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Newspaper of the University of Volume X • Number 25 • September 30, 2009 PittSPECIAL G-20 SUMMITChronicle ISSUE Strengthening the Ties Russian President Medvedev Visits Pitt, Discusses Changes in U.S.-Russian Relations—And Talks a Little Bit About Himself, Too PHOTOS BY JJOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev and Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s Medvedev addressed the estimated since then. We are no As the son of visit last week to the University of Pitts- 300-plus people gathered in the Cathedral longer divided by the a professor and a burgh was in keeping with Pittsburgh and of Learning Commons Room. But before barriers of ideology former teacher, Med- Pitt’s long history with . Medvedev he began the question-and-answer session, and values that existed vedev, when asked took a break from his G-20 Pittsburgh he made reference to former Soviet Premier then. We share practi- what a dv ice t he Summit duties on Sept. 25 to visit the Cathe- Nikita Khrushchev’s 1959 tour of the United cally the same views president of a major dral of Learning’s Commons Room for a States and his visit to Pitt’s Schenley Hall on global development country can offer Pitt late afternoon question-and-answer ses- ballroom (now the William Pitt Union). issues and respond in students, told them to sion with an audience “ is a great plea- the same way to prob- relish their years in composed predomi- sure to have this oppor- lems at home. academia. nantly of Pitt students Medvedev also visited the tunity to share with you “There are no “I have had all that also included Pitt Cathedral’s Russian my vision of events past doubt issues t hat sorts of experiences faculty, staff, trustees, and present in Russia, arouse in us different in my life: I was a and alumni, as well as Nationality Room, dedicated Russian-American rela- emotions, things on graduate student, a a flock of Russian and tions, the global chal- which we do not see teacher, a lawyer, I American reporters. in 1938, which pays tribute lenges, and problems eye-to-eye, but this worked in business, Medvedev also that we all face … It is is good, too, for this became a civil ser- visited the Cathedral’s to the presence of Russian particularly interesting is one of the driving vant, worked in the Russian Nationality to know that exactly forces that has been government,” he said. Room, dedicated in émigrés who came to Pitts- 50 years ago, one of helping humanity to “Now I am president 1938, which pays trib- burgh, bringing their culture the Soviet leaders vis- develop over thou- of a large country, ute to the presence of ited this very place. I sands of years. We but I can tell you that Russian émigrés who and traditions with them. cannot say that we are are all different, and those years when I came to Pittsburgh, close politically, or that this is good. At the was a law student bringing their culture I share his views, but it same time, we share were the happiest and traditions with them. Pitt Chancellor is interesting whatever the case to note this common values, and Dmitry Medvedev years of my life. It Mark A. Nordenberg, during his introduc- coincidence. Nothing is ever completely this is also good.” [your time in college] tion of the Russian president, said that today coincidence, after all,” Medvedev said. Medvedev then took unscripted ques- is also an important foundation for your Pitt promotes and preserves Russian culture “I hope, too, that you will not ask me tions from the students in the audience— future lives and should motivate you to seek through the University’s Center for Russian the same questions as were put to Nikita ranging from those who sought his advice learning every single day. So, my advice to and Eastern European Studies, the Depart- Khrushchev 50 years ago, because life has to college students, to those who pressed you is to treasure this time. I envy you.” ment of Slavic Languages and Literatures, gone on, and we have all changed since then. him on Russia’s relations with some of its A transcript of the question-and- and student exchange programs. “We hope Actually, I can’t say that I have changed neighbors. (Nordenberg noted that the presi- answer session with President Medvedev to elevate that sense of connection to newer since then because I was not even born 50 dent, a one-time instructor at St. Petersburg is available on the Kremlin Web site at heights as we listen to and learn from Presi- years ago, but there is no question that our State University, had declined a moderator, eng.kremlin.ru/speeches/2009/09/25/1932_ dent Medvedev,” Nordenberg said. countries have undergone great change preferring personal exchanges.) type84779_221858.shtml. 2 • Pitt Chronicle • September 30, 2009 SPECIAL G-20 SUMMIT ISSUE

An American Homecoming EU Commission President Barroso Returns To Pitt for Honorary Degree, Luncheon ALEXANDER DENMARSH From left, Senior Editor Howard Fineman, Carnegie Mellon University President Jared L. Cohon, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg, and UPMC CEO Jeffrey A. Romoff. MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg (left), European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, and Alberta Sbragia (right), director of Pitt’s European Union Center of Excellence, the Jean Monnet Professor ad personam, and Mark A. Nordenberg “We really are in it together.” University Chair.

By Jane-Ellen Robinet Pitt, CMU, UPMC CEOs Discuss Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Barroso went on to say that he brought Mark A. Nordenberg conferred an honor- “three key messages” to Pittsburgh. The Region’s “Eds and Meds” Economy ary doctoral degree in public and interna- G-20 leaders must remain vigilant regard- By Jane-Ellen Robinet tional affairs upon José Manuel Barroso, ing the “fragile” global economic and president of the European Commission of financial situation, maintain pressure for With a huge photograph of Pittsburgh’s erate with one another for the betterment of the European Union (EU), during a Sept. 24 reform of financial markets, and retain the skyline as a stage backdrop, University of the region. by-invitation-only luncheon event in Alumni “momentum of the G-20.” He also called Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark A. Norden- “In 2000, our Board of Trustees issued Hall’s J.W. Connolly Ballroom. for the U.S. and EU to work more closely berg, Carnegie Mellon a public statement that we Barroso was in Pittsburgh to represent to fight climate change. University President would demonstrate that the the EU during the Sept. 24-25 global G-20 The EU represents 27 European Jared L. Cohon, and Nordenberg, Cohon, and University of Pittsburgh Summit, and his visit to the University was nations with a population of almost 500 mil- UPMC CEO Jeffrey was one of the finest, most a homecoming of sorts. He first visited Pitt lion. It accounts for more than 30 percent A. Romoff discussed Romoff discussed their productive universities in on Feb. 10, 2006, when he toured the Univer- of the world’s gross domestic product and the Pittsburgh region’s the world. That has been sity’s European Union Center of Excellence 17 percent of the world’s trade. continuing transforma- institutions’ respective our goal ever since. ... But and European Studies Center and gave a Barroso, former prime minister of tion from a steel-based we really don’t think of our- lecture that attracted a Portugal, became presi- economy to one built contributions to the selves as detached, particu- standing-room-only audi- dent of the European on education and medi- region, including the larly from the institutions ence. “Pittsburgh has been Commission in 2004. cine. represented on the other The EU leader’s Earlier this month, the The Sept. 21 panel rapid rise of Pitt to a sides of me [today]. When affection for the Uni- transformed by stressing European Parliament discussion in the ball- you look at Jeff [Romoff], versity and Pittsburgh the importance of new approved his appoint- room of Soldiers & Top 5 ranking in terms Jerry [Cohon], and me, you was apparent. “Pittsburgh ment as Eu ropean Sailors Memorial Hall of federal funding to its probably would not find has been transformed by technologies, particularly Commission president launched a week of three guys who are more stressing the importance for a second term. foreign heads-of-state faculty researchers from competitive. But we are of new technologies, par- information technology, During Barroso’s and delegation visits good collaborators, and we ticularly information tech- first term in office, with related activities the National Institutes of know that in this age you nology; medical research; medical research, biotech- European lawmakers in Oakland that culmi- biotechnology; nanotech- and leaders reached nated in the Sept. 24-25 Health. Continued on page 4 nology; and robotics. The nology, nanotechnology, agreement on more global G-20 Summit University, led with great than 470 Commission held Downtown. News- skill and vision by Chan- and robotics. The proposals, including a week Senior Editor and Pittsburgh native cellor Nordenberg, has landmark package of Howard Fineman moderated the 45-minute played a vital role in that University, led with great laws to fight climate panel, which was attended by U.S. and effort, positioning Pitts- skill and vision by change and promote foreign journalists. Also present were PittChronicle burgh to capitalize on the clean energy. Barroso representatives from 20 local companies, Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh knowledge societies of the Chancellor Nordenberg, has championed eco- all spin-offs of research conducted at Pitt, future,” Barroso said. nomic and labor market Carnegie Mellon, and UPMC; they were PUBLISHER Robert Hill Barroso also praised has played a vital role in reforms designed to exhibiting their products at tables lining the ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith Pitt’s European Union make Europe more room’s perimeter. EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer Center of Excellence and that effort, positioning competitive globally. Fineman began the program by saying EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet its director, Alberta Sbra- Under his leadership, that he loves Pittsburgh and that even with ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener gia, the Jean Monnet Pro- Pittsburgh to capitalize on the European Union his skeptical reporter’s hat on, “Pittsburgh STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake fessor ad personam and the knowledge societies of Commission was the has a story that needs to be known.” John Fedele Mark A. Nordenberg Uni- first international insti- “My grandmother and mother would Morgan Kelly versity Chair. “In 1998, tution to produce a the future.”, shop Downtown when my mother was a girl, Amanda Leff the University of Pitts- —Jose Manuel Barroso credible recovery plan and they would take a change of blouses and Anthony M. Moore burgh won a highly com- to confront the global a washcloth because the pollution from the Patricia Lomando White petitive award to found economic downturn. open-hearth steel mills was so intense they what is now the European After graduating in couldn’t get through the day and stay clean. HAPPENINGS EDITOR Anthony M. Moore Union Center of Excellence. The director law from the University of Lisbon, Barroso That was the Pittsburgh of the ’20s and ’30s, of the center, Professor Alberta Sbragia, is earned a diploma in European Studies and and that was a Pittsburgh that existed until The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by one of the most-respected scholars of the a master’s degree in political science at the the 1980s. That city is gone. And what has University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, EU in the world. She has built a remarkable University of Geneva. As a distinguished replaced it is a new city based on the econo- 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, program that plays a leading role among the academic, he lectured in political science mies of the future,” Fineman added. Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, broader network of Centers of Excellence in at the University of Geneva, was a visiting Nordenberg, Cohon, and Romoff dis- E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu the ,” Barroso said. professor in the School of Foreign Service cussed their institutions’ respective contri- The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal On the global front, the EU Commis- at Georgetown University, and was head butions to the region, including the rapid rise opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any sion head told the audience that he wanted of the International Relations Department of Pitt to a Top 5 ranking in terms of federal basis prohibited by law. to talk “about the need to build more bridges of Lusíada University. In 1985, he entered funding to its faculty researchers from the between Europe and the United States. And the Portuguese Parliament and rose quickly National Institutes of Health. where better to do that than in ‘the City of But it was Nordenberg who directly Bridges’ itself?” Continued on page 4 addressed how the three institutions coop- SPECIAL G-20 SUMMIT ISSUE September 30, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 3

Reporters’ Notebook The World Comes to Oakland By Jane-Ellen Robinet and Sharon S. Blake

The G-20 Pittsburgh Summit brought during a by-invitation-only luncheon in heads of state and other dignitaries to Pitt’s Alumni Hall’s J.W. Connolly Ballroom. campus, as well as numerous journalists. Reporters, who were seated around the And while the Downtown streets surround- room’s perimeter, had been told that Pitt ing the David L. Lawrence Convention would provide box lunches for them. The Center were ghostly quiet because of a food was available in an upstairs lounge Secret Service-imposed security perimeter, before and after the event, but no eating the streets of Oakland were bustling. A few was allowed in the ballroom. So while the scenes follow. estimated 250 guests enjoyed their sit-down lunch, assembled journalists remained in The Old Incorporates the New their seats waiting for Barroso’s speech to Dressed in blue jeans and sporting a hip begin. More than one reporter could be over- thin-brimmed hat, Tommy Yoo seemed an heard commenting about text messages they unlikely person to be featured in a Korean were receiving from their editors during the festival. Surrounded by Korean men and pause in activity: “What’s happening now? women wearing brightly colored native What’s going on?” several editors texted dress, the 25-year-old Korean man stood their reporters. “They’re eating, they’re near an opening in the crowd and then broke eating,” was the newsy reply. into dance—a break-dance, to be precise. Yoo kicked up his heels and held his taut A High-tech Exchange “We really are in it together.” body aloft in a one-arm handstand. Then, One corner of the 72-year-old Cathedral he collapsed effortlessly into a roll onto the of Learning’s Commons Room became hard, large gray stone floor of the Cathedral

MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE decidedly high-tech during a Sept. 24 of Learning’s Commons Room. Without European Commission President Barroso addresses a luncheon in Alumni Hall address given by Russian President Dmitry missing a beat, he contorted his body so it A. Medvedev. Local, national, and foreign rose back up into the air feet first and used journalists and Russian delegation members his head to spin around and around. While Pitt’s campus was her father’s home times during her four years in Washington. joined about 300 invited Pitt faculty, staff, “Welcome, Korea, to the Pittsburgh away from home, Sharon Epperson said she Speaking flawless English and asking alumni, trustees, and students for the talk. Summit,” read a banner above an arched remembers growing up and spending many numerous questions, Woltersdorf was And just adjacent to a riser upon which more doorway in the Commons Room, which childhood days on Pitt’s campus. one of several journalists who took a than a dozen videographers were clustered was the site of the Sept. 20 Korean Festival, As a correspondent for CNBC-TV, Sept. 21 tour of Pitt’s Biomedical Science sat two professional interpreters. sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Sharon Epperson covers the global energy Tower 3. The man and woman, seated inside a Program, the Korean and commodities markets daily from the The $205.5 million, state-of-the-art small soundproof booth with windows, used Heritage Room Committee, and the region’s floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange research facility is home to 50 laboratories Bosch DCN interpreter consoles to translate Korean community. and also covers personal finance. She gradu- and 500 researchers who are working on simultaneously—United Nations-style—Pitt Food was in abundance during the festi- ated cum laude from Harvard University advanced medical therapies for such diseases Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg’s introduc- val, and the buffet featured such traditional and also received a master’s degree in inter- as Alzheimer’s and Parkison’s, as well as tion into Russian, Medvedev’s remarks into favorites as kimchi (spicy cabbage seasoned national affairs from Columbia University. “orphan diseases,” which affect small num- English, and the students’ questions into with Korean red pepper) and bool go gi Epperson was in town last week to cover the bers of people but are often prevalent in the either Russian or English, depending on the (sliced beef and vegetables seasoned with summit, and she visited Pitt on Sept. 21 to developing world. The tower offers stun- language in which the question was asked. sweet Korean soy sauce). participate in a media panel organized by ning views of the campus and beyond—and All the attendees received small headsets Break dancing was just one of the acts Pitt’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of includes hallway floors patterned in colors that allowed them to switch between English in the entertainment lineup. Others included Business and College of Business Admin- to represent different mouse chromosomes. and Russian. demonstrations of tae kwon do (Korean istration. Arthur S. Levine, Pitt senior vice chancellor A team from the Arlington, Virginia- martial arts) and a Korean traditional wed- How did it feel to be back in Pittsburgh for the health sciences and dean of the School based ASET International Services LLC ding ceremony, as well as choirs of children with the city in the world’s limelight? “When of Medicine, welcomed tour participants, sat just below the booth, using laptops to and women. I first heard that Pittsburgh was selected to explaining that many of the building’s scien- monitor the process to ensure the two inter- As for Yoo, who host the summit, I wondered tists are structural, computational, or devel- preters were on the correct channels. The piled his plate high if it was ready. But having opmental biologists. Much of their work half-million dollars worth of equipment, with Korean special- been here over the past two focuses on exploring the structure and func- which took eight hours to install, had been ties during a break, the days, I now know it’s ready. tion of a variety of biologic molecules and, in used the previous night during a United afternoon was an oppor- We’ve been through many particular, proteins: “If we are ever to design Nations dinner in New York. tunity to work on his crises and have survived. new drugs or vaccines, we need to know The interpreters in the booth would nod burgeoning career as It’s great to be here,” she said what these proteins look like,” Levine said. when it was time for one to relieve the other, a disc jockey, hip-hop during a pre-panel reception which happened every 15 to 20 minutes. dance teacher, and per- in the University Club’s Fra- Tweeting and Eating “Simultaneous interpretation is gru- former. Does he hurt ternity Grill. In this era of 24/7 communication— eling,” noted Anne Renaldi, ASET’s after using his head About 100 students, e-mailing, tweeting, texting—editors deputy director of conference services. to spin around on the alumni, and visitors attended expect journalists to be filing constantly. “Interpreters have to listen to the source Commons Room floor? the media panel, which also Even when nothing is happening. Take the language, mentally translate, and speak “Well, you have to know featured Jeffrey Ballou, Sept. 24 speech by José Manuel Barroso in the target language simultaneously.” [the pain] is coming. deputy news editor of Al I’m used to it now. We Jazeera English; Kevin Car- [break-dancers] stretch JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE michael, economics reporter a lot before going to Sharon Epperson for Toronto’s The Globe and bed.” Mail; and Dan Simpson, A few minutes later, an associate editor at the Yoo quietly sauntered out Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. of the Commons Room. The event was part of Katz’s No doubt, he would have monthlong celebration of some stretching to do the G-20 member countries, later that evening. with spotlights and forums on the role of the G-20 in the Prominent Footsteps of global economy. Her Own To hear Epperson’s The G-20 Summit report on the Summit, visit brought Sharon Epper- http://www.cnbc.com/id/15 son back to her child- 840232?video=1275098785 hood playground—and &play=1. to the academic stomp- ing grounds of her BST 3 Opens Its Doors father, David E. Epper- JIM BURKE/CIDDE German journalist Adri- son (A&S ’61, ’70, ‘75G, Adrienne Woltersdorf enne Woltersdorf said she SOC WK ’64), who was was happy to be in Pittsburgh dean of the University of Pittsburgh’s School covering the G-20 Summit. As the Washing- of Social Work from 1972 to 2001. Sharon ton bureau chief for the Berlin-based Die Epperson’s mother, Cecilia Trower Epperson Tageszeitung, Woltersdorf has friends in JIM BURKE/CIDDE (BS ’57, MS ’62), is also a Pitt alumnus. Pittsburgh and said she has visited many Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg shakes hands with Medvedev in the Commons Room of the Cathedral of Learning. 4 • Pitt Chronicle • September 30, 2009 SPECIAL G-20 SUMMIT ISSUE Lagasse, Banerjee Get $5.1 Million Pitt, CMU, UPMC CEOs Discuss Pittsburgh From NIH to Explore Better Ways to Region’s “Eds and Meds” Economy Grow Cells for Regenerative Medicine By Morgan Kelly

Regenerative medicine researchers at to grow liver cells, for example, which the University of Pittsburgh received two must also be available in abundance and grants totaling more than with ample blood flow to $5.1 million from the provide life-sustaining National Institutes of hepatic function, Lagasse Health (NIH) to explore said. His team will explore new methods for culti- growing liver and other vating replacement cells tissues in such “ectopic” from existing tissues and sites, meaning outside of organs. where they would nor- A $2.9 million, five- mally reside. The same year Transformative R01 principle of using lymph (T-R01) grant presented nodes as a site for ectopic to Eric Lagasse, a profes- cell factories might work sor of pathology in Pitt’s for replacing pancreas School of Medicine and cells that make insulin for a researcher in Pitt and patients with diabetes or UPMC’s jointly oper- immune system T-cells ated McGowan Insti- for patients who have tute for Regenerative AIDS and other diseases Medicine, will support of immunologic impair- the development of a ment. novel concept: using Eric Lagasse “Our regenerative the body’s many lymph medicine approach for MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE nodes as sites for grow- healing damaged tissues Pitt engineering professor Kent Harries in his bamboo lab, part of the Pitt “green” tour ing replacement cells for and organs might not have other tissues and organs, moved forward without Continued from page 2 in essence using them this new grant concept,” really need to define harness that power for our as bioreactors to grow Lagasse noted. “This competition in a differ- Following the discussion, own good and the good cells within the living funding supports assess- ent way. We really are reporters were taken of the community. I think body. Ipsita Banerjee, ment and rapid transla- in it together,” Norden- that is a part of the culture a professor of chemical tion from the bench to the berg said. on several cutting-edge of Pittsburgh.” and petroleum engineer- bedside of nontraditional The Pitt chancellor Following the discus- ing in Pitt’s Swanson treatments.” then recalled that when technology and research sion, reporters were taken School of Engineering Banerjee will inves- Cohon came to Pitts- on several cutting-edge and a McGowan fac- tigate the process through burgh 10 years ago, he tours on the campuses of technology and research ulty member, received which embryonic stem and the new Carnegie tours on the campuses of a $2.2 million, five-year cells become mature, Mellon president met Carnegie Mellon, Pitt, and Carnegie Mellon, Pitt, and New Innovator award to organ-specific cells and and they talked about UPMC. UPMC. Tour sites were unravel how embryonic how scientists can control how the two universi- Pitt’s Peter M. Winter stem cells develop into that development. Using ties were sitting “side Institute for Simulation, mature cells and possible a bottom-up approach, Ipsita Banerjee by side—one public, one private, one large, Education, and Research, Pitt’s Biomedical techniques for influenc- Banerjee will cultivate one mid-sized—with really complementary Science Tower 3, Pitt’s Center for Global ing their growth to suit specific organs. stem cells into pancreatic cells, noting academic strengths. And we thought that Health, Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Insti- The grants were presented as part of the molecular-level information that could be there was really only one other place in the tute, Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment 2009 NIH Director’s High-Risk Research integrated into dictating cell development, country—Cambridge, Mass.—where you Technology Center, a Pitt Green Tour, Pitt’s Awards, a cluster of five-year grants such as the influence of environmental fac- could find the total academic firepower that Center for Energy, the Pitt-Carnegie Mellon presented to research- tors and gene and protein you could find in Oakland. And we knew Quality of Life Technology Center, and the ers exploring ideas with networks. we needed to find ways to cooperate and Carnegie Mellon Intelligent Workplace. the potential to advance Fellow recipients include “I want to take a their fields and medi- completely different cal treatment. On Sept. researchers from the approach to addressing 24, the NIH announced the complex process of 115 awards totaling $348 Cleveland Clinic, cell development, which EU Commission President Barroso Returns million, including 42 Columbia University, will potentially advance T-R01 Awards, 18 Pio- our understanding of To Pitt for Honorary Degree, Luncheon neer Awards, and 55 New Duke University, regenerative medicine Innovator Awards for and stem cell bioengi- European Commission. early-stage investigators. Harvard University, the neering as a whole,” Barroso is the author of This marks the inaugu- Banerjee said. numerous publications and holds ral year for the T-R01 Johns Hopkins Two Pitt researchers more than 20 decorations, includ- grants—which support have received NIH Direc- ing Portugal’s Grã-Cruz da Ordem innovative and high-risk University School of tor’s awards in the past. Militar de Cristo in 1996, the projects that could pro- Medicine, Massachusetts In 2007, Eva Szigethy, of 1992 Casa da Imprensa Prize for foundly impact biomedi- the Children’s Hospital of politics, and Spain’s “Medalla de cal research and medical General Hospital, the Pittsburgh of UPMC and Oro de la Ciudad de Zamora” in treatment—and also is a an assistant professor of 2005. record year for the number Massachusetts Institute psychiatry and pediatrics The European Commission, of New Innovator and Pio- at Pitt, received a New headquartered in Brussels, is the neer Awards bestowed. of Technology, Mount Innovators grant to use executive branch of the EU, setting Fellow New Innovator inf lammatory bowel dis- policy, proposing legislation, and and T-R01 recipients Sinai School of ease as a model for inves- promoting the common interests include researchers from Medicine, Stanford tigating the interactions of the EU. the Cleveland Clinic, between the brain, gut, The University of Pittsburgh’s Columbia University, University, and the and immune system in European Union Center of Excel- Duke University, Harvard determining how adoles- lence and European Studies Center University, the Johns Hop- University of cents cope with chronic are part of the University Center kins University School of illness. for International Studies (UCIS). Medicine, Massachusetts Pennsylvania. The following year, UCIS has been recognized by the General Hospital, the Barry London, a Pitt José Manuel Barroso on an earlier visit to the University in February 2006 Council on Learning as one of the Massachusetts Institute professor of medicine, exemplary international studies of Technology, Mount Sinai School of Medi- was presented with a Pioneer Award to Continued from page 2 programs in the United States. cine, Stanford University, and the University develop new techniques to image electrical The University’s European Union of Pennsylvania. activity of the heart and identify those at through government ranks as state secretary Center of Excellence is one of only 11 Lagasse’s work focuses on lymph nodes, risk of sudden cardiac death. for home affairs, state secretary for foreign centers in the United States to receive this which are important in responses to bacterial More information on the 2009 NIH affairs, and then minister for foreign affairs. designation by the European Commission. and viral infection and are found throughout Director’s Awards is available on the NIH He was elected prime minister of Portugal The European Studies Center has been the body. Even spread out, the total mass Web site at www.nih.gov/news/health/ in 2002; two years later, he resigned from designated as a National Resource Center of the nodes makes them a feasible place sep2009/od-24.htm. that position to assume the presidency of the by the U.S. Department of Education. SPECIAL G-20 SUMMIT ISSUE September 30, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 5

A Warm Welcome Pitt’s Library System Digitizes, Mounts Works of Fred Wright, Noted Labor Cartoonist PHOTOS BY JOE KAPELEWSKI/CIDDE Top: Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, smiles as she walks into the Japanese Nationality Room in the Cathedral of Learning and is greeted by applause from invited Pitt guests. Below: Deane Root (right), Pitt professor of music and Fletcher Hodges Jr. Curator of Pitt’s Foster Hall Collection, shows Japanese First Lady Hatoyama (center) Stephen Foster artifacts in a case in the Stephen Foster Memorial as her interpreter (left) translates.

By Sharon S. Blake

The work of Fred Wright, one of three panels and was accompanied by Pitt Elects New Alumni Association Board Members America’s most-renowned labor car- text written by UE News photographer By Patricia Lomondo White toonists, has been digitized and mounted and reporter James Lerner. online by the University of Pittsburgh The specific digital images on the Library System (ULS). The new Web new site are of publication plates, or The University of Pittsburgh Alumni Pittsburgh. Association recently elected nine new mem- site, titled “Drawing on the American cut-and-paste pages, used by Wright to Haig Sakoian is the global director Labor Movement,” features Wright’s lay out a proof of his original cartoon bers to its Board of Directors. Lisa Golden, of Environment Health and Safety and John Racioppi, Frank Ruscetti, and James entire Labor History Series in addition along with Lerner’s text. Operations Audit with Alcoa Inc. Sakoian to some of his other works. It is acces- Wright’s materials are in Pitt’s Hill were elected directors at large. Haig has earned three degrees at Pitt: a BS in Sakoian was elected as regional director for sible at http://images.library.pitt.edu/f/ Archives Service Center, 7500 Thomas biochemistry in 1975, an MS in industrial fredwright/. Blvd., Point Breeze, which is the a two-year term, and Tim Pecsenye, Valerie hygiene in 1979, and an MBA in 2004. He Corbin-Ketchen, Heather Harmon, and Gary Wright’s career as a cartoonist national repository for the records of the resides in Pittsburgh. began in the U.S. Army in 1939, but he UE, including a collection called “Pho- Brownlee were elected as regional directors Tim Pecsenye is a partner in the law for three-year terms. is best known for his work for the United tographs from the UE News Photograph firm Blank Rome, LLP, in Philadelphia. He Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers Collection,” which can be accessed at Biographical information of the newly received a BA degree from Pitt’s School of elected officials follows: of America (UE), one of the country’s http://images.library.pitt.edu/u/ue/. Arts and Sciences in 1984 and a JD degree largest independent labor unions, still The Archives Service Center also Lisa Golden is an emergency medicine from Pitt’s law school in 1987. A life member physician with Westmoreland Emergency headquartered in Pittsburgh. From 1949 houses the Archives of Industrial Society, of Pitt’s Alumni Association, Pecsenye is a until his death in 1984, Wright created which comprises historical records per- Medicine Specialists, P.C., in Greensburg, 2003 Volunteer of Excellence Award recipi- Pa. A 1993 graduate of Pitt with a BS degree thousands of cartoons for the union’s taining to the labor ent and is affiliated with the New Jersey Pitt newspaper, the UE News, as well as for and Western Pennsylvania throughout from the School of Arts and Sciences, Club and the Pitt Club of Greater Philadel- Golden is a member of the Alumni Leader- other publications. He also designed the 19th and 20th centuries. phia. He resides in Philadelphia. leaflets, strike placards, ship Council and Panther Club and cochair Valerie Corbin-Ketchen is senior gov- of the Scholarship Committee. She resides and animated cartoons ernment affairs representative for Highmark about organizing for the in Windbar, Pa. Blue Cross Blue Shield in Camp Hill, Pa. John Racioppi is senior vice president American labor move- She earned a BA degree in urban studies at ment. of business development at Accept Software Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences in 1981. in Fremont, Calif. He received a BA degree In the spirit of Corbin-Ketchen is regional representative the movement, Wright’s in economics from Pitt’s School of Arts and for Pitt’s African American Alumni Council Sciences in 1979 and an MBA degree from early cartoons criticized in Central Pennsylvania, a member of the governmental anti-union the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Busi- Alumni Legislative Network, and a PART ness in 1980. A member of Pitt’s San Fran- actions like the Taft- volunteer. Hill lives in Harrisburg. Hartley Act, as well cisco Bay Area Alumni Club since 2000, Heather Harmon is channel develop- Racioppi has served as club president since as McCarthyism. His ment manager of The Topps Co., Inc., in New Labor History Series 2005. He resides in Scotts Valley, Calif. York City. She earned a BS degree at Pitt’s Frank Ruscetti is chair and president cartoons—177 in all— College of Business Administration in 2005. first appeared in the of Harvest Financial Corp. in Pittsburgh. He Harmon is a Pitt Alumni Association Young earned a BA degree at Pitt’s School of Arts UE News from 1956 Life Member, a member of the Pitt New York through 1961 and an and Sciences in 1971. He established the City Pitt Club, and a Pitt Career Network Ruscetti Family Academic Incentive Award, expanded version ran volunteer. She resides in New York City. during the 1970s. They which provides scholarships for students. He Gary Brownlee, former managing resides in Pittsburgh. illustrate the conflicts partner at New State Mortgage Co., is a real and hardships that work- James Hill is vice president and senior estate investor. He received a BA degree in investment manager of Oakmont Capital ers faced during the economics from Pitt’s School of Arts and American labor move- Management, LLC. He received a BS degree Sciences in 1974 and an MBA from the in political science from Pitt’s School of Arts ment from the Colonial Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Busi- period to the Vietnam and Sciences in 1998. Hill is a volunteer in ness in 1978. An Alumni Association life the Pitt Career Network, participant in Pitt’s War. When published, member, Brownlee is a senior advisor on the each cartoon contained Pathway to Professions, a member of Pitt’s Alumni Association Board and is treasurer African American Alumni Council, and a of the Pitt Club of Chicago. He resides in mentor for Pitt’s RISE program. He lives in Valparaiso, Ind. 6 • Pitt Chronicle • September 30, 2009 SPECIAL G-20 SUMMIT ISSUE Science&Technology Pitt Research Suggests EPA Standard for Pesticide Safety Overlooks Poisons’ Long-term Effects By Morgan Kelly

The four-day testing period the in nature. The team cites estimates from ogy and Chemistry expands U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Australia—where endosulfan is widely on one of Relyea’s most nota- (EPA) commonly uses to determine safe used—that the pesticide can reach 700 ppb ble investigations, a series of levels of pesticide exposure for humans when sprayed as close as 10 meters from the findings published in Eco- and animals could fail to account for ponds amphibians typically call home and 4 logical Applications in 2005 the toxins’ long-term effects, University ppb when sprayed within 200 meters. The indicating that the popular of Pittsburgh researchers report in the EPA estimates that surface drinking water weed-killer Roundup® is September edition of Environmental can have chronic endosulfan levels of 0.5 to “extremely lethal” to amphib- Toxicology and Chemistry. 1.5 ppb and acute concentrations of 4.5 to ians in concentrations found The team found that 23.9 ppb. in the environment. The latest the highly toxic pesticide Leopard frogs, spring peep- work determined the toxicity endosulfan—a neurotoxin ers, and American toads fared of Roundup Original Max banned in several nations but well during the experiment’s for a wider group of larval still used extensively in U.S. first four days, but once they amphibians, including nine agriculture—can exhibit a were in clean water, the death frog and toad species and “lag effect” with the fallout rate spiked for animals previ- four salamander species. from exposure not surfacing ously exposed to 35 and 60 ppb. The report is available on until after direct contact has MIKE DRAZDZINSKI/CIDDE Although the other six species Pitt’s Web site at www. 84 percent. ended. Lead author Devin did not experience the lag effect, pitt.edu/news2009/ A month earlier, Jones, a recent Pitt biological the initial doses of endosulfan Roundup.pdf. Relyea published a paper in sciences graduate, conducted were still devastating at very In November 2008, Ecological Applications report- the experiment under Rick Relyea reported Rick Reylea low concentrations. Grey and ing that gradual amounts of malathion— Relyea, an associate profes- Pacific tree frogs, Western in Oecologia the most popular insecticide in the sor of biological sciences in Pitt’s School toads, and Cascades frogs began dying in that the world’s United States—too small to directly of Arts and Sciences, with collabora- large numbers from doses as low as 7 ppb, 10 most popular kill developing leopard frog tadpoles tion from Pitt postdoctoral researcher while the same amount killed all green frog pesticides—which instead sparked a biological chain reac- John Hammond. The paper is available and bullfrog tadpoles. have been detected tion that deprived them of their primary on Pitt’s Web site at www.pitt.edu/ The endosulfan findings build on a in nature—combine to create “cocktails of food source. As a result, nearly half news2009/Endosulfan.pdf. 10-year effort by Relyea to understand the contaminants” that can destroy amphibian the tadpoles in the experiment did not The team exposed nine species of potential links between the global decline in populations, even if the concentration of reach maturity and would have died in frog and toad tadpoles to endosulfan amphibians, routine pesticide use, and the each individual chemical is within levels nature. levels “expected and found in nature” for possible threat to humans in the future. considered safe for humans and animals. News releases about Relyea’s previ- the EPA’s required four-day period, then A second paper by Relyea and Jones The mixture killed 99 percent of leopard ous work are available on Pitt’s Web site moved the tadpoles to clean water for also in the current Environmental Toxicol- frog tadpoles, and endosulfan alone killed at www.news.pitt.edu an additional four days, Jones reported. Although endosulfan was ultimately toxic to all species, three species of tadpole showed no significant sensitiv- Researchers’ Nanoscale Devices Enhance Drug Delivery Systems, Oxygen Sensors ity to the chemical until after they were By Morgan Kelly transferred to fresh water. Within four days of being moved, up to 97 percent Two nanoscale devices recently reported important safety devices in mines, aircraft, in Advanced Materials, existing technolo- of leopard frog tadpoles perished along by University of Pittsburgh researchers in submarines, and other confined spaces, the gies are typically constructed of polymers with up to 50 percent of spring peeper separate journals harness the potential of researchers noted. The sensor consists of that are permeable like a sponge and can and American toad tadpoles. carbon nanomaterials to enhance two types carbon nanotubes coated with a lumines- result in leakage, Star explained. Addition- Of most concern, explained Relyea, of technologies: one for drug or imaging cent compound incorporating europium, a ally, each capsule must be tailored to its is that tadpoles and other amphibians agent delivery and energy storage systems, reactive metal found in fluorescent bulbs, particular cargo, he said. The Pitt version are famously sensitive to pollutants and and the other to bolster the sensitivity of television/computer screens, and lasers, employs graphite carbon shells bonded considered an environmental indicator oxygen sensors essential in confined set- among other applications. with glutaraldehyde—a common biologi- species. The EPA does not require test- tings, from mines to spacecrafts. The researchers gauged oxygen levels cal adhesive—creating a hollow storage ing on amphibians to determine pesticide In a report published online by Advanced by measuring the intensity of the gas’ glow space. More importantly, the graphite safety, but Relyea previously found that Materials Aug. 12, a team led by chemistry when exposed to ultraviolent light and the shells are chemically inactive and are thus endosulfan is 1,000 times more lethal professors Alexander Star tubes’ change in electrical compatible with any cargo substance with- to amphibians than are other pesticides. and Stéphane Petoud in Pitt’s conductance. The tubes dem- out costly and time-consuming chemical Yet, he said, if the powerful insecticide School of Arts and Sciences onstrated sensitivity to oxygen preparation, Star said. cannot kill one the world’s most sus- describes the creation of concentrations as low as 5 “For decades, researchers have been ceptible species in four days, then the nanosize capsules that are percent (normal atmospheric searching for an optimal vessel for stor- four-day test period may not adequately universally compatible with concentration is around 20 ing and transporting a variety of cargo gauge the long-term effects on larger, a range of substances, par- percent), with the team calcu- to specified locations,” Star said. “Our less-sensitive species. ticularly related to medicine lating that it can indicate a level devices have the potential to be universal “When a pesticide’s toxic effect and energy. When applied to as low as 0.4 percent, and they delivery vehicles for a range of materials. takes more than four days to appear, it medicine, the tiny vessels can were unaffected by other atmo- Our next steps will focus on controlling raises serious concerns about making potentially carry a sizable spheric gases, such as carbon how and when the nanocapsules open by regulatory decisions based on standard “cargo” of anticancer drugs dioxide and nitrogen. The using different stimuli such as pH, light, four-day tests for any organism,” Relyea or medical-imaging agents Alexander Star second paper was authored by and chemical agents.” said. “For most pesticides, we assume and could be steered via antibodies and bio- Shade and Pitt chemistry graduate students To illustrate the capsules’ adaptabil- that animals will die during the period logical molecules to specific locations within Douglas Kauffman and Hyounsoo Uh. ity, the team loaded them with a lumines- of exposure, but we do not expect sub- the human body. Energy applications include For both technologies, the Pitt teams cent imaging agent developed in Petoud’s stantial death after the exposure has the storage of lithium and hydrogen in bat- worked with carbon nanomaterials to create lab made of zinc sulfide semiconductor ended. Even if EPA regulations required teries and fuel cells. Pitt graduate chemistry enhanced versions of existing technologies. nanocrystals incorporating terbium, a testing on amphibians, our research student Brett Allen was the paper’s lead For instance, the oxygen sensor combines metal chemically similar to europium. demonstrates that the standard four-day author. The project also included chemistry the small scale of carbon nanotubes—they Once in the body, the substance would toxicity test would have dramatically graduate student Chad Shade and Adrienne are one-atom thick rolls of graphite 100,000 emit a unique light that allows easier underestimated the lethal impact of Yingling, now a graduate of Pitt’s PhD times smaller than a human hair—with detection and a better image, Petoud said. endosulfan on even this notably sensi- chemistry program. the reactivity of the europium compound But the inorganic nanocrystals have to tive species.” In a separate paper appearing online coating to produce a platform for low-cost, be prepared before being introduced to a Tadpoles in the Pitt project spent in Nature Chemistry Aug. 16, another team room-temperature detectors that are notably biological environment such as the body four days in 0.5 liters of water contain- headed by Star and Petoud revealed the sensitive to oxygen but less complicated than and is difficult and time-consuming. The ing endosulfan concentrations of 2, development of a highly sensitive, fluores- existing sensors, the researchers write in graphite nanocapsules, however, could 6, 7, 35, 60, and 296 parts-per-billion cent oxygen sensor that can detect minute Nature Chemistry. hold and transport the solution with no (ppb), levels consistent with those found amounts of the gas. Oxygen detectors are Regarding the nanocapsules described preparation. September 30, 2009 • University of Pittsburgh • 7

707 Galleries, The Secret Lives of Stories, through Oct. 17, 707 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-471-6078, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, www.pgharts.org. Happenings Andy Warhol Museum, Drawn to the Summit: A G-20 Exhibition of Interna- tional Political Cartoons, through Oct. 18, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Document- ing Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part Three, through Nov. 1; Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual Member Exhibit, through Nov. 8; Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People, through Jan. 31, 2010, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3309, www.cmoa.org.

Senator John , Forbes Field: Celebrating 100 Years, Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-specific Works, through Nov. 8; and Lincoln: The Museum, Constitution and the Civil War, through through January 10, 2010 Jan. 15, 2010, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhisto- rycenter.org. medical education, noon Oct. 9, Lecture Ella, musical based on Jeffrey Hatcher’s Room 3, Scaife Hall, Medical Education book about Ella Fitzgerald, Oct. 1- Mattress Factory Museum, Gestures: Grand Rounds, School of Medicine’s Nov. 1, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., An Exhibition of Small Site-specific Office of the Vice Dean, 412-648-9000, Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Works, through Jan. 10, 2010, 500 www.megr.pitt.edu. 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org. Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231- 3169, www.mattress.org. “The Emergence of an International Off The Record IX: High School Confi- Framework for Privacy Protection— dential, musical theater, 8 p.m. Oct. 1, Wood Street Galleries, Matter and Next Steps,” Marc Rotenberg, executive Byham Theater, 101Sixth St., Downtown, Memory, Oct. 2-Dec. 31, 601 Wood St., director of Washington, D.C.-based Elec- proceeds benefit Greater Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, tronic Privacy Information Center, 4 p.m. Community Food Bank, 412-456-6666, 412-471-5605, www.pgharts.org. Oct. 9, University Club, Johnson Institute www.pgharts.org. for Responsible Leadership, Carnegie Pittsburgh Glass Center, Sheila Klein’s Mellon University’s Heinz College, 412- Eugene Onegin, opera by Tchaikovsky, The Return, Oct. 2-Jan. 20, 2010, 5472 648-1336, [email protected]. Oct. 2 and 4, Benedum Theatre, 719 Lib- Penn Ave., Garfield, 412-365-2145, www. erty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Opera, pittsburghglasscenter.org. Almost Human: Making Robots Think, 412-281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org. discussion led by book’s author, Lee Gut- kind, 3:30 p.m. Oct. 11, Carnegie Library Student Choreography Project, of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, choreographed dance performance, Oct. Lectures/Seminars/ 412-622-3151, www.clpgh.org. 2-4, George Rowland White Performance Studio, Point Park University, Down- Readings town, Point Park’s Pittsburgh Playhouse Rusty Grackle 2009-10 Series, 412-621-4445, www. Hillman Library, through October 6 “Examining Five Prominent Explana- Miscellaneous tions for the Black/White School pittsburghplayhouse.com. Achievement Gap,” Gary L. St. C. University of Pittsburgh Fall 2009 Oates, Bowling Green State University Career Fair, 1-5 p.m. Sept. 30, Petersen Kidd Pivot, dance performance, 8 p.m. sociology professor, noon Sept. 30, 2017 Events Center, Pitt Student Employment Oct. 3, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Concerts Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s School of and Placement Assistance, www.hire. Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Social Work, Center on Race and Social pitt.edu. Pittsburgh Dance Council 2009-10 , bassist/vocalist for the Shirley Jones, Marvin & The Music Problems, Buchanan Ingersoll and Season, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. band , 8 p.m. Sept. 30, Mr. Smalls Man, Marvin Hamlisch, conductor, Rooney Fall 2009 Speaker Series, www. Cultural District Gallery Crawl, Fun House & Theater, 400 Lincoln Ave., Oct. 8-11, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., crsp.pitt.edu. 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2, throughout Downtown David Copperfield: An Intimate Millvale, 412-821-4447, www.mrsmalls. Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, Pittsburgh Evening of Grand Illusion, Oct. 7-8, com. Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pitts- “The New Rules of Investing: Six Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., burghsymphony.org. Principles for Planning a Safe and pgharts.org. Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Taylor Swift, , 7 p.m. Cohen and Grigsby Trust Presents Series, Oct. 1, Mellon Arena, 66 Mario Lemieux Secure Retirement,” Brett Ham- Charles Wallace, jazz, 5 p.m. mond, TIAA-CREF managing director 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. Place, Downtown, 412-642-2062, www. Oct. 10, Backstage Bar at Theater Square, Le Sang des Bêtes (1949, Georges mellonarena.com. and chief investment strategist, 1 p.m. Franju) and Modify (2005, Jason Gary, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Sept. 30, Connolly Ballroom, Alumni Forever Plaid, musical theater, Cultural Trust, Jazz Live Series, 412-456- Greg Jacobson), film screenings with Oct. 8-March 28, 2010, Theater Square The Four Seasons, Andrés Hall, open to Pitt faculty and staff, presentation by Nathaniel Heggins Vivaldi’s 6666, www.pgharts.org. Pitt Office of Benefits, registration Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, CLO Cárdenes, conductor and violin; Anne Bryant, second-year PhD student in Pitt’s Cabaret, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts. Martindale Williams, cello; Oct. 1-4, requested at www.signup4.net/public/ Department of English’s Film Studies Fresh Ayre with violinist Stanley Richie, ap.aspx?EID=TIAA97E&OID=130. org. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, 8 p.m. Oct. 10-11, Synod Hall, 125 N. Program, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 1501 Posvar, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412- Craig St., Oakland, Chatham Baroque Cinematheque Series Extreme Cinema: One Life to Lose, murder mystery, 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistani The Many Faces of Shock, dsc24@pitt. 2009-10 Concert Season, 412-687-1788, president, 8 p.m. Sept. 30, Heinz Hall, 10 p.m. Oct. 10, Late-Night Cabaret www.chathambaroque.org. edu, www.filmstudies.pitt.edu. Theater, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Gary Burton—Next Generation Band, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Robert Morris University’s 2009-10 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Mystery’s Oct. 2-4, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Ray Ryan Trio, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 11, Opera/Theater/ Most Wanted, 412-325-6769, www. 1815 Metropolitan St., Manchester, MCG Speakers Series, 412-392-4900, www. Schenley Park Café and Visitor Center, pittsburghspeakersseries.org. pgharts.org. Jazz 2009-10 Season, 412-322-0800, 101 Panther Hollow Rd., Oakland, Dance www.manchesterguild.org. Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Sundays in the Park, 412-255-2539, www.pitts- “Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions in Taking Military Action,” 10th Annual Young Playwrights Festi- Pitt PhD Dissertation Larry the Cable Guy, comedic perfor- burghparks.org. val, featuring six theatrical performances mance, 8 p.m. Oct. 3, Benedum Center, Hans-Peter Stahl, Pitt’s A.W. Mellon Professor of Classics, 4 p.m. Oct. 2, 224B produced by area youths, through Oct. Defenses 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh John Tesh: Live in Concert, 7 p.m. 4, City Theater, 1300 Bingham St., South Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www. Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Department Oct. 11, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty of Classics, www.classics.pitt.edu. Side, 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecom- Andrea Lock Hergenroeder, School pgharts.org. Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural pany.org. of Education’s Department of Health Trust, Cohen and Grigsby Trust Presents Lorie Moore, author, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5, and Physical Activity, “The Influence Thoth Trio, jazz, 5 p.m. Oct. 6, Back- Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. The Dutchman and The Slave, two one- of Body Mass Index on Self-report and stage Bar at Theater Square, 655 Penn Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, act plays by Amiri Baraka, Oct. 1-10, Performance-based Measures of Physical Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Pitt’s Kuntu Reportory Theatre, 7th-floor Function in Adult Women,” 1:30 p.m. Trust, Jazz Live Series, 412-456-6666, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Series, 412- Exhibitions 622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org. Auditorium, Alumni Hall, 412-624-7298, Oct. 6, 3035 Petersen Events Center. www.pgharts.org. www.kuntu.org. Hillman Library, Audubon print, Rusty Tony DePaolis, jazz, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Grakle,” through Oct. 6, 412-648-7715. A Conversation With Paul O’Neil and Backstage Bar at Theater Square, 655 Henry Kissinger, evening with former Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cul- U.S. Treasury Secretary and Secretary tural Trust, Jazz Live Series, 412-456- of State, respectively, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 5, 6666, www.pgharts.org. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, www. Cowboy Junkies, Canadian country pittsburghsymphony.org. music, alternative rock, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Down- “Skewed Sex Ratio at Birth and town, CD Live! Series, Pittsburgh Women’s Roles and Status in South Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www. Korea,” Young Rae Oum, Pitt postdoc- pgharts.org. toral student, noon, Oct. 8, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, Diamond Gallas, blues and jazz, 8 p.m. 412-648-7370, www.ucis.pitt.edu. Oct. 6, New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side, Andy Warhol “Shakespeare Italianate: Skepti- Museum’s Off the Wall Series, 412-320- cal Crises in Three Plays of Shake- 4612, www.warhol.org. speare,” Lawrence F. Rhu, University of South Carolina professor of English Pittsburgh Opera Singers, noon and comparative literature, 5 p.m. Oct. 9, Oct. 7, Nordy’s Place, William Pitt 244B Cathedral of Learning, Nicholas C. Union, PITT ARTS’ Artful Wednesdays, Tucci Lecture, Pitt Department of French 412-624-4462, www.pitt.edu/~pittarts. and Italian Lauguages and Literatures, www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu. Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra with trum- peter Sean Jones, 8 p.m. Oct. 8, August ̧ ̧ “Why We Need an Updated Osler Andres Cardenes, Report and Not a Flexner Report,” Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Down- Drawn to the Summit: A G-20 Exhibition of International Political Cartoons, town, 412-258-2700, www.augustwilson- Heinz Hall, Stephen Greenberg, Baylor College of October 1-4 Medicine’s senior vice president, dean of Andy Warhol Museum, through October 18 center.org.

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8 • Pitt Chronicle • September 30, 2009 New Pitt Web Site Tells Story of Early Pittsburgh As Seen Through the Lens of the Jewish Community

nized, along with their family members. “It is amazing to hear the history of the Pittsburgh Jewish community in the actual words and voices of the people who lived it,” said Marcia Frumerman, oral history project leader for NCJW. “The result of the partnership between Pitt’s Library System and NCJW is a gift to the world,” said Rush Miller, Hillman librar- ian and director of the University Library System. “These interviews illustrate an entire century of a community through the eyes of its residents, including the fight to overcome political corruption, the struggle for women’s rights, and the journeys of immigrants. It is a reminder of the strength and fortitude of those who came before us.” Ed Galloway, head of Pitt’s Archives Service Center, explained to the audience the archival process: Boxes of audiocassettes were digitized and the printed guide entered into a database. The two components were then merged to create an easily navigable site that includes convenient fast-forward and rewind buttons, making all parts of the interview quickly accessible. Following the luncheon, family members of those interviewed for the project received Former City of Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff with Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg a silver gift-wrapped box. Inside was a CD of their family members’ interview. Sharon S. Blake

Several hundred residents of Pittsburgh’s by key words, a personal name, geographic internationally. Overall, 516 individuals were Jewish community joined University of region, or subject. It is one of the largest oral interviewed between 1968 and 2001, includ- PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of Pittsburgh archivists and members of the history projects of its kind. ing former Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff; Pitt Chronicle will be published Oct. 12. National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) Gathering in the ballroom of the Univer- late musician Lincoln Maazel, father of Items for publication in the newspaper’s sity Club, the group heard how the idea for Grammy Award-winning conductor, former Happenings calendar (see page 7) should be Sept. 29 to launch NCJW’s online oral his- received at least two weeks before the event tory project—Pittsburgh and Beyond: The the project surfaced in 1968, when a group Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra music direc- date. Happenings items should include the Experience of the Jewish Community. of NCJW women thought it was important tor, and Pitt alumnus Lorin Maazel; the late following information: title of the event, The new Web site, http://digital.library. to preserve the stories of Jewish immigrants William Block, publisher of the Pittsburgh name and title of speaker(s), date, time, pitt.edu/n/ncjw, allows users to listen by recording their experiences. Trained vol- Post-Gazette; pioneering breast cancer location, sponsor(s), and a phone number and online to more than 500 audio interviews unteers interviewed Jewish men and women researcher Bernard Fisher, Distinguished Web site for additional information. Items of area Jewish residents—many of them who came to the United States from Eastern Service Professor in the Department of Sur- may be e-mailed to [email protected], faxed immigrants—compiled by a small group Europe between 1890 and 1924. gery; and Pitt Distinguished Service Profes- to 412-624-4895, or sent by campus mail to of volunteers over a 40-year period. The In 1973, NCJW launched a second phase sor Julius Youngner, senior scientist of the 422 Craig Hall. For more information, call site, designed and built by a team at Pitt’s of the project—compiling the oral histories Pitt polio vaccine team. 412-624-1033 or e-mail [email protected]. Archives Service Center, includes detailed of Pittsburgh’s Jewish men and women who A number of interviewees were in atten- abstracts of each interview and is searchable made contributions locally, nationally, and dance at Tuesday’s luncheon and were recog-