celebration near “ordinary” masses I attended in both leadership on this key commitment. Kumasi, the center of the Ashanti nations were longer than 2 hours. Most Also, I have been in the habit tribal kingdom in south central Ghana. remarkably, although there were always of telling audiences that Duquesne After a week in Ghana, a Spiritan from a few worshippers who arrived late, University is the only Spiritan Nigeria would take me by air to Lagos there was never a soul who left early! University in the world. Fr. John and then by another flight to Enugu, After the celebration, one of the true Fogarty, C.S.Sp., Provincial of the the center of the Ibo (or Igbo) tribal highlights of the trip occurred. Retired American Spiritans, was beginning land in southeastern Nigeria. I would Archbishop Peter Sarpong, a special to correct me—in private—telling spend a week there at SIST and then friend of the Spiritans, took several of me there is now another, home. us to an audience with the Asantehenne, small but quite real Spiritan I knew I would be treated well by the king of the Ashanti nation. Every University College in Ghana. I my Spiritan hosts (it has never been 42 days, he opens his palace to receive had to see this for myself and otherwise) and was assured that this gifts and petitions and this was one of to reach out a helping hand would be true of everyone I met in both those days. He and his court arrived from our position of 133 years nations, since they have the highest in full and impressive native dress and of success to a new sister regard for the Spiritans and their work. he sat front and center on a throne, the institution. I decided that I had to bring a gift in golden stool of the Ashanti. Because No one makes a choice of return. What I chose turned out to be of the influence of the Archbishop, we this kind without consulting the equivalent of bringing gold to what were seated near the inner circle. Then a map. When I did, another was once the Gold Coast of Africa: the Archbishop arose, told me to follow decision was obvious. I had online access to our Gumberg Library and, in Ashanti, introduced me to the to visit Nigeria as well. It was for the faculty at both educational king. I was just processing the awe nearby; the flight from one coast institutions. of the moment when the Archbishop Educatin g Africa to the other being roughly the time of Spiritan University College is, instructed me to approach the throne a flight from Pittsburgh to Chicago. indeed, real. The faculty numbers about and shake the king’s hand. That was my Nigeria is the home of the Spiritan ten full time and the student body is in first direct encounter with royalty—but International School of Theology (SIST) the hundreds. There is an impressive it was not to be my last. The Archbishop through which Duquesne University campus with buildings for classrooms, then took me to meet the power behind grants master’s degrees in theology, library, and administration. The the throne, the Ashanti queen mother. one of the few places we grant degrees institution is plainly young in years and She has such authority because of a outside Pittsburgh. And at SIST there in spirit, but also deeply optimistic and strong matrilineal tradition within the are more seminarians studying to determined to make a difference for its tribe. The queen mother, for example,

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has veto power over the selection of each new king. I left Ghana with a great respect for the work of the Spiritans there and a resolve that Duquesne University should do what we can to help their Spiritan University College thrive. My experience of their struggles to build an educational institution to lift their people up gave me a powerful feeling that I had witnessed firsthand in Ghana the very same work that had begun for us in Pittsburgh in 1878. President Dougherty in native dress in Nigeria Ghana was a very good after being named a chief in the Ibo tribe. introduction for a newcomer to West Africa because Nigeria was changes to their menu to pamper me overwhelming—by far the most with things a bit more recognizable populous nation in Africa. The former to an American.) The campus is large capital, Lagos, teems with people, and well tended. I discussed in traffic, and street commerce. There is a detail measures that we both could large police and military presence on take to enrich relationships between the roads, in part because of returning Duquesne University and SIST to our veterans from the civil war in Liberia mutual benefit. and in part because of Nigeria’s own I was then surprised when the ethnic and religious strife. Spiritan Provincial of southeast The flight to Enugu put me in the Nigeria took me to a large plot of middle of Ibo tribal land, a numerous A symbol of the Spiritans adorns the undeveloped land with five or six entrance to Spiritan University College and influential group that is largely half-built structures. He told me in Ghana. Catholic due to the missionary work that this is the site for a new Spiritan of Irish Spiritans in the early half of University of Nigeria, to be opened in “honored brother from a foreign the twentieth century. This part of approximately two years. Nigerians, land.” Then I was told my induction Nigeria had been the scene of the too, see higher education, and as a chief was not complete until I Biafran War in the late 1960s. When especially Spiritan higher education, danced. And so I did—to the obvious the Ibo bid for independence in that as their way forward. Again, this was delight of the assembled students. war failed, the federal government a distinct echo for me of our own Since I was the first live American expelled all the Irish Spiritans—for Duquesne story. that most of them had ever seen, I am the “crime” of smuggling food to Ibos The next visit is another lasting sure they were thinking that we are the government was trying to starve. memory. We went to the Spiritan-run all rhythmically challenged. (Ironically, some of the Irish then went Holy Ghost Academy, a grade school My trip home was 11 hours to Ghana, accounting for the 40th and high school. I was met with an nonstop from Lagos to Atlanta. I slept anniversary of Spiritans there.) entourage of students in native garb a bit. But most of the flight was a The Spiritan International School drumming, singing, and dancing a nonstop reflection on two remarkable of Theology (SIST) is truly impressive. welcome. The troupe included some weeks in West Africa. In Ghana and The faculty is dedicated and quite students in masquerade outfits, Nigeria, young people are hungry accomplished, mostly Spiritans with reminiscent of a New Orleans Mardi for Spiritan education. Spiritans some religious sisters. I came home Gras. They led me to a full school there are working hard to provide it with eight books they had authored assembly where the student body because educating the poor is at the recently; now they are all in our president gave me a warm welcome heart of their mission. And I had a library. The students seemed friendly sprinkled with “Your Excellency.” He new insight into our own mission. and eager—as well as pious. I was ended dramatically by naming me Duquesne University can be a partner welcomed by all in academic and an Ibo chief and conferring on me in educating the poor by doing what religious contexts, as well as in their the name, “Ichie Nwannedinamba we can to help support Spiritan dining hall. (I think they made major I,” which liberally translated means education in Africa.

14 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Winter ’12 federal award

DU Is Only Private University in State to Receive Federal Economic Development Award Duquesne is the only university “It was exceptionally competitive ...part of a new in western Pennsylvania and the funding, and we have at least 20 only private institution in the state collaborative partners on board, to receive a five-year federal award including Duquesne’s new Institute federal initiative to to strengthen the region’s toolbox for for Energy and Environment,” economic development options. says Dr. Alan W. Seadler, associate help convert ideas The University is receiving academic vice president for research. $500,000 from the U.S. Economic “Duquesne’s Small Business from universities and Development Administration—as Development Center (SBDC) will be part of the University Center the lead organization.” research labs into Economic Development Program The award will be used to provide Competition—to expand regional support for researchers and scientists economic development tools for working to turn their discoveries new products and practitioners. The money is part of a into marketable goods and services, new federal initiative to help convert as well as to provide training and to provide workforce ideas from universities and research support to develop green building, labs into new products and to provide environmental management and development. workforce development. renewable energy industries, and to

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support innovation and workforce McKinney, director of the SBDC. development. “American green products are in “Pittsburgh’s involvement has demand overseas, and we are eager grown from traditional energy alone to help these companies explore to include alternative and green international exports. Also, as new energy and encompasses a long- technologies emerge, our technology standing concern of stewardship of commercialization program will the environment,” says Seadler. “All support these firms in all facets of their of these align for Pittsburgh becoming start-up and growth. a center for energy. “We look forward to reaching “Pittsburgh is both the present these companies through our array of and the future of energy and has deep management consulting capabilities, concern for the well-being of residents training programs and conferences,” and the environment. These have says McKinney. “We’re delighted been transformative as Pittsburgh that many successful regional has moved from a steel town to a city businesses and organizations have embracing sustainability, technology agreed to serve as trainers, mentors and education,” continues Seadler. and collaborators on this important Duquesne’s lead in the project program.” comes naturally from long-standing efforts, through the SBDC, to promote the economy and workforce development, says Seadler. “Pittsburgh is both Innovation Zone (PCKIZ), an In 2010, the SBDC helped to economic development generator co- establish 60 new businesses, creating the present and the founded by Duquesne that has caught 104 jobs and landing $8 million in the attention of the White House export sales. future of energy and with its model program of business “We look forward to expanding generation in the Hill District and our clientele to include industries other underserved communities. such as green building construction has deep concern “The value of Duquesne is helping materials, environmental management to create businesses, working with and renewable energy,” says Dr. Mary for the well-being our Small Business Development Center and the PCKIZ, to benefit the of residents and the Pittsburgh region and particularly underserved communities,” says environment.” Seadler. “Technology has been a major force driving Pittsburgh into its future economies in energy, health care and information technology. Collaboration will be key to this “But the benefits of this effort’s success, agrees Dr. James technology-driven economy Phillips, senior director for sponsored have skipped over some of our research and principal investigator for neighborhoods,” continues Seadler. the application. “We look forward to “Part of Duquesne’s role is to develop the excitement of bringing together collaborations that can bring the private, academic and nonprofit economic benefits of Pittsburgh’s groups to work together for the technology to our neighbors and the benefit of the region,” he says. broader underserved communities in Duquesne also is a partner in our region. This is an essential part of a consortium that secured a $1.95 our University mission.” million Jobs & Innovation Accelerator Challenge award through an effort led by the Pittsburgh Central Keystone

16 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Winter ’12 FDA grant Duquesne, Pharmacy School Partners to Receive Up to $35 Million to Reform Drug Manufacturing

Duquesne and nine other university partners in a nationwide consortium have received a grant worth up to $35 million over the next five years from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At a time when the current cost of bringing a drug to market in the U.S. exceeds $1 billion and an increasing number of drugs and drug ingredients are being imported, this FDA award is coming to the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE) to improve drug manufacturing standards. The grant is intended not only to improve America’s manufacturing competitiveness and create high- paying jobs at home, but will help to reverse outsourcing trends in the pharmaceutical industry by decreasing the cost of manufacturing and by improving the quality and safety of our drugs. From left, Dr. Carl Anderson, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences; FDA reviewer Jeff “Duquesne and other Medwid; and Dr. James K. Drennen III, associate dean of research and graduate programs, pose collaborators in NIPTE have been with some of the equipment that reviewers use during on-site training at Duquesne. working with the FDA to enhance the drug development process and to provide direction for the anticipates being highly involved in “Development and manufacturing industry in terms of implementing this new effort. costs can be reduced, the quality modern control systems in the “Over the last several of our drugs can be improved and manufacturing process,” says Dr. years, NIPTE has contributed outsourcing trends can be reversed James Drennen III, associate dean a great deal of research toward by developing science-based of research and graduate programs our understanding of quality standards for drug development and in the Mylan School of Pharmacy pharmaceutical manufacturing,” says manufacturing.” and director of Duquesne’s Center Helen N. Winkle, director of the FDA The FDA grant will support for Pharmaceutical Technology, Office of Pharmaceutical Sciences. programs to rectify these drug an academic research center. NIPTE’s executive director, Dr. development and manufacturing “For instance, through the use of Prabir Basu, believes improvements issues by creating ways to reduce rapid noninvasive spectroscopic can continue to be made to the time to market, enabling new techniques, our industry can quickly pharmaceutical manufacturing performance attributes, improving check critical quality attributes process. small-batch production, promoting of pharmaceuticals, in real time, “The outsourcing of drugs and continuous manufacturing, saving providing improved quality drug intermediates is increasing money and energy, and reducing while optimizing manufacturing at an alarming rate, potentially environmental impact from the efficiency.” threatening overall quality of our manufacturing process. Duquesne has played a key role drugs, accompanied by huge job in previous NIPTE initiatives and losses in this country,” says Basu.

www.duq.edu 17 law simulation Popular Writing Course Simulates Law Firm Environment

— By Rose Ravasio —

Bradley A. Matta never thought he’d be billing documents collaboratively with other associates, for hours while still in law school. But as part of attending firm meetings and trainings, and tracking Duquesne’s popular Advanced Legal Writing: Writing and “billing” for their time. Students are required to act in Law Practice course, Matta had to bill for hours spent professionally at all times and to wear business suits for defending an injured skier. firm meetings and meetings with opposing counsel. The case was fictional; the information offered in “We do everything we can to make it feel like an the course was real, and—for a growing number of law actual law firm,” says Karsman. “During our firm students­—vital to their future careers. meetings, we go through the firm’s policies and “It was, without question, the most rewarding course expectations, and we discuss the client’s industry and its I took in law school,” says Matta, a 2010 graduate who particular interests. Not only are we preparing students is an associate in the product liability practice group to draft litigation documents, we are also preparing them of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti in to handle the internal demands of a law firm, which Pittsburgh. “Through participating in a mock civil case, includes interacting with clients and supervisors, billing this course sheds light on what is expected of those their time and maintaining a professional presence.” about to enter the legal profession. The course enabled Students are also required to collaboratively prepare me to collaborate with other students and, consequently, written materials and deliver a Continuing Legal further developed my interpersonal skills from the Education (CLE) presentation to working attorneys in various assignments and submissions.” conjunction with the law school’s Dean John J. Sciullo When they sat down to brainstorm potential Fundamentals of Law Continuing Education Series. advanced legal writing courses they would like to teach, Learning to balance the demands of such non-billable Assistant Law Professors Erin Karsman, Julia Glencer work is critical, according to Wilke. and Tara Wilke reflected on their own experiences “Our students have to learn to balance their time practicing law in a firm setting. The trio agreed that effectively, just like they will in practice,” says Wilke. students should be exposed to the various types of “They must also expect to have professional development documents drafted for clients in a litigation context as responsibilities as new lawyers.” well as the collaborative drafting process often used in a At the end of the semester, students participate in a law firm. simulated negotiation to attempt to settle the case. They also recognized the importance of simulating “We literally put the students in separate rooms and a realistic law firm environment in which their students see what happens as they work out their own strategies could work—an effort that has clearly paid off. Since and their own way of dealing with things,” says Glencer. it was first taught in 2010, Advanced Legal Writing: “They can come to us for ‘authorization’ to make Writing in Law Practice, an elective course for second- different offers to settle the case, but they are very much and third-year law students, has become so popular that on their own—it really forces them to rely on their own it has grown from three sections of 12 students to four understanding and their own wits.” sections of 16 students scheduled for the current spring Students also participate in a year-end “associate semester. Two of the sections have full waiting lists. performance review,” in which they meet individually As part of the course, the professors act as “partners” with their professor/supervisor to discuss their in a fictional law firm overseeing students who act as performance and continued professional development their “associates.” Glencer and Karsman run a fictional goals. defense firm that represents a corporate defendant. Alyssa Golfieri, a third-year law student, credits the Wilke and her section of student “associates” act as a class with helping her succeed as a summer associate. small plaintiff’s law firm. “The course gave me the opportunity to master my The underlying litigation involves a young man skills in problem solving, strategizing, communicating injured on a ski slope who sues the ski resort for and collaborating with others,” she says. “I not only negligence in creating the situation in which the injury drafted a complaint, participated in a formal negotiation occurred. and presented a CLE, I also learned proper e-mail As part of the simulated law firm environment, etiquette, how to record and bill my time, and how to students must apply to work for their respective present myself professionally in a variety of situations. It professor’s law firm. Once they receive their “hire proved to be the most valuable and rewarding experience letter,” they then join the firm as an associate, drafting I have had in law school.”

18 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Winter ’12 on the road On the Road with the DU Magazine

Gerry LaVan, A’68, celebrated Christmas and the new year aboard the Queen Victoria on a ballroom dance cruise headed for Hawaii.

Colleen McDonough, HS’09, and Ralph A. Gigliotti, A’07, E’07, were married in the Duquesne Chapel in 2011, and celebrated their honeymoon on Fiji.

Three Duquesne alumni were Holly (Napolitano) Miller, E’05, GE’06, and Rob Miller, part of a pilgrimage to Poland A’06, traveled to Hawaii for their honeymoon after being last year. Shown standing in front married in the Duquesne Chapel in June. They are of the Convent of the Sisters shown in front of Diamond Head on Waikiki Beach. of God’s Mother of Mercy are: Germaine Klein Krzan, N’83, Mary Margaret (Peggy) GN’95, Bishop of Pittsburgh Most Burke Heh, A’66, Rev. David Zubik, A’71, GE’82, took her Duquesne and Virginia Kapton Riegner, B’71. Magazine to Italy in Bishop Zubik celebrated Mass in September. Here, she the Italian chapel at the shrine. is shown in front of the Pantheon in Rome.

Shown with the Duquesne University Magazine in St. Augustine, Fla., are: Maureen Dougherty, E’63, GE’72; June Varley, who attended Duquesne in the late 1950s; Mary Wyse, E’78; and Margaret Gagliardino, E’63. More “On the Road” photos are available on Duquesne’s alumni website. To view photos, visit: http://www. myduquesne.duq.edu/s/831/index. Sarah Kielar, E’07, A’07, aspx?sid=831 GE’08 (pictured), Briana Maguire, A’07, E’07, GE’08 New visitors to this site need to create (pictured), and Bobbi Jamriska, LPA’07, recently an account using information from the traveled the length of historic mailing label of your Duquesne University Route 66 from Chicago to Magazine. After logging in, click “Event Santa Monica, Calif. Photos” on the left menu. Then, click on the folder that says “On the Road with the Duquesne Magazine.”

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Duquesne Considered a “Duquesne is proud of the faculty, Best Value School, Advances staff and student success that Again in U.S. News Rankings is reflected in this ranking,” says DUmaintained its global top 25 ranking President Charles Dougherty. for social, ethical and environmental Duquesne is considered among the “We’ve worked hard to keep prices stewardship, and has been top 45 schools in the country to offer affordable for students interested in selected for the sixth time as one high academic quality at a good price, coming to the University. of the country’s top schools by the according to the U.S. News & World Princeton Review’s Best 294 Business “The trend over the last 10 years Report 2012 edition of Best Colleges: Schools; and Duquesne has been has yielded incoming freshmen who the University is ranked No. 43 on the named to the G.I. Jobs list of most bring SAT scores that are higher than Great Schools, Great Price list. military-friendly schools for a fourth ever to Duquesne and has produced straight year. U.S. News.com explains that it increased selectivity on campus. At considered the 2010-11 net cost the same time, our admissions office of attendance for a student who has worked diligently to attract and Former Alcoa VP to Head retain students who come to feel at receives the average level of need- Business Ethics at Beard based financial aid. “The higher the home and flourish on our campus.” quality of the program and the lower Institute Among its peers at the No. 119 the cost, the better the deal,” U.S. position, Duquesne showed Bill O’Rourke, News said. “Only schools ranked in the highest average freshman former vice or near the top half of their categories percentage retention (87 percent), president of are included, because U.S. News as well as the highest actual 2010 sustainability and considers the most significant values graduation rate (75 percent), over- environment, to be among colleges that are above performing compared to the rate health and safety average academically.” predicted by U.S. News. at Alcoa, has been For the third year, Duquesne has named director of In addition to the top-tier rankings, advanced in the top-tier ranking. business ethics at Duquesne was again considered one Of more than 1,600 colleges and the Beard Institute in the Palumbo- of the A+ Schools for B Students, universities considered in the overall Donahue School of Business. In this where, U.S. News said, “spirit and rankings, the University was tied position, O’Rourke will spearhead hard work make all the difference in at No. 119 among 202 top-tier business ethics outreach programs. admission offices.” institutions. Also listed at No. 119 O’Rourke brings 36 years of were The Catholic University of Duquesne has achieved top-tier experience at Alcoa with him into his America, Loyola University Chicago rankings in each of the last four new post at Duquesne. He began and the University of San Francisco, years, based upon peer rankings at Alcoa as a patent attorney and three Catholic institutions, and as established by the Carnegie also served as vice president of Clarkson University. Duquesne Foundation for the Advancement of global business services and chief was one of the 101 private schools Teaching. National universities such information officer, leading the included in these rankings, as Duquesne offer a full range of strategic direction and integration of tied among the top 10 Catholic undergraduate majors, plus master’s Alcoa’s global information systems undergraduate institutions in the and Ph.D. programs, and emphasize and security. nation. faculty research. Other key measures of quality include graduation and As president of Alcoa Russia, he retention rates, faculty resources, was responsible for the substantial student selectivity, financial resources manufacturing assets Alcoa acquired and alumni giving. in Samara and Belaya Kalitva in the Russian Federation. His Recent additional rankings and other leadership roles with Alcoa recognition include: a U.S. News included vice president of audit, vice survey of high school guidance president of procurement and head counselors lists Duquesne among of corporate staff services, corporate the nation’s top 125 undergraduate patent counsel and assistant general schools; the Business School has counsel.

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O’Rourke currently serves on the Individuals who want to speak with the Catholic intellectual tradition at board of the Alcoa Foundation, someone in Spanish to schedule an Duquesne through research, teaching, and he is a visiting fellow at the appointment can call 412.396.6562 faculty networking and the support of Wheatley Institution at Brigham on Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m., programs focused upon the Catholic Young University. He earned a juris Wednesdays from 9 to 11 a.m., or intellectual tradition, including the doctor degree from Duquesne and Thursdays from 4 to 7 p.m. tradition’s commitment to social a bachelor’s degree in business justice, peace and the integrity of administration from John Carroll Servicios de Salud Mental para creation. University. Hispano Hablantes Servicios de salud mental gratis disponibles para hispanos en la Project SEED Wins Second Psychology Clinic Now Clínica Psicológica en la planta 9 del edificio 908 Rockwell Hall, Duquesne National Award in Four Years Offers Mental Health University, ubicado en 600 Forbes Services to Spanish Ave., PA 15282. Llame los Martes Speakers de 2 a 4 p.m., los Miércoles de 9 a 11 a.m. y los Jueves de 4 a 7 p.m. Duquesne’s Psychology Clinic has al 412.396.6562 para una cita en launched a new initiative to serve español. the growing community of Spanish- speaking immigrants from Latin America making Pittsburgh their Center for the Catholic home. Intellectual Tradition Servicios de Salud Mental para Announced Hispano Hablantes—or Mental Health Services for Spanish Speakers— From its beginnings, the sense of Project SEED, a University program provides psychotherapy and Catholic mission and identity at that provides mentoring and hands- counseling services free of charge to Duquesne has been a core principle on research experience to high- native Spanish speakers, similar to and compass upon which the achieving, disadvantaged high school the Psychology Clinic’s services for University’s academic community students, has received recognition military members and their families. has evolved. The long-standing from the American Chemical Society relationship between the Spiritan (ACS) for being an outstanding Dr. Marco Gemignani, assistant Congregation and the University— program. professor of psychology, is and its programs in theology, ethics, coordinator of the clinic. “We realized service-learning and faith formation— Led by Dr. Jennifer Aitken, associate there are very few possibilities for are but a few of the many critical professor of chemistry, Duquesne’s Spanish speakers in Pittsburgh to components of Catholic life and Project SEED has received the receive affordable counseling and mission at Duquesne. national ChemLuminary Award for therapy,” says Gemignani. “The the Most Outstanding Project SEED community is growing fast here but To expand upon the scope of Program for two of the last four years. not the services for them.” this tradition, the Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition will be “It’s rare to see someone win twice The initiative has garnered a $30,000 established in fall 2012. on their Project SEED program,” grant from the Staunton Farm says James Manner, councilor with Foundation, which supports non- “The prospect of deepening the the American Chemical Society profits focused on behavioral health Catholic intellectual presence and a member of the national and services that benefit southwestern and community at Duquesne is a Pittsburgh chapter Project SEED Pennsylvania residents. In addition challenging and exciting one,” says committees. to covering the cost of the the Reverend James McCloskey, psychotherapy itself, the grant money C.S.Sp., vice president for mission Entering its eighth year, Duquesne’s also will facilitate marketing and and identity. “The former Center for Project SEED program has had 33 advertising, community outreach and the Study of Catholic Social Thought students; about two-thirds were administrative expenses. will be subsumed into this new entity female and about half were racial and its interests broadened.” minorities, fitting with overall goals of Insurance and a Social Security helping to diversify the sciences. number are not required to receive The mission of the new center will services. be to promote and contribute to

www.duq.edu 21 answering the call duquesne school of nursing answering the call The School of Nursing will soon celebrate its 75th anniversary, and a close look at the school’s history shows that the ideals on which it was founded remain fundamentally unchanged.

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– By Richard Tourtellott –

ike a childhood photo foretelling the grown-up’s human touch distinguishes a Duquesne nurse. features, the School of Nursing’s character “You can teach skills to nurses, and you can teach them today can be seen in its earliest days as well as to use today’s electronics and the latest technology, but the heart of nursing is really the care and compassion that a throughout its 75 years of growth and accomplishment. L nurse provides—how they touch a patient, usually at the The School of Nursing’s story, from the beginning, is that most critical time,” says McLaughlin. “The nurses that I know who are Duquesne graduates have that, and it is a of an academic institution being responsive—answering very strong component of who they are as professionals.” a call. And whether that call was issued from health Care shown to students complements the philosophy care professionals or the community, from the nursing of compassion for patients that is built into the nursing profession itself or from patients and their families, the curriculum. Mark Wells, N’04, is clinical director and chief nurse practitioner with DNA Health Systems, a School of Nursing has always provided a response that Pittsburgh-area pain-management clinic. Under normal helps people lead healthier lives and improves the way circumstances, the nursing curriculum is a rigorous course nurses prepare for the challenges of their profession. of study, and while a nursing student, Wells was a new Along the way, the school made history and found unique father, with all of the demands on his time that entails. He ways to live out Duquesne’s Spiritan mission. remembers with appreciation the extra time that members of the nursing faculty spent helping him with difficult classes. It was not uncommon for him or other students to attend evening and weekend study sessions at a nursing Compassion for Patients and Students professor’s home. “I saw the teachers paying attention to every student, no matter what the individual’s needs Compassion is at the heart of the University’s mission were,” he recalls. and has always formed the foundation of the School Sara Wojciechowski, who graduated from the School of Nursing, and the school’s graduates exemplify that of Nursing in May of 2011, was hired two months before compassion in their actions and accomplishments. graduation by UPMC Hamot Hospital in Erie, Pa., where As chief nursing officer and vice president of patient she is the youngest care services, Diane Hupp, N’87, GN’95, interviews nurse in the every new nurse hired at UPMC’s Children’s Hospital of intensive care Pittsburgh. “One of the first things I tell them is that they unit. She cherishes need to treat these children as if they were your own,” she the strong bonds says. “Treat them with care and compassion—the ‘heart’ of with faculty Mind, Heart and Spirit.” mentors that not Hupp believes firmly that even though students may only helped her possess some of the characteristics needed to be nurses, develop nursing skills, but have compassion must be part of a nursing education. “I believe Sara Wojciechowski (right), now a lot of what you need to be a good nurse comes from your employed at UPMC Hamot in Erie as inspired her to values and your experiences, but it also has to be taught an ICU nurse, with her classmates at include teaching to you,” says Hupp, adding that she thinks imbuing the graduation ceremonies in 2011. in her career plans. curriculum with care and compassion is really what makes “I would love to a Duquesne nurse stand out. be able to do for another student what my teachers did for School of Nursing alumna Mari Beth McLaughlin, me,” says Wojciechowski. N’85, agrees. As chief nursing officer and vice president of That sentiment, the urge that makes successful nurses patient care services at Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC feel obligated to use their knowledge and skills to prepare in Pittsburgh, she has the chance to observe and compare the next generation, was present at the School of Nursing’s nurses’ attitudes and preparedness, and she also says the founding.

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Help Wanted: Educators and Administrators “You can teach skills to nurses, On March 15, 1937, the Commonwealth of and you can teach them to Pennsylvania recognized Duquesne’s BSNE (Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education) degree, making it the first nursing baccalaureate program in the state. It is no use today’s electronics and surprise that Duquesne, a Catholic university, created the program. the latest technology, As early as 1926, the Catholic Hospital Association of Pittsburgh determined that a two-year program was needed to create a cadre of qualified nurse educators and but the heart of nursing is really administrators. The pool of potential students for the program comprised the graduates of nursing diploma the care and compassion schools, the name given to three-year programs often administered by hospitals where most nurses at that time were educated. that a nurse provides...” By 1935, a Department of Nursing Education had been established at Duquesne in the College of Liberal Arts and Letters. The first director of that department, Mary Tobin, had experience in the United States Public Health Nursing Service and was a former instructor, director and commandant of the Army School of Nursing and an administrator of the Yale University School of Nursing. After the graduation of its first class, the Department of Nursing Education became the School of Nursing, and Tobin was named the school’s dean. In 1939, just two years after graduating that first class, Tobin pushed for and obtained the school’s first national accreditation. Accreditation was the first form of recognition, but by no means the last. Today, the School of Nursing claims national honors, including twice achieving “Center of Excellence,” a coveted credential granted by the National League for Nursing. For more than 30 years, the nursing laboratory in College Hall was where Duquesne nursing students acquired clinical skills. More than any other factor, the nursing faculty’s exemplary professionalism through the years has made Managed Wellness Center (NMWC) typifies the school’s such accomplishments possible. Today, the faculty spirit of service. conducts more research and attracts higher levels of Since 1994, the NMWC has placed students and funding for research projects than ever before. The volunteers in clinical sites in neighborhoods throughout nursing faculty also includes authors of scholarly works Pittsburgh, where they promote wellness and disease and recipients of awards for teaching. In addition, prevention among older adults through educational four members of the faculty have been honored with programs, health assessments, therapy and other activities. fellowship in prestigious nursing organizations: Dean Students and retired nurses, who volunteer through the Eileen Zungolo, Associate Dean Joan Such Lockhart and nursing school’s RN+WIN (Retired Nurses Working In Associate Professor L. Kathleen Sekula are listed among Neighborhoods) initiative administer NMWC programs. the fellows of the American Academy of Nursing, the The first NMWC sites were in high-rise senior nation’s foremost honorary organization for improving apartment dwellings in Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington and nursing practice and influencing policy; and Clinical Hill District neighborhoods. In 2004, the School of Nursing Associate Professor Lenore Resick is a fellow of the approached Mary Esther Van Shura, then Pittsburgh’s American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, in addition to assistant director of parks and recreation, to place NMWC holding the University’s Noble J. Dick Endowed Chair in sites in the city’s senior centers. Community Outreach. Van Shura and her colleagues were looking for ways to improve the quality of life for the city’s seniors, and they Excellence in Service believed that if seniors were able to remain healthy and live independently they would be happier and need fewer Along with academic achievements and credentials, health care and other services. “When Duquesne came to service to the poor and underserved ranks high on the us with the idea of NMWC sites in senior centers, it was list of School of Nursing accomplishments, and the Nurse perfect,” says Van Shura. “It wasn’t just an issue of the

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The School of Nursing has had a pioneering spirit from and an evolving curriculum. It was also a period when its inception. The first Duquesne nurses took courses in the essential characteristics of the school, such as the public health, a field that Dean Tobin termed “the new community service and commitment to teaching, were concept of nursing.” Public health would from that time in evidence. A 1953 report of the National League for on be an idea shaping the school’s aspirations as well as Nursing accrediting committee states that Duquesne’s an important component of the knowledge that nursing nursing school possessed “a spirit of service” and “a graduates gained at Duquesne. genuine concern for students,” two hallmarks of the school Despite a focus on preventive factors such as sanitation, to this day. inoculation against disease and the quality of food, In those years, the nursing school continued to water and air—things today deemed essential for health emphasize public health. Students not only had required and well-being—public health was a sector of nursing courses in public health nursing, they could make public generally not taught in the nursing schools of Tobin’s era, health nursing a focus of their studies. In 1956, Duquesne says School of Nursing Dean Eileen Zungolo. “Public had one of only seven baccalaureate programs in the health nursing would have clearly differentiated the United States to be accredited and approved in public graduates of Duquesne’s baccalaureate program from health nursing. diploma program graduates in those early years,” adds By the mid-1970s, Duquesne had an MSN (Master Zungolo. of Science in Nursing) degree program, and in 1994, the The nursing school has always had an ability to nursing school started a Ph.D. program. That doctoral anticipate needs, accommodate new thinking and enhance program became the nation’s first online nursing doctorate the nursing curriculum accordingly. Today, for example, three years later, a decision that put a Ph.D. in Nursing in order to graduate nurses capable of delivering superior within reach of nurses with work or family commitments. patient care, both the undergraduate and graduate That online success prompted the school to make curriculums are imbued with ideas derived from the its MSN program a completely online program, and a Synergy Model for Patient Care created by the American Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program was added in Association of Critical Care Nurses, an innovative patient 2008, also completely online—thus opening a full range and family-centered approach to determining a nurse’s of graduate nursing education irrespective of schedules, characteristics and competencies. family commitments or location. Sometimes, though, change resulted from historical Technology has influenced nursing education in other forces. During World War II, for example, nurses were ways, too. Perhaps more than anything, the presence in short supply, and Duquesne cut the five-year nursing of sophisticated instructional technology is what older program to four years in order to speed graduation. In alumni notice when visiting the nursing school. addition, the school took on the role of preparing nurses Today, the school’s Irene Fritzky Nursing Lab contains for wartime service through programs such as the U.S. computer-controlled mannequins so sophisticated that they Cadet Nurse Corps, and Duquesne was also where many feign a range of diseases and conditions replete with groans diploma school nurses earned bachelor’s degrees under and verbal complaints. These mannequins, along with the provisions of the G.I. Bill of Rights after the war’s end. supporting video and digital technologies, enable learning The decades following the war were a period of in a risk-free environment, where digitally delivered rapid growth and expansion for the School of Nursing, feedback helps instructors evaluate the treatment that not simply in the number and diversity of students and student nurses provide their inanimate patients. faculty, but also in changing instructional technologies

quality of life, but it just made good economic sense to me.” That commitment to serving vulnerable and The NMWC also allows nurses to continue putting underserved populations shows in other ways as well, the Duquesne mission into practice. When the RN+WIN such as when students in graduate-level forensic nursing program was created in 2006, alumnae Filomena Varvaro, courses work with clients in a homeless kitchen, or N’62, GE’77, and Kay Dieckmann, N’72, were the first to when undergraduate students, through an agreement volunteer, and they both are gratified they have the chance with a Nicaraguan nursing school, make annual trips to make a difference in the lives of area seniors. to a Managua barrio for a community-based nursing “Clients listen to us, and they follow our experience. recommendations,” says Varvaro, discussing the benefit of The School of Nursing is also assuming a leadership education and counseling provided through the NMWC. role in the struggle for justice and equity in health care, “I feel a great sense of satisfaction about what we’re on campus as well as in the region and beyond, with the doing.” Dieckmann, who is also a member of the school’s creation of The Jacques Laval Endowed Chair in Justice clinical faculty, agrees and thinks volunteer service is a for Vulnerable Populations and the appointment of Sr. component of a Duquesne nursing education. “We were Rosemary Donley to that position. The chair and the taught to honor the person as an individual, to be an school organize The Rita M. McGinley Symposium, a advocate for the person and take care of the person to the national forum for health care professionals to explore best of our ability,” she says. ideas related to the Catholic tradition of social justice and to share ideas for alleviating disparities in health care.

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A Duquesne nursing education has always combined excellence in patient care with the development of values and leadership skills. Focus on Primary Care

The first Duquesne By the late 1980s, according to Zungolo, there was a growing national concern regarding the role of the nursing nurses took courses profession in achieving and maintaining wellness. “Being an illness-dominated health care system wasn’t working, and we really needed to change that model and bring primary care in public health, a into the nursing school curricula,” she says. Educating nurses only to treat people who are sick or injured, explains Zungolo, was tantamount to missing a field that Dean Tobin chance to prevent illness and injury. A nursing approach that underscores the importance of primary care, an approach that requires nurses to take their practice into the community, is termed “the new a fundamental component of a Duquesne nursing education today. Despite her education and experience in acute care, concept of nursing.” Zungolo was an early convert to the philosophy of community health-based nursing. Formerly the dean of nursing at Northeastern University, where she helped create a community health-based undergraduate curriculum, she led the drive at Duquesne to establish a community health nursing curriculum. Since 2003, all undergraduate nursing students have been assigned to specific Pittsburgh communities in which they fulfill a portion of each semester’s clinical coursework requirements. First meeting community residents as freshmen, by their junior year nursing students are helping to manage the care of older adults and people with chronic illnesses as they gain the skills of relational and cultural competency necessary to become advocates for a better way of life for these and future patients. Recent nursing school graduates believe that the primary care focus helped develop a holistic approach to patient care. Wells explains that his experience in city neighborhoods showed him firsthand how environmental factors aggravate disease and inhibit treatment. For example, he explains how a diabetic patient living far from a supermarket has a better chance of making high calorie, low nutrition food substitute for a healthy diet.

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Duquesne University School of Nursing Anniversary Gala

Saturday, March 24, 2012 3–10 p.m.

Join your classmates and colleagues for this special celebration. This event will be a wonderful opportunity to visit the School of Nursing and be inspired by its unique heritage and mission.

A variety of informational and enjoyable events have been School of Nursing alumnae (in dark coveralls) provide nursing planned, including tours of the nursing lab and multimedia students with a closer look at LifeFlight nursing on the helipad presentations about the school’s history, faculty research and at Allegheny General Hospital. work in areas—such as social justice and community service— that have always made Duquesne’s School of Nursing stand apart. Wojciechowski chose Duquesne’s School of Nursing over those of Loyola, St. Mary’s and All events will take place in the Case Western Reserve universities because of the sophistication of the simulation lab and the Duquesne Union and the Power Center on campus. warm welcome she received when she visited campus. The appeal of Duquesne continued as she RSVP by March 10, 2012 experienced the focus on community and primary care, which provided insight that other nurses never Register online and get more information at obtain and is, in fact, one of the things that made her nursing education unique. www.duq.edu/nursing/alumni “It really helped me gain perspective on my patients,” says Wojciechowski. “By the end of my junior year, I knew I was in the right field. I had been involved in clinical work in the community and in the hospital, and everything was coming together for me.” Continuity and Change

As is the case with any large institution with a long history, it can be easier to recognize change rather than see what remains constant. When Dr. Gladys Husted, now retired, first joined the nursing school faculty in 1968, the nursing lab, for example, had only beds, wheelchairs, crutches and a few rudimentary medical instruments. She and other faculty members offered their arms so students could practice administering subcutaneous injections, their syringes loaded with sterile saline solution. Generations of students can attest to Husted’s devotion to teaching, and with her long perspective she is an authority on what has changed and what remained constant in the School of Nursing. “The patient has always been our concentration,” she says. “That’s what we try to teach our students, and I don’t think that will ever change at Duquesne.”

www.duq.edu 27 students in action Students inAction

Every day in many local Students in Dr. Erik Garrett’s Spiritan Campus Ministry (SCM) intercultural communications class received a grant from Catholic Relief communities, Duquesne participated in service-learning Services’ Fair Trade fund to step students make a difference activities during Homeless Children’s up efforts on campus in raising in the lives of those in Awareness Week in October. awareness for fair trade. Students Students were involved in reading participated in a “Fair Trade 101” need. These students take and discussing major urban issues, educational event as well as an open Duquesne’s long-standing planning meetings, recruiting fellow mic night and coffeehouse to help students to participate, initiating raise awareness on the issue. During mission of service to heart publicity and building buzz on social Fair Trade Week in November, SCM, with their willingness to media, and fundraising with local along with about 75 students, hosted give of themselves for the Pittsburgh businesses. Garrett, an a Fair Trade Market in the Union as assistant professor in Duquesne’s well as a special lunch with speakers benefit of others. Here are Communication and Rhetorical from Building New Hope, a local some recent examples of Studies Department, and about 10 fair trade coffee roaster. The week Duquesne students in action: students also were involved in the also featured the Fair Trade Fashion Stand Up and Run for Homeless Show and Fair Food Reception that Children 5K run in Pittsburgh on highlighted fair trade clothing and Oct. 15. In addition, students helped accessories as well as fair food from with a performance art installation domestic and international farmers. on the lawn of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh’s Caitlyn Depp, a sophomore Oakland neighborhood. majoring in integrated marketing communications, is working with Spiritan Campus Ministry (SCM), in faculty member Dr. Kathy Glass to collaboration with Evergreen, was coordinate a community partnership part of several clean and green with the Greater Pittsburgh projects in Pittsburgh’s Hill District Literacy Center (GPLC). Depp is neighborhood throughout the fall the liaison with Glass’s service- semester: There were three general learning students and the GPLC. litter pick-ups, including participation Depp and the other students serve in the city-wide Fall Redd Up, during the English as a second language which SCM collaborated with the (ESL) population at the GPLC Dinwiddie Street Alliance to pick up through tutoring services, computer over 100 bags of trash. In addition skills training and general life skills to the litter pick-ups, SCM worked sessions. As conversational partners, at Cliffside Park with the Pittsburgh the service-learning students listen Parks Conservancy and the Hill to the ESL students share stories District Green Print planners to rehab about their homeland traditions and the park by cutting back invasive customs. plants, pulling out litter and planting healthy native plants. In addition to In October, about 100 Duquesne these greening efforts, SCM took students were part of the city-wide an empty city lot filled with invasive Sleep in for the Homeless event in plants and garbage and helped Pittsburgh. Alia Pustorino-Clevenger, community members transform it of the Duquesne University Volunteer into a beautiful green space. Office, was a steering committee member for the event.

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New Mural Celebrates African Spiritans, DU Commitment

An artistic reminder of the Spiritans’ the background and represents the Through this work, Tonti work in Africa and Duquesne’s commitment of the University to Africa, was looking to depict the ideals commitment to the continent and its now woven into the Strategic Plan. that resonate in Africa and at the people was recently completed on Intertwined in the Kente cloth are University: community, unity and Academic Walk. A 39-by-34-foot mural, two symbols: spirituality. The title, he says, is I Am Because We Are: A Celebration of • Nkonsonkonson, the chain taken from Ubuntu, a South African Spiritans in Africa, can now be seen link, representing unity and term, that reflects a philosophy of on Laval House, which serves as the human relations, and serving as interconnectedness, the idea “I am Duquesne home for African Spiritans a reminder to contribute to the what I am because of who we all are.” who are on campus studying for their community, that in unity lies To complete the work, Tonti used doctorates. strength. brushes, an air gun and stenciling. The mural depicts the Holy Spirit A former Duquesne employee with above two African women locking • Osram ne nsoromma, the moon the Center for Advancing the Study arms over a baobab tree, which artist and the star, symbolizing love, of Teaching and Learning, Tonti Gerry Tonti says is known as the tree faith and harmony. These two also produced the Elevate mural of life in Africa. Kente, the distinctive West African symbols stress the symbolizing the Holy Spirit across woven cloth of West Africa, serves as importance of community, love from the main entrance to campus on and faith. Forbes Avenue.

www.duq.edu 29 recent grants Recent Grants

The Small Business Development The School of Education, $70,000 The total award amount to date is Center (SBDC), $65,000, as a from The Pittsburgh Foundation $40,072. subcontractor from the Small Business for the Barbara A. Sizemore Urban Administration for a Defense Economic Education Initiative. Dean Olga Welch The School of Pharmacy, $2,500 Transition Assistance Program. Dr. will administer the funds. from the American Association of Mary McKinney, SBDC director, will Pharmaceutical Scientists to support administer the award. The DUCARES Office, $12,486 from the third annual Mylan School of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Pharmacy Research Symposium 2011 Dr. Carl Anderson, Mylan School Board for programs to reduce and directed by Sameer Talwar, Duquesne of Pharmacy, $41,600 from the eliminate underage and dangerous University, and Rebecca Hammond, Food and Drug Administration on drinking. Dan Gittins, DU Cares University of Pittsburgh. a subcontract from the National coordinator, will be the project Institute for Pharmaceutical director. Dr. John Stolz, Department of Technology and Education (NIPTE) Biological Sciences, $41,160 from the for Reviewer Education in State of the Dr. Marco Gemignani, assistant Heinz Endowments for an ongoing Art Pharmaceutical Manufacturing professor, psychology department, baseline study relating to Marcellus Technology. The total award amount to $30,000 from the Staunton Farm Shale. date is $48,405. Drs. Peter Wildfong and Foundation for Mental Health Ira Buckner are co-investigators. Services for Spanish speakers. The Department of Physical Therapy, $1,000 from the Dr. Jelena Janjic, Mylan School of The School of Education, $6,000 from Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Pharmacy, $49,675 from the Pittsburgh the National Board for Professional Association for Functional Testing of Tissue Engineering Initiative Seed Teaching Standards, to be used in the Hip. Dr. Rob Roy Martin and Ben Grant Program for Acute to Chronic conjunction with the Pennsylvania Kivlan will administer the award. Pain Transition in Postsurgical Recovery: Department of Education for public Combined Input from Immune System and service. Dr. Susan Munson will The Office of Research, $100,000 Peripheral Nervous System. Janjic and Dr. administer the award. from the U.S. Department of John Pollock of the Bayer School are Commerce Economic Development co-investigators. Drs. Jeffrey Evanseck, Ellen Gawalt, Administration to support outreach Jeffry D. Madura, Tomislav Pintauer activities for distressed communities Dr. John Pollock, biology department, and Ralph Wheeler, Department of through the Duquesne University $50,048 from the Pittsburgh Tissue Chemistry and Biochemistry, $254,796 Small Business Development Center Engineering Initiative Seed Grant from the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Energy and the Program for Acute to Chronic Pain for MRI: Acquisition of Large Shared- Environment. Dr. James D. Phillips Transition in Postsurgical Recovery: Memory Supercomputer at Duquesne will administer the award. Combined Input from Immune System and University. This award extends Peripheral Nervous System. Pollock and through Aug. 31, 2014. The School of Education, $5,000 Dr. Jelena Janjic are co-investigators. from Wheeling Jesuit University on Dr. Diane L. Williams, Department behalf of the National Technology The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of of Speech-Language Pathology, Transfer Center to be used to support Forensic Science and Law, $50,000 $20,332 from the National Institutes the Mining and Industrial Safety from The Sarah Scaife Foundation of Mental Health for Developmental Technology and Training Innovation to support the certificate in forensic Characteristics of MRI Diffusion Tensor Project of the U.S. Department of science and law program. Dr. Fred Pathway Changes in Autism. This is the Health and Human Services. The Fochtman and Ben Wecht will second year on a subcontract from funds will be administered by Dr. administer the award. Washington University in St. Louis. Rodney Hopson.

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The School of Education, $175,000 Dr. Jeffrey Evanseck and Dr. Jeffry from the Heinz Endowments for the D. Madura, Department of Chemistry Sizemore Urban Education Initiative. and Biochemistry, Bayer School, Dean Olga Welch will administer the $87,642 from the National Institutes award, which extends to July 31, 2013. of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse for A Joint Computational/ The School of Education, $37,600 Experimental Biomedical Summer The School of Business, $25,000 from the Heinz Endowments Research Program for Undergraduates. from the Charles G. Koch Charitable to provide an introduction to a Foundation for an educational master’s program for the Heinz Dr. Partha Basu, Department of seminar, an economics reading course Fellows Program. The funds will be Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bayer and research awards for economics administered by Dean Olga Welch School, $345,476 from the National students. This brings the total award and Dr. Susan Munson. Institutes of Health for Models for amount to date to $80,000. Dr. Antony Nitrate Reductases and Related Enzymes. Davies will administer the award. Dr. Ronald Arnett, professor, chair of communication and rhetorical The City Music Center, $14,183, from Dr. John Stolz, Department of studies, $8,000 from the National The Pittsburgh Foundation to support Biological Sciences, $32,000 from Communication Association for programming in the Anna L. Perlow the National Aeronautics and research. This fifth installment brings School of Music under the direction Space Administration for Continued the total amount to date to $40,000. of the City Music Center. Christopher Investigations of ‘Alternative’ Anaerobic Bromley, center director, will Biogeochemical Redox Cycles in Volcanic, Dr. Partha Basu, Department of administer the award. Hypersaline Environments: Earth, Mars Chemistry and Biochemistry, $338,154 and Europa. This brings the total from the National Institutes of Health Dr. Philip Auron, Department of award amount to date to $95,999. for Models of Nitrate Reductases and Biological Sciences, Bayer School, Related Enzymes. The award runs $10,000 from the Interleukin SBDC, $60,984 from the Small through July 31, 2014. Foundation for Testing Specific Business Administration for public Inhibition of Spi-1/PU.1 for proIL-1β service. Dr. Mary McKinney will Dr. H.M. “Skip” Kingston, Blockade in Human Monocytes. administer the award. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, $31,920 from Applied The School of Law, $200,000, a Dr. Jennifer Aitken, Department of Isotope Technologies, Inc. continuation award from the PA Chemistry and Biochemistry, $800 IOLTA Board, to develop and enhance from the American Chemical Society Dr. David Lampe, Department of clinical legal education programs. for the Project Seed Program, which Biology, $98,678 in Year 2 funding on This brings the total award amount provides an opportunity to introduce a subcontract from Johns Hopkins to date to $2,701,546. The funds will economically disadvantaged high University for Reducing Malaria be administered by Tracey McCants school students to chemistry labs. Transmission with Engineered Bacteria. Lewis. The total amount received to date is This brings the total award amount to $104,310.99. date to $197,356. The School of Nursing, $56,312 from the Department of Health and Human Dr. Anne M. Burrows, Department Dr. Fraser Fleming, Department of Services for the Advanced Education of Physical Therapy, $11,000 from Chemistry and Biochemistry, $150,000 Nurse Traineeship Program. Dr. Joan the Samuel and Emma Winters in Year 1 funding from the National Lockhart will administer the award. Foundation for The Neuromusculature Science Foundation for Metalated Junction in Facial Musculature of Nitriles: Unmasking Fundamental Drs. Jeffry Madura and Jeffrey Humans, Macaques, and Murids: Reactivity. Evanseck, chemistry and Evaluating the Efficacy of Animal Models biochemistry department, Bayer for Human Face Transplantation. Dr. Jeffrey Evanseck and Dr. Jeffry School, $6,000 from Gaussian, Inc. Madura, Department of Chemistry for the Center for Computational Dr. Carl Anderson and Dr. James and Biochemistry, $84,925 in Year 3 Sciences. This brings the total award Drennen, Mylan School of Pharmacy, funding from the National Science amount to date to $60,000. $50,000 from Hoffmann-La Roche Foundation and the Air Force Office Inc. for Understanding of Performance of Scientific Research for Research Characteristics of Finished Dosage Forms Experiences for Undergraduates: Through Chemical Imaging. The total Integrated Computational and amount received to date is $200,000. Experimental REU Site at Duquesne University. This brings the total award Dr. David A. Johnson, Mylan amount to date to $254,775. The School of Pharmacy, $85,740 from award extends to Sept. 30, 2013. Knopp Biosciences LLC for Year 1 of Neurodegenerative LPS Model.

www.duq.edu 31 tammies anniversary Tammies Mark Milestone

The Tamburitzans began in 1937 as a th musical group of 12 young men who played As part of the 75 anniversary celebration, the tamburitza, a traditional East European the Tamburitzans will host two special events stringed instrument. Because of Pittsburgh’s in March: rich cultural diversity and strong ethnic traditions, the group soon grew from 12 men Anniversary Celebration Weekend to a full song and dance company that has Tamburitzans Welcoming Reception thrived for the last 75 years performing and March 23, 2012 preserving the music, songs and dances of Duquesne University Power Center Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures. Ballroom 75th Anniversary Performance March 24, 2012 Upper St. Clair High School

For more information, contact [email protected] or 412.396.5185.

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1. “Tammie Lovelies,” as they were known, from the 1950s. 2. Tamburitzans from the 1950s show off original Eastern European costumes. Shown are: Norman Turchan, Geraldine Woss, Gloria Keleminic and 2 Raymond Burovac.

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3. Tamburitzans from the 1970-1972 era perform dances from the Dobrudja region of Bulgaria. 4. The spirit of the Carpathian mountain people is reflected in this Ukrainian dance during a performance in the 2008-2009 show.

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snapshots Snapshots 1 1. Marie Milie Jones, Esq., speaks at the Power Ball hosted by the Duquesne University Women’s Advisory Board. Honored at the event as one of three 2011 Women of Distinction, Jones, A’85, L’87, is chair of Duquesne’s Board of Directors and principal at JonesPassodelis PLLC.

2. The 61st annual Carnival was held during Homecoming weekend. Proceeds benefitted the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh. 2 The winner of the James O’Day Carnival Show of the Year Award was Alpha Gamma Delta (pictured) and Phi Kappa Theta.

3. In October, donated medical supplies began a journey from Pittsburgh to Africa. The shipment was the result of a medical needs assessment conducted by Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Anne Marie Hansen, which focused on government, Spiritan and Lutheran-administered hospitals, health centers and clinics across the Arusha region of Tanzania. Hansen worked with 3 the Brother’s Brother Foundation to secure the donations and organize the transport to Tanzania.

4. The School of Law marked its centennial in September with an address by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. More than 1,200 students, faculty, alumni and guests gathered in the A.J. Palumbo Center to hear Scalia deliver remarks.

5. President Charles J. Dougherty and the Rev. James McCloskey, C.S.Sp., vice president of mission and identity, welcomed alumnus David Zubik, Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, to campus in November for a pastoral visit with faculty, 4 staff and administrators.

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www.duq.edu 33 catching up with Young Entrepreneur Dedicated to Good Mornings Catching Up With Kylee Witchey Clements

— By Colleen C. Derda, A’83 —

She gets up for work in the wee from the nearby industrial park and companies, as did Chris Allison and hours of the morning, a time when from other communities. other professors. Favorite courses the only thing most people are “I wanted to find an existing included Allison’s guerrilla marketing thinking about is their first cup of business, one with untapped class. coffee. Kylee Witchey Clements, B’08, potential,” says Clements. “And I “I loved the stress on raw business is thinking about coffee, too. But, her knew that eventually I wanted to elements and creativity,” says thoughts are turned not to drinking offer freshly prepared, wholesome Clements. coffee, but making it for her nearly foods.” Duquesne’s entrepreneurial 200 customers each day. She opened the shop selling coffee program combines hands-on Clements is the owner of Curbside drinks, teas and homemade pastries, applications with practical business Coffeehouse, a neighborhood and soon began the shop’s signature theory and includes courses on establishment where she knows variety of sandwiches, salads, soups responsible leadership, critical many of her customers by name. and chicken salad, a house specialty. thinking and management to prepare She purchased the shop in Blawnox, Next she added lunch catering. students for real-world challenges. a Pittsburgh suburb, in 2008, and A hard worker by nature, Today, Clements manages three began upgrading it immediately. Just Clements says she kept busy as a employees and keeps her location seven days after graduating from child with painting and handyman- open six days a week. Her catering Duquesne, she opened for business, type projects, cutting grass and business is thriving, as is the walk-in beginning her dream of becoming an washing cars. By the time she entered “grab and go” lunchtime business. entrepreneur. high school, she began making Her website features menu offerings, Clements had just completed and selling buttons, turning her a photo tour of the shop and details degrees in entrepreneurial studies handicrafts into a business she later about coffee beans and the local and marketing in the Palumbo- sold. roasters she uses. Clements also posts Donahue School of Business. She Clements is part of a family of musings about the shop and seasonal had already done her research and entrepreneurs, some of whom have foods. As with everything, from the found her opportunity. The Blawnox been in food service for years and details about summer coffee drinks business came on the market just as instilled many values she lives by to when the fireplace will be lit in the she had ruled out purchasing a coffee every day in her work. Her family fall, the website strives to connect shop in downtown Pittsburgh. It continues to provide advice and her customers with their local coffeehouse was clear to her that by focusing on mother even serves as chief baker at and lunch spot. personal service and quality food, the the coffeehouse. Creating new menu selections new location could draw customers Clements loves the drive required and cooking in general provide an of having her own outlet for creativity, the 25-year-old business: “The focus owner says. In her hours outside of and energy motivate the shop, Clements enjoys running me to wake up and go and competes in a race about once in each day.” a month. She logs about 60 miles a She says Duquesne week training on local roads and on provided her a solid the local high school track. That might business foundation mean eight to nine miles after work and an appreciation and a long run of about 14 miles on of the opportunities of Sundays. an entrepreneurial life. All in a typical week for one Ron Morris, director entrepreneur. of the Entrepreneurial Studies Program, Curbside Coffeehouse is located at inspired her with 405 Freeport Rd. in Blawnox. More lessons learned from information is available at www. launching multiple curbsidecoffeehouse.com. Photo by Andrew Witchey

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Research Recently, Duquesne researchers have been tackling everything from autism studies to cyber security threats, critical update thinking skills, environmental stress and fighting cancer.

Gangjee Receives Three Patents for Cancer-Fighters types of this this patent do not sicken patients and cancer, as well as normal cells, it would not need to be Dr. Aleem Gangjee, distinguished 30 to 40 percent of discontinued.” professor of medicinal chemistry breast, lung and One anti-tumor compound created and holder of the Adrian Van Kaam kidney cancers. by Gangjee shows such promise for Chair, is the first Duquesne faculty Ovarian, lung and fighting drug-resistant tumors that member to have three patents issued pancreatic cancers the National Institutes of Health within a month. The patents are for are difficult to (NIH) has placed it on the fast track new compounds that battle cancer. detect until later Dr. Aleem Gangjee for development. The first two patents, Gangjee stages—and this explains, are for compounds that drug works particularly well in late- Autism Research Focuses inhibit tumors by more than one stage cancer treatment, unlike many on Difficulty in Speaking method, with multiple-acting agents current cancer therapies. About Self and Others in a single drug. These two innovative This patent contains compounds compounds are highly effective in that target receptors expressed by What is the difference between circumventing problems typically tumor cells—typically not produced “you” and “I?” associated with cancer treatments, by normal cells. This distinction For some people with autism, including drug resistance that plagues provides selectivity on where the this is not a philosophical question, currently used cancer medications. drugs have impact, so they work as but one that may plague them all of These new compounds are useful in effective cancer treatment without their lives, says Dr. Diane Williams, treating breast cancers, particularly any major toxicity to normal cells. assistant professor of speech-language tumor-resistant types. “One of the limitations of current pathology in the Rangos School of The third patent contains cancer treatment is drug toxicity; it Health Sciences. compounds geared toward ovarian necessitates discontinuation of the Williams has used functional cancer, based on the use of a selective drug, even if it is effective,” says Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) transport system expressed by most Gangjee. “Because our compounds in to research how high-functioning

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children and between “you” and “I.” National Recognition for adults with autism For this study, which involved Outstanding Results in process language researchers from Carnegie Mellon Critical Thinking Promoted so she can help University and the University of by Professor’s Lab to improve the Pittsburgh and was funded in part by speech therapies the organization Autism Speaks and Dr. Nancy Trun, associate provided to these the Autism Centers of Excellence from professor of biology, has found a way clients who often the National Institute of Child Health to help students learn, remember are confounded by Dr. Diane Williams and Human Development, Williams what they learned and sharpen their language issues. also noted a difference in pronoun use critical thinking skills. She recently by age. Trun received a $205,000 award contributed to a study, published “Pronoun reversal shows up in from the National Science Foundation in the journal Brain, that focuses on the speech of children with autism, to further test and assess the pronoun reversal that is prevalent in but most adults with autism don’t method, called Application-Based autism. make that kind of mistake, so they Service Learning; the grant is being Some children with autism have learned to compensate and do it used to develop interdisciplinary have difficulty correctly referring correctly,” she observes. learning communities among several to themselves as “I” and, instead, However, the behavioral results universities. will use the word “you,” the same from the fMRI study showed a longer “Dr. Trun’s teaching methods form of the pronoun that is used in processing time for adults with autism hold the potential to change how the questions directed to them. For than for adults in the control group. future scientists learn and think about instance, if asked, “Do you want a “So even though behaviorally the their research,” says Dean David cookie?” they may respond, “You difference was no longer evident in W. Seybert of the Bayer School of want a cookie.” Or they may even terms of the way they were talking, Natural and Environmental Sciences. refer to themselves by name, avoiding it was definitely still showing up in “The results that Dr. Trun achieved pondering the pronoun. terms of their brain function,” says with her students are remarkable The issue, says Williams, Williams. and could help to redefine science involves two different areas of the Williams, who is concluding a education at all levels.” brain, one in front and one in back, five-year NIH grant with her academic The Critical Thinking Assessment drawing on language skills, as collaborators, hopes to garner funding Test uses 15 essay questions to well as the unanticipated inclusion that will continue her work with measure critical thinking skills at the of perspectives in differentiating language and functional imaging. beginning and the end of a course.

Stress in Salamanders: It’s Not What According to Woodley, stress slows You Might Think down salamanders. This has serious consequences in the salamander world What does it take to stress a salamander? And because they are hampered in foraging what does that creek dweller have to do with and forget to mate; they’re too busy cubicle dwellers? Biologist and researcher Dr. conserving energy to do much else. Sarah Woodley, associate professor in the Bayer Increasing stress levels don’t School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, is necessarily start a domino effect of searching for answers. physiological responses in salamanders. Dr. Sarah Woodley Woodley is focusing on stress and immune While their activity levels slow down system response in 3-inch-long dusky in acidic water, the corticosterone levels salamanders. For three years, Woodley don’t shoot up—and they don’t fall to amphibian pieces. and some of her student recruits have In other studies, Woodley directly tested the effects been looking at different types of of stress hormones by using a dermal patch. The raised environmental and biological stressors hormone level didn’t seem to impact daily salamander for salamanders, seeing how these behavior or affect immune cells in the bloodstream. impact the daily life of a salamander and its However, Woodley and her team noted one significant immune response. change: elevated corticosterone in the blood was Woodley and her team revealed some accompanied by a decrease in body weight. It’s an interesting interesting preliminary findings about their finding, given the human studies that show cortisol tends to small, secretive subjects. Given the general help humans pack the pounds on, especially in the belly. reporting about human stress and its Woodley and her team continue to piece together relationship to sickness and the immune answers. system, they anticipated that stress “We can hope that by studying stress in this unusual could be a life changer for salamanders, species, we can better understand how it functions in human too. What they found is sometimes yes, species,” she says. sometimes no.

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Cyber Security: An Issue Facing the chain a national security issue. Business World’s Smaller Players “You’re only as strong as your weakest link across the supply Leaders of small- and medium-sized businesses chain. You can’t think, ‘I’m not are focused on external cyber security threats, but going to be a target; I’m too small.’ in reality, their companies face greater risk from The data show otherwise.” internal threats, according to a study completed by a Awareness, commitment to Duquesne professor. improving cyber security and The possibility of cyber threats received a low achievement of strategic initiatives Dr. Ken Saban priority from leaders because most see this as a and objectives lead to improved technical issue, not a managerial one, according to Dr. cyber security, Saban found. Ken Saban, associate professor of marketing in the “If I’m highly aware, am I highly committed? If I’m Palumbo•Donahue School of Business and principal highly committed to providing the required resources investigator of the nationwide study supported by a and administering the security policies in place, then $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. my network will naturally be more secure. The question In addition, 85 percent of the executives believed they plaguing the nation is how best to raise the awareness would be less likely to be cyber attacked than a larger and commitment of C-level executives of small and corporation, although evidence shows that cyber medium enterprises. attacks plague businesses of all sizes. “The threats keep changing, so what’s out there “Given that most Internet attacks go unreported, today is going to be different tomorrow,” says Saban. this number severely underestimates the true number “Therefore, management has to make the long-term of attacks and downplays the devastating results,” says commitment to keeping their operations secure. In short, Saban, who considers cyber security across the supply cyber security needs to be a top management priority.”

Among 3,000 “Dr. Trun’s teaching Service Learning, working with students tested collaborators at LaRoche College, nationwide, methods hold the and conducted research on the the difference impact of the method on learning— between freshmen again, with extraordinary results. and seniors was potential to change Using a lecture class as a a 5 point gain. comparison, students remembered In Trun’s class how future scientists 58 percent of the information they’d at Duquesne, Dr. Nancy Trun learned in a lecture-only class students showed learn and think about after five months. With the same a 7 point gain in professor, the same students and the one semester. their research.” same exam, but by implementing “That’s the biggest gain in critical Trun’s Application-Based Service thinking the test developers had ever Learning lab method, students five seen, and the biggest gain measured months later showed an outstanding in critical thinking from over 40 independent and think in the lab. 95 percent retention. institutions using the test around the Active learning is a huge part of “That’s a huge increase in how country,” says Trun. this. Students have to get involved much they learned and how much How did it happen? and interpret the data to determine they retained,” observes Trun, “I think it’s because of the way what experiment to do next. Over who was part of a Duquesne team the class is taught,” says Trun, whose 2,000 peer-reviewed articles say invited to the National Academies Duquesne collaborators include active learning leads to impressive Summer Institute for Undergraduate assistant professors of biology Drs. gains in learning.” Education in Biology at Yale Becky Morrow and Lisa Ludvico. What students learned in University last year. “It’s novel research on a community the process is a point of pride. problem; students become Trun piloted Application-Based

www.duq.edu 37 OT in Poland Duquesne Helping Poland Prepare for First Ever OT Programs

Members of the Department of OT lecturers as they introduce “America is known Occupational Therapy (OT) hosted occupational therapy education, a university professor from Warsaw practice and research in Poland that to help the European Network of is compatible with European and for strong academic Occupational Therapy in Higher World Federation of Occupational Education (ENOTHE) as it prepares Therapy (WFOT) standards. programs and to establish the first OT programs in During his visit to Duquesne, Poland. Gryglewicz was charged with curriculums that Dr. Andrzej Gryglewicz, dean observing and learning how of student affairs and chair of occupational therapy is taught and exceed WFOT rehabilitation psychology at the practiced in the United States to Joseph Pilsudski University of help develop the Polish curricula at Physical Education, visited the OT the four universities involved in the standards.” department in October. ENOTHE partnership. Gryglewicz’s visit was sponsored “This was an excellent by the ENOTHE, through its opportunity to meet, learn about research and service-learning, partnership with the University each other and consider possible according to Crist. School of Physical Education in future exchanges, such as faculty “We also discussed our Krakow, the Academy of Physical collaboration and study abroad,” applied research agenda focused Education in Wroclaw, the Higher says Dr. Patricia Crist, professor on studying the occupation as a School of Administration in Bielsko- of occupational therapy, who construct to create and/or modify Biala and Warsaw’s Pilsudski coordinated the visit. health status and adaptation to University. The four universities Gryglewicz learned how the OT disability,” she says. “We have a and the ENOTHE are working to department implements the practice- major emphasis on training our train 32 Polish academics to become scholar model through coursework, students in the contexts in which they will eventually practice, even in our labs. This includes extensive experiential education off campus and well-developed service-learning opportunities which prepare our students as practice-scholars to embed research in everyday practice to contribute to the knowledge regarding everyday practice questions.” Gryglewicz will examine just two other American universities’ OT programs in addition to Duquesne’s. “America is known for strong academic programs and curriculums that exceed WFOT standards,” says Crist. “There is a strong emphasis that these programs engage in research and not just education. Outside of Europe, Canada and the U.S. are the only countries with an extensive number of universities with faculty doing research Europe will always be accessible to these faculty in Poland, but the opportunity to study occupational therapy in other countries is more challenging and less likely.”

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By George Nieman, A’93

Three years ago, Larry McCoy was finishing up his senior year at George Wythe High School in Wytheville, Va. He was fresh off a successful football season and weighing his options for college. A running back, linebacker and safety, he rushed for 1,075 yards and 15 touchdowns as a senior, helping his team to an 11-2 record and the Hogoheegee District and Region C, Division 2 titles. Despite his accomplishments, he didn’t have a lot of big-time football programs contacting him due to the size and location of his high school. “I wasn’t really heavily recruited out of Wythe, which is a small single A school in the countryside of Virginia, so I wasn’t given the opportunity to explore a lot of the bigger schools,” says McCoy. However, a former Duquesne assistant coach contacted McCoy’s high school coach about Duquesne’s football program. “When my coach told me that Duquesne was interested in me, I assumed it would be to play linebacker,” explains McCoy. “When I found out it was for running back, I was thrilled.” The Duquesne football program has been thrilled as well. McCoy made an immediate impact as a freshman in 2009, earning the starting nod in his first game, and led all rushers with 807 yards and eight touchdowns on the season, despite sharing duties with the incumbent team rushing leader from 2008. He followed that with a 1,291-yard, six-touchdown performance as a sophomore in 2010, and a 1,381-yard, 12-touchdown season in 2011, leading the Dukes to a share of its first Northeast Conference championship. He finished as the third leading rusher in the conference for the season and was named to the NEC All-Conference First Team as a result. McCoy is ranked high on Duquesne’s all-time rushing leaders list and is on pace to finish his career as the University’s all-time leading rusher. He currently sits third in career rushing yards with 3,479 and is fourth with 26 career touchdowns, just seven shy of second place. McCoy attributes his success to a “desire to be the best I can be” and a tireless work ethic. “Work ethic isn’t something you can teach to someone once they reach college—you either have it or you don’t,” says McCoy. “I thank my parents for my work ethic—they did a good job of bringing me up that way.” McCoy enjoys everything Duquesne has to offer, including its religious foundation, the smaller campus setting and the class sizes. “It’s where I’m supposed to be and I’m happy that I’m having the best college career I can possibly have.”

www.duq.edu 39 figures from the past Figures From the Past Professor Joseph A. Rauterkus

In the autumn of 1925, President Hehir brought the Reverend James B. Parent from Belgium and Professor Joseph A. Rauterkus, who had studied in Belgium and at the Carnegie Institute in New York, to the University to develop plans for a School of Music. Although both of these talented young men had ties with the area, they also had a broader, more international exposure. The School of Music was opened in the fall of 1926 with Professor Rauterkus as dean. The school offered a four-year course leading to the B.A. in music and instruction in piano, organ, violin and all the conventional band and orchestral instruments. From the beginning, the School of Music accepted men and women who wished to major in music or pursue an interest. Offerings in the junior and senior years included “melody writing, Gregorian Chant and other forms of musical composition.” Professor Rauterkus also conducted the student “symphony orchestra” and the band. The School of Music grew rapidly; just five years after its founding some 113 students were enrolled. Nearly every school and department had an attendant organization of interested students. Music students and members of the music ensembles organized the Jarmus club in January 1930, taking their name from Rauterkus’ initials and the letters “mus” from music. The Music School still offered an opportunity to participate in the University orchestra, band and Glee Club, although at various times different groups came into existence, including a Polyphonic Choir, a girls’ orchestra, the Madrigal Singers and a Schola Cantorum for the study and performance of sacred music. The 1930s saw a dizzying array of leadership and curriculum changes to the School of Music. Daniel L. Healey, who had been a leading tenor for the Philadelphia Opera, succeeded Rauterkus as dean.

-Excerpted from The Spirit that Gives Life by Dr. Joseph F. Rishel, Professor of History

Peeking INTO THE PAST This 1888 photograph shows the early leadership of the Pittsburgh Catholic College (later known as Duquesne University). Shown seated are: Fr. McDermott, Fr. Griffin, Fr. Murphy, Fr. Strub (college founder), Fr. Roth, Fr.

Willms, and Fr. Quinn. Shown standing are: Fr. Phelan, Fr. Hehir and Fr. Gross.

40 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Winter ’12 our bluff in brief

Special Financial Incentives a graduate credential can enhance New Position Focuses on on Select Graduate their competitive edge, not only in African Programs Programs these tough economic times, but in the future as well.” The newly created Now is a great time to pursue a position of university master’s degree. The number of Additional details on this opportunity are available at www.duq.edu/ coordinator for jobs requiring advanced degrees academic programs continues to grow. The Bureau graduate25. To learn more, contact Todd Eicker, director of graduate in Africa reflects of Labor Statistics estimates that Duquesne’s focus on occupations needing master’s or first admissions, at 412.396.6219 or [email protected]. Africa and the African professional degrees are anticipated diaspora in its current to grow by about 18 percent through Dr. George Worgul Strategic Plan. Dr. 2018. University Celebrates 100 George Worgul, longtime chair of the This year, Duquesne is offering Years of Duquesne Women theology department who has been involved with Spiritan programs in special financial awards for select in the Law graduate programs. New students Africa for more than 20 years, has been tapped to serve in the role. enrolling in the summer 2012 or The School of Law, in conjunction fall 2012 semesters can save 25 with its centennial celebration, The creation of this position means percent on tuition and fees. The paid tribute to its female alumni the institutional commitment takes opportunity applies to nearly one- with A Celebration of 100 Years on a University-wide perspective, third of Duquesne’s roughly 70 of Duquesne Women in Law held according to Worgul. graduate programs. Schools with in October in the Power Center eligible programs include business, Ballroom. “No longer are individual programs education, liberal arts, and natural and departments involved; it’s how, and environmental sciences. The event featured remarks by as a whole, Duquesne University can keynote speaker Linda L. Kelly, become engaged with advancing This financial incentive is one way a 1975 law school graduate who enterprises across Africa,” says for the University to assist those who is the attorney general for the Worgul. “What possibilities are there want to expand their opportunities Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for us to be more formally engaged? through education. “Many students remarks from Gretchen R. Haggerty, Where is it that Spiritans and other have already taken advantage a 1980 law school graduate who is religious communities want to develop of this unique opportunity,” says executive vice president and chief themselves? How is it that Duquesne Todd Eicker, Duquesne’s director financial officer of United States University can best sustain and of graduate admissions. “People Steel Corporation, and Elizabeth support African efforts to develop pursue graduate degrees for a Bailey, a 1947 graduate of the law itself? How can we collaborate in that number of reasons. Many of our school, and its oldest living female development?” students want to advance in their alumnus who also is the oldest law current industry, others are seeking a practitioner in Pennsylvania. Collaborations could be possible career change, and some do it purely across disciplines such as nursing, for the enjoyment of learning.” In addition, the Honorable Donetta health sciences, pharmacy and W. Ambrose, a 1970 graduate of education. Options could include Current economic conditions have the law school, was presented with fully establishing a program in Africa, played a role in some students’ the Carol Los Mansmann Award offering programs taught by visiting decisions to enroll in a graduate for Distinguished Public Service. faculty members who travel to Africa program. “With the slow economic The award is named in honor of the or presenting programs via satellite/ recovery, we’ve seen students former judge and Duquesne alumna online. Future endeavors might who have turned the challenge of and faculty member, who passed expand to include faculty exchanges unemployment or underemployment away from breast cancer in 2002. and study abroad opportunities for into an opportunity to invest their students. time to earn a master’s degree,” says Eicker. “More students realize that

www.duq.edu 41 Bridge, N.J. He also serves on the board understanding among children and youth.” 1950s of directors of Gulf Oil Corporation and The foundation raises and distributes Dr. Frances Irwin, M’54, is on the board Cumberland Farms Dairy, Inc., where he funds to support grassroots peace of the Professional Fraternity Association. serves as chairman of the audit committee. building organizations around the world. She is a former Tamburitzan, immediate He is president of the PRC Group, His commitment to peace building began past international president of Mu Phi headquartered in West Long Branch, N.J. after the loss of his niece and high school Epsilon Music Fraternity and married to friend on Sept. 11, 2001. He recently Bud (Howard) O’Connor, A’68, recently Harry Irwin, M’54. graduated from the Fletcher School of Law planned and co-chaired the first reunion and Diplomacy with a master of arts in Robert J. Maguire, A’58, was re- of his Vietnam line company, Delta Co., international relations. He is a certified public st appointed by the Secretary of the Army as 101 Airborne Div. in Colorado Springs. He accountant and has been the principal of his civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army reported that most of the men had not seen own tax and investment advisory practice for (CASA) for New Jersey, in recognition of his each other for more than 41 years and “the the past 18 years. outstanding abilities and patriotism. Civilian gathering was very healing for them.” aides to the Secretary of the Army are Michael A. Feller, E’78, has formed Laurel business and community leaders selected Highlands Green Energy Co. LLC. He is a by the secretary to advise and support 1970s BPI certified building analyst (energy auditor), Army leaders across the country. He will be Pennsylvania certified weatherization John L. Livingston, A’70, JD’73, was “working on behalf of the Secretary of the installer and certified renovator. LHGECO is recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Army to enhance the relationship between a participating contractor in First Energy’s Award from the Catholic Lawyers Guild the U.S. Army and the civilian community.” Whole House Program and Fayette County’s “for contributions to the profession and the He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps Energy Efficiency Program. The focus of country.” He is magistrate of First Judicial after 20 years of service in the active duty LHGECO is “energy savings through energy District covering domestic, juvenile and and reserve forces and is chairman of Bob audits and the appropriate weatherization small claims in Colorado, currently serves Maguire Chevrolet, Inc. in Bordentown, N.J. techniques.” on the board of directors for Colorado Legal Services and donates time to those Henry Lenard, A’79, has launched In who cannot afford legal assistance. He is Other Words…, a media relations and 1960s the brother of Janet L. Livingston, GE’71, public relations consultancy specializing Carol (Mamula) Morgan, A’63, who has and Ann Livingston, S’77. in business-to-business marketing studied sculpture for many years, sold communications and writing. His Dr. Paul Popp, MBA’72, is co-author (with the statuette, Julia, at the annual Glen experience includes chief marketing and Gary E. Kraus, M.D.) of the novel Body Echo Park Labor Day Art Show and Sale communications officer of Pietragallo Trade, published by L & L Dreamspell. in Maryland. Her watercolor, Paula, has Gordon and director of communications He is a former university professor, senior been accepted into the monthly Art League for Klett Rooney, editor-in-chief of the manager in government and business, and Gallery of Alexandria, and she is exhibiting Pittsburgh Business Times and editor-in- entrepreneur. nine paintings in a solo show at Prince chief for Nets, Inc., a nationally focused print and Internet industrial news publisher. George’s County Community Center in Bob Karlovits, A’74, has written a novel, Maryland. She also has two watercolors in Out of the Blue, available on Kindle and Rosemary Martinelli, A’79, GA’88, the show Transformations at the Del Ray Amazon.com. received the Distinguished Faculty Award Artisans’ show in Alexandria. from the University of Phoenix’s Pittsburgh David Pollock, JD’74, of Pollock Begg campus at the annual commencement Dorothy Garrity Ranaghan, A’64, is the Komar Glasser LLC (PBKG), has been ceremonies. She has been teaching as an author of Blind Spot: War and Christian named to the 2012 edition of The Best adjunct/associate professor for more than Identity from New City Press. She is Lawyers in America for the third year in a eight years. She focuses on courses in married to Kevin Ranaghan and they have row. He is a founding member of PBKG marketing, communications, media studies six children and 12 grandchildren. with nearly four decades of experience in and the humanities. family law and focuses on the economics of Robert Rathke, A’64, retired from ITT pre-marriage agreements, separation and Corporation in Morton Grove, Ill., where he divorces, estate planning, and business was manager, communications for the ITT and family succession planning. 1980s Residential & Commercial Water Group, Americas Region. Also during the past Thomas Etzel, A’77, recently founded the Anthony Buccilli, Jr., B’81, graduated year, his photographs of 1960s and 1970s Global Peace Building Foundation (GPBF), with distinction from Boston University Pittsburgh were published in three books. www.globalpeacebuilding.org, a “non-profit with a master’s of computer information corporation supporting organizations that systems with a concentration in database Kenneth T. Koehler, B’68, recently joined are engaged in cultivating global peace management and business intelligence. He the board of directors of Amboy Bank, Old th by promoting unity, compassion and celebrated his 30 anniversary with PPG

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of the Defense Bar, a 22,000-member Alumni Spotlight national lawyer organization. He is principal shareholder at Picadio Sneath Miller & Michael L. Foreman, L’79, clinical professor Norton, P.C., and specializes in commercial and director and founder of the Civil Rights Appellate and intellectual property litigation, pharmaceutical and products liability Clinic at Penn State University Dickinson School of defense and insurance coverage litigation, Law, recently presented an oral argument in front and has tried more than 90 cases to verdict of the U.S. Supreme Court. His appearance before in federal and state court. the Supreme Court, which not many lawyers can claim, happened in January. The case, Coleman v. Christine White Taylor, GE’83, Ed.D.’98, Maryland Court of Appeals, focuses on an Eleventh Amendment a consultant/project manager, was elected issue related to the Family and Medical Leave Act. a board member of Sojourner House. Sojourner House provides “faith-based Prior to joining Penn State, Foreman was deputy director of residential treatment and other services to legal programs for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under addicted women and their children to break Law, where he supervised litigation in employment discrimination, the intergenerational cycle.” housing, education, voting rights and environmental justice matters. He is a former acting deputy general counsel for the U.S. Linda Meyer, N’84, radiation oncology Commission on Civil Rights, where he served as the lead attorney nurse manager of the West Penn Allegheny for the commission’s investigation of the voting irregularities in the Health System Radiation Oncology 2000 presidential election. Network, has earned the 2011 American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) He previously served as a clinical supervisor in the Southern Nurse Excellence Award. This national Methodist University School of Law Civil Clinic and supervised a civil award is presented “to one nurse per rights advocacy clinic at Harvard Law School. year who goes above and beyond the normal standards of nursing practice, who demonstrates excellence in direct patient care delivered in a hospital or clinic setting, Industries/Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC, contributed a chapter to the Best Practice and consistently portrays a positive image and currently is the manager of information and Research Clinical Gastroenterology, of the field of nursing within ASTRO, his or services at the Evansville, Ind., facility. published by Elsevier Ltd. The chapter, her institution and with the community.” Medico-legal aspects and concerns in Patricia Dodge, JD’81, partner at quality assurance in the United States, Patricia Pelino, A’84, client relationship Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, has been elected “focuses on the potential vulnerabilities of manager for corporate real estate at BNY president of the Academy of Trial Lawyers quality assurance programs and data, and Mellon, was elected board secretary of Allegheny County. The purpose of the the legal concerns related to disclosure of of Sojourner House. Sojourner House academy is “to achieve social justice by the information.” He also presented at the provides “faith-based residential treatment promoting sustained intellectual discourse annual meeting of the south central section and other services to addicted women and among its members and judges to of the American Urological Association in their children to break the intergenerational foster development, improvement and San Antonio, where he discussed “the key cycle.” accomplishment of the highest quality of elements of avoiding medical malpractice Marie Milie Jones, A’85, L’87, was advocacy in the courts.” She was also claims, including creating loyalty in awarded the St. Thomas More Award, the appointed as a hearing committee member the doctor-patient relationship, proper highest honor given by the St. Thomas serving the disciplinary board of the post-adverse event communication and More Society for Catholic lawyers. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and was documentation that works.” He was also annual award, presented by the St. Thomas chosen as the Pittsburgh 2012 Product a presenter at the American College of More Society and approved by the Bishop, Liability Litigation-Defendants Lawyer of Surgeons 2011 surgery resident program in coincides with the Red Mass, where the Year by Best Lawyers. She has more San Francisco. than 30 years of experience as a trial guidance and blessings are sought for the attorney and has represented a wide range Janese Hexon, E’83, hosted her encore bench and bar. She practices law in the of foreign and domestic corporations, solo exhibition in a gallery in Chelsea, N.Y., recently formed boutique litigation firm of municipal agencies and individuals in during September. She received positive and JonesPassodelis, PLLC, where she focuses business litigation, product liability, and enthusiastic reviews from New York critics of on employment and civil rights matters. domestic and international arbitration her first show and introduced new bronzes She is the chair of Duquesne University’s proceedings. “reflecting her vision of contemporary Board of Directors and is a member of the representative sculpture.” Her work can be Board of Regents of St. Vincent Seminary. James W. Saxton, JD’82, chair of viewed at hexonstudios.com. Stevens & Lee’s health care litigation Sr. Linda Rettstatt, CSJ, A’85, is the group and co-chair of the health care Henry M. Sneath, JD’83, was recently author of Reinventing Christmas, her 10th department, and Stephanie Sher Unger installed as president of DRI–The Voice novel available from Champagne Books

www.duq.edu 43 and Amazon.com. Four of her books have Company in Chicago, which prints the the stewardship of AFP, which provides been finalists for EPCI eBook Awards. She Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago financial services, wealth management, works for Sacred Heart Southern Missions Lawyer Magazine. retirement planning, estate planning and and lives in Southaven, Miss. insurance planning services for individuals Colleen M. Burke, A’95, GA’96, and business. He is also the lead partner Ph.D.’05, was tenured and promoted to on business development, client relations, 1990s associate professor, communication studies operations, legal, and compliance, while at Westminster College. participating in investment management Francis J. Schultz, A’90, JD’95, currently John M. Tedder, JD’96, has joined oversight. AFP currently has offices in serving his third term as district attorney of Sherrard, German & Kelly, P.C. as a Pennsylvania, Colorado and Arizona, Crawford County, was elected president director. He has experience in both with clients in 18 states. AFP has plans of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys construction and commercial litigation/ to open an office in Boston in 2012. He Association. He is chairman of the transactional matters representing previously served in executive roles with Crawford County Victim/Witness Policy commercial and industrial owners, Mellon Financial Corp, Babson Capital Board and the Crawford County Domestic sureties, design professionals, contractors, Management and GMO. He is the founder Violence/Sexual Assault Advisory Board, subcontractors and suppliers. He authored and chairman of the board of the Jumet chairman of the Crawford County Prison the Project Performance and Termination Charitable Foundation. Board, and a member of the Child Death chapter in Pennsylvania Construction Law: Review Team and the Criminal Justice Suzanne E. Miller, Ed.D.’97, had a peer- Getting Started, Getting Covered, Getting Advisory Board. He was also appointed reviewed paper published by the University Paid, published by the Pennsylvania Bar to the Attorney General’s Medical/Legal of Oxford, which described “the results of Institute in 2010. Advisory Board. her study she created involving the use Jan F. Jumet, JD’97, MS-Tax’01, of contemporary and classic children’s Tina M. Boni, GA’91, was recently recently announced the opening of a books to help students distinguish between promoted to base service unit supervisor new office in Scottsdale for the financial leaders and bullies.” at Centerville Clinics, Inc., a non-profit planning and investment services firm he community mental health center in rural Denise A. Morelli, GE’97, was promoted co-founded in 2006, Allocated Financial southwestern Pennsylvania. She recently by the Allegheny Intermediate Unit to Planning (www.allocatedfinancial.com). As married Mark Brossman. the position of director of the non-public a founding partner, he is responsible for schools program. She is “responsible Daniel L. DeMarco, JD’93, vice president and general counsel of The Hill Group, Inc., was elected first vice chair of the Congress of Neighboring Communities (CONNECT). Alumni Spotlight CONNECT “promotes cooperation and collaboration between the city of Pittsburgh Shirley Powe Smith, Ph.D’05, has received a 2011 and the 35 municipalities that share a Cameos of Caring Award for nurse-educators. common border with the city.” He has also The award was created by the University of Pittsburgh served as commissioner of the first ward of Ross Township since 2000, and serves School of Nursing to recognize nurses in Western on the board of trustees of the Northland Pennsylvania who embody the highest ideals of the Public Library. As vice president of The profession. Since 2006, the award has recognized the Hill Group, he provides leadership and efforts of nurse-educators as well as nurses in clinical oversees human resources activities, and practice. as general counsel, he advises the firm on An expert in the field of community health nursing as well as a widely legal affairs, provides legal representation acknowledged humanitarian and educator, Smith retired after 25 years of and analysis of legal issues, and service to Duquesne. She most recently served as assistant professor and administers contracts. coordinator for continuing education for the School of Nursing. Dr. Tracy (Stein) Vitale, E’93, was Smith was the first African American graduate of Duquesne’s Ph.D. in appointed as the superintendent of Nursing program and has worked tirelessly over the years to make sure that schools of the Seneca Valley School minorities, as well as economically or educationally disadvantaged students, District, the first female and youngest the can choose nursing, do well in nursing school and begin their careers. district has ever hired. Previously held Last year, Smith’s nursing faculty colleagues established a scholarship positions include assistant superintendent fund in her honor to help minority and disadvantaged students become and principal of Seneca Valley Middle nurses. This was the second nursing scholarship at Duquesne named School. She began her career as an in her honor, a clear acknowledgment of Smith’s academic leadership, English teacher. professionalism and commitment to improve community health. Adam Music, A’94, is the associate new media editor at Law Bulletin Publishing

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Alumni Spotlight

Thomas Castriota, A’75, of the Castriota Chevrolet dealership in Hudson, Fla., was recently named the 2011 TIME Dealer of the Year. Castriota received the honor out of a select group of dealers from across the country recognized at the 94th annual National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention & Exposition in San Francisco. The award, sponsored by TIME in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA, is one of the automobile industry’s most prestigious and highly coveted awards. Recipients are among the nation’s most successful auto dealers, but they must also demonstrate a long-standing commitment to community service. In the area of community service, Castriota has a long and distinguished record of giving; he has served or continues to serve many charitable and non-profit organizations. He also has a distinguished military career. In 1975, Castriota was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S Marine Corps. He spent 26 years on active and reserve duty. After retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2001, Castriota was recalled to active duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. For his service, he was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. Castriota and his wife, Anita, live in the Tampa area and have two children, Alex and Chrissy.

for the oversight of the agency’s non- in Midland, Pa. He is senior regional of the professional writing program at public schools program, which serves manager for the National Association of the University of Maryland, College Park. approximately 150 private and non-public Manufacturers (for Pa., Md., W.Va. and Previously, he was an assistant professor at schools in Allegheny County.” She has Ky.), where he has worked for 24 years. He West Virginia University. been an educator for 33 years, has also serves on the Pennsylvania Finance completed her coursework in Duquesne’s Authority Board and the Beaver County Dr. Thomas Oberst, S’01, A’01, assistant ILEAD doctoral program and is completing Transit Authority Board. professor of physics at Westminster her dissertation. College, is the lead author of an article Melissa (McKay) Vautier, B’99, is the published in the October edition of The Rex Olson, GA’97, Ph.D.’02, director of co-founder of bootiebitz (www.bootiebitz. Astrophysical Journal. The article presents counseling services at Alfred State College, com), a start-up venture featuring products “novel observations of the Carina Nebula, served as a discussant at the symposium, for boots that allow children to “bring their one of the largest and closest star-forming Psychology as a STEM Discipline and as unique style to otherwise uniform boots.” It regions in the Milky Way.” Logos of the Soul: The Critical Necessity is a “personalized accessory that is easily of the Humanities for Psychological attached to any boot.” She is married to Joshua Gregson, GA’03, Ph.D.’03, Science, at the American Psychological Brian Vautier, B’99. has joined Cognitive Dynamic Therapy Association conference in Washington, Associates, a multi-specialty psychology D.C. He “sought to provide a theoretical group practice with offices in Oakland and context for how we should understand the 2000s Wexford. He concentrates his practice deep division in psychology today between on psychotherapy for adults and children its scientific and humanistic forms.” Giséle Blondeau, M’00, is now playing in facing issues related to depression, young the Radio Orchestra in Cologne, Germany adults dealing with the pressures of college Vince Rodi, GE’97, has celebrated 10 (WDR Rundfunkorchester). and children experiencing behavioral years as the regional sales consultant for problems. He has been seeing clients for Herff Jones, Inc., provider of the University’s Kristen Budris, A’00, JD’03, conflicts eight years and has conducted research graduation products. analyst for the office of general counsel at in childhood depression at Western K&L Gates, was elected a board member of Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh. Michael Grandinetti, B’99, master Sojourner House. Sojourner House provides illusionist, was the featured guest performer “faith-based residential treatment and other Cassandra Pritts, GA’03, received a with the Grand Rapids Symphony services to addicted women and their full-time history instructor position at Orchestra in October. He performed original children to break the intergenerational cycle.” Potomac State College of West Virginia visual illusions that captured “the essence University. In addition to teaching classes and emotion of each musical score.” A.J. Rick Vaccarelli, GE’00, has been and advising students, she also serves named the advertising director of the on the honors program committee and Jerry A. Hodge, GLPA’99, was elected Pittsburgh Business Times. the character counts committee. She was president of the Lincoln Park Performing previously employed at Frostburg State Arts Charter School board of directors Scott Wible, A’00, was promoted to associate professor of English and director University, the Allegany County Historical

www.duq.edu 45 Community College. He teaches history In Memoriam at the downtown campus.

Derrick Bell, A’52, a scholar, teacher Denise McNulty, DNP’10, has and activist who wrote extensively about the been appointed associate director of progress of racial reform in the United States and the RN to BSN program and interim contributed key writings that helped form the director of nursing for Edison State critical race theory movement in the 1970s, died College in Florida. She is responsible Oct. 5. for the District School of Nursing, which is comprised of three campuses Bell’s casebook, Race, Racism and American located in Fort Myers, Naples and Port Law, is used widely in law schools across the Charlotte, and her primary task will country. In addition to his far-reaching impact be working on the initial accreditation as a teacher and scholar, Bell championed the cause of civil rights of the RN to BSN program. She has outside the classroom. He leveraged his positions as the first tenured been a faculty member at Edison African American professor at Harvard Law School and the first since 2004, and maintains a private practice where she provides therapy to African American dean of the University of Oregon School of Law individuals, couples and families. Her to challenge law schools around the country to embrace diversity in clinical specialty is women’s health, their hiring practices. psychiatric and addictions nursing. She Since 1990, he was a full-time visiting professor at NYU School is the co-chair of the Florida Nurses of Law. Association Collier County Chapter and chair of the Future of Nursing Task Force–Southwest Florida Region.

Society of Maryland and the Queen City a Ph.D. in psychology at Duquesne so that David Rigsby, LPA’10, is director of Transportation Museum. he can help soldiers suffering from post- athletics at Willamette University in Salem, traumatic stress disorder and their families. Ore. Dr. Matthew C. Gornick, S’04, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Michele P. Sabo, JD’04, associate Jessica Davis, E’11, has embarked on Orthodontics Residency and is now an attorney for elder law offices of Shields a year of full-time volunteer service with orthodontist practicing at Grady, Kastner and Boris, was elected a board member Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest at and Gornick Orthodontics in the North Hills. of Sojourner House. Sojourner House the St. Paul Mission Grade School, Hays, provides “faith-based residential treatment Mont. Douglas M. Hall, LPA’04, was named and other services to addicted women and vice president of information technology their children to break the intergenerational David Fath, A’11, is an anchor at FOX in of the NORCAL Group. He will manage cycle.” Marquette, Mich. an integrated IT department that serves NORCAL Mutual, PMSLIC and other Heather (Kasper) Lucci, HS’05, GHS’06, companies in the NORCAL Group. is a physician assistant in family medicine for Marriages Genesis Medical Associates in Pittsburgh. Elizabeth A. Kort, Pharm.D.’04, was She is married to Michael Lucci, HS’04, Vivian Helen Lauer, A’74, GE’76, married named the 2011 Distinguished Young GHS’05. Dr. W. H. Segur. Pharmacist of the Year in Maryland, sponsored by Pharmacists Mutual Timothy C. Fish, A’06, has been Companies. promoted to U.S. project control specialist DU Magazine Wins with Westinghouse Electric in Cranberry Michael Lucci, HS’04, GHS’05, works as Township, Pa. Best in Show a physician assistant in vascular surgery at Forbes Regional Hospital. He is married to Caitlin (Mahar) Rounds, A’07, was hired Duquesne University Heather (Kasper) Lucci, HS’05, GHS’06. as a project manager by Eric Mower and Magazine received an award Associates. She will be responsible for of excellence and Best in Richard Sean Parnell, A’04, will be “managing the execution of multi-channel Show for publication design releasing his first book, Outlaw Platoon marketing campaigns that span both digital from the 2011 Golden Triangle (with John Bruning, HarperCollins and traditional mediums for a number of Awards of IABC Pittsburgh. Publishers), about his experience in combat EMA clients.” She is also on the board The awards were handed out in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, of directors for the Priscilla Mahar Animal at the 32nd annual awards Afghanistan. He is a recently retired Welfare Foundation. dinner in October. Duquesne U.S. army captain and airborne ranger, competed against 107 and while deployed to Afghanistan was Matthew Walsh, GA’07, GE’08, was entries from across Western awarded two Bronze Stars with Valor and recently voted as the “Most Inspiring Pennsylvania, and had four of a Purple Heart. He is currently completing Teacher” by students at Des Moines Area the 65 winners.

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Tina M. Boni, GA’91, married Mark Isabella Marie, daughter of Nicholas Brossman. Patrick Falcone, A’04, and Dana Falcone.

Julie Alise Dickson, N’99, GN’04, Cameron Hallam, son of Amanda (Snyder) In 15 Minutes married Light Michaelangelo Giuffre. Hallam, M’05, and Adam Hallam, M’05. You Could Help Casey Kuyweski, E’01, married Stephen Morgan Ashley, daughter of Amber Biser. (Lerach) Kolesar, N’05, MSN’10, and Change Our Paul Kolesar. Alexis Miller, A’06, married Michael Lubianetsky, S’06, GS’06. Francesca Lyn, daughter of Kristy World! (Cherillo) Drizos, Pharm.D.’08, and Pete Every year we survey undergrad Debbie Pruss, Pharm.D.’06, married Drizos. Daniel Hiller. and first professional degree alumni who graduated five years and one Katie Judge, HS’07, GHS’08, married year ago. This means YOU if your Daniel Phillips, A’07, B’07. In Memoriam graduation date was December 2005, May 2006, August 2006, December Douglas Stockey, B’08, married Sarah John E. Hughes, B’39 2010, May 2011 or August 2011. Warfield. Anna Marie (Ree) Ponstingl, E’40 Kristen Murtha, Pharm.D.’10, married Make your voice heard so we Raymond Donelli, E’47 Ken Thomas, Pharm.D.’09. can make Duquesne even William H. Davidson, B’52 better—help change our world! New Arrivals James F. Sweenie, A’60 The survey will ask about your Donald (Don) J. Hastings, B’61 Elena Concetta, daughter of Antonette undergraduate experiences with (Pietropaolo) Farrah, P’95, and Joseph John G. “Jack” Lentz, A’61 academics, campus support units and Farrah. student life. Your answers will help Bill Stromple, A’63 us to better understand what worked John “Jack” Francis, son of Sara (Wilson) and didn’t work for you so that we Perez, A’95, and John Perez. Thomas F. “Tom” Sheehan, A’64 can continue to improve Duquesne for Eamon Michael, son of Sheila (Burke) Marilyn H. Kauczka, E’66 future generations of students. Duffy, JD’96, and John Duffy. Manuel Shapiro, B’66 Survey Dates: Caden Elias, son of Marnie (Goldblum) March 5-March 25, 2012 Irma I. Rizzo Downham, GE’69 Eckert, A’99, GE’03, and Chad Eckert. Sr. Mary Frances Werner, E’73 Survey Location: Adrian Joseph, son of Courtney (Villella) www.duq.edu/alumni-survey Williams, A’99, GE’01, and Luke Williams. Barbara A. Sullivan, N’74 iPad? Leo William, son of Lia (Neill) Wentworth, You can enter a drawing to win a free A’00, and Jason Wentworth, B’98. iPad. We’re giving away 3 iPads to say Landon, son of Jeff Raver, B’02, MBA’06, “thanks.” and Heather Raver.

Anna Catherine, daughter of Kelly (Hulse) DeMille, E’03, and Marc DeMille. Please send us your personal and Makayla Grace, daughter of Stacey professional news for inclusion in (Bergamasco) Driehorst, Pharm.D.’03, Duquesne University Magazine: and Michael Driehorst, B’02. E-mail: [email protected] Reagan Vjera, daughter of Kimberly Mail: Duquesne University Sever, Pharm.D.’03, and Dustin Cesarek. Magazine Anthony Richard, son of Linda Kay c/o Alumni Updates (Vasselo) Weaver, E’03, A’03, and Mark Duquesne University Joseph Weaver. 406 Koren Building 600 Forbes Ave. Madelyn Christine, daughter of Erin Pittsburgh, PA 15282 (Donovan) Benacquista, A’04, and Eric Benacquista.

www.duq.edu 47 charitable bequest

The Mechanics of a Bequest Including a gift to Duquesne University in your will, I may own or to which I may in any way be entitled at living trust or other document of donative intent is easy the time of my death, including any lapsed or renounced to accomplish and provides you with significant benefits. legacies or devises, but excluding any property Known as a charitable bequest, this type of gift provides over which I may have a power of appointment (my the following: “Residuary Estate”), shall be distributed to Duquesne University, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be • Simplicity. While a will or trust can appear to be an used for the University’s areas of greatest need. overwhelmingly complicated legal document—and in some cases it is—most charitable bequests can It is possible that your bequest, as originally stated, be added to an existing estate plan with just a few might be impossible to fulfill at the time of death. sentences. Therefore, it is helpful to include language that provides for an alternative use for the funds. • Flexibility. Circumstances may change, and a gift to the University in a will may no longer be possible • I hereby bequeath the sum of Fifty-Thousand Dollars at some future date. Family and friends come first, ($50,000) to Duquesne University of Pittsburgh, which is why a bequest is so attractive to so many Pennsylvania, for the addition of a new stained glass donors—you can change your mind at any time. window in the Chapel. The design of the stained glass • Versatility. A charitable bequest can be structured to window shall be chosen by the University Chaplain. A leave a specific amount of money or a percentage of plaque shall be erected beside the door indicating that your estate. the window was donated in memory of John Doe. In the event that this sum is insufficient to add a stained glass • Tax Relief. If your estate is subject to estate tax (and window, or if the structure of the church prevents its with today’s ever-changing political climate, who inclusion, I hereby direct that these funds shall be added knows whether that will be the case), your charitable to any existing Chapel maintenance fund. In the event bequest is entitled to an estate tax charitable that no such fund exists, I hereby direct that these funds deduction for the full value of the gift. be designated for the then current University Chaplain to use at his discretion.

You may choose to bequeath specific property—cash, While it is impossible to plan for all contingencies, at securities, real estate, personal property—to Duquesne. the very least, one alternative distribution scheme should You can choose to designate a specific amount of cash be presented. or a percentage of your estate to the University. Using When planning a bequest—a gift that will not a percentage method is the most flexible way for you to materialize until some point in the future—it is sometimes make a bequest, as the gift automatically changes with the difficult to determine what percentage or amount will best size of the estate. You can also donate tangible property, suit your situation. We realize that circumstances change such as stock or artwork. and your gift to us in your will may no longer be possible at some future date. Your family and friends come first, • I hereby bequeath to Duquesne University and we respect and appreciate that you can change your (“University”), a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation, mind at any time. located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [the sum of $ Duquesne University offers sample bequest language ] OR [the following securities/tangible personal to you and your advisers on our website: www.duq.edu/ property/real estate] OR [ % of my estate] to giftplanning. There are also a number of excellent articles be used for the University’s areas of greatest need. and informative guides to assist you in creating a will and including a charitable bequest. A residuary bequest is one by which you convey If you have named Duquesne as a beneficiary in all remaining property, after the payment of debts and your will or living trust, but have not yet informed the specific bequests, i.e., the “residue,” to the University. University, or if you wish to become a member of the Father McAnulty Society by including a bequest to • All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, of Duquesne University, please contact the Office of Gift whatsoever nature and wheresoever situate and which Planning at 412.396.4279 or [email protected].

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Feb. 23, 2012 March 22, 2012 For more information or to register, please visit www.duq.edu/forensics Philadelphia-area Law Alumni An Afternoon with Judge Richard or contact 412.396.1330 or Reception Posner [email protected]. 6-8:30 p.m. 4 p.m. Maggiano’s Little Italy (12th and Filbert Power Center Ballroom streets) For more information, contact May 18, 2012 For more information, contact 412.396.6216 or [email protected]. Forensic Fridays: Shaken Baby 412.396.6216 or [email protected]. Syndrome: Clinical, Investigative and March 25-30, 2012 Legal Perspectives Presented by The Cyril H. Wecht Feb. 24, 2012 Greek Week Institute of Forensic Science and Law Ethics in Community Counseling For more information, contact 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Workshop Sponsored by Chi Sigma 412.396.6651 or [email protected]. Power Center Ballroom Iota and the Counselor Education For more information or to register, Program March 30, 2012 please visit www.duq.edu/forensics 12-3 p.m. Greek Sing or contact 412.396.1330 or 108 Canevin Hall 7 p.m. [email protected]. For more information, contact Joe Union Ballroom Behun at [email protected]. For more information, contact May 31 & June 1, 2012 412.396.6651 or [email protected]. March 10, 2012 3rd Annual Dr. Barbara A. Sizemore Urban Initiative Summer Conference Phi Kappa Theta-Monte Carlo Night April 19-20, 2012 Duquesne University Power Center 8 p.m. Simon Silverman Phenomenology For more information, contact Union Ballroom Center Presents 30th Annual Melissa Price at [email protected] or For more information, contact Symposium: Phenomenology and its 412.396.1852, or visit 412.396.6651 or [email protected]. Critics www.duq.edu/sizemore/urban- 9 a.m.–5 p.m. initiatives-mini-conference. March 16, 2012 Africa Room, Student Union Alpha Sigma Tau-Miss Duquesne For more information, contact Pageant 412.396.6038 or phenomenology@duq. The Duquesne University 7 p.m. edu. Alumni Association Union Ballroom For more information, contact April 20, 2012 406 Administration Building 600 Forbes Avenue 412.396.6651 or [email protected]. The 60th Annual Law Alumni Reunion Pittsburgh, PA 15282 Dinner www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu March 16, 2012 5 p.m. [email protected] Forensic Fridays: The Role of Power Center Ballroom 1.800.456.8338 Private Investigators in Forensic For more information, contact (1.800.I.LOVE.DU) Investigation 412.396.6216 or [email protected]. or 412.396.6209 Presented by The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law April 20, 2012 1-4:30 p.m. Forensic Fridays: The Role of Legal Africa Room, Duquesne University Nurse Consultants in Forensic For more information or to register, Investigation please visit www.duq.edu/forensics Presented by The Cyril H. Wecht or contact 412.396.1330 or Institute of Forensic Science and Law [email protected]. 1-4:30 p.m. 505/506 Rockwell Hall

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