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If you need information about Provost Patricia Beeson outlines Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods, Pitt’s efforts to assess student learning...... 2 UCSUR’s Bob Gradeck is your guy. See pages 8 & 9. U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES VOLUME 43 • NUMBER 16 APRIL 14, 2011 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Pitt Day in Harrisburg About 350 Pitt students, along with alumni, faculty, staff and administrators, participated in the annual Pitt Day in Harrisburg April 5, where members of the University community lobbied leg- islators on issues important to higher education. This year, much of the lobbying focused on protesting Gov. Tom Corbett’s pro- posed 50 percent cut in Pitt’s commonwealth appropriations. Below: Chancellor Mark Nordenberg, left, chats with Jack D. Smith, president of the Pitt Alumni Association and a member of the Pitt- Greensburg Advisory Board, and Pitt-Greensburg President Sharon Smith. At right: State Senate Democratic leader Jay Costa (D-43), who also is a Pitt trustee, addressed the Pitt contingent. Photos by Mike Drazdzinski/CIDDE Chancellor’s FY10 compensation is 30th among publics hancellor Mark A. Norden- in any given year is not necessar- According to the Chronicle value of the chancellor’s residence, total compensation. His total cost berg ranked 30th nationally ily the same as the dollar payout survey, Nordenberg ranked No. use of a car or membership dues, of employment was $1,818,911. Cin total compensation for he or she receives that year,” the 54 nationally in total cost of information that was provided to Both figures include Gee’s base public university chief executive publication stated. employment. But these rank- the Chronicle by some universities pay of $802,125, which also was officers in 2009-10, according to In addition to publishing the ings are less reliable because but not by others. the highest in the nation among a survey released April 3 by The total compensation figure for each some institutions provide costs The survey reported that the public university CEOs. Chronicle of Higher Education. university leader, which it defined for university-provided housing, median total compensation for Following Gee in terms of The Chronicle survey used as the actual dollar amounts cars and membership dues, while the 185 public college presidents highest total cost of employment data from June 30, 2009, to July received by the chief executive others did not. in 2009-10 was $375,442, and the were: Mark A. Emmert, formerly 1, 2010, for 185 four-year public that year for base salary, bonuses Nordenberg’s total cost of median total cost of employment at the University of Washington, universities and systems with total and paid deferred compensa- employment was $524,752. That was $440,487. $905,004; Francisco G. Cigarroa enrollments of at least 10,000 that tion, the Chronicle for the first figure included his $460,000 base In both the total compensation of the University of Texas System, are classified as either research time published the “total cost of salary and $64,752 in retirement and total cost of employment cat- $813,892, and John C. Hitt, universities or doctoral/research employment.” It defined total cost pay, but excluded the retention egories, E. Gordon Gee, president University of Central Florida, universities by the Carnegie Foun- of employment as what it cost the plan’s paid deferred compensation. of Ohio State University, topped $800,703. dation for the Advancement of institution and state to employ This figure also did not include the the nation, earning $1,323,911 in CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Teaching, as well as the university a president, including base pay; systems associated with them. bonuses; deferred compensation (A separate survey on com- set aside but not yet paid; retire- AAUP: For 2nd year in a row, pensation for private institutions’ ment contributions made on chief executives was published by behalf of the chief executive to the Chronicle last fall.) standard retirement plans, and Nordenberg’s $535,000 total provisions such as housing/car faculty pay loses out to inflation compensation package for 2009- allowances and club dues when or the second consecutive years, average faculty salaries presidential salaries rose 11.5 10 included $460,000 in base schools specified dollar amounts year, overall average salaries lost ground against inflation, the percent between 2007 and 2010 salary and $75,000 in paid deferred for those provisions. Ffor full-time faculty failed to report showed. while full-time faculty averaged a compensation, under a Board of Total cost of employment keep up with inflation, according Continuing faculty fared better 5.4 percent increase in the same Trustees’ retention incentive plan figures exclude any deferred to a new American Association of in the latest analysis. Their aver- time period. The gap was even that paid the chancellor $75,000 compensation paid in the 2009- University Professors’ (AAUP) age 2.5 percent increase in salary wider at the 289 private institu- for remaining in his position until 10 year. The Chronicle said that report on pay at more than 1,300 enabled them to gain some ground tions that provided data for the July 1, 2010. since deferred compensation institutions nationwide. against inflation, the AAUP report AAUP report. Private schools’ Nordenberg’s 2009-10 base sometimes is paid out at a later Average faculty salaries gained said. presidential salaries rose an aver- pay of $460,000 ranked 37th date, it excluded payouts from 1.4 percent in 2010-11 but an The report also compared the age of 14.4 percent from 2007 to highest nationally among public this category to avoid double- inflation rate of 1.5 percent left average salary increase for uni- 2010 while full-time faculty at institutions’ leaders. counting. their actual buying power in the versity presidents and found that those schools saw an average pay For the first time in its annual “Thus, data for 2009-10 are negative, according to the AAUP’s presidents of public institutions increase of 5.7 percent. survey, the Chronicle calculated not comparable with data in previ- Annual Report on the Economic received raises that far outstripped “Such a disproportionate public university presidential ous Chronicle surveys of public- Status of the Profession, 2010–11. the average faculty raise. increase in compensation for a earnings two ways “to show that college leaders’ pay,” according to The trend has a lengthening In an analysis of 389 public single individual is an indication of what a president costs a university the publication. history: In five of the past seven institutions, the AAUP found CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

1 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES Provost discusses Pitt efforts Pitt neuroscience major wins Goldwater scholarship to evaluate student learning Wen Xu, a Pitt junior major- rovost Patricia Beeson iting evaluation by the Middle posed extensive public recording ing in neuroscience, is among 275 undergraduates nationwide who outlined her office’s efforts States Commission every 10 years; requirements on everything from Pto assess student learning the current evaluation is expected the cost of attendance to the value- were awarded scholarships by the for Faculty Assembly last week. to run through fall 2012. added of the institution. That was Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship At the February Assem- In its self-study, Pitt has chosen going to be measured by student and Excellence in Education bly meeting, Senate President the theme “Using a University- improvement on some sort of Foundation for the 2011-12 Michael Pinsky had called for a wide Culture of Assessment nationalized standardized test,” academic year. Xu, of McCand- review of evaluation processes that for Continuous Improvement,” she said. less Township, is the 35th Pitt look at whether Pitt is meeting its which includes major components On the face of it, that may have student to have won a Goldwater educational goals. (See March 3 on assessment of the student expe- seemed like a good idea, but in scholarship since 1995. University Times.) rience, assessment of institutional fact it is not, Beeson maintained, Xu conducts research in Pitt’s That issue dovetails nicely with effectiveness and demonstration because a standardized test does Stem Cell Research Center the University’s current efforts of compliance with Middle States not take into account different under the guidance of Yong Li, directed toward reaccredita- standards. institutional missions. In addition, a faculty member in the depart- tion, according to Beeson, who (For a detailed overview of Pitt’s the value-added component for ments of orthopaedic surgery, reported at the April 5 Assembly Middle States reaccreditation process attending a particular institution pathology and bioengineering Wen Xu meeting, speaking on “Assessing and methodology, see Sept. 30 Uni- is flawed when the starting point and the McGowan Institute for Student Learning and Reaccredi- versity Times.) for entering freshmen is already Regenerative Medicine. Xu’s prestigious national scholar- tation 2012.” “This is very much related at a high level of achievement, as project aims to assist functional ship competitions that involve Pitt is in the midst of a two- to this topic of how do we assess is the case with a large majority skeletal muscle recovery after the very best students from the plus-year process of self-evalua- the quality of our programs, and of Pitt’s entering freshmen; there injury through the use of growth country’s finest universities,” he tion to meet the requirements of how do we assess them in a way is little room to improve on the factor-derived stem cells. said in a prepared statement. the Middle States Commission on that allows us to continue to same standardized test taken as a Xu plans to attend medical According to the foundation, Higher Education, the accrediting develop and improve upon those graduating senior, she said. school, then complete a residency the scholarship program honor- arm of the Middle States Associa- programs?” Beeson said. In contrast, the guiding prin- in neurology and earn a PhD in ing Sen. Barry M. Goldwater was tion of Colleges and Schools. The “Our process of assessing stu- ciples of Pitt’s efforts are that neuroscience. As a translational designed to foster and encourage University undergoes a reaccred- dent learning is really the most student assessment be faculty- researcher, she hopes to find outstanding students to pursue recent evolution of an ongoing driven, comprehensive, applied in a viable treatment method for careers in the fields of math- process” that dates back many a meaningful way to programmatic patients with peripheral nerve ematics, the natural sciences and years, she said. and curricular improvement and damage. engineering. COI forms “For decades we’ve had pro- be sustainable, that is, embedded David Wen Rui Wang, a This year’s Goldwater schol- cesses of program evaluations, in the annual planning process, Pitt junior from Mt. Lebanon ars — 170 men and 105 women due April 15 where we do self-studies and we she said. Pitt’s internal guidelines who is majoring in chemistry — were chosen on the basis of evaluate the ‘inputs’ of the knowl- now include the requirement that and applied mathematics with academic merit from a field of Pitt conflict of interest edge production process,” Beeson every program and school at every minors in physics and economics, 1,095 mathematics, science and (COI) disclosure forms must explained. “We look at the quality Pitt campus must submit a student received an honorable mention engineering students nominated be filed by April 15. Informa- of the faculty, we examine the learning assessment report every from the Goldwater scholarship by their schools’ faculty. Two tion on who must file, how to curriculum, we look at the facili- year, she noted. committee. Wang conducts com- dozen are math majors, 194 are file and a guide for supervisors ties, we look at other aspects of “We believe that the question putational biophysics research majoring in science or related is available at www.coi.pitt. the academic program. We often of assessing student learning is under the direction of chemistry majors, 52 are engineering edu/directive.htm. bring in outside evaluators to help most appropriately examined by faculty member Lillian Chong. majors and five are computer COI disclosures must be us understand how our programs the departments and the programs Among Wang’s research goals is science majors. Many have dual filed through the Superform compare to the standards of that at individual institutions,” Beeson the simulation of protein folding majors. system (https://coi.hs.pitt. particular discipline.” said. that will offer insight into engi- The one- and two-year schol- edu). Users requiring assis- Those processes also tradition- “It’s the faculty that have both neering novel biomolecules with arships, awarded to sophomores tance should click on the log-in ally included measuring “outputs,” the knowledge of the subject and therapeutic applications. and juniors, cover tuition, fees, page link or call 412/648-2222. such as student placement after the regular contact with students, Chancellor Mark A. Norden- books and room and board for The Superform web site graduation, retention and gradu- so they’re in the best position to berg congratulated the students the remaining period of recipi- should be used only to fulfill ation rates and student satisfac- explore success and concerns. for their achievement. “The ents’ study, up to a maximum of Pitt COI disclosure require- tion as measured by a number of Equally, it’s the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh has an $7,500 per year. Institutions can ments, not UPMC or Univer- surveys, she noted. individual institutions that can use extraordinary record of provid- nominate up to four students for sity of Pittsburgh Physicians It’s only in the last 10-15 years that information to improve their ing an academic environment the Goldwater scholarship. requirements. that student assessments included curriculum,” she said. in which hard-working, high- Since 1989, more than 6,600 Management reporting using information about what the “Our approach to assessing achieving students can develop scholarships worth approxi- forms and annual data sum- students learned to inform the student learning is based on the their talents, as is demonstrated mately $50 million have been mary reports from supervisors evaluation of a program and its belief that the local level is the by our enviable successes in awarded. n are due to the provost or senior curriculum. right place to determine what vice chancellor for Health “For example, many of the first students should learn and assess Sciences May 16. n professional degree programs — whether or not they’re learning L E T T E R S law, business, medicine, dental it. And finally, we use the results Write to the governor medicine — started to look more of those assessments to improve carefully at the outcomes of their the academic program and to To the editor: professions and vocations Pitt will licensure exams,” Beeson said. make sure that the programs are I had the extreme pleasure and have prepared them to pursue, all “Around 2006 and into 2007, constantly keeping current on highly satisfying reward of watch- of which bodes ill for Pennsylvania U N I V E R S I T Y the Council of Deans decided it what students need to know in ing April 3’s KDKA/Pittsburgh and beyond. would be important to establish that particular discipline if they’re Post-Gazette TV program fea- Hence, I urgently recommend TIMES guidelines regarding our institu- going to be successful after they turing Chancellor Nordenberg’s that my faculty and staff colleagues EDITOR tional expectations concerning the graduate.” stalwart, clear-cut and persuasive write to the governor (215 Main N. J. Brown 412/624-1373 assessment of student learning. (For a related story on Pitt’s stu- opposition to the cuts in Pitt’s Capitol Building, Harrisburg PA [email protected] While the timing was good for dent assessment strategies, see Feb. state appropriation advocated 17120 or to www.governor.state. WRITERS us institutionally because we were 21, 2008, University Times.) recklessly and ill-advisedly by PA.US) registering their strong q Kimberly K. Barlow 412/624-1379 already moving in that direction, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. opposition to this draconian [email protected] it was also a good time for us in In other Assembly business: Such a drastically — and irrespon- budget-slashing proposed by the terms of the national conversa- • Pinsky announced that the sibly — reduced Pitt appropriation governor. Peter Hart 412/624-1374 tions that were going on and the sustainability subcommittee, part by the commonwealth certainly [email protected] resulting requirements for our of the Senate plant and utilization would shortchange our students’ Robert Perloff BUSINESS MANAGER reaccreditation,” Beeson told committee, is sponsoring a pre- apparatus needed to become Distinguished Service Barbara DelRaso 412/624-4644 Faculty Assembly. sentation on Pitt’s sustainability informed and aggressive citizens Professor Emeritus [email protected] At about the same time, efforts, led by Joseph Fink, asso- and leaders and for their success- Business Administration Events Calendar: [email protected] Beeson, said, the federal Depart- ciate vice chancellor for Facilities ful and productive careers in the and Psychology The University Times is published bi-weekly on Thursdays by the University of Pittsburgh. ment of Education was proposing Management, at 3 p.m. April 20 Send correspondence to University Times, national standards for higher in 4127 Sennott Square. 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“point to possibilities that warrant Research is continuing to further investigation,” although determine optimal intake levels. conflicting results “do not offer While Rajakumar said he finds the the evidence needed to confirm new higher IOM recommenda- that vitamin D has these effects.” tion a positive move, it still needs “There’s a lot of interest in to be shown that 600 IU is suffi- looking at the non-skeletal issues,” cient, especially for dark-skinned Cauley said, citing as an example a children living in the north. “I new study by the National Cancer think that there needs to be more Institute and the National Heart, work in that area,” he said. Lung and Blood Institute that Rajakumar stressed the impor- seeks to determine whether taking tance of preventing and treating 2,000 IUs of vitamin D daily can childhood vitamin D insufficiency prevent cardiac events and cancer. in order to prevent osteoporosis “There’s lots of interest- later in life. ON ing research, on immunity, for In addition to vitamin D’s example,” Cauley said, citing early benefits to bone health, which 20th-century sanitariums where are related to its ability to help tuberculosis patients’ treatment the body absorb calcium, vita- included exposure to fresh air min D receptors are expressed and sunlight. “Did the resulting in a variety of tissues including vitamin D that was produced help? immune, vascular, pancreatic and “There’s a lot of biology sup- brain cells, Rajakumar said, adding porting extra-skeletal benefits, that optimizing vitamin D levels but the literature is not there yet,” can make local changes within HEALTH Cauley said. “But promising data those cells. He noted that there suggest that might be the case.” are indications that vitamin D can She noted as well that there CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 is additional research currently under review that suggests opti- Who may be at risk of mal vitamin D levels might differ by race. vitamin D deficiency? For more than a decade Pitt • Breastfed infants pediatrics professor Kumaravel Human milk ordinarily does Rajakumar has been research- not meet babies’ vitamin D ing vitamin D with an emphasis requirements, so it is recom- on its role in minority health mended that breastfed infants disparities in children. His work receive supplements of 400 IU of also was among the studies IOM vitamin D each day. However, the considered in making its recom- amount of vitamin D in milk is mendation. related to the mother’s own levels, One of Rajakumar’s earlier so women who take high doses of Pitt experts examine the issues studies, involving 41 healthy local vitamin D may have high amounts African-American children ages of vitamin D in their breast milk. 6-10, researched the effects of • Older adults Increasingly, studies have shown, people are seeking health-related information. A supplementing their daily diets Older adults are at increased recent Pew Internet study found that 80 percent of Americans with Internet access with 400 IUs of vitamin D for a risk for several reasons. As people month. age, skin synthesizes vitamin D turn to the web for answers to their medical and health questions. He found that 49 percent But three-quarters of consumers fail to check how reliable and how current that less efficiently. Additionally, older of the children had insufficient people tend to spend more time information is, the study revealed. blood levels of vitamin D at the indoors and may have inadequate In an effort to detangle some of the overload of health information that is out there, start of the study. Although the intakes of the vitamin. this occasional University Times series, On Health, is turning to Pitt experts for cur- supplements increased the level • People with limited sun of the vitamin in the children’s rent — and reliable — information on some of today’s major health-related topics. exposure blood, 18 percent continued to People who are homebound have insufficient vitamin D levels or whose occupations prevent recent report that IUs for children 4-8 and 4,000 IUs cient and those who say it’s 30. The at the end of the month. sun exposure are at risk, as are increased the recom- per day for everyone else. IOM suggests that the majority of “We’re all capable of making women who wear long robes A mended dietary intake The IOM determination has risks are in individuals with blood vitamin D in the skin,” Rajakumar and head coverings for religious levels for vitamin D, coupled been controversial. Some doctors levels of less than 20.” said. But darker-skinned individu- reasons. Sunscreen use also may with research that hints at a wide criticized as too low the IOM’s Cauley said her observa- als are at greater risk of failing play a role, although many people range of benefits, has put the so- finding that blood levels of 20 tional studies on the relationship to get enough vitamin D. “Skin don’t use enough sunscreen, so called “sunshine vitamin” into the nanograms per milliliter (ng/ between vitamin D levels and color makes a difference,” he said. the impact remains unclear. spotlight. ml) of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, or fractures in older men and women “Melanin is a natural sunscreen • People with dark skin Vitamin D is needed for bone 25(OH)D, indicate sufficient found no increased risk of hip frac- and a black kid may need six-10 The skin pigment melanin, growth and strength. The vitamin vitamin D. Among them, a pair of tures until blood levels were less times the exposure that a lighter- which in high levels creates darker helps the body absorb calcium and Harvard public health researchers than 20. “These data support the skinned child might need to make skin, cuts the skin’s ability to make is important in protecting against took the IOM recommendation to IOM recommendation,” she said. the same amount of D.” vitamin D from sun exposure. rickets and osteoporosis. Accord- task, citing an earlier International q Geography and the time of the • People with fat malabsorp- ing to the National Institutes of Osteoporosis Foundation recom- Critics also noted that the year matter as well. tion Health, the vitamin also modulates mendation of approximately 30 IOM’s recommendations don’t In another observational study Fat malabsorption (associated cell growth and plays a role in neu- ng/ml for optimal fall and fracture take into account the vitamin’s assessing vitamin D levels in local with some forms of liver dis- romuscular and immune function reduction and intake of 800-1,000 other potential benefits. However, children, Rajakumar took into ease, cystic fibrosis and Crohn’s and in reducing inflammation. IUs for people age 60 and older. the IOM defended its narrower account season, race and diet. disease) could put some people Last fall, the Institute of Pitt epidemiology faculty recommendation, stating that While most kids were meeting at risk because vitamin D, as a Medicine (IOM), the health arm member Jane Cauley, whose its committee found conflicting the 400 IU recommendation as a fat-soluble vitamin, needs some of the National Academy of Sci- research was included in the results among the hundreds of mean of the cohort, “a significant dietary fat for absorption. ences, issued a report saying that literature the IOM considered in studies it reviewed on other pos- proportion were insufficient,” • People who are obese most people need no more than developing the new guidelines, sible health benefits. Rajakumar said, adding that blood A body mass index of 30 or 600 international units (IUs) of said she wasn’t surprised that some While the report stopped levels of vitamin D were lower in above is associated with lower vitamin D daily for bone health, colleagues thought the IOM’s short of touting vitamin D as winter. serum 25(OH)D levels and obese although people 71 and older may guidelines were too low. “Those beneficial in protecting against He explained that the ultravio- people may need greater intakes need 800 IUs. guidelines emphasized skeletal cancer, heart disease, autoim- let wavelength in sunlight that the of vitamin D to reach blood levels The IOM also determined an health over other benefits,” she mune diseases and diabetes, the body needs in order to produce comparable to non-obese indi- upper safe boundary of 2,500 IUs said. “So there’s disagreement IOM committee acknowledged vitamin D is very narrow, and is viduals. Greater amounts of fat daily for children ages 1-3; 3,000 between those who say 20 is defi- that studies on these outcomes more available in summer than beneath the skin alter the release it is in the winter when the sun’s of vitamin D into the circulation. rays are more oblique. Above • People who have had gastric 35 degrees latitude (Pittsburgh bypass surgery is at approximately 40 degrees), Because part of the small intes- people are more vulnerable to tine where vitamin D is absorbed low levels of D, he said. “We can is bypassed, people who have had make enough in summer to ride this surgery may become deficient us through the winter ... but if over time. n you didn’t have enough summer Source: NIH Office of Dietary Vitamin D banking, it can’t ride you through Supplements the winter.”

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grams, up 4 percent, while first- students. owned schools conferred fewer professional (excluding medical At Pitt, the average under- total degrees: Cheyney, East school) and doctoral students fell graduate class size was unchanged Stroudsburg, Indiana, Lock 1 percent from the prior year to at 28; master’s classes averaged 18 Haven, Mansfield, Slippery Rock PA report summarizes 11,689. students, up 6 percent from the and West Chester all showed Pitt reported 16,250 FTE prior year. negative numbers, ranging from freshmen and sophomores, a fractional decreases at Mansfield costs, instructional 3 percent increase; 8,414 FTE Tuition and West Chester to a 25 percent juniors and seniors, a 4 percent Tuition for in-state undergrad- drop at Cheyney. Bloomsburg, increase; 6,151 FTE master’s uate students averaged $12,139, California, Clarion, Edinboro, output of state-owned students, a 5 percent increase, an increase of 10 percent, while Kutztown, Millersville and Ship- and 3,090 FTE first-professional out-of-state undergrads’ average pensburg all had gains. and doctoral students, a decrease tuition was $21,100, up 9 percent. Faculty salary costs at the & state-related schools of 1 percent. For in-state graduate students, state-system schools averaged State-related Pitt, Penn State, tuition averaged $14,535, up 10 $3,393 per FTE undergraduate, ecreasing the average full- for evaluating policies related to Temple and Lincoln collectively percent; for out-of state graduate up 2 percent, and $4,436 per FTE time equivalent (FTE) faculty outputs, salaries and work- conferred a total of 34,189 students, tuition was $23,933, up master’s student, representing a Dinstructional faculty salary loads, and by Pennsylvania citizens degrees, an increase of 8 per- 8 percent. fractional change. by $1,000 at the state-related and for making informed judgments cent from the prior year. That At Pitt, tuition and fees aver- Undergraduate class sizes aver- state-owned universities would about the levels and shares of costs total included 25,340 bachelor’s aged $14,154 for in-state under- aged 26, an increase of 4 percent save nearly $12 million, while related to public higher education degrees (up 9 percent from the graduate students, up 10 percent, at the state-system schools, while increasing the average class sec- in the Commonwealth.” prior year) and 8,849 graduate and $23,852, up 7 percent, for master’s classes averaged 15 stu- tion by one student would save The authors caution that the degrees (up 4 percent.) out-of-state undergrads. For dents, an increase of 7 percent. about $24 million, according to average faculty salaries in the Pitt showed a one-year increase graduate students, Pitt in-state Tuition and fees were up an analysis by the state legislature’s report are not equivalent to aver- of 68 bachelor’s degrees for a total tuition and fees averaged $17,092, an average of 9 percent for in- research agency based on 2009-10 ages reported elsewhere because of 4,956, and 163 additional gradu- up 10 percent; out-of-state grad state students, totaling $7,345 data submitted by the schools. they include only instructional fac- ate degrees for a total of 2,968. students averaged $29,384, an for undergrads and $8,377 for That computation was part of ulty salaries and not non-instruc- increase of 7 percent. graduate students. Out-of-state a 55-page report, “Instructional tional faculty salaries. In addition, Faculty salary costs students saw average increases of Output and Faculty Salary Costs the report does not provide a total Instructional faculty salary State-system schools 8 percent with tuition and fees of the State-related and State- of all instructional costs because costs per FTE undergraduate stu- The 14 state-owned schools rising to $14,288 for undergrads owned Universities,” also known non-salary expenditures are not dent fell an average of 2 percent at enrolled 64,428 FTE freshmen and $12,524 for grad students. as the Snyder report, posted online included in the university data. the state-related schools, dropping and sophomores (up 4 percent); The full report can be viewed recently by the Pennsylvania’s to $2,762. Costs were up for mas- 33,647 FTE juniors and seniors at http://jsg.legis.state.pa.us/. Joint State Government Com- State-related schools ter’s level faculty, rising 3 percent (up 3 percent); 11,008 FTE mas- The individual schools’ sub- mission (JSGC). Enrollment to $5,771 per FTE student. ter’s students (up 8 percent), and missions are posted on the state The annual report, now in its According to the report, the At Pitt, instructional faculty 959 FTE first-professional and Department of Education web 38th year, summarizes instruc- state-related schools in 2009-10 salary costs were down 7 percent doctoral students, up 2 percent. site under the heading “Snyder tional outputs, instructional had 125,968 full-time equivalent for undergraduates, falling to The 14 schools collectively Report” at www.education.state. faculty salary costs, tuition and (FTE) undergraduate students $2,685, but held steady at $5,422 conferred 23,513 degrees, a 1 pa.us/portal/server.pt/commu- state instructional appropriations enrolled, including 72,901 FTE per FTE master’s student. percent increase from the prior nity/the_snyder_report/12959. and student aid, based on data freshman and sophomore students year. The number of undergradu- The JSGC also has posted an submitted by the institutions. (an increase of 1 percent over Class sizes ate degrees conferred fell by a annual analysis of information The analysis, its authors state, is 2008-09) and 53,067 FTE juniors Undergraduate classes aver- fractional amount to 18,043, while disclosures submitted to the state intended for use “by legislators and seniors, a 4 percent increase. aged 28 students, unchanged from graduate degrees awarded rose 5 by Pitt and its fellow state-related for making appropriation deci- Graduate-level FTE students the prior year; master’s level class percent to 5,470. universities. (See story below.) sions; by university administrators totaled 12,884 in master’s pro- sizes increased 7 percent to 16 However, half of the state- —Kimberly K. Barlow n Comparing the state-relateds n accordance with Pennsylva- Lincoln: 161; average salary $97,799. Penn State: $335,414,000; 17.0 cent. nia’s public school code, the $51,215. Temple: 542; average salary percent; +10.3 percent. Contracts by vendor location Ifour state-related universities $103,514. Temple: $178,516,000; 21.5 per- and percentage of total: must submit annual reports that Other professional non-faculty Lincoln: 32; average salary cent; unchanged. With the exception of Lin- include full-time faculty/staff pay, staff, number and average salary $71,926. Lincoln: $13,623,000; 25.2 per- coln, figures provided include retirement and tuition benefit pol- Pitt: 4,373; average salary $43,162. • Assistant professor cent; unchanged. only vendor contracts exceeding icies, revenues and expenditures Penn State: 5,145; average salary Pitt: 1,676; average salary $59,707. • Grand total revenues $1,000 that used unrestricted and certain goods and services $54,457. Penn State: 1,149; average salary Pitt: $1,123,620,534; +7.6 percent. (general fund) dollars or auxiliary contracts that exceed $1,000. Temple: 1,350; average salary $90,885. Penn State: $1,977,387,770; +8.1 fund dollars. The individual schools’ docu- $53,384. Temple: 726; average salary percent. They exclude vendor contracts ments, totaling hundreds of pages, Lincoln: 19; average salary $81,993. Temple: $829,817,134; +6.5 such as those used for sponsored are posted at www.education.state. $27,888. Lincoln: 34; average salary percent. research, within restricted funds pa.us/portal/server.pt/commu- $52,271. Lincoln: $54,124,748; +7.5 per- (including some plant/construc- nity/the_snyder_report/12959. Clerical/secretarial staff, • Instructor cent. tion contracts), etc. However, the Joint State Gov- number and average salary Pitt: 274; average salary $43,066. • Total contracts reported: ernment Commission (JSGC)’s Pitt: 673; average salary $25,890. Penn State: 647; average salary Operating expenditures: Pitt: $297,477,993. “Information Disclosure of the Penn State: 2,234; average salary $50,188. amount, percentage of grand Penn State: $426,570,140. State-related Universities” report $33,258. Temple: 97; average salary total, increase from prior year: Temple: $368,460,148. boils down the data into a 69-page Temple: 617; average salary $55,818. • Instructional, salary and wages Lincoln: $29,457,007. statistical comparison. The $39,331. Lincoln: 3; average salary $53,796. Pitt: $453,392,130; 40.5 percent; • Pennsylvania vendors: authors caution that differences Lincoln: 69; average salary • Lecturer/other +0.7 percent. Pitt: $105,772,581; 35.6 percent. in the internal organizations of the $38,289. Pitt: 1,245; average salary $36,490. Penn State: $841,047,303; 46.9 Penn State: $260,356,835; 61 universities, such as differences in Penn State: 1,491; average salary percent; +1.4 percent. percent. their academic and administrative Technical, skilled and service $56,150. Temple: $378,959,466; 46.3 per- Temple: $241,037,716; 65.4 units, “make direct comparisons staff, number and average salary Temple: 46; average salary cent; +0.1 percent. percent. between the universities difficult Pitt: 1,187; average salary $33,079. $51,966. Lincoln: $25,428,005; 47.4 per- Lincoln: $15,506,608; 52.6 per- for most data elements.” Penn State: 3,590; average salary Lincoln: 11; average salary cent; +3.8 percent. cent. Pitt reported a total of 33,905 $36,550. $45,288. • Employee benefits • Out-of-state vendors full-time equivalent (FTE) stu- Temple: 903; average salary Pitt: $151,596,676; 13.6 percent; Pitt: $191,705,412; 64.4 per- dents for the 2009-10 academic $42,567. 2009-10 operating revenues +1.8 percent. cent. year; Penn State reported 79,378; Lincoln: 80; average salary (excluding auxiliary enter- Penn State: $369,095,518; 20.6 Penn State: $166,213,305; 39 Temple, 34,665, and Lincoln, $33,833. prises); amount, percentage of percent; +8.3 percent. percent. 2,593. total and percentage increase Temple: $114,983,019; 14.0 per- Temple: $127,422,431; 34.6 The following are selected Faculty by rank, number and from prior year: cent; +4.4 percent. percent. data from the most recent report, average salary • Tuition and fees Lincoln: $7,779,213;14.5 percent; Lincoln: $13,950,399; 47.4 per- which is based on 2009-10 data • Professor Pitt: $600,771,856; 53.5 percent; +7.5 percent. cent. submitted by the schools. Pitt: 922; average salary $117,623. +6.8 percent. (Penn State’s out-of-state figure Penn State: 1,214; average salary Penn State: $1,324,683,572; 67.0 Grand total expenditures: includes $11.8 million where the Executive, administrative and $136,784. percent; +7.6 percent. amount, percentage of total, vendor location was unknown; management staff, number and Temple: 567; average salary Temple: $562,617,000; 67.8 per- increase from prior year: Temple’s figure includes $3.9 mil- average salary $141,961. cent; +6.9 percent. Pitt: $1,118,743,594; +6.9 percent. lion and Lincoln’s includes $2,500 Pitt: 586; average salary $100,597. Lincoln: 29; average salary Lincoln: $29,849,890; 55.2 per- Penn State: $1,794,363,260; +3.2 to vendors in unknown locations.) Penn State: 1,089; average salary $94,088. cent; +4.3 percent. percent. q $110,637. • Associate professor • State appropriations Temple: $818,595,049; +6.2 The full report can be viewed at Temple: 1,000; average salary Pitt: 997; average salary $78,942. Pitt: $185,406,477; 16.5 percent; percent. http://jsg.legis.state.pa.us/. $81,909. Penn State: 1,134; average salary +4.2 percent. Lincoln: $53,653,569; +4.2 per- —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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tudying society through a at the grocery store; at the park zoom lens, rather than a Provost’s inaugural lecture where their kids play; at the doc- Spanoramic one, can reveal tor’s office,” Blee said. “As they social mechanisms and dispel were pulled into this world, they stereotypes that otherwise are adopted its ideas and they moved difficult to see, a Pitt expert said Studying societal details can reveal toward becoming the stereotype last week. of a Klan or Nazi member that we “Often we tend to think of have in our head.” smaller units of social life as more info missing from a broader view Thus, the stereotypical predic- simple, with complexity added tors of who will join racist groups through aggregation: Like how — the more psychologically needy, a village seems less complicated the less educated, the economi- than a nation,” said Kathleen Blee, cally unstable or the product of a Kathleen Blee recommended who spoke on “Looking Small to “looking small to see the big troubled family — simply are not See the Big Picture: Explaining picture” April 7 on the occa- true, she said. sion of her installation by Pro- Feudists, Racists and Grassroots vost Patricia Beeson as Distin- “Among those I interviewed, Activists,” in a lecture that focused guished Professor of Sociology. less than a quarter did anything to on three of Blee’s research studies. seek out a racist group themselves. Blee discussed three of her “Actually, the complexity of research projects she said shed Indeed, almost nobody entered a social life may be more visible at light on big questions of soci- group in the way we might expect a small scale and becomes increas- etal interaction. by looking for a group where they ingly obscure at more aggregated can express their beliefs. Instead, levels. Looking at the very smallest most fell into racist groups lured aspect of social life can shed light by those they met before they had on big questions of society,” said an interest in its ideas,” Blee said Blee April 7, on the occasion of her research revealed. her installation by Provost Patricia An even more surprising find- Beeson as Distinguished Professor ing, she said, is that racist activists of Sociology. don’t join groups because they’re “I would like to show that more racist than other white there really is some kind of thread people. that connects the very different “Prior to becoming active, Mary Jane Bent/CIDDE subjects, places and time periods almost all of them had a diffused I’ve studied, from Appalachian But how does 19th-century wealth and power also gave them beliefs and want to act on them, antipathy toward racial minorities, feuding families in the 19th cen- Appalachian feuding appear when the ability to orchestrate violence or at least they want to be around what sociologists call everyday tury to racist groups across the examined under the zoom lens, by others on their behalf,” by other people who hold such views. racism. But the intense, compre- United States in the 20th century “if we look ‘small,’ specifically at pressing people who were depen- “I began with the assumption hensive, action-oriented racist and now to grassroots activists in one tiny county in the mountains dent on them for protection and that people join racist groups world view is something they only Pittsburgh in the 21st century,” of eastern Kentucky?” Blee asked. survival into violent service, she because they are social outcasts. At later would adopt,” Blee said. Blee said. To answer that, she and her said. first glance, there seems to be little “Many people I interviewed team of researchers reconstructed Third, going against the reason to question this,” Blee said. — and these were hardcore racists Feudists in Appalachia the social, economic and legal common assumption that Appa- “Looking through a panoramic in the country’s most dangerous Although the late 19th century history of Clay County, Ky. lachian people turned to violent lens, virtually all racists look alike. groups — did not stand out in their was a time of widespread violence “Throughout the 19th century, means to resolve their disputes They live on the margins of soci- racism from other white people in across the United States, including Clay County was renowned to only because law enforcement and ety. To paint with a broad brush, their town or their school or their riots, mob actions, labor struggles outsiders for the supposed feroc- the legal system were impotent, they often live in trailers and family before they got involved and racial lynchings, a special ity of its population, described as “we found that the so-called feud- they hold unstable and low-skill with a group. They admit this, and stigma was attached — unjustly, a land ‘tinged with the blood of ing families were consistent and jobs. They don’t seem to interact the people who knew them before Blee believes — to the violence the innocent and blackened by intense litigators in both the civil much with anyone outside their they joined confirm it. Instead, associated with Appalachia. reasonless deeds of hate,’” she said. and criminal courts. Their vio- tiny racist world. When they talk they develop the racist and anti- The popular media of the time As The New York Times lence supplemented, rather than about their parents or siblings, it’s Semitic ideas of organized racism singled out Appalachia as a region reported, such violence was substituted for, their courtroom often with hostility.” once they started hanging out with of particular and peculiar vio- synonymous with the location. battles,” Blee said. But such explanations put the the group.” lence. The region was alternately Appalachia was viewed as a region “What difference does it make cart before the horse by using Why does it matter that we branded in the press as “one of the apart, an isolated, impoverished that outsiders misinterpreted Clay racist groups’ propaganda and know how people join racist few dark spots on the map of the and particularly violent place County’s bloody conflicts? It mat- public displays to infer why people groups? U.S.,” a region where “bloodshed and people. “So Clay County was ters because discourse is power. join them, she said. “It matters because if fairly is a pastime,” a “place where the simply a land of feuding hillbil- The construction of Appalachia “Such descriptions are often ordinary whites can be trans- sun sets crimson and the moon lies,” Blee said. as a land of feuds had a powerful taken as causal, that is, we think formed into avid racists simply by rose red,” an area summarized as But is that description accu- and profound effect far beyond it’s because people are on the social bumping into a racist recruiter in the “Corsica of America,” she said. rate? the stereotypes of the region that edge that they’re attracted to racist a place they frequent every day, we “Popular commentators across “From the small details in the linger in popular culture from Li’l groups. This fits into a larger can’t inoculate people against the the country gave Appalachian historical records, we discovered Abner to the Beverly Hillbillies,” stereotype about racial haters, lure of organized racism simply violence a name: feuding, and a much different story,” she said. Blee pointed out. that they’re social drop-outs, that by promoting the virtues of tol- provided an explanation: This is “First, rather than irrational “Depictions of the Kentucky they’re fundamentally different erance. That confuses cause and a special kind of conflict whose violence among poor hillbillies, we mountains as a violent subculture from the rest of us,” Blee said. effect,” she explained. “Rather, we roots were personal and cultural found that Clay County’s violence paved the way for later efforts However, looking through a need to develop a better under- — maybe even genetic — rather was rooted in the clash between to explain and justify the severe zoom lens shows a much differ- standing of how racist groups than political,” Blee pointed out. two immensely wealthy families, poverty into which the region sank ent — and far more disturbing operate, and to expose how they’re “For these commentators, the Garrards and the Whites. as absentee owners claimed prop- — picture, she said. able to recruit members from the Appalachia’s mountain feuds could They forged their wealth by the erty and mineral wealth. Thus, “We see that their marginality most mainstream social settings.” be traced as traditions of violence manufacture of salt, the exploita- through a small lens trained on and isolation is often the product, wrought by warlike Scots-Irish tion and marketing of clay and the the history of a handful of people rather than the cause, of their Emerging grassroots groups settlers and perpetrated by decades appropriation of massive tracts of in a fairly unremarkable place, involvement in organized racism. “In this study, we followed over of cultural and geographical land,” Blee said. the mechanisms of power that Those who join the Klan or a Nazi 60 new grassroots activist groups isolation that had shaped the Far from poor, these two fami- led to the violent transformation gang, not surprisingly, are likely in Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2007. mountaineer, in the words of one lies belie the stereotype of isolated, become more visible,” she said. to lose their jobs and to lose their Virtually all of these groups were writer, as ‘ignorant, shiftless and ignorant feudists, she said. From friends and family,” Blee said. tiny, rarely attracting a dozen possessing an awful disregard for their ranks came a governor of Organized racist groups “But many of them began in a people for meetings, although human life,’” she said. Kentucky and a speaker of the “Through a distant lens, there very different place. Indeed, most larger numbers came out for ral- Once established, the idea of U.S. House of Representatives. doesn’t seem to be all that much of the racists I interviewed had a lies,” Blee said. Appalachia as a region apart was Although the popular press to explain about people who decent education, were raised in The groups represented a wide used to explain the forms of vio- portrayed feuds as irrational participate in organized racism, reasonably stable families, were array of agendas and political lence that erupted there. Using a responses to petty conflicts, the such as in groups like the Ku Klux as likely to come from the East persuasions. Some of them were circular argument, Blee said, “To battle between the Garrards and Klan, white-power skinheads, Coast or the West Coast as from progressive; some were conserva- non-local writers, traditional, the Whites actually was a rational neo-Nazis or white supremacy the South and had held stable jobs tive. They tackled a broad range irrational forms of violence not struggle among entrepreneurs groups,” Blee said. before they joined a racist group.” of issues, including the war in only were sustained but were the during a time of increasing com- “Each of these groups expresses Thus, members didn’t join the Iraq, police brutality, guns, drugs, product of Appalachia. In contrast, petition and decline in the salt hostility toward Jews, toward all racist group because they lacked community violence, same-sex the even more violent and exten- industry, repeated national fiscal persons of color and toward non- social connection; rather, that marriage and school reform. A sive campaign of arson, terror and panic and a frenzy of speculative white immigrants. They all foresee was a consequence of joining the few of these new groups became murder by clans of tobacco farm- investment in the county’s timber, a cataclysmic race war, a final battle group, she maintained. established, but most of them col- ers in parts of western Kentucky coal, ash and mineral reserves, of Aryans-against-all, and many “What we found is that lapsed or remained fragmented, a short time later was ascribed to Blee said. of them have plans to hasten it.” they joined because they were she said. the intricacies of economics and “Second, although the fami- The common assumption befriended by racist recruiters “My interest in this study is power, not to psychology, genes lies themselves were involved in is that people join such groups whom they met in the most understanding how activist groups and place.” numerous violent incidents, their because they hold deeply racist ordinary avenues of daily life: CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Pitt also is continuing to emergency services through the battle local and regional hunger Food Bank’s network of agencies. Food drive runs through April throughout the year under the Throughout the Food Bank’s auspices of the University Senate’s service area, more than 120,000 itt’s 25th annual Partner- community relations committee individuals receive supplemental ship for Food drive is (CRC). groceries each month, including Pcollecting non-perishable Those efforts include building 37,000 children under the age of food items throughout April to a stable of volunteers for food 18, 16,000 people over 65, 17,000 help restock the shelves of the repackaging and distribution tasks laid-off or disabled individuals Greater Pittsburgh Community at the Food Bank’s Duquesne and 35,000 from households Food Bank. warehouse site; distributing with wage-earners who still aren’t In addition to on-campus col- food at pantries and shelters and making ends meet. lection sites, Pitt again is holding a directly to individuals in Brad- Overall, the Food Bank distrib- virtual food drive, where members dock, McKeesport, Homewood utes more than 1 million pounds of of the University community can and the South Side; helping to food and other products a month shop online for items that the Food harvest food at local farms, and to its 350 partner agencies. Bank needs most. Food can be doing clerical work, such as mail- Those who are in need of sup- purchased online at about half the ings, data entry, research and plemental food or know someone retail price from the Food Bank’s phone calls, for the Food Bank. who is should contact the Food suppliers and shipped directly to In addition, CRC is con- Bank at 412/460-3663 ext. 456. the Food Bank. tinuing its support for “Fourth Collection boxes for Pitt’s The online shopping link is and Staff in Service to Com- prices and delivered directly to the Thursdays,” a volunteer effort of annual food drive are available at www.pittsburghfoodbank.org/ munities program, giving them Food Bank,” he said. Pitt employees and students to the following locations: pitt. Credit cards accepted are the opportunity to click straight Items such as peanut butter, distribute food at the Food Bank William Pitt Union, 1st-floor Visa, MasterCard, Discover, through to the virtual food drive tuna and salmon, meats, baby warehouse on the fourth Thursday information desk; circulation American Express and Diners and to forward information to a formula, chunky-type soups evening of each month. The end desks at all ULS libraries; Posvar Club. Online donor shoppers also friend. and stews especially are needed. of the month is the Food Bank’s Hall main floor; Barco Law receive an email receipt that can be “Donating food through the Also welcome are dry cereal and busiest time, because that’s when School lobby and library; Starzl used for tax-deduction purposes. virtual drive is the most beneficial household items including paper monthly pay checks often run BST entrance lobby; Cathedral Donors from the regional to donors and recipients alike,” products, cleaners, soaps and out. Lenzner, Pitt’s shuttle bus of Learning ground floor; Parran campuses may designate a food said Steve Zupcic, who has coor- toothpaste. Items that will not be vendor, donates transportation Hall 1st-floor lobby; Craig Hall bank or food assistance organi- dinated the Pitt Partnership for accepted for the food drive include service to the Food Bank and back lobby; Biotech Center lobby; zation in their county. This is Food drive for the past 20 years. home-canned or home-packaged to campus. Information Sciences Build- accomplished via a drop-down “Donors are able to give twice foods and baby food in glass jars. Weekday, evening and week- ing 5th-floor lobby; Scaife Hall menu accessed during check-out as much food for each dollar; they For more than a decade the end hours are available for Food 4th-floor and 2nd-floor elevator on the virtual site. are spared the task of purchasing University has ranked among the Bank volunteers. For more infor- lobbies; Sutherland Hall main For the fifth year, the value the food and schlepping it to work, five most successful Pittsburgh- mation on volunteering, contact lobby; Litchfield Towers lobby, of all donations, including those and they receive an immediate area employers in the region’s Zupcic at 412/624-7709 or stz@ and Alumni Hall lobby. purchased online, will be matched receipt useful in filing for tax annual spring food drives. Over pitt.edu. Those needing bulk food by the Office of the Chancellor. deductions. Their hungry neigh- the years, contributions from the According to Food Bank pickups should contact Zupcic New this year is an email sent bors receive the food that is needed University have totaled more than data, in Allegheny County more at 4-7709. to those enrolled with the Faculty most, purchased at deep-discount 3 million units of food. than 85,000 individuals are using —Peter Hart n AAUP: Faculty pay loses out to inflation once again CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 misplaced institutional priorities graduate student employees held in higher education and in the classified as Carnegie category from the three AAUP regions that — especially when faculty mem- relatively steady over the time academic workers who make it IIB schools, are compared with a border Pennsylvania. bers and other higher education period, slipping from 20.5 percent an engine for innovation,” the peer group of other IIB schools —Kimberly K. Barlow n employees have been faced with in 1975 to 19.4 percent in 2009. organization stated in a prepared involuntary unpaid furloughs, During the recent economic release. hiring and salary freezes and cuts recession, according to AAUP, The full report includes addi- What Pitt faculty earn to benefits,” the report stated. the number of full-time faculty tional salary data by institutional The AAUP also reported that members grew, but most of the category, region, discipline, rank Full-time instructional faculty the trend toward hiring non- new appointments between 2007 and gender. It is available online tenure-track faculty continued. and 2009 were in non-tenure- at www.aaup.org/AAUP/comm/ Average salary Men Women Using federal data, the report track positions. rep/Z/ecstatreport10-11/. showed that full-time tenured AAUP paints a gloomy picture An annual University report Pittsburgh campus faculty made up 29 percent of insti- for higher ed in the near future. comparing faculty salaries at Professor $132,800 $136,400 $121,700 tutions’ instructional staff in 1975, “States will continue to struggle Pitt with selected peer groups Associate $ 88,400 $ 90,200 $ 84,900 but by 2009, tenured faculty made with reduced revenue, and that is expected at the Senate budget Assistant $ 72,200 $ 76,000 $ 68,500 up only 16.8 percent of the total. means decreased state funding policies committee in May or Instructor $ 43,600 $ 41,200 $ 44,300 Full-time tenure-track faculty fell for the majority of all institutions June, according to BPC chair All ranks $ 90,500 from 16.1 percent of the total in that are in the public sector. At John J. Baker. (excludes School of Medicine) 1975 to 7.6 percent in 2009. the same time, governors in a That report (see June 10 Uni- At the same time, full-time number of states have been using versity Times), which is based on Pitt-Bradford non-tenure-track faculty grew the fiscal crisis as a pretext for a data in the AAUP report, com- Professor $ 80,300 $ 79,600 ** from 10.3 percent to 15.1 percent broad attack on public-employee pares Pitt’s main campus with a Associate $ 64,800 $ 65,100 $ 63,300 and part-time faculty skyrocketed compensation. Instead of continu- peer group of public Association Assistant $ 55,300 $ 55,900 $ 54,600 from 24 percent in 1975 to make ing a long-term disinvestment in of American Universities institu- Instructor $ 46,300 ** $ 46,400 up 41.1 percent of instructional higher education as part of this tions. Pitt’s Bradford, Greensburg All ranks $ 60,200 staff in 2009. The percentage of misguided attack, we must invest and Johnstown campuses, all Pitt-Greensburg Professor $ 80,100 $ 73,300 $ 89,100 Associate $ 61,900 $ 61,900 $ 61,900 Chancellor’s compensation ranks 30th Assistant $ 51,300 $ 51,800 $ 50,800 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Instructor $ 41,600 $ 44,600 $ 39,100 Penn State President Graham Weaver Hart ranked No. 13 pay, and $9,505 provided by the All ranks $ 56,100 B. Spanier ranked No. 5 nationally nationally at $707,947 in total cost state in car allowance. in highest total cost of employ- of employment. That included a Cavanaugh’s total compensa- Pitt-Johnstown ment at $800,592. That figure base pay of $605,903; $75,000 tion of $326,495 ranked 121st Professor $ 76,000 $ 77,400 $ 71,000 included $620,004 in base pay; in accrued but not paid deferred nationally. Associate $ 65,100 $ 64,200 $ 67,100 $157,828 in accrued but not compensation, and $27,044 in • Tony Atwater, former presi- Assistant $ 51,200 $ 53,000 $ 49,900 paid deferred compensation, and retirement pay. That total did dent of Indiana University of Instructor $ 47,000 $ 51,700 $ 44,200 $22,760 in retirement pay. The not include the cost of Hart’s Pennsylvania, ranked 168th All ranks $ 59,200 total did not include the cost university-supplied house and car. nationally in total cost of employ- of Spanier’s university-supplied Hart’s total compensation of ment at $276,971. That figure Pitt-Titusville house, car and club dues allow- $605,903 ranked 16th nationally included $253,428 in base pay and Professor $ 60,600 ** ** ances. in that category. $23,543 in retirement pay, but did Associate $ 58,300 $ 56,400 $ 59,800 Spanier’s total compensation • Pennsylvania State System not include costs for his house, car Assistant $ 51,300 $ 47,700 $ 54,000 for 2009-10 was $620,004, rank- of Higher Education Chancellor and club dues. Instructor $ 50,200 ** $ 46,700 ing No. 13 nationally. John C. Cavanaugh’s total cost Atwater’s total compensation All ranks $ 54,900 According to the Chronicle’s of employment was $357,595, of $253,428 ranked 162nd. 2009-10 survey, at other Pennsyl- ranked 130th nationally. Cavana- The report can be accessed ** Rank includes fewer than three faculty members vania four-year public institutions: ugh’s figures include $326,495 in online at http://chronicle.com. Source: American Association of University Professors 2010-11 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession • Temple President Ann base pay; $21,594 in retirement —Peter Hart n

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Bodnar recently presented Bodnar agreed that the IOM’s research that showed poor vita- increased recommendation “was min D status may be a risk factor a move in the right direction.” for pre-term birth among black However, some studies suggest women. a U-shaped curve when it comes Given that both vitamin D to vitamin D’s association with deficiency and pre-term birth are certain outcomes — very high more common in black women, levels seem to increase risk. that finding may help explain why A 2010 study of babies born Vitamin D pre-term birth is more common small for their gestational age in black women, she said. found such a curve. Similar results CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Bodnar is especially interested have been found in other areas, play a role in improving insulin nancy, Bodnar found that a large than 90 percent of black women in investigating how vitamin D such as risk of fractures and falls. secretion, glucose utilization and proportion of pregnant women were deficient in vitamin D. The may play a role in contributing “Knowing where is the nadir immune function. remained vitamin D deficient, and propensity was toward deficiency to racial disparities in pregnancy of the risk curve is important,” Geographic differences have that black women were more likely in white women as well, although outcomes. “If we could improve she said. been noted in rates for diseases to have low vitamin D levels than not to the same degree.” vitamin D status, it would have Given that there could be nega- such as multiple sclerosis and pros- white women. In addition, there was a very more of an impact on black women tive effects from ultra-high doses, tate cancer, he said, noting, “Sun- “The myth is that because clear seasonal change in vitamin and potentially reduce that dispar- “I think proceeding cautiously light is the difference, although women are taking prenatal vita- D status, Bodnar said. “In summer ity,” she said. “That’s where I think is important. We want to make there could be other confounding mins, there should be no defi- and early fall levels were higher, this pregnancy research will have sure we are giving people the best factors. Some believe it could be ciency,” she said. However, but the levels really declined in the biggest impact.” advice that we can.” D.” Bodnar said she found “more winter and spring.” q —Kimberly K. Barlow n Observational data also cor- ew guidelines from the “People need to know their relates that people with low Institute of Medicine How much do we need? It depends numbers” — not only in terms vitamin D levels are more prone (IOM) recommend that violet (UV) rays from sunlight. person would need to have eight of how much vitamin D they take to upper respiratory infections or N taking 600 international units However, many people don’t egg yolks or eight glasses of milk daily, Bonci said, but also in terms cardiovascular disease, although (IUs) of vitamin D per day is spend enough time outdoors or fortified orange juice every day. of blood levels of vitamin D. he said the dosage necessary for sufficient for most people, while and merely sitting near a sunny “From a calorie perspective, Vitamin D levels are checked avoiding those negative outcomes people over age 70 need 800 IUs window inside is ineffective; the it just won’t work,” said Bonci, using a test that measures the is not known. daily to maintain bone health. UV rays can’t pass through glass. director of sports nutrition at level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, q The vitamin helps the body The body can store the vitamin the UPMC Center for Sports or 25(OH)D, in the blood. The Pitt researchers also are look- absorb calcium and is important D it produces, but that supply can Medicine. IOM found that blood levels of ing into the effects of vitamin D in in protecting against rickets and be depleted during the winter Foods fortified with vitamin D 20 nanograms per milliliter indi- the womb. Epidemiology faculty osteoporosis. According to the months — particularly for people contain a maximum of 100 IUs, so cates sufficient vitamin D intake. member Lisa Bodnar said when National Institutes of Health who live far from the equator, she recommends that people take “You need to know your she first read about vitamin D in (NIH), the vitamin also modu- causing seasonal variations in a vitamin D supplement. serum level,” Bonci said, adding relation to pregnancy outcomes lates cell growth and plays a role vitamin D levels. Finding a 600 IU supplement that testing is not routine. five years ago, “there seemed like in neuromuscular and immune According to NIH, some may be difficult. More often, That’s something to discuss a tremendous number of research function and in reducing inflam- research suggests that getting up supplements are 1,000 IUs or with your health care provider, gaps, yet it seemed very plausible mation. to a half-hour of sun exposure 2,000 IUs. she said. that vitamin D could be contribut- So, how can we be sure to get at least twice a week between 10 “At a minimum, 1,000 IUs is Calcium supplements often ing to adverse outcomes.” enough vitamin D? Some can be a.m. and 3 p.m. typically is suffi- fine,” Bonci said, adding that for contain vitamin D to boost In addition to determining gained through sunlight and food cient, but many factors influence most people, taking more “prob- calcium absorption, she noted, the prevalence of vitamin D defi- sources, but most people prob- the amount of vitamin D that is ably isn’t necessary.” adding that some supplements ciency among pregnant women, ably need vitamin D supplements produced. The season, time of Shoppers may see vitamin D2 are being reformulated to reflect researchers continue to investigate to meet those recommendations, day, cloud cover, use of sunscreen and D3 on store shelves. Bonci the IOM recommendations. whether vitamin D supplements experts say. and skin pigmentation (dark- said either is fine because there is “Go down the checklist of may decrease the risk of negative Vitamin D is found in fatty skinned people need more sun little difference in how the body all your current supplements,” pregnancy outcomes such as pre- fish, such as salmon, mackerel to generate the same vitamin D absorbs vitamin D2 (which is made she said, then learn your blood eclampsia and growth restrictions. and tuna; fish liver oils are good levels as lighter-skinned individu- from yeast) and vitamin D3 (which serum level. Bodnar said she also is beginning natural dietary sources of vitamin als) all impact the production of comes from animal sources). Citing research indicating to examine genetic components D. Small amounts also are found vitamin D. Likewise, she said, there’s no the vitamin’s potential role to determine whether there are in liver, egg yolks and cheeses. need to seek out brand-name in protecting against prostate specific genetic variations that may Milk, baby formula and other The need for supplements vitamin D products. cancer, multiple sclerosis, falls relate to vitamin D status. foods (such as yogurt, cereals, “No way” can people get suf- and depression, Bonci said, “You Vitamin D levels may influ- margarine and orange juice) ficient vitamin D in their diet, Know your numbers might take it for bone health, but ence pre-term birth, a condition often are fortified with vitamin D. said nutritionist Leslie Bonci. Bonci said it’s important for it also might have a head-to-toe that is related to infant death and Vitamin D also is produced To get the 800 IUs of vitamin D people to be aware of how much benefit.” disability. “No one has identified naturally in response to ultra- recommended for older adults, a vitamin D they get on a daily basis. —Kimberly K. Barlow n many risk factors for it,” Bodnar said. Possible connections to pre- eclampsia and inflammation also are being examined, to determine Studying details can reveal different information whether low vitamin D may be CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 related to systematic inflammation develop what I call the ‘way of drew a small number of partici- and social action groups. Now it Referring back to her earlier and whether inflammation could being,’ in which some actions or pants — some knew each other, was only people in faith congrega- study on racists, Blee said, “It be a factor that leads to pre-term topics seem to be worth consider- but most did not — recruited by tions who seemed to be possible is clear that happenstance can birth or pre-eclampsia. ing, while other possibilities are off the group’s founder, a woman recruits,” she said. “Other earlier matter a lot. Bumping into a Nazi Vitamin D levels have been the table and never considered,” named Joyce. possibilities were never mentioned recruiter can be a lynchpin that related to diabetes risk in other Blee said. “The meeting began with again, even months later when the turns someone’s life from ordinary research, Bodnar said, adding “I’ve also studied emerging Joyce’s announcement that they group had dwindled to a couple of to extreme. Similarly, in grassroots that one of her students is analyz- groups because the many efforts would attract members from a members and was desperate for activism, it can be small, incidental ing whether there also may be a that fizzle or dissolve or become broad array of local business orga- new people.” acts, like how a person introduces relationship between vitamin D something else are part of the land- nizations, congregations, social Furthermore, she said, the herself or whether one person and blood glucose levels in early scape of modern activism. Activ- action groups and students. Very group only considered meeting at comes to a meeting or not that pregnancy, with an eye toward ists don’t just work in established quickly, though, this expansive religious sites, again narrowing its can have broad ramifications on better understanding gestational organizations with clear agendas sense of what the group could initial broad-based intent. how groups take shape.” diabetes. and a sense of vision. They spend be narrowed considerably,” Blee “They selected a Lutheran Emphasizing research through The vitamin also may play considerable time in groups that noted. “How this happened shows church, encouraged the pastor to zoom-lens details does not imply a role in the risk of Caesarean are groping for a focus, that can’t how very small acts can reverber- join them and they immediately that panoramic, big-picture stud- delivery, Bodnar said. “Because D pull themselves together, that ate to produce large effects.” deferred to her in their decision- ies are not worthwhile, Blee cau- is important for muscle contrac- accomplish little,” she said. The founder asked people to making. They further defined tioned. “Indeed, a bird’s-eye view tion, deficiency has been related Focusing only on activist introduce themselves. The first themselves as a faith community can tell us much about a group’s to frailty and weak muscles,” she groups that are established trun- person gave her name and her by asking the pastor to lead them social patterns and how a group said. “It’s plausible that a uterus cates what can be concluded. “It religious affiliation. Following in prayer whenever feelings of changes over time,” she said. without as much D and calcium makes activism seem successful her lead, all the other attendees anger or frustration broke out “But paying attention to the may not contract as well and a because we study successful activ- also identified themselves by their among the members,” Blee said. intricacies of the small has its place woman in labor may not progress ism,” Blee explained. faith, Blee said. “Their path toward a religious as well, even when the questions and therefore need a Caesarean,” She cited the example of a “However, this small act — and exclusively Christian identity are large ones, like how violence she said. “That’s very preliminary group she called “Debt Free.” that members identified them- left out others. As they moved can be become epidemic, how right now.” “This is a group that was selves by their faith — had large further in this direction, more organized racism can persist over Vitamin D deficiency is wide- formed to pressure the U.S. consequences. As the discussion church members were attracted to time or how activism can become spread among pregnant women, government to forgive the debt shifted to how to find people to the group, but non-religious and self-defeating. For such complex she noted. Although more than 90 burden of the world’s poorest write letters and call legislators, non-Christian members drifted social mechanisms, a small lens percent of pregnant women take countries,” Blee said. members didn’t follow up on the away,” she said. can be quite useful.” vitamins by the end of their preg- The first meeting of the group initial idea of focusing on students q —Peter Hart n

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projects in the center’s urban and people who put the data together, regional analysis program. suggest how the data can be used Translated, that means the and suggest what tools people native Pittsburgher does a little should use.” bit of everything at UCSUR, the At UCSUR, Gradeck currently Pitt center founded in 1972 as a is heading projects in a number of resource for inside- and outside- Pittsburgh and outlying neighbor- MAKING the-University researchers and hoods, including Mt. Oliver and educators interested in the basic/ East Liberty. applied social and behavioral sci- “Recently, after hearing from ences. some of the folks out in the com- “Part of my work week is munity talking about foreclosures, always devoted to data clean-up,” we’ve been looking at that closely,” Gradeck said. That might mean Gradeck said. taking someone’s data and putting He discovered that one prop- them on a map, for instance. erty owner in East Liberty had his Usually, neighborhood-ori- entire portfolio of some 40 proper- ented data are a mere phone call ties go into foreclosure at once. away, he said, because government “What happens in a lot of officials, for example, know which cases is that when these marginal data he needs. “It’s a matter of properties go into foreclosure they PITT building trust, and I always tell wind up leaking into real blight,” them what I’m going to do with Gradeck said. “So we started to the data,” Gradeck said. look at where else this is happen- “Once you get that trust, you ing. Then we started to look at can get the data, and once you address lists to learn more about get the data you have to figure what was going on. Now we’re out how to put it on a map and sharing information with a lot once that happens you have to of our regional and city partners determine what does it all mean? about what other investors might Once you get the data, it’s not the be at risk for foreclosure. It’s a way end by any means. There are a lot to raise awareness of an issue, using of questions,” he said. the data in different ways to take Gradeck learned an important a look at something.” lesson from his graduate research That project also employed assistant days in the mid-’90s with data from outside Pittsburgh and the Atlanta Project, a community- expanded to other neighborhoods based study designed to assist here, Gradeck noted. “We’re part small- and medium-sized busi- of a network with 35 other cities nesses with marketing efforts through the Urban Institute’s through the use of GIS, then a National Neighborhood Indica- relatively new tool. tors Partnership. So we’re able to “We were working with com- bring things in from outside and munity organizations that really introduce them to Pittsburgh,” had not ever seen this kind of stuff he said. before. We were presenting them “For example, Cleveland these data for the first time and has been doing a lot of work on what we learned was that most foreclosures and the aftermath. folks didn’t know how to use the They’ve been one of the places data. It’s not just enough to put that have been really hard hit. data up on a web site; you have to We’ve learned a lot from them and get out there and encourage folks, that approach is guiding us in our suggest ways to use the data and project at the Hilltop Alliance in partner with them in developing south Pittsburgh,” Gradeck said. WORK specific projects,” Gradeck said. UCSUR sends out notices Pitt’s senior administration grabs most of the headlines. The faculty here get noticed when “To do that, you need the to people either in foreclosure they bring in research dollars, win teaching awards or publish in their fields. infrastructure in place to enable or at risk of foreclosure, letting But behind the scenes, University staff, some 7,200 strong across five campuses, often toil in them to make sense of the data them know there are services and jobs ranging from the mundane to the esoteric. and use information effectively. counseling available to help them. From mailroom workers to data entry specialists, costume designers to biosafety officers, That’s what community infor- “So it’s using data to target photographers to accountants, staff at Pitt perform tasks great and small, year-in and year-out, mation systems like ours do,” he outreach,” Gradeck said. “We’re for the greater good of the University. said. UCSUR functions as a “data also developing a predictive model This is one in an occasional series profiling University staff, providing a glimpse of some of the intermediary,” Gradeck explained, to run some statistics to see who’s less recognized employees whose primary business is making Pitt work. “where we’re the organization at risk, based on the characteristics that can help people understand of the property. We put the maps uring a typical work week, with developing city and county outreach and development of geo- the data, ask questions about the of an area’s foreclosed properties Robert M. Gradeck is neighborhood datasets. “As tech- graphic information systems (GIS) data, relay those questions to the together with ownership records, Dleading data management nology has advanced, the data have training sessions for faculty, staff, become more available and there students and representatives from are a lot of researchers looking for regional communities, solicit- information on neighborhoods,” ing data from local government he said. “That’s where we come in offices for neighborhood projects, with our knowledge and experi- “cleaning up” data within individ- ence working with property, with ual projects and organizing events, very specific information about a such as brown bag discussions place.” led by local and national experts Gradeck brought with him to and an annual data users’ confer- Pitt the Pittsburgh Neighbor- ence for the University Center hood and Community Informa- for Social and Urban Research tion System (PNCIS) that he (UCSUR). co-founded at CMU and now Gradeck (known as Bob to manages at UCSUR. just about everybody), is a 1993 PNCIS is a property informa- magna cum laude Pitt alumnus tion system that collects integrated of the urban studies program, data on community conditions and has a Master’s of City Planning provides it to local stakeholders, as degree from Georgia Tech and well as to social science research- more than 15 years of experience ers. The goal of the system is in community and neighborhood to empower community leaders development, including advanced through the direct use of data on applications of economic, real a wide array of topics and issues. estate and demographic data in PNCIS features an interactive community frameworks. map for registered users, whom Following 10 years working Gradeck trains on the system’s at Carnegie Mellon’s Center for functions. (See sidebar on next page.)

Economic Development, Gradeck Officially, Gradeck is a research Kimberly K. Barlow came to UCSUR in 2009 charged specialist and project manager for Bob Gradeck

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erhaps the crown jewel and appreciative of the PNCIS of the urban and regional information.” Panalysis program at the Pittsburgh neighborhood info system Gradeck said, “The clear University Center for Social and trend is that more and more Urban Research (UCSUR) is partner in the National Neighbor- is playing a role in the develop- wrote: “I am working with com- information is becoming avail- the Pittsburgh Neighborhood hood Indicators Partnership, and ment of new research projects munity members, local nonprofits, able, more and more tools are and Community Information launched the latest version of its through consultation with faculty [Pitt social work] students, and being built making it easier to System (PNCIS), which was interactive maps in summer 2009. investigators, as well as supporting local government, key funders use that stuff, but the role for co-founded and now is managed Recently, Gradeck installed the University’s teaching mission and other colleges and universities us, probably our key role, is by Robert M. Gradeck. server and interface upgrades through student and junior faculty to adapt the Harlem Children’s not going to change, and that Co-sponsored by Pitt’s Com- to the system, making it more mentoring, teaching courses on Zone model to Pittsburgh’s is: What does this information munity Outreach Partnership user-friendly with greater format research methods and data analysis Homewood neighborhood. ... mean for folks? We still have to Center, the Pittsburgh Part- compatibility. He leads the sys- in the social sciences and provid- The maps [UCSUR staff] have be able to tell people these are nership for Neighborhood tem’s training sessions on site at ing research internships, he said. helped us to develop have provided the issues that you need to look Development (PPND) and the UCSUR. Gradeck noted that feedback us a number of key insights to at, because the best tools out City of Pittsburgh, PNCIS is a “A lot of what I do is related, from Pitt users of PNCIS has been the neighborhood that we would there aren’t going to be able to neighborhood indicator dataset very generally, to helping people positive. For example: not have been able to obtain any provide that.” system used by government and by providing guidance to folks who • William Elliott, a faculty other way.” q community organizations, as don’t know how to use informa- member in the School of Social • Pitt student Elizabeth Some PNCIS data are avail- well as individuals. tion. It’s saying, ‘Here’s some data Work, wrote: “I used PNCIS to Muldowney wrote: “PNCIS was able to any user by visiting the The system’s neighborhood that can help you understand your help pull together a report for absolutely integral to the project PNCIS web site, www.ucsur. data include information on community, or help you with your the United Way on the unbanked I participated in last semester ... pitt.edu/pncis.php. For access vacancies, building conditions, projects or your initiatives or help in Pittsburgh. They needed the for a class on community research. to more detailed data, prospec- crime, foreclosures, housing you in what you do,’” Gradeck report as part of a proposal to We needed to gather and visualize tive users must apply for access, prices, tax delinquency, land explained. receive funding to provide low- information regarding the hous- complete the PNCIS user use, property ownership, demo- “Folks come to us with all income families with access to ing, focusing mainly on ownership licensing agreement and attend graphics, fires, elections and oil kinds of questions, but more often mainstream banking services. I and taxes, in the Homewood area. a training session. (To apply for and gas leases — all accessible people in communities are looking was able to obtain information PNCIS provided us with the nec- full access, email UCSUR staff through interactive maps posted at many of the same issues,” Gra- on the location of banking and essary platform to quickly filter the at [email protected] and include by Gradeck and his colleagues. deck said. “It’s always interesting cash advance institutions in the vast quantity of information avail- user’s name, organization, phone In 2006, the beta version of when you get people who aren’t Pittsburgh area from PNCIS. able into manageable datasets. number, email address and mail- the Pittsburgh Neighborhood at all familiar with data and they This information was then placed The color-coding and icon options ing address.) Information System, forerunner come in and see their own com- on a map. The map enabled the allowed us to further enhance our As required by the data- of PNCIS, was launched. The munity information on a map. United Way to clearly see areas project by breaking down the sharing agreement between following year, data-sharing It allows them to see things in a where access to mainstream bank- information into easy to under- PNCIS and the City of Pitts- agreements with the City of different light. In some cases the ing is needed and where there stand neighborhood snapshots. burgh, the city also must approve Pittsburgh were finalized, and experience confirms their percep- were clusters of cash advance ... Various community members the PNCIS application in order the initial strategic plan for tions, in some cases it dispels them institutions.” who attended our final presenta- for the user to receive access to PNCIS was developed. or counters their perceptions.” • John Wallace, also a School tion were eager to convey that city-provided information. In 2008, PNCIS became a Also part of UCSUR’s mission of Social Work faculty member, they were particularly impressed —Peter Hart n the crime records, land use, other everybody involved collectively students. So it’s not just people in some stories about how that’s been out of state. The word’s getting factors. That’s one of our key called the city’s 311 phone line, the neighborhood and it’s not just done already, share some of the out. A few months ago we started values.” 70 percent of those properties faculty,” he said. tools out there. It’s all hands-on,” gathering data from Mt. Oliver, Left to their own devices, were addressed. There’s a positive The technical aspect of the Gradeck said. and now other areas are coming neighborhoods typically can outcome from our work.” training is the easy part, he noted. He also leads sessions with to us: Can you do this in our com- struggle for months to gather and In many cases, the projects “The hard part is getting students trainees from both the community munity? People are seeing the interpret relevant data, he noted. Gradeck supports dovetail with to understand what data they really and within Pitt and has observed value of having information. We “That kind of effort, multiplied academic research. “We partner ought to apply. Now that there’s that they often form partnerships want to get into more and more across 80-90 different communi- with different folks, different more and more information out as a result of common interests. environmental data, and health ties, makes it nearly impossible to schools and departments here at there, I think students are coming “In a lot of cases when people data, which often are related, and get comprehensive information Pitt, to share this information with in with a lot more savvy, but the in the University come in and they we’re working with some folks at for the entire city or the county. So them, consult with them on their thing you want to instill in them meet people in the community public health on that expansion.” that’s when we come in, taking all research and do what we can do to is understanding how to apply the who are dealing with issues that He added, “There will always these disparate datasets, bringing help them along. Right now we’re information. The first part of that they’re working on right now, be a role for organizations like ours them together and then bringing working with a number of folks in is getting them to ask the right they make a connection there. to tell people who don’t work with them to bear on a number of dif- public health, we’re involved with questions,” Gradeck said. Academic research and neighbor- this stuff every day how to use data, ferent issues,” Gradeck said. various studies at GSPIA, social Students in urban studies, hood improvement projects often what questions to ask, who you Another project Gradeck con- work, urban studies.” sociology and social work, typi- go hand in hand.” can ask questions of regarding this tributes to is studying the impact Pitt faculty also solicit Gra- cally, have class assignments where Looking toward the future, data, and what some applications of Marcellus shale drilling on deck’s expertise to train their data-gathering and analysis are Gradeck said, “Our geographic are for using the data. The stuff the Allegheny County housing students in data management as integral components, a perfect area at UCSUR right now is that really adds value is letting market. “If the drillers are coming part of their formal course work. match for what Gradeck teaches. Allegheny County. But we’ve people know what to do and how in from out of state and scooping “Over the last two semesters, “I’ll lead a class and show them gotten calls from people on the to make sense of it.” up all available property, what does we’ve probably trained about 100 how to apply data to issues, share other side of the state, and even —Peter Hart n that mean for the housing market and for the lower-income folks who used to be able to use hous- ing vouchers and other subsidies to find housing in their market? CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE What turned out in places where there’s a lot of drilling is that those BEST GREEK FOOD IN TOWN! subsidies are not working, because it’s a type of mini-housing boom. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral So the policymakers are going to have to work on that,” he said. UCSUR also has partnered 50th Annual Greek Food Festival with Rebuilding Together Pitts- burgh, a nonprofit dedicated to keeping low-income elderly and Sunday, May 1 to Friday, May 6 disabled homeowners living in safe homes. “We put together data to iden- NOW SERVING ALL DAY! tify seniors who would qualify for Sunday to Thursday: 11am to 9pm home repair. Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh wants to make sure Friday: 11am to 10pm (music till midnight) they’re reaching people and the legion of contractors that vol- unteer with them. They want to Visit www.stnickspgh.org make sure people are safe in their homes, and they want to have a for a fax or email order form social impact in targeted com- or call 412.682.3866. Fax orders (lunch only). munities,” Gradeck said. “We helped them do a neigh- *St. Nicholas Cathedral is located on the corner of borhood survey that identified the 30 worst properties in Home- S. 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R E S E A R C H N O T E S apply to pseudokinases in other The University Times Research pathogens, Boyle said, including Notes column reports on funding Pharmacy • Fourth-year pharmacy stu- and focus-group interviews with the parasite’s close relative plas- awarded to Pitt researchers and on publications, dent Eric Gardner co-authored industry experts, winery opera- modium, which causes malaria. findings arising from University the first guideline put forth by tors, grape growers and other “Our work shows that just research. grants the Clinical Pharmacogenetics stakeholders. We welcome submissions from announced because these proteins have lost all areas of the University. Submit Implementation Consortium of “Winemaking is a big industry their original function does not information via email to: utimes@ The School of Pharmacy the NIH’s Pharmacogenomics in Pennsylvania,” said Gajanan, mean they don’t do anything,” pitt.edu, by fax to 412/624-4579 recently announced the following Research Network. noting that the state ranks seventh Boyle said. “T. gondii cannot or by campus mail to 308 Belle- field Hall. publications and research grants: His article, “Clinical Phar- nationally in wine production. cause disease without them, and • Wen Xie, a faculty member For submission guidelines, macogenetics Implementation “The question is, can it get bigger if one is trying to understand visit www.utimes.pitt.edu/?page_ in pharmaceutical sciences and Consortium Guidelines for Thio- and can the government do some- how pathogens work, the role of id=6807. pharmacology, was awarded a purine Methyltransferase Geno- thing to help it get bigger?” these proteins should obviously $416,625 grant from the National type and Thiopurine Dosing,” As part of the study, the faculty be considered.” suggest that a positive feedback Institutes of Health to study the was published in the March issue members will compare practices Once T. gondii injects ROP5 loop exists between PGE2 and regulation of human hydroxys- of Clinical Pharmacology and and results in Pennsylvania with into the host cell, the parasite COX-2, which regulates PGE2 teroid sulfotransferase, a Phase II Therapeutics. those in New York, Ohio, Mary- enters the cell and forms a protec- production. When we disrupted drug-metabolizing enzyme, by the land, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, tive membrane pocket, or vacuole, this feedback loop in suppressor retinoid-related orphan receptors. UPB faculty Arizona and Colorado. around itself to which ROP5 and cells taken from cancer patients by • Song Li, a faculty member Gajanan will look at existing other proteins attach. While the blocking COX-2 or PGE2 signal- in pharmaceutical sciences, was study PA data that can inform policy on other secreted kinases are known ing receptors, we stopped the cells’ awarded $362,464 from the wine industry production and expansion. “Are to help disable or disrupt activity ability to suppress cancer-killing National Institutes of Health for a Pitt-Bradford faculty members Pennsylvania wineries efficient in the host cell, the ROP5 cluster, immune cells. This might be a two-year study to develop a novel James Dombrosky of hospital- right now?” he asked. “Is it pos- a kind of infectious ringleader, new avenue to explore for future therapy for the management of ity management and Shailendra sible for them to increase produc- appeared to have a more dominant cancer treatments.” advanced prostate cancer. Gajanan of economics have tion without incurring too much role in causing severe disease in • Kim Coley, a faculty member received a $47,400 grant from additional cost? Right now nobody mice than other virulence factors, Cancer vaccines targeting in pharmacy and therapeutics, was the Center for Rural Pennsyl- knows if there are advantages to Boyle said. pre-malignant lesions awarded an $85,625 grant from vania to study the Pennsylvania greater production.” In the PNAS paper, the Olivera Finn, chair of the Takeda Pharmaceuticals America wine industry. For Dombrosky, researchers suggested that ROP5 Department of Immunology, for a study that aims to help the proposal is an extension of Team studies has undergone multiple rounds presented her work in develop- health care providers decide the the doctoral thesis he is writing: how of gene duplication followed by ing vaccines that target abnormal appropriate care and treatment for “Distribution of Pennsylvania toxoplasma mutation of the individual copies. peptides, or small pieces of pro- western Pennsylvanians with gout. Wine Through Restaurants: Bar- Thus, the authors proposed, tein, that are produced during the • Graduate student Mark riers and Opportunities,” but to infects Researchers from Pitt and the ROP5 cluster may act like a development of certain cancers. Donnelly received the Ruth L. determine the industry’s current genetic Swiss army knife, a multi- Tumor formation might be pre- Kirschstein National Research capacity and growth potential, Stanford have discovered that a supposedly inactive protein actu- purpose tool that allows T. gondii vented with a vaccine that gener- Service Award for Individual Dombrosky turned to Gajanan. to adapt to and infect its famously ates an immune response against Predoctoral Fellows for his grant The project will analyze Penn- ally plays a crucial role in the ability of one of the world’s most prolific wide variety of hosts. the cells that carry these peptides. “Role of 20-HETE and EETs in sylvania’s wine industry, identify “Vaccines that are adminis- Cerebrovascular Complications growth strategies and make policy pathogens to cause disease. These findings suggest the possible role Cancer research tered as a possible treatment after After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid recommendations to the state cancer has already developed have Hemorrhage.” The research was government. of similarly errant proteins in presented other diseases. University of Pittsburgh not been very effective,” she noted. funded by a $29,192 grant from Dombrosky’s research will “But if we can help the immune the National Institutes of Health. involve conducting one-on-one The team reports in the Cancer Institute (UPCI) and Pitt Proceedings of the National School of Medicine researchers system find these dangerous cells Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that presented more than 80 posters, in people who are at high risk Toxoplasma gondii, the parasitic talks and tutorials, led educational for cancer but are still healthy, protozoa behind toxoplasmosis, sessions and chaired panel discus- we might have an intervention attacks healthy cells by injecting sions during the annual meeting that could prevent many cases of them first with pseudokinases, of the American Association for disease.” which are enzymes that have Cancer Research last week. abandoned their original function Their presentations included: Donor care of transferring phosphates. When the researchers engi- Mechanisms of complications of saves organs neered strains of T. gondii without multiple myeloma treatments for transplant a particular pseudokinase gene Suzanne Lentzsch, a faculty More than twice as many cluster called ROP5, the pathogen member in medicine and clinical lungs and nearly 50 percent more subsequently was unable to cause director of the multiple myeloma kidneys could be recovered for disease in mice — a notable loss of program at UPCI, discussed her transplant operations if intensive potency in an organism that can research that shows how immuno- care physicians were to work with infect nearly any warm-blooded modulatory derivatives of thalido- organ procurement organization animal. mide, such as lenalidomide and (OPO) coordinators to monitor These results are among the pomalidomide, used in multiple and manage donor bodies after first to implicate pseudokinases as myeloma treatment, also affect brain death has occurred, accord- indispensable actors in pathogen- blood cell production pathways ing to an analysis by UPMC and based disease, said senior author by decreasing production of a School of Medicine physicians in Jon Boyle, a faculty member in key protein needed for blood cell the online version of the American the Department of Biological specialization. Journal of Transplantation. Sciences. “That leads to treatment com- After a patient who has con- Boyle co-authored the paper plications including a reduction in sented to be an organ donor is with John Boothroyd of Stanford the numbers of neutrophils, a kind declared brain-dead, an OPO School of Medicine, and research- of white blood cell, and an increase coordinator takes over medical ers from Boothroyd’s lab. in a protein that promotes platelet management and intensive care The Pitt-Stanford project sug- clumping that in turn increases unit (ICU) physicians typically gests that the significance of these the risk for blood clots,” Lentzsch are no longer involved, explained aimless enzymes to T. gondii could explained. lead author Kai Singbartl, a faculty member in critical care medicine and a UPMC intensiv- Inflammatory mediator drives ist. The OPO coordinators follow Smokers Wanted suppressor cells that cause immune established protocols to maintain system dysfunction in cancer tissues and organs for eventual Postdoctoral fellow Natasa transplant. The University of Pittsburgh’s Alcohol & Smoking Research Lab is Obermajer presented a project In 2008, UPMC Presbyterian conducted in the lab of senior implemented an intensivist- looking for current smokers to participate in a research project. You investigator Pawel Kalinski, a led organ donor support team must: faculty member in surgery and (ODST) approach in which, after UPCI researcher, that shows a a potential organ donor was • Be 30-70 years old, in good health, and a Native English speaker single cancer-associated inflam- declared brain-dead, one of six • Be willing to fill out questionnaires matory mediator called prosta- dedicated intensivists, who did glandin E2 (PGE2) drives the not provide care for the donor • Be willing not to smoke for 5 hours before the session differentiation and stability of prior to death, joined the OPO myeloid-derived suppressor cells coordinator at the bedside. Stan- that play a key role in causing dard protocols were supported by Earn $60 for participating in this study. immune system dysfunction and physician interventions, such as a microenvironment that allows adjustments to optimize oxygen- For more information, call (412) 624-8975 cancer cells to thrive. ation and balance blood pressure Kalinski said, “Our findings CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S But once a threshold number of and guide volitional, goal-directed correct answers was achieved, the behavior. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 rules were reversed. In another task, the animals saw and flow, fluids and other bodily low self-esteem, substance use to be,” he said. “If we under- The researchers found that a single image that when touched functions to optimize the likeli- and conflict with family, gay and stand what the problems are and the cocaine group learned the resulted in a supplemental water hood of sustaining as many organs lesbian youth remained more than whether the drug itself was the initial rules as quickly and at first reward. Then they were shown the as possible for transplant. twice as likely to report a history of cause, then we might be able to responded as accurately as the same image along with a random Singbartl said, “The number suicidality as heterosexual youth. design treatments that have a water-only group, but only five of one, and if they chose the cor- of donors in our study is not large “These results suggest that it better chance of working.” the eight achieved the threshold of rect one after a delay of up to 40 enough to determine whether a is extremely important that health Researchers assessed cogni- correct responses. The research- seconds they got the reward. The particular medical intervention professionals create a clinical tive skills in 14 rhesus monkeys ers then increased the difference cocaine group’s performance was played a key role, but it’s very clear environment that makes it easy for that learned to touch an abstract between high and low rewards, less accurate as the delay increased. from our experience that this team gay and lesbian youth to discuss shape on a touch screen to receive which allowed the remaining three “This experiment reveals that approach did make a difference.” their sexual orientation with their either a sip of water or a cocaine monkeys in the cocaine group to cocaine use causes impairments Data from adult brain-dead doctors,” said Marshal. infusion via a special access port get to the threshold. of visual working memory,” donors between July 1, 2008, and “Doctors and clinics need to into a blood vessel. Within a week, “That tells us the cocaine users Bradberry said. “This could June 30, 2009, were compared to emphasize their privacy policies the cocaine group was regularly have a hard time maintaining focus reflect problems with attention prior-year data. In the time period and assure teens that they will self-administering the maximum and attention,” Bradberry said. in addition to the impairment in prior to the use of the ODST not discuss their sexual orienta- of six doses daily from Tuesdays “But if we increase the reward cognitive control.” approach, 31 percent or 66 out tion with parents or caregivers. to Fridays. value of these things they’re trying Co-authors included psy- of 210 potentially available organs It also is critical that primary care On Mondays, after three days to learn, we can overcome that chiatry faculty member Hank were transplanted. In the ODST physicians are trained to screen without receiving drugs, the cognitive deficit.” P. Jedema, doctoral candidate period, 44 percent or 113 out of youth for suicidal thoughts and monkeys’ associative learning He added that once the stimuli Jessica N. Porter and Bradberry 258 potentially available organs behaviors and be prepared to help skills were assessed. Each animal were reversed, the cocaine group lab members Kate Gurnsey and were transplanted. them seek the appropriate treat- was presented with two consistent had much greater difficulty learn- Brian P. Dugan. Most of the increase after ment services.” stimuli on the touch screen with ing and adapting to the change in The study was funded by the implementation of the ODST Marshal and his colleagues now a correct answer recorded for rules, indicating a deficit in cogni- National Institute on Drug Abuse approach was due to a more than are trying to understand why being touching the one associated with tive control processes or executive and the Veterans Affairs Medical 200 percent increase in trans- a member of a sexual minority a higher volume of water reward. brain functions that require focus Research Service. n planted lungs and a nearly 50 puts a teen at increased risk for percent increase in transplanted suicidal thoughts and behavior so kidneys. Heart and liver transplant that the proper interventions can rates did not change significantly. be provided. Slate for Senate committees set “Conversion of medically Co-authors included Laura This year’s slate of candidates • Benefits and welfare: Col- engineering. unsuitable donors into actual J. Dietz, David A. Brent and for seats on the 15 University leen Culley, pharmacy; Angelina • Educational policies: Amy donors, better resuscitation of Helen A. Smith of the School of Senate standing committees has Riccelli, dental medicine; Anna Aggelou, SHRS; Burhan Ghara- unstable donors, optimization Medicine and Mark S. Friedman been set. There are three openings Roman, medicine; Sachin Velan- ibeh, medicine; M. Kathleen of organ function and improved and Ron Stall of the Graduate on each committee. Electronic kar, engineering. Kelly, SHRS. communication between OPO School of Public Health. voting by will take place April • Budget policies: Beverly • Library: Heidi Donovan, staff, ICU team and transplant 19-midnight May 1. Only current Gaddy, Greensburg; Jeanann nursing; Tin-Kan Hung, engi- surgeons” or the combination of Cocaine affects Faculty Assembly members are Croft Haas, ULS; Carol Red- neering; Hannah Johnson, A&S. these factors likely contributed cognition eligible to vote. mond, GSPH; Sue Skledar, • Plant utilization and plan- to success and should be further Cocaine use directly contrib- • Admissions and student pharmacy; Michael Spring, infor- ning: Amy Baker, ULS; Gilles evaluated, the researchers said. utes to the development of cogni- aid: Leonard Baidoo, medicine; mation sciences. Clermont, medicine; Susanna Co-authors included Ragha- tive deficits such as impairments Julie d’Itri, engineering; Amanda • Bylaws and procedures: Leers, law; Mark Scott, ULS. van Murugan, A. Murat Kaynar, of visual working memory and dif- Lea Folk, University Library James Cassaro, ULS; Marilyn • Student affairs: Jay Bhama, David W. Crippen, Richard L. ficulty adapting to rule changes in System (ULS); Steven Levine, Davies, nursing; Thottala (Jay) medicine; Lance Davidson, engi- Simmons and Joseph M. Darby, reward tasks, according to a report dental medicine. Jayaraman, dental medicine; Ketki neering; Chyongchiou Jeng Lin, all of the departments of critical by School of Medicine researchers • Anti-discriminatory poli- Raina, SHRS. medicine; Kathy Magdic, nursing. care medicine and surgery, and published in the March 30 issue cies: David Beck, School of Health • Commonwealth relations: • Tenure and academic nurses Kurt Shutterly and Susan of The Journal of Neuroscience. and Rehabilitation Sciences Robin Gandley, GSPH; Ann freedom: Christopher Bonneau, A. Stuart of the Center for Organ A wide range of cognitive dif- (SHRS); Cindy Popovich, educa- Mitchell, nursing; Sanjeev Shroff, A&S; Lisa Borghesi, medicine; Recovery and Education. ficulties are seen among cocaine tion; Luis Vallejo, engineering; engineering. Willa Doswell, nursing; Kim- users, but it hasn’t been clear Clyde Mitchell-Weaver, Graduate • Community relations: berly Gleason, business; Richard Depression, whether that reflects pre-existing School of Public and International Maggie Folan, pharmacy; Marian McGough, medicine. suicidality traits that made them more sus- Affairs. Hampton, ULS; Patrick Lough- • University Press: William higher among ceptible to drug abuse or to the • Athletics: Timothy Averch, lin, engineering; Margaret Rosen- Chase, A&S; Kathleen Dewalt, gay teens drug itself, said senior investiga- medicine; Bopaya Bidanda, engi- zweig, nursing. A&S; Seymour Drescher, A&S; neering; Susanne Gollin, Gradu- • Computer usage: Vincent Irina Livezeanu, A&S; Lester A School of Medicine study tor Charles W. Bradberry, a ate School of Public Health Arena, GSPH; Alex Jones, engi- Olson, A&S; Andrew Strathern, reported online in the Journal of faculty member in psychiatry and (GSPH); Kevin McLaughlin, neering; Alex Labrinidis, School A&S. Adolescent Health found that gay neuroscience. education; Donna Nativio, nurs- of Arts and Sciences (A&S); For more information on the and lesbian teens reported higher “It’s well known that the level ing; Len Plotnicov, anthropology; Otto Salguero, engineering; Luis elections, visit www.pitt.edu/ rates of suicidality and depression of cognitive deficit can predict Dennis Swanson, pharmacy. Vargas, business; Yadong Wang, univsenate/elections.html. n than did heterosexual youth. how successful treatment is likely Lead author Michael P. Marshal, a faculty member in psychiatry and pediatrics, said, “We combined the results of 18 studies involving more than 100 different comparisons and over 100,000 teenage participants. “Overall, gay teens were almost three times more likely to report a history of suicidality.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the third-leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults in the United States, with the rate of suicide attempts during the lifetime of this popula- tion ranging from 1 to 10 percent. Teen suicide results in approxi- mately 4,500 lives lost each year. The overwhelming majority of teens who make suicide attempts demonstrate mood psychopathol- ogy, with depression being the most prevalent disorder. This study found that, on average, 28 percent of gay teens reported a history of suicidality compared to 12 percent of het- erosexual teens. The studies also showed that even after controlling for variables such as depression,

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P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S such as the ability to rational- based recovery facility providing ize that allows humans to think residential treatment and other John McDowell, Distin- inquiry. The honor includes a $1.5 humans gain knowledge of the scientifically. services to addicted women and guished Univer- million grant. environment through our natu- their children. sity Professor of With this award, McDowell ral interaction with it. Science is Samar R. El Khoudary, a Maurer, who also is former Philosophy, has will build upon his decades-long great, but it’s not the only answer.” faculty member in epidemiology director of nursing won a 2010 Distin- work to explain how philosophers McDowell first delved into at the Graduate School of Public at Magee-Womens guished Achieve- can think about the natural world this idea in his book “Mind and Health, has been awarded the Hospital, opened ment Award from without restricting themselves to World,” where he described an Trudy Bush Fellowship for Car- a high-risk obstet- the Andrew W. the observations of the natural impasse in philosophical thought diovascular Research in Women’s rics unit at Magee Mellon Foundation. sciences, as he believes his con- about how to combine the idea Health. The award is given by and was a leader on Established in 2001, the temporaries have been inclined that perception is the result of the American Heart Association the planning group Mellon achievement award rec- to do in recent years. human reason with the idea that Council on Epidemiology and to open the Womancare Birthouse ognizes humanities professors “The big-picture issue was how humans have natural capacities for Prevention to recognize the top in Moscow. who have had a lasting influence to think about nature,” McDowell perceptual experience. three abstracts related to car- She is a founding member of on their students and colleagues said. “There’s a tendency to think McDowell reconciled the two diovascular research in women’s Sojourner House and since 1989 and supports ongoing work that the natural world can be consid- ideas by concluding that human health accepted at their annual she has been volunteering at the promises to make a significant ered solely through the natural experience can be seen as a result conference. East Liberty facility. She has contribution to the recipient’s sciences, but that makes it impos- of “second nature,” those human El Khoudary’s abstract was served as a board member for 18 field and to overall humanistic sible to think straight about how attributes acquired in upbringing, titled, “Endogenous Sex Hor- years and as president for six. mones Impact the Progression of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Tamara Goldbogen, direc- Women During the Menopausal tor of the Shake- Transition.” speare-in-the- Schools touring School of Law faculty member outreach pro- Deborah Brake is the 2011 gram and a fac- Silva A. Arslanian delivered recipient of the Iris Marion Young ulty member in a provost’s inaugural lecture April 12 on “The Changing Award for Political Engage- the Department Face of Childhood Diabe- ment. The award honors Young, of Theatre Arts, recently was tes.” Provost Patricia Beeson formally installed Arslanian the late philosopher and social elected to the advisory board for as the UPMC Richard L. Day theorist who was a professor in the Pittsburgh International Chil- Endowed Chair in Pediatrics. the Graduate School of Public dren’s Theatre, a division of the and International Affairs (GSPIA) Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. in the 1990s. Goldbogen also has been GSPIA and the women’s stud- named to the board of directors ies program inaugurated the award of Theatre for Young Audiences/ in 2008 to honor Young’s memory. USA, the only national theatre Brake’s scholarship explores organization in the United States the theoretical underpinnings of that has as its primary mandates various dimensions of equality law. the development of professional She has written articles on retalia- theatre for young audiences and tion and other negative reactions international exchange. to equality claims, examining how Mary Jane Bent/CIDDE constitutional and statutory law School of Pharmacy faculty responds to persons who chal- members recently were honored. lenge inequality. Much of her work • Billy Day of pharmaceutical explores how legal doctrine fits the sciences, director of the Pro- realities of lived experience, draw- teomics Core Lab of the Schools ing on social science literature to of the Health Sciences, was named inform that relationship. to a three-year term as associate She is a nationally recognized editor of the journal Toxicology expert and author on Title IX in Vitro. and gender equality in sports, and Day holds secondary appoint- on gender discrimination more ments in chemistry, environmen- broadly. tal and occupational health and the Clinical Translational Science Geraldine Maurer, a faculty Institute. member in the School of Nurs- • Amy Seybert, interim chair ing, was named the Pearl of Hope of the Depart- honoree by Sojourner House ment of Phar- for her commitment of time, macy and Ther- talent and personal resources to apeutics, was advance the mission of the facil- named a fellow ity. Sojourner House is a faith- of the Ameri- can Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Seybert directs the cardiovas- cular specialty and critical care specialty residencies at the School of Pharmacy and is the pharma- ceutical care coordinator for criti- cal care at UPMC’s Department of Pharmacy. Recently, she was appointed as associate director for pharmacy programs at the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation Education and Research.

Frank Pokrywka, a staff member in the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, has been appointed as a fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). This distinction is awarded to the 5 percent of AIHA members who make significant contribu- tions to the field of industrial hygiene, which is the science of anticipating, recognizing, evalu- ating and controlling workplace conditions that may cause worker illness or injury. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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Edison Montgomery Edison Montgomery, who right to Monty,” Plotnicov said. Provost Emeritus James Maher affairs. Vieh also had been part ences and interim director of the served the University under six “He would listen and I could trust said, “I had many wonderful of the CMP management survey Office of Institutional Manage- chancellors and may hold the him to be straightforward. He interactions with Edison, at first team. ment Development. record for the number of different was honest and forthright and he because we served together for In 1959, Montgomery was pro- In 1983, Posvar asked Mont- Pitt administrative positions held, pulled no punches: He’d let you many years on the [University moted to director of institutional gomery to come out of retirement died April 1, 2011. He was 93. have it, if you deserved it. He Senate] University Press com- planning, and in 1961 he was given to devise a new strategy for fiscal Friends and colleagues remem- was respected for both his intel- mittee, and then later on with the title of special assistant to the planning and named him special bered Monty, as he was known, as ligence and wisdom. Monty was various things during the end of chancellor for planning and gen- assistant to the chancellor; he an engaging personality who was somebody really special, a model his University service. He was eral affairs. On occasion, he even served in that capacity until 1991. a particularly effective adminis- to be emulated.” a wonderful man and I found it served as acting chancellor, during In 1992, he was named interim trator. Jerome Rosenberg, Pitt’s delightful to deal with him in the times Litchfield was away from vice provost for planning and in Long-time friend Leonard research integrity officer who everything. I really felt privileged the University. From 1962 to 1966 1993 he served as interim execu- Plotnicov, professor of anthropol- came to Pitt in the 1950s, said, to work with him.” he served as acting vice chancellor tive vice provost. He was special ogy, remembered Montgomery “Monty was good-natured and Andrew Blair, vice provost for the health professions. assistant to the dean of the College as a genuine gentleman. “He did he had a wide range of inter- for Faculty Affairs, first became Montgomery left the Univer- of General Studies, 1993-2000. not have to cultivate that, it came ests, including a keen interest in acquainted with Montgomery in sity in 1966 to become the inaugu- He also served on many search naturally to him. He was really a the Pittsburgh Chamber Music the early 1970s, when Blair joined ral president of the Interuniversity committees. Renaissance man who was highly Society. He forged a relationship the faculty and administration at Communications Council (also Prior to Montgomery’s role adaptable to many positions. He between the University and the the business school. known by its trade name Educom), at the CMP firm, he had been an had both ability and flexibility, society that remains today. He also “I first got to know Monty in an organization of some 80 North administrative planning officer and the Pitt administration took could be a bit of a curmudgeon. early 1971. He was an exceedingly American universities that dealt and director of personnel for 12 advantage of that, putting him in He asked a lot of tough questions, able senior administrator who with problems of communications years with the U.S. Maritime those posts that needed a depend- and did not accept facile answers. served the University in an amaz- in higher education, particularly Commission, followed by three able administrator.” When I was dean of FAS (Faculty ingly wide variety of capacities, the use of computers and new years with the federal Office of Plotnicov recalled his days as of Arts and Sciences), he was some- both before and after his official technology. Price Stabilization. chair of the anthropology depart- what of an adversary over budget ‘retirement,’” Blair said. “We Montgomery was persuaded in A native of Denver, Colo., ment in the 1970s when Mont- matters on occasion. But we got always had a cordial, friendly rela- 1967 by then-Chancellor Wesley Montgomery earned a bachelor’s gomery was his staunchest ally. through it. He could be tough, tionship and I especially enjoyed Posvar to return to Pitt as vice degree at the University of Cali- “If I was having some sort of but I believe he always stood up his cultivated manner and dry wit.” chancellor for budget and finance, fornia-Berkeley in 1938. institutional difficulty I would go for the right things.” Alan Lesgold, dean of the with the additional title of director He was a member of Phi Beta School of Education and long- of communications programs, a Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha honor P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S time faculty member, said, “I do new post. societies. Montgomery was execu- recall continued amazement at In the latter position, Mont- tive committee secretary of the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 the number of different admin- gomery headed the University’s Pittsburgh chapter of Phi Beta Howard A. Kuhn, an adjunct worked as a grants writer for istrative roles Monty filled with libraries, the Computer Center, Kappa, 1985-2000. faculty member in the Depart- the Private Industry Council of great success. He certainly was an the Knowledge Availability Sys- In 2003, Pitt’s Xi chapter of the ment of Mechanical Engineer- Westmoreland/Fayette. She was important figure in Pitt’s transi- tems Center and the Health-Law Phi Beta Kappa Society named an ing and Materials responsible for maintaining exist- tion to greatness.” Center. award for Montgomery, which is Science, has won ing funding streams and securing According to Pitt’s institu- In 1971, he was named associ- given annually to the member of the Eli Whitney new federal, state, local and private tional historian, the late Robert ate vice chancellor for the health the junior class judged to be best Productivity Award funding to support a variety of C. Alberts, Montgomery’s first professions, and later deputy at fulfilling Phi Beta Kappa’s ideals from the Society programs. She also performed contact with Pitt was in 1953 as senior vice chancellor for Health of intellectual scope and academic of Manufactur- a variety of public relations and a principal associate of the New Sciences emeritus. In 1979-80 attainment. ing Engineers for marketing activities. York City-based Crisp, McCor- Montgomery served as acting Outside the University, Mont- development of mick and Paget (CMP) Man- senior vice chancellor for Health gomery served for many years basic research and commercializa- Denise McCloskey has been agement Engineers, consultants Sciences for 18 months, filling on the boards of Blue Cross of tion of the powder-forging process named vice president for Business commissioned by Pitt trustees and in for Nathan Stark while he Western Pennsylvania, the Cen- and titanium forging. Affairs at Pitt-Titusville. McClos- then-Chancellor Rufus Fitzgerald served as undersecretary of the tral Blood Bank of Pittsburgh, the Kuhn is co-founder of Concur- key previously was executive direc- to perform a comprehensive study U.S. Department of Health and Pittsburgh Board of Education rent Technologies Corp. (CTC), tor of the Northwest Commission. of Pitt’s administrative structure. Human Services in the Carter and Ellis School. an independent nonprofit applied She will direct the offices of That project led Montgomery administration. He also served on several research and development firm Human Resources, Facilities to a decades-long career in Pitt At various times, Montgomery state-appointed health boards, and headquartered in Johnstown. Management, Campus Police, administrative affairs. also served in other administrative was a founder of the Pittsburgh He also is the research and the UPT Book Center, the Com- In 1956, Montgomery was posts, many on an interim basis Chamber Music Society. development director of The Ex puter Center and hired by then-Chancellor Edward while Pitt searched for permanent He is survived by his wife, One Co. in Irwin. the Business Litchfield as director of personnel. executives. Ruth; his son Douglas; his daugh- Office. She also One year later, his duties were He was interim dean of the ter Katherine, and two grandsons, The Institute for Entrepre- will serve as a expanded to include program ana- Graduate School of Public and Andrew and Alexander. neurial Excellence, part of the member of the lyst, budget director and executive International Affairs twice, as well An on-campus memorial ser- Katz Graduate School of Busi- UPT president’s assistant to Walter Vieh, then- as interim dean of the School of vice is in the planning stages. ness, has named Jennifer Lewis senior staff. n assistant chancellor for business Health and Rehabilitation Sci- —Peter Hart n Neubauer to the newly created position of membership director. Neubauer comes to Pitt from Carnegie Mellon, where she served for 13 years as assistant vice president for alumni relations and later as assistant vice president for VIP relations and presidential liaison.

Courtney K. DeCarlucci recently was named manager of corporate and foundation rela- tions at Pitt- Greensburg. A member of the UPG Univer- sity Relations and Institu- tional Advance- ment team, DeCarlucci is responsible for securing funding for institutional and academic objectives, endow- ments, current operations and facilities by composing and sub- mitting proposals to appropriate foundations and corporations, as well as identifying prospective funding sources on behalf of the Greensburg campus. DeCarlucci most recently

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C A L E N D A R should be held during the last HSLS Lunch With a Librarian scheduled class meeting. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 “Personal Genomics, Personal- Humanities Discussion/Read- Chemistry Seminar ized Medicine & You,” Carrie Wednesday 20 World History Workshop Iwema; Falk Library conf. rm. ing Group “Computer-Aided Design of “Assessment in World History,” “Collaborative Research in Drugs Targeting Protein Kinases B, noon Clinical Oncology & Hematol- Patrick Manning & John Myers; Translation Studies”; 602 CL, & Phosphatases,” Chung Wong, ADRC Lecture ogy Grand Rounds 5604 Posvar, 9 am-3 pm 4-6 pm U of MO; 12A Chevron, 4 pm “Cystatin C, Inflammatory “Updates in the Treatment of Asian Studies Benefit Concert PACWC Women’s Network- Markers & Brain Volume in Cog- Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer,” For Japan earthquake & tsunami ing Event nitively Normal Subjects,” Mario Joan Schiller; UPMC Cancer Friday 22 relief; Bellefield aud., 2 pm UClub, 4:30-6 pm Riverol, neurology; ADRC conf. Pavilion, Herberman Conf. Ctr. (8-7763) GI Grand Rounds rm., S439 Montefiore, noon 2nd fl. aud., 8 am • Last day for spring term “Pancreas & Biliary Diseases”; OBID Concert Pitt Alumni Assn. Picnic undergrad day classes. Monday 25 11 Scaife conf. ctr., 5 pm Ray Ryan Ragtime Piano; Schen- WPU lawn & patio, 11 am-2 ley Plaza, noon-2 pm Endocrine Conference pm (www.alumni.pitt.edu/fac- • Final exams for all undergrad Chemistry Seminar Thursday 21 “Translating the DPP Into ultystaff) day classes through April 30. “Protein Recognition of Bacte- Real World Settings,” Linda Pathology Research Seminar rial Glycans Containing Fura- Epidemiology Seminar Siminerio, Gretchen Platt & “Mechanisms of Acetamin- Neurobiology of Brain Dys- nose Residues,” Todd Lowary, U “And Then Cardiology Created Kaye Kramer; 1195 Starzl BST, ophen-induced Liver Injury function Lecture of Alberta; 12B Chevron, 2:30 pm Women,” Sheryl Kelsey; A115 8:30 am in Mice & Man,” Hartmut “Slow ‘Viral’ Infections of the Chemistry Seminar Crabtree, noon Student Sustainability Sym- Jaeschke, U of KS; S120 Starzl CNS,” Clayton Wiley; 114 “Pathways to More Efficient OBID Concert posium BST, noon Victoria, 9:30-11:30 am Organic Solar Cells: What We Lisa Joseph String Trio; Schenley WPU Ballrm., 9 am-1 pm HSLS Workshop Translational Neuroscience Can Learn by Watching Elec- Plaza, noon-2 pm (412/606-9075) “Sequence Similarity Search- Seminar trons Move in Real Time,” John Chemistry Seminar GI Research Rounds ing,” Carrie Iwema; Falk Library “Propofol, Parkinson’s Disease & Asbury, Penn St.; 12A Chevron, “How Aromantic Interactions “Inflammatory Bowel Disease classrm. 2, 1-3 pm Brain Rhythms,” Nancy Kopell; 4 pm Plant Utilization & Planning Control Your Genes: A Molec- Research,” David Binion; M2 1695 Starzl BST, noon ular View of Biomolecular conf. rm. Presby, noon Committee Sustainability PhD Defenses Subcommittee Presentation Recognition,” Marcey Waters, Human Genetics C.C. Li Tuesday 26 Joseph Fink, Facilities Manage- UNC-Chapel Hill; 12B Chev- Memorial Lecture ron, 2:30 pm “Lymphatics: The Other Vascu- GSPH/Epidemiology ment; 4127 Sennott, 3 pm GI Journal Club Information Sciences Lecture lar System,” Robert Ferrell; A115 “Racial Disparities in Asthma Neurology Grand Rounds “Genetic Studies,” Matthew “Teaching From Country: Sto- Crabtree, noon Severity: A Comparison Between “PRES: Clinical, Imaging & Coates & Dhiraj Yadav; M2 conf. ries & Place in a Postcolonial Black & White Adult Asthmatics Pathological Features,” Walter rm. Presby, 7:30 am Australian Aboriginal Peda- in the Severe Asthma Research Bartynski; 520 E&EI, 4 pm Saturday 23 UPCI Basic & Translational gogy,” Michael Christie, Charles Program,” Christy Gamble; Translational Neuroscience Research Seminar Darwin U; UClub Ballrm. B, April 15, A523 Crabtree, 8:30 am Lecture • Reading day. “ChIP-seq for p63: From Infec- 3 pm GSPH/Biostatistics “Neurogenesis in the Adult tion to Development & Cancer,” “Statistical Issues in Combin- • CGS, Saturday, grad & eve- Brain: Regulation & Function,” Dennis McCance, Queen’s U; ing Multiple Genomic Studies: ning classes continue to meet Fred Gage; WPIC 2nd fl. aud., Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper Quality Assessment, Dimen- through April 30; final exams 4 pm classrm. D, noon (412/623-7771) sion Reduction & Integration OBID Concert of Transcriptomic & Phenomic Heather Kropf; Schenley Plaza, Data,” Dongwan Kang; April 15, noon-2 pm 308 Parran, 10 am Philosophy of Science Lecture A&S/Communication “The Gene: A Concept in “Queerly Remembered: Tacti- Flux,” Staffan Müller-Wille, U cal & Strategic Rhetorics for of Exeter; 817R CL, 12:05 pm Representing the GLBTQ Past,” (4-1052) Thomas Dunn; April 18, 1128 Pharmacology & Chemical CL, 10 am Biology Seminar GSPH/Human Genetics “SUMOylation & De- “Mutagenic Potential of Telo- SUMOylation: Wrestling With meric Repeats & the Role of Life’s Processes,” Edward Yeh, U Werner Syndrome Helicase of TX; 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm Protein in Facilitating Telomeric DNA Replication,” Rama Rao Wednesday 27 Damerla; April 18, Bridgeside Point 5th fl. conf. rm., 10 am Clinical Oncology & Hematol- A&S/German ogy Grand Rounds “Subjectivity Regained? Ger- “Preparative Irradiation for Cell- man-Language Writing From Based Therapies in Regenerative Eastern Europe & the Balkans Medicine,” Chandan Guha; Through an East-West Gaze,” UPMC Cancer Pavilion Herber- Boryana Dobreva; April 18, 5400 man Conf. Ctr. classrm. C, 8 am Posvar, 1 pm Biomedical Informatics Work- A&S/Chemistry shop “Self-Assembly of Liquid Crys- “Text Information Extrac- tals & Chiral Superstructures: tion System: A New Tool for From Coarse-Grained to Fully Research”; Hillman Cancer Ctr., Atomistic Models,” Fangyong Cooper classrm. A/B, 11 am Yan; April 18, 307 Eberly, 1:30 HSLS Workshop pm “Protein Sequence Analysis,” A&S/Physics & Astronomy Ansuman Chattopadhyay; Falk “Nanoelectronics in Oxides & Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm Semiconductors,” Guanglei Neurology Grand Rounds Cheng; April 18, 316 Allen, 3 pm “Immunopathogenesis of Mul- Medicine/Clinical & Transla- tiple Sclerosis,” Michael Racke; tional Science 1105 Scaife, 4 pm “The Epigenetic Regulation of GI Grand Rounds Chemotherapy Resistance in “Endoscopic & Radiologic Melanoma,” Hussein Tawbi; Unknowns,” John Nasr, Ari April 19, 305 Parkvale, 3 pm Wiesen & Su Min Cho; 11 Scaife A&S/English conf. ctr., 5 pm “Teeming Delight: Irish Poetry, OED Lecture 1930-1960,” Jessica Pannell; “Creating & Implementing April 20, 527 CL, 9 am Breakthrough Medical Tech- GSPH/Epidemiology nologies,” Robert Langer, MIT; “Cholesterol Metabolism in the Alumni 7th fl. aud., 5:30 pm Brain & Dementia,” Timothy Hughes; April 21, 130 N. Belle- Thursday 28 field 5th fl. conf. rm., noon A&S/English HSLS Workshop “The Invention of England: “The WOW Factor: PowerPoint Danes & Identity in Medieval for Posters,” Julia Jankovic; Falk Romance,” Daniel Wollenberg; Library classrm. 2, 9-11 am April 22, 527 CL, 9 am CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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