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Pitt drops in latest U.S. News rank- ings. See pages 5 & 6. VOLUME 43 • NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Beeson appoints 3 vice provosts s she promised after W. Humphrey, vice provost and “In fact, long before I ever being elected provost in dean of students, and George thought of having my name con- AJune, Patricia E. Beeson E. Klinzing, vice provost for sidered for provost, I had planned has moved quickly to round out research, raising the number of to ask the new provost if we could her team of senior staff, naming vice provosts to six as the gradu- split the position. … It just became three Pitt faculty members to vice ate and undergraduate studies too much,” she said. provost positions. positions Beeson previously held q Beeson’s rise to provost, effec- again are being divided. The search for the new vice tive Aug. 15, coupled with the “I think we’ve captured a lot provosts was internal, Beeson said. retirement of Vice Provost for of the benefits of having them “I felt we have strong faculty and Academic Planning and Resources together, now we can go back to staff here and was fairly confident Management Robert F. Pack, left having two people do it, having I’d be able to identify people. two of five vice provost positions laid that foundation,” Beeson said. What I was really pleased by was vacant. When the two positions were the fact that I’d had so many seri- combination of having strong Economics department chair combined in 2006, Beeson said the ous academics, serious talented core academic values and having David DeJong has been named administration saw potential ben- administrators willing to put their their own academic accomplish- vice provost for academic plan- efits from the synergies between name forward or have their names ments, administrative skills and ning and resources management; graduate and undergraduate considered.” Beeson estimated the respect that all three of them mathematics professor Juan J. education. “There definitely are there were 20-30 candidates for have is what makes good admin- Manfredi, associate dean for very strong synergies,” she said. the positions. istrators at Pitt. It’s what makes undergraduate studies in the “I think we’ve been able to exploit “It made my decision really the University run well.” School of Arts and Sciences, them and in many ways we’ve hard — the good and the bad of it q has been named vice provost for institutionalized them through is I had some real choices to make. The first senior staff meeting undergraduate studies, and politi- procedures and through the staff- “I think that it reflects the with the new vice provosts was cal science professor Alberta M. ing in those areas.” fact that people are increasingly set for Sept. 1. The speed with Sbragia, director of the European However, times have changed, feeling part of the institution and which the new administrators Union Center of Excellence and Beeson noted. “There’s been a they want to contribute to its suc- were named has left all three with European Studies Center, has lot of increased work associated cess beyond their own individual loose ends to tie up and vacancies been named vice provost for with accreditation, with calls for contributions as scholars,” the to be filled. The new members of Provost graduate studies. accountability at both the federal provost said. DeJong is in the final year of Beeson’s team are, clockwise Pack will remain in the Pro- and state levels, and this whole “I’m just delighted that I was a National Science Foundation from top left: David DeJong, vice provost for academic plan- vost’s office through the fall term emphasis on assessment — assess- able to recruit three individuals grant with research projects in ning and resources manage- to aid in the transition. ment of student learning and in who are strong academics — progress; Manfredi, in his role as ment; Juan J. Manfredi, vice DeJong, Manfredi and Sbragia other areas. And that made that they’re talented and experienced the School of Arts and Sciences provost for undergraduate studies, and Alberta M. Sbra- will join Andrew R. Blair, vice position just too much for one administrators and respected associate dean for undergraduate gia, vice provost for graduate provost for faculty affairs; Kathy person,” she said. faculty members. I think that CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 studies.

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U N I V E R S I T Y S E N A T E Rediker named distinguished professor M A T T E R S / Michael Pinsky itt has honored Marcus students just love to have a teacher Italian, Greek, Korean and French Rediker, professor of his- who cares about something. They and earned the 1988 Merle Curti Commitment and priorities Ptory and an award-winning love the experience of engagement Award for the best work in Ameri- author, by naming him Distin- with a teacher who is passionate can social history and the 1988 As we enter a new academic year, many of us feel a bit exhausted, guished Professor of Atlantic about something. I tell my stu- John Hope Franklin Prize from not from hectic summer vacations or the heat and humidity, but History. dents: ‘My goal is to help you be the American Studies Association because of the sustained stress of an unpredictable economy and The designation of Distin- come a self-educating person, so for best interdisciplinary work in its effects on our lives, our teaching and our students. guished Professor, a rank that that you’ll want to learn. My pur- American Studies; “Who Built Last year, in an attempt to respond responsibly to state appro- recognizes extraordinary, inter- pose is to show you what pleasure America? Working People and priation cuts and an unsure endowment future, Pitt’s administration nationally recognized scholarly can be had in thinking for yourself, the Nation’s Economy, Poli- undertook cost-saving measures aimed at sustaining our core mis- attainment in an individual dis- challenging yourself.’” tics, Culture and Society,” with sions while minimizing pain for faculty, staff and students. These cipline or field, became effective But there’s a underlying ethical Herbert G. Gutman and others, included a hiring freeze except where new hires had already been July 1. message in his teaching as well. “I and “The Many-Headed Hydra: approved, an across-the-board salary freeze and modest tuition Rediker’s book, “The Slave tell my classes: ‘If you don’t like Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and increases (2.5-5.5 percent). Although these measures seemed tough, Ship: A Human History,” won the the history you’ve got so far, go the Hidden History of the Revo- there was a sense of shared pain and also the realization that cuts 2008 George Washington Book out and make some of your own.’ lutionary Atlantic,” with Peter were better than the more draconian options of layoffs and salary Prize, which is administered by We can’t study politics and his- Linebaugh, which was translated reductions endured by other institutions. Still, these measures the C.V. Starr Center at Wash- tory as disembodied intellectual into French, German, Italian, have taken their toll on faculty morale at Pitt. Classroom loads ington College in partnership with concepts,” he said. “All politics Korean, Portuguese and Spanish that might have been reduced by additional hires have continued, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of is a struggle for new ideas, more and won the 2001 International and the increased cost of living has been absorbed. American History and George humane ideas, and these ideas Labor History Book Prize from Within this context, the time never has been better for faculty Washington’s Mount Vernon; the have always, always come out of the International Labor History to embrace their only instrument for open discussion and problem- 2008 Merle Curti Award from struggles for a better life.” Association. solving with the administration: the University Senate. Here are the Organization of American Rediker also is the author of In addition to his book awards, some of the ways the Senate has worked over the past year to Historians, and the James A. “Between the Devil and the Deep Rediker was named a 2005-06 directly promote your well-being: Rawley Prize from the American Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, fellow of both the American • As it does every year, the Senate budget policies committee Historical Association. The book Pirates and the Anglo-American Council of Learned Societies (BPC) reviewed the administration’s report on the University’s fiscal has been translated into Swedish Maritime World, 1700-1750,” and the National Endowment health, considered the balance sheet of obligations and incomes, and currently is being translated which has been translated into for the Humanities; a 1990-91 and helped define priorities for the final budget submitted to the into Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Andrew Mellon Fellow at Pitt, Board of Trustees. BPC strongly recommended 2 percent for salary Russian and Portuguese. and a 1989-90 fellow of the John maintenance for all employees whose work performance during the Another of Rediker’s books, Simon Guggenheim Memorial past year has been rated as at least satisfactory, and 1 percent for “Villains of All Nations: Atlan- Foundation. merit, market and equity adjustments to be made at the unit level. tic Pirates in the Golden Age,” Rediker attended Vanderbilt These subsequently became the chancellor’s recommendations to is under option with Lionsgate University and Virginia Com- the Board of Trustees. Entertainment and is in develop- monwealth University, where he BPC also monitors the salaries of other faculty, both in our ment as a television miniseries. received a BA degree in history. region and at other large universities that are fellow members of Rediker also is at work on “The He earned MA and PhD degrees the Association of American Universities. Although we all would Amistad Rebellion: A Sea Story of in history from Penn. like higher salaries, Pitt faculty salaries compare favorably with Slavery and Freedom,” scheduled n —Peter Hart those at peer institutions, landing somewhere in the middle. for publication in 2012. • Senate members, including some from the Senate benefits A scholar of early American and welfare committee, again served on the University’s Medical history and Atlantic history, L E T T E R S Advisory Committee. MAC is charged with annually reviewing Rediker joined the Pitt faculty in prices negotiated with our health care provider, UPMC Health Plan, 1994. He just completed a term as Why no AED in Craig Hall? defining premiums, co-pays and related benefits. The University chair of the history department, a To the editor: and students with an excellent is the single largest corporate member of the UPMC Health Plan, post he had held since September Why are there NO AEDs level of access to these devices. which creates significant leverage in negotiations. (Paradoxically, 2007. (automated external defibrillators) This was recently illustrated by Pitt faculty and staff pay less for the UPMC Health Plan than Among the courses he teaches listed in Craig Hall? (See July 22 the successful resuscitation of do employees of UPMC itself.) For several years, the University are The Global History of Piracy, University Times.) several persons on campus, as administration has maintained the policy of absorbing 80 percent Colonial America, Atlantic His- We have the University’s reported in the University Times of the increases in health care costs. But MAC input guides the tory: 1500-1800 and Africa and Human Resources and Payroll earlier this year. The University way those increased costs are passed along to faculty and staff, the Atlantic. departments in Craig Hall, where Police respond to all portions of closely considering the impact of specific changes on University Rediker told the University a lot of older adults come to get our campus within minutes, and employees as a whole. Times, “I try to teach history ‘from explanation of benefits and ask they receive frequent and current • The Senate tenure and academic freedom committee (TAFC) the bottom up,’ what I call ‘the payroll-related questions. training regarding AEDs and continued to be a vital element in maintaining academic freedom people’s history.’ We have a history We are also at the boundary of other first aid tactics. This access and academic responsibility at our institution. TAFC is always full of kings and statesmen and the University, thereby making the to first aid via 412/624-2121 ready to mediate in disputes about promotion and reappointment. philosophers, but we don’t have extra time it might take a patrol (the Oakland campus emergency Although most of TAFC’s deliberations are confidential, the com- a history of people who literally car to reach us of a CRITICAL number) is augmented by the pres- mittee also takes the academic pulse of the University each year, built the world.” nature. ence of AEDs in numerous build- quantifying the ratio of tenure-stream to non-tenure-stream faculty, Teaching at Pitt is very enjoy- Michael A. Mathis ings across campus. Each year the percentage of faculty per school at each academic level, and able, Rediker said. “I find that Payroll Department additional AEDs are procured by other trends. If some systematic threat to academic integrity arises, departments, responsibility cen- TAFC members are the first to know and they report on it during Jay Frerotte, director, Depart- ters or the central administration, monthly Faculty Assembly meetings. ment of Environmental Health and are added to the University’s • The University Senate is concerned with other quality-of- and Safety, replies: AED inventory, which currently campus-life issues, including Fitness for Life, classroom size and Thank you for your input has more than 70 AEDs. Depart- availability, recycling and library initiatives. A list of committee, U N I V E R S I T Y regarding automatic external defi- ments or responsibility centers Faculty Assembly and Senate Council members as well as Faculty brillators (AEDs) on the Oakland seeking to add an AED to their Assembly and Senate Council meeting minutes are available on the TIMES campus. 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studies. PhD in political science from the Manfredi earned his bachelor’s University of Wisconsin, where Beeson appoints 3 vice provosts degree in mathematics from the her studies included research in Universidad Complutense de Italy as a Fulbright Scholar. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Madrid in 1979 and his master’s An expert on European politics studies, has obligations related The process for finding a new ship as well, he said. and PhD degrees in mathemat- and economics, Sbragia joined to the start of the academic year, associate dean for undergradu- Coming to the Office of the ics from Washington University Pitt’s faculty in 1974 and taught including orientation of faculty ate studies to replace Manfredi Provost marks the first time he’s in St. Louis in 1984 and 1986, American and European urban and department chairs. Sbragia, requires the dean of the School held a non-academic position, respectively. politics and policy. After a year who has been on sabbatical and of Arts and Sciences to make a allowing him to put theoretical Manfredi noted that he worked as a visiting faculty member at working on a book, is cutting short nomination to the School of Arts concepts into practice, DeJong on various projects with Beeson Harvard, in 1984 she returned to a planned fall term sabbatical. and Sciences Council, after which said. “It’s a challenge jumping when she was vice provost, adding Pitt to become director of Pitt’s DeJong and Manfredi’s the approved candidate can be in,” he noted, adding that he that he aims to continue to “con- West European studies program, appointments took effect Sept. recommended to the provost with was interested in the many facets tribute to the mission that our now the European Studies Center. 1; Sbragia will begin officially in the council’s support. encompassed by the academic undergraduate students do very In 1998, Sbragia was named her new post in October. q planning and resources manage- well” in his new role in the Pro- director of Pitt’s European Union Beeson said, “I certainly DeJong came to Pitt in 1989 ment position. vost’s office. Center, which in 2005 was elevated understand that they’re going to as an assistant professor and was DeJong said he expects his He said his general role is to to the status of European Union be spending some of their time in promoted to professor in 2001. background would serve him well support the provost in promoting Center of Excellence. the coming months making sure He became chair of the economics in resources management aspects, undergraduate programs and help “I loved what I was doing but that transition is smooth because department in 2006. given that decision-making amid compete among the best universi- I’ve been there a long time,” Sbra- it’s important for the success for He also has been a member of financial restraints is a familiar ties, “making sure undergraduate gia said, noting that a fresh view the University and of this office or representative to the University economics concept. students have access to excellent will be good for the center. “I’ll that each of the places that they’re Planning and Budgeting Commit- He also expressed respect for programming and appropriate miss it a lot myself, but I’m sure leaving is also successful.” tee’s parameters subcommittee, the office’s progress under former resources in order to attract better it’ll be in good hands.” University Center for Inter- the advisory committee for the provost James V. Maher, adding and better students with higher While she has worked with national Studies (UCIS) director admission of student athletes that succeeding Pack in the vice and higher expectations.” some of Pitt’s deans as the EU Larry Feick said a search would and the Board of Trustees budget provost role presents a challenge. He also will play a part in the center director, Sbragia said she commence to find a replacement committee. “I’ll fill some big shoes,” he said. assessment of learning outcomes is excited about working more for Sbragia with the hope of having He earned his bachelor’s q related to Pitt’s reaccreditation. closely with them to hear their her position at the European degree in economics, summa cum Manfredi, who also joined the Manfredi stressed his belief in ideas on the direction of graduate Union Center of Excellence and laude, at Central College in Iowa Pitt faculty in 1989, has received the importance of opportunities education at Pitt. European Studies Center filled and his doctorate in economics at several teaching awards includ- for undergraduate research and Sbragia said she recognizes the by Jan. 1. Carolyn Ban, professor the University of Iowa. ing, in 1994, the Chancellor’s quality study-abroad experiences. complexity of the field of graduate and former dean of the Graduate DeJong said his association Distinguished Teaching Award. He said he also has an inter- education with numerous varia- School of Public and International with Beeson began as colleagues in Manfredi was promoted to full est in technology issues and the tions depending on the school, Affairs, has been acting director the economics department when professor in 1998. He chaired the emergence of new technologies, whether the program leads to a of the centers during Sbragia’s he joined the faculty in 1989. math department 2005-07 before including the move toward elec- master’s or PhD, and the range of sabbatical and plans to remain Over the years, that affiliation has becoming the Arts and Sciences tronic textbooks and the impact interdisciplinary and cross-school through Dec. 31, Feick said. developed into a personal friend- associate dean of undergraduate of iPad and notebook computers programs. as they replace printed material. “Pitt is a really, really, really Knowing when to embrace new interesting place. The parts of it I technology can be difficult to know I find really interesting. I’m gauge, he said. sure I’m going to have the same “You don’t want to be the first reaction to the parts I don’t know to try something, but you also about that I’m going to explore,” don’t want to be the last.” Sbragia said. Manfredi maintained that Pitt Before her appointment offi- “already has pretty good techni- cially starts, Sbragia already will cal offerings,” and that he wants get an introduction to the wide to ensure they are incorporated range of issues related to graduate into the culture of the University’s education as she represents the curriculum and teaching. University at a meeting of Asso- “We serve the students,” Man- ciation of American Universities fredi said, adding that his goal is graduate deans later this month. to see them both happy and well While Sbragia expects that educated at Pitt. her new role will come with a big q learning curve, “I don’t feel as if Sbragia earned her under- I’m going into this blindfolded,” graduate degree from Holy Names she said, given that Beeson has College in Oakland, Calif., after preceded her as the vice provost. spending her junior year studying “She knows the terrain so well.” Mike Drazdzinski/CIDDE at the Sorbonne. She earned her —Kimberly K. Barlow n Is PITT it? Investment fund manager pleads guilty Some 3,000 incoming freshmen attempted to break the Guinness World Record for the “World’s Largest Torchlight (Flashlight) Logo/Image Formed by People.” On Aug. 26, as part of new student orientation events, students gathered in the Petersen Events ne of a pair of investment ney for the Southern District of Center to hold flashlights coordinated to spell P-I-T-T for 10 minutes. fund managers accused of New York, the indictment, court Whether they succeeded in breaking the record has not yet been verified, Pitt officials said. Omisappropriating funds documents and statements at the invested by institutional clients, plea proceeding indicate that including nearly $70 million Greenwood and others ran a in Pitt’s endowment funds, has fraudulent commodities trading Pay increases coming in September checks pleaded guilty. and investment scheme dating iscal year 2011 salary 26 University Update. deficit nor the city’s significant Paul Greenwood, a former back to at least 1996. increases, retroactive to Market imbalances are to be pension shortfall has yet been principal of WG Trading Co. Through a marketer, Green- FJuly 1, will be included in addressed in future years’ salary effectively addressed. And the and WG Trading Investors, and wood and others solicited $7.6 Pitt employees’ September pay pool distribution recommenda- ‘funding cliff’ that is expected his partner Stephen Walsh were billion from investors but misap- checks. tions, he stated. to materialize when the federal arrested in 2009 and indicted on propriated at least $331 million The 3 percent salary pool The 3 percent salary pool stimulus program comes to an six charges: conspiracy, securi- of the funds entrusted to them to increase approved by the Uni- increase is expected to place Pitt end now is less than one year ties fraud, commodities fraud, fund extravagant lifestyles. versity’s Board of Trustees July in a favorable competitive posi- away,” he stated. two counts of wire fraud, and According to the U.S. Attor- 16 is to be distributed as follows: tion, the chancellor stated, adding “Further financial difficulties, money laundering. (See March ney, Greenwood used some of the 2 percent for salary maintenance that many other universities are then, almost certainly await us. 5, 2009, University Times.) The misappropriated funds to build a for employees with satisfactory awarding smaller pay increases But given all that we faced during federal charges stemmed from a home, buy expensive collectibles performance and 1 percent for or imposing salary freezes or fur- the past two years, our record fraudulent commodities trading and operate a horse farm. merit, market and equity adjust- loughs. The chancellor cautioned of sustained progress is nothing and investment advisory scheme Greenwood and Walsh were ments at the unit level. that lifting Pitt’s salary freeze is short of remarkable. There is involving millions of dollars arrested in February 2009 and Part of the salary pool typi- not a sign that the University’s every reason to believe, then, invested by the University and both entered pleas of not guilty cally has been designated to economic challenges are over. that we will find ways to maintain other institutional clients. in July 2009. Greenwood changed address market imbalances, but “Looking at the global econ- our momentum, whatever new The University’s FY09 finan- his plea from not guilty to guilty “given the size of the pool and the omy, some experts believe that, challenges may come our way.” cial statement reported the value July 30 in federal court in New fact that salaries were frozen last even though a ‘double dip’ reces- The full text of the chancel- of its investment as $34.9 million, York. His sentencing is tentatively year, funds will not be held back sion is unlikely, that possibility is lor’s update is available at www. representing a 50 percent write- scheduled for Dec. 1. from that pool for that purpose less remote today than it was just a chancellor.pitt.edu/news/2010- down from previously recorded Walsh has not changed his not this year,” stated Chancellor few months ago. ... Locally, neither 07-26.html. fair value. (See Oct. 29, 2009, guilty plea. The charges against Mark A. Nordenberg in a July the Port Authority’s large budget —Kimberly K. Barlow n University Times.) him still are pending. According to the U.S. Attor- —Kimberly K. Barlow n

3 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES Trustees OK $37.2 million in construction, renovations he property and facilities writing center and the freshman electrical feed for Posvar Hall to Funding for the lounge cal Research Education Institute committee of the Univer- studies program. The renovation improve reliability of service for includes $1.5 million from provost occupies the 2nd and 3rd floors Tsity’s Board of Trustees also will provide Student Affairs the lower campus and the Posvar reserves and $340,000 from gifts. of the building. approved seven construction and with more office and meeting chilled water plant. Funding • $1.2 million for the fourth Western Psychiatric Institute renovation projects totaling $37.2 space. The project is scheduled comes through E&G debt. phase of a sprinkler installa- and Clinic’s attention deficit dis- million and one lease renewal at for completion in the spring. • $1.84 million for student tion project in the Cathedral of order research program occupies its Aug. 6 meeting. Funding for the renovation lounge renovations on the ground Learning. Installation will cover the 4th floor and the Department The largest amount approved includes $4.3 million in education floor of the Barco Law Building. floors 2-6, 10 and 11. Funding of Psychiatry’s office of grants and was $17.63 million for the expan- and general (E&G) debt and $1.5 The project will include tables, for the installation comes from contracts is on the 5th floor. sion of the Bouquet Gardens million from provost reserves. booths, a cyber bar, a soft seating E&G debt. The lease renewal is for five student housing complex. The • $4.85 million for renovations area and a coffee bar in the lounge The committee okayed a years beginning Sept. 1, 2010, at a construction will add 155 beds in to the 5th floor of the Chevron area, a student eating and vending five-year lease renewal with fixed annual cost of $797,472 ($27 48 units that are to be completed Science Center to house wet labs area and the creation of offices for Cityview Properties for space in per square foot) with a renewal in time for fall 2011 occupancy. for chemistry research. Funding student organizations in the lower the Parkvale Building on Meyran option for an additional five years. The project will raise Pitt’s for the project includes $4.15 mil- level locker area. Avenue. The University’s Clini- —Kimberly K. Barlow n on-campus housing capacity to lion in School of Arts and Sciences 7,396 beds. reserves and $700,000 in provost Funding for the project is reserves. through auxiliary debt, according • $3.4 million for renovations Food service workers ratify contract to project information presented to the Eberly Hall nanoscience nionized food service Under the new contract, have justice on the job,” he said. to the committee. laboratory to create new synthetic workers at Pitt last month Sodexo also is offering multiple SEIU has charged Sodexo with The committee also approved: and spectroscopy laboratory suites Uratified a new three-year health insurance options at vary- intimidation and harassment of • $5.8 million to upgrade and and for renovations to the chemis- contract with Sodexo, the inter- ing rates. The company will pay 90 its employees and in April filed renovate the Concordia Club. try electronics shop. Funding for national company that runs food percent of health care premiums several claims with the National The O’Hara Street building will the project comes from School of services on the Pittsburgh campus. for individual coverage and 80 Labor Relations Board, calling become home to the School of Arts Arts and Sciences reserves. The 200 members of the percent for family coverage, SEIU for an investigation into the com- and Sciences math laboratory and • $2.5 million for a backup Service Employees International officials said. pany’s violations of federal labor Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ had Sodexo USA said that the law, Morgan said. Those charges been working without a contract agreement provides for almost a are pending a decision from the since a three-year pact expired 12 percent increase in wages over NLRB. Feb. 28. About 150 additional three years while maintaining Sodexo spokesperson Monica non-union Sodexo food service pension benefits. Zimmer said, “Sodexo cares for workers at Pitt are not covered Sodexo USA spokesperson its workers and we respect all by the agreement. Alfred King said in a statement, employees’ rights to unionize or Gabe Morgan, 32BJ SEIU “Sodexo now looks forward to not unionize as they choose.” She Western Pennsylvania director, the beginning of the new school added that Sodexo has contracts stated that the highest-paid union year and continuing to provide with more than 300 unions and workers will receive a minimum excellent service to the students locals nationwide. increase of $1.50 per hour over and members of the University Following an impasse last three years; the lowest-paid of Pittsburgh community.” spring in negotiations on the new employees would see a total three- Morgan said SEIU is working contract, the unionized workers year increase of up to $4 an hour. with the non-union employees to walked off their jobs at Market Morgan said that will bring the help them get the same benefits Central and Sutherland Hall’s The pay range to approximately $10- that their unionized co-workers Perch on April 26 and remained $15 an hour, or about $2 per hour will receive under the contract. on strike for three days. (See April Barbara DelRaso Work has begun on the addition to the Bouquet Gardens student more than the previous contract’s “We will continue fighting until 29 University Times.) housing complex. pay range. all Sodexo workers on campus —Peter Hart n

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other Pitt data: • Pitt’s total undergraduate population in fall 2009 was 18,031, University’s ranking drops which included 16,719 full-time students and 1,312 part-time students. • Women comprised 51 per- in latest U.S. News survey cent of the undergrad population. itt tied for 64th among all a wide range of undergraduate been reduced by 2.5 percentage • Pitt received 21,737 applica- the nation’s PhD-granting majors, as well as master’s and points. We are publishing a new tions for admission last fall; 12,722 Puniversities in the 2011 doctoral degrees; some emphasize ‘undergraduate academic repu- were accepted, an acceptance rate edition of U.S. News & World faculty research.” tation index,’ which reflects the of 59 percent. Report’s “America’s Best Col- weighted combined results of both • The percentage of classes leges” rankings. Pitt tied with Methodology reputation surveys.” in fall 2009 with fewer than 20 Clemson, Minnesota-Twin Cities, U.S. News gathers data from Of the 4,273 academicians students was 39.9 percent, while Rutgers and Worcester Polytech- the institutions each year. Accord- surveyed, 48 percent responded, the percentage of classes with 50 nic Institute. Last year Pitt tied ing to the magazine, 90 percent of the same percentage as last year; or more students was 17.9 percent. for 56th. the 1,472 schools returned surveys of the 1,787 high school guidance • 49 percent of freshmen were Among just national public supplying data for this year’s counselors first surveyed this year, enrolled freshmen who graduated in the top 10 percent of their 2009 institutions, Pitt tied for 23nd, rankings. Missing data are drawn 21 percent responded, the maga- in the top 10 percent of their high high school class; 86 percent were down three slots from last year. from national sources such as the zine stated. school class; 10 percent is based in the top quarter, and 99 percent Harvard topped the list this American Association of Uni- The weights of the five other on an institution’s acceptance in the top half of their class. year, followed by Princeton, Yale versity Professors, the National measures in the U.S. News rank- rate, that is, the ratio of students • The 25th and 75th SAT per- and Columbia, with Stanford and Collegiate Athletic Association, ings remain the same: graduation admitted to applicants. centile rates for fall 2009 freshmen Penn tying for 5th, among all 262 the Council for Aid to Educa- and retention rates (20 percent of According to the magazine, were 1160 and 1360, respectively. American doctorate-granting tion and the U.S. Department of the total score); faculty resources Pitt’s overall score was 51, with • 56 percent of undergraduates schools (164 public institutions Education’s National Center for (20 percent); student selectivity 100 being the highest score; its were determined to have financial and 98 private). Last year, Harvard Educational Statistics. (15 percent); financial resources undergraduate academic reputa- need, with the average financial aid and Princeton tied for the top spot. This year, U.S. News adjusted (10 percent), and alumni giving tion score was 70 (with 100 the package being $10,132. The University of California- its methodology in several ways. (5 percent). maximum); its average freshman • The five most popular majors Berkeley, which was ranked No. The rankings for national Fifty percent of the student retention rate was 90.8 percent, for 2009 graduates: 14 percent 22 overall, again held the top universities still are derived from selectivity score is derived from which tied for 60th nationally; business, management, marketing spot among the publics, followed a comparison of seven weighted the test scores of all enrolled fresh- its faculty resources ranked 124th and related support services; 14 by UCLA and the University of indicators, but the weights have men who took the critical reading nationally; its student selectiv- percent social sciences; 11 percent Virginia (tied for 25th overall), been adjusted in two categories: and math portions of the SAT or ity ranked 63rd nationally; its English language and literature/ Michigan-Ann Arbor (29th over- undergraduate academic reputa- the composite ACT score. financial resources ranked 36th letters; 9 percent engineering, and all) and North Carolina-Chapel tion, formerly 25 percent of an Pitt requires applicants to take nationally, and its 14 percent 9 percent psychology. Hill (30th overall). institution’s overall score, now either the SAT or the ACT. alumni giving rate ranked 98th • The student-faculty ratio in In addition to Penn, Pennsyl- accounts for 22.5 percent; gradu- Forty percent of the selectivity nationally. fall 2009 was 15:1. vania institutions ranked by U.S. ation rate performance, formerly score is based on the percentage of The magazine also reported CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 News among the overall top 50 worth 5 percent, now is 7.5 percent national universities were Carn- of the overall score for national egie Mellon (tied for 23rd), Lehigh universities. University (tied for 37th) and That latter variable is defined Penn State (tied for 47th overall; as the difference between a tied for 15th among the publics). school’s six-year graduation rate The college ratings were pub- for the class that entered in 2003 lished in the Aug. 23 issue of the and the predicted rate for that magazine in abridged form. In class; the predicted rate is calcu- addition, undergraduate business lated using a formula that accounts and engineering programs and for the standardized test scores certain specialty areas ranked by of students entering in 2003 and U.S. News are posted on the maga- the school’s expenditures on the zine’s web site: www.usnews.com. students. Even more extensive ranking If the actual graduation rate is lists, which were the source for higher than the predicted rate, the this story, can be purchased at school is judged to have enhanced the web site. the students’ achievement. For example, this year Pitt’s predicted Kinds of institutions six-year graduation rate was 77 U.S. News breaks down more percent, while the actual rate was than 1,400 of the nation’s four- 78 percent. year higher education institutions According to the magazine, into several categories: national graduation rate performance was universities; national liberal arts increased in weight since the cat- colleges; regional universities egory “has been well received by (listed as “universities-master’s” many higher education research- in previous years’ rankings), and ers because it’s a measure of regional colleges (previously “bac- educational outcomes and also calaureate colleges”). rewards schools for graduating According to the magazine, at-risk students, many of whom the latter category changes better are receiving federal Pell grants. reflect the official Carnegie Foun- This means that schools can ben- dation for the Advancement of efit in the Best Colleges rankings Teaching classifications, updated by enrolling and then graduating in 2006, of universities whose more of these at-risk students.” highest degree is a master’s and At 22.5 percent of the overall four-year colleges that specialize score, the undergraduate academic in professional as well as liberal reputation category remains the arts degrees. The number of largest single weighted measure institutions in the two categories in the score. But for the first time, did not change from prior years, U.S. News has included within and schools still are ranked in four that measure the opinions of high regions — north, south, midwest school guidance counselors in and west — “because they tend making calculations for national to draw heavily from surround- universities. ing states.” According to the magazine, Each grouping includes public “The weight assigned to the and private institutions. [traditional] peer ratings collected U.S. News has ranked colleges in a survey of college presidents, and universities annually since provosts and deans goes down to 1983. (The magazine also annually 15 percent of the overall score ranks graduate programs. See April from 25 percent; ratings by the 29 University Times.) high school counselors surveyed National universities, includ- get a weight of 7.5 percent. This ing Pitt, are defined by U.S. News means that in these two categories as those institutions that “offer the total weight of reputation has

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dropped in the Best Colleges through fall 2008 who returned 2007 (published in August 2006) to school the following fall. Pitt drops in U.S. News survey edition of U.S. News because of The magazine ranked the top CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 incomplete data, according to 60 northern regional colleges Robert J. Morse, director of data in this category. Pitt-Johnstown • 88.8 percent of Pitt’s 2,265 grams listed for public and private ing international students, drawn research at U.S. News & World ranked 23rd with a 73.8 percent faculty in 2009 were full time. universities that grant PhDs, Pitt’s from data from each institution’s Report. In the 2008 and 2009 retention rate; Pitt-Bradford • 45 percent of undergraduates program tied for 56th (tied for 51st 2009-10 school year student body. editions, Pitt-Greensburg was not ranked 29th with a 71.2 percent lived in Pitt-affiliated housing. last year) with eight other schools: • Pitt’s 78 percent six-year ranked because the campus does rate. • 10 percent of undergraduates Auburn, Boston, Clemson, Colo- graduation rate tied for 65th not have a separate accreditation, • Among peer institutions in belonged to a fraternity, 9 percent rado State, Iowa, Northeastern, among national universities. Morse told the University Times. the northern region, Pitt-John- to a sorority. Tufts and Worcester Polytechnic • In the average freshman However, he acknowledged that stown ranked 15th with a 60.8 Institute. retention rate category, which Pitt-Bradford and Pitt-Johnstown percent six-year graduation rate, Undergraduate business Carnegie Mellon tied for 8th measures the average proportion also are accredited under the Uni- and Pitt-Bradford ranked 38th and engineering programs and Penn State tied for 17th of entering freshmen starting in versity’s accreditation and that, with a 45.3 percent rate. Also ranked nationally by overall among doctorate-granting fall 2005 through fall 2008 who under that tenet, those campuses • At Bradford, 47.5 percent U.S. News and World Report schools in the engineering pro- returned to school the following likewise should not have been of the classes had fewer than 20 were undergraduate business gram rankings. Massachusetts fall, Pitt’s 90.8 percent rate tied included in U.S. News rankings. students in 2009, ranking the and engineering programs on the Institute of Technology was for 60th nationally. For example, Penn State’s satel- campus 36th in its region, while Pittsburgh campus. ranked No. 1 by the magazine, • Pitt’s 59 percent acceptance lite campuses are unranked for 22.5 percent of UPJ’s classes had Among the 363 undergraduate the spot it held last year. rate tied for 96th among national that reason. under 20 students, ranking the business programs ranked by U.S. Among public institutions, Pitt universities in that category. “It was our intention to remove campus 50th. News, Pitt’s College of Business tied for 32nd; Pitt tied for 29th [UPB and UPJ] from the rankings • In the average amount of Administration tied for 42nd over- last year in this category. The regional campuses [in the 2010 edition published need-based aid (need-based schol- all (the same as last year) with 14 Undergrad engineering pro- U.S. News ranked 319 public in 2009],” he said. “This was an arship and grants, need-based other programs: Auburn, Boston grams were ranked solely on a and private regional colleges, oversight. Our goal is that the loans and work study) awarded University, the College of Wil- spring 2010 peer survey of deans divided into four regions of the schools should be treated equally category, Pitt-Bradford ranked liam and Mary, CUNY-Baruch and senior faculty (two per school) country. and we didn’t do that.” 26th with $12,600 being the College, Pepperdine, Rensselaer who rated each program they were The northern region includes This year, however, for the average financial aid package for Polytechnic Institute, Tulane, familiar with. Fifty-eight percent Pennsylvania, the six New Eng- Best Colleges 2011 edition, the full-time undergraduates, meeting Virginia Tech and the universi- of those surveyed at schools that land states, and Delaware, Mary- magazine chose to maintain the on average 90 percent of need for ties of Arkansas, Connecticut, award doctorates responded, land, New Jersey and New York. status quo from last year and to full-time students. Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon and according to the magazine. According to the magazine, include Pitt-Bradford and Pitt- Pitt-Johnstown ranked 35th South Carolina. regional colleges are institutions Johnstown. “We decided to keep in this category, with the aver- Carnegie Mellon’s business Special categories that focus on undergraduate the same universe of schools age financial aid package being program tied for 7th; Penn State’s Pitt appeared in a number of education and offer a range of because we’re waiting for the $10,226, meeting on average program tied for 23rd in the special categories listed by U.S. degree programs in professional new Carnegie Foundation clas- 57 percent of need for full-time overall rankings. Penn’s Wharton News for national universities. fields such as business, nursing sifications to be released, which, students. business school held the top spot • In the economic diver- and education, with liberal arts according to their web site, sup- • U.S. News also compiled lists overall in this undergraduate sity category, which shows the programs accounting for fewer posedly is going to happen by the of the schools whose students in category, just as it did last year. percentage of undergraduates than half of the bachelor’s degrees end of calendar 2010,” Morse said. the class of 2009 graduated with Pitt was tied for 24th among receiving federal Pell grants for awarded. “We’re going to use the new the heaviest and lightest debt public universities in this category, low-income students, 29 percent (The nation’s 572 regional classifications as a catalyst to re- loads. The student-incurred debt the same as last year. of Pitt undergraduates received universities, by contrast, offer a look at all the schools. I doubt category data included loans taken To arrive at the business pro- Pell grants, ranking the Univer- “full range of master’s programs, there will be changes [in classifi- out by students from the colleges gram rankings, in spring 2010 sity tied for 63rd among national but few, if any, doctoral programs,” cation] for schools like Carnegie themselves, from financial institu- U.S. News surveyed deans and universities. according to U.S. News.) Mellon, Penn State’s main campus tions and from federal, state and senior faculty at undergraduate According to the magazine, In the northern subcategory, or the University of Pittsburgh local governments. Parents’ loans business programs accredited Pell grant percentages were the magazine lists 64 public and main campus, but there are some were not included. by the Association to Advance calculated using 2008-09 school private regional colleges, ranking issues with [smaller] schools that The data indicated what per- Collegiate Schools of Business. year data on the number of Pell the top 50 (including ties) and list- we’ll be taking a look at to see centage of the student body had Participants (two at each AACSB- grant recipients at each school ing Nos. 51-64 in tier 2. Schools where they fit.” taken on debt (and, by extrapola- accredited business program) collected by the U.S. Depart- in tier 2 were listed alphabetically Pitt-Titusville, primarily a tion, what percentage was debt- were asked to rate the quality of ment of Education and fall 2008 by the magazine. two-year institution, never has free). all programs they were familiar total undergraduate enrollment This year, Pitt’s Johnstown been included in the U.S. News Data also included the “aver- with on a scale of 1 (marginal) collected from the colleges them- campus tied for 21st overall with rankings. age amount of debt,” that is, to 5 (distinguished). The rank- selves. U.S. News noted, “Many Cazenovia College and Keuka Both UPJ and UPB appear in the average cumulative amount ings were based solely on this experts say that Pell figures are the College; UPJ tied for 28th last a number of subcategories within borrowed by those students who peer survey; 42 percent of those best available gauge of how many year. The campus ranked 7th the group of 64 northern regional incurred debt, not the average for surveyed responded, according to low-income undergrads there are among public institutions in the colleges ranked by U.S. News. all students. the magazine. on a given campus.” region, up from 8th last year. • Pitt-Bradford tied for 29th At the Bradford campus, 81.7 In addition, U.S. News ranks • In the racial diversity cat- The Bradford campus, which in the racial diversity index cat- percent of 2009 graduates incurred schools in 12 business specialty egory, Pitt scored 0.27 (with was unranked last year when the egory, which identifies colleges debt, averaging $21,683. That areas, which also are based solely 1.0 as the highest score) on the magazine ranked only the top 33 where students are most likely to ranked 13th lowest in average on the spring 2010 peer survey. magazine’s diversity index, tying institutions, tied for 31st in the encounter undergraduates from total indebtedness among regional Schools offering any courses in a for 187th among all national northern region with Eastern racial or ethnic groups different colleges in the northern region. specialty are eligible to be ranked universities. Nazarene College, New England from their own. In the same category, Pitt- in that specialty. According to the magazine, College, Pennsylvania College of Pitt-Johnstown tied for 42nd Johnstown ranked 14th lowest in In the management informa- the diversity index is designed to Technology and Vermont Techni- in this category among the 52 average total indebtedness, with tion systems specialty, Pitt tied for “identify colleges where students cal College. peer institutions ranked by the 85 percent of 2009 graduates 17th overall with Bentley Uni- are most likely to encounter This year, Pitt-Bradford tied magazine. incurring debt, averaging $23,243. versity among 20 such programs undergraduates from racial or for 9th among public regional • The two campuses appear In this category, information highlighted by the magazine. Pitt ethnic groups different from their colleges in the northern region. on the average freshman reten- for Pittsburgh campus students was unranked in this area last year. own.” To arrive at the index, U.S. Pitt’s Greensburg campus was tion rate listing of the 64 regional graduating in 2009 was incom- Among the top 169 accredited News factors in the total propor- unranked this year as well as the colleges, which is defined as the plete and the campus is not listed, undergraduate engineering pro- tion of minority students, exclud- past three years. The school was average proportion of entering according to U.S. News officials. freshmen starting in fall 2005 —Peter Hart n Bowling league seeks members Howard Goodman is looking Goodman, a financial analyst in for members of the Pitt commu- the Office of Budget and Financial nity who have a little time to spare Reporting, was a member of the as the Panther Bowling League Pitt Club league, which folded in prepares to launch its new season. 2001. Goodman was instrumental The social group, which meets in resurrecting the league in 2005. at 5:30 p.m. each Tuesday at the The reborn group has a core of Pittsburgh Athletic Association about two dozen bowlers — Pitt is starting the new year Sept. 14 employees, retirees and graduate with a free session. While the students, with a few non-Pitt rela- league prefers members com- tives joining in. mitted to full-time participation, Participants can join as four- or part-timers also are welcome. No five-member teams or come on experience is necessary. The $10 their own to be assigned to a team. cost per week includes shoes and For more information, contact a ball. A cash bar is available and Dan McCue at the PAA, 412/586- lockers can be rented. 2075 or [email protected]. n

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Street between Franklin and Wal- Rose streets, Elmore Square, lace avenues will be discontinued. Bentley and Oak Hill drives, Eck- Additional bus route changes to begin Service along Tioga and Rosedale stein Place, Wadsworth, Robin- eventy-five additional Port to the 62nd Street Loop will be College streets and Ellsworth streets also will be discontinued. son, Terrace and Darragh streets, Authority bus routes will be discontinued. Avenue will be discontinued. (All • Starting Sept. 7, route 77U Fifth Avenue, the Birmingham Saffected starting Sept. 5 and • Starting Sept. 5, the 71C service on Ellsworth Avenue will will be discontinued. For service Bridge, East Carson Street, 21st 7 — including several with service schedule will be revised and the be provided by 75 Ellsworth.) between Penn Hills and Oakland, and Wharton streets. to Oakland — during this year’s route renamed 71C Point Breeze. • Starting Sept. 5, the 71D riders must take 77 Penn Hills to Inbound service will oper- third phase of service changes. 71C will operate via Wilkinsburg schedule will be revised and East Liberty and transfer to the P3 ate from Wharton Square via (See April 1 University Times Station, Hay Street, Penn Avenue, routing in Wilkinsburg will East Busway-Oakland on the East Wharton, 20th and East Carson for stories on the service changes South Beatty Street, Baum Bou- change. 71D will operate between Busway at East Liberty Station. streets, the Birmingham Bridge, implemented in April. See June 10 levard, South Negley and Centre Wilkinsburg and Downtown via • Stating Sept. 5, the 81A route Forbes Avenue, Bigelow Bou- University Times for service changes avenues, North Craig Street and Wilkinsburg Station, Hay Street, will be renamed 81 Oak Hill. 81 levard, Fifth Avenue, DeSoto implemented in June.) Fifth Avenue to Downtown. Wallace Avenue, Wood and Oak- Oak Hill will operate between and Terrace streets, with reverse Under the Port Authority’s Service along Pennwood mont streets, Hamilton Avenue Oakland, Downtown and Whar- outbound routing. Service to the transit development plan, service Avenue, Rowland Connector, and Fifth Avenue to Downtown. ton Square on the South Side. VA Hospital will be provided by changes will be implemented in Kelly and Trenton avenues, Service to South and Swissvale Outbound trips will operate via route 83 Webster. phases until March 2012. Whitfield Street, South Highland avenues, Jane Street Loop, Coal Centre Avenue, Crawford Street, 81 Oak Hill and 83 Webster Specific information on the Avenue, Ellwood, Walnut and Street, Franklin Avenue and Wood Bedford Avenue, Kirkpatrick and will replace 81C, 84A and 84C September changes is available service between parts of the Hill at www.portauthority.org/paac/ District, Oak Hill, Oakland and portals/1/tdp/RoutesBrochure- the South Side. Sept2010.pdf. Printable schedules 83 Webster will operate for all bus routes are available on between the Hill District, the the main web site (PortAuthor- VA Hospital, Oakland, Down- ity.org). town and Wharton Square. Trips The Port Authority also is from the Hill District to Wharton considering additional changes Square will operate along Craw- intended to counter the potential ford Street, Webster and Herron shortfall in state transportation avenues, Milwaukee Street, Bryn funding, which still is unresolved Mawr Road, Centre Avenue and in the state legislature. (See story Allequippa Street, and then follow on this page.) the same route as 81 Oak Hill to Oakland routes that will be Wharton Square. affected beginning this weekend Service along Bedford Avenue are: between Herron Avenue and Kirk- • Effective Sept. 7, the EBO patrick Street will be discontinued. will be renumbered P3 East Bus- The Port Authority site way-Oakland. P3 East Busway- includes both the current bus Oakland will operate between designations and the new designa- Swissvale and Oakland via the tions, where applicable. Visitors to East Busway, Neville Street and the site also can sign up for email Fifth Avenue to Robinson Street. alerts to receive advance notice of P3 routing will be the same as route changes or to use an online the current EBO. However, the form to ask questions through the schedule has been revised. customer service department. The • Starting Sept. 5, routes 56E Port Authority has added more and 56U will be discontinued and Barbara DelRaso customer service staff, who can be partially replaced by 58 Green- The Port Authority has announced a number of changes in Oakland bus service, including for the reached at 412/442-2000. popular EBO East Busway, to go into effect next week. More severe service cuts — up to 35 percent field. 58 Greenfield will operate of service systemwide — are threatened to begin in January if the Port Authority’s budget deficit is —Peter Hart n between Downtown and Oakland not remedied. via Second, Greenfield and Hazel- wood avenues, Bigelow Street, Winterburn Avenue, Greenfield and Panther Hollow roads and the Boulevard of the Allies. Threatened cuts could have major effect on Pitt riders Outbound trips to Oakland hile the Port Authority Gov. Edward G. Rendell has implemented, Pitt ridership likely Pitt ID cards replacing the system will operate along Halket Street, of Allegheny County proposed steps to fund public will drop, Ritchie acknowledged. of drivers manually tracking the Forbes, South Bellefield, Fifth and Wis facing a more than transit in the commonwealth, Either Pitt or the Port Author- number of Pitt riders. The new Morewood avenues to Carnegie $47 million shortfall in its $330 including an 8 percent tax on the ity, with 60 days’ notice, can re- system is expected to eliminate Mellon. million operating budget for the gross profits for oil companies and open negotiations on the fee. human error and catch invalid Inbound 58 Greenfield will fiscal year that began July 1, the increasing a variety of license, reg- Eli Shorak, associate vice IDs, thus yielding a more accurate operate from Carnegie Mellon via consequences likely will be mini- istration and vehicle fees, but those chancellor for Business, said, count of Pitt rides, Ritchie noted. Forbes, South Bellefield, Fifth and mal for most Pitt riders — at least proposals have been stalled in the “The University’s agreement with Once the smart card technol- Craft avenues before returning to for this fall. state legislature. (See the News the Port Authority does include ogy is installed systemwide, the the Boulevard of the Allies and However, if threatened “dra- Releases link at: www.governor.state. language acknowledging that the fee process will change. Instead reversing the outbound routing conian cuts” are made in January, pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/ compensation paid by the Uni- of Pitt paying a monthly fee, the to Downtown. that could change. In addition governor%27s_web_site/2985.) versity is in consideration for a University will be charged per The 56E service to Browns to the relatively minor route According to Port Authority certain level and type of service. ride as it is “scored” by the smart Hill Road, Homestead and The changes in Oakland that begin spokesperson Jim Ritchie, absent The University does plan to card system. A per-ride fee then Waterfront will be discontinued. next week (see story on this page), action by the legislature, the Port consult with the Port Authority will have to be negotiated, Ritchie The 56U service to Wightman the Port Authority is considering Authority, which by law must regarding service modifications said. “Pitt could be paying by the Street and Hazelwood Avenue a 35 percent overall reduction balance its budget, will be forced and the impact these may have week, or by the month or some between Bigelow Street and in service beginning in January, to implement the service cuts in on our riders. These discussions other length of time, but that will Second Avenue will be discontin- according to the transit author- January. may also include recommended need to be worked out,” he said. ued. Service along Forbes Avenue ity. As many as 55 neighborhoods Also under consideration for compensation adjustments if it is Last October, Pitt began issu- between Morewood Avenue and could lose service completely, and January are fare increases, but determined that service modifica- ing all identification cards with Wightman Street also will be many routes would see a reduc- those would not affect Pitt ID tions have a significant impact on a chip that can be read by smart discontinued. Service between tion in frequency. (Information on holders. the University’s overall ridership card readers. (See Oct. 1 University Greenfield and Oakland will oper- the proposed service cuts is available Under a program launched in levels.” Times.) ate seven days a week throughout at: www.portauthority.org/PAAC/ 1997, the University agreed to Despite the transit company’s The new fare box technology the day. CompanyInfo/Financials/Fund- pay an annual fee in exchange for financial woes, the Port Author- has had some bugs in it and is • Starting Sept. 7, route 67C ingCrisis/tabid/538/Default.aspx.) fare-free rides for Pitt ID holders ity is not intending to ask for a behind the hoped-for installation will be discontinued and partially The cuts are needed, officials throughout Allegheny County. renegotiation of fees from the schedule, Ritchie acknowledged. replaced by 78 Oakmont and P78 maintain, to offset dwindling state This Aug. 1 marked the beginning University, Ritchie said. “That has The earliest the fare boxes will Oakmont Flyer. For service to and county support and rising of the fourth year of a five-year not even been discussed, for two be installed on all vehicles will be Point Breeze, Squirrel Hill and health care and fuel costs. In contract signed in 2007. For the reasons,” he said, namely, that Pitt sometime in 2012, he said. Oakland, riders should transfer to addition, the federal government year Aug. 1, 2010-July 31, 2011, is already committed to a higher In the interim, Ritchie said, routes 67 Monroeville or 69 Traf- rejected the state’s request to make Pitt has agreed to pay a total of fee for 2011-12, and the contract there are tentative plans to con- ford on Wallace Avenue at Wood I-80 a toll road; the revenue from $5.91 million in monthly install- also includes a “reopener clause” duct pilot programs testing the Street in Wilkinsburg. Express that was expected to help fund ments. Pitt also agreed to pay $6.8 that calls for a renegotiation of the fare boxes’ efficiency and accuracy, service to Oakland also is available transit companies statewide. million for 2011-12, a 15 percent fees to be triggered by the installa- first with Port Authority employ- on the P3 East Busway-Oakland A required public response increase over this year’s annual fee. tion on all Port Authority vehicles ees and then with Pitt and other from the Wilkinsburg Station. period to the proposed cuts ended According to Port Authority of fare boxes that use “smart card” local colleges. There is as yet • Starting Sept. 5, the 71A will Aug. 31. The Port Authority board figures, Pitt ridership accounts technology. That program will no set timeframe for these pilot be renamed 71A Negley, and the is expected to announce the spe- for about 6 million rides annually. change the way Pitt riders are programs, Ritchie said. schedule will be revised. Service cific cuts later in the fall. If the January service cuts are counted, with fare boxes that scan —Peter Hart n

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will assist in developing a reha- P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S The People of the Times bilitation science educational and column features recent news on Vice Provost and Dean of Robert Hill, vice chancellor Linda Hartman, reference research program and consult with faculty and staff, including awards Students Kathy W. Humphrey for Public Affairs, was named librarian at the Health Sciences the occupational therapy faculty and other honors, accomplishments has been selected to participate Communicator of the Year by the Library System, has been named and faculty of the health sciences and administrative appointments. in the International Women’s Pittsburgh Black Media Federa- a distinguished member of the on curriculum development. We welcome submissions from Forum (IWF) tion. The award, one of PBMF’s Medical Library Association’s all areas of the University. Send Leadership annual Robert L. Vann Awards, Academy of Health Information The School of Dental Medi- information via email to: utimes@ Foundation is given to an individual or orga- Professionals. cine has announced the following pitt.edu, by fax at 412/624-4579 2010-11 fel- nization whose positive actions Hartman, HSLS liaison to the faculty honors: or by campus mail to 308 Belle- lows program help disseminate messages of School of Health and Rehabilita- • Gayle Ball, a faculty member field Hall. Oct. 9-16 in empowerment, community hope tion Sciences, oversees informa- For submission guidelines, in the Department of Periodon- visit www.umc.pitt.edu/utimes/ Montreal. and strength. tion services students and is a staff tics/Preventive Dentistry, was deadlines.html online. The pro- In its letter notifying Hill of member of the Quality of Life selected as one of the New Pitts- gram includes his award, PBMF wrote that “the Technology Center, a joint pro- burgh Courier’s 50 Women of orientation and training prior to federation has long observed and gram of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon. Excellence. The award recognizes of the Division of Hematopathol- the IWF 2010 world leadership admired your role as Pitt’s chief some of Pittsburgh’s most success- ogy, has been elected as a trustee of conference, “Water, Wealth and spokesperson, your founding of Mary Margaret Kerr, a ful and influential African-Ameri- the American Board of Pathology, Power.” the Blue, Gold and Black program, faculty member in the School can women for their commitment effective Jan. 1, 2011. Humphrey is among 32 women your continued recognition of of Education to professional excellence, as well • Theresa Humpe, the lead from 13 countries chosen for African Americans connected to and one of the as diversity and inclusion. technologist in the department’s IWF’s training program. the University of Pittsburgh, your co-founders • Robert Weyant, associate atypical case reports program, IWF’s mission is the advance- support of deserving and in-need of Pitt’s state- dean of public health and outreach was awarded the 2010 Inaugural ment of women’s leadership across black students at Pitt and the funded Ser- and chair of the Department of UPMC Sustainable Innovation careers, cultures and continents guidance and support you provide vices for Teens Dental Public Health/Informa- Initiative Award in the process by connecting the world’s pre- numerous community organiza- at Risk suicide tion Management, was appointed category for advocating the place- eminent women of significant and tions, including poetry societies prevention to an Institute of Medicine com- ment of solar panels in all new diverse achievement. and social service nonprofits.” center, has mittee charged with recommend- construction within the UPMC The organization noted in Pitt’s Office of Public Affairs been chosen ing ways to improve access to system. its letter to Humphrey: “Your won five additional Vann awards. as the Borough of Whitehall’s dental care. selection for the fellows program In the Website Commentary Citizen of the Year. The project is sponsored by Robert Moore, Love Family distinguishes you as a woman category, Hill and Pitt history Kerr has worked in urban the Health Resources and Services Professor of Neurology and with enormous talent, promise faculty member Laurence Glasco school districts throughout her Administration. Neuroscience in the School of and potential. You were chosen won first place for their commen- academic career. Her focus has Medicine, has received the 2010 from a highly competitive pool of tary titled “Sex Exploitation and been the improvement of services Brent Malin, a faculty member Peter C. Farrell Prize in Sleep candidates from around the world Slavery.” The piece was published for students with emotional and in the Department of Communi- Medicine from the Division of and as a class, you represent great on a University Library System- behavioral problems. cation, has been awarded the Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medi- diversity.” produced web site that takes 2010 Walter Benjamin Award cal School, in recognition of his viewers through a virtual tour of Linda Frank, a faculty member for outstanding article in media lifetime contributions to sleep Daniel Patterson, a fac- the award-winning Pitt-produced in the Department of Infectious ecology from the Media Ecology medicine. He currently is a visiting ulty member exhibition, “Free at Last? Slavery Diseases and Microbiology, Association. professor of medicine at Harvard. in emergency in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Graduate School of Public Health, His essay, “Mediating Emo- medicine at Centuries,” which was on display will be inducted as a fellow of the tion: Technology, Social Science William Klunk, co-director of the School during the 2008-09 academic year American Academy of Nursing and Emotion in the Payne Fund the Alzheimer’s Disease Research of Medicine, at the Senator John Heinz History on Nov. 13. Motion Picture Studies,” was Center, has received the 2010 has been Center. Frank, who won a 2010 Chan- published last year in Technology McEllroy Award from the Pitt appointed to In the Magazine Features cat- cellor’s Distinguished Public & Culture. Medical Alumni Association. The the National egory, Pitt magazine senior editor Service Award, is the principal award goes to an outstanding non- Emergency Ervin Dyer won first place for investigator for the Pennsylvania/ Peter Gianaros, a faculty alumnus who undertook residency Medical Services Advisory Coun- his article titled “August Wilson’s MidAtlantic AIDS Education and member in psychiatry and in training at Pitt. cil. Class Act.” Training Center (AETC), which psychology, received the 2010 Patterson is an expert on team- In the Newspaper Opin- provides HIV/AIDS-related APA Distinguished Early Career Orthopaedic surgery’s Chris- work and team communication in ion/Editorials category, Hill’s training to health professionals in Scientific Contribution to Psy- topher Harner, Blue Cross of emergency care. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette piece Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Penn- chology Award from the American Western Pennsylvania Professor Council members will provide “Pounding on the Doors of sylvania, Virginia, West Virginia Psychological Association. and medical director of UPMC advice to the U.S. Department Opportunity” won second place. and Washington, D.C. The award was in recogni- Center for Sports Medicine, has of Transportation and its federal In the Print Feature Photog- She also is director of the tion of his work conceptualizing been elected secretary of the partners on EMS issues, includ- raphy category, Tom Altany’s master of public health program in and quantifying stress-related Herodocus Society, an interna- ing safety culture, recruitment photography for “Abundant Life” community and behavioral inter- cardiovascular and autonomic tional orthopaedic sports medi- and retention of EMS personnel, in Pitt magazine received second ventions for infectious diseases. function, relating stress patterns cine society. Following his term quality assurance, federal grants place. to biomarkers of risk for cardio- as secretary he will become vice for emergency services and prepa- In the Newspaper Series Linda Demoise, the academic vascular disease and characterizing president and then president. ration for multi-casualty incidents. category, Pitt Chronicle’s 2009 support coordinator for Investing the brain systems that regulate and Constance Chu, vice chair Patterson also is director Black History Month profiles won Now, an engineering tutoring pro- are affected by peripheral stress of translational research and of research for the Center for third place. They were written by gram for high school and college physiology. Albert B. Ferguson Jr. Endowed Emergency Medicine of Western Sharon S. Blake, Amanda Leff students in the Swanson School Building on animal models, Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery, Pennsylvania, a research and edu- Ritchie, Anthony M. Moore and of Engineering, has been awarded Gianaros has demonstrated the was inducted into the Herodocus cational consortium that is part Patricia Lomando White. the UPMC Dignity and Respect influence of perceived stress and Society. of UPMC. The Vann awards celebrate Champion Award. low socioeconomic status on Harner also was elected second outstanding achievements in jour- The honor recognizes people human brain morphology. vice president and James Bradley Chemistry department faculty nalism related to the coverage of who are connected to their com- was elected secretary of the Ameri- members Kay Brummond and the African-American community munities, live by a belief in dignity The Department of Pathology can Orthopaedic Society of Sports Peter Wipf have been elected of western Pennsylvania. and respect and encourage an announced several faculty honors Medicine (AOSSM). In addition to the 2010 class of fellows of environment of inclusion. and recognition. to his Pitt faculty appointment, the American Chemical Society, Several faculty members at the • Jeffrey A. Kant, director of Bradley is head team physician for bringing the number of ACS fel- Katz Graduate School of Business Richard Schulz, professor the Division of Molecular Diag- the Pittsburgh Steelers. lows in the department to four. were honored by the school with of psychiatry and director of the nostics, has begun terms as vice Chu was appointed chair of Dennis Curran and Kenneth Excellence in Research Awards: University Center for Social and chair of the College of American the AOSSM research committee. Jordan were part of last year’s Mei Feng, Jeff Inman, Albert Urban Research, received the Pathologists’ Council on Scien- Mark Lovell, a faculty member inaugural class of fellows. Wesley Frey, Chris Kemerer, 2010 Harold Yuker Award for tific Affairs and as a member of the in the Department of Orthopaedic Brummond’s research focuses Cait Poynor Lamberton, Carrie Research Excellence by Division Veterans Administration genetic Surgery and founding director of on synthesis of biologically rel- Leana and Chad Zutter. This 22-Rehabilitation Psychology program advisory committee. the UPMC Sports Medicine con- evant targets, organometallic award is presented to faculty who of the American Psychological Kant recently has been asked cussion program, recently received chemistry applied to synthesis and had two acceptances in “A” jour- Association for most highly rated to serve on the external advisory an award for years of excellence in solid-phase synthesis. nals in the previous calendar year. paper published in rehabilitation board for Vanderbilt University’s concussion research at the national Wipf, University Professor In addition to his faculty psychology. Ingram Cancer Center Personal- Concussion Summit. of Chemistry, focuses on total appointment, Inman also is associ- ized Cancer Medicine Initiative. He also synthesis of natural products; ate dean for research and faculty Margo B. Holm, professor • George K. Michalopou- received organometallic and heterocyclic at the Katz school. and director of post-professional los, chair of the department, was USA chemistry, and combinatorial Kemerer also is David M. education in the Department of selected for the Wisconsin Distin- Hockey synthesis. Roderick Professor of Informa- Occupational Therapy, School guished Resident Alumni Award Excellence The designation of fellow is tion Systems and Professor of of Health and Rehabilitation for 2011. He was also invited to in Safety conferred on those who have dis- Business Administration. Sciences, has been awarded a join the National Institutes of Award at tinguished themselves in multiple Leana is George H. Love Fulbright Scholar grant. Health College of the Center for USA Hock- areas, including the promotion of Professor of Organizations and Holm will do research and Scientific Review for a two-year ey’s annual science, the profession and service Management and director of the lecture at the University of Jordan period. conven- to the ACS. Center for Health and Care Work. during the fall semester. She • Steven Swerdlow, director tion. n

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What’s NEW at PITT? Peter Hart The hustle and bustle that marks the beginning of the academic The University Times asked deans and other school officials to year has returned: The proliferation of laundry carts, re-directed provide a brief look at “What’s New? People, Places and Things” traffic, upperclass student volunteers pointing the way to newcom- in their areas. ers and their families during Arrival Survival. The summaries that follow are not all-encompassing, but rather But for many at Pitt, the hazy days of summer have been anything are overviews of school news based on material submitted by the but lazy: Facilities were renovated; faculty and staff were hired; new units. Information previously published in the University Times academic programs were established; events were planned. was not included here. PEOPLE In the School of Arts and Sciences, ral sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute microeconomics, with research interests in medieval literature who received his PhD Christel Temple joins the Department of of Technology, Zürich. His research inter- the economics of development, economies this year from the University of Virginia. Africana Studies as an associate professor. ests include the study of the biosynthesis in transition and demographic economics, McDermott has special interests in ethics Temple had been a tenured faculty member of pyrrolidinedione-containing natural as well as decision theory. and religious studies. at the University of Maryland. products. Also new to the economics department Annette Vee received her PhD this year A scholar of African and African- Joining the computer science depart- this fall are assistant professor Arie Ber- from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. American literature, she earned her PhD ment this fall are assistant professors John esteau, whose research interests include Her research in composition examines ways in African-American studies at Temple (Jack) Lange and Jiangtao Wang. econometrics and empirical industrial in which writing is shaped by computers. University. Lange comes from Northwestern organization; associate professor Daniele She also is interested in rhetorical analysis. Faculty member Jerome Taylor University. His expertise is in the areas of Coen-Pirani, whose research covers mac- Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is the replaced Brenda F. Berrian as chair of virtualization, high performance comput- roeconomics, finance, political economy new chair of the Department of French and Africana studies, effective Sept. 1. His ing, operating systems, networking and and labor; Stephen Snyder, a lecturer Italian Languages and Literatures. appointment continues through August empathic systems. His current focus lies who conducts empirical research in health New faculty in the department are 2013. in the area of specialized operating systems economics and public economics, and assistant professors Neil Doshi and David Haitao Liu and Xinyu Liu will join for supercomputing environments. His Svitlana Maksymenko, a lecturer who Pettersen. the Department of Chemistry as assistant research predominantly uses virtualization conducts research in development eco- Doshi is a specialist in Francophone lit- professors this fall. mechanisms. nomics, demography and the economics erature and culture. He completed his PhD Haitao Liu received his PhD in 2007 Wang comes from the University of of transition. in comparative literature at the University from the University of California-Berkeley California-Berkeley. His primary research The English department welcomes of Michigan with a dissertation on street and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia. direction is human-computer interaction three new assistant professors this fall. theatre as a form of cultural and political Research in Liu’s group is focused on the with minors in computer systems and statis- Thora Brylowe is a specialist in 18th- expression. He has research interests in physical and synthetic chemistries of nano- tics. Other research interests include mobile century British literature who received Algerian literature and culture in French. materials. Liu is interested in a wide range interfaces, context-aware computing, social her PhD from Carnegie Mellon Univer- Pettersen specializes in 20th-century of organic and inorganic materials, includ- computing, education/learning technology, sity. Brylowe most recently was a visiting French literature and cinema, with a special ing DNA, graphene, carbon nanotubes and novel input and interaction techniques, assistant professor at Trinity College. Her focus on politics. He completed his PhD in colloidal nanocrystals. assistive technology and online handwrit- research examines the history of ideas of French at Berkeley, and taught at Davidson Xinyu Liu comes from Harvard Medical ing/gesture recognition algorithms. authorship and relations between literature College in North Carolina before coming School, where he served as a postdoctoral Luca Rigotti has joined the Depart- and the visual arts. to Pitt. researcher. He completed his PhD in natu- ment of Economics as associate professor of Ryan McDermott is a specialist in William Harbert is the new chair of

9 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new the Department of Geology and Planetary for Advanced Judaic Studies. literatures. He holds a master’s degree in adult educa- Science. Joyce Bell, formerly a faculty member Other new non-tenure-stream faculty tion from Syracuse University. Juan Duchesne-Winter is the new at the University of Georgia, and Waverly members include biological sciences Matt Kropf, a research associate at Penn chair of the Department of Hispanic Lan- Duck, formerly a postdoctoral associate at instructor Meredith Barbieri, East Asian State University, has been named director guages and Literatures. Yale, join the Department of Sociology as languages and literatures assistant instruc- of the Bradford campus’s Energy Institute. Joining the Hispanic department this assistant professors. tor Juchun Wei and women’s studies senior Kropf is splitting his time between his fall is lecturer Chiara Nardone. Bell earned her PhD in sociology from lecturer Frayda Cohen. new role at UPB and finishing a biofuel Aurea Sotomayor will come to the the University of Minnesota. Her research Andrew Daley will join the Depart- research project at Penn State. He will University as a professor in the department interests focus on social movements and ment of Physics and Astronomy faculty in begin full-time at UPB in January. in January. She earned a PhD in Spanish change, race, class, gender, work, profes- January as an assistant professor. New full-time faculty members at and Portuguese at Stanford University and sions and organizations, diversity politics q Bradford are Jessica Blackburn, assis- a Juris Doctor degree at the University of and the black experience. In the Athletics department, former Pitt Puerto Rico. Duck earned his PhD in sociology standout point guard Mallorie Winn was Sotomayor’s area of expertise is Latin from Wayne State University. His research named to the women’s basketball coaching American — especially Puerto Rican — interests include social stratification, using staff. Winn played for the Panthers 2005-08, literature and poetry, entwining practice ethnographic methods to study the order- earning All-Big East Second Team honors and criticism. She currently is a professor liness of recognizable situated practices in 2005-06. of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico. concerning gender, race and class. She spent the past season as a volunteer Reid Andrews has been named chair Aaron Henderson joins the Depart- coach at Saddleback Junior College in Cali- of the Department of History. ment of Studio Arts as an assistant profes- fornia. Winn also was a coach and trainer New history department lecturer/ sor, teaching primarily in digital media. with the 80/20 basketball organization for adviser John Stoner has research and His creative work in video and installation boys and girls ages 7-16, and in 2008-09 teaching interests in 20th-century U.S. examines the way humans move and the served locally as head coach at Carlow’s political, social and labor history; U.S. personal, cultural and political ramifica- Campus School. Her duties at Pitt will and the world; sub-Saharan African labor; tions of all action. Henderson completed include recruiting and working with the political history; comparative history, and his MFA in digital media and performance guards. transnational history. He earned his PhD from the School of the Art Institute of q at Columbia. Chicago. He has teaching experience at Ronald Binder is the new associate dean James Woodward joins the Depart- Roosevelt University, the School of the Art of Student Affairs and director of judicial ment of History and Philosophy of Science Institute of Chicago and, most recently, at affairs at the Bradford campus. Binder as Distinguished Professor of History and the University of Virginia where he was a has served as director of Greek life and Philosophy of Science from the California visiting artist and lecturer. special projects at the University of South Institute of Technology, where he served as Lisa Jackson-Schebetta joins the Carolina, associate director of residence the J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of Department of Theatre Arts as an assistant life at Bowling Green State University and the Humanities. Woodward completed his professor after recently receiving her PhD assistant dean of students at the University PhD at the University of Texas. His core in theatre history, theory and criticism from of North Carolina. research contributions include the devel- the University of Washington. Raymond R. Geary has been named opment of a clear distinction between data Jocelyn Buckner joins the department executive director of Pitt-Bradford’s Divi- and phenomena, a distinction that led him as a post-doctoral fellow. She recently com- sion of Continuing Education and Regional to clarify what scientists in the empirical pleted her PhD at the University of Kansas. Development (formerly the Office of Out- sciences mean when they test hypotheses Ken Bolden has been hired as a teach- reach Services). In addition to connecting against empirical evidence. His broader ing artist, and the department will welcome businesses with consultants and brokering contributions to general philosophy of sci- artist-in-residence/scenic design Joseph training, the division works with com- ence have focused on causality, especially Gourley in spring 2011. munity education councils to bring credit in complex and multi-factorial systems. Also joining the School of Arts and and noncredit courses to St. Marys, Port Kimberly K. Barlow Above: Parents had the opportunity Lecturer Alison Langmead has joined Sciences as tenured/tenure-stream faculty Allegany, Warren and Pitt-Titusville. to repeat a familiar exercise: opening the Department of History of Art and Archi- are associate professor Jude Hays, political Geary comes to UPB from Elmira Col- their wallets and purses on behalf of tecture to serve as director of visual media science; and assistant professors Elizabeth lege, where he was the dean of continuing their offspring. collections. She will curate and archive Arkush, anthropology; Kyle Gurley and education and graduate studies. He began Below: Vice Provost and Dean of Stu- the department’s collection of digital and Mark Rebeiz, biological sciences; Kiumars his new position on Aug. 11. Geary also will dents Kathy Humphrey and Provost Patricia E. Beeson, at right, greeted stu- analog imagery for research and teaching Kaveh and Jason DeBlois, mathematics, oversee UPB’s conference services and will dents and parents in the Schenley Quad purposes. She holds a PhD in art history and Jonathan Platt, Slavic languages and serve as a member of the president’s cabinet. during Arrival Survival. from Columbia and an MLIS from UCLA. Faculty member Adam Shear has been named Jewish studies program director. Faculty member Yasuhiro Shirai has been named chair of the Department of Linguistics. Mark Wilson is the Department of Philosophy’s new chair. New professor Robert Batterman comes to the philosophy department from the University of Western Ontario, where he served as the Rotman Canada Research Chair. He completed his PhD at the Univer- sity of Michigan. Batterman is a philosopher of science specializing in the philosophy of physics. His research interests include the foundations of physical theories, including statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics and classical physics, and in various meth- odological issues including inter-theoretic relations, explanation and emergence. Joining the department as an assistant professor is Giovanni Valente. Jason von Ehrenkrook joins the reli- gious studies department as the Perlow Lecturer in Classical Judaism. Von Ehren- krook’s research and teaching interests lie in placing Jewish history within a wider Mediterranean context, with particular focus on issues relating to the formation and reformulation of Jewish identity, such as the intersection of ethnic and cultic identity and Jewish responses to Roman imperialism. He earned his PhD in Near Eastern studies, with a specialization in Jewish history during the Hellenistic and Roman period, from the University of Michigan in 2009. For the past year he was a research fellow at the Frankel Institute Kimberly K. Barlow 10 SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 PEOPLE tant professor of English composition; In June, she earned her PhD in epidemiol- Michaela Drignei, assistant professor of ogy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg mathematics; Brieanne Sequin, instructor School of Public Health, with a focus in of sports medicine and clinical coordinator, epidemiologic methods, physical activ- and Elizabeth Meyer Holihan, visiting ity, obesity and chronic diseases. Barone assistant professor of marketing. is experienced in systematic review and q meta-analysis, and has published a series The Institute for Entrepreneurial Excel- of manuscripts examining the impact of lence at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate diabetes on cancer prognosis. School of Business has promoted Shaun In other school news, Mary Margaret Seydor to director of PantherlabWorks. Kerr, a faculty member since 1980, has PantherlabWorks is a part of the insti- been appointed chair of the Department of tute that helps entrepreneurs develop new Administrative and Policy Studies. products, validate the marketplace, create q business plans and secure funding. The College of General Studies has q added two staff members. Hired as fiscal Professor of medicine Clayton Smith manager was Emily Gress Stayshich, who is the new director of leukemia and stem transferred to CGS from the Office of Tech- cell transplant services in the Division of nology Management. She previously held Hematology/Oncology and director of positions in the Department of Molecular the hematologic malignancies program Genetics and Biochemistry and at UPMC. at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Hired as marketing communications Peter Hart Institute. manager was Harry Crytzer, a CGS Smith, whose research focuses on graduate who has more than 20 years of tions as director of information technology of chemistry; Jacqueline Myers, instruc- hematopoietic stem cell biology and trans- marketing and communications experience for General Nutrition Corp., director of tor of education; Katherine Thorington, plantation, comes to Pittsburgh from the in the Pittsburgh market. telecommunications for PNC Financial assistant professor of biology, and Kenneth University of British Columbia. q Services Group and operations coordina- Warner, assistant professor of political q Amanda L. Folk joined the faculty tor for Westinghouse Communications science. Paul M. Coen joins the Department of at Pitt-Greensburg’s Millstein Library Systems. In her new capacity, she will be q Health and Physical Activity at the School in August as a reference/public services responsible for planning and oversight of all The School of Law has hired Sheila of Education as an assistant professor. Coen librarian. administrative functions, including business Veléz Martinez as visiting clinical assis- graduated with a PhD in exercise physiology Folk is a graduate of the University of services, student services, faculty services tant professor of law. Martinez will head from Purdue in 2008. He was awarded a Richmond where she majored in German and information technology. the school’s new Immigration Law Clinic. doctoral student grant from the American and religion and minored in Jewish stud- q Martinez recently served as the director College of Sports Medicine and the Bilsland ies. She earned a master’s degree with a Pitt-Johnstown has hired a number of of the Immigration Clinic at the Hostos dissertation fellowship from the College of focus on South Asian religions at Harvard new staff and faculty and has announced Law School in Puerto Rico. She has been Liberal Arts at Purdue. Since graduating, Divinity School and a master’s in library promotions. a pioneer in Puerto Rico in discussing the Coen has been a postdoctoral fellow at and information science at Pitt. Folk had Lynn Iams Barger has been hired as issue of domestic violence and immigrant Pitt’s School of Medicine. His postdoctoral been a practitioner teaching assistant at executive director of Institutional Advance- women. She also has served as the executive research involved examining the effects of the School of Library and Information ment following a national search. She director of the Puerto Rico Bar Association diet- and bariatric surgery-induced weight Sciences since 2008. assumed her duties on July 1. Barger will and has provided immigration law training loss and exercise training on skeletal muscle Erin Eaton is UPG’s new women’s be responsible for cultivating major gift to the Judicial Academy of the Puerto Rico lipid metabolism and inflammation in obese head basketball coach and assistant athlet- prospects and will lead Pitt-Johnstown’s Supreme Court. She received her JD from insulin-resistant patients. ics director. She comes to UPG from the Alumni Relations department. She comes the University of Puerto Rico Law School. W. James Jacob has been hired in the Johnstown campus, where she was the to UPJ from Indiana University of Penn- q Department of Administrative and Policy assistant basketball coach for the past two sylvania where she had served as associate At the School of Medicine, Juan Carlos Studies to direct the higher education man- years. She also coached Pitt-Johnstown’s vice president for development, acting vice Celedón has been named the chief of the agement and social and comparative analysis women’s cross country and women’s golf president for university relations and direc- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy in education programs. He also will serve teams. Prior to her tenure at UPJ, Eaton tor of corporate and foundation relations. and Immunology in the Department of as director of the Institute for International spent three years as an assistant at Bethany She also has held positions at Washington Pediatrics and the Neils K. Jerne Profes- Studies in Education. Prior to joining the College. A 2005 graduate of Elmira Col- & Jefferson College, Laurel Highlands Visi- sor of Pediatrics. Celedón, who studies the faculty as a visiting assistant professor in lege, Eaton was a three-year starter for the tors Bureau and Butler County Chamber of epidemiology of lung disease, particularly 2007, Jacob served as assistant director at Soaring Eagles at point guard. Commerce. Barger received her Master of the genetic and environmental factors that the Center for International and Develop- q Public Management (with highest distinc- influence asthma, comes from Brigham and ment Education at UCLA, where he also Two new faculty are joining the School tion) from Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School Women’s Hospital and Harvard University. earned his PhD. His research interests of Information Sciences this year. of Public Policy and Management. He has a secondary appointment in the include HIV/AIDS multi-sectoral capac- Cory P. Knobel, hired as an assistant Raymond B. Wrabley Jr., associate Department of Human Genetics in the ity building, governance and prevention, professor in the library and information professor in political science, was named Graduate School of Public Health. as well as comparative and international science program, earned his PhD this year chair of the campus’s Social Science Divi- Hongjun Liu is a new assistant professor higher education. at the University of Michigan. His research sion, effective July 1. Wrabley also is UPJ’s of microbiology and molecular genetics. Newly appointed assistant professor in interests include digital libraries, the social NCAA faculty athletics representative. Liu, who studies molecular mechanisms mathematics education Charles Munter and policy implications for science and Paul Douglas Newman, professor of of aging, most recently was a postdoctoral has joined the Department of Instruction technology in cyber-infrastructure and history, has been named assistant to the fellow at the National Heart, Lung and and Learning. Munter graduated from the qualitative and quantitative methods vice president for Academic Affairs and Blood Institute, where he earned a Pathway Vanderbilt in May. His experience includes in socio-technical system design. A two- director of Student Academic Services. to Independence Award from the National teaching high school mathematics and a time recipient of the IBM PhD fellow- Newman’s one-year appointment was effec- Institute of Aging and a Fellows Award for master’s course in advanced teaching of ship, Knobel has worked with the services tive Aug. 15. In his new roles Newman will Research Excellence from the National mathematics at the elementary school level. practices group of IBM Almaden Research be involved in a wide range of academic Institutes of Health. Munter’s research interests include studying Center on service systems design, as well administrative tasks related to enhancing Edward Chu comes to the Depart- how mathematics teachers develop visions as on educational curriculum development student learning, success and retention. He ment of Medicine from Yale University and practices of high-quality mathematics for IBM’s service science, management and will oversee the academic integrity policies School of Medicine, where he was chief instruction; measuring aspects of teachers’ engineering initiatives. and, in collaboration with the vice president of medical oncology and deputy director knowledge and practice in mathematics Konstantinos Pelechrinis is joining for Academic Affairs, will oversee academic of the Yale Cancer Center. In addition to instruction, and studying schools and dis- the telecommunications and networking placement, recommend improved methods being a professor of medicine, Chu is chief tricts as institutional settings of teaching program as an assistant professor. A newly of assessing incoming students and head the of the Division of Hematology/Oncology. and learning. minted PhD from the University of Cal- administration of the early warning system. His research focuses on the mechanisms M. Najeeb Shafiq joins the Department ifornia-Riverside, Pelechrinis also served New faculty joining Pitt-Johnstown by which cells resist or succumb to certain of Administrative and Policy Studies as an as a researcher at Los Alamos National this year are: assistant professors Miron cancer drugs. assistant professor. He conducts research Labs, Technicolor Research Lab in Paris Bekker, mathematics; Tim Evans, biology; Christine C. Wu is an associate pro- on the social benefits of education, child and Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Shouling He, engineering technology; Jill fessor of cell biology and physiology. Her labor, educational gender gaps and edu- UK. In addition, Pelechrinis was a visiting Henning, biology; Randy Kelly, engi- research focuses on the use of mass spec- cational privatization in the Middle East, researcher at the University of Thessaly neering technology; Donna Kowalczyk, trometry, particularly the development of North Africa, South Asia and the United in Greece. His research interests include education; Thomas Malosh, chemistry; proteomic tools for high-throughput analy- States. He received his PhD in economics protocol design, real-world experimenta- Gregory Petyak, business; Ann Rea, Eng- sis of cell membrane proteins. Wu com- and education from Columbia. Prior to tion and performance analysis for security lish; Doug Reed, business; Andrea Ryan, pleted a postdoctoral fellowship at Scripps joining the Pitt faculty, Shafiq was assistant and trust issues in wireless networks. sociology; Rebecca Webb, biology, and Research Institute and most recently was professor of education policy studies at Sandra Brandon has joined SIS as the Daniel Yunetz, business, as well as Susan a faculty member in pharmacology at the Indiana University. school’s first director of administration. Wieczorek, instructor of communication. University of Colorado School of Medicine. Bethany Barone will join the faculty Most recently, Brandon served as the Also joining UPJ are visiting faculty Jeremy Kahn is a new associate pro- in the Department of Health and Physical chief information officer for Crayola in members Liz Katrancha, instructor of fessor in the departments of critical care Activity in January as an assistant professor. Easton, Pa. Prior to that, she held posi- nursing; Joel K. Miller, assistant professor medicine and medicine, as well as in the

11 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new Department of Health Policy and Man- UPT physical education instructor Tim management and oversight of ULS student request service; Jerin primarily is respon- agement in the Graduate School of Public Sneeringer was named director of athletics employment on the Pittsburgh campus. sible for processing and managing library Health. Kahn studies the organization effective Aug. 2. In his new role, Sneeringer Zach Brodt was named records man- circulation notices and billing procedures and management of critical care services, will be responsible for coordinating the ager effective Aug. 2. Brodt will work for library borrowers. clinical decision-making and translation campus’s intercollegiate athletic programs with University departments to ensure the Benjamin Rubin has joined the inter- of science into clinical practice. He was and overseeing operations in the UPT proper management of records, facilitating library loan department as the Libraries to formerly at Penn. Student Union including all special events records retention, disposal or transfer to Go staff member. The program delivers Marie DeFrances has been appointed and athletics contests as well as intramural the archives in compliance with internal books and articles requested by faculty to as assistant director for the Division of programs and recreational efforts. He holds practices and state and federal law. their offices or via email. Molecular Diagnostics in the Department a master’s degree in counseling from Edin- Ashley Brandolph and Christeen Sharon McMasters has joined the of Pathology, effective July 1. The main boro University and a bachelor’s degree in Jerin are new at ULS, providing circulation ULS administration. She is responsible for focus of DeFrances’s lab is to elucidate the health and physical education from Slippery and access services at the Hillman Library travel arrangements, cash reporting and molecular mechanisms of PI3-kinase signal Rock University. lending desks. daily facility reporting issues in addition transduction, a key intracellular signaling Lindsey Green has been named UPT’s Brandolph primarily is responsible for to special projects. pathway, in liver regeneration, metabolism assistant director of Admissions. Green, processing and managing the EZ Borrow —Peter Hart & Kimberly K. Barlow n and cancer using in vitro and in vivo models. who joined UPT in 2008 as a financial aid James D. Luketich, the Henry T. Bahn- counselor, earned a bachelor’s degree in son Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, human relations at Pitt this year. In her new has been appointed the first chair of the position, Green’s primary responsibility school’s new Department of Cardiothoracic will include the recruitment of full-time Surgery. traditional-age students. She also will q represent the campus at high schools and At the Graduate School of Public college fairs and assist in the development Health, Mark S. Roberts has been of admissions standards and application appointed chair of the Department of evaluations. Health Policy and Management. Most Stephanie Fiely has been named recently, Roberts was a professor of interim director of Student Affairs at UPT, medicine, health policy and management, effective July 1. Fiely has served as a part- industrial engineering and clinical and time faculty member as well as the director translational science and chief of the section of student activities since she joined UPT in of decision sciences and clinical systems 1999. Most recently, she served as director modeling in the School of Medicine’s Divi- of student life. sion of General Internal Medicine. Stefanie Blass has been named UPT’s Sally C. Morton has been appointed interim director of Judicial Affairs and Resi- to head the Department of Biostatistics. dence Life coordinator. She assumed her Most recently, Morton was vice president duties July 22. She most recently served as an of statistics and epidemiology at RTI intern in the Office of Student Affairs during International. She also served as an adjunct spring 2010, where she worked mainly in professor of biostatistics at the University the area of residence life. Prior to joining of North Carolina. Prior to her position UPT, Blass was a graduate coordinator at at RTI, she led the statistics group at the Edinboro University. RAND Corp. and held the RAND endowed q chair in statistics. At GSPH, Morton will Personnel specialist Mary Balint now be developing programs to address complex is responsible for providing administra- health care questions at both societal and tive support to the head of University individual levels. She also will be employing Library System human resources. Her evidence-based analyses to better inform duties include coordinating, monitoring public health decision-making. Morton and processing personnel paperwork, file Kimberly K. Barlow received a doctoral degree in statistics from Stanford. q The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs is welcoming two new assistant professors, Annemie Maertens and Sera Linardi. Maertens received her PhD in applied economics and management from Cornell. Her research interests lie in the field of development economics, with an empha- sis on the social and behavioral aspects of individual decision-making. Linardi received her PhD in social science (economics) from California Institute of Technology. Her areas of expertise include applied microeconomics, information economics and experimental economics. q Amy L. Seybert, associate professor in the School of Pharmacy and associate director for pharmacy programs at the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Educa- tion and Research, has been appointed as interim chair of the Department of Phar- macy and Therapeutics. Seybert also directs the cardiovascular specialty and critical care pharmacy residencies at UPMC and practices in the cardiac intensive care unit. q Classics and humanities faculty member Diana G. Browning was named interim vice president of Academic Affairs at Pitt- Titusville, effective July 1. Browning’s academic credentials include a PhD in classics from Princeton, master’s degrees from Princeton, Case Western Reserve and Johns Hopkins universities, and a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College. Before coming to UPT, she taught at Wellesley College, Brown University and Connecticut College. Kimberly K. Barlow 12 SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 PLACES Construction will start in the fall to ness courses that were displaced from the and plumbing distribution systems. facilities and updated finishes. facilitate the consolidation of all the Under- Bellefield Hall aerobic room over the The Chevron project is expected to be Construction is expected to be com- graduate Studies units in the School summer return to Bellefield Hall this fall. completed next spring. pleted in spring 2011. of Arts and Sciences under one roof in Classes were moved to the Petersen Events • The Lothrop Hall 1st floor has been • The Eberly Hall 2nd- and 3rd-floor Thackeray Hall. Center after the ceiling in the Bellefield Hall renovated to provide a study lounge with nanoscience laboratory project will reno- The Office of Experiential Learning aerobic room was damaged by weightlifting wireless Internet access and additional vate approximately 5,300 gross square feet and the Office of Freshman Programs activities on the floor above. undergraduate student housing rooms. of former library space on the second floor will move from Thaw Hall to Thackeray’s q This area formerly was leased to UPMC as to house new synthetic and spectroscopy second and third floors, respectively. The The second phase of Benedum Hall office space. The 1st floor will accommodate laboratory suites for physical chemistry College in High School program will renovations is scheduled to begin in Janu- 47 new undergraduate student beds. The research in nanomaterials. The work will move from the first to the second floor of ary, with all three phases expected to be project includes the addition of showers in include complete replacement of room Thackeray to make room for the renovation completed by 2015. The project will reno- the bathrooms, new finishes and fixtures finishes, lighting, ventilation and air con- and expansion of the Office of Student vate eight floors of Benedum Hall, bringing and improved security. ditioning, new laboratory controls, modern Records. This expansion will allow Student new research, classroom and office spaces • The William Pitt Union’s 9th floor flexible laboratory casework, energy effi- Records to be more student friendly with for the Swanson School of Engineering project saw approximately 9,000 square feet cient fume hoods and laser equipment. a new reception area and more computer on the 3rd floor and floors 6-12. Swing renovated for use by Student Affairs, WPU The project also includes renovations terminals. In addition, the Writing Center space will be employed to accommodate staff and student organizations. New areas to the Chemistry Electronics Shop on the and the Math Assistance Center will move departmental needs during construction. include a study area/lounge and offices for third floor of Eberly Hall. Approximately to the Concordia Club. Photos of renovations completed in Residence Life and Pitt Arts. 1,500 gross square feet will accommodate A new microscopy suite for the depart- the initial phase of the project, including • Phase I of Parran/Crabtree renova- the consolidation of the Chemistry Elec- ments of biological sciences and neurosci- a time-lapse video of the construction of tions and addition, currently in design, will tronics Shop with the Physics Electronics ence has been completed. The facility the 42,000-square-foot Mascaro Center construct an addition to Parran Hall to Shop. This project includes the installation includes new microscopes. for Sustainable Innovation addition, are provide approximately 61,000 gross square of new work stations, soldering benches, The Department of Computer Science available at www.engr.pitt.edu/transforma- feet of new space including wet labs and a state-of-the-art fabrication laboratory, has renovated the Macintosh lab in 6110 tion/photos.html. a 216-seat auditorium on the east side of lighting and related upgraded mechanical Sennott Square, adding desks and comput- q the building. The expected construction and electrical distribution systems. ers to accommodate increased registration The Office of Facilities Management timeframe is spring 2011-spring 2013. Work is expected to be completed in in courses. is overseeing a number of capital projects. The Concordia Club renovation winter 2011. The department also has equipped 52 Among them: project consists of interior and exterior • The Bouquet Gardens expansion proj- machines in the student lab in 5502 Sen- • Turf installation is set to begin this upgrades to 30,000 square feet of space ect consists of construction of a 155-bed nott with NVidia GeForce 8800GT graphic month at the Petersen Sports Complex. in the recently purchased club on O’Hara apartment-style undergraduate student cards. These cards were selected for the 3D • Construction of an addition to the Street. Built in 1913, the building includes housing building to be located between performance for gaming and the central Chevron Science Center is in progress. three stories plus a basement. Oakland Avenue and Bouquet Street. The processing unit computing with Compute In addition, Chevron’s 5th-floor reno- A 2,500-square-foot addition will be building will be four stories plus basement Unified Device Architecture. vation project includes general laboratory constructed to house a new elevator and with a total area of approximately 64,800 The English department is undertaking renovations encompassing approximately an exit stair. Exterior upgrades will include gross square feet. some extensive renovations. The largest 8,300 square feet to house wet laboratories accessible entrances, roof replacement, This project will add 48 units of three- project is a reconstruction of its main meet- for chemistry research. The work will landscaping and parking improvements. and four-person apartments to the current ing space on the 5th floor of the Cathedral of replace obsolete, inefficient mechanical Mechanical and electrical systems will be Bouquet Gardens housing complex. The Learning. Plans for the renovation include systems and laboratory controls. upgraded to connect to the University’s project is expected to be completed in time eliminating several walls to create a spacious The design reclaims previously under- infrastructure systems and to meet code for occupancy for fall term 2011. hall for talks, meetings and audiovisual pre- utilized circulation areas for use as student requirements. (See related story on page 4.) sentations. The area will be known as the research areas. Energy and water conserv- Some of the building will be dedicated q English Department Commons Room. ing upgrades and ADA improvements are to Student Affairs, and will be used for In a project managed by the School of Four new offices also will be created, included. student organization offices and for larger Information Sciences and the Center for and the copy room will be relocated. Also The project also will complete reno- gatherings, performance events, speaking Russian and East European Studies and planned is the creation of a lactation room vation work on the 4th floor to outfit a engagements and dining. Improvements funded by the U.S. Agency for International on the 6th floor. 600-square-foot lab for the chemistry will include new security systems, wireless Development, the University of Pristina In addition, departmental courses in department. This work includes the instal- data service, food service staging areas, in Kosovo celebrated the completion of composition, journalism and new media lation of fume hoods and related mechanical audiovisual systems, additional restroom a new telecommunications laboratory will benefit from the use of a new digital media/computer classroom in G26 CL, equipped with new computers prepared for a full range of media production: animation, video and sound editing, web and multi- modal design and composition, layout, graphics and desktop and e-publishing. q Pitt-Bradford will have two new build- ings and one like-new building this fall. A new 103-bed residence hall, the third built in five years, has opened, bring- ing UPB’s on-campus housing capacity to nearly 1,000 students. The residence hall is named in honor of Sarah B. Dorn, daughter of Zippo lighter inventor George G. Blaisdell and benefactor of the campus. A dedication ceremony is set for Sept. 10. On Sept. 30, the new Harriett B. Wick Chapel will be dedicated as part of UPB’s alumni weekend activities. Wick and Dorn are sisters who have supported Pitt-Bradford for many years. The chapel will seat about 150 people and provide a site for religious services, interfaith and ecumenical services, memo- rial services, receptions and small choral and musical performances. It also will be home to a new staff member who will coordinate chapel events and student com- munity service. A $5.9 million renovation of Fisher Hall, UPB’s science building, has brought new heating and ventilation systems, fume hoods and lab benches to redesigned labs. Restrooms were upgraded and a new emergency generator with uninterrupted power supply was added for computing, telecommunications and media services. q Barbara DelRaso School of Education community fit- Construction on the addition to the Chevron Science Center is well underway.

13 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new in June. The design of the lab is based on The School of Medicine is leasing four cialists, the clinical practice of the Depart- of a 10,000-square-foot addition to the SIS’s Telecommunications Networking of the five floors — about 128,000 square ment of Otolaryngology, has opened an dining facility in the J. Curtis McKinney Laboratory. feet in all — at Bridgeside Point II for office in Monroeville. II Student Union. In addition to the state-of-the-art teach- research efforts in the McGowan Institute q This project also will provide space to ing lab, the project incorporated the devel- for Regenerative Medicine and the depart- The renovation of two classrooms accommodate a variety of campus events opment of a graduate-degree program in ments of orthopaedic surgery, psychiatry in Salk Hall was completed in time for and activities. telecommunications. This two-year degree and microbiology and molecular genetics. the start of the fall term. Groundbreaking Plans are to be developed and submit- program was introduced in 2009 with an A $46.5 million research center has for Salk Pavilion, the first new building ted this fall, with work expected to begin inaugural class of 19 students. been constructed in the Pittsburgh Technol- constructed in the history of the School in spring. Completion is slated for January q ogy Center on Technology Drive. Nearly of Pharmacy, which will house research 2012. Construction has begun in the Barco 400 employees will work in the facility facilities for the school and the School of The expansion at the student union Law Building, renovating approximately and recruitment of new faculty members Dental Medicine, is planned for later this would replace the current facilities at Ball 10,000 square feet of the ground floor to populate the laboratory space is under- fall. (See July 22 University Times.) A com- Hall, which are to be converted into campus to create a new student lounge. The way. Research programs housed there will mons area will connect Salk Hall to the building management offices. renovated space, which is scheduled for include translational and basic neuroscience Salk Pavilion. The project comes on the heels of an completion next spring, will contain a laboratories, a stem cell research center, a q extensive refurbishment and renovation Starbucks coffee kiosk; increased seating hand research laboratory and a center for Plans are underway to improve the effi- of Spruce Residence Hall, which was with comfortable couches and chairs to cellular and molecular engineering. ciency of dining services for Pitt-Titusville completed over the summer. promote student gathering; soft lighting University Ear Nose & Throat Spe- students, faculty and staff by construction —Peter Hart & Kimberly K. Barlow n and increased electrical access for laptop use; full-size clothing wardrobes, and a new unisex restroom. In addition to the lounge, the lower-level locker area of approximately 500 square feet will be upgraded to create a suite of offices for School of Law student organizations. A student eating and vending area also will be provided. All renovated areas will include upgraded finishes, lighting, signage, heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems and wireless access. q At Pitt-Johnstown, several projects were completed during the summer: • A portion of Blackington Hall has been renovated to accommodate Pitt- Johnstown’s new nursing program. In addi- tion to faculty office space, a simulation lab has been created. • Classrooms throughout the Engi- neering and Science Building have been renovated with upgrades in instructional technology, as well as new flooring, light- ing and furniture. • All campus classrooms are being refur- nished as part of UPJ’s largest classroom enhancement project. Traditional side- arm desks are being replaced with tables and chairs. In addition to accommodating the increasing number of students who are utilizing laptops in the classroom, the new furniture provides students with more desk- top space and more comfortable seating. Above: Pete Buchheit, director of Facilities Management at Pitt-Bradford, watches as workers install an acoustic ceiling in the • The UPJ Student Union has under- 150-seat Harriett B. Wick Chapel, which will be dedicated Sept. 30. gone an extensive renovation. In addition Below: Construction of Pitt-Johnstown’s Wellness Center has passed the halfway point, with the facility set to open in early to major upgrades in the main dining hall, November. Progress can be viewed on a webcam at www.upj.pitt.edu/23588/. including the addition of Magellan’s, a The $9.7 million, 40,000-square-foot facility will feature an elevated running track, a fitness center with weight and cardio- vascular exercise equipment, combination exercise and classroom space, two multipurpose courts for basketball and volley- Mongolian-style grill, the entire Tuck ball and an indoor climbing wall. The facility also will include an outdoor wellness park. Shop area has been renovated and includes expanded dining options. In addition to the existing Subway and Pizza Hut, the Tuck Shop also will feature Mexican cuisine at Salsa Rio, as well as a Simply to Go option. The fall term also will mark the grand open- ing of Brioche Doree, a European-style café located in the expanded food court area of the Student Union. • A new outdoor park known as University Square has been constructed. The area features a gazebo, lighting and seating. University Square will make its official debut during this year’s homecom- ing celebration. • The Varsity Café, located in the Living/Learning Center, has undergone a facelift and is the new home of Jazzman’s Café. Relocating Jazzman’s will enhance access for residents of the Living/Learn- ing Center as well as for conference center guests. • The new Wellness Center has sur- passed the halfway point for completion and is scheduled to open by early November. • Plans are underway to construct a health sciences and nursing building, a $10 million, 20,000-square-foot building that will feature classrooms, laboratories and offices. The project recently received $4 million from the commonwealth’s Put Pennsylvania to Work initiative. q Cody Bell 14 SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 THINGS The School of Arts and Sciences q of the Windows operating system. New character and integrity who are inspired by a Advising Center has implemented a stu- The College of Business Administra- versions of the self-service printing client sense of justice to improve the achievement dent-centered advising model that calls tion is offering its first course in entrepre- can be downloaded at software.pitt.edu. of all students. The program encourages the for students to be active participants in the neurship this fall. The Entrepreneurship CSSD has streamlined the way students shift from teacher leadership to adminis- advising process. This developmental advis- Process, taught by Michael S. Lehman and enter primary emergency contact infor- trative leadership through academic rigor ing structure encourages a shared partner- Heidi Bertels, will provide an introduction mation. Instead of using the PeopleSoft in the classroom, authentic experiences ship between advisers and students, where to entrepreneurship, including generating student information system, students can in schools and reflective opportunities students learn to frame questions, gather value-added business ideas, creating a new click the Emergency Contact Information for integrating personal and professional information, discover options and make venture and managing and growing the link on their My Pitt home page. growth. The 15-month LIFTS program decisions about their academic plan and entrepreneurial firm. In collaboration with the Division of will be offered at two sites: Pitt-Johnstown career path. Arts and Sciences contracted q Student Affairs, CSSD is piloting an opt-in and the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. with Noel-Levitz, a higher education The University of Pittsburgh Cancer new notification subscription service The Western Pennsylvania Writing consulting firm, to evaluate the advising Institute and Magee-Womens Research for text and email messages about Student Project is a site of the National Writing program and provide recommendations Institute have established a Women’s Affairs events and activities. Students can Project, hosted by Pitt since 1984. The on how best to serve the undergraduate Cancer Research Center to combine subscribe from their mobile device or via project relocated from the English depart- student population. existing efforts at UPCI and MWRI in the their Profile link at My Pitt. ment to the School of Education. WPWP The Department of Africana Studies fields of breast and gynecological cancers. CSSD is introducing an instructor-led is part of plans for studying approaches to will co-host the Ousmane Sembene Film Steffi Oesterreich, an expert in estro- online orientation that will help new web improve urban education. Festival Nov. 13 and 14. Oronde Sharif, gen receptor biology and action, has been conferencing subscribers learn key features A new online Master of Education in with the Shona Sharif African Dance and appointed director of education for the of the service. Additional training for all Elementary Education program admit- Drum Ensemble, will perform the annual center. subscribers soon will be available through ted its first class this fall. The goals of the Langston Hughes “Black Nativity” play q WebEx University, which provides both program are to enable practicing teachers in December. Computing Services and Systems self-paced and instructor-led training on to enhance their understanding of and The Kuntu Repertory Theatre’s 2010- Development has released a new version all facets of web conferencing. improve their ability to meet the diverse 2011 season at Pitt will consist of Vernell of my.pitt.edu. The new My Pitt portal The PeopleSoft Student Information needs of children in their classrooms; Lillie’s “Black Mahalia” and Gregory Allen’s is designed to be easier to use and simpler System was upgraded to version 9.0 in advance their understanding of one or more “Traces.” to navigate with customized home pages July. The new version features an Advisor content areas they currently are teaching, The Department of Communication for freshmen, other students, faculty, staff Center that provides faculty advisers with and to broaden their understanding of will host the 12th Biennial Public Address and applicants that provide quick access to one-click access to the academic records of educational research, educational theories Conference Sept. 30-Oct. 2. The confer- key University services. One-click access the students they advise. In addition, new as they apply to practice, action research ence theme is “Human Rights Rhetoric: to University email is available from every navigation tabs make it easier for students practices and educational policy. Controversies, Conundrums and Com- page. Feedback on the new portal can be to find information within their Student The School of Education is celebrating munity Actions.” shared at twitter.com/mypitt or on the Center. its 100th anniversary. Throughout the The conference includes two public my.pitt.edu Facebook page. q year, events are being planned, including lectures: an Oct. 1 lecture by Mari Boor CSSD’s technology help desk has added The School of Dental Medicine begins a two-day symposium on motivation and Tonn of the University of Richmond a live online chat option for students, this academic year with the recent suc- engagement. The celebration will culmi- titled, “‘From the Eye to the Soul’: Indus- faculty and staff. To chat with a help desk cess of another Commission on Dental nate in a gala April 2, 2011, in the Carnegie trial Labor’s Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones analyst via the new feature, visit technol- Accreditation site visit in which the school Music Hall foyer with the presentation of and the Rhetorics of Display,” and an Oct. ogy.pitt.edu and click the Chat button on received no recommendations, which are the 2011 Alumni and Student Leadership 2 lecture by Stephen John Hartnett of the the main page. issued when a program is noncompliant Awards. University of Colorado-Denver titled, Pitt Mobile (m.pitt.edu), which provides with a standard, as well as multiple “areas q “Speaking With the Damned: Or Prison University information and services tai- of strength.” Classes are being offered for Pitt- Education, Social Justice and Communica- lored to smart phones and mobile devices, For the first time, the school’s Aug. 30 Greensburg’s new undergraduate major tion as a Human Right.” (Information on has added several applications. Routes white coat ceremony was viewable online in Spanish, bringing the campus’s total the conference can be found at www.pitt. and schedules for University shuttles via live streaming video. The annual cer- number of majors to 24. The program is edu/~comm.) now are available, along with information emony signifies entry into the profession housed in the Division of Humanities and New areas of concentration in the about dining options at Pitt. Students also for incoming dental medicine and dental leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree. Department of Computer Science include can check on the availability of laundry hygiene students. The video is available at The new Spanish major is intended to security, gaming, high-performance sys- machines in the residence halls. www.dental.pitt.edu/whitecoatceremony. be part of an overall strategy for greater tems, business of software and software CSSD has expanded self-service q internationalization of the curriculum and engineering. New courses in the depart- printing. Students now can send print jobs The School of Education has intro- to add signature programs that will attract ment’s curriculum include one under- from any location (including campus email duced a newly redesigned principal cer- students of increasing academic quality. graduate course and two graduate courses. kiosks) to self-service print stations at any of tificate program, the Leadership Initiative Students majoring in Spanish will be Principles of Computer Game Design and CSSD’s seven campus computing labs. The for Transforming Schools (LIFTS). Its encouraged to study abroad. Pitt-Greens- Implementation will provide an introduc- service now is available for 64-bit versions purpose is to develop educational leaders of burg’s long-standing exchange program tion to the fundamental technologies behind computer games as well as hands-on experience in the design and development of a computer game. Advanced Topics in Security and Privacy will cover current research topics in computer security and privacy, and Advanced Topics in Web Technologies will take a retrospective look at technologies that are used on the web today, with particular emphasis on web data management and emerging technologies. q The Katz Graduate School of Busi- ness Institute for Entrepreneurial Excel- lence has established the Center for Women in Business. The center was developed in conjunction with PowerLink, a nonprofit organization that assists female- driven companies in developing advisory boards. Under the direction of former Pow- erLink executive director Lee Ann Munger, the nonprofit’s advisory programs now are available directly through the Center for Women in Business. Information about the center and its programs are available at www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu. The first “Katz Gives Back” com- munity service day is set for Sept. 25, sponsored by the Katz Student Executive Board, Evening Student Executive Board, Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership and the Business Alumni Association. Katz students, faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends will work with local nonprofit organizations during this large-scale day- Barbara DelRaso long event. Members of the Class of 2014 attend freshman convocation at the Petersen Events Center.

15 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES What’s new with the Universidad de Guanajuato and the This fall the School of Law has launched The simulation software programmed by developed (www.parents.pitt.edu), and the Pitt study programs in Spain will provide the Immigration Law Clinic. pharmacy faculty offers benefits for assess- office will distribute a parent handbook opportunities for this experience. In partnership with various community ment of numerous curricular outcomes by and monthly electronic newsletters with Pitt-Greensburg has received initial groups, including Jewish Family & Chil- allowing the facilitator to provide immedi- information about programs and resources program approval from the Pennsylvania dren’s Services and Catholic Charities, the ate feedback to students, documentation from various academic and support units. Department of Education (PDE) to add clinic will develop an initiative to increase of decision-making processes and the The office also will coordinate programs instructional I certificate programs in diversity in the Pittsburgh region. The capability to vary each simulation based on during Pitt’s Family Weekend, Oct. 1-3. A early childhood education and second- clinic will address the legal needs of local individual student need without interfering spring event also is being planned. ary education to its curricula. Notable is immigrants in asylum and deportation with actual patient care. For more information, call 412/624- the initial program approval with special proceedings. The pharmacy school is offering a new 8548 or email [email protected]. designation issued to the early childhood Law students will be exposed to the program that combines a master’s degree q education pre-K-4 certificate, which means impact that law and legal institutions have and residency in community pharmacy Pitt’s 10th annual science showcase, PDE will highlight this as a model program on the lives of immigrants, while foster- management. This program prepares Science 2010, is set for Oct. 7 and 8 at with innovative program practices. ing their ability to integrate theoretical students for senior management in a retail Alumni Hall. Unique to the UPG program will knowledge with the professional judgment pharmacy organization. The school part- This year’s program includes four key- be science and math classes specifically needed to practice law. nered with CVS Caremark in this two-year note lectures; spotlight sessions by nearly developed for education majors that will q MS/residency program. The school also 50 researchers from Pitt, Carnegie Mellon allow students to meet the challenges of This fall marks the first incoming created affiliations with UPMC Health University and the Carnegie Museum teaching in an increasingly technological cohort of nursing majors at Pitt-John- Plan, Rite Aid Corp., Millennium Pharmacy of Natural History; a showcase of new and science-driven society. stown. Systems and the pharmacy at UPMC Falk technologies developed on campus that q q Clinic to ensure that students get a broad are available for licensing; research poster The Health Sciences Library System The School of Medicine has estab- exposure to community pharmacy. sessions, and a professional development is launching the “Get It to Go” workshop lished a Department of Cardiothoracic The school recently received the full workshop for early-career scientists. series at Falk Library. The sessions offer Surgery dedicated to using advanced six-year accreditation for its Doctor of On Oct. 7, the 2010 Dickson Prize in quick introductions to free online tools diagnostic, surgical and medical techniques Pharmacy program from the Accredita- Medicine Lecture, “The DNA Damage to enhance productivity, awareness and to treat diseases and disorders of the heart, tion Council for Pharmacy Education Response: Stopped for Repairs,” will be personal organization. These informal lung and esophagus. Only 18 such academic (ACPE). It also received “noteworthy presented by Stephen J. Elledge, Gregor hands-on classes are 30 minutes long, but departments exist in American institutions, practice” recognition from ACPE for its Mendel Professor of Genetics at Harvard participants can stay up to an hour to try out reflecting the recent rapid evolution of strategic planning process and program- Medical School and a Howard Hughes the new technology or get more informa- cardiothoracic surgery as an independent matic and curricular assessment. Medical Institute investigator. tion about library resources and services. discipline. q Patrick D. Gallagher, director of the All workshops will be held noon–1 p.m. in The new department will expand The Graduate School of Public Health National Institute of Standards and Tech- Falk Library, classroom 1. upon the clinical, academic and research Department of Behavioral and Community nology, will present the Provost Lecture, Sessions include: Sept. 23, “Twitter: accomplishments of the Heart, Lung and Health Sciences has established a PhD “Strengthening the Connections: Research, Power in the Universe of Current Aware- Esophageal Surgery Institute, which will program and made major revisions to its Innovation and Economic Growth.” ness”; Nov. 3, “Journals and More at a remain within it. longstanding DrPH program. The first On Oct. 8, the 2010 Mellon Lecture, Glance: iGoogle or MyYahoo Pages,” and The department is made up of the Divi- nine students were accepted into the PhD “Our Habitual Lives: How the Brain Makes Dec. 7, “MindMapping: Visual Brainstorm- sion of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery and program for the fall term. and Breaks Habits,” will be given by Ann ing and Organization.” the Division of Cardiac Surgery, which The new PhD degree program will train Martin Graybiel, Walter A. Rosenblith The HSLS Molecular Biology Infor- includes adult cardiac surgery, cardiotho- students to develop interventions grounded Professor of Neuroscience at the Massa- mation Service recently licensed two new racic transplantation and pediatric cardio- in the social and behavioral sciences and test chusetts Institute for Technology, and an bioinformatics resources. CLC Main thoracic surgery. them in randomized controlled trials, while investigator at MIT’s McGovern Institute Workbench supports researchers’ daily q the revised DrPH degree program will focus for Brain Research. bioinformatics needs and CLC Genomics The Louis J. Fox Center for Vision on the translation, implementation and Mark B. Roth, a 2007 MacArthur Fellow Workbench handles sequencing data from Restoration of UPMC and the University, evaluation of evidence-based interventions and cell biologist at the Fred Hutchinson high-throughput sequencing systems. a partnership between the UPMC Eye for use in community settings through the Cancer Research Center, will present CLC Main Workbench enables users to Center and the McGowan Institute for department’s Institute for Evaluation Sci- “Metabolic Flexibility and Suspended perform advanced DNA, RNA and protein Regenerative Medicine, is launching a new ence in Community Health. Animation” in the annual Klaus Hofmann sequence analyses, combined with gene lecture series this fall. This approach to doctoral education Lecture. expression analysis, seamless data manage- The Innovations in Vision Restoration encourages PhD students to learn from For registration, a schedule and infor- ment and user-friendly graphical viewing series will bring national and international practitioners in the DrPH program and mation, visit www.science2010.pitt.edu. and output options. speakers to address eye regeneration. For vice versa. q CLC Genomics Workbench incor- more information, visit www.foxcenter. GSPH will sponsor the annual Jay L. The University Library System has porates cutting-edge technology and pitt.edu/. Foster Memorial Scientific Lecture in expanded its collection with the addition algorithms for analyzing and visualizing q Alzheimer’s Disease on Nov. 11. The of audio books and eBooks that can be next-generation sequencing data. This fall, the School of Nursing will lecture will be delivered by Lewis H. Kuller, checked out and downloaded from pitt. The tools can be accessed via the HSLS begin offering an online post-master’s Distinguished University Professor of lib.overdrive.com. The downloads expire Molecular Biology portal. degree doctor of nursing practice (DNP) Public Health. automatically at the end of the lending q program, in addition to its current on-site q period so there are no late fees. The School of Information Sciences program. Areas of concentration include The Division of Student Affairs has Audio books and eBooks can be down- has introduced a series of seminars explor- clinical nurse specialist, nurse anesthetist, established an Office of Parent and Family loaded to PCs, Macs and many mobile ing the theme of memory in the digital nurse practitioner and nursing administra- Resources to enhance relationships with devices; some audio titles can be burned age. The seminars, “Working Memory: tion. The program is available remotely to parents and families of Pitt students. The to CDs. Doctoral Studies in Cultural and Scien- nurses around the world. office will provide a single point of contact ULS won a Best of Show award in tific Memory,” are intended for doctoral The American Association of Colleges to assist with crisis and problem resolution the Library Leadership and Management students at the University. The series will of Nursing and the American Association and expand parent and family programs, Association public relations and marketing address issues concerning information and of Nurse Anesthetists recommend the including a parent’s association. section 2010 competition. ULS’s holiday evidence in society and the information DNP as the terminal degree for advanced A key responsibility of the new office card was chosen from more than 200 entries professions. For more information, go to: practice nurses. will be developing strong, proactive com- in the printed materials promoting web www.ischool.pitt.edu/memory/index.php. The DNP program will continue to be munications with parents and families. A sites category. In 2010-11, SIS will introduce a new offered on site along with a post-bachelor’s new parent and family web site has been —Kimberly K. Barlow & Peter Hart n program, the iSchool Inclusion Institute degree (BSN to DNP) option. The nursing of Information Sciences (i3), made pos- school also offers an online clinical nurse sible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon leader master’s degree program. For more Foundation. This three-year program is information call 412/648-0287 or email designed to address a critical shortfall of [email protected]. faculty and students from underrepresented q populations within the information sciences The School of Pharmacy has invested disciplines and professions. in state-of-the-art resources to expand For more information about the i3 the use of simulation in the curriculum. program, go to www.ischool-inclusion.org. A simulation mannequin and a number of q simulation arms provide opportunities for The Center for Instructional Devel- students to develop and enhance pharma- opment and Distance Education’s Teach- cotherapy skills. ing Times newsletter has gone green by These simulation devices can be pro- moving to an online-only format at www. grammed to have palpable pulses, audible cidde.pitt.edu/teachingtimes. 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R E S E A R C H N O T E S that 7 percent of Allegheny whether or not Crohn’s disease County’s land has been leased is active, may not reliably indicate Vitamin D ABPA patients. Adding vitamin oncogene’s role in tumor forma- for oil and gas exploration and whether a patient’s disease has fights mold D to these cells in the laboratory tion. extraction since 2003. returned after corrective surgery, allergy substantially reduced the expres- The c-Myc gene product In addition, the number of according to a study published in sion of OX40L and increased the is overproduced in many can- properties in the county leased for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Vitamin D may be an effective expression of other proteins criti- cers, including breast and colon oil and gas exploration increased “The natural course of Crohn’s therapy to treat and even prevent cal to the development of allergen cancers, and in leukemias and by 322 percent between 2008 disease often is symptom-free,” allergy to a common airborne tolerance. lymphomas. High cellular levels and 2009. said Miguel Regueiro, co-direc- mold that can cause severe com- “We found that adding vita- of c-Myc generate genomic An interactive map of the tor of the Inflammatory Bowel plications for patients with cystic min D substantially reduced the instability, which is thought to 2,000-plus parcels leased for oil Disease Center and Department fibrosis and asthma, according to production of the protein driving be essential in the development and gas exploration between of Medicine faculty member. “The researchers from Pitt’s School of the allergic response and also of a tumor. One way c-Myc can 2003 and May 2010 is available disease can present silently. In Medicine, Children’s Hospital and increased production of the pro- cause genomic instability is by the on UCSUR’s Pittsburgh Urban fact, many patients with Crohn’s Louisiana State University. tein that promotes tolerance,” said production of free radicals and Blog. The PUB (www.ucsur.pitt. may have had the disease for Results of the study, led by Jay Kolls, who also is chair of genetics reactive oxygen species (ROS), edu/thepub.php) makes research years without having symptoms. Kolls, Pitt professor of pediatrics at LSU Health Sciences Center, which can damage cells. on regional statistics and trends Similarly, after surgery, most and immunology and Children’s New Orleans. Graves is studying c-Myc readily available. patients feel quite well for many Hospital lung disease researcher, “Based on our results, we have mutants that have lost the ability to Sabina Deitrick, co-director years. We have found that most were published in the September strong rationale for a clinical trial generate ROS in comparison with of UCSUR’s urban analysis pro- patients with recurrent Crohn’s issue of the Journal of Clinical of vitamin D to determine whether those that retain the capability. gram, said the oil and gas leases disease after surgery also do not Investigation. it can prevent or treat ABPA in “It is my hypothesis that muta- reveal a rapidly expanding pursuit have symptoms. Aspergillus fumigatus does not patients with cystic fibrosis.” tions that result in higher levels of of drilling and exploration rights in “This is a concern because cause illness in the vast majority Cystic fibrosis is an inherited cellular ROS will be more capable the county. New oil and gas leases many patients with post-surgical of those who inhale it, but the chronic disease that affects the of causing cancer than those taken out by parcel increased Crohn’s disease recurrence will mold can cause life-threatening lungs and digestive system. A that do not. If this hypothesis is steadily from 29 in 2003 to 217 ultimately need another surgery allergic symptoms in patients with defective gene and its protein supported then it will lead to a in 2008 and rocketed to 1,102 and if they cannot feel their dis- cystic fibrosis. Up to 15 percent product cause the body to produce far greater understanding of the in 2009. ease, adequate treatment may not of patients with cystic fibrosis will unusually thick, sticky mucus that mechanism by which c-Myc can The database shows Dale be started. Because of this, we need develop a severe allergic response, clogs the lungs and leads to life- cause a tumor in vivo,” he stated. Property Services/DPS Penn to look for objective evidence of known as allergic bronchopulmo- threatening lung infections and Graves also is studying the holds a lease on 1,654 parcels — the disease instead of relying on nary aspergillosis (ABPA). Some obstructs the pancreas and stops interaction of c-Myc with a family nearly half of all properties leased patients to report how they feel.” patients with asthma also can natural enzymes from helping the of proteins called peroxiredoxins for oil and gas since 2003 in the Twenty-four patients with develop ABPA. body break down and absorb food. (Prx’s), which help cells protect county, while Monroeville-based Crohn’s disease were studied to The researchers studied cystic themselves from ROS damage. Huntley and Huntley has the most discover whether disease recur- fibrosis patients at Children’s The most abundant member of the land area under lease with 10,990 rence detected by endoscopy Hospital who had A. fumigatus Researcher family (Prx1) has been shown to of the 35,393 acres leased in the agreed with patient symptom infections. The researchers found wins award interact physically with c-Myc and county since 2003. reports. According to the results, that those who developed ABPA from Hyundai modulate its function, decreasing half of the patients went into had a heightened response by Pediatric oncologist and Chil- its ability to transform cells. remission after surgery while the immune cells known as type 2 T dren’s Hospital cancer researcher Symptoms other half did not, and there was helper (Th2) cells, and that a pro- J. Anthony Graves was named UCSUR: Local unreliable little or no relationship between tein known as OX40L was critical a 2010 Hyundai Scholar and O&G leases indicator of the return of the disease and the to this heightened response. The awarded $85,000 to support his booming Crohn’s symptoms patients reported. heightened Th2 response corre- research as part of the automaker’s Researchers in the University The Crohn’s Disease Activity “Because patient symptoms lated with lower levels of vitamin Hope on Wheels program. Center for Social and Urban Index (CDAI), which relies on don’t indicate whether Crohn’s D as compared with the non- Graves studies the c-Myc Research (UCSUR) have found patient symptoms to determine CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S “Diet and exercise are widely known to impact the risk of type The University Times CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 2 diabetes, but few people realize Research Notes column disease has returned, we need Part D, which reduced out-of- erous, people are more likely to that breastfeeding also reduces reports on funding awarded to change how we consider pocket drug spending between request and fill prescriptions for mothers’ risk of developing the to Pitt researchers and find- symptom-based care and begin 13 and 23 percent. They found antibiotics, which may lead to disease later in life by decreasing ings arising from University utilizing objective evidence, such that antibiotic use increased most misuse,” said Zhang. “Although maternal belly fat.” research. as endoscopy, to understand the among beneficiaries who lacked many interventions have helped The study included 2,233 We welcome submis- course the disease takes in indi- drug coverage prior to enrolling curb antibiotic prescribing for women ages 40-78. Overall, 56 sions from all areas of the vidual patients. This way, we can in Medicare Part D. acute respiratory tract infections percent of mothers reported they University. Submit informa- detect the disease early, begin the Beneficiaries who previously and other conditions, our study had breastfed an infant for at least tion via email to: utimes@ correct treatment and potentially had limited drug coverage also indicates there may still be sub- one month. Twenty-seven percent pitt.edu, by fax to 412/624- prevent future complications and were more likely to fill prescrip- stantial room for improvement of mothers who did not breast- 4579 or by campus mail to the need for more surgery,” said tions for antibiotics after enrolling through education and changes feed developed type 2 diabetes 308 Bellefield Hall. Regueiro. in Part D. The largest increases in reimbursement practices to and were almost twice as likely For submission guide- were found in the use of broad- reduce inappropriate use of these to develop the disease as women lines, visit www.umc.pitt. spectrum, newer and more expen- drugs.” who had breastfed or never given edu/utimes/deadlines.html Medicare sive antibiotics. Pitt co-authors include Bruce birth. In contrast, mothers who online. coverage Researchers also noted that Y. Lee of the Department of breastfed all of their children were findings emphasize the complex- increases the use of antibiotic treatment Medicine and Julie M. Donohue no more likely to develop diabetes ity of human RNA populations antibiotic use for pneumonia tripled among of health policy and management. than women who never gave birth. and suggest the important role A study by Graduate School of those who previously lacked These long-term differences were for single-molecule sequencing Public Health researchers found drug coverage, which they say is notable even after considering age, Breastfeeding for accurate and comprehensive that improved drug coverage encouraging given the high mor- race, physical activity and tobacco genetic profiling.” under Medicare Part D has led tality associated with community- cuts moms’ and alcohol use. Scientists had thought that to an increase in senior citizens’ acquired pneumonia among the diabetes risk “Our study provides another all RNA in human cells was use of antibiotics. The study, elderly. However, they also found Mothers who did not breast- good reason to encourage women copied from the DNA template, published in the Aug. 23 issue of increases in antibiotic use for other feed their children have signifi- to breastfeed their infants, at least John explained. The presence of Archives of Internal Medicine, acute respiratory tract infections cantly higher rates of type 2 dia- for the infant’s first month of life,” mechanisms that copy RNA into suggests recent changes in drug (sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis betes later in life than moms who said Schwarz. “Clinicians need to RNA, typically associated with an coverage improved the use of and non-specific upper respiratory breastfed, report Pitt researchers consider women’s pregnancy and enzyme called RNA-dependent antibiotics for pneumonia, but tract infection) for which antibiot- in a study published in the Septem- lactation history when advising RNA polymerase, only has been could lead to unnecessary spend- ics generally are not indicated. ber issue of the American Journal women about their risk for devel- documented in plants and simple ing on expensive broad-spectrum “Overuse of antibiotics is a of Medicine. oping type 2 diabetes.” organisms, such as yeast, and antibiotics and the overuse of common and important problem “We have seen dramatic Candace K. McClure of epi- implicated in regulation of crucial inappropriate antibiotics. that can lead to medical compli- increases in the prevalence of type demiology was among the study cellular processes. The study included more than cations and drug resistance,” said 2 diabetes over the last century,” co-authors. Since thousands of such RNAs 35,000 Medicare beneficiaries and the study’s lead author, Yuting said Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, a have been detected in human cells compared their use of antibiotics Zhang, a faculty member in health faculty member in medicine, epi- Humans can and because these RNAs have two years before and after the economics. demiology and obstetrics, gyne- copy RNA as never before been studied, fur- implementation of Medicare “When drug coverage is gen- cology and reproductive sciences. well as DNA ther research could open up new Single-molecule sequencing fronts in therapeutics, particularly technology has detected and diagnostics, John said. quantified novel small RNAs in In the study, the researchers human cells that represent entirely profiled small RNAs from human new classes of the gene-translating cells and tissues, uncovering sev- molecules, confirming a hypoth- eral new classes of RNAs, includ- esis that mammalian cells are ing antisense termini-associated capable of synthesizing RNA by short RNAs, which likely are copying RNA molecules directly. derived from messenger RNAs CHAT LIVE WITH THE HELP DESK Researchers from the School of of protein-coding genes by yet Medicine, Helicos Biosciences uncharacterized, pervasive RNA- Corp., Integromics and the Uni- copying mechanisms in human versity of Geneva Medical School cancer cell lines. recently reported the findings in Patrice Milos, chief scientific Call. Click. Chat! the journal Nature. officer at Helicos Biosciences, Co-author Bino John, a said, “This class of non-coding There’s a new way to get technology help at Pitt. You can now chat faculty member in the School RNA molecules has been histori- of Medicine’s Department of cally overlooked because available online with an analyst from the Technology Help Desk. Computational and Systems sequencing platforms often are Biology, said, “For the first time, unable to provide accurate detec- we have evidence to support the tion and quantification. hypothesis that human cells have “Our technology provides the the widespread ability to copy platform capability to identify RNA as well as DNA. These CONTINUED ON PAGE 19

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S mology, said, “Our preclinical high-end instrumentation grant studies support the idea that stem from the National Institutes of CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 cell therapy can provide sight to a Health to purchase a new cyclo- and quantify these RNAs and ing protein that plays a key role Current treatments for large number of individuals with tron for UPMC Presbyterian. The reinforces the potential clinical in triggering and supporting the SCCHN include surgery and corneal blindness. The timing of NIH equipment funds are derived advantages of our single molecule- growth of many cancers, includ- chemoradiation, and the only this generous donation provides from American Recovery and sequencing platform.” ing cancers of the head and neck. approved molecular approach is an extraordinary opportunity for Reinvestment Act funds specifi- Co-authors included A. Paula A member of a protein class the monoclonal antibody cetux- us to advance this research from cally designated for new research Monaghan of neurobiology and called Signal Transducers and imab, which inhibits epidermal the lab to the clinic.” equipment. Sangwoo Kim of computational Activators of Transcription growth factor receptor (EGFR). Through experiments con- biology. (STAT3), activated in excess “Although EGFR expres- ducted in mice, Funderburgh and D’Urso receives levels, can drive the transforma- sion is common in these tumors, his team have found that stem DARPA grant New math tion of healthy cells into cancer, cetuximab works only in a subset cells collected from the stromal Brian D’Urso’s proposal solution said principal investigator Jen- of patients, leaving the rest likely layer of human corneas restore “Quantum Interactions of a Gra- described nifer R. Grandis, professor of to succumb to their cancers,” transparency without triggering a phene Nanomechanical Oscillator otolaryngology and pharmacology Grandis noted. “It’s possible that rejection response when injected With a Single Spin” recently was Pitt-Bradford mathematics and director of the UPCI head and STAT3 activation is contribut- into eyes that are scarred and hazy. professor Yong-Zhuo Chen has selected for a Defense Advanced neck program. The abnormality ing to resistance to the drug, so Their study was published in the Research Projects Agency described a new method to solve has been found not only in head blocking it could make cetuximab April 2009 edition of the journal a type of difference equation. His (DARPA) Young Faculty Award. and neck cancers, but also in many treatment more effective.” Stem Cell. D’Urso, a faculty member in paper, “Some Contractive Type malignancies including breast, Co-principal investigators With the new funding, the Mappings and Their Application the Department of Physics and prostate and lung cancer. include John Lazo and Paul A. Pitt research team will develop Astronomy, is among 33 research- to Difference Equations,” was pre- “This protein can send signals Johnston, both of the Depart- standard procedures for preparing sented recently at the American ers at 24 universities chosen in this to other molecules encourag- ment of Pharmacology and the stem cells so that they can be year’s YFA class. The program Mathematical Society’s eastern ing the replication and spread Chemical Biology. used in human studies, after first sectional meeting and has been focuses on untenured faculty, of cancer cells, promoting new verifying their safety in animal emphasizing those without prior accepted for publication in the blood vessel growth to tumors and models. Journal of Difference Equations DARPA funding. suppressing the immune response Corneal stem The Fox Center’s main focus The award program aims to and Applications. against the disease,” Grandis cell research is discovery and development Difference equations are used identify and engage rising research explained. “Animal studies have funded of new cures for blindness and stars in junior faculty positions to model phenomena in biology, shown that inhibiting it can shrink The Louis J. Fox Center visual impairment, especially for ecology, physiology, physics, engi- at U.S. academic institutions tumors and prolong survival, so for Vision Restoration, a joint those with problems affecting the and expose them to Department neering and economics. it represents an important target program of UPMC Eye Center retina, optic nerve, cornea and Chen is chair of UPB’s Division of Defense (DoD) needs and for therapies against a range of and Pitt’s McGowan Institute for lens. Through basic and clinical DARPA’s program development of Physical and Computational cancer types.” Regenerative Medicine, recently research, it will provide vision Sciences. process. With funding from the received a $244,000 donation restoration through the augmen- The YFA program provides National Cancer Institute, Gran- from the Western Pennsylvania tation of existing visual pathways funding, mentoring and industry/ Head and neck dis and her team will identify Medical Eye Bank Foundation. or by providing vision through DoD contacts to these faculty cancer research and develop small-molecule The donation, to be matched non-visual means. early in their careers to develop funded inhibitors of STAT3 activation, by UPMC, will be used to further their research ideas in the context Researchers at the School which is present in squamous cell the School of Medicine’s research of DoD needs. The program’s of Medicine and the University carcinoma of the head and neck on stem cell therapy for corneal Stimulus funds long-term goal is to develop of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (SCCHN) and in 95 percent of scarring. buy cyclotron the next generation of academic (UPCI) have been awarded an all head and neck cancers. The James L. Funderburgh, Radiology professor Chet scientists, engineers and math- $800,000 federal grant to develop best candidates will be tested in senior investigator and professor Mathis, director of UPMC’s PET ematicians in key disciplines who agents to inhibit a cellular signal- animal models of SCCHN. in the Department of Ophthal- facility, received a $2.7 million CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S anxiety more than a decade later, David J. Kupfer, Thomas according to a study led by School Detre professor of psychiatry and CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 of Medicine researchers in col- professor of neuroscience and will focus a significant portion of Beta cells cdk4 and cyclins D1 and D2, laboration with researchers at the clinical and translational science, their career on DoD and national replicated so standard rodent studies of University of Wisconsin School was among the study co-authors. security issues. beta replication might have led of Medicine and Public Health. School of Medicine research- Their findings were published Selected researchers receive ers have found a single stimula- scientists to pursue the wrong NSF aids PSC grants of approximately $300,000 molecules in their quest to stimu- recently in Psychiatry Research. tory molecule can induce human Certain psychiatric symptoms, computing to develop and validate their insulin-producing beta cells to late human beta cell replication, system research ideas over a period of Stewart noted. particularly related to depression replicate for at least four weeks and anxiety, are associated with purchase two years. YFA recipients also in a mouse model of diabetes. He and his colleagues continue participate in military base visits to explore many other regulatory dysfunction of the 24-hour bio- The National Science Foun- Their work appeared in Diabetes, logical clock, also known as the dation (NSF) has granted $2.8 or exercises that provide them with a journal of the American Diabetes proteins that could play a role in first-hand perspectives of current encouraging or thwarting beta cell circadian system. million toward the Pittsburgh Association. In this study, the research Supercomputing Center (PSC)’s issues faced by DoD war fighters. They also found several cock- replication. Other Pitt authors of the paper teams followed 59 children for acquisition of a scalable, shared- tails of molecules that drive human 13 years, starting at one month memory computing system and Seniors’ fall beta cells to replicate, as well as included Fatimah Salim, Jeffrey Kleinberger, Ronnie Troxell, of age, to determine if the regu- associated disks. The SGI Altix prevention important differences between larity of their daily behaviors in UV system features extremely study funded mouse and human beta cells Karen Selk, Edward Cherok, Karen K. Takane and Donald infancy could predict depression large, coherent shared-memory A $1.5 million grant from that could influence how these and anxiety symptoms when the and opens a new computational the Centers for Disease Control approaches are best used to treat K. Scott, all of the Department of Medicine’s Division of Endo- children were older. capability for U.S. scientists and and Prevention to the Graduate diabetes. To measure lifestyle routines engineers. School of Public Health (GSPH) Senior author Andrew F. crinology and Metabolism. The research was funded by and sleep regularity in babies, the The Altix UV system will have will explore the effectiveness Stewart, a faculty member in researchers created a diary tool 4,096 cores, in 512 eight-core Intel of programs to prevent falls in medicine and chief of the Division grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and that parents used to document Xeon (Nehalem) processors, with seniors, which occur in more than of Endocrinology and Metabo- very young babies’ routines a 32 terabytes of memory, organized one-third of adults 65 and older lism, said: “Our team was the first Kidney Diseases, the Juvenile Dia- betes Research Foundation, the week at a time. In 1990 and 1991, as two connected 16-terabyte every year in the United States. to show that adult human beta cells 59 couples tracked their one- coherent shared-memory sys- Led by principal investiga- can be induced to proliferate or Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and the Pam and Scott month-old babies for two weeks, tems — making these the largest tor Steven M. Albert, faculty grow at substantial rates, which recording sleep times as well as coherent shared-memory systems member in behavioral and com- no one thought possible before. Kroh and the Don and Arleen Wagner family foundations. feeding, playing, diaper changing in the world. munity health sciences at GSPH, Now our effort has been to unravel and receiving comfort. Coherence, a feature related in collaboration with the Pennsyl- these regulatory pathways to find DoD funds Psychiatry professor Timothy to the synchrony of read-write vania Department of Aging, the the most effective strategy that will H. Monk, lead co-author of the operations by different processors two-year grant will compare two allow us to treat — and perhaps semiconductor study and director of the human within the system, is an important interventions: Healthy Steps for cure — diabetes by making new research chronobiology research pro- feature in many large data-analysis Older Adults, an education-only insulin-producing cells.” Physics professor Jeremy gram at the School of Medicine, tasks. program, and Healthy Steps in Endocrinology faculty member Levy is among the 32 recipients said: “We found that a baby’s daily PSC will integrate the new Motion, an education-plus- and study lead author Nathalie M. sharing a total of $227 million in routine and sleep patterns at one system into the TeraGrid, the NSF exercise program. Participants Fiaschi-Taesch and the team dis- Department of Defense (DoD) month were predictive of the program of comprehensive cyber- will be assigned randomly to the covered that combining elevated research awards over five years. amount of anxiety shown more infrastructure, greatly increasing programs. amounts of the regulatory mol- Levy’s five-year, $7.5 million than 10 years later while the child the capability available for U.S. “Falls are the leading cause of ecules cdk4 or cdk6 with a variety grant is for a superconducting was attending school, but we did science and engineering research. death from injury among older of D-cyclin proteins, particularly semiconductor project, “Quan- not find a significant correlation In a joint statement, PSC sci- adults, and yet we know little about cyclin D3, stimulates human beta tum Preservation, Simulation with depression. entific directors Michael Levine, how prevention programs work in cell replication in test tubes. & Transfer in Oxide Nano- “For many years, experts have of Carnegie Mellon and Ralph the real world,” said Albert. “This Cyclin D2 is present in and structures,” to be undertaken believed that regularity in an Roskies of Pitt said: “Because of study will give us needed guidance essential for rodent beta cell rep- in conjunction with researchers individual’s daily lifestyle might the extraordinary memory size on how we can prevent such falls, lication and function, but the team at the University of California- be associated with better mental and relative ease of program- which result in billions of dollars showed that molecule is barely Santa Barbara, the University of health,” noted Monk. “By being ming made possible by the Altix in health care costs.” detectable in human cells, and beta Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell and able to follow these children from UV shared-memory structure, The study will enroll 750 cell replication could be sustained Michigan State. birth to the 9th grade, we can show scientists and engineers will be seniors in each arm of the trial as for at least four weeks in a model Levy will lead the team in that greater regularity, even in very able to solve problems that were well as 300 Latino seniors, who in which mice were transplanted combining the properties of semi- early life, can be associated with heretofore intractable. For many represent an aging U.S. popula- with human beta cells engineered conductors such as those used to less school-age anxiety later on.” research communities — includ- tion. Lay service providers will be to overproduce cdk6. make computer processors and The researchers suggest that ing data analysis and many areas trained to identify people at risk Blood sugar normalized in superconductors, which allow greater regularity in daily activi- of computer science — it will open of falling and make referrals for the diabetic mice transplanted for the perfect flow of electric- ties may increase the predictability the door to use of high-perfor- home safety assessments. with small numbers of human ity, into a single material suitable of an infant’s demands, leading mance computation and thereby The study was funded through beta cells, indicating that the cells for the development of quantum to enhanced parental perception expand the abilities of scientists to the CDC’s prevention research functioned properly to produce computers. of the baby’s cues and increased ask and answer questions.” program under the 2009 Recovery needed insulin. The team will use these super- parental confidence in meeting In computer terms, “shared Act for comparative effectiveness Mice don’t appear to make conducting semiconductors to the infant’s needs. They argue memory” means that a system’s research. cdk6 naturally, but they do have develop new types of quantum that more confident and percep- memory can be accessed directly memory, perform quantum simu- tive parenting, in turn, supports from all of its processors, as lation and create new methods for the development of an infant’s opposed to distributed memory transferring quantum information emotional regulatory capacities. (in which each processor’s memory from one medium to another. The ability to self-soothe and self- is accessed directly only by that These functions are essential regulate is an important emotional processor). Because all processors to realizing quantum computers, regulatory skill. share a single view of data, a shared which are yet to exist in any prac- Co-author Linnea R. Burk memory system is relatively easy tical form and require a precise of the University of Wisconsin to program and use. control of the laws of quantum stated, “Further, cognitive skills, Because of its shared-memory physics that has so far been dif- such as directed-attention, or the design, the new PSC system will ficult to achieve, Levy explained. ability to concentrate, also are complement other NSF systems, The awards are the result of the likely involved in emotion regu- most of which are based on dis- fiscal 2010 competition conducted lation. These attention-directed tributed-memory architectures. by the Army Research Office, the processes may help to adjust The 4,096 processor cores and Office of Naval Research and emotional arousal and aid children 32 terabytes of shared memory the Air Force Office of Scientific in managing overt behavior when are interconnected using SGI’s Research under the DoD multi- emotions are less well regulated next-generation high-bandwidth, disciplinary university research by other means. low-latency NUMAlink 5 inter- initiative program. “Children with a well-devel- connect. This interconnect has According to the DoD, based oped ability to direct attention in a specialized features that enable on the proposals selected in fiscal variety of situations likely use less scalable shared-memory or mes- 2010, a total of 67 academic insti- cognitive effort, and therefore may sage-passing applications to run tutions are expected to participate have more cognitive resources with higher levels of parallel in the 32 research efforts. available to aid in regulatory efficiency so that researchers processes.” can assign more processor cores Lack of infant The study supports the poten- simultaneously to the same task. routine predicts tial importance of the circadian This allows researchers to address later anxiety system and its development in larger problems and solve them Infants with irregular pat- the life of the child, and possibly more quickly. terns of sleeping, eating and suggests a genetic basis that the Production use of the system playing were significantly more researchers will explore in future will begin in TeraGrid’s October likely to experience symptoms of work. 2010 allocation cycle. n

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Merrill J. Egorin Internationally known cancer until 1998. marrow. He underwent a stem and the pharmacology of drugs. researcher Merrill J. Egorin, pro- He was recruited to UPCI in cell transplant as well as chemo- You won’t see an expert like him fessor of medicine and pharma- 1998 to lead its clinical and pre- therapy. anytime soon.” cology at the School of Medicine clinical pharmacology activities UPCI director Nancy E. Egorin’s professional affilia- and co-leader of the molecular while serving as the director of Davidson said Egorin made him- tions included a fellowship in the therapeutics/drug discovery pro- UPCI’s Pharmacology Analytical self a case study for his students American College of Physicians gram at the University of Pitts- Facility. and colleagues, teaching them and membership in the American burgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), Egorin’s research focused about the effects of cancer from Association for Cancer Research, died Aug. 7, 2010, of multiple on the pharmacology of cancer the patient’s point of view. the American Society for Clinical myeloma. He was 62. drugs, particularly on the ratio- “Merrill was a really special Oncology, the American Society A native of Baltimore, Egorin nal development and application person who had a passion and for Clinical Pharmacology and received his medical degree and of antineoplastic agents, which enthusiasm for everything he did,” Therapeutics and the American training in internal medicine from are used in chemotherapy to kill said Davidson, who knew Egorin Society for Pharmacology and Johns Hopkins University School cancer cells. for more than 20 years, going back Experimental Therapeutics. of Medicine and Hospital. He served as principal investi- to their days together in Balti- He served on the editorial In the 1970s, he completed gator on a NCI-funded contract more. “He was first of all a wonder- boards of several medical journals an internship and residency at evaluating the pharmacokinetics, ful doctor. He also was a rigorous and was editor-in-chief of Cancer Hopkins and a clinical fellowship metabolism and pharmacodynam- and meticulous researcher and Chemotherapy and Pharmacol- in oncology and pharmacology at ics of antitumor agents being a very gifted mentor who gave ogy. He authored or co-authored the Baltimore Cancer Research considered for clinical trials and cal Research Award from the freely of his time to provide the numerous book chapters and more Center, then part of the National was the co-principal investigator American Association for Cancer best training. He did all that long than 175 journal articles. Cancer Institute (NCI). of an NCI-funded cooperative Research for his work in develop- before he unfortunately became a Egorin is survived by his In 1981, he became a staff agreement for conducting studies ing and refining the clinical use cancer patient himself. wife, Karen Kantor Egorin; his physician at the University of at UPCI. of a broad spectrum of cancer “It’s a very difficult position to children, Melanie Anne Egorin Maryland Medical Center, where Egorin was well-recognized chemotherapy agents. be a doctor, a researcher, a mentor and Noah Egorin; his sister, Sara he rose to the position of professor for his work. In 2003, he received In 2009, he received the Ameri- and a patient all at once, but Mer- Egorin-Hooper, and four grand- of medicine, pharmacology and the Elliott Osserman Award for can Society of Clinical Oncology rill handled it all extremely well. children. experimental therapeutics and Distinguished Service in Support Translational Research Profes- He not only talked the talk but he Contributions in his memory oncology. Egorin was a founder of Cancer Research from the Israel sorship for his work in improving walked the walk,” Davidson said. may be sent to the University of of the University of Maryland’s Cancer Research Fund for his cancer treatments and supporting She added that Egorin was Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Fund Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum years of service on the organiza- the next generation of researchers. among the world’s best known for Support of Summer Student Cancer Center and headed that tion’s scientific review panel. Egorin was diagnosed in 2005 cancer researchers. “He really Research, 5150 Centre Ave., Suite university’s Division of Develop- In 2006, Egorin received with multiple myeloma, a type of was an incredible resource for 500, Pittsburgh 15232. mental Therapeutics from 1982 the Joseph H. Burchenal Clini- blood cancer that occurs in bone cancer drugs, cancer treatment —Peter Hart n Bruce Dobler Former English faculty While in Pittsburgh he was Along with his love for being kind recalled, adding that Dobler’s member Bruce Dobler, a mentor a contributing editor for several part of a writing community, health at times kept him from the to many aspiring writers in Pitt’s publications, including Pittsburgh Dobler loved teaching. “He felt classroom and prevented him from creative nonfiction writing pro- Magazine. He also wrote for local quite honored being a professor. teaching with as much energy as gram, has died. He was 71. newspapers. He took it seriously,” Laskas said. he would have liked. Dobler’s body was found by his His writing led to his marriage She noted that Dobler launched Dobler continued to nurture wife in the garage of his El Paso in 2008 to Julieta Barrera of El a reading series at Hemingway’s other writers after his retirement home on Aug. 15, 2010. The cause Paso, who had been his student Café, providing students with a as a participant in Gutkind’s and date of death remain unde- at UTEP. The two reconnected venue in which to present their Creative Nonfiction mentoring termined pending the release of after she spotted his byline on a writing. “It was so exciting to have program. an autopsy report by the El Paso newspaper restaurant review while a place to go,” she recalled. “The literary community lost medical examiner’s office, which is visiting Pittsburgh. Former student Kathleen Tarr a passionate and devoted com- awaiting toxicology report results. Mullen said she and her father also remembered Dobler as a rade,” said Tarr, who studied with Dobler joined the Pitt faculty shared a curious nature, recalling stalwart champion of his students’ Dobler, Gutkind and Laskas as in 1979 and retired from the how they easily could be distracted work. “He was a complex char- an MFA student at Pitt, 2002-05. University in 2008. As a senior when something interesting acter. He stood by his students. Tarr, program coordinator for the Fulbright lecturer in 1992-93, caught their attention. They That much is indisputable,” she University of Alaska Anchorage’s he taught writing and literature weren’t shy about investigating, said, adding that he had a gift for low-residency MFA in creative courses at the University of at times even following ambu- helping young writers develop writing program, maintained Freiburg, Germany. lances in their car to satisfy their their inner voice and talent. contact with Dobler. The two In 2003, Dobler won a Col- curiosity. Dobler likewise wasn’t Along with teaching the funda- regularly exchanged information lege of General Studies Students shy about approaching people in mentals and mechanics of writing, about their writing. Choice Award for Teaching Excel- conversation, Mullen said, adding Dobler urged his students to be “I’m still reeling from the loss,” lence, an honor he treasured. The that he took a genuine interest with students in creative nonfic- great listeners and to pay attention she said, admitting that although award remained in a prominent in listening to other people and tion, he was the most positive. He to the poetry of language. “He Dobler had longstanding health place on his dresser, his daughter their stories. “The conversations always assured students. He always was almost more of a poet than a problems, his sudden death was Lisa Mullen said. weren’t one-sided.” encouraged students,” Gutkind straight nonfiction writer,” Tarr unexpected. “It’s like having one Dobler held a bachelor’s degree Dobler was fond of bears and said. “He liked students so much said, adding that he encouraged of your limbs amputated, losing in English from Roosevelt Uni- had a collection that included a and was so happy they were in his creative nonfiction students one of your mentors.” versity and a master of fine arts stuffed real bear cub he found in the program he had a reluctance to read across genres and embrace In addition to his wife and degree from the University of an antique store. “Bernie,” who or difficulty leveling criticism.” poetry and fiction while also intro- daughter, Dobler is survived by Iowa’s prestigious Iowa Writers’ accompanied Dobler through Dobler’s support for his stu- ducing them to literary greats in daughter Stephanie Cerra and Workshop. After earning his MFA, moves to several new homes, now dents’ writing was deeply appre- contemporary nonfiction. grandsons Griffin and Cade he became writer-in-residence at stands guard over Dobler’s ashes ciated by young, unsure writers Dobler’s retirement in 2008 Mullen. He was predeceased Phillips Exeter Academy, then in El Paso, Mullen said. in whose work he always found followed a period of ups and downs in 2004 by his former wife and taught at Windham College, the Former colleagues and stu- something worth pursuing, said over the course of a long-term mother of his daughters, poet University of Arizona and the Uni- dents remember Dobler as easy- former student Jeanne Marie fight with cancer. “The last five Patricia Dobler. versity of Texas-El Paso (UTEP). going, eccentric, passionate Laskas, whose life intersected with years, things were difficult,” Gut- —Kimberly K. Barlow n During the 1970s he published and above all, protective of his Dobler’s first as an MFA student three books: “I Made it Myself,” students. and later as a fellow Pitt English the biography of a New York He loved jazz music and swing department faculty member. UPMC wins Patriotic Employer Award printer-turned-counterfeiter; dancing and had a passion for “If he liked your work, he really The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard “Icepick,” a documentary novel set Germany and all things German, liked it. If he didn’t, he was just and Reserve last month presented UPMC with the Patriotic in a maximum security prison, and having taught and visited there on very quiet,” she said, adding that Employer Award for contributing to national security and sup- “The Last Rush North,” a docu- multiple occasions. while perceptive students might porting employee participation in America’s National Guard and mentary novel about the building Early in his Pitt career, Dobler have read between the lines of Reserve Force. of the trans-Alaska pipeline. could be found in front of the his silence, Dobler “would never UPMC was recognized particularly for supporting its employ- At the time of his death, classroom on roller skates, often be cruel to a student about their ees who are active service members. Since 2002, its enhanced Dobler was completing a creative without socks. “That may have writing.” military leave policy has aided UPMC employees in the military nonfiction textbook for publisher amused some colleagues, but not As a teacher, Laskas has kept and is designed to benefit employees who are called to active duty. Palgrave Macmillan, Mullen said. the Shakespeareans,” quipped Dobler’s gentle approach in mind. Eligible employees are paid the difference between their military He also had written several drafts former writing program colleague “In front of the classroom I defi- pay and UPMC base wage to a maximum payment of $5,000 per of “Vacant Lots,” a memoir based Lee Gutkind, who recalled Dobler nitely would think of his care and month for up to five years of active duty service. In the last five on his childhood in Chicago, an as a friendly and humorous pres- his respect for student writing,” years, UPMC provided more than $1.5 million in enhanced pay idea Mullen said he had been ence in the English department. she said. “That was my model to employees under this policy. n pursuing since the 1970s. “Of all the people who dealt for being careful and respectful.”

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