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PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume X • Number 31 • November 16, 2009 Phil Williams Named Posvar Chair, Director of Matthew B. Ridgway Center The City of ’s For International Security Studies By Amanda Leff Ritchie Unfair-share Tax

Phil Williams, Pitt professor of public This is the print version of which would place one of the region’s key and international affairs, has been named those portions of Chancellor economic engines at a clear competitive the holder of the Wesley W. Posvar Chair in disadvantage, is even more striking. International Security Studies within Pitt’s Mark A. Nordenberg’s Nov. 11, As calculated today, the amount of Graduate School of Public and International 2009, report to the Senate Council this tuition tax would range from $27 for Affairs (GSPIA). He is also the new direc- that relate to the city’s proposed a CCAC student to more than $400 for a tor of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for CMU student, with the typical Pitt charge International Security Studies, which is part “tuition tax.” falling somewhere in between. That itself is of both GSPIA and Pitt’s University Center a burden, and it is critical to remember that for International Studies (UCIS). Four months and eleven days into this is just today’s calculation. One week “Phil Williams will do an outstanding the new fiscal year, we still are waiting ago, the city administration was advocating job as Posvar Chair and Ridgway Center for the Commonwealth’s budget, includ- for a tax tied to a percentage calculation that director,” said John T.S. Keeler, dean of ing our appropriation, to be finalized. To included not only tuition but also room and GSPIA. “His stature as one of the world’s some extent, we are being held hostage to board charges and other fees, which would leading experts on transnational organized disagreements over particular provisions have produced an even higher number. And, crime will attract a steady flow of scholars in gaming legislation now under consider- if the city is allowed to collect 1 percent and officials to the center. In addition, as ation. We also are the victims of an unusu- today, there is nothing that stands in the one of GSPIA’s most inspiring and popular ally contentious climate in the Capitol. way of it collecting a higher percentage in teachers, he is well positioned to engage our Almost every day, I get messages that some the future. students in Ridgway activities.” Phil Williams small steps in a positive direction have been Also, because the imposition of this tax Williams, who previously served as taken in Harrisburg. Those messages are is tied to the vague concept of the “privi- the Ridgway Center director from 1992 ungoverned spaces, and drug trafficking a cause for some hope, but we still do not lege” of engaging in some activity within through 2001, has published extensively in through West Africa. In 2007-09, he was a have an appropriation, and even as the state the borders of the City of Pittsburgh, there the field of international security, includ- visiting research professor at the Strategic is failing to give, the city is attempting to is almost no limit to what might become the ing the books Crisis Management (Wiley, Studies Institute, the U.S. Army War Col- take away. target of future tax efforts. Even in the last 1976), The Senate and U.S. Troops in lege, where he wrote two monographs—The All of you, I am sure, have read of few days, the mayor was considering, to give Europe (St. Martin’s Press, 1986), and, New Dark Age: The Decline of the State the mayor’s plan, announced on Monday one other concrete example, the imposition with Mike Bowker, Superpower Detente: and U.S. Strategy (U.S. Army War College, [Nov. 9, 2009], to impose a tuition tax on of a tax on the privilege of receiving medical A Reappraisal (Sage Publications Ltd, 2008) and Criminals, Militias, and Insur- all students attending institutions of higher treatment in the city. 1987). During the last gents: Organized Crime learning in the City of Pittsburgh. As you Two tellingly differing perspectives 16 years, his research Williams has been a in Iraq (U.S. Army War also know, the education and health ser- on the city’s authority to collect a tuition has focused primarily College, 2009). vices sector has become an increasingly tax without legislative authorization were on transnational orga- consultant to both the Williams received his important part of the regional economy offered in an article in Wednesday [Nov. 11] nized crime and he PhD degree from the Uni- measured in virtually every way, but espe- morning’s edition of the Pittsburgh Post- has written articles on United Nations Office of versity of Southampton, cially in terms of job growth. We now are Gazette. The chair of the Senate Education various aspects of this England, and his bachelor’s the region’s largest employment sector and Committee stated clearly that such a tax subject in the journals Drugs and Crime and U.S. and master’s degrees from are the only sector that has added jobs each could not be imposed without legislative Survival, Washington the University College of and every year since 1995. approval. He then went on to say, “When Quarterly, The Bul- government agencies and Wales. If the mayor’s plan was to become law, times already are tough for students and letin on Narcotics, also has given The University of we also would be the nation’s only higher families, why would we add to this expense Crime Law and Social Pittsburgh established the education sector subject to such taxation. and why would Pittsburgh put itself at Change, and Inter- congressional testimony Posvar Chair to honor late Particularly given the very positive national such a disadvantage, particularly to tax an national Peacekeep- Pitt chancellor Wesley and international attention that Pittsburgh enterprise (higher education) that is actually ing, and in Scientific on organized crime. He Posvar, who died on July has received for the remarkable develop- working in their city?” American. In addi- 27, 2001. Posvar, who had ment of its “new knowledge economy,” tion, Williams was was a joint author for a been a Brigadier General in the self-defeating nature of this approach, Continued on page 2 founding editor of the the U.S. Air Force, served journal Transnational United Nations study on as chancellor of the Uni- Organized Crime and versity from 1967 to 1991 A UNIFIED, RESOUNDING “NO” has edited several pub- offshore financial centers and was renowned for his lications on combat- early recognition of the ing organized crime and money laundering. importance of international and the trafficking of Most recently, he has studies, establishing UCIS women. during his years as Pitt’s Williams has been focused on alliances leader. He was a trustee of a consultant to both the the Carnegie Endowment United Nations Office among criminal organiza- for International Peace, of Drugs and Crime an advisory trustee of the and U.S. government tions, as well as on terror- Rand Corporation, and a agencies and also has founder and president of given congressional ist finances, drugs, and the International Studies testimony on orga- violence in Mexico, and Association. The Posvar nized crime. He was Chair is always held by the a joint author for a complexity theory and professor who also serves United Nations study as director of Pitt’s Ridg- on offshore financial intelligence analysis. way Center. centers and money The Matthew B. Ridg- laundering. Most recently, he has focused way Center for International Security MIKE DRAZDZINSKI/CIDDE on alliances among criminal organizations, Studies was established at the University Eight local college and university presidents held a Nov. 10 news conference Downtown to voice their as well as on terrorist finances, drugs and of Pittsburgh in 1988 under the auspices of opposition to the mayor of Pittsburgh’s proposed 1 percent privilege tax on tuition for undergraduate college violence in Mexico, and complexity theory GSPIA and UCIS. Dedicated to the Ameri- students in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education (PCHE) organized the conference and and intelligence analysis. In 2001 and can general whom many historians credit participants vowed to fight the proposed tax. “We cannot afford to have extra burdens placed upon our 2002, Williams spent a year at the U.S. with saving the U.S. position after China’s students,” said Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg (above). Behind Nordenberg, from left, are Candace Computer Emergency Readiness Team, intervention in the Korean War, the center Introcaso, La Roche College president; Mary Hines, president and PCHE chair; and Paul where he worked on intelligence analysis addresses in innovative ways new security for cyberthreats and financial cybercrime. challenges facing the United States and the Hennigan, president. He also has worked on terrorist finances, international community. 2 • Pitt Chronicle • November 16, 2009 The City of Pittsburgh’s Newsmakers Unfair-share Tax

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DIPPY SIDES The executive director of the House WITH THE PANTHERS Finance Committee offered a different opin- ion. He stated that the city probably did not gets into spirit, sport- need state approval and noted that the Local ing a 20-foot Pitt Panther scarf. The Tax Enabling Act’s nickname was “the tax dinosaur stands proudly outside the anything act.” If he is correct in his inter- pretation, that is the type of over-reaching Carnegie Museum of Natural History legislation that every citizen should fear. on , . It is a The member institutions of the Pitts- replica of carnegii, which burgh Council on Higher Education have was named after consulted with both tax counsel and litiga- and was the first dinosaur ever housed tion counsel and are confident that the pro- in the museum. Dippy’s donning of posed tax cannot withstand legal challenge. the winter apparel occurred as Pitt’s Among other things, this means that the football team prepared to battle foundation upon which the city’s budget is Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish on Nov. being built is not sound. That is unfortunate 14 at . The last time Pitt for everyone who cares about the city. Contextually, let me offer just a few defeated Notre Dame at home was in additional thoughts. The mayor has labeled 1999. Surely, with a dinosaur on the this a “Fair Share” tax. Viewed from a range Panthers’ side ... of perspectives, though, this proposal is fundamentally unfair. (1) The only real hole that needs to be filled in this budget is the one tied to the MORGAN KELLY/PC MORGAN city’s large unfunded pension obligation.

That problem is the product of generations of GIGLIO HARRY financial inattentiveness from city leaders. It Mark A. Nordenberg TELLING AN UNTOLD STORY hardly seems fair to now place the burden of dealing with that long-developing problem only a proposal—which means that there on the shoulders of the current generation are continuing opportunities for interested of students. persons, in addition to the institutions of the (2) In presenting this tax, the mayor used Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education, to a number of examples tied to the income and have an impact on an important law-making property taxes he pays and that certain coun- process that is still unfolding. cil members pay and that ordinary citizens Pitt continues to be deeply commit- pay and suggests that students pay no such ted to the city and makes many important taxes in support of whatever services they contributions both to Pittsburgh’s economic may consume. However, fairness requires strength and to its social vibrancy. Just this the acknowledgment that any student who fall, in fact, the University was the country’s lives and works in the city pays income taxes top-ranked public university in the Saviors to the city and that any student who lives of our Cities survey, assessing the impact of off-campus also pays property taxes – most America’s “best neighbor universities” on of the time indirectly, through rent payments their urban communities. We fully intend HERB MITCHELL that support the taxes that landlords pay to continue contributing through our “dem- Ervin Dyer, a senior editor at Pitt Magazine, delivered a multimedia presentation, “The Untold Story of Charles directly. In Pitt’s case, only one-quarter of onstrated and documented long-standing Florence,” about Pitt alum Charles Wilbur Florence to the Brownsville Area Schools Alumni Association on Aug. 7. our Oakland students—roughly 7,000 out cooperative efforts” to advance a broad Florence graduated from South Brownsville High School in 1907 and the Brownsville association named him one of 28,000—live on campus, and the city has range of important community initiatives. of its 2009 Distinguished Honorees. By 1919, Florence had earned an undergraduate degree in education at Pitt, long urged us to grow that number. We also must continue to resist the imposi- where he broke racial barriers by becoming the first African American to be captain of the University’s championship (3) The arguments advanced in sup- tion of the “tuition tax,” which is not autho- rized by existing law, is incompatible with debate team. He earned a master’s in education at Pitt in 1923 and launched a career as a university teacher and port of this proposed tax also fail to fairly acknowledge the important service contri- 250 years of American legal tradition, and administrator. He attended Harvard University, became president of Lincoln University in Missouri, and was dean butions made by our colleges and universi- would undermine much of the very work of education at Virginia Union University when he retired. Dyer’s original research helped to chronicle Florence’s ties. At Pitt, for example, we maintain the that holds such promise for Pittsburgh as it accomplishments. Following his presentation, Dyer was handed the original 1909 diploma that Florence earned at third-largest police department in Allegheny moves further into the 21st century. Storer College Normal School. County, and more than 80 percent of the cita- tions issued and arrests made by that depart- ment are not University-related but, instead, THE ART OF MEDICAL COOPERATION are a product of the role we play in keeping the Oakland neighborhood safe for everyone. And since the proposal also provides for student-funded support of the public librar- PittChronicle ies, it seems only fair to acknowledge that Newspaper of the Pitt maintains a collection larger than that PUBLISHER Robert Hill of the Carnegie Libraries and that our col- ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith lections are largely open to the public. Both EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer community policing and University librar- EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet ies, then, might be viewed as services paid ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener for by Pitt students and provided to the city STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake without any reimbursement being made. John Fedele (4) Returning to broader issues, this Morgan Kelly proposal can be viewed as unfair to anyone Amanda Leff Ritchie who is seeking cost-effectiveness in city Anthony M. Moore government because it spares the need for Patricia Lomando White a closer look at the expense side of budget creation. The proposal also can be viewed HAPPENINGS EDITOR Baindu Saidu as unfair to anyone who cares about Pitts-

JIM BURKE/CIDDE JIM burgh’s future because it places one of the More than 600 first-year health sciences students attended Pitt’s 2009 Interprofessional Forum: Educating Health region’s most important economic engines The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by Care Teams of the Future, on Oct. 2 in Scaife Hall auditorium. Presenters stressed the importance of interprofessional and employment sectors at a clear competi- University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, team collaboration in providing high-quality, affordable, and accessible health care. From left, Steven Kukunas, tive disadvantage. A thoughtful editorial in last Tues- Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, clinical director of the Multidisciplinary Dental Implant Center and assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Dental day’s [Nov. 10] Pitt News closed with the E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu Medicine; Christine Ruby-Scelsi, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics and Division following thought—“If you didn’t vote, The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal of Geriatric Medicine, Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine; Margaret (Peg) Rosenzweig, assistant professor in the don’t complain about the tax—because you opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any School of Nursing; and Catherine Palmer, director of the Center for Audiology and Hearing Aids in the Department could have prevented it.” As one who never basis prohibited by law. of Otolaryngology, Eye and Ear Institute. misses the chance to vote, I am sympathetic to that sentiment. On the other hand, the “tuition tax” is not law yet. Instead, it is November 16, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 3

Management in Pitt’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, noon Opera/Theater/ Nov. 18, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, Pitt’s Asian Studies Dance Center, 412-648-7370, www.ucis.pitt.edu. Imagination Movers, musical theater, Happenings 7 p.m. Nov. 19, , 101 Sixth “Can We Hold People Responsible St., Downtown, Cohen & Grigsby Trust for Their Implicit Biases Against Presents Series, 412-456-6666, Women and Minorities?” Edouard www.pgharts.org. Machery, professor, Pitt Department of History and Philosophy of Science, noon The Women of the Hill, production Nov. 18, 2201 Posvar Hall, Pitt Women’s celebrating through the Studies Program, www.wstudies.pitt.edu. exploration of his legendary character Aunt Ester, Nov. 20-22, Aunt Ester Series, “Despite the Best Intentions: Why August Wilson Center for African Ameri- Racial Inequality Persists in Good can Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Schools,” Amanda E. Lewis, associate Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-258-2700, professor of sociology, Emory University, [email protected]. noon Nov. 19, 2017 Cathedral of Learn- ing, Buchanan, Ingersoll, & Rooney Candide, theatrical performance based on Fall 2009 Speaker Series, Pitt Center on Voltaire’s raucous satire, music by Leon- Race and Social Problems, www.crsp. ard Bernstein, through Nov. 22, Quantum pitt.edu. Theatre, Former Don Allen City Auto, 5315 Baum Blvd., Bloomfield, Greater “Walking and Talking: Reflections Pittsburgh Arts Council, 412-394-3353, on Stoic Divisions of the Soul,” www.proartstickets.org. Brad Inwood, professor of classics and philosophy, University of Toronto, 4 p.m. The Little Foxes, play by Lillian Hellman, Nov. 19, 208A , Pitt through Dec. 13, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Department of Classics, www.classics. Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public pitt.edu. Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org. Laura Bush, “Does European Social History Have Heinz Hall, a Future?” William Beik, professor, November 23 Emory University’s Department of His- Pitt PhD Dissertation tory, 4:30 p.m. Nov. 19, 3703 Posvar Hall, Pitt European Union Center of Excellence, Defenses European Studies Center, www.ucis.pitt. Nihar Sarkar, School of Arts and Cristie Glasheen, Graduate School of edu. Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, Public Health’s Department of Epidemi- “Alkenyl Iminium Ion in Diels-Alder ology, “Exposure to Pre- and Postnatal “Recent Work on Carthage,” Mark Reaction: Synthesis of Highly Substituted Depression and Anxiety Symptom Trajec- W. Graham, assistant professor of history, N-Heterocycles,” 1: 30 p.m. Nov. 16, 325 tories: Effect on Adolescent Psychiatric Grove City College, 4:30 p.m. Nov. 19, . Outcomes,” 2:30 p.m. Nov. 20, 160A 244A Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Depart- Webster Hall. ment of Classics, www.classics.pitt.edu. Minji Wu, Swanson School of Engineer- ing, “Registration and Segmentation of Dawn Seckler, School of Arts and Sci- “Making a Diagnosis: New Models Brain MR Images from Elderly Individu- ences’ Department of Slavic Languages for Old,” Patrick Croskerry, profes- als,” 10 a.m. Nov. 17, 244 Sterling Plaza, and Literatures, “Engendered Genre: The sor, Dalhousie University’s Department 201 N. Craig St., Oakland. Contemporary Russian Buddy Film,” of Emergency Medicine, noon Nov. 20, 10 a.m. Nov. 23, 1218 Cathedral of Learn- Lecture Room 3, Scaife Hall, Pitt Medi- Binita Chandra, School of Arts and ing. cal Education Grand Rounds, School of Selected Prints Exhibition From the Barry Rosensteel Japanese Prints Collection, Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, Medicine’s Office of the Vice Dean, 412- “Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Jianping Zhao, School of Medicine’s , through December 19 648-9000, www.megr.pitt.edu. Complex Polypropionates: A Synthesis of Cellular and Molecular Pathology Gradu- Erythronolide B,” 10:30 a.m. Nov. 17, 307 ate Program, “Role of Focal Adhesion “Because It Was He, Because It Was Eberly Hall. Protein Migfilin in the Regulation of Cell Concerts Hillman Library, Selected Prints Exhibi- I: The Good of Friendship,” Alexander Survival and Cell Cycle,” 2 p.m. Nov. 23, tion From the Barry Rosensteel Japanese Nehamas, the Edmund N. Carpenter II Nikhil R. Bhagwat, Graduate School S123 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower. Azucar Latin Band, musical perfor- Prints Collection, through Dec. 19, Spe- Class of 1943 Professor in Humanities, of Public Health’s Department of Human mance, noon Nov. 18, Nordy’s Place, cial Collections Department, third floor; Princeton University’s Department of Genetics, “ ERCC1-XPF: Links to Dan Swayze, Graduate School of Public , Pitt Arts’ Artful Historical Exhibition of African American Philosophy, 3 p.m. Nov. 20, 324 Cathedral Fanconi Anemia and Chemotherapy Health’s Department of Behavioral and Wednesdays, 412-624-4462, www.pit- Progress at Pitt, ongoing, ground floor, of Learning, Pitt European Union Center Resistance,” 12:30 p.m. Nov. 18, 202C Community Health Sciences, “Public tarts.pitt.edu. 412-648-7710, 412-648-8190. of Excellence, European Studies Center, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 5150 Centre Health 2.0: An Analysis of Social Support www.ucis.pitt.edu. Ave., Shadyside. Groups for Type 2 Diabetics on Web Jack McMally & Friends, musical Frick Art & Historical Center, Icons 2.0 Sites,” 2:30 p.m. Nov. 23, 2nd-floor performance, 6 p.m. Nov. 18, The Cup & of American Photography, A Century of Sara Pennypacker, author, 10:30 a.m. Jeffrey M. Rohay, Graduate School of conference room, . Chaucer Café, Hillman Library ground Photographs From the Cleveland Museum Nov. 21, Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Public Health’s Department of Biostatis- floor, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk of Art, through Jan. 3, 7227 Reynolds 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Black, White tics, “Statistical Assessment of Medication Jongsick Kim, Swanson School of Engi- Music Society, www.calliopehouse.org. St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www. & Read All Over 2009-10 Season, Pitts- Adherence Data: A Technique to Analyze neering, “Improvement of the Clinical frickarts.org. burgh Arts & Lectures, Carnegie Library the J-Shaped Curve,” 3 p.m. Nov. 18, Utility of Optical Coherence Tomography Classical Mystery Tour–Music of The of Pittsburgh, 412-622-8866, www. 308 Parran Hall. (OCT) Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL) Beatles! Nov. 20-22, Heinz Hall, 600 , Digital to pittsburghlectures.org. Measurement by Establishing Data Com- Penn Ave., Downtown, PNC Pittsburgh Daguerreotype: Photographs of People, Stephen P. Scheidt, School of Arts parability Across the OCT Technology Symphony Pops!, 412-392-4900, www. through Jan. 31, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oak- Laura Bush, former First Lady, 8 p.m. and Sciences’ Department of Geology Generations and Models,” 3 p.m. Nov. 23, pittsburghsymphony.org. land, 412-622-3309, www.cmoa.org. Nov. 23, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., and Planetary Science, “Aeolian System 9th-floor conference room, 203 Lothrop Downtown, ’s Dynamics Derived From Thermal Infrared St., Oakland. Octavio Brunetti Quintet, 7:30 p.m. Falk Library, Opening Doors: Con- 2009-10 Pittsburgh Speakers Series, 412- Data,” 10 a.m. Nov. 20, 203 . Nov. 21, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, temporary African American Academic 392-4900, www.pittsburghspeakersseries. Eliezer Kanal, Swanson School of second annual The Americas—In Surgeons, through Jan. 28, 200 Scaife org. Allison Longenberger, Graduate School Engineering, “Temporal Connectivity Pat- Concert, Pitt Center for Latin American Hall, Pitt Health Sciences Library System, of Public Health’s Department of Epide- terns of the Cortico-limbic Learning and Studies, 412-648-7394, [email protected]. www.hsls.pitt.edu, 412-648-8866. miology, “Measures of Physical Function Rewards System,” 2 p.m. Nov. 24, 2nd- Miscellaneous as Risk Factors for Diabetes Mellitus and floor conference room, Parkvale Building, Ortner-Roberts Duo, musical per- Insulin Resistance Among HIV-uninfected 3520 Forbes Ave, Oakland. formance, 2 p.m. Nov. 22, Carnegie Lectures/Seminars/ Ethics and Regulation of Interna- and HIV-infected Men in the Multicenter Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., tional Research, interactive workshop AIDS Cohort Study,” 2 p.m. Nov. 20, Michael P. Hezel, School of Medicine’s Oakland, World Kaleidoscope Series, Readings designed for faculty, staff, and students A523 Crabtree. Molecular Pharmacology Graduate Pro- 412-622-3151, www.carnegielibrary.org. interested in research in an international gram, “LGMD-1C: Role of Caveolin-3 in Social Justice and Latin America: Per- setting, 8 a.m. Nov. 18, 109 Parran Hall, Chongyi Wei, Graduate School of Public Neuromuscular Junction and Structure,” American Revival: Celebrating the spectives From Pittsburgh Nonprof- Pitt School of Medicine, Center for Con- Health’s Department of Behavioral 1 p.m. Nov. 25, 1395 Starzl Biomedical New Stars of American Roots Music, its, moderated panel discussion featuring tinuing Education in the Health Sciences, and Community Health Sciences, “An Science Tower. musical performance, 7 p.m. Nov. 22, five organizations engaged in social Clinical and Transnational Science Insti- Examination of Protective Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, justice work, 1 p.m. Nov. 16, 4130 Posvar tute, Center for Global Health, 412-624- Factors for HIV Infec- Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series, Hall, Pitt Center for Latin American Stud- 6985, www.globalhealth.pitt.edu. tion Among Asian/Pacific 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. ies, [email protected]. Islander Men Who Have “Angels in the Dust,” (2007, Louise Sex with Men,” Brentano String Quartet, performing “Tobacco Control: Looking Back, Hogarth), documentary screening, 6 p.m. 2 p.m. Nov. 20, Stoner Schubert and Britten, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 23, Looking Forward,” Kenneth Warner, Nov. 19, A115 Crabtree Hall, Global Conference Room, 2nd Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., dean, University of Michigan’s School of Health Film Series, Pitt Global Health floor, 3520 Fifth Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Chamber Music Soci- Public Health, 3 p.m. Nov. 16, Ballroom Student Association, Center for Global Oakland. ety, 412-624-4129, www.pittsburghcham- A, University Club, Pitt Graduate School Health, [email protected]. bermusic.org. of Public Health, www.publichealth.pitt. Min Chi, School of Arts edu. “Los Andes no creen en Dios,” (2007, and Sciences’ Intelli- Powerful Elegance, Manfred Honeck, Antonio Enguino), film screening, gent Systems Program, conductor, and Sa Chen, piano; featur- Junot Diaz, author, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. Nov.19, Frick Fine Arts Audi- “Do Step-level Tutorial ing works by Tchaikovsky and Strauss, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., torium, Amigos del Cine LatinoAmeri- Decisions Matter: Apply Nov. 27-29, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, cano Fall 2009 Film Series, Pitt Center Reinforcement Learning to Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, 412-622-8866, for Latin American Studies, Department Induce Pedagogical Tuto- 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony. www.pittsburghlectures.org. of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, rial Tactics,” 3 p.m. org. Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Nov. 20, 2nd-floor audito- “Colombia: Its Music and People,” Collection, amigoscinemalatinoameri- rium, Learning, Research Jorge Delgado Troncoso, graduate student [email protected]. and Development Center. Exhibitions in Pitt School of Education, 8 p.m. Nov. 17, Lower Lounge, Sutherland Hall, Crick Biography Workshop, featuring University Art Gallery, Making Face: Pitt Center for Latin American Studies, Robert Olby, author of Francis Crick: Depictions of Women in Japan From Edo Global Studies Program, 412-624-2918, Hunter of Life’s Secrets (Cold Spring to Today, Japanese woodblock prints from [email protected]. Harbor Laboratory Press, 2009), 4 p.m. the 18th and 19th centuries and new Nov. 20, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Classical Mystery Tour-Music of the Beatles! Center for Philosophy of Science, 412- works by Japanese contemporary artist “Humanity, Innovation, and Busi- Heinz Hall, Hiroki Otsuka, through Dec. 12, Frick 624-1052, [email protected]. ness Strategy: Lessons From the November 20-22 Fine Arts Building, 412-648-2410. Indian Experience,” John C. Camillus, the Donald R. Beall Professor of Science Pitt Chronicle University News and Magazines University of Pittsburgh 400 Craig Hall 200 South Craig Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260

4 • Pitt Chronicle • November 16, 2009 Jazz!!! 1 2 3 The University of Pittsburgh held its 39th annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert on Nov. 3-7. A group of international jazz musicians held free on-campus lectures, visited area school and community venues, and gathered at Carnegie Music Hall for the annual concert on Nov. 7. Guest performers included: 1. George Cables, piano; 2. Terri Lyne Carrington, drums; 3. Lew Soloff, trumpet. 4. Jimmy Owens, trumpet; 5. Benny Golson, tenor saxophone; 6. Donald 4 5 Harrison, alto saxophone; 7. Yotam1 Silber- stein, guitar; and 8. Leon Lee Dorsey, Pitt assistant professor of jazz stud- ies and coordinator of Pitt’s Jazz Studies Program, bass. 6 PHOTOS BY JIM BURKE/CIDDE 6

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