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Edward Mccord Named Director of Pitt's Dick Thornburgh Forum For INSIDE Humanities Center lecture............................... 2 AAAC fundraising update............................... 3 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume XI • Number 31 • November 1, 2010 University of Pittsburgh Names 13 New Legacy Laureates The University of Pittsburgh has Among Adams-Campbell’s many named 13 new Legacy Laureates, alumni honors was her selection as a Fellow of recognized for their outstanding personal the Institute of Medicine, the American and professional accomplishments. The College of Epidemiology, and the Hedwig laureates were honored during Pitt’s van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Oct. 28-31 Homecoming festivities. Academic Medicine Program for Women. The Pitt Legacy Laureate program She also has served as an adjunct professor was launched in 2000. Following are brief and guest lecturer at a number of prestigious biographies of this year’s honorees. universities. The recipient of GSPH’s Health Gold Lucile Adams-Campbell Medallion Award, Adams-Campbell was Lucile Adams-Campbell is a profes- named a Pitt Distinguished Alumni Fellow sor of oncology at Georgetown University in 2000. While a student at Pitt, she received Medical Center and associate director the Student Leadership Award. of minority health and health disparities research at the medical center’s George- Robert J. Cindrich town Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Robert J. Cindrich has most recently CIDDE Center. served as senior vice president and chief A 1983 graduate of Pitt’s Graduate legal officer of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Adams-Campbell Medical Center. He earned a law degree JIM BURKE/ earned her PhD in epidemiology, the first and Order of the Coif from the Pitt School Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg with Rosalynn Carter African American woman in the United of Law in 1968. States to do so. She went on to become an Cindrich’s legal career includes internationally recognized expert in minor- appointment as a U.S. attorney by Presi- ity health and health disparities research, dent Jimmy Carter and as a U.S. District Rosalynn Carter Brings Stature, Dedication identifying and addressing public health judge by President Bill Clinton. A founding issues in the United States, Africa, and the partner of a prestigious law firm, he is a Caribbean. member of the Association of Trial Lawyers To Fight for Mental Health System Reform Adams-Campbell has held a series of of America and the Academy of Trial Law- By Sharon S. Blake academic and administrative appointments yers of Allegheny County. He also served at Howard University; served as director of as a member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter just leaving her overnight shift. the Howard University Cancer Center; and Court’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee. began championing mental health rights “Good morning, I hope you’re going led several large cohort studies of African Cindrich’s legal career includes clerk- and reform during the mid-1960s, when she home to get some sleep,” Mrs. Carter had American women, including the Boston ing for the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert and her husband, Jimmy, were working on said. University Black Women’s Health Study, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third his gubernatorial campaign. During one The woman answered that she hoped considered to be the largest medical study Circuit, representing underprivileged particular stop—at an Atlanta cotton mill— so, too, but that she and her husband, who to explore the disproportionately high rates Mrs. Carter greeted an older weary woman, of disease among Black women. Continued on page 5 clothes and hair covered with lint, who was Continued on page 4 Edward McCord Named Director of Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy and civic action on important public policy director of this broad new opportunities for the issues, building on Thornburgh’s legacy Un iver sit y for u m, Thornburgh Disability forum to foster student and by creating a framework for advancing his McCord will continue Lecture Nov. 4 faculty interests in law and vision of creating effective and principled to expand and integrate public policy. In particular, governance. The forum engages in a variety the forum’s offerings in Andrew J. Imparato, his experience with the of activities across the University that are collaboration with the president and CEO of the Honors College provides an designed to enhance the accountability and exceptional academic American Association of People ideal vehicle for increasing integrity of governmental institutions at the programs of the Uni- With Disabilities, will present the impact of the forum’s local, state, and national levels. Internation- versity Honors College programs across a wide ally, it seeks to advance those values as well to the larger Univer- a lecture as part of the 2010 range of activities within as the commitment to the rule of law for all sity academic com- Thornburgh Family Lecture the University community.” levels of government. munity by developing Series in Disability Law and “I am delighted that “The Dick Thornburgh Forum for programs that reflect Policy at 1 p.m., Nov. 4, Ed has agreed to serve Law and Public Policy honors the legacy the career and inter- as director of this impor- of achievement and impact of University ests of Pitt alumnus Ballroom B, University Club. tant forum,” said Patricia of Pittsburgh trustee and alumnus Dick and trustee Thornburgh An accomplished attorney with E. Beeson, Pitt provost Thornburgh, who, through a lifetime of (LAW ’57), a former bipolar disorder, Imparato and senior vice chancellor, public service, has made extraordinary two-term Pennsylvania worked with a coalition of more in announcing McCord’s contributions to the public good,” said Pitt governor and attorney appointment. “His demon- CIDDE / Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. “We are general of the United than 200 disability, employer, strated skills in administra- fortunate that Ed McCord, who already has States under both Presi- civil rights, and faith-based tion and program develop- contributed so much to the advancement of dents Ronald Reagan groups to guide the political ment are ideally suited to our Honors College, now also will provide and George H. W. Bush. the responsibility of chart- MIKE DRAZDZINSKI strategy that led to the passage strong leadership to a variety of programs Thornburgh also served ing and steering the future Edward McCord and activities that will advance Dick Thorn- as United Nations of the Americans with course of the forum.” burgh’s vision of effective and principled Under-Secretary-Gen- Disabilities Act (ADA) Amend- “I look forward to By Patricia Lomando White governance and respect for the rule of law.” eral for Administration ments Act in 2008. The Lecture working with Governor Through annual lectures and a Univer- and Management and Series is sponsored by the Dick Thornburgh in develop- Edward McCord, director of program- sity-based archive spanning Thornburgh’s director of the Institute ing innovative uses of his ming and special projects for the University diverse career, the forum is intended to of Politics in the John Thornburgh Forum for Law and archival materials across of Pittsburgh Honors College, has been develop program relationships with schools F. Kennedy School of Public Policy. the University. The Gov- appointed director of Pitt’s Dick Thorn- and departments across the University. Government at Harvard ernor’s career is associated burgh Forum for Law and Public Policy, Over the past several years, recent program University. with a broad spectrum of effective Oct. 1. offerings were held in partnership with the “ E d Mc C o r d’s achievement and offers Established in 2007, the mission of Graduate School of Public and International appointment as director of this program is numerous opportunities for teaching and the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Affairs, the School of Law, and the School good news indeed,” said Thornburgh. “His Public Policy is to foster public education of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. As background and experience open important Continued on page 4 2 • Pitt Chronicle • November 1, 2010 BrieflyNoted p.m. Nov. 4 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. wireless service, more electrical outlets, and a 46-inch Nov. 5 Deadline for Pitt Staff Hahn is the author of several collections of screen to access the Internet. Association Council Endowed poetry, including The Artist’s Daughter (W.W. Norton, A small raised stage will accommodate perfor- Book Fund Scholarship 2004), Mosquito and Ant (W.W. Norton, 2000), and mances, including those by musicians in Emerging Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006). Legend, a weekly concert series cosponsored by ULS Pitt faculty and staff members who have a Her latest book of poetry, Toxic Flora (W.W. Norton, and Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society. The child attending the University of Pittsburgh have 2010), contains poems inspired by articles from the series kicks off Friday with a free noon performance until Friday, Nov. 5, to apply for the Staff Associa- Science Times section of The New York Times. of Ronni and Al, a jazz-influenced piano/guitar duo tion Council Endowed Book Fund Scholarship. The The recipient of fellowships from the National with vocals. program was established to provide financial Endowment for the Arts and the New York Founda- —By Sharon S. Blake assistance toward the purchase of books for a Pitt tion for the Arts, Hahn also has received the Lila undergraduate student whose parent or guardian is Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the Theodore a staff member at Pitt. Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Association Awards of as much as $200 can be granted of Asian American Studies Literature Award. In 2007, each year. To download an application or find out she received the Poetry Society of America Shelley more about eligibility, visit www.sac.pitt.edu or call Memorial Award; other Shelley Award recipients 412-624-4236.
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