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PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume X • Number 34 • December 14, 2009 $7.2 Million Grant for Pitt to Develop Microbicides Against HIV/AIDS By Clare Collins

The University of Pittsburgh Gradu- “The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains evaluate these microbicides in two formula- women in developing countries, giving them ate School of Public Health (GSPH) has uncontrolled in many regions in the world,” tions—a film delivery system inserted into the power to prevent sexually transmitted received a five-year, $7.2 million grant said principal investigator Phalguni Gupta, the vagina and used for up to seven days, diseases,” Gupta said. from the National Institute of Allergy and professor and assistant chair, Department and a ring deliv- At the fore- Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, e r y s y s t e m front of research on microbicides against HIV transmission. The in GSPH. “In developing countries, HIV inser ted on a “The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains microbicides, the grant will allow Pitt to test two is most often spread through monthly or peri- University of Pitts- microbicide formulations—a unprotected heterosexual inter- odic basis. They uncontrolled in many regions in the burgh also leads the film and ring that release the course, creating a great need for also plan to test world. In developing countries, HIV National Institutes active ingredient over time. new ways to prevent transmis- the microbicides of Health-funded Microbicides are sub- sion beyond the condom, whose in the presence is most often spread through Microbicides Trial stances designed to prevent or use is often at the discretion of of other sexually Network (MTN). reduce the sexual transmission men.” transmitted dis- unprotected heterosexual inter- Headquartered at of HIV when applied topically The project at Pitt will eases and bacte- Magee-Womens to the vagina or rectum. Cur- involve cell culture and animal rial vaginosis, a course, creating a great need for Research Insti- rently, there are several microbi- studies of two microbicides, common vaginal tute in Pittsburgh, cides being tested, but none has RC101 and CSIC, that target infection. new ways to prevent transmission MTN is a global been proven effective. Testing of Phalguni Gupta different stages of virus growth. “If proven beyond the condom, whose use is clinical trials net- many products will likely be required before RC101 inhibits entry of the virus into a cell, effective, micro- work focused on finding one that is safe and effective against while CSIC works to inactivate an enzyme bicides could often at the discretion of men.” prevent i ng t he HIV, as well as easy to use and acceptable that the virus needs to grow after it has have particular sexual transmis- to both sexual partners. entered a cell. Study investigators will impact among —Phalguni Gupta sion of HIV.

Concordia Club Sale to Pitt Set to Close This Month PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE PITTSBURGH PHOTOS COURTESY OF ©

By Sally Kalson

The University of Pittsburgh agreed members of Pittsburgh’s Jewish society. in July to purchase the Concordia Club, In the face of declining membership Oakland, for $2.1 million. An auction and a shortage of cash, club members voted of the club’s furnishings, [July 16] to approve the member Foster Goldman, who negotiated china, silverware, and sale of their historic the sale, said members might decide to use and I’ve been using the club all my life. I other items was held Nov. It’s the end of an era building on O’Hara the proceeds to buy or rent another facil- hate to see it go, but given the situation, it’s 28, and the building’s sale for the Concordia Club, Street in Oakland. The ity. Alternatively, they might join in with the right decision.” is expected to be finalized University of Pittsburgh another club, or dissolve the organization At its peak, he said, the club had close in mid-December. Plans which for more than a will pay $2.1 million and distribute the proceeds among the to 300 equity members, plus associate and for the club’s building— for the structure that members. junior members. As of May, equity members and its membership— century was the place the club has occupied Meanwhile, the sale’s closing is ten- numbered only 147. remain uncertain at this since 1913. Its previous tatively scheduled for Dec. 14. Pitt has not Formed 135 years ago by German Jews, time. This is a reprint of a to be for prominent headquarters was on said what it will do with the building, which mostly members of the Rodef Shalom Con- July 21, 2009, Pittsburgh the North Side, where sits in the middle of its campus. (In 2005, gregation, the Concordia Club’s purpose Post-Gazette article. members of Pittsburgh’s the club was founded in Pitt bought the 81-year-old University Club was “to promote social and literary enter- It’s the end of an era Jewish society. 1874, the same era as the for $3.1 million and, after extensive renova- tainment among its members,” according for the Concordia Club, Duquesne Club. tions, turned it into a faculty club). to its charter. which for more than a The future of the “It’s a shame that it’s come to this,” century was the place to be for prominent organization is uncertain. Concordia board Goldman said. “My parents were members, Continued on page 2 2 • Pitt Chronicle • December 14, 2009 Concordia Club Sale to Pitt Set to Close This Month MORGAN KELLY/PC Concordia Club lounge

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The club quickly became a prestigious The building has been the setting of losing its cultural amenities—baseball, the sale of alcohol on Sundays didn’t apply gathering place for the movers and shakers countless parties, weddings, Passover symphony, and the historical society moved to private clubs. Also, there were very of the time. Judge Josiah Cohen was the seders, bar and bat mitzvot, birthday and elsewhere, and the Syria Mosque was razed. few good restaurants, “so if you didn’t primary founder and first president, and anniversary celebrations. Men met there “Women work, Pitt football games moved to belong to a club, you didn’t eat very well, the membership rolls for smokers, women for the North Side, doctors offices moved to sat- and you didn’t have a social life,” he said. over the years included bridge games and teas. ellite locations,” said longtime member Bar- Many of the business advantages to Pittsburgh Pirates The building has been the Many thousands of bara Mendlowitz, and competition for family private club membership no longer exist. owner Barney Drey- glasses have clinked time kept growing. “Children today have so “Your firm could pay your dues and fuss, industrialist Leon setting of countless parties, in its rooms, and many many activities, you can’t do everything.” deduct them. They can’t do that any- Falk Jr., and depart- thousands of cigars Goldman ticked off other fac- more. You could deduct 100 percent ment store magnate weddings, Passover seders, have been fired up. tors affecting private clubs in general. of your meals for entertaining busi- Edgar J. Kaufmann. Concordia members “Blue laws” that used to prohibit the public ness clients. Now it’s only 50 percent.” Eventually, the club bar and bat mitzvot, birth- attended its lectures, For all these reasons, he said, “Our began including east- plays, concerts, and membership is aging and younger ern European Jews, day and anniversary games, including bowl- people today have other agendas. and in more recent celebrations. Men met there ing in the alleys long They don’t seem to be interested.” years membership was since removed. There [The July 16] vote to sell the building open without regard to for smokers, women for were Purim parties wasn’t unanimous, he said, but it passed by gender, race, ethnic- for children, Hallow- a good margin. Most members saw the sale ity, or religion. Mem- bridge games and teas. een dances for young as the best option under the circumstances. bers held on to their adults, formal balls on Still, he said, “It was a sad night.” reform Jewish identity Many thousands of glasses Thanksgiving and New while also assimilat- Year’s Eve, even dances ing into American have clinked in its rooms, on Christmas Eve. society—the club’s and many thousands of The club staged peri- Golden Anniversary odic frolics featuring Song Book in 1924 cigars have been fired up. song parodies writ- PittChronicle contains the lyrics to ten and performed by Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh “Annie Rooney,” “Oh! Concordia members attended members on the expan- PUBLISHER Robert Hill Susan na,” “Sweet its lectures, plays, concerts, sive, curtained stage in ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith Adeline,” and “Jingle the ballroom. Women EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer Bells.” The dining and games, including bowl- were not allowed as EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet room has long been full members until ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener open on the Sabbath, ing in the alleys long since some time after 1972, STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake the menu features a situation that Har- John Fedele such non-kosher fare removed. riet Franklin protested Morgan Kelly as shrimp and scal- in one of the follies’ Amanda Leff lops, and clam bakes remain popular events. songs: “I am Woman, hear me roar, in Anthony M. Moore When Concordia moved into its grand new numbers too big to ignore. But Concordia Patricia Lomando White building on O’Hara Street, it was one of city’s thinks that I don’t exist. Don’t use the bar is CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Clare Collins most opulent. The china, crystal, and linens their request, til the sun sets in the west ....” Pamela Jordan were elegant; the flower arrangements profuse. At a time when few good restaurants Sally Kalson ”The new structure is entirely complete existed, Concordia’s dining room offered HAPPENINGS EDITOR Baindu Saidu with billiard rooms, banquet hall, rest such delicacies as (from its Golden Anni- and lounging parlors, reading quarters, versary menu) sole amandine and guinea The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by and sleeping accommodations,” said a fowl supreme, artichoke hearts and aspara- University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, 1915 article in the Jewish Criterion. “Not gus vinaigrette. In more recent years, it 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, a day passes without some function.” was famous for its shaved chocolate cake. Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, Later on, the environs became even more In its heyday, it would have been difficult E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu impressive. The Fort Pitt Hotel at 10th to imagine the club losing relevance for its The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal Street and Penn Avenue, Downtown, was members. But the barriers that kept ethnic opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any demolished in 1967, and some of its distinc- groups apart started to fall, along with the basis prohibited by law. tive, elaborate wood paneling was rescued need or desire for parallel social and busi- MORGAN KELLY/PC by the club and installed in its interior. ness constructs. In addition, Oakland began Grand staircase

Continued from page 1 December 14, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 3 PittScholars&Stewards African American Alumni Council Endowed Scholarship Medical Aspirations By Pamela Jordan

Kyle Anthony is striving to endowed scholarship, which will help him achieve big goals. The freshman with the cost of attending what he calls his entered the University of Pittsburgh perfect-match school. While researching in the fall of 2009 as a biology major universities in high school, Anthony’s main with a focus on pre- criteria were loca- medicine. Anthony tion and reputation. hopes to eventually With the rising cost of As a Chicago native, enroll in medical Anthony liked that school and become education and the nation’s Pitt offers both a city a doctor. With such and a campus envi- challenging aspira- economy in turmoil, ronment. tions, the African “This scholar- American Alumni Anthony knows that every ship has affected my Council (AAAC) penny counts. He said he life in many ways. found Anthony to be A long w it h t he the perfect scholar- is incredibly grateful to financial impact, it ship candidate. has also made me T he A A AC’s the AAAC donors “for their proud to be rec- mission is to support og n i zed for my the African Ameri- generosity toward future academic achieve- can alumni com- ments,” Anthony munity by strength- generations.” said. With the rising ening the commu- cost of education and nity’s connection the nation’s economy to the University of in turmoil, Anthony Pittsburgh. It also promotes the knows that every penny counts. He said he recruitment and retention of African is incredibly grateful to the AAAC donors American students. The group has “for their generosity toward future genera- supported student scholarships since tions.” Anthony added that while he remains the late 1980s. In October, the AAAC uncertain about which medical specialty he announced the public phase of a $3 will pursue, he is certain that he wants to million campaign to fund scholar- eventually give back to the community and

ships for underrepresented students. help others reach their goals, just like the MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE Anthony was awarded the AAAC AAAC has helped him. Kyle Anthony BrieflyNoted

issues of gender and sexual orientation. include your name and contact information, the nominee’s Pitt Lands Grant for Health The Iris Marion Young Award was created to honor name and contact information, and a couple of sentences Sciences Librarian Certificate those who work to promote justice within the University, explaining why you are nominating that person. Program or at the local, national, or global levels. Undergraduate For more information on the Iris Marion Young students are encouraged to seek nomination for the Iris Award, visit www.wstudies.pitt.edu/imya.html or call the Pitt’s School of Information Sciences and Marion Young Undergraduate Award. Woman’s Studies Program at 412-624-6485. Health Sciences Library System were awarded a Both awards were created to honor the memory of —Kristin Shearer $991,311 grant from the Institute of Museum and Iris Marion Young, a former Pitt faculty Library Services to support the creation of a post- member considered by many to have master’s degree health sciences librarian certificate been one of the most important political program. The grant is aimed at helping address a philosophers of the past 25 years. national need for librarians and information manag- Young (1949-2006) taught political ers in the health sciences. theory at the Graduate School of Public The 15-credit program provides a focused and International Affairs for nine years. curriculum addressing current issues in health-sciences She maintained close ties to the Pitt librarianship and is offered online to lend working community after leaving in 2000 to students flexibility. accept a political science professorship Highly qualified health sciences librarians are at the University of Chicago. Widely needed as the health care industry focuses on evi- Iris Marion Young known for her work on theories of dence-based medicine to translate basic research into justice, democracy, and feminism, she clinical care and disease prevention. Health-sciences Call for Iris Marion Young also was a regular on picket lines and librarians play a key role in helping practitioners Award Nominations in the trenches of grassroots political and researchers keep pace with a rapidly expanding activity, fighting for human rights, debt knowledge base. Pitt’s program will prepare students The Pitt Women’s Studies Program is calling relief for Africa, and workers’ rights. for positions in health-sciences libraries in academic for nominations for the Iris Marion Young Award for To nominate a candidate, send medical centers, hospitals, public health agencies, Political Engagement. an e-mail to [email protected] or mail research institutes, and other health care settings. The award is given to a Pitt staff or faculty the nomination to the Woman’s Studies More information is available on the member, or graduate student who works to Program, 2208 Posvar Hall, University certificate program’s Web site at www.ischool.pitt. promote social justice and democracy, especially of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, edu/health. individuals whose work explicitly engages the by Jan. 8, 2010. The e-mail should —Anthony M. Moore 4 • Pitt Chronicle • December 14, 2009 Newsmakers

A DIPLOMATIC VISIT NATIVITY: A CHRISTMAS GIFT JIM BURKE/CIDDE JIM BURKE/CIDDE The Shona Sharif African Dance and Drum Ensemble, part of Pitt’s Department of Africana Studies, presented Andreas Kakouris, Ambassador of Cyprus to the United States, visited Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg on Nov. 13. From left, its unique musical production of Nativity: A Christmas Gift Dec. 5 and 6 in 4227 Alumni Hall. The show, Professor Panos Kypros Chrysanthis, a professor in Pitt’s Department of Computer Science and director of the Advanced Data which also will be presented Dec. 18-20, was inspired by Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity and explores the Management Technologies Laboratory; Alberta Sbragia, the Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair and director of Pitt’s Christmas season through traditional West African dance and 20th century gospel music. Ticket information European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center; Kakouris; Nordenberg; Professor Daniela Donno Panayides, a is available by calling Dorsey Records at 412-731-6607. Pitt assistant professor of political science; and Lawrence Feick, director of the University Center for International Studies and a professor of business administration in Pitt’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

WORLD AIDS DAY GRADUATE, PROFESSIONAL STUDENT RECOGNITION

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg delivered keynote remarks during the Dec. 3 Graduate and Professional Students Association’s (GPSA) Winter Student Appreciation Reception. GPSA is the governing body for all Pitt graduate and professional students. From left, Marguerite Matthews, GPSA vice president of committees; Daniel Jimenez, GPSA president; and Nordenberg. Matthews and Jimenez are doctoral students in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health. JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE Educating Teens About HIV/AIDS held its Fifth Annual Observance of World AIDS Day and the Red Ribbon Gala on Dec. 1 at The Twentieth Century Club in Oakland. The evening’s speakers included Donald S. Burke, dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and the UPMC-Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health, and Jeannette E. South-Paul, the Andrew W. Mathieson Professor and Chair in the Pitt School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine. Educating Teens About HIV/AIDS presented its First Annual Red Ribbon Awards—which recognize commitment and contributions to HIV prevention—to Charles R. Rinaldo Jr., chair and professor of infectious diseases and microbiology in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health and professor of pathology in the School of Medicine; Cecile M. Springer (GSPIA ’71), former president of the Westinghouse Foundation and now principal of Springer Associates; and Robert Hill, Pitt’s vice chancellor for public affairs and chair of the Red Ribbon Gala committee. From left are Kezia L. Ellison, Educating Teens About HIV/AIDS founder; Rinaldo; Albertha Graham-Ellison (EDUC ’96G), vice president and project director of Educating Teens About HIV/AIDS; and Hill, who also served as the gala’s master of ceremonies. MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE December 14, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 5 Science&Technology

Taking the Heat: Pitt Team Conquers Hurdle to Nano Devices With First Metallic Nanoparticles Resistant to Extreme Heat By Morgan Kelly

A University of Pittsburgh team has catalytic processes—and become too overcome a major hurdle plaguing the large. Attempts to stabilize the metals development of nanomaterials that could have involved encasing them in heat- lead to more efficient resistant nanostructures, catalysts used to produce but the most promising hydrogen and render car methods were only dem- exhaust less toxic. The onstrated in the 10- to researchers reported Nov. 15-nanometer range, 29 in Nature Materials Cao wrote. Veser him- the first demonstration of self has designed oxide- high-temperature stability based nanostructures in metallic nanoparticles, that stabilized particles the vaunted next-gen- as small as 10 nano- Members of the Pitt team working on the Large Hadron Collider are pictured in the ATLAS experiment control room at eration materials ham- meters. the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. From left, Vakho Tsulaia, graduate student pered by a vulnerability For the research in Reza Yoosoofmiya, Thomas Kittelmann, Damien Prieur, and Pitt physics and astronomy professor Joseph Boudreau. to extreme heat. Nature Materials, he and Tsulaia, Kittelmann, and Prieur are Pitt postdoctoral researchers. Götz Veser, a pro- Cao blended platinum fessor and CNG Faculty and rhodium, which has Fellow of chemical and a high melting point. Mysteries of the Universe petroleum engineering in They tested the alloy via a methane combustion Pitt’s Swanson School of Götz Veser Engineering, and Anmin reaction and found that Pitt Researchers Play Cao, the paper’s lead the composite was not author and a postdoctoral researcher in only a highly reactive catalyst, but that Veser’s lab, created metal-alloy particles the particles maintained an average size in the range of 4 nanometers that can of 4.3 nanometers, even during extended Important Role in Large withstand temperatures of more than 850 exposure to 850-degree heat. In fact, degrees Celsius, at least 250 degrees more small amounts of 4-nanometer particles than typical metallic remained after the Hadron Collider Project nanoparticles. Forged temperature topped from the catalytic “The natural instability of 950 degrees Cel- By Morgan Kelly metals platinum and sius, although the rhodium, the highly particles at this scale is an majority had bal- Last month, lunchtime in the Euro- known as ATLAS, a collaboration of 2,900 reactive par ticles looned to eight pean Organization for Nuclear Research scientists from more than 172 universities work by dumping obstacle for many applica- times that size. (CERN) cafeteria allowed for games of and labs. The largest particle detector ever their heat-susceptible tions, from sensors to fuel Veser and Cao “Spot the Nobel Laureate” as the world’s built, ATLAS searches the energy created components as tem- were surprised to foremost physicists gathered in Geneva by the proton collisions for undiscovered peratures rise, a qual- production,” Veser said. find that the alloy for one of the most significant events in forces that may have shaped the universe ity Cao likened to a d id not si mply the history of science: the long-awaited and that could provide insight into some of gecko shedding its tail “The amazing potential endure the heat. It initiation of the Large Hadron Col- the most perplexing mysteries in physics, in self-defense. instead sacrificed lider (LHC), a device that could reveal including the existence of dark matter and “ T he n a t u r a l of nanoparticles to open the low-tolerance the basic structure of space, time, and extra dimensions of space. instability of parti- platinum and then matter. Boudreau and Pitt postdoctoral cles at this scale is up completely new fields reconstituted itself Pitt physics and astronomy profes- researchers Thomas Kittelmann and Vakho an obstacle for many and allow for dramatically as a rhodium-rich sor Joseph Boudreau joined that notable Tsulaia—both working out of CERN— applications, from catalyst to finish clientele along with other researchers were the primary developers of software sensors to fuel pro- more efficient processes has the reaction. At and students from the Department of that monitors and displays particle activity duction,” Veser said. around 700 degrees Physics and Astronomy in the Univer- inside the detector. Cleland worked with “The amazing poten- been shown in laboratory Celsius, the plati- sity’s School of Arts and Sciences. Pitt professors Vittorio Paolone and Vladimir tial of nanoparticles num-rhodium alloy physicists have contributed to the mas- Savinov on Pitt’s contribution to develop- to open up completely applications, but very little began to melt. The sive project since 1994, beginning with ing the electronic circuitry in ATLAS that new fields and allow platinum “bled” now professor emeritus William Cleland, enables scientists to single out interesting for dramatically more of it has translated to real from the particle and have since helped develop the equip- particle events for observation. Professor efficient processes has life because of such issues and formed larger ment meant to uncover the universe’s James Mueller worked on LHC simulation been shown in labora- particles with other principal particles. software. Also representing Pitt in the proj- tory applications, but as heat sensitivity. For us to er rant platinum Constructed nearly 600 feet beneath ect were postdoctoral researcher Damien very little of it has molecules, leaving CERN, the collider boasts a 17-mile Prieur at CERN, graduate students Kevin translated to real life reap the benefits of nano- the more durable circumference and $10 billion budget, O’Connell, Kevin Sapp, and Shanti Wendler, because of such issues alloyed particles to making it the largest, priciest scientific as well as Reza Yoosoofmiya at CERN. as heat sensitivity. For particles, they must with- weather on. Veser instrument in history. The LHC func- More exciting to Boudreau and his contem- us to reap the benefits and Cao predicted tions via twin proton beams that barrel poraries than the LHC’s scale is its potential of nanoparticles, they stand the harsh conditions that this self-sta- into one another at speeds approaching to generate energy levels not seen since the must withstand the of actual use.” bilization would that of light. On Nov. 30, 10 days after birth of the universe, he recently explained harsh conditions of occur for all metal the first collisions, the LHC’s beams from Geneva. actual use.” catalysts alloyed accelerated to 1.18 teravolts, the high- “The LHC is meant to help physicists Veser and Cao have presented an with a second, more durable metal. est energy ever recorded. The goal is to understand how matter behaves at its high- original approach to stabilizing metallic Veser and Cao conducted their accelerate each beam to 7 teravolts—a est energies, such as during the Big Bang,” catalysts smaller than 5 nanometers. Mate- work with support from the National fraction lower than the speed of light— Boudreau said. “We’re also searching for rials within this size range boast a higher Energy Technology Laboratory, the lead for a collision of 14 teravolts. the particles that could give us a fuller surface area and permit near-total particle research and development office for the Boudreau belongs to a group of Pitt understanding of matter’s basic structure. utilization, allowing for more efficient U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) faculty members, postdoctoral research- This is new ground in physics, and we have reactions. But they also fuse together at Office of Fossil Energy, as well as the ers, and graduate students working around 600 degrees Celsius—lower than DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences on an experiment based at the collider Continued on page 6 usual reaction temperatures for many and the National Science Foundation. 6 • Pitt Chronicle • December 14, 2009

Awards&More Pitt Faculty and Alums Among New Pittsburgh Courier’s 2009 Men of Excellence Two University of Pittsburgh faculty members, exhibition and catalogue Free at Last? Slavery in David A. Anderson (DEN ’84) and Laurence Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries and the Glasco, have been named 2009 New Pittsburgh documentary Blue Gold & Black: From Doorway Courier Men of Excellence. A total of 50 honorees were to Distinction, among other projects. recognized for individual contributions to their profes- The Courier also honored James T. sions as well as to the local community during the Johnson, Jr. (A&S ’82, A&S ’88G), founder Courier’s Nov. 19 Men of Excellence Awards Reception and executive director of the Afro American Music at The Rivers Club at Oxford Centre, Downtown. Institute and a lecturer in Pitt’s Department of Anderson, a clinical assistant professor in the Music, as well as Rep. Joseph Preston (CGS Department of Prosthodontics in Pitt’s School of Dental ’79, CGS ’79), the Governor’s Representative to Medicine and the school’s first director of diversity Pitt’s Board of Trustees. initiatives, has been a member of the dental faculty The following Pitt alumni also received Men since 2008. He is a past president of the Dental of Excellence Awards: Randolph W. Brock- Society of Western Pennsylvania and a past chair of ington (GSPIA ’86), deputy director, Allegheny the Pennsylvania Dental Association’s political action County Department of Human Services; Richard committee. In addition to his responsibilities in the Garland (CGS ’92, SOC WK ’96), founder, One School of Dental Medicine, Anderson has maintained Vision, One Life; Charles Gladney (EDUC a private practice for more than 25 years. ’75G), director of community program imple- Glasco, a Pitt history professor, has taught mentation and development, Highmark; Rodney African American history at the University since 1969. Jones (SHRS ’81G), vice president of operations, Through his work as a historian, he has been heavily UPMC Braddock; Walter H. Smith Jr. (A&S ’72, EDUC ’73G, EDUC’90G), executive director, Wesley Lipschultz, involved with documenting the contributions of African manager of stu- behavioral, and biological aspects of stress Family Resources; and Joseph K. Williams dent services in the University of Pitts- responses in family caregivers of persons on Americans to Western Pennsylvania. Glasco is the burgh School of Information Sciences, prolonged mechanical ventilation. author of the book The W.P.A. History of the Negro (A&S ’81G), Judge, Allegheny County Common was selected to receive the in Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). Pleas Court. 2009 Service to Commis- Paul Daniel Patterson, a He also played instrumental roles in the Pitt-produced —By Anthony M. Moore sion Award presented by the research assistant professor in National Academic Advising the School of Medicine’s Depart- Association’s (NACADA) ment of Emergency Medicine, Technology in Advising received a grant from the Ameri- at an invitation-only meeting on mega- Conrad Dan Volz, a professor in Commission. The award rec- can Society for Healthcare Risk crises in The Hague, The Netherlands. The the Graduate School of Public Health’s ognizes individuals who have Management Foundation. The conference, which brought together senior Department of Environmental and Occu- provided outstanding service, grant will help fund Patterson’s government officials and pational Health, testified before leadership, and commitment research proposal, “The Effect researchers from The Nether- the U.S. House of Representa- to a particular commission. of Communication Patterns in lands, France, United States, tives Subcommittee on Water The NACADA Technology Wesley Lipschultz the Emergency Department on and China, was sponsored by Resources and Environment on Advising Commission helps Quality and Performance.” the Ministry of the Interior coal waste storage and its impact academic advisors and advising admin- and Kingdom Relations in The on human health and the environ- istrators to understand the impact that Nicholas Fitz, a postdoctoral fellow in the Netherlands. ment. technologies, such as online registration Department of Environmental and Occu- and student information systems, have pational Health, received an award for the Qi Yang, doctoral candi- Yuting Zhang, an assistant on academic advising; to use technology best poster presentation from the University date, Department of Human professor in the Graduate School effectively in their work; and to appreci- of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association at Genetics, was awarded a 2009 of Public Health’s Department of ate the appropriate uses of technology the 2009 Postdoctoral Data & Dine Sym- Abstract Trainee Award from Yuting Zhang Health Policy and Management, in higher education. posium. His project, “Influence of Abca1 the American Association of received the Excellence in Mental on Alzheimer’s Pathology and Cognition,” Immunologists for her presentation “The Health Policy and Economics Research JiYeon Choi, a postdoctoral fellow is supervised by principal investigator and Transcription Factor E47 Controls the Cell Award from the International Center of in the School of Nursing, received the research assistant professor Radosveta Cycle Quiescence and Development of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Koldamova. Multipotent Hematopoietic Progenitors.” She received the award for her article Service Award from the National The award recognizes outstanding research “Cost-Saving Effects of Olanzapine as Institute of Nursing Research. The Sandra Quinn, an associate dean for student work that has been selected for oral pre- Long-term Treatment for Bipolar Disor- two-year, $96,472 grant will support affairs and education and a professor in Pitt’s sentation from student and postdoctoral der,” published in the Journal of Mental Choi’s research on the psychological, Graduate School of Public Health, presented trainees. Health Policy and Economics.

Science&Technology Hadron Collider Project Continued from page 5

the potential to see interactions and par- produces energy levels high enough to ticles that haven’t been seen before. The detect Higgs, Boudreau said. But six years atmosphere here is very exciting.” since he started working on the LHC, Bou- The most coveted particle is the dreau joins his colleagues in celebrating the elusive Higgs boson. It is the only miss- collider’s hard-won early successes. Tech- ing piece of the Standard Model, which nical problems have scuttled a handful of theorizes that all visible matter stems launch dates, including a September 2008 from interactions between the three setback, when ruptured magnets required elementary particles: quarks, leptons, a year of repairs. and bosons. The Higgs boson is thought “These early collisions are not very to be central to the interaction of these exciting, but they show that the LHC is back particles—and therefore an integral on track,” Boudreau said. “When I consider part of the world—yet it’s never been how long it took to get to this point and that observed. The LHC could prove or dis- we could have the highest energy levels in AYRES FREITAS prove the boson’s existence and possibly the world within the next year, just getting Several researchers from Pitt’s Department of Physics and Astronomy are contributing to the Large Hadron Collider cast suspicion on the Standard Model, the beams to collide is a huge milestone.” (LHC) project, both in Pittsburgh and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. From More information is available on which has guided particle physics for left, graduate student Kevin O’Connell, Professor James Mueller, Professor Emeritus William Cleland—who began the past 50 years CERN’s LHC Web site at lhc.web.cern. Years could pass before the LHC ch. Pitt’s involvement in the LHC in 1994—and graduate student Kevin Sapp. December 14, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 7

Exhibitions Hillman Library, Selected Prints Beggar’s Holiday, opera by Dale Exhibition From the Barry Rosensteel Wasserman, music by Duke Ellington, Japanese Prints Collection, through Dec. 18-20, Manchester Craftsmen’s Happenings Dec. 19, Special Collections Depart- Guild Theater, 1815 Metropolitan St., ment, third floor; Historical Exhibition of Manchester, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, African American Progress at Pitt, ongo- 412-621-1499, www.operatheaterpitts- ing, ground floor; “The Palm Warbler,” burgh.org. Audubon/Havell print no. 164, Dec. 15-22, Audubon Exhibit Case, ground The Bench, theatrical performance, floor, www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/ Dec. 18-20, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland, Point Park Univer- Wood Street Galleries, Matter and sity, 412-621-4445, www.pittsburghplay- Memory, U.S. debut of French installa- house.com. tion artist Julien Marie, through Dec. 31, 601 Wood St., Downtown, Pitts- A Child’s Christmas in Wales, theatri- burgh Cultural Trust, www.woodstreet- cal performance, through Dec. 20, galleries.org. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland, Point Park University, 412-621- Frick Art & Historical Center, Icons 4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com. of American Photography, A Century of Photographs From the Cleveland Jane Eyre, theatrical performance, Museum of Art and Children’s Hospital through Dec. 20, Charity Randall 1951, through Jan. 3, 7227 Reynolds Theatre in the Stephen Foster Memorial, St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www. Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, frickarts.org. 412-624-7529, www.pict.org. Mattress Factory Museum, Gestures: A Musical Christmas Carol, theatrical An Exhibition of Small Site-specific performance, through Dec. 23, Byham Works, through Jan. 10, 500 Sampsonia Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pitts- Way, North Side, 412-231-3169, www. burgh Civic Light Opera, 412-456-6666, mattress.org. www.pgharts.org. The Palm Warbler, Audubon Print, Hillman Library, Senator John Heinz History Center, A Kodachrome Christmas, one-woman December 15-22 Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil play, through Dec. 27, City Theatre, War and Lincoln Slept Here, through 1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412-431- Jan. 15, 1212 Smallman St., Strip 2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org. District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhisto- The Nutcracker, ballet, music by Tchai- rycenter.org. kovsky, through Dec. 27, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Sheila Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, 412-456-6666, Klein’s The Return, through Jan. 20, www.pgharts.org. 5472 Penn Ave., Garfield, 412-365-2145, The Nutcracker, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org. Benedum Center, Cirque Dreams Illumination, cirque through December 27 theatrical production extraordinaire, Falk Library, Opening Doors: Contem- Jan. 5-10, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., porary African American Academic Sur- Downtown, 412-392-4900, www.pitts- geons, through Jan. 28, 200 Scaife Hall, burghsymphony.org. Navtivity: A Christmas Gift, Pitt Health Sciences Library System, Shona Sharif African Dance and Drum Ensemble, December 18-20 www.hsls.pitt.edu, 412-648-8866. The Chief, theatrical performance, Jan. 6-10, O’Reilly Theatre, 621 Andy Warhol Museum, Unnatural Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Rubber; Super Trash; and Shepard Public Theatre, 412-316-1600, Concerts Fairey: Supply & Demand, through www.ppt.org. Jan. 31, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, Renew, Ion Sound Project’s environmen- Bells Are Ringing, Mckeesport Sym- 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org. Art Song Recital, hosted by tally themed program dedicated to works phony Pops Holiday Concert, 2:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Opera Guilds, 2 p.m. about renewal and rebirth, 7 p.m. Dec. 20, Mckeesport Area Senior High Carnegie Museum of Art, Digital Jan. 10, Pittsburgh Opera, 2425 Dec. 14, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Ion School, 1960 Eden Park Boulevard, 412- to Daguerreotype: Photographs Liberty Ave., Strip District, 412- Sound Project 2009-10 Season: Reduce, 664-2854, www.mckeesportsymphony. of People, through Jan. 31, 281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org. Renew, Recycle series, www.proartstick- org. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, ets.org. 412-622-3309, www.cmoa.org. Forever Plaid, musical theater, Dreamgirls, rags-to-riches story of through March 28, Theater B.E. Taylor Christmas Concert, 1960s Motown group, Dec. 29-Jan.3, Hunt Institute for Botani- Square Cabaret, 655 Penn nationally recognized recording and Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, cal Documentation, Ave., Downtown, CLO Caba- performing artist, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14-15, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsym- Botanicals: Environmental ret, 412-456-6666, www. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, phony.org. Expressions in Art, the Alisa pgharts.org. 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsym- and Isaac M. Sutton Collec- phony.org. Auld Lang Syne, classic New Year’s Eve tion, art exhibition, through celebration featuring dinner, concert, Highmark Holiday Pops With Marvin! June 30, Carnegie Mellon dessert, and dancing, 7 p.m. Dec. 31, University, 5th floor, Hunt Pitt PhD Marvin Hamlisch, conductor, Dec. 17-20, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Library, 4909 Frew St., Oak- Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Oakland, Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281- land, 412-268-2434, http://. Dissertation PNC Symphony Pops, 412-392-4900, 0912, www.pittsburghopera.org. huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu. www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Defenses Opera/ Chenbo Wang, School of Art and Sciences’ Department of Theater/ Chemistry, “Synthetic Studies on Haouamine A,” 2 p.m. Dec. 16, Dance 325 Eberly Hall. The Second City–50th Kalpesh Upadhye, Swanson Anniversary Tour, School of Engineering, “Developing Chicago-based impro- Instrumentation for Multi-parametric visational troupe, Investigation of Mechanisms of Dec. 17- 19, O’Reilly Mechanosensitivity in Ion Channels,” 2 Theater, 621 Penn p.m. Dec. 18, 306 Bridgepoint Building Ave., Downtown, 2, 400 Technology Dr., South Oakland. Pittsburgh Public The- ater, 412-316-1600, www. ppt.org. A Lyrical Christmas Carol, musical theater, Dec. 17-20, New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side, Pitts- burgh Musical Theater, 412-539- 0900, www.pittsburghmusicals. com. Nativity: A Christmas Dreamgirls, Gift, featuring Pitt’s Shona Heinz Hall, Sharif African Dance and December 29-January 3 Drum Ensemble, Dec. 18-20, 4227 Alumni Hall, Pitt Department of Africana Stud- ies, tickets and information available at Dorsey’s The Chief, Records, 412- O’Reilly Theatre, 731-6607. January 6-10 Pitt Chronicle University News and Magazines University of Pittsburgh 400 Craig Hall 200 South Craig Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260

8 • Pitt Chronicle • December 14, 2009 Too Much of a Good Thing? Holiday and weekend eating habits can jeopardize diets, study finds By Amanda Leff Ritchie

The holidays can be challenging for even the most diligent dieters. But are Just as important as the daily weekends just as detrimental? Research- ers at the University of Pittsburgh and calorie increase on weekends Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., found that weekend eating patterns change and holidays is the nutritional significantly. J. Jeffrey Inman, a University of value of the food consumed, Pittsburgh professor of marketing and associate dean for research in the Joseph according to the research, which M. Katz Graduate School of Business, and was published in the Fall 2009 his coauthor, Adwait Khare, Quinnipiac University professor of marketing, studied issue of the Journal of Public two years’ worth of data on consumers’ eating behavior and found that the quantity Policy & Marketing. and quality of foods eaten at mealtimes and over the course of a day during the week differ considerably from those consumed U.S. Department of Agriculture incorporate eating patterns—a behavior that may on weekends and holidays. recommendations for holiday and weekend lend itself to developing more effective Just as important as the daily caloric eating into its food pyramid guidelines. strategies for maintaining a healthy diet. increase on weekends Understanding eating pat- According to the previous study, people and holidays is the nutri- terns and knowing that a week- are most habitual when eating breakfast— tional value of the food end can be just as dangerous to rather than lunch or dinner—possibly PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of consumed, according to the diet as a holiday dinner arm because breakfast is usually eaten in the Pitt Chronicle will be published Jan. 11. the research, which was consumers, doctors, and nutri- same environment and under greater time Items for publication in the newspaper’s published in the Fall 2009 tionists with more knowledge to constraints. Results of the previous study Happenings calendar (see page 7) should be issue of the Journal of fight obesity, says Inman. also indicated that the food consumed received at least two weeks before the event Public Policy & Market- Inman says his advice for for breakfast has a larger effect on what date. Happenings items should include the ing. Labor Day barbeques consumers interested in moni- is consumed for lunch and dinner of the following information: title of the event, and Thanksgiving Day toring their intake during the same day, because people pay more atten- name and title of speaker(s), date, time, feasts focus on family holidays is “don’t insult your tion to meals within a single day than to location, sponsor(s), and a phone number and mother-in-law by skimping on what was consumed on a previous day. Web site for additional information. Items and friends bonding over may be e-mailed to [email protected], faxed tables laden with high- the meals, but maybe take a pass Inman and Khare would like to to 412-624-4895, or sent by campus mail to calorie foods. Because on that extra glass of eggnog.” follow up this most recent research with 422 Craig Hall. For more information, call the quantity and quality J. Jeffrey Inman This research is the follow- a study of the impact of intervention 412-624-1033 or e-mail [email protected]. of food consumed changes up to a 2006 study by Inman and programs on sweetened beverage con- during these times, Inman suggests that the Khare on the habitual behavior in American sumption. Clockwise from above: Schenley Plaza during construction, some of the new food concessions lining the walkways, and the carousel at the south end of the plaza.