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U N H G I V E R R U S B I T T S Y O F P I T GRADUATES WHOSE PIONEERING WORK HAS IMPROVED THE HUMAN CONDITION …
Paul Lauterbur PhD, Chemistry, 1962 2003 Laureate, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine STUDENTS WHOSE HIGH ACHIEVEMENTS ARE A SOURCE OF GREAT HOPE FOR THE FUTURE …
Clare Sierawski 2004 Truman Scholarship Recipient 2004 Udall Scholarship Recipient FACULTY MEMBERS WHOSE SCHOLARLY INSIGHTS HAVE ADVANCED THEIR DISCIPLINES …
Robert Brandom Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy 2003 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award Winner STUDENT-ATHLETES WHO HAVE BEEN ALL-STAR PERFORMERS ON AND OFF THE FIELD …
Larry Fitzgerald 2003 Panthers Scholar-Athlete Award Honoree 2003 Biletnikoff Award Winner 2003 Walter Camp Award Winner
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH This is the printed version of a report first delivered by Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg at the June 25, 2004, meeting of the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees.
The Victorian writer and artist John Ruskin once advised, T“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become.” From the very beginning of our partnership, we have dreamed of building an even stronger University of Pittsburgh. And, inspired by the possibilities, we have worked—tirelessly, collectively, and with real determination—to make those
Cathedral of Learning, Oakland Campus, shared dreams come true. Pittsburgh
Mark A. Nordenberg Chancellor 3
PURSUING EXCELLENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION FRESHMAN APPLICATIONS 143% Now, we are nearing the end of a year of historically First, our position in our principal “marketplace” never As you would expect, then, the admissions process 20,000 INCREASE 18,977 high achievement for Pitt. Many of its highlights involve has been stronger, with the number of students seeking has become far more competitive, and the academic 18,000 ✹ inspiring examples of individual attainment and admission to Pitt’s programs continuing to soar. In our credentials of each entering class have become 16,000 recognition, and I want to deal with them at some benchmark year of 1995, we received just over successively more impressive. We will not be able to length. But it also was another very good year for 7,800 applications for admission to the undergraduate make final comparisons involving this year’s entering 14,000 Pitt in terms of the benchmarks that we have programs offered on the Oakland campus. In 2003, we class until the fall term has begun, students have 12,000 customarily used to measure our collective progress. received more than 17,400 applications for those same enrolled, and the withdrawal period has ended. But let 10,000 Let me reference just three of them today. programs. And, for this fall’s entering class, we received me offer some quick comparisons based upon the 8,000 nearly 19,000 applications. That is an increase of more freshman class as it currently is defined—those who 7,825 6,000 than 140 percent from 1995 to 2004 and an increase have declared an intention to be here and have of more than 8 percent just in the last year—a clear tendered the deposit required to reserve a place. 4,000
sign that we are maintaining our momentum. 2,000 ✴ In 1995, 19 percent of our incoming Oakland 0 SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID freshmen ranked in the top 10 percent of their 1995 2004 high school graduating classes. For this year’s class, that number currently stands at 46 percent.
✴ In 1995, 39 percent of our incoming Oakland freshmen ranked in the top 20 percent of their pursuinghigh school graduating classes. For thisexcellence year’s class, IN UNDERGRADUATEthat number currently stands at 75 percent. EDUCATION ✴ And, in 1995, the average SAT score for our incoming Oakland freshmen was 1110. For this year’s class, that number currently stands at 1232.
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 4 AVERAGE SAT SCORE 1400
1300 1232 1200 MAINTAINING EXCELLENCE 1100 1110 IN RESEARCH
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900 We continue to experience the same kind of outstanding In February 2000, we adopted a statement of ambition, growth in our research funding. In 1995, we attracted publicly declaring, “By aggressively supporting the 800 more than $230 million in total research support. By advancement of Pitt’s academic mission, we will clearly 700 2003, that number had skyrocketed to $513 million— and consistently demonstrate that this is one of the 600 an increase of more than 123 percent. And though finest and most productive universities in the world.” 500 our books for the current fiscal year are not yet closed, In the weeks leading up to that action, we spent time we are conservatively projecting that we will reach considering and discussing the National Science 400 SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID 1995 2004 the $555 million mark. That would be an increase of Foundation’s (NSF) rankings for federal obligations for more than 140 percent since 1995 and an increase science and engineering research and development. of more than 8 percent during the past year alone. Because of a chronic time lag in the release of those comparative numbers, we were focused on fiscal year FRESHMEN IN TOP 10% FRESHMEN IN TOP 20% OF HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF HIGH SCHOOL CLASS Those dollars, as we know, support important work— (FY) 1997, the most recent year for which the NSF’s designed, in a broad range of ways, to enhance the comparative report was then available. 50% 80% maintaininghuman condition. The expenditure of those dollars has excellence 75% 46% 70% permitted us to increase our own employment base by IN RESEARCHIn FY 1997, we ranked 20th nationally, placing us in 40% some 25 percent since 1995 and today supports, very good company. In our February 2000 discussions, 60% directly and indirectly, more than 16,000 local jobs— though, we expressed the hope that, in the next five
50% while also providing a principal hope for future years, we might be able to rise to at least 16th in that 30% economic growth in Western Pennsylvania. The particular ranking. That, we recognized, would be a 40% 39% dramatic increase in those dollars also provides one difficult undertaking, requiring us to pass Penn State, 20% telling measure of the progress we are making in our Duke, Washington, and Wisconsin (the universities 19% 30% determined efforts to climb even higher within the then ranked 19th, 18th, 17th, and 16th on the NSF list) 20% ranks of this country’s top research universities. and also to make sure that we were not overtaken by 10% such strong institutions as North Carolina, Southern 10% California, and Berkeley—universities then ranked not
0% SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID 0% SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID far below us. 1995 2004 1995 2004
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH RESEARCH FUNDING 141% 7 $600 INCREASE $550 $555 MILLION ✹ $500 ENDOWMENT $450 SECURING AN ADEQUATE 198% $1500 INCREASE $400 RESOURCE BASE $1400 $1.38 BILLION ✹ $350 $1300 Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation $300 Our ability to forge such progress, on this and other released its comparative rankings for federal research $230 fronts, is the product of many factors. None is more $1200
DOLLARS IN MILLIONS $250 MILLION and development obligations for fiscal year 2002. Over important than the talent, commitment, and ambition of $1100 $200 the course of our five-year target period, Pitt streaked the wonderful people who make up the University of $150 $1000 from its number 20 ranking, past our aspirational 16th Pittsburgh. But an enhanced capacity to support those $100 $900 position, to claim the 10th spot on that list. By doing people also has been critical to our success. DOLLARS IN MILLIONS so, we pushed even further into some very exclusive $50 $800 company. Johns Hopkins, Washington, Penn, Michigan, $0 SOURCE: OFFICE OF BUDGET AND CONTROLLER Here, let me focus on just one set of numbers. In $700 1995 2004 UCLA, Stanford, UC-San Diego, UC-San Francisco, 1995, our endowment stood at $463.2 million—then $600 and Washington University in St. Louis are the other an impressive total for a public university. We saw that $463.2 $500 universities in the top 10. And in this ranking we are number rise to just under $1.2 billion in 2003. And, MILLION ahead of Columbia, Wisconsin, Duke, Harvard, by the end of the third quarter of this fiscal year, it $400 Colorado, Yale, North Carolina, Minnesota, Penn State, was close to $1.4 billion. That increase, of nearly $300 and Cornell—the very fine universities comprising the 200 percent since 1995, is a product both of the $200 second 10 on that list. sound management of our investments and of our $100 ability, even in less-than-robust economic times, to keep our billion dollar capital campaign on pace. $0 SOURCE: OFFICE OF BUDGET AND CONTROLLER 1995 2004 Embedded in that very large endowment total are the absolutely essential forms of support—scholarships and fellowships and professorships, for example—that permit us to nurture high achievement.securing ✴ AN ADEQUATE RESOURCE BASE
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR OF ACHIEVEMENT, IMPACT, AND RECOGNITION
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Expressed most basically, after all, our mission is to further high Eachievement within the context of our academic community. And there may never have been a year of higher achievement in the history of this University. In (From left) Pitt’s University Honors College Dean and Truman Faculty Representative fact, I doubt that many universities, Alec Stewart, 2004 Truman Scholarship winners Jocelyn Horner and Clare Sierawski, and Pitt over the course of their histories, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg could claim better years than the one we are about to close.
Pitt receiver Larry Fitzgerald's skill and talent were crucial to his leading the Panthers to a fourth consecutive bowl bid. During the 2003 season, he caught at least one touchdown in an amazing 18 consecutive games to set an NCAA record. Fitzgerald went on to claim the 2003 Biletnikoff Award as the best wide receiver in America and the Walter Camp Award as the nation’s best football player in 2003.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 12 Daniel Armanios Jocelyn Horner Clare Sierawski Pitt Junior Pitt Senior Pitt Senior School of Arts and Sciences School of Arts and Sciences School of Arts and Sciences School of Engineering University Honors College University Honors College University Honors College 2004 Truman Scholarship Recipient 2004 Truman and Udall Scholarships Recipient 2004 Goldwater Scholarship Recipient HIGH-PERFORMING STUDENTS
Gwen Morton Pitt Senior School of Arts and Sciences In making that case, let me begin with our undergradu- Within this large and complex institution, we recognize Three outstanding seniors achieved their national University Honors College ate students and with a reminder of how we launched that our most fundamental mission is to provide all of triumphs as juniors. Not long after Daniel won the 2004 Udall Scholarship Recipient this academic year. The day after our fall Board of our students with the chance to be the best that they Goldwater, two other University Honors College Trustees meeting, Prince Andrew visited this campus, can be in everything they do. And we know that, if we students, Jocelyn Horner and Clare Sierawski, were bringing with him a very special form of recognition. are successful, some of our best will become among named 2004 Truman Scholarship winners. The highly He came to designate our University a Marshall Center the best that anyone can be. The recent triumphs of competitive, merit-based Truman Scholarships are of Excellence, based upon our record of student our students in the Marshall competition provide clear awarded to about 70 college juniors who wish to These are enviable achievements. In fact, to put them success in the Marshall Scholarship competition— evidence of that, and our current students continued attend graduate or professional school to prepare for in proper context, you need to remember that there are a record that, he declared, had been unsurpassed, to build on that record as the year unfolded. careers in government, the nonprofit sector, or other some 14 million undergraduate students in America. in recent years, by any public university in America. forms of public service. Pitt was one of only three When a national competition selects 70 or 80 recipi- In conferring our Center of Excellence designation, Moving from autumn to spring, to give just one telling public universities to win more than one Truman ents from that huge group and two of the honorees he stated, and I now am offering a royal quote, example, our students demonstrated, once again, that Scholarship this year. come from Pitt, those students have demonstrated “[I]n the Marshall competition [Pitt’s] candidates have they could excel not just in the major British-sponsored a combination of talent and commitment that has regularly outperformed students from some of scholarship competitions, but in this nation’s competi- Additionally, Gwen Morton and Clare Sierawski enabled them to overcome very long odds. America’s most famous universities, including Harvard, tions as well. In fact, for the first time in our history, (also one of our two aforementioned 2004 Truman Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania.” University of Pittsburgh undergraduates were scholars) were among 80 students nationwide selected Those were his words, not mine, and, particularly successful in every one of the highly competitive to receive Udall Scholarships. These are the most given the respect those other institutions rightfully major American commemorative scholarships. competitive national awards given to undergraduate enjoy, this endorsement of Pitt student quality has students who have demonstrated a strong commit- special significance. Pitt junior Daniel Armanios, who also has earned ment to pursuing a career related to improving or two National Science Foundation internships, won preserving the environment. a Goldwater Scholarship. In doing so, he furthered a long tradition of success in this competition, joining 29 other Pitt students who have been selected for this honor in the past. The Goldwaters are this country’s most competitive undergraduate awards in science, high-performing mathematics, and engineering. STUDENTS
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 15 Larry Fitzgerald Jamie Dixon College of Arts and Sciences Pittsburgh Panthers’ Men’s Basketball Head Coach 2003 Panthers Scholar-Athlete Award Honoree 2004 Big East Coach of the Year 2003 Biletnikoff Award Winner 2003 Walter Camp Award Winner
Chris Beerman Pittsburgh Panthers’ Women’s Volleyball Head Coach During the past year, we also saw some of our His heroics were followed by the all-star performance Since we all know that you cannot have high achieving 2003 Big East Coach of the Year students emerge as among “the best of the best” in of our men’s basketball team—31 wins overall, the student-athletes unless they are led by outstanding athletics. Certainly, there was no more compelling most in school history; 18 wins to start the season, the teacher-coaches, it came as no surprise that Jamie figure in all of college football than Larry Fitzgerald— third most consecutive wins to start a head coaching Dixon was named Big East Coach of the Year. He was, the Biletnikoff and Walter Camp Awards winner, the career in NCAA history; a 40-game home winning by the way, the first “rookie coach” to win that honor in Heisman Trophy runner-up, and everyone’s first-team, streak; a third straight Sweet 16 appearance; a national the history of the conference. And it is important to note Joe Jordano All-American. Every bit as important to us, Larry also top 10 ranking; and an outright Big East regular season that, within our own athletic department, Coach Dixon Pittsburgh Panthers’ Men’s Baseball Head Coach was an All-American in character and in class. championship. At the end of the conference play this has good company. Our Big East Champion women’s 2004 Big East Coach of the Year spring, Chris Taft was named Big East Rookie of the volleyball team was led by conference coach of the Year; Carl Krauser was named the Big East’s Most year Chris Beerman, and our record-setting men’s Improved Player of the Year; and Jaron Brown received baseball team was led by conference coach of the the Big East Sportsmanship Award. year Joe Jordano. Extending an incredible record of excellence, our men’s swimming and diving team won Chuck Knoles its eighth straight Big East championship and its Pittsburgh Panthers’ Men’s Swimming Head Coach Six-Time Big East Coach of the Year, most recently 2002 19th championship in the 22 years we have been in
Chris Taft the conference. That team was led by six-time Big East College of Arts and Sciences 2004 Big East Rookie of the Year men’s swimming coach of the year Chuck Knoles Carl Krauser and three-time Big East diving coach of the year College of General Studies 2004 Big East Most Improved Player Julian Krug. ✴
Julian Krug Pittsburgh Panthers’ Diving Coach Three-Time Big East Coach of the Year, including 2004
Jaron Brown College of General Studies 2004 Big East Sportsmanship Award Winner
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH In similar fashion, our Marshall and Goldwater and Truman and IUdall Scholarship winners are quick to give credit to the outstanding faculty members who have been their guides on the road to academic success. trail-blazing It is the work of our faculty, after all, that is most directly responsible for FACULTY MEMBERS creating an environment in which our students can develop their full potential. Of course, given our research mission, our faculty The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation named members also are expected to Robert Brandom, Pitt Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, recipient of a engage in cutting-edge work within Distinguished Achievement Award in “recognition of his exemplary contributions their own disciplines. And the to humanistic scholarship.” recognition won by members of our faculty for those efforts helped make this such a special year for Pitt.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 19 Yuan Chang Roberta Ness Joel Schuman Pathology Epidemiology Ophthalmology 2004 American Society for 2004 American Society for 2004 American Society for Clinical Investigation Inductee Clinical Investigation Inductee Clinical Investigation Inductee TRAIL-BLAZING FACULTY MEMBERS
During our February meeting, we heard directly from At about the time of that same meeting, no less than Reflecting our deep commitment to providing the Robert Brandom, Distinguished Service Professor of six of our faculty members—Yuan Chang, a professor finest classroom experience for our students, Flordeliza Villanueva Philosophy. Just a few weeks before that session, of pathology; Raphael Hirsch and Jay Kolls, professors Medicine/Cardiology James Johnston, professor of medicine in the Renal- 2004 American Society for Bob was one of only four American academics of pediatrics; Roberta Ness, chair of the Department Clinical Investigation Inductee Electrolyte Division of our School of Medicine, received selected to receive a $1.5 million Distinguished of Epidemiology in the Graduate School of Public the 2004 National Golden Apple for Teaching Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Health; Joel Schuman, chair of the Department of Excellence Award. Annually, only one teacher in the Foundation in “recognition of his exemplary contribu- Ophthalmology; and Flordeliza Villanueva, a professor of United States is chosen by the American Medical tions to humanistic scholarship.” In announcing its cardiology—were named to the prestigious American Student Association for this great national honor. decision, the foundation called Bob “one of the most Society for Clinical Investigation. Established in 1908, Later in the spring, Jeannette South-Paul, who is the creative philosophers of mind and language working the society honors physician-scientists with exceptional UPMC Andrew W. Mathieson Professor and chair of today” and compared one of his books to “landmark records of scholarly achievement in biomedical research. our Department of Family Medicine, was one of just works from the previous generation of philosophers.” In this year’s election, 64 new members were chosen. three health sciences faculty members from across We believe that to have six of those 64 come from a the country to be honored with an award from the James Johnston single institution may be an unprecedented achievement. Joy McCann Foundation for her extraordinary Medicine/Renal-Electrolyte 2004 National Golden Apple for Teaching Robert Brandom contributions as a mentor. Excellence Award Winner Philosophy 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient
Raphael Hirsch Pediatrics 2004 American Society for Clinical Investigation Inductee
Jeannette South-Paul Family Medicine 2004 Joy McCann Foundation Award Recipient
Jay Kolls Pediatrics 2004 American Society for Clinical Investigation Inductee
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 20 Seymour Drescher Peter Strick Susan Amara History Neurobiology, Psychiatry, and Neurobiology 2003 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner Neurological Surgery 2004 National Academy of Sciences Inductee 2004 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Inductee
Toi Derricotte, a professor in our English department Seymour Drescher, University Professor in the Peter Strick, professor of neurobiology, psychiatry, and one of Pitt’s very accomplished poets, was selected Department of History, was named the 2003 winner and neurological surgery, and codirector of the Center Robert Drennan to receive a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. These of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book, for the Neural Basis of Cognition, was elected to the Anthropology highly competitive awards are given to “men and women The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the 2004 National Academy of Sciences Inductee who already have demonstrated exceptional capacity British Emancipation. The Douglass prize—considered world’s most prestigious scholarly organizations. The for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability the most respected award for the study of the Black academy includes among its members 150 Nobel in the arts.” experience—is awarded by Yale University’s Gilder laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. And two faculty members were elected to membership Their selection symbolizes the complementary forms in the National Academy of Sciences. Again, some of strength now emerging in our faculty. We are Toi Derricotte perspective: There were only 72 new members continuing to nurture, and benefit from, the work of English 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient nationally elected to the National Academy—and, so, outstanding long-term faculty members, like Dick the fact that two of those 72 came from Pitt is quite an Drennan. At the same time, we are more regularly accomplishment. The two selected were Susan Amara, recruiting some of the best talent from the best recruited just last fall as the Thomas Detre Professor universities in the world, mainly because they think Pitt of Neuroscience and chair of the Department of is the place where they can most successfully advance Neurobiology in the School of Medicine, and Robert their own ambitious agendas. A clear example is Susan Drennan, a distinguished faculty member in the Amara, who had been both a tenured faculty member Department of Anthropology of the School of Arts at Yale and the director of Oregon’s prestigious Vollum trail-blazing and Sciences for more than 25 years. Institute before coming to our University. ✴ FACULTY MEMBERS
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH alumni OF IMPACT
At left, Pitt alumnus Paul Lauterbur (PhD, Chemistry, 1962), receives the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine from Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf. The laureate was honored for his key role in the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 24 Paul Lauterbur Herbert Boyer John Swanson PhD, Chemistry, 1962 PhD, Bacteriology, 1963 PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 1966 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Recipient Pitt Board of Trustees Member, 1998–2002 2004 John Fritz Medal Recipient 2004 Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine Honoree 2004 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research Recipient ALUMNI OF IMPACT
In addition to admitting scholars based in American If he does, of course, he will be following in the foot- Herbert Boyer, who earned his PhD in bacteriology Adding to the luster of the year, John Swanson, universities, the National Academy of Sciences also steps of Paul Lauterbur, who received this year’s here at Pitt and is a former member of this board, who earned his PhD in applied mechanics from our elects a limited number of foreign associates each year. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Lauterbur already has been honored with such awards as the School of Engineering, was awarded this year’s Lap-Chee Tsui, who earned his PhD in the biological earned his PhD in chemistry from Pitt and was recog- National Medal of Technology, the National Medal of John Fritz Medal by the American Association of sciences at Pitt, was elected to membership in that nized for the key role he played in the development of Science, and the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Engineering Societies. Dr. Swanson is the founder special status this year. Dr. Tsui currently serves as vice magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI scans have Research. Recently, he added two very prestigious of ANSYS, a company that develops and globally chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He has won become one of medicine’s most significant diagnostic forms of national and international recognition to his markets engineering simulation software. He also is international acclaim for discovering the defective gene tools, valued both for their accuracy and also because already impressive collection. In September, Dr. Boyer an internationally recognized innovator in the application that causes cystic fibrosis, and knowledgeable colleagues they can be performed painlessly and noninvasively. and his key collaborator, Dr. Stanley Cohen, will travel of finite-element methods to engineering, a key step have privately predicted that he will win a Nobel Prize More than 60 million MRI exams are performed world- to Hong Kong to receive the Shaw Prize in Life in the use of software to facilitate more efficient product some day. wide each year. Sciences and Medicine. This relatively new award, development. The Fritz medal, established in 1902, known as the “Nobel Prize of the East,” carries with it is generally considered to be the highest award in the a $1 million prize. Earlier in the year, Drs. Boyer and engineering profession, and, through his selection, Cohen were selected to receive the Albany Medical Dr. Swanson joins the elite company of some incredibly Lap-Chee Tsui Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, accomplished past winners—including Alfred Nobel, PhD, Biological Sciences, 1979 Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong the largest American award in medicine. Thomas Edison, Orville Wright, Alexander Graham Bell, 2004 National Academy of Sciences Foreign Associate Inductee and George Westinghouse. Drs. Boyer and Cohen are being honored in both cases for their pioneering role in the development of It is great to have a Pitt graduate on that list because, recombinant DNA technology or genetic engineering. as we know, every institution of higher learning makes More than 20 years ago, Time magazine called the many of its most important contributions through the science of recombinant DNA “the most powerful and work of its graduates. And this extraordinary collection alumni awesome skill acquired by man since the splitting of of awards is a set of powerful, thoughtful, and very well the atom” and featured Herb on its cover. Of course, informed declarations that some of the most significant OF IMPACT he also has been a highly successful entrepreneur, contributions to the improvement of the human condition cofounding Genentech, this country’s first major have come from graduates of the University of Pittsburgh. biotechnology company.
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 27 J. Roger Glunt James Duratz BBA, Business Administration, 1960 Pitt Friend and Pitt Alumni Association Supporter Pitt Alumni Association President, 1994, 1995 University of Pittsburgh at Titusville Advisory Board Member Pitt Board of Trustees Member 2004 University Division Donor of the Year 2004 Robert L. Payton Award for Award Recipient Voluntary Service Recipient
It also is important to note that some of our most Fittingly, in this year of very special recognition, two Even more recently, Jim Duratz received the University distinguished graduates, remembering and respecting other key members of the “Pitt family” were recognized Division Donor of the Year Award from the National their roots, are among our most generous benefactors. for all they have done to further this spirit of “giving Association of Athletic Development Directors at its To give two directly relevant examples, during the back.” Roger Glunt—a distinguished graduate, past convention in Dallas. This recognition of a deeply course of our current capital campaign, both Herb president of the Pitt Alumni Association, past president committed friend and extraordinarily generous donor Boyer and John Swanson have made very substantial of the National Association of Home Builders, member reflects the awareness, far beyond our campus contributions to Pitt. More specifically, Herb Boyer has of the National Housing Hall of Fame, and member borders, that the spirit of philanthropy is alive and well established an endowed chair in molecular biology in of this Board of Trustees—received the 2004 here at Pitt. For years, members of the Barco-Duratz the Department of Biological Sciences. And John Robert L. Payton Award for Voluntary Service during family have been among this University’s most Swanson’s contributions are helping to transform the the Accolades and Achievement Awards Dinner of the generous supporters. And their impact has been felt School of Engineering, enabling us to create both Council for the Advancement and Support of Education throughout this institution—from the Duratz Athletic the Swanson Center for Product Innovation and the in Philadelphia. This award recognizes outstanding Complex on the South Side, to the Duratz Locker Swanson Center for Micro and Nano Systems. contributions to the advancement of the philanthropic Room at Heinz Field, to the Barco Law Building and tradition and the spirit of volunteerism. Barco Law Library and Duratz Technology Courtroom here in Oakland, to the Barco Center for Continuing Education and Helene Barco Duratz Plaza in Titusville. ✴
THE 2004 REPORT OF CHANCELLOR MARK A. NORDENBERG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OUR CONTINUING QUEST FOR HIGH ACHIEVEMENT
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Some 80 years have passed since a former chancellor and members Sof an earlier Board of Trustees were engaged in planning for the construction of the Cathedral of Learning. In articulating his vision, our continuing quest Chancellor John Bowman declared: FOR HIGH ACHIEVEMENT “The new building is to express that spirit of achievement with such force and sublimity that the whole world will understand. John G. Bowman Chancellor 1921–45 The building is high. It is not high, though, just for the sake of being high. It is only with height that stones can talk the language of courage and sublimity. Such a building belongs in Pittsburgh.”
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Almost immediately, of course, the Cathedral became What is so heartening about this year is the clear In terms of achievement and impact and recognition, this University’s “signature structure,” and it is known evidence that the quality and impact of this other kind it has been a great year for Pitt. And despite the old around the world as a symbol of our high aspirations. of building here at Pitt are being recognized, nationally saying, this is one case in which we hope that history and internationally. Think about it again—selection for repeats itself frequently. In fact, looking forward, I know But long after the construction of the Cathedral was the Nobel Prize, the Shaw Prize, the Albany Prize, that working to make sure that there are many “happy completed, the people of Pitt have continued with the and the Fritz medal; honors from such groups as the returns” will be our collective goal. process of building. Each of the high achievers I have Council for the Advancement and Support of Education mentioned today—students and faculty and alumni and and the National Association of Athletic Development Over the course of the past nine years—working friends—are builders in a different kind of construction Directors; election to the National Academy of Sciences, with ambition, determination, and focus—we have process. They are building a better institution—and, in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the effectively met sometimes daunting challenges even many cases, a better community, a better country, American Society for Clinical Investigation; the receipt while we have aggressively and successfully pursued and a better world. of an Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Achievement a broad range of important institutional opportunities. Award, a McCann Foundation award, the Frederick Having stood shoulder-to-shoulder through some Douglass Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship; difficult times makes sharing this message of good All-American and All-Conference honors; special news all the more special. I am deeply grateful to each recognition from the Marshall Scholarship program; of you for what you have contributed to our progress. and selection for Goldwater, Truman, and Udall And I look forward to pushing forward with the Scholarships. And were it not for the limits of time continuing mission of building an ever better University and space, I could add to that list. of Pittsburgh in your capable, committed, and very distinguished company. ✴
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