INSIDE Discussion on acquiring media/PR internships.... 2 International conference on adoption...... 4 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume VIII • Number 26 • October 1, 2007 JIM BURKE/CIDDE The Sept. 24 ribbon cutting for Pitt’s new center. From left: Donald S. Burke, dean of Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health and the UPMC–Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health; U. S. Congressman Mike Doyle (Pa.-14); Arthur S. Levine, Pitt senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine; Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato; and Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. Pitt Opens Center for Vaccine Research Center is second nationally to open NIH-funded Regional Biocontainment Laboratory dedicated to development of vaccines against deadly pathogens By Clare Collins “Just as Jonas Salk and his Pitt Pitt leaders on Sept. 24 celebrated the The National Institute of Allergy and viruses and other in- agents of bioterrorism. opening of the Center for Vaccine Research Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the Na- fectious agents.” team of researchers provided The labs within the (CVR) in the University’s 330,000-square- tional Institutes of Health, initially awarded The CVR is di- Regional Biocontain- foot Biomedical Science Tower 3 (BST3). Pitt $17.5 million in 2003 for construction rected by Donald S. the polio vaccine to the world, ment Laboratory are The CVR houses both the Regional of the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, Burke, dean of Pitt’s specially designed and Biocontainment Laboratory and the Vac- one of only 13 centers of its kind to receive Graduate School of the new Center for Vaccine constructed using the cine Research Laboratory and will allow NIAID funding and the second of this elite Public Health and strictest federal stan- Pitt to greatly expand research on naturally group to open nationally. Supplemental NI- the University of Research will further our dards, incorporating occurring diseases like SARS, West Nile AID funding of $4.1 million and University Medical University’s commitment to special engineering virus, dengue fever, and tuberculosis. These support of $7.2 million increased the total Center-Jonas Salk and design features diseases are of special interest because the construction budget to $28.8 million. In Professor of Global developing new interventions to prevent microor- lethal microbes that cause them could be funding the lab, NIAID cited the nation’s Health. The center ganisms from being exploited by terrorists. lack of biosafety laboratories as a significant will employ approx- to prevent infectious diseases— released into the envi- barrier to progress in biodefense research. imately 150 faculty, ronment. The 27,300- Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg staff, and labora- interventions that have the square-foot facility is said, “Just as Jonas Salk and his Pitt team of tory personnel and available to assist na- researchers provided the polio vaccine to the will complement potential to significantly tional, state, and local world, the new Center for Vaccine Research other ongoing re- improve global health.” public health efforts in will further our University’s commitment to search at the BST3 the event of an infec- developing new interventions to prevent in- in structural biol- — Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg tious disease emer- fectious diseases—interventions that have ogy, computational gency, including an act the potential to significantly improve biology, genomics of bioterrorism. global health.” and proteomics, neurobiology, and drug The CVR also houses the Vaccine Re- “We are gratified by the con- discovery. search Laboratory (VRL), which occupies fidence and support NIAID has “With most epidemics, history has 16,000 square feet and includes dedicated shown in us to develop this essential shown us that we are not helpless,” Burke biosafety laboratories, specialized instru- facility,” said Arthur S. Levine, Pitt said. “With the opening of the CVR, we will mentation rooms, offices, and conference senior vice chancellor for the health be better able to create new methods and rooms. The VRL offers an interactive re- sciences and dean of the School of strategies to keep potential epidemics under search environment by providing access to Medicine. “The Regional Biocon- control and minimize their impact.” microarray, robotic and mass spectrometry tainment Laboratory, in concert with Located within the CVR, the Regional instrumentation. Much of the lab’s work existing resources at the University Biocontainment Laboratory is a biosafety will focus on understanding the variability of Pittsburgh, will enable us to great- level-3 facility dedicated to research on of viruses and their ability to change over ly accelerate the development of agents that cause naturally occurring and time, and learning how to recognize differ- Biomedical Science Tower 3 vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics for emerging infections, as well as potential ent viral strains. 2 • Pitt Chronicle • October 1, 2007 English Department, to Host Panel Discussion on Acquiring Mass Media, Public Relations Internships BrieflyNoted Al McDowell Scholarship to be presented at Oct. 18 event By Anthony Moore NORTHERN IRELAND LEADER VISITS Pitt’s Department of English and The more than 50 papers nationally, and he is a Pitt News will host a panel discussion titled contributing editor of Fortune magazine. “How to Get an Internship in the Media-PR World: Meet the Professionals,” from 7:30 to Panelists 9:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in the ’s Frank Gottlieb, news director for KQV Kurtzman Room. Radio, served as a broadcast spe- In addition to the panel cialist with the U.S. Army discussion, the annual Al in Vietnam. He has been McDowell Memorial working at KQV for 22 Scholarship, named in years and was WTAE-TV’s memory of the Pitts- first intern. burgh broadcasting pio- Mark Gruetze, admin- neer and 1952 Pitt School istrative editor of the Pitts- of Arts and Sciences grad- burgh Tribune-Review, over- uate, will be presented to sees newsroom recruiting, a Pitt undergraduate stu- compiles annual budgets, and dent in the English depart- runs the metro desk on Sun- ment’s nonfiction writing days. A journalist for 35 years, program. Gruetze was the managing editor of Pitt’s Rediker to Give Bellet Awards Nominations For more information on The Marietta Times and an assistant Presentation, Sign Copies Accepted Through Oct. 31 this free public event, contact managing editor of the Danville, Ill., Of His New Book Oct. 4 Writing Internship Coordinator Caren Commercial-News before coming to Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences is accepting Marcus at 412-624-1737 or [email protected]. Pittsburgh in 1992. Thirty years of research in maritime archives nominations for the Tina and David Bellet Arts and Information about the moderator and David Johnson, coanchor for WPXI-TV the discussion’s panelists follows. Sciences Excellence Awards through Oct. 31. This is the Channel 11 News, is an award-winning jour- laid the groundwork for Pitt Professor of History nalist who has covered major national stories, Marcus Rediker’s new book, The Slave Ship: A Human 10th anniversary of the awards. Moderator including the 9/11 tragedy of United Flight History (Viking Penguin, 2007), to be released The Bellet Awards were established in 1998 with David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post- 93 and the rescue of the Quecreek miners. Oct. 4, with a presentation and book signing to be a $200,000 donation from Arts and Sciences alumnus Gazette executive editor, was awarded the Johnson is part of the longest-running news held at 6 p.m. that day in Pitt’s Book Center. David Bellet (CAS ’67) and his wife, Tina, to recognize Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1995 for his anchor team in Pittsburgh. Advance registration is requested; to RSVP for outstanding and innovative undergraduate teaching in coverage of Washington and the American Pam O’Brien, associate director of the free Oct. 4 event or for more information, call Arts and Sciences. A committee appointed by Arts and political scene. Before coming to Pittsburgh, Pitt’s Public and Professional Writing Pro- 412-648-1453. Sciences’ associate dean for undergraduate studies he was the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of gram (PPW), worked as vice president of In The Slave Ship, Rediker said he set out to evaluates teaching skills as evidenced by student- The Boston Globe. He also worked at various an advertising agency for 15 years before describe “what it meant teaching and peer evaluations, student testimonials, positions for The Wall Street Journal, The coming to Pitt’s English department. A vis- New York Times, The Washington Star, and and dossiers submitted by nominees. Full-time faculty iting lecturer at Pitt, O’Brien is responsible to live in a wooden The Buffalo Evening News. His column, for supervising PPW interns. world.” According to members who have taught in Arts and Sciences over the “National Perspective,” is syndicated to Margaret Sullivan, editor of The Buf- BILL BOLLENDORF Rediker, what had hap- past three years are eligible. Each awardee receives a falo News, was appointed vice president of pened on the slave ship $5,000 cash prize. the newspaper in 2001. A four-time Pulitzer informed what resulted Faculty and students may submit nomination Prize juror, Sullivan has written for The on land. “It was a social letters to Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Under- Chronicling American Editor, Columbia Journalism and cultural process that graduate Studies Juan J. Manfredi, 140 , An ongoing series highlighting Review, The Washington Post, and The Washington Monthly Magazine. changed people,” and 139 University Place. Electronic submissions may be history e-mailed to [email protected] but must be followed by James Warren is managing editor of Marcus Rediker the repercussions from that process still resonate today, he a signed paper duplicate. features for the Chicago Tribune and a politi- For more information, contact Carol Lynch at cal analyst, appearing regularly on Fox News explained. Channel, MSNBC, and CNBC. Warren From the book’s jacket: “This is a tale of [email protected]. joined the Tribune in 1984 as a reporter tragedy and terror, but also an epic of resilience, —Patricia Lomando White specializing in labor and legal affairs before survival, and the creation of something entirely new, being named the national media reporter. something that could only be called African American. Washington Magazine named him one of Marcus Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful Pitt Researchers to Present Washington, D.C.’s 50 most influential place alongside the plantation as a formative Latest Findings, Treatments for journalists. institution of slavery, as a place where a profound Late-life Depression, Bereave- and still-haunting history of race, class, and modern ment, and Dementia capitalism was made.” At Pitt since 1994, Rediker is the author of Depression, delirium and dementia are common Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden among older adults and are associated with decreased PittNewspaper ofChronicle the University of Pittsburgh Age (Beacon Press/Verso, 2004); The Many-Headed quality of life, disability, and premature death from Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden both suicide and illness. To address this need for making PUBLISHER Robert Hill History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon Press/ those who care for the elderly aware of the latest ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith Verso, 2000); Who Built America? Working People October 1957—Pitt acquires , research and treatment developments, the Department EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and then known as the Municipal Hospital, from the of Psychiatry in Pitt’s School of Medicine will hold a day- EDITOR Bruce Steele Society, Volume 1 (Pantheon Books, 1989); and City of Pittsburgh for $1.3 million. (Local founda- long educational conference for psychiatrists, primary tions provided the funding.) Initially, the building’s ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake care physicians, geriatricians, psychologists, nurses, upper floors serve as a residence for students. But Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime social workers, consulting pharmacists, and other profes- John Fedele in 1961-62, with funding from a state grant, the Morgan Kelly World, 1700-1750 (Cambridge University Press, sionals who care for older adults. The seminar, titled 1987). University renovates Salk Hall to house the dentistry Amanda Leff “Late-Life Depression, Dementia and Bereavement: and pharmacy schools. Stephanie Lilavois Rediker’s writings have been translated into Integration of Research, Teaching, and Clinical Care,” French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Between 1949 and 1954, The Pitt research Patricia Lomando White will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Oct. 5 in Soldiers team assembled by Jonas Salk developed its CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Clare Collins Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. His many honors and Sailors Memorial Hall. Megan Grote include a 2001 International Labor History Book triumphant polio vaccine in the basement of the Conference speakers will address recent advances Municipal Hospital. Prize, a 1988 Merle Curti Social History Book Award, in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of depres- and a 1988 John Hope Franklin Book Prize. He has sion, Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias in late The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, received fellowships from the National Endowment life. They also will discuss the challenges of recogniz- for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, ing and managing these disorders in nursing homes, Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial rehabilitation clinics, and other community settings. E-mail: [email protected] Foundation. In addition, the Organization of Ameri- For more information and to register for the Web: www.umc.pitt.edu/media/pcc/ can Historians named him Distinguished Lecturer for seminar, visit www.wpic.pitt.edu/oerp/confernces/ 2002 through 2008. MA50Brochure.htm. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal —Patricia Lomando White —Megan Grote opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any basis prohibited by law.

October 1, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • 3

“Exit, Voice, and Reform of Male Breadwinner Social Structures: Low- fertility Equilibrium in Japan and Italy,” Leonard Schoppa, professor of politics, University of Virginia, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 8, 4130 Posvar Hall, Japan Council Happenings at Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, ahash@pitt. edu. Orhan Pamuk, author, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8, Carnegie Music Hall, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 4400 Forbes Ave., , 412- 624-4187, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

Miscellaneous Wine Tasting, featuring wines from Chaddsford Winery with winemaker Eric Miller, 6:15 p.m. Oct. 3, Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., downtown, 412- 325-6769, www.clocabaret.com. 4th Annual Graduate and Profes- Peter Pan, the High-Flying Broadway Musical sional School Fair, Pitt-Greensburg’s Pitt-Johnstown’s Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Oct. 4 Office of Career Services and Academic Advising, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Oct. 4, Concerts Chambers Hall, Pitt-Greensburg, www. upg.pitt.edu. Marvin’s Fabulous ‘50s, Pittsburgh Same Frequency, works by Jon Anderson, Symphony Pops conducted by Marvin Jean McClung, and Sherry Rusinack; both Design Pittsburgh Gala, architecture Hamlisch, 8 p.m., continues through exhibitions through Oct. 27; 4417 Butler program, 6 p.m. Oct. 4, 933 Penn Ave., Oct. 7, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., St., Lawrenceville, 412-605-0450, www. AIA Pittsburgh, 412-471-9548, www. downtown, 412-392-4819, www.pitts- diggingpitt.com. aiapgh.org. burghsymphony.org. Tom Museum, Peace in 2008, photog- Ron White, comedy performance, Celebrating the Roots of Latin raphy exhibition, through Oct. 28, 410 8:30 p.m. Oct. 6, Benedum Center, 719 American Music and Dance Rhythms, Sampsonia Way, North Side, tommuseum. Liberty Ave., downtown, 412-456-6666, workshop and concert by Sol y Canto, com. www.pgharts.org. 4:30 p.m. workshop and 8 p.m. concert, Oct. 5, Smith Hall Lounge and Ferguson Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Farmers’ Market, 3:30-6:30 p.m. every Theater, Pitt-Greensburg, www.upg.pitt. Regional History Center, Soul Sol- Friday through Nov. 16, Sennott Street edu. diers: African Americans and the Vietnam between Atwood Street and Meyran Era, through Oct. 31; Points in Time, Avenue, Oakland Business Improvement A Pluckin’ Good Time, Wandering through Dec. 31; Glass: Shattering District, 412-683-6243, www.onlyinoak- Minstrels, 6 and 8:30 p.m. Oct. 5, Gypsy Notions, through Dec. 31; and Discovery land.org. Café, 1330 Bingham St., South Side, Place, through Dec. 31; 1212 Smallman Chatham Baroque, 412-687-1788, www. St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www. chathambaroque.org. pghhistory.org. 4 p.m. Oct. 2, 12A Chevron Science Oct. 4, 12 , Pitt’s Pitt PhD Center, www.chem.pitt.edu. Department of Chemistry, www.chem. Anuna, Irish music performance, 8 p.m. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2007 pitt.edu. Dissertation Defenses Oct. 5, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Artist of the Year Exhibition: Delanie “Novel Mechanisms in Liver Health Ave., downtown, 412-456-6666, www. Jenkins, professor and chair in Pitt’s and Disease,” Satdarshan S. Monga, “Sputnik 50 Years Later: The Rocky Anne Stahl, Graduate School of Public anuna.ie. Department of Studio Arts, through Pitt professor of pathology, noon Road of Rocket Science,” L. Todd and International Affairs, “Victims Who Nov. 4, 6300 Fifth Ave., Oakland, 412- Oct. 3, 1104 Scaife Hall, Pitt Department Brown, Pitt assistant professor of physics Do Not Cooperate With Law Enforcement Arte y Pureza, 8 p.m. Oct. 5, Synod 361-0873, www.pittsburgharts.org. of Pathology seminar series, 412-648- and natural sciences, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, in Domestic Violence Incidents,” 3 p.m. Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, 412-281- 1260, http://path.upmc.edu. Pitt-Greensburg’s Lyceum, www.upg.pitt. Oct. 3, 3412 Posvar Hall. 1910, www.gsfapittsburgh.org. edu. Lectures/Seminars/ Tribute to , celebrating Powerhouse Pianists Festival, Part his 30 years as editor of the University Seminar on How to Apply for Funding Theater/Opera/Dance III: Marilyn Nonken and Kathleen Readings of Pittsburgh Press’ Pitt Poetry Series, Through the Technology Collabora- Supove, 8 p.m. Oct. 5, featuring a reading by guest poet Gerald tive, which expects to award Always…Patsy Cline, by Ted Swindley, Auditorium, Pitt’s Music on the Edge “The Secret History of the War on Stern, a reception, and book signings; $1.5 million in technology commercial- through Oct. 31, Theater Square, 655 Series, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt. Cancer,” book launch event featuring 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3, Auditorium, ization funding to university researchers, Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh CLO’s edu. Devra Davis, epidemiologist, director 412-383-2493. start-up companies, and established busi- Cabaret at Theater Square series, 412-456- of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer nesses in Pennsylvania by April 1, 2008; 6666, www.pgharts.org. La Dolce Vita: At the Crossroads of Institute’s Center for Environmental “Youth Perceptions of HIV/AIDS in 7:30 a.m. Oct. 5, 309 , Pitt Italian Classical and Folk Traditions, Oncology, and author of The Secret War the Republic of Kirkbati and Social Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence’s Someplace, Not Here, featuring the featuring baroque violinist Daniella on Cancer; 7 p.m. today, Scaife Hall’s Projects to Educate People About the Small Business Development Center, Attack Theatre dancers, through Pierson, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Synod Hall, Auditorium 6, 412-647-3555. Virus,” Mike Roman, Pitt PhD candidate register by Oct. 2 at IEEregistration@katz. Oct. 5, 4801 Penn Ave., downtown, Attack 125 N. Craig St., Oakland; also 2:30 p.m. in anthropology, noon Oct. 4, 4130 Posvar pitt.edu. Theatre, 412-441-8444, www.attacktheatre. Oct. 7, Calvary Episcopal Church’s Reading by George Saunders, short Hall, Pitt’s Asia Over Lunch lecture com. McClintic Hall, 315 Shady Ave., Shady- story writer, 8:30 p.m. today, Frick Fine series, 412-648-7370, www.ucis.pitt.edu/ “‘No Kids Allowed! How IRBs Under- side; Chatham Baroque, 412-687-1788, Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh Contempo- asc/news/overlunch.html. mine Feminist Qualitative Research Therese Raquin by Emile Zola, through www.chathambaroque.org. rary Writers Series, 412-624-6506, www. with Children,” Melissa Swaugert, Oct. 14, Braddock Carnegie Library swim- english.pitt.edu. “Synthesis and Self-Organization of Pitt PhD candidate in sociology, noon ming pool, 419 Library St., Braddock, Music Monday: Informal Recitals Hybrid Gold Nanocrystals,” Eugene Oct. 5, 2201 Posvar Hall, Pitt Women’s Quantum Theatre, 412-697-2929, www. by Pitt Music Students, 8 p.m. “Massive Modularity, Gene Con- Zubarev, professor of chemistry at Rice Studies Center, 412-624-6485, www.pitt. quantumtheatre.com. Oct. 8, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, cepts, and the Feasibility of Strong University, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 4, 12B Chev- edu/~wstudies. 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu. Evolutionary Psychology,” ron Science Center, Pitt Department Peter Pan, the High-Flying Broad- Mehmet Elgin, philosophy of Chemistry, www.chem. “The SlideTutor Project—An Intel- way Musical, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, Pitt- professor at Turkey’s pitt.edu. ligent Medical Training System for Johnstown’s Pasquerilla Performing Arts Exhibitions Mugla University, Visual Diagnosis,” Rebecca Crowley, Center, www.gmartists.com. 12:05 p.m. Oct. 2, “Forcing the Pitt assistant professor of biomedical infor- Carnegie Museum of Art, Masters of 817R Cathedral of Issue: Mechani- matics, noon Oct. 5, Scaife Hall’s Lecture Mother Teresa Is Dead, by Helen American Drawings and Watercolors: Learning, Pitt’s cal Stimula- Room 3, Pitt Medical Education Grand Edmundson, 8 p.m. Oct. 4-28, City Theatre Foundations of the Collection, 1904-22, Center for Phi- tion and Its Rounds, www.medschool.pitt.edu/megr. Company, 1300 Bingham St., South Side, through Oct. 7; Forum 60: Rivane losophy of Sci- Influence on 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany. Neuenschwander, through Oct. 28; ence, 412-624- Biological “Sotto ‘l buono Augusto: Pindaric org. Design to Be Lit, through Feb. 10; 4400 1052, www.pitt. Function,” Praise in Augustan Rome,” Richard Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-441-9786 ext. edu/~pittcntr. Roger D. Thomas, professor of Greek and Latin and The Comedy of Errors, by William Shake- 224, www.cmoa.org. Damm, director of graduate studies at Harvard speare, 8 p.m. Oct. 4-Nov. 4, O’Reilly “How (Well- Germeshausen University, 4 p.m. Oct. 5, 244A Cathedral Theater, 621 Penn Ave., downtown, Audubon Exhibitions/Hillman Structured) Professor of of Learning, Pitt’s Department of Classics, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-316-1600, Library, Green Black-cape Flycatcher, Talk Builds the Mechanical www.classics.pitt.edu. www.pbt.org. through Oct. 8; Audubon exhibition Mind,” Lauren and Biological case, ’s ground floor, B. Resnick, Engineering and “Reference, Truth, and Biological In Service, Authentic Narrative From 412-648-7715. director of Pitt’s associate head of Kinds,” Macel Weber, Swiss National Iraq to Pittsburgh, film and live perfor- Learning Research mechanical bio- Science Foundation Professor of Philoso- mance, Oct. 4-14, Harris Theater, 809 Magee-Womens Hospital, Oncology and Development engineering, Mas- phy of Science at Switzerland’s University Liberty Ave., downtown, 412-471-9548, on Canvas: Expressions of a Woman’s Center and University sachusetts Institute of Basel, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 5, 817R Cathedral www.aiapgh.org. Cancer Journey, featuring 50 works of art Professor of Psychol- of Technology, of Learning, Pitt Center for Philosophy of by cancer survivors and their loved ones, ogy and Cognitive 4 p.m. Oct. 4, Scaife Science’s Annual Lecture Series, www. through Oct. 12, artwork displayed in the Science, 4 p.m. Oct. 2, Hall’s Auditorium 5, pitt.edu/~pittcntr. University Special main lobby and throughout the hospital, Pitt’s Office of the Provost, McGowan Institute for 300 Halket St., Oakland. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Regenerative Medicine “(Des)articulationes in/with Latin Events 412-624-5750. seminar series, 412-235-5100, American and Caribbean Cultural Frick Art and Historical Center, In the www.mirm.pitt.edu. Processes,” Debra A. Castillo, professor PITT ARTS Opera Luncheon, featuring Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau “Visible and Near Infrared of Romance studies and comparative performances of arias, a talk by Pittsburgh and His American Students, through Emitting Lanthanide Nanoscale “Transition Metal-Catalyzed literature at Cornell University, 11 a.m. Opera Artistic Director Christopher Hahn, Oct. 14, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, Compounds for Bioanalytical Carbon-Carbon and Carbon- Oct. 6, G-24 , Pitt opportunities to buy Pittsburgh Opera 412-697-0938, http://frickart.org. and Imagery Applications: Heteroatom Bond Form- Department of Hispanic Languages and season subscriptions, and more; noon Polymettalic Dendrimer ing Processes: Prog- Literatures, www.pitt.edu/~hispan. today, William Pitt Union’s Assembly Mattress Factory, India: New Instal- Complexes and Nano- ress, Applications, Room, 412-624-4498, [email protected]. lations Part 1, through Oct. 25, 500 crystals Incorporat- and Mechanistic “Soil Geochemistry of the Antarctic Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231- ing Lanthanides,” Studies,” Stephen Dry Valleys,” Michael Poage, geoscience Public Debate between Pitt’s William Pitt 3169, www.mattress.org. Stephane Petoud, Pitt Buchwald, profes- professor, Indiana University of Pennsyl- Debating Union and the British National assistant professor sor of chemistry vania, 4 p.m. Oct. 6, Room 11, , Debating Team, debating the motion, Digging Pitt Gallery, Conceived Bully, of luminescent lan- at Massachu- Pitt Department of Geology and Planetary “This House Would Give Ahmadinejad a featuring works by urban art designers thanide complexes and Wine Tasting setts Institute of Science Colloquium, www.geology.pitt. Forum,” 6 p.m. Oct. 5, 144 Cathedral of Evil Design, ExperiBreed, and Magmo; nanomaterials, Oct. 3 Technology, 4 p.m. edu. Learning, 412-624-2887.

Pitt Chronicle University News and Magazines University of Pittsburgh 400 Craig Hall 200 South Craig Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260

4 • Pitt Chronicle • October 1, 2007 Pitt to Host Encountering New Worlds of Adoption: The Second International Conference on Adoption and Culture, Oct. 11-14 Conference, coordinated by Pitt Professor Marianne Novy, will feature more than 80 speakers

birth records, same-sex and special-needs About Open Adoption,” at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 coeditor of Adoption Matters: Philosophical adoption, relinquishment, blog dialogues in 332 Cathedral of Learning. Bordo has and Feminist Essays (Cornell University between adoptive and birth mothers, and written many books, including Unbearable Press, 2005). adoption novels and history. Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Professors Robert McCall and Christina Information on conference present- Body (University of California Press, 1993) Groark, codirectors of Pitt’s Office of Child ers and sessions follows. and The Male Body: A New Look at Men Development who have studied children in Novelist Emily Prager will deliver in Public and in Private (Farrar Straus and Russian orphanages to understand long- the first keynote address, titled “Adop- Giroux, 1999). term caregiver-child relationship building, tion—A Two-Way Street,” at 8 p.m. Oct. Filmmaker Phil Bertelsen will show and will show and discuss their video, Faces of 11 in 501 Cathedral of Learning. Also a discuss his Paul Robeson Award-winning Promise and Hope, at 5 p.m. Oct. 12 in 5130 humor writer and award-winning jour- film, Outside Looking In: Transracial Adop- Posvar Hall. The showing will follow the 3:15 nalist, Prager is author of Wuhu Diary: tion in America (2001), at 8 p.m. Oct. 13 in p.m. session, “Adoption in Russia,” chaired On Taking My Adopted Child Back 125 . Bertelsen was by Pitt history professor Irina Livezeanu, to Her Hometown in China (Random transracially adopted in the 1970s, and in this which will feature presentations by McCall; House, 2001). film, as the writer and director, he explores Groark; Lilia Khabibullina, professor in Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland and his own experience; that of his 11-year-old the University of Barcelona; and Richard Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern nephew, also transracially adopted; and that Wirick, lawyer and author of One Hundred University, will present the Oct. 12 of a Midwestern White couple adopting an Siberian Postcards (Telegram, 2007). keynote address, titled “Adoption and African American child in 2001. Other plenary sessions will include Culture: The Difference Politics Makes,” Oct. 12 morning plenary session anthropologists’ discussions of international at 1:45 p.m. in 125 Frick Fine Arts topics will be “International Adop- adoption and readings by adoption memoir- Building. Roberts is author of tion” and “Adoption and Its ists. the award-winning Killing Challenges.” Speakers will All sessions are free to Pitt faculty, By Patricia Lomando White the Black Body: Race, Repro- include Barbara Yngvesson, staff, students, and those of cosponsor- duction, and the Meaning of professor of anthropology ing institutions: Carnegie Mellon, Carlow, Encountering New Worlds of Adoption: Liberty and Shattered Bonds at Hampshire College; Chatham, and Duquesne universities. The The Second Annual Conference on Adoption (Pantheon, 1997). Sara Dorow, professor plenary sessions are free to the public, but and Culture, to be held at Pitt Oct. 11-14, will Filmmaker Jean Strauss of anthropology at the the nonplenary sessions have a $50-$75 explore how adoption is redefining family, is well known within the adop- University of Alberta, registration fee. Continuing Education Units parenthood, and identity, and how adoptees, tion community as the author Canada, and author of are available through Pitt’s School of Social birth parents, and adoptive parents are rede- of Birthright: The Guide to Transnational Adoption: A Work. For more information and a complete fining adoption. Search and Reunion for Adoptees, Cultural Economy of Race, list of conference sponsors, visit www.eng- The conference will feature three key- Birthparents, and Adoptive Parents Gender, and Kinship (New lish.pitt.edu/events/AdoptionandCulture/ note addresses and three film presentations. (Penguin, 1994) and her memoir, Marianne Novy York University Press, 2006); sponsors.html. Among the 80 speakers will be literary crit- Beneath a Tall Tree (Arete-USa Pub Sandra Patton-Imani, associate ics, writers, anthropologists, philosophers, Co, 2001). Two of her award-winning short professor at Drake University and author historians, sociologists, legal theorists, psy- films will be shown Oct. 12, Vital Records of BirthMarks: Transracial Adoption in chologists, filmmakers, and activists from (2005), which illuminates the debate on Contemporary America (New York Univer- PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition Spain, Norway, China, Russia, England, access to original records for adoptees, at sity Press, 2000); Signe Howell, professor of the Pitt Chronicle will be pub- Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the 5 p.m., and, as part of the “Evening of Adop- of anthropology at the University of Oslo, lished Oct. 8. The deadline for sub- mitting information is 5 p.m. Oct. 3. United States, among other countries. tion Memoir, Poetry, and Film” session, Norway, and the author of The Kinning of Items for publication in the newspaper’s Marianne Novy—Pitt Professor of Eng- The Triumvirate (2005), which documents Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Happenings events calendar (see page 3) lish; cochair of the Alliance for the Study of her reunion with her birthmother and birth Global Perspective (Berghahn, 2006); Judith should be submitted to [email protected]. Adoption, Identity, and Kinship; editor of grandmother, at 8 p.m. Both films will be Schachter (Modell), professor of anthropol- Happenings items should include the fol- that organization’s newsletter, and herself an screened in 125 Frick Fine Arts Building. ogy and history at Carnegie Mellon Univer- lowing information: title of the event, name adoptee—will convene the conference. She is Susan Bordo, professor of English and sity and author of Kinship With Strangers: and title of speaker(s), date, time, location, the author of Reading Adoption: Family and Gender and Women Studies at the Univer- Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in sponsor(s), and a phone number and Web Difference in Fiction and Drama (University sity of Kentucky, where she holds the Otis American Culture (University of California site for additional information. Items also of Michigan Press, 2005). A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities, will Press, 1994) and A Sealed and Secret Kin- may be faxed to 412-624-4895 or sent by campus mail to 422 Craig Hall. For more The conference will cover such issues as deliver the final keynote address, titled “Will ship (Berghahn, 2002); and Sally Haslanger, information, call 412-624-1033. transnational and transracial adoption, open the ‘Real’ Parent (s) (s) (s) (s) Please Step professor of philosophy and women’s studies adoption, adoptee identity, legislation about Forward? Beyond Our Fantasies and Fears at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and