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U N I V E R S I T Y S E N A T E M A T T E R S / Attilio Favorini Blue and Gold goes green This semester the usual University Senate plenary session will be incorporated into a sustainability festival, scheduled for April 8 and 9 in the William Pitt Union. The festival offers the occasion for both a reckoning and a celebration of sustainability efforts occurring in every corner of the campus. April’s “Blue, Gold and Green” event is sponsored by the Office of Hail to Pitt x 5 the Provost and the Purchasing Department, both active participants Representatives from all five Pitt campuses were on hand in an ongoing campus forum for sustainability concerns initiated in to provide information for 2007, when an ad hoc Senate recycling committee metamorphosed college-bound high schoolers into the sustainability subcommittee of the Senate’s plant utiliza- and children of Pitt faculty and staff during the Univer- tion and planning committee. The sustainability subcommittee sity’s Five Campus College has been holding three or four meetings each semester, inviting Fair, held March 8 in Alumni representatives of the many responsibility centers whose activities Hall’s Connolly Ballroom. impact climate change, energy use, pollution, green design and other policies and practices that contribute to or detract from the judicious management of the environment. Recent discussions at the sustainability subcommittee meetings, which are open to the University community, have considered ideas such as a “green fund” for sustainable campus practices underwritten by a student activity fee; a “green gifts” campaign to reach environmentally engaged alumni; a “green dorm” living and learning center, and an interactive sustainability web site to stimulate awareness and exchange on sustainability issues. Members of the University community interested in attending the sustainability subcommittee meetings should ask Lori Molinaro, lam06@pitt. edu, to add their names to the subcommittee’s distribution list. Kimberly K. Barlow The sustainability subcommittee has heard from Facilities Management, Food Services, the environmental studies program, the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, Institutional Advancement, Residence Senate election runs April 2-17 Life, Free the Planet, Engineers for a Sustainable World and other lectronic balloting for Physical Activity, School of Edu- Ford; Robin Kear. student environmental organizations, to name just a few. Subcom- University Senate officers cation, is running for secretary mittee members regularly interact with counterparts at other local Eand new Faculty Assembly unopposed. Schools of the universities, the sustainability coordinator of UPMC, the environ- members will begin tomorrow, Newly elected members to Health Sciences mental committee of the Oakland Business Improvement District, April 2, and run through April Faculty Assembly serve the first • Dental Medicine (1): Steve the Pittsburgh Climate Initiative, the Board of Trustees property 17. year of their three-year terms on Wendell. and facilities committee and many other such organizations. As a Senate officers will serve one- the Assembly; during their second • Health and Rehabilitation Sci- result of the subcommittee’s efforts, the University now maintains year terms beginning July 1. and third years, they serve on ences (1): Michael Hahn; Debbie an attractive web site, www.pitt.edu/green.html, on sustainability Running for president are both the faculty-only Assembly Miller; Thomas Platt. issues. In addition, the University Senate adopted a statement Nicholas G. Bircher, associate and on Senate Council, which • Health Sciences Library on sustainability in 2008 that originated with the sustainability professor of anesthesiology and includes faculty, staff, students System (1): Linda Hartman; Fran subcommittee. critical care medicine, School of and administrators. Yarger. Merely reciting the roster of interested constituents suggests the Medicine; and Michael R. Pinsky, The following are candidates • Medicine (3): Leonard Baidoo; challenges involved in meeting the Senate statement on sustainabil- professor of critical care medicine, for Faculty Assembly. The number Carey Balaban; Anthony Bauer; ity’s charge to “identify, implement, communicate and coordinate bioengineering and anesthesiol- of vacancies in each unit is indi- Adeel Butt; Barbara Gaines; Kevin practices that preserve and promote efficient use and conservation ogy, School of Medicine. cated in parentheses. Ho; Maria Kovacs; Roy Smith; of energy, water and other resources and increase promotion of (For a discussion of issues by Hussein Tawbi; Ali Zaidi. conservation efforts to the University community.” the two presidential candidates, see School of Arts and Sciences • Nursing (1): Marilyn Hravnak; The April “Blue, Gold and Green” event is designed not only page 5.) • Humanities (2 vacancies): Donna Nativio. to inform the campus about successes such as the “RecycleMania” Candidates for vice president David Bartholomae, English; H. • Pharmacy (1): Colleen Culley; campaign and a growing number of LEED (Leadership in Energy are Wesley M. Rohrer, assistant David Brumble III, English; John Tom Nolin. and Environmental Design) certifications for campus buildings, professor, Department of Health Lyon, German; Clark Muen- • Public Health (1): Jeanine but also to exchange ideas about goal-setting and coordination Policy and Management, Gradu- zer, German; Francesca Savoia, Buchanich; Emilia Lombardi. of sustainability efforts. On April 8, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., there will be ate School of Public Health; and French and Italian. There are no openings this ongoing events, including a supplier showcase of green products, Patricia M. Weiss, reference and • Natural Sciences (2): Robert year for new Assembly members a “Sustain-a-Bowl” awarding of prizes to student organizations for information technology librarian, Daley, computer science; Vladimir from the Katz Graduate School sustainable demonstrations and a bicycle-building competition. Health Sciences Library System. Savinov, physics and astronomy. of Business, the School of Law The day’s activities will be capped with the Heinz Distinguished Laura A. Fonzi, clinical instruc- • Social Sciences (1): Chris Bon- and the School of Information Lecture delivered by Stuart L. Hart, an expert on sustainability tor, Department of Health and neau, political science. Sciences. and development. Pitt’s Bradford, Greensburg, Also on April 8 will be the centerpiece event of the festival, the Professional schools Johnstown and Titusville cam- sustainability subcommittee’s panel, “Sustainability at Pitt.” The • Education (1): Jere Gal- puses elect their own representa- panel is scheduled noon-2 p.m. and will afford ample opportunity lagher. tives to Faculty Assembly. for questions and suggestions. A complementary lunch will be • Engineering (2): William The slate of candidates for the served; if you plan to attend the lunch session, please RSVP to Federspiel; Jeen-Shang Lin; Ron University Senate’s 15 standing [email protected]. U N I V E R S I T Y Neufeld. committees is being compiled The panel will include: • Graduate School of Public and and is expected to be published • Ward Allebach, adjunct professor in the Department of Geol- TIMES International Affairs (1): Kevin in a future issue of the University ogy and Planetary Sciences, who will discuss issues that students EDITOR Kearns. Times. are focused on within the environmental studies program. N. J. Brown 412/624-1373 • Social Work (1): William For more information on the • Bernard Goldstein, professor of environmental and occu- [email protected] Elliott. elections, contact the Senate office pational health, who will provide a historical perspective on the WRITERS • University Library System (1): at 4-6505. environmental movement and will discuss personal responsibility Peter Hart 412/624-1374 Danielle Colbert-Lewis; Michael —Peter Hart n in promoting sustainability. [email protected] • Jodi Ludovici, general manager of Sodexho, who will discuss sustainable policies and practices that Sodexho and Dining Services Kimberly K. Barlow 412/624-1379 [email protected] have in place on campus. • Allison Robinson, director of environmental initiatives at BUSINESS MANAGER COI filing deadline April 15 UPMC, who will discuss the structure and aims of UPMC sus- Barbara DelRaso 412/624-4644 Pitt conflict of interest (COI) disclosure forms must be filed by [email protected] tainability initiatives and how to move the sustainability agenda April 15. Information on who must file, how to file and a new guide forward in a large, complex organization. Events Calendar: [email protected] for supervisors is available at www.coi.pitt.edu/directive.htm. • Laura Zullo, senior manager in Facilities Management, who The University Times is published bi-weekly COI disclosures must be filed through the Superform system will discuss how sustainability is figured into its projects and will on Thursdays by the University of Pittsburgh. (https://coi.hs.pitt.edu) by April 15. Management reporting forms Send correspondence to University Times, provide an update on LEED certification. 308 Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, and annual data summary reports from supervisors are due May The second day, April 9, will include a student sustainability Pittsburgh, PA 15260; fax to 412/624-4579 17. symposium and a sustainable career forum. For a fuller description or e-mail: [email protected]. Users requiring assistance should click on the log-in page link of “Blue, Gold and Green,” go to www.bluegoldandgreen.pitt.edu/ Subscriptions are available at a cost of $12.50 for the remainder of the publishing year, which or call 412/648-2222. index.html. n runs through July. Make checks payable to the The Superform web site should be used only to fulfill Pitt COI dis- University of Pittsburgh. closure requirements, not UPMC or University of Pittsburgh Physi- Attilio Favorini, a faculty member in theatre arts, is chair of the Senate’s The newspaper is available electronically at: cians requirements. n http://www.pitt.edu/utimes/ut.html sustainability subcommittee.

 APRIL 1, 2010 HEALTH CARE REFORM What does it mean for Pitt employees? s details emerge about on their parents’ insurance policy ance benefits are available at the impact of the sweep- until they turn 26. www.hr.pitt.edu/benefits/medi- Aing health care reform • Insurance companies will be cal.htm. approved last week, Pitt faculty banned from dropping people who Lave said the bigger impact and staff are pondering its impact become ill and may not implement here will be on the hospitals: “It on the University and its employ- lifetime caps on coverage. will have an impact on the number ees. • New private plans will be of insured people who will come Health economics profes- required to provide free preven- to the medical center.” On the sor Judith R. Lave, chair of the tive care with no co-payments or other hand, the bill also decreases Department of Health Policy and deductibles. payments to health care providers, Michelle Kienholz Management, said she believes the (Links to the 2,074-page “but don’t blame this bill for that,” It’s for the birds health care reform legislation will Senate bill and the House changes Lave said. “If they hadn’t put it in Above: A nesting site for red-tailed hawks probably wasn’t have more impact on Pitt’s medi- are available at www.whitehouse. this bill they would have done it what the late Pitt professor and artist Virgil Cantini had in mind when he created “Man,” the sculpture on the Graduate cal side than on individual faculty gov/health-care-meeting/pro- anyway in another bill.” School of Public Health. and staff, noting that the benefits posal.) Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, Department of Medicine staffer Michelle Kienholz, who has been watching the birds from her office in the Medical Arts provided to faculty and staff under Pitt director of Benefits John dean of the School of Nursing, Building across Fifth Avenue from Parran Hall, said the birds the University’s insurance plans Kozar said his department is exam- praised the provisions of the bill have built their nest using branches from nearby street trees. largely are consistent with the ining the potential longer-term that expand health care access. She has observed them diving to hunt pigeons, squirrels and other rodents on the surrounding grounds, undaunted by hos- aims of the legislation. impacts of the legislation, but he “This legislation seemed to pital helicopters and Oakland traffic, she said. One impact on individuals, she expects no changes now for Pitt be about availability,” she said, Meanwhile, at the peregrine nest atop the Cathedral of Learn- said, is that some high-income employees covered by University but added there still is room to ing, below, five eggs are being incubated by the resident falcon pair, Dorothy and E. This year’s egg count represents employees eventually will see their health insurance plans. improve the quality and efficiency an extra effort by Dorothy, who in past years has laid four payroll taxes rise. The legislation “The immediate issues have of the nation’s health care delivery eggs. Hatchlings should appear in late April and will be banded by calls for Medicare payroll taxes to been addressed long ago,” he said, system. the Pennsylvania Game Commission as the birds prepare to increase in 2013 from the current noting that Pitt employee health Citing the U.S.’s ranking fledge about a month later. 1.45 percent to 2.35 percent of plans do not exclude people with behind 27 other industrialized Additional photos of the peregrine nest from the National Aviary falcon cam can be found at www.aviary.org/cons/ wages for individuals who earn pre-existing conditions nor is nations in health care outcomes, falconcam.php; a video falcon cam is online at www.aviary. more than $200,000 in wages there a lifetime maximum benefit Dunbar-Jacob said, “We need org/cons/falconcam_cl.php. or couples who make more than or cap. to be looking not only at people $250,000. In addition, the University having access; providers need to Closer on the horizon are a offers health plans that include look at ways to improve the quality number of other changes. Accord- preventive care and Pitt already of outcomes. There’s considerable ing to a statement from the White extends health insurance benefits room for improvement. House Office of Health Reform, to qualifying adult children. A “This legislation gives us a real these are among the key provisions state law that took effect last chance to help reduce the differ- of the legislation that take effect June allows employers to provide ences in populations in health care this year: coverage to employees’qualifying outcomes.” • Children with pre-existing single adult children up to age 30, Dunbar-Jacob noted the cur- conditions no longer may be at the parent’s expense. (See Nov. rent shortage of primary care pro- denied coverage. 12, 2009, University Times.) viders and said that the legislation • Young people may remain Details on Pitt health insur- CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Former Children’s site going green, both now & later lans to level the former take down the main tower as well A demolition contractor has Demolition is scheduled to the day, with stations installed Children’s Hospital’s — but we have to move programs yet to be selected, but Schwartz- wrap up in mid-October and around the site to monitor dust. PDeSoto wing will leave that are in there — and then mier said the DeSoto wing could plantings are expected to be in “We want to try to make this a very Oakland with some new green construct a new bed tower for start to come down in a matter place by winter, if all goes accord- clean site with the least amount space, at least temporarily. Presbyterian,” she said. “Presby- of weeks. ing to plan. of disruption to what’s going on UPMC intends to tear down terian and Montefiore are aging “Our goal is to try to begin Exactly how the building will in the community as possible,” the structure, which faces Fifth and the rooms are rather small to demolition work sometime around come down has yet to be deter- he said. Avenue and extends along DeSoto hold the technology for today, so the first of May,” he said. “It’s my mined, but it won’t be by dramatic “It helps the community but it Street across from Pitt’s Gradu- we do have plans for that.” goal to get the majority of this means such as an implosion or also helps our adjacent hospitals ate School of Public Health, this Asbestos removal currently done, if we can, when the Pitt stu- wrecking ball, said Schwartzmier. too. I think everyone wins if we can season. The taller main hospital is underway inside the DeSoto dents aren’t here for the summer. More likely, he said, is that the keep the dust down and do this in tower will stay standing for the wing, said Tom Schwartzmier, Oakland’s much slower when the building will be demolished in a very green type of a way.” time being. senior project manager for plan- Pitt students aren’t here, which “bites” by jawlike equipment, or The demolition itself will give Replacing the DeSoto wing ning, design and construction for means the traffic situation’s better taken apart with hammers. UPMC a head start on LEED will be an expansive lawn with UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside. for trucks taking debris away.” The work will be done during certification for the building it trees lining the perimeter. The bus eventually plans to erect on the stop on the Fifth Avenue side of site. the property will be expanded and “To that end, we’re going to additional seating installed. take a lot of the rubble that’s going UPMC planners told mem- to be knocked down and actually bers of the Oakland Business use it to fill in the hole that will Improvement District last week remain when the building’s demol- that the hospital tower and the ished,” Schwartzmier said. Two green space eventually will be basement levels would be filled replaced by a new building for with brick and cement rubble, he which UPMC intends to pursue said, estimating they extend about LEED certification. 25 feet below ground level. Before that can happen, how- Schwartzmier said the plan ever, current occupants of the is to start from the Fifth Avenue main tower will need to be relo- side of the building nearest to Falk cated over the next several years. Clinic and demolish that portion Offices will be moved, radiology of the wing first, then continue services will be consolidated into along Fifth and up DeSoto Street, UPMC Presbyterian, clinical finishing on the side nearest the labs in the tower will be moved UPMC Presbyterian emergency to the Rangos Building and the department entrance. heliport will be relocated to the The demolition may be able UPMC Presbyterian rooftop, said to be done without relocating the Denise Rafferty, director of plan- busy bus stop on Fifth Avenue, ning, design and construction for Schwartzmier said, although UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside. contingency plans have been made “We expect this green space to move the stop to a temporary to remain as is perhaps for three spot in front of Falk Clinic if the to four years or so. … Eventually Artist’s rendering of the green space that temporarily will replace the DeSoto wing of the old contractor deems it necessary. we’d like to do a larger project, Children’s Hospital building. —Kimberly K. 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have reasonable alternatives, and be rejected, he said. less than one-half percent of riders The only information con- Major bus route changes begin April 4 will have their service eliminated, veyed to the Port Authority via she said. Pitt’s smartcards is the unique hange is coming. resources now to implement all R prefix will identify rapid bus q number embedded in the card Get on board” is the the features I just listed, over time routes; an L will designate limited Bill Seman, director of treasury that alerts the transit company’s “Cmantra of the Port we expect to be able to achieve all stop routes. operations for the Port Authority, scanners of the card’s validity. Authority of Allegheny County of that.” A and B suffixes will be used in discussed the new fare box system, No personal data are for- as it gets ready to implement the • Bus stop consolidation. limited circumstances for routes which will read Pitt’s smartcard warded, said Jessica Larson of largest bus service changes in 50 Stern said the Port Authority that have branches at their outer IDs system-wide once the fare Panther Central. years beginning April 4. currently operates 186 routes ends, for example, the 77A and boxes have been installed in Port Kevin Sheehy, director of Park- Port Authority and Pitt offi- with more than 16,000 bus stops 77B. Numbers only will be used Authority vehicles, a project slated ing, Transportation and Services, cials gathered at Alumni Hall last system-wide. Industry best prac- for all other routes. for completion this fall. added that Pitt has the capability week to present the route and tices suggest that many of the stops • Expansion of parking. “We Seman said the card must be of differentiating whether the card other service changes, which will are spaced too close together for recognize we have a critical short- within about 2 inches of the fare holder is a student, staff member be implemented in phases over the efficiency, so the transit company age of parking around the region,” box scanner to register. The rider or faculty member, but that infor- next two years, in a town hall-style will be eliminating some and shift- Stern said. The Port Authority will hear one sound if the card mation is not shared with the Port discussion sponsored by the Staff ing others on many routes, she plans to expand parking at 15 has been accepted as valid and a Authority. Association Council. said. New signs will be posted at high-priority locations around the different sound should the card —Peter Hart n Wendy Stern, assistant general stops as the routes are adjusted. county, although no timetable is manager of the transit authority, In most cases, the additional set due to the current lack of fund- Printed schedules for all bus routes now are available. gave an overview of the rationale distances that passengers will have ing. Changes for each phase will Riders also can access information on any bus route at behind the changes, and Fred to walk will be one or two blocks, include plenty of advance public www.portauthority.org/paac/portals/1/tdp/RoutesApril- Mergner, assistant manager of Stern said. notice, she added. 4Final.pdf. scheduling, discussed specific • A new route identification “We know that not everybody The site also details the changes, if any, on every route route changes for Oakland’s system. For example, the East will be thrilled by these changes,” and includes both the current bus designation and its more than 30 daily routes. (See Busway vehicles will be purple; Stern said. But for nearly 90 per- new designation, where applicable. sidebar.) all East Busway routes will have a cent of riders, the basic routes will The Port Authority also has added customer service With all the changes to the “P” prefix. A G (for green) prefix remain the same. About 10 percent staff, who can be reached at 412/442-2000. county’s demographics in the past will identify the West Busway; an will lose their current route but 50 years, Stern said, the time for a major overhaul of services had arrived. As additional incentive to change, Act 44 legislation passed two years ago dictates how much state funding the Port Authority receives based on a formula that rewards efficiency and penalizes Will your inefficiency, she noted. The first changes start April 4, with 60 routes affected system- wide. The next phase of route Oakland changes will be implemented in June, with others planned for September. The new transit plan is expected to be implemented bus service fully by March 2012. Stern said the goal is to provide more service with fewer routes. “Right now we have 186 routes be affected? and we’re proposing to reduce that to 122 routes, a 35 percent hen the Port Authority • The 61C has some slight Homestead, will be discontinued • Two routes currently run decrease,” Stern said. “However, begins to implement route changes in the McKeesport April 4. from Oakland/Downtown to the the number of weekday bus trips Wchanges in its route area. Those will be implemented • The new 75-Ellsworth route airport area: The 28X Airport will be increased by 6 percent system, much of Oakland’s bus on April 4. will replace the 59U between Flyer and the 100 West Busway- (from 7,373 to 7,805) and the service will be affected. • The 61D, which currently Oakland and the South Side All Stops. The 28X route will average number of trips per route Fred Mergner, assistant man- goes up Forward Avenue to Sum- Works. The new 75-Ellsworth eliminate the Robinson Town will be increased by 60 percent ager of scheduling, itemized route merset at Frick Park, no longer bus will start daily at 6 a.m.; the Centre stop, going from Oakland (from 40 to 64 trips per route on changes for Oakland’s 32 daily will turn at Murray and Forward 59U did not run during morning to Downtown and then directly to average).” routes. avenues. That bus will continue rush hour. the airport. The service will run That is expected to provide “On April 4, we’re changing a on Murray Avenue to The Water- • The 75-Ellsworth eventu- every 30 minutes from approxi- riders with greater schedule total of 60 routes system-wide, 13 front. It will be renamed 61D- ally will replace the 71C, which mately 4:30 a.m. to midnight, flexibility, make the system less of which travel through Oakland,” Murray. It also will expand to serves Shadyside via Ellsworth seven days a week. Eventually, the complicated and reduce service Mergner told an audience of about seven-day-a-week service. Avenue, although no timetable for 28X will become a rapid bus, but duplication, she said. “We are 100 here March 25. Highlights of • On April 4, the 59U will be the replacement is set. Inbound, will retain its route designation reallocating our resources away the Oakland bus route changes eliminated. the 75-Ellsworth will run from for now. from unproductive and under- include: • The 69A bus, which dupli- Bakery Square to Shady Avenue The 100 West Busway-All productive routes to those where • The 61 series buses eventu- cates much of the 61C route, also down Ellsworth Avenue to Nev- Stops route will be renumbered the demand is the highest,” Stern ally will become part of the rapid will be discontinued April 4. ille Street to Fifth Avenue to the and renamed G2 West Busway- said. bus network, but in the short term • The 61A and 61B have Birmingham Bridge to the South Oakland. That bus will run to Some of the other features of will retain their current route some substantial routing changes Side Works seven days a week. The Robinson Town Center directly the transit plan that will be imple- number designations. planned near the end of the line 71C eventually will not travel on from Oakland and Downtown. mented by 2012 include: “However, on all the 61 series in the eastern suburbs. However, Ellsworth Avenue and instead will The G2 West Busway-Oakland • Rapid buses. Rapid buses routes — 61A, B, C and D — those changes will not be imple- operate on Centre Avenue when it will run seven days a week all day are proposed for nine routes: the entirely new schedules have been mented until the rapid bus phase becomes a rapid bus. The 71A also long. Currently, the 100 West 61-series routes, the 71-series developed in accordance with the is undertaken, planned for fall- will be converted to a rapid bus. Busway-All Stops runs only during routes and the 28X Airport Flyer. transit plan,” Mergner said. winter 2011. Mergner said, “The important weekday rush hours. Implementation of the rapid buses “You will notice increased • The 61F-Homestead Park thing to remember in the short The G2 will not serve the is planned for fall-winter 2011. service levels: Throughout the also will be discontinued. To get term is that the 75-Ellsworth Carnegie park-and-ride as the Some of the features of rapid day, each one of the 61 series will from Oakland to Homestead Park, and the 71C routes are inter- 100 West Busway-All Stops does buses, Stern said, include more run every 15 minutes, meaning 16 riders will take a 61C and transfer changeable between Oakland, currently. frequent service; fewer stops, so trips an hour between Oakland and to a 53F or 55M in Homestead, or and College Street and Ellsworth “For those of you who use the travel time is quicker; a simple Forbes and Murray. Secondly, the take a 61D-Murray to The Water- in Shadyside. If you see the 75 Carnegie park-and-ride, there route structure; enhanced stations 61C and 61D, which use Murray front and transfer to the 55M. coming, use it, because the 71C are several options,” Mergner with passenger amenities, such as Avenue, will be scheduled to alter- • The 64A, which currently frequency has been reduced in said. “There is a park-and-ride bike racks and more parking, and nate evenly, just as the 61A and 61B operates between Homestead, the interim time period prior to at Bell Station, Crafton Station real-time passenger information that continue out Forbes Avenue Squirrel Hill and Shadyside, will implementation of the rapid bus and Sheridan Station on the based on a GPS tracking system. will be designed,” he said. be rerouted and renamed the 64 phase.” West Busway, or if you use the The Port Authority is working Thus, at Forbes and Murray Lawrenceville/Waterfront. The • Two Shadyside routes, the Carnegie park-and-ride you can with the city to grant the rapid avenues in Squirrel Hill, buses are new route will operate between 77C and the 78C-Shadyside take the G1, which replaces the buses priority over automobiles scheduled to arrive A, B, C, D, A, Lawrenceville, Bloomfield, Sha- Express, will be discontinued 33X, to one of the other stations on certain streets, she added. B, C, D, Mergner said. dyside, Squirrel Hill, Greenfield April 4. and transfer to the G2. During “The other nice thing about “Because they are evenly and The Waterfront. “However, the 78C ridership rush hours, the G1 and G2 will the rapid bus concept is that it is spaced, we’re hoping it will reduce Service between Negley and on Bayard Street will be served by alternate every five minutes on scalable over time, as resources the ‘bunching’ or ‘platooning,’ Centre avenues and East Liberty, a rerouted W-Wilkins Avenue the West Busway, running every became available,” Stern said. where several buses arrive at a stop as well as service along Eighth Flyer that riders can take to get to 10 minutes each.” “Although we don’t have all the at the same time,” he said. Avenue and Amity Street in Downtown,” Mergner said. —Peter Hart n

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What have you accomplished as a its own, and greatly facilitates the market member of the University Senate? What position held by UPMC. The education, issues will you focus on as president? research and health sectors are robust even University Senate in a downward-turning economy. Public BIRCHER: Over the course of my career research universities create jobs within in the University Senate, beginning in 1997, the state that funds them in a fashion that I have built collegial relationships with fac- is difficult if not impossible to replicate in ulty, staff, students and the administration. presidential candidates other state or private agencies. Further, I have had an enormously positive experi- education is one of the most important and ence. When the faculty representatives most rewarding investments each individual (the president of the Senate chief among can make. them) are willing to do our homework The commonwealth’s role in facilitating with reasonable due diligence, my experi- ON THE ISSUES excellent education at reasonable cost is ence has been that our colleagues in the essential in furthering an economy in which administration are very receptive to finding This year’s election for the University Senate presidency matches two School real innovation creates new jobs. Alterna- common philosophical ground and work- of Medicine professors: former Senate president Nicholas G. Bircher against tive revenue streams, particularly private ing toward a mutually beneficial solution incumbent Michael R. Pinsky. foundation funding, unfortunately tend to any problem. This requires candor and Bircher is associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine. He to reflect the general economic condition flexibility on both sides. As president (2003- served as Senate president in 2003-04 and 2004-05 and currently serves as chair as charitable donations tend to go down- 2005), several potentially contentious issues of the Senate bylaws and procedures committee. ward with the economy. Pitt’s agility and were ultimately resolved amicably, and we Pinsky, who is seeking his second term as president, is professor of critical widely diverse set of research capabilities, all worked together to make Pitt a better care medicine, bioengineering, translational and clinical research, cardiovascular however, allow expansion of the scientific place. The issues on which I hope to focus diseases and anesthesiology. and scholarly enterprise in part based on are (1) increasing faculty engagement in The Senate elections are expected to be conducted via electronic balloting Sutton’s Law, i.e., go where the money is, the University Senate by providing them beginning tomorrow, April 2, and running through April 17. Short descriptions and based in part on the highly competitive with detailed information about what we of the candidates’ academic and service-oriented experience, as well as position expertise of the faculty. have achieved historically and what we can statements, will be posted online along with the ballots. achieve in the future, and (2) fair and equi- (For the slate of Senate officer candidates, as well as candidates for Faculty PINSKY: The University of Pittsburgh table management of University resources Assembly slots, see related story, page 2.) is a major economic engine not only for in times of economic hardship. Last week, the presidential candidates responded in writing to questions posed the southwestern part of the state but all by University Times staff writer Peter Hart. of Pennsylvania. On a statewide level we PINSKY: I have been a member of the Candidates were asked to limit each response to approximately 250 words. not only educate many students who go University Senate and held various offices Some responses have been edited for length. on to become productive professional for the past 10 years. I would continue the members of the society but employ a large work I have begun this year in support of number of people at various levels, create three initiatives I have promoted as well as innovative programs from which startup faculty rights, transparency in administra- companies develop and are a magnet for tive practices and striving to improve the new growth both economically and in com- overall effectiveness of the workplace. We munity enrichment. One may well ask these have lived through a very tough time of legislators what would they prefer, leading budget reductions, questionable state sup- or following growth, having home-grown port and a year-long salary freeze. I have engineers, lawyers and physicians, business worked closely with the administration people and an educated electorate whose through our budget policies committee to salaries would support through taxes better insure that these restrictions are both fairly lifestyle initiatives, like public education, applied and quickly removed once the fiscal public safety and environmental protection, crisis ends. The initiatives I started this year or would they prefer to outsource our future include: First, I initiated the development to other states whose vision has not been of CERTS (community engagement for obscured by myopia? research, teaching and service) through the Community Outreach Partnership When the mayor called off his attempt Center (COPC). The program aims to to tax students’ tuition, the University unite faculty from all colleges in a faculty- agreed to contribute an unspecified led research/service-learning agenda at Pitt amount to the city and to help city and developing community partnerships for officials lobby for more state support. faculty and students (significantly gradu- Are these good strategies? What is the ate students) for research and scholarship University’s responsibility toward its through community engagement. Second, neighbors and the city? What do you see I have re-energized the creation of an email as the faculty’s and the administration’s information system for Senate communica- role in good community citizenship? tion directly with all faculty. Within this context I developed a University Senate BIRCHER: Donations in lieu of taxes are outreach program to energize the faculty Nicholas Bircher Michael Pinsky just one of many ways in which Pitt gives toward Senate activities directly of interest back to the city. Pitt also has a long history to them. Third, I have continued my efforts agility to adapt to changing funding streams. problems to be addressed. I have proposed and outstanding degree of civic engagement to develop an effective Fitness for Life pro- In addition, profound changes in technol- to the University administration that we and public service. These strategies have gram for faculty and staff. My prior initia- ogy have resulted in profound changes in consider creating a Pittsburgh research formed a mutually beneficial relationship tives include addressing overly restrictive the nature of scholarly publishing. The next institute, similar to those present at several between the city and the University. The interpretation of Institutional Review Board provost needs to have the same extraor- first-rate universities (e.g. Stanford, MIT) University’s responsibility is to continue to policies on conducting University-wide dinary expertise in the management of potentially in collaboration with Carnegie- build on the several successful programs human research, job security for School of the IT infrastructure that Provost Maher Mellon University and UPMC, so as to take already in place. The faculty and the admin- Medicine non-tenure stream faculty, resolu- does. Good IT choices support the faculty, advantage of the strengths of the University istration have the responsibility to further tion of duplicated email routing errors and and bad IT choices can be a substantial while also taking advantage of the strengths this growth, and to provide innovative strong support of our University Senate hindrance. The preservation of academic of CMU and UPMC, with whom we have a means of community service, as the needs sustainability subcommittee. freedom, passion for excellence, diligence, strong history of collaborative ventures. In of the community shift over time. leadership, prudent strategic management this way financial growth and fiscal stability What issues are facing Pitt’s next pro- and alacrity in general decision-making in may be achieved outside the state funding PINSKY: The mayor’s assertion that we do vost? What characteristics and expe- a scholarly and timely fashion will all be route, allowing the University to sustain not contribute to the community and the rience should the ideal Pitt provost requirements for a successful provost. salaries for faculty proportional to other city as a whole is incorrect and potentially possess? similar universities both here in Oakland malicious. The University employs the PINSKY: The new provost faces challenges and at the regional campuses. second-largest number of people in the City BIRCHER: The external issues with which that are both similar and different to those of Pittsburgh, whose city taxes go directly the provost will need to deal are (1) fiscal addressed by retiring Provost Maher. We Recent statements from state legislators to support the city. The University’s Police constraints in a marginal economy, (2) a are now a major academic player relative to indicate that state-related universities’ Department oversees all of the Oakland area shrinking number of children coming of the best national public and private insti- appropriations could be eliminated from so that no city-funded police patrol these college age and (3) a more competitive tutions. Our faculty are highly regarded the state budget. What’s the best tactic streets. Most of the calls the University market for education. The ideal provost nationally and internationally and the to convince legislators otherwise, given police respond to do not involve Univer- will be able to balance the interests of the overall quality of our student body has the economic climate, particularly with sity of Pittsburgh students. Thus, we are faculty and the institution fairly. Of the continued to improve to the level of the stimulus funding from the American materially supporting the primary functions nine CEO functions, finance is first. The best schools in the nation. Although the new Recovery and Reinvestment Act due to of the city. However, we are also strongly provost, however, has the responsibility for provost shall need to sustain these qualities, end in the near future? Are there other supporting local public welfare groups the strategic management of the academic he or she will have to do so within a known revenue streams Pitt should pursue? through numerous public service activi- enterprise. The outstanding choices of environment of reducing state funding. ties coordinated by the School of Social investments in specific academic initiatives Bold collaborative initiatives that leverage BIRCHER: The best tactic is to convince Work and the University administration over the past decade have not only led to our strengths and create sustainable aca- the legislature that the return on investment through COPC. Furthermore, our recent meteoric growth, but have also set the stage demic growth while maintaining our core in Pitt makes it an outstanding use of public faculty initiative, referred to above, called for further diversification and maintained academic values will represent the primary funds. Pitt is a major economic engine on CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 give faculty feedback on existing activities as CERTS, aims to fortify this programmatic well as to garner from them their concerns, effort by inserting academic merit initiatives which would be brought back to Faculty into the efforts so that a sustainable faculty University Senate Assembly for debate. If general themes of and student involvement in community discontent, concern and frustration exist, improvement can be developed. I am most then they will be discussed with the admin- excited about this program and feel it will istration to find reasonable solutions. bear community outreach and community presidential candidates improvement benefits well into the future. What are other universities doing that On a totally different level, I question the you think Pitt should emulate? mayor’s assertion that the budget deficit needs University financial support. As I BIRCHER: As a Harvard alumnus, I, of listed above, tangible financial support ON THE ISSUES course, think fondly of that institution. already exists and furthermore the city and The effort to carefully match financial aid county need to merge services and reduce to tuition and fees for qualified students is their labor force owing to redundant ser- the dormitory rooms and all public spaces PINSKY: No response submitted. an important strategy. Continued efforts vices and inefficient use of existing services. lighting is by energy-efficient fluorescent for maintaining research competitiveness Second, the pension under-funding is not bulbs and all incandescent bulbs are being Is the tenure system healthy at Pitt? have been a characteristic of a successful a local Pittsburgh problem but a statewide systematically replaced. The University is What protections do you see for non- university of late, and Pitt is no exception problem that should be addressed on a becoming paperless, meaning that more tenure stream faculty? to that rule. statewide level. activities are done online including student projects, term papers and reports, while BIRCHER: I believe the system is gener- PINSKY: I think that all universities are Has the salary freeze had any effect on schools and departments provide notices ally healthy and provides fair and equitable a product of their regional environment, faculty recruitment and retention? electronically and have their reporting treatment for both tenured and non-ten- funding, scholastic standing, faculty and structure that way as well. We have not ured faculty. One protection afforded the physical plant. As I travel around the country BIRCHER: The working hypothesis is that eliminated paper, and that is probably good, non-tenured faculty is careful valuation of to various universities, I am struck by how the freeze did have an effect. The magnitude but we have markedly reduced its use. Also, their own performance. To the extent that some use their environment to match with of the effect is somewhat difficult to mea- as part of the cost saving, the University has they make the institution work, they are their physical plant to improve the normal sure, as faculty move from one institution markedly limited new hiring, though this likely to be kept around. flow of daily activities from commuting to another for a variety of reasons. In the position will remain cost-effective only in and parking to eating and drinking. To a current economic circumstance, however, the short term as overwork and missed work PINSKY: The tenure system is not healthy large extent Pitt is limited in what it can the freeze was a prudent move. Careful will prove to be the tipping point. throughout the United States, so why do and within those limitations is doing stewardship requires the willingness to should it be healthier here in Pittsburgh? exceptionally well. make reasonable investments in recruit- With technology creating new abuses As a tenured professor for the past 17 years I do regret not having the football sta- ment and retention. in the classroom, such as the covert I say this with a certain degree of regret. dium on campus, but apparently student recording or posting of lectures or the We are witnessing an evolution of higher attendance at football games has never been PINSKY: I believe that in the short term disruptive use of cell phones, should the education academia. As salaries continue higher. One item that has bothered me neither faculty retention nor recruitment University implement certain policies to increase and alternative teaching and since coming to Pitt 28 years ago was the has been materially hurt by the year-long regarding classroom decorum, civility research job opportunities evolve, younger abysmal state of the faculty club and related salary freeze. I hold this position because and privacy? faculty are going to have less opportunities social centers. This lack of social centers is the financial crisis is worldwide and felt to realize the perceived security of tenure to me one of the greatest flaws on our main by every household nationally. Thus, the BIRCHER: Disruptive behavior is unac- nationwide. What we do have we will keep campus. However, the University acquired problem is universal and all academic ceptable in any context. The faculty for and the promises made yesterday will be the University Club and placed within it a institutions are struggling to stay solvent. each course have to make very careful kept into the future. What we need is a clear new faculty club. It houses a meeting area, Several prominent institutions, including and well reasoned choices as to what the unvarnished discussion with the academic restaurant, bar and health facilities, and all CMU, had voluntary salary reductions to students must know themselves and what leadership and administration as to exactly at reasonable prices. I was one of its strong- prevent layoffs. Other prominent institu- they can look up. what tenure will mean at Pitt in the future est supporters and joined once it opened. I tions have declared bankruptcy. Pitt chose and what we can say to our junior faculty have asked that the Faculty Assembly meet to freeze salaries rather than lay off faculty PINSKY: This is a threat to all academic who undertake a life of higher education there, as this is our area. I look forward to and is financially stable enough to sustain institutions that promote openness. I was teaching and research. We already have sharing a meal or drink with faculty in our activities, albeit at a reduced level, until materially involved in most of the aspects clear documentation as to what criteria are new faculty club. Finally, the Fitness for this crisis passes. of the above referenced event and was very needed for awarding tenure. Life wellness program with exercise centers That we are coming out of this recession impressed with the actions taken by the around campus creates an environment of speaks well for the long term but in the faculty member and the Provost’s office. Is the University’s three-pronged mis- exceptional quality, one that we can all be short term the focus should be on keep- In essence, we already have a policy that sion of teaching, research and public proud to call our own. ing fixed costs low, like the cost of health deals with this issue directly. The classroom service in the proper balance? care insurance. As a member of the budget is a place where students and faculty can Do you perceive a change in faculty policies committee, I have been working exchange ideas, openly discuss positions BIRCHER: Proper balance is a matter of involvement in Senate Council and hard to help the University keep benefits and form new opinions based on this free perspective in this complex set of priorities. Faculty Assembly activities? Why should constant and minimize real costs to the interaction. The sanctity of the classroom Pitt has an excellent mix in my opinion, faculty be involved with the University faculty and staff. We shall need to reinstate is central to open discussion. What student which has been largely responsible for its Senate? salary raises and hopefully that will occur would ask a question if they thought the great success over the past decade. in the fall, but fiscal reality demands that whole world would know that they did not BIRCHER: The steady improvement in we remain solvent and may need to bal- know the answer? What sort of posturing PINSKY: Not all faculty perform each of a system of shared governance requires ance salary raises for all versus those who would faculty and student take if they knew these tasks equally, nor should they. We that those governed participate vigorously. have not seen them for a while and the real their words were being publicized? We should, however, give credit as appropriate Complacency leads directly to a loss of potential of force reduction. would end up with the public circus seen in for community service within the academic voice in important decisions. At present, most legislative bodies, not classrooms. realm when its efforts reflect academic there seems to be general satisfaction with Besides the salary freeze, what other achievement. I believe that our initiative to how things are going, and that seems to economies have you seen the University Faculty leaders at the regional campuses make the creation of generalizable knowl- limit interest. I hope to restore the sense undertake? What other measures should recently expressed frustration at the edge from community service a definition of engagement which the faculty have Pitt be taking? process for establishing an appropriate of academic achievement will go a long felt historically, and that faculty will be faculty salary benchmarking group. Is way toward making public service more willing to work to enhance the collegial BIRCHER: I really have not seen very dras- shared governance slipping at Pitt? universally applied. problem-solving opportunities afforded tic cuts in most programs. As the economy However, the issue is not imbalance by the University Senate. continues a sluggish recovery, very careful BIRCHER: I don’t perceive a general but lack of overall emphasis. We so focus attention to financial detail will be required. decline in shared governance. The response on teaching loads and student evaluations, PINSKY: This last year I initiated a Uni- Investment in the University Club as a rev- at Faculty Assembly to the events that led as well as “defensive” research to sustain versity Senate outreach program to have all enue stream in my view is a good strategy, as to the faculty frustration was, in my view, research funding, that we often lose track Faculty Assembly representatives present is continued careful attention to short-term very carefully measured so as to be propor- of why we are at the University. We are our portfolio to all faculty through their liquidity, as Mr. [Arthur] Ramicone and his tional to the events. I think that the clear here to teach the next generation of lead- respective department and school meetings team have done so well. Faculty, staff and the message was sent not to dwell on the past, ers today and discover knowledge that will at least twice a year. This program has not administration need to collaborate to find but at that same time (as another physician make them and society even better tomor- fully achieved these goals but is a start. Next real economies in our system, as opposed wrote) “Those who cannot remember the row. To this extent I was instrumental in year I hope to fully realize these efforts. As to the false economies sometimes created past are condemned to repeat it.” getting the faculty handbook changed to mentioned above, I have finally created a by across-the-board cuts. I also believe the ability of the shared reflect this concept. University-wide faculty distribution list so governance system to address this variety My platform is “academic freedom, that faculty can be informed of all the events PINSKY: The University is embracing of frustration is a sign of a robust system academic merit and academic responsibil- we are doing and the issues behind the sustainability and energy use reduction and rather than a weak one. Denial is a poor ity.” We need to support existing defined headlines. These and related activities will is seeing the economic benefit of this action. approach to problem solution. Commit- academic criteria for retention and promo- only increase as we face external threats for In the cafeterias of the student dormitories ment to problem solution requires candid tion and create better and more open ways funding from the state, increased revenue they have eliminated trays and added more discussion, with a focus on specific cor- of sharing those activities with the junior demands from the city and the salary limi- locally grown fresh vegetables. They have rective actions. When missteps occur, our faculty. I envision taking our message to tations by global economic realities. More found that the cost of foods is less, owing system of shared governance is sufficiently the faculty at large through their elected than ever, the faculty need the University to lower transportation costs, student robust and candid to offer constructive representatives. I would task the Faculty Senate and we need to be their voice in throw away less food and what is bought advice regarding making relations more Assembly representatives to hold “town this important process of shared gover- is eaten and what is eaten is healthier. In collegial. hall” meetings to discuss local issues and nance. n

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Close to 00 staff, faculty, students and alumni descended on the state capitol March  for the annual Pitt Day in Harrisburg. Sponsored by the Alumni Legislative Network and the Pitt Advocacy Network, which includes faculty, staff and students, Pitt Day in Harrisburg aims to get Pitt’s concerns about the challenges facing higher education directly to legislators, while learning firsthand about the legislative process. According to Nicole Urti, a Governmental Relations staff member who helped organize the trip, teams of three Pitt community members attempted to meet with each of their own representatives from both legislative houses and with others as time allowed. “We had easily 00 leg- islative visits,” more than double the number from the previous year, Urti said. Pitt sent two full buses from Pittsburgh to the state capitol. A separate group of  School of Social Work fac- ulty and students also attended the event. Other groups participating included the Student Government Board, the University Honors College and the Graduate and Pro- fessional Student Assembly. Pitt exhibits in the Capitol Rotunda were provided by researchers from the Center for Neuroscience and the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation and staff from the Office of Veteran Services. More than  representatives from Pitt’s regional cam- puses also joined in the mix, Urti noted. One of the buses broke down on the return trip to Pitts- burgh, causing a nearly three-hour delay at a rest stop on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. “That was such a small glitch in a very successful day of getting Pitt’s message out to Left: John Wilds, assis- the legislators,” Urti said. tant vice chancellor for Community Relations, boards the bus for Har- risburg. Above: Tracy Soska, continuing education director in the School of Social Work and co- PITT goes to director of the Commu- nity Outreach Partner- ship Center, reviews some legislative talking points. HARRISBURG

Above left: State Senator Pat Vance, R-st District, talks with Pitt student Ali Noor- bakah as Pitt Pathfinders Laura Paiewonsky, left, and Emily Hoover, listen.

Above right: Chancellor Mark Nordenberg

At right: After a long day, Pitt faculty, staff, students and alumni leave the state capitol.

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cesses of the women’s movement It’s important we see colorblind to advance formal legal gender racism and post-feminism as part equality, we know that gender of this overarching ideology, if inequality remains entrenched,” we’re going to work against social she said. inequality across social identity,” PRIVILEGE Moreover, post-feminist theo- Ferber said. ries that strive to discredit femi- Ferber is expanding her own nism are remarkably similar to research agenda to include yet a arguments in the post-racial third system of oppression, that discourse. Post-feminism assumes of religious or Christian privilege, Researchers need to look a gender-blind world, that men which also shares the same justify- and women are treated the same, ing platform as the new racism and at the intersection of gender, race, that people are not treated based post-feminism, she said. on gender and that society has When she wrote a blog last moved past the need for pursuing December summarizing the feel- other social systems to eliminate women’s equality. ings of oppression she gets as a Jew “Like colorblind racism, this during the pervasive Christmas discourse tells us that women’s holiday season, the responses she inequality, CRSP lecturer says status today is a product of their received had all the earmarks of own individual choices or inher- the colorblind racism and post- ent differences between men and feminism defense, she noted. acial and gender inequality privilege into the picture means American,” Ferber said. “People women,” Ferber said. “We’re told “They felt that I was choos- are two strands of the same that we always focus on inequal- believe that civil rights legislation that women simply choose to work ing to be bothered by that and I Rtapestry and researchers ity and oppression, which are two eliminated racially discriminatory temporary or part-time jobs or should just choose to ignore it,” who treat them in isolation risk sides of the same coin. You cannot practices, and that any problems choose less-demanding careers Ferber said. The structure of the undercutting efforts to eliminate have people oppressed without blacks experience now are of so that they can spend more time resistance rhetoric is the same, them, a national expert said. other people who gain privileges their own doing. Central to this with their children. We’re told she noted. Abby L. Ferber, professor at their expense,” Ferber said. new racism, or post-racism as the women have the same opportuni- “Why does that matter? It of sociology and director of the “White people fail to recognize media dubbed it after Obama’s ties as men, and if women are more reveals that these systems of Matrix Center for the Advance- that their experiences are not election, is the belief that we live likely to be found in lower-paying inequality are all interconnected ment of Social Equity and Inclu- universal and common to every- in a colorblind society.” jobs, it must be because of their and they need to be understood sion at the University of Colo- one, but instead a result of their The colorblind perspective own choosing. Social forces are intersectionally. Race, gender, rado-Colorado Springs, discussed privileged status. People of color, assumes a level playing field and erased from view.” religion and other social systems her research into the intersection on the other hand, are faced with denies that racial inequality still Similarly, job segregation intersect and demonstrate that our of unequal social systems March racism and inequality on a daily exists. “This approach argues that and the persistent wage gap are theories must also integrate these 16 in a lecture titled “‘There basis.” we need to see people as human explained away by saying that systems,” Ferber said. Is More to Me Than White’: While enjoying white privi- beings rather than as racialized women by nature are better care- “I gain privileges because of Theorizing White Privilege and lege, Ferber said she also is the human beings, despite the fact takers and want to spend more my whiteness, but the form those Intersectionality,” sponsored by victim of gender inequality. A that people are impacted by race time in child care, housework and privileges take and the way I expe- Pitt’s Center on Race and Social handful of scholars, she among every day,” Ferber said. “Many elder care, she said. rience them and where and when I Problems. them, have employed an inter- people naively embrace this view “As an extension of women’s experience them are also shaped by “I first heard those words sectional approach, arguing that as non-racist, but we know it caregiving nature, that explains my gender, by my sexual orienta- uttered last year by a white student gender is central to the dynamics reinforces and reproduces racial why women predominate in fields tion, by my nationality and other of mine in a race and ethnicity of whiteness. inequality.” such a nursing and teaching and identities. Failing to look at how class,” Ferber said. “You can imag- “Whiteness is also a relational The three main characteris- social work. Cultural differences these systems intersect inhibits our ine the defensive tone in which category, one that is co-con- tics of this new he said that: ‘There’s more to me structed with other cultural cat- racism, Ferber than white.’ egories, for example, with class and said, are: “They were really words of with gender. Intersectional theory • Inequality is resistance. It was a defensive has been advanced mostly by seen as a thing of response from someone who women of color, who have argued the past. Society didn’t want to recognize the that race and gender cannot be is not having any privilege he experiences as a white separated. They’re both affecting impact on people’s person. He wanted to argue that their lives on a daily basis,” she life chances due to he’d had a hard life, he didn’t feel maintained. “You cannot look at their race. he ever had anything handed to one without the other, instead • The focus him, and he challenged why I was of viewing race, class, gender as is shifted to indi- focusing on his whiteness.” these things that you add on to viduals. People’s On the other hand, the stu- the picture.” status today is a dent’s words also invoke Ferber’s Scholars have dubbed this product of their own attempt to re-articulate privi- model the matrix of domination, own choices; in lege, specifically white privilege, she said. other words, the from an intersectional perspective, What does today’s racial dis- victims are them- she said. course look like? selves to blame. “There also is more to me than “First, scholars continue to •Based white, but I am the beneficiary of document the ways in which racial on these two tremendous white privilege that I inequality is reproduced. The old assumptions, any experience day in and day out. So Jim Crow system has been replaced perspective to I want to situate white privilege by the ‘new racism.’ Unlike the old redress inequal- within a broader social context,” racism which was very overt and ity is defined as Abby L. Ferber Joe Kapelewski/CIDDE Ferber said. easy to see, the new racism is more reverse racism. “By focusing on the victims of covert,” Ferber said. “If everyone is on the same also are invoked to rational- efforts to work for social justice racism, historically, we generally Despite civil rights legislation playing field and you do anything ize gender inequality. Men and and social change,” she said. fail to look at the experiences of and policies, racism still thrives. to help people of color, that’s seen women are seen as partaking in “Inequality is a tapestry, and whites and the way race also shapes Recent housing audits indicate as discriminating against whites,” different cultures. Women are you can think of race as one strand. their lives, often viewing the that African Americans are denied Ferber explained. seen as more caring and altruistic You can pull that one strand out, experiences of whites as raceless available housing 35-75 percent of A parallel discourse, often and peaceful and as valuing con- but the rest of the tapestry still and as the norm,” she said. “But the time, depending on the city in referred to as post-feminism, has nections to others,” Ferber said. remains whole. What we need to I think we need to take very seri- question, she noted. Racism and emerged. One scholar argues “We’re told that the push for focus on is unraveling the entire ously Toni Morrison’s argument racial discrimination also have that whiteness is embodied racial equality has gone too far and now tapestry.” that scholars need to look at the been documented in health care, power, the visible uniform of the men are the victims of ‘feminist Seeing privilege from an impact of racism on those who criminal justice, the insurance dominant racial group, Ferber frenzy,’” she said. “The problems intersectional perspective helps perpetuate it. Making whiteness industry and the workplace in said. “I like that: whiteness as a facing women are now defined to pre-empt and address a lot of visible allows us to examine the terms of hiring, advancement and uniform. But we’re not all the same as the result of feminism, rather the resistance that bringing up ways in which all white people higher wages. “In other words, under that uniform,” she said. “If than gender inequality itself. In white privilege tends to raise, benefit from their whiteness.” across institutions. People of color you look at me, you don’t only see this way feminism is discredited Ferber said. There now is a burgeon- live with racial oppression from a white person. I’m always seen as and claims of ongoing inequality “Everyone plays a role in the ing field of “whiteness studies,” cradle to grave,” Ferber said. a white woman. The post-femi- are dismissed.” dynamics of privilege and so Ferber noted, that incorporates Despite all the evidence to nist discourse argues that gender Given their remarkable simi- everyone needs to be a part of perspectives from literary studies, the contrary, many white people inequality has been remedied, that larities, both colorblind racism creating the solution. Race is not psychology, sociology, social work believe that discrimination is a sexism is dead.” and post-feminism need to be just about people of color, it’s about and anthropology. But there is a thing of the past. To the contrary, Ferber said, examined together, and need to be white people. We’re the ones who danger that whiteness studies puts “For example, a recent study overwhelming evidence of con- seen as parallel components of a are experiencing the benefits and undue emphasis on whiteness as concluded that half of white tinued gender inequality includes framework that denies the realities the privilege. We’re part of the the norm, Ferber cautioned. people — half — believe that alarming statistics of women as of inequality, she said. problem; we need to be part of “And that’s why I use the lan- average whites are doing the same victims of violence and the persis- “Both are part of what I call a the solution.” guage of white privilege. Bringing or worse as the average African tent wage gap. “Despite the suc- defense of the culture of privilege. —Peter Hart n

8 APRIL 1, 2010 Program plays matchmaker for researchers, schools he Graduate School of come to us with projects that are number of days that kids were “At the end of our study we ing as well. I think we need more Public Health (GSPH) already funded and already have absent,” Stebbins said. knew fairly quickly the answers community-based research. I Thas gone into the match- IRB approval, and they’re look- Five of the 10 schools received to two things: Not only can our love this network is because it’s making business — for Pitt, ing for sites,” he said. “Other intensive prevention education intervention prevent flu and lessen explicitly in the community and UPMC and Carnegie Mellon folks have come to us all the way as well as disease identification absenteeism, but also that little kids generates immediate results,” University researchers inter- at the beginning of the process services; five control schools can do the intervention. That’s the Stebbins said. ested in conducting school- where they just have an idea: For received only disease identifica- win-win you hope for.” The School Based Research based research on public health example, ‘I’d like to study how to tion services. Stebbins said several school and Practice Network recently and medical issues in Allegheny reduce obesity in fourth-graders.’ The research data showed districts outside western Penn- published “A Research Agenda for County. So we ask: ‘What have you looked teaching children and families sylvania contacted him about the Schools in Allegheny County: A The School Based Research at so far? Where are you looking about health habits that prevent PIP project findings, with an eye Policy and Practice White Paper” and Practice Network, housed in for funding? Who are you working the spread of disease, such as hand- toward duplicating its success. that provides an overview of the GSPH’s Center for Public Health with?’ And then help them design washing and use of hand-sanitiz- “That’s why I love doing network and details its projects, Practice, advises researchers on the project so it’s as school-friendly ers, covering the mouth when this type of research, because goals and recommendations projects at all stages of develop- as possible.” coughing and staying home when it’s directly applicable to the (available at www.cphp.pitt.edu/ ment — from concept and design, The main focus of the network ill, coupled with early identifica- community and broad swaths of report/Default.aspx). to Institutional Review Board is on public health and health tion, measurably helped reduce people. What the NIH (National For more information on (IRB) requirements, to training issues, Stebbins said, as opposed the spread of influenza. Institutes of Health) says is there’s the network, contact Stebbins in the challenges and pitfalls of to the kind of research typically Six research papers related to an awful lot of research that never at 412/383-2228 or stebbins@ how to conduct school-based generated at the School of Educa- the PIP project already have been makes it into the practical world pitt.edu. research and fieldwork — said tion and the Learning Research published or are in press. and helps people. That’s my feel- —Peter Hart n network principal investigator and Development Center. “Working with schools is so Samuel Stebbins, who is director “For example, the survey rewarding, because there are so of the Center for Public Health results show a lot of interest at many good things you can do. Provost lecture Practice. the schools in technology effec- There are many good research Robert L. Hendricks outlined highlights of Founded in 2008 in partner- tiveness. That’s not something questions that you can answer his research career in ship with Pitt’s Clinical and we would focus on. We didn’t tell in a laboratory setting, but that a March  Provost’s Inaugural Lecture titled, Translational Science Institute them in advance that we would doesn’t help you with how they “Scientific Discovery Is (CTSI), the main objectives of focus on health issues. We wanted work in real life. Working with a Journey Best Enjoyed the network are to: to learn everything they were the schools is a real-life setting. With Friends.” Hen- dricks was presented a • Develop a list of public health interested in,’” he said. Kids will tell you if something medal to commemorate issues most in need of research in Other interests expressed works or doesn’t work. Parents will his designation as the the county’s school districts; by the school officials included tell you. Teachers are interested,” Joseph F. Novak MD Chair in Ophthalmology • Train researchers on working student motivation, student assis- Stebbins said. Research. in schools/communities; tance programs, special educa- “For the PIP project, there was Hendricks, who has • Match researchers with tion and the appropriate amount a fantastic mix of research. We focused his research on school districts and individual of testing. “Those are all very studied the kids in the schools, the effects of herpes schools, and important areas, but somewhat for their absentee records and lots simplex virus on the eye, is vice chair for • Disseminate translational out of our focus. We share those of other things, to see when they research in the Depart- science to school and community with the School of Education, in were sick, how they got sick, what ment of Ophthalmol- settings. case researchers there want to their symptoms were. ogy, professor in the departments of immu- Stebbins said network staff focus on it.” “But we also did home visits. nology and molecular surveyed superintendents at 41 of But wellness and student well- If the kid was home sick, we had genetics and biochem- istry, a member of the the 44 school districts (including being turned out to be the No. 1 staff who went into the homes and University of Pittsburgh the Roman Catholic Diocese of interest on the survey, listed by did nasal swabs and brought them Cancer Institute and a Pittsburgh) in Allegheny County almost half of the superintendents. back to the lab and tested them faculty member in the McGowan Institute for to determine their interests, and “That’s really a mixture to some for influenza. So we also got nice Regenerative Medicine. held focus groups with principals extent of physical activity, proper biomedical confirmation or not of and senior staff in 33 of the school nutrition, obesity and stress; the flu,” he said. Kimberly K. Barlow districts. stress in the home environment, The survey, which was funded for example. There is a general by CTSI, identified 68 research perception among the schools, and topics of significant interest to the this is stating the obvious, if you school districts. have students who are otherwise With a population of 1.2 mil- healthy and active and able to focus lion and a wide variety of school on their work, they’re going to do district sizes and environments, better,” Stebbins said. the county provides a useful labo- Other health themes com- ratory for school-based research, monly mentioned in the survey Stebbins said. included mental health concerns “Some schools are very urban, such as school phobia, anxiety, some are rural, some are suburban, harassment/bullying, depression, some are mixed, so there’s a lot of ADHD and drug/alcohol abuse, diversity and variety out there. as well as diabetes, he said. In that sense, they have differing The school-based network needs, but they also have differ- grew out of the success of a GSPH ent things they can bring to the research project — the Pittsburgh research process,” he explained. Influenza Prevention Project “Say you’re developing strate- (PIP) — conducted in 2006-09 gies to improve physical activity. and funded by the Centers for You won’t know until you try Disease Control and Prevention. it whether a strategy will work GSPH Dean Donald Burke was better in a city setting or a rural the principal investigator and setting. They’re very different Stebbins was the co-P.I. environments.” PIP implemented a program of To date, the network has over- non-pharmaceutical interventions seen more than 15 health-related for the prevention of influenza research projects involving more in 10 Pittsburgh district elemen- than 65 schools in Allegheny tary schools. “The schools were County. very interested in that because “A number of researchers have we thought we could reduce the R E A C H the University community. A D V E R T I S E in the University Times.

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receive.” result in individuals deciding not Lave said she understands to buy coverage until they get sick What will health care reform concerns about the fact that the and need care. bill requires people to purchase “What is going to be very health insurance, but finds the interesting is to figure out what provision necessary. “I don’t see it was about this bill that had mean for Pitt staff & faculty? how we can implement the kind everybody so totally infuriated CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 of insurance reforms that we think about it,” Lave said, adding she are desirable without mandating doesn’t understand what in the increases the potential for nurse have the capacity to grow.” services Americans receive from coverage,” she said. For instance, bill’s language had opponents in practitioners to become primary q the health care system remain, she forbidding insurers to exclude such a tizzy. care providers. Commenting more broadly on said. “Getting rid of waste is not people who have pre-existing con- “It’s not clear the bill war- “We are anticipating some the legislation, Lave said, “I like the same as rationing care.” ditions without requiring people rants it.” increase in dollars for nurse-man- the basic structure of the bill,” Lave said she is concerned to buy coverage, she said, could —Kimberly K. Barlow n aged clinics,” of which some 250 adding, “I’m concerned that it may about state taxes rising, foreseeing currently operate in the United blow the budget even more, but the need for state tax increases in States. Dunbar-Jacob also fore- I think we need to bite the bullet order to cover the increased state sees additional financial support and engage in the kind of deci- costs that will stem from higher UPMC sets up specialized for nurses interested in advanced sion making we should have been Medicaid eligibility limits. It’s practice education. engaged in a long time ago.” a tradeoff necessary in order to “We and other programs in Having the legislation in place give poor people access to health heart treatment center the region would be pleased to is primary; making changes and care, she said. UPMC has established a center death. However, most patients see increases in enrollment and corrections can come later, she “I am a believer in the social to treat patients with hypertrophic do not experience any symptoms would love to accommodate that,” said. good, that we all ought to be cardiomyopathy (HCM), a condi- and do not know that they have she said. “It is the area where we Questions about the value of contributing if we are going to tion in which the heart muscle is the disease. abnormally thick without appar- “Hypertrophic cardiomyopa- ent cause. thy is a genetic disease that affects GSPH adds 1 PhD program, revises another Recognizing the need for a more than 600,000 people in the For students interested in the through the department’s Institute health problems.” coordinated approach to treat United States, but only 20 percent role behavioral and social factors for Evaluation Science in Com- Students in the PhD program this complex disease, the UPMC of these individuals know that they play in illness and health, the munity Health. will receive instruction in quali- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy have it,” said Joon Sup Lee, clinical Department of Behavioral and Jeanette M. Trauth, director tative and quantitative method- Center provides a central location director, UPMC Cardiovascular Community Health Sciences at of the doctoral programs and ological approaches to behavioral for patients and families to receive Institute. “It occurs in people of all the Graduate School of Public faculty member in the Depart- and social science research. HCM services including genetic ages, but it’s the leading cause of Health has established a PhD pro- ment of Behavioral and Com- The curriculum for the DrPH counseling, cardiac imaging, stress cardiac death in young athletes.” gram and revised its longstanding munity Health Sciences, said: program will be guided by newly testing, nutritional consultation UPMC’s Hypertrophic Car- doctor of public health program. “This approach to doctoral developed competencies for pro- and psychological care. diomyopathy Center has loca- The new PhD program will education encourages PhD stu- fessional education. Half of the Symptoms of HCM include tions at UPMC Presbyterian and train students to develop interven- dents to learn from practitioners coursework in the programs will chest pain, dizziness, fainting, high Children’s Hospital, offering both tions grounded in the social and in the DrPH program and vice overlap. A commitment to the blood pressure, heart palpitations adult and pediatric patients access behavioral sciences and test them versa. We believe this ongoing elimination of health disparities and shortness of breath, symptoms to HCM care in collaboration in randomized controlled trials, exchange between the worlds of and working with underserved that often are mistaken for other with their personal cardiologists. while the revised DrPH program theory and practice will result in populations will underlie course- conditions, such as asthma, anxi- To schedule an appointment, will focus on the translation, a new generation of scholars and work in both programs. ety, depression or other cardiac call 412/647-6000. For other implementation and evaluation practitioners who will be trained For more information, contact problems. Extreme cases of hyper- questions, call 1-877/426-8762 of evidence-based interventions to work together to address the Natalie Arnold at narnold@pitt. trophic cardiomyopathy may lead or email HCMCenter@upmc. for use in community settings world’s most pressing public edu. n to heart failure or even sudden edu. n

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eople think ‘School crisis: “When you leave it to [learning on the intervention unintentionally. get ready for the lockdown, job], people do not learn the conceptual As one of the co-founders of Pitt’s state- “Pthe shooter, the helicopters framework for school crisis leadership. funded Services for Teens at Risk (STAR) flying;’ they picture Columbine,” said Pitt They don’t read the research, they have no suicide prevention center, she was among psychology in education professor Mary one to interpret the research to them, and the professionals called upon in the after- Margaret Kerr, author of the new book, so they can’t tell what is best practice from math of school tragedies. “School Crisis Prevention and Interven- what is worst practice,” Kerr said. “While our primary missions were pre- tion.” In addition, expecting to develop such vention and treatment and training, what Such dramatic violent scenarios are rare, skills during a crisis in one’s own workplace happened in those early years is that we got but disasters, accidents and illnesses need is problematic “because you’re connected to the telephone calls when someone died by to be considered in the same realm, said the issue and you’re emotionally connected suicide or otherwise in schools,” she said, Kerr, a veteran responder to more than to it. So you don’t have the perspective and noting that in the mid-1980s, school and 1,000 school crises. necessarily the distance to weigh things in community crisis teams were rare. “Crises aren’t always intentional, violent a more objective manner,” she said. She honed her crisis response expertise situations,” but rather more often involve “Preparation leads to calmer, more during a five-year public service leave in asthma, diabetes or adult high blood pres- rational, more thoughtful decisions when which she directed guidance counseling, sure. “Most school crises are accidents a crisis does happen,” Kerr said. “And it alternative education, discipline and school and illnesses, but you just don’t hear about reduces, of course, a lot of the crisis in the safety in the Pittsburgh city schools. those,” she said. first place.” There, she and colleagues developed “If you take all of school crises, including q crisis response models with rapid response the child with an asthma attack, the adult Kerr, whose background is in working times, based on principles of trauma and who has a heart attack, the adult who, a map with children who have behavioral prob- first-responding.

falls on her shoulder and she collapses in lems, got her own start in school crisis CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 Kimberly K. Barlow front of her second graders ... If you take the complete realm of all possible crises — then it is going to happen and people should know what to do.” BOOKS, Few school administrators embark on their careers prepared for the reality that they, at some point, will be faced with a crisis situation of some sort, Kerr said, JOURNALS noting that few school leadership programs include crisis prevention and intervention content. & MORE “On-the-job crisis response and recov- ery is a poor model. But that’s kind of what’s happened,” said Kerr, whose book is designed mainly as a handbook for school A closer look personnel or graduate-level students. Florencio Asenjo

lthough he has more than a half- connection between music and mathemat- fill the void left by her death, Asenjo said. ducted Asenjo’s music with orchestras in century’s experience in teaching ics. “I don’t think there is an explanation “With the vacancy the death of my wife Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Aand writing about mathemat- that serves. They are complementary has produced, it is good I have this activity The composer finds that each orchestra ics, “music came first,” says Florencio activities,” he said. going. I enjoy it.” has its own unique qualities. Asenjo. “One is strictly mental, the other needs Around the time Asenjo retired, a fellow For instance, the Bohuslav Martinu, The mathematics professor emeritus’s intuition and feelings. When a theme composer connected him with conduc- which performed the pieces on the most current work in math and logic consists catches you there’s something about it tor Trevor, who was affiliated with the recent recording, “has a quality I can of writing and occasional lecturing rather that takes possession of you. A theorem Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and who only describe as transparent,” Asenjo than regular classroom teaching, permit- takes possession of you, too, in a different had expressed interest in conducting new said. “Rather than fusing the instruments, ting more time for Asenjo’s early love: way.” music. you can see them playing each individual composing. As a student at the University of La “People who should have been inter- one.” As a teenager, Asenjo studied with Plata, Asenjo chose mathematics, never ested in the music wouldn’t even look at the In addition, “Europe is so different,” Spanish composer Jaime Pahissa, with considering music as a career option. scores, but Kirk did,” Asenjo said, lamenting Asenjo said, noting that he finds Euro- whom he honed his skills in harmony and “It’s a terrible economic predicament if how difficult it is to get new symphonic pean orchestras more open than American orchestration. Asenjo’s operatic, orchestral you enter into that thing,” he insists, citing music played and recorded. orchestras to performing new music in and chamber music compositions have been the well-documented money woes of such “I flew to Knoxville and my life changed addition to well-known classics. “That for performed in his native Argentina as well famed composers as Stravinsky and Bartok. completely,” Asenjo said. me has been a nice experience.” as in the United States and Europe. “They had horrible financial problems that “He liked my pieces. He continued to When his music is being recorded, The octogenarian’s most prolific output they sometimes came out of, but if these like my pieces,” Asenjo said. Now, when Asenjo said he is present to clarify any as a composer of neoclassical music has people can’t make it really consistently,” Asenjo composes new works, their col- questions or sometimes make alterations come in his retirement. Since 2003, record- he said, trailing off. “ … It’s very difficult. laboration is such that Trevor has complete in the score. ings of his compositions, all conducted I liked math, so I studied it.” confidence in the music, Asenjo said. “Now and again they need an answer,” by British conductor Kirk Trevor and Asenjo later taught at his alma mater, but The choice of orchestra depends on he said. And sometimes the conductor performed by various Eastern European making a living solely as a faculty member which has space in its performance schedule suggests changes. “I usually accept them,” symphony orchestras, have been released also was difficult, forcing him to have a to record the music, and Trevor has con- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 at a pace of about one each year. second job at the Argentine Laboratory for Asenjo’s seventh recording with Trevor, Testing Materials and Technical Investiga- released in 2009, includes Asenjo’s 2008 tions. “With two jobs I couldn’t do any composition “Sinfonia Concertante” as creative work in mathematics or music,” he well as two works based on literature. His said. After writing to a friend at Princeton 2007 piece for clarinet and orchestra, “A “in a state of despair” to inquire about Thousand and One Nights,” is his inter- university positions in America, in 1958 pretation of 10 stories selected from the Asenjo landed an assistant professorship at Arabic folktale and “Three Images from Georgetown University. Later, he taught Don Quijote” represents Asenjo’s musical at Southern Illinois University, then joined impressions of three scenes from Miguel the Pitt faculty in 1963. de Cervantes’s classic story. “The fields I work on I enjoyed teach- Asenjo said he always has considered ing,” Asenjo said, noting that he had good mathematics and music to be comple- undergraduate students but especially liked mentary. “They did not collide. I jumped the depth of graduate-level teaching. “The from one to another, no problem. It is just small classes with graduate students were so a natural thing to do,” he said. enjoyable. I won’t forget them,” he said. In writing a score, “There is a pattern When he retired in 2001, Asenjo there, and the pattern is not arbitrary — declined the offer to continue teaching almost as in the way a proof of a theorem part-time as professor emeritus in order to is organized.” care for his wife, who was suffering from Still, he finds it difficult to describe the dementia and later died. The music helps Kimberly K. Barlow  U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES Karen Lillis

n her decidedly nontraditional novel, disjointed as she carries the reader along blood that’s actually under our skin means “The Second Elizabeth,” Pitt staff on her narrator’s quest for redefined words that we’re alive. The fact that it’s flowing Imember Karen Lillis takes her readers that capture their newly understood mean- is incredibly material and mystical at the on a mesmerizing trip into the psyche of a ings. same time. Blood is the flow of life. I’m very young woman searching for a new identity “Some of what the novel is doing is gain- interested in it as a symbol in writing as one through an understanding of language and ing a cumulative power,” Lillis explained. of the things we can’t see but nonetheless meaning. “Some people who don’t like it think it’s rules our lives,” Lillis said. Written entirely in the first person and not narrative enough to be a novel. I would With Beth’s help, the narrator gradually featuring a hypnotic style of repetition that argue that it’s not really a prose poem, but overcomes her trauma at least to the extent borders on ritualistic incantation, on the even if it was, so what? The narrative part, of being open to the possibility of finding surface the novel gives the reader a two- the story part, has to do with this unfolding, love, which is codified in the narrator’s month portrait of a friendship between two and unfolding in a nontraditional way with reflections on the nearby railroad tracks young women working summer jobs in a language, of what these words mean, so it’s that lead to an unknown end. The narrator delicatessen in Charlottesville, Va. a process of discovery for the narrator.” fantasizes that the communiqués she writes Deeper inside the novel’s workings, The key to the novel, which took Lillis on the cars of stopped trains will reach her however, are themes of re-fashioning the nine months to write, is the relationship unknown love like a message in a bottle. language of the past, and rejecting the many between the narrator and Beth, her much- “I need a love so that I can send words TO. names and nicknames the narrator has had admired friend, confidante and co-worker I need a love so I can leave him alone and he attached to her over time but that fail to whose influence on the narrator eventually can let me send him words. I need him to love capture her emerging essence. leads to catharsis, a cleansing of the old “I” me from the other end of the train track that Lillis, program assistant for the gradu- into a figurative second Elizabeth. is the color of my hair, so I can send him words ate program in cultural studies, demurred “I see because Beth opens my eyes, I see that are love that is words-that-flow that is at specifying how much of her novel “The because Beth moves in front of me and shows blood-that-flows that is love that flows down the Second Elizabeth” is autobiographical. me things I have never seen before. I am still tracks to him. Will I find a love to love me but “Does anyone ask a poet how much of sitting here in my seat, my eyes and hand are still will stay at the other end of the train tracks? a poem is autobiographical? It’s writing, running much faster than my feet, but my blood Will he let me go to him with my words writ- and it’s writing from the heart,” said Lillis, is beginning to move like when I was expecting Peter Hart ten on me because I once wanted to be a tree? who started in the temp pool here in Janu- my love on the tracks, like when I was standing between the two women, Lillis said. Will I get on the train myself, carry the words ary 2006 before being hired in her current on a dance floor on Water Street, because I am “Otherwise, this is a story about losing along the tracks myself, to him who will love position that July. She earned a master’s of seeing things I have never seen before. I will your voice from that trauma and then me and will keep the words flowing thorough library and information science at Pitt in dream in new images, after knowing Beth, gaining it back, and possibly gaining it my blood?” 2009 to add to her MA in studio art from Beth has a different rhythm to her blood, I see back in a strange way: a new language, a Lillis said, “Early on, there is that obses- New York University/International Center it in her dancing, like I hear it when she calls poetic flow where you need to go over your sive need for the narrator to talk about of Photography, and BAs in English litera- out in the deli.” own ground several times. It’s the ‘gift’ of names or to talk about circles or talk about ture and studio art from the University of What cements the women’s friendship trauma, maybe, that affects this character. the family. The train tracks and the love is Virginia. is a similar, though unspecified, traumatic This narrator has a an unusual language that more like finding that space inside of her “In this case, I’m comfortable saying that event in each one’s earlier life and the comes out of losing her voice and having being that’s not as filled up with family the novel is part creative nonfiction; it’s part subsequent way in which Beth helps the to start over again.” and the past. But she’s still in this bubble meditative poetry. It’s really a meditation on narrator cope with her trauma. One of the ways the narrator’s trauma of unreality. She’s talking about this love language and names as much as anything “We are walking down Valley Road, past is manifested is in images of her body in that’s so far down the train tracks that it’s else,” said Lillis, a self-described compul- Valley Circle, around the blind curve, and discomfort, sometimes outright pain, Lillis not in danger of coming any time soon. sive writer who has penned several other Beth is telling me her story. Her story is ter- noted. Her character is still pretty traumatized. novels, as well as shorter prose, chapbooks rible, wretched, the worst I have ever heard. I “In one sense, it’s like a twisted larynx, So it’s a wanting to hope, to yearn, but and poems. have heard this story many times, from women something inside is twisted enough so that still wanting to be in a safe place. She feels “My connection with Virginia was these friends before Beth, and this is the worst story thoughts are not coming out clearly. I’m safest with Beth and doesn’t want the guy experiences that happened in the present I have ever heard. It is the worst story I have symbolizing it by talking about it as physi- to come into her life too soon.” tense, as well as my family names, and ever heard because it is MY story, and it is cal, though. It’s emotional: It’s the fears, the Lillis acknowledged that the end of my family’s ties to Virginia through these worse than my story. I have heard worse stories trauma from the unnamed incident,” she the novel also could be considered non- names. I love writing about place: How you before, have read the cold accounts written by said. “The only point there is that I was traditional. describe the feeling of a place through its newspaper reporters who were far from the trying to show that her real story wants “Things happen and they don’t get people and experiences,” she said. scene, and tragic accounts written by women to come from deep inside. Her story is wrapped up at the end. You pass through Regarding writing in the sometimes as a special to Glamour magazine, but this is not a ‘heady’ story, it’s a deep inside-the- a bunch of things. That’s how I think of frowned-upon first person, Lillis said, the worst story I have ever heard because Beth belly story, but it has to come through the life. As a writer, I think you gain a lot of “It’s almost as if instead of deciding to write is here walking next to me. Beth is not Eliza- body, and the body symbolizes the facts, consciousness — if you put your mind to from an “I”, I allowed myself to write from beth but she is here walking next me to me on the material facts, of what has happened. it you know that you can write your way an “I,” which normally is a taboo. It came Valley Road in July and she is telling me her Or it just symbolizes life itself: The body into self-understanding or insight about out with an “I” voice and I didn’t censor story which is my story which is the worst story is what decays, the body is what carries us the world — but on a plot level, I don’t myself. I think doing that, though, pushes I have ever heard.” toward death,” Lillis explained. really like plots that wrap up. I’m much people’s buttons. I’ve gotten real love-hate Had Lillis considered describing the Similarly, the recurring image of blood less interested in them. On that level, it’s responses. I’ve gotten a couple reviews that women’s experiences in more detail? is meant to highlight the transcendent a novel that just stops going. I’m fine with tore the novel down to the ground, and “To me, that doesn’t matter. There’s extent of the narrator’s personal trauma, that; it’s absolutely what I meant to do. Beth when that happened usually the reviewer enough in there that says there was a she said. takes her on this journey. Unwittingly, she didn’t understand it at all.” traumatic event that happened to these “I think of the blood as an extremely follows Beth, and then all of sudden they While the words Lillis employs are two people. It’s probably female-specific. interesting symbol: It’s matter and energy ‘drop off the cliff’ because you’re at the simple and straightforward, occasionally I think there’s enough information about at the same time. Blood has the advantage end of the book.” her images intentionally are imprecise or that,” and that explains some of the affinity of conjuring up: Oh, blood, yuck! But the —Peter Hart n Florencio Asenjo

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Asenjo said. “Conductors can also be of a piece that I finally completed when I Yasunari Kawabata’s “Palm-of-the-Hand you ruin it.” demons,” but not so with Trevor, who, came home,” he said. He passed the time Stories.” Asenjo said, “I am satisfied with what Asenjo said, converses with reason rather in his hospital bed envisioning “The Battle Eschewing the word “inspiration,” a I’m doing now. If people don’t like it, if than criticism. of the Frogs and Mice,” an ancient Greek term he finds to be overused, Asenjo said people criticize it, so be it. I’m not writing Attending the recording sessions is no parody on the Iliad’s epic battles, imagin- he chose to base the current piece on 10 to please them.” But he hopes others do time to sit back and enjoy the performance. ing how he would represent the frogs, the of the brief, evocative stories that made an enjoy his work. “You have to concentrate and ensure the mice and the army of crabs who intervene impact on him. “These stories were the “After you work for a year, day after day notes are right,” he said. to save the frogs. ones that hit me,” he said, adding that he — not slaving, because I enjoy doing it daily q “I always wonder how classical geniuses has to be taken by the subject on which he’s — but I want everyone to like it.” Asenjo is working on his eighth musical did it without a piece of paper,” he quipped, writing. Rather than describing each story In his work, Asenjo takes to heart the recording, although his own health issues adding that he outlined the skeleton of the musically, he said he aims to describe the advice he once used in the classroom. “I have slowed the pace somewhat. While work in the hospital, but finished the piece feelings each story elicited in him. would tell my students, do not leave the he typically writes his music at a piano in in his studio at home. In writing music, he said, “You start subject to the weekend and think you are a small studio at home, one piece that is Of his recent foray into writing musical with something and it seems to keep going going to master it. Work on it every day, to be included on his next CD was written illustrations of literary works, he said that by itself. Then you look at what you have even just a little. Things will come more mostly in his head during a recent hospital rather than offering inspiration per se, done. Sometimes you are happy; sometimes easily and more productively,” he said. stay that included several weeks of sleep- literary pieces “provide a frame to write you are not. You get going and going ... Asenjo said he works on his compositions less nights. what you’re going to write.” it’s just that you like the material. It takes daily. “When I finish some writing, it feels “In the middle of the night when I His current work is based on 10 selec- over in a way. You think ‘this is good’ and the day is not in vain.” wanted to get out of there, I started to think tions from 20th-century Japanese novelist’s you keep going,” he said. “Or sometimes —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES BOOKS, JOURNALS This annual University Times supplement recognizes fac- ulty and staff who have written, edited and translated books, & MORE as well as those whose efforts have extended into other areas, such as journals, electronic publications, plays and musical compositions. We regret that space constraints prohibit including other kinds of publications/creative endeavors. At the suggestion of a faculty advisory committee, we have included only items that were peer-reviewed: Anything identified as a self-pub- lished work was excluded. We also have limited listings to complete works, because individual chapters, articles and poems would be too numerous. Submissions are divided into three sections: Books, Jour- nals and More. In each section, submissions are arranged according to school/unit, then listed alphabetically by title. Works are cross-listed when collaborators represent more than one Pitt unit. In instances where there are non-Pitt collabora- tors, the Pitt faculty or staff member is listed first. Books, Journals & More was compiled by Barbara DelRaso from information submitted by faculty and staff members themselves. Submissions in this year’s publication have a 2009 copy- right or performance date. B O O K S VOLUME 42 • NUMBER 15 APRIL 1, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Anarchy as Order: The History Asian Material Culture Creative Processes in Akan ARTS and SCIENCES and Future of Civic Humanity edited by Martha Chaiklin, history; Musical Cultures: Innovation Abolition: A History of by Mohammed A. Bamyeh, sociology. Elizabeth Bedford, and Marianne Hulsbosh, Within Tradition Slavery and Antislavery Rowman & Littlefield. University of Sydney. by Eric Beeko, music. by Seymour Drescher, history. This book explores the concept of anarchy Amsterdam University Press. VDM Verlag. Cambridge University Press. — unimposed order — as the most humane This collection of essays looks at Asia This book examines how Akan composers This book examines dramatic expansions and stable form of order in a chaotic world. through its material culture. are able to generate and add new ideas to and contractions of the institution of slavery The author traces the historical foundations the existing musical elements. It shows and the impact of violence, economics of anarchy and presents it as an alternative Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh that, apart from the traditional social and civil society on the ebb and flow of to tyranny and democracy. He contends and Western Pennsylvania contexts, which African music may have slavery and antislavery during the last five that humanity thrives on self-regulation by Franklin Toker, history of art and adopted, there also have arisen new social centuries. rather than imposed order, that large architecture; H. David Brumble IV, and Lu contexts peculiar to the modern life of systems are more prone to tyranny than Donnelly. the communities, which have provided The African Diaspora: small systems, that power is the enemy of University of Virginia Press. additional outlets for composing and A History Through Culture freedom and that freedom and community This book looks at major buildings in the performing African music. by Patrick Manning, history. are complementary values. 33 counties of western Pennsylvania. Columbia University Press. Descartes’s Changing Mind The author traces the routes that brought Arduous Tasks: Primo Levi, Coherent Behavior in by Peter Machamer, history and philosophy Africans and people of African descent into Translation and the Transmission Neuronal Networks of science, and James E. McGuire, history contact with one another and with Europe, of Holocaust Testimony edited by Jonathan Rubin, mathematics. and philosophy of science. Asia and the Americas. He underscores the by Lina N. Insana, French and Italian Springer. Princeton University Press. influence that the African diaspora had on languages and literatures. This book presents cutting-edge The authors argue that, in contrast to the history, demonstrating the link between University of Toronto Press. ways in which dynamic network tradition, Descartes radically changed his black migration and the rise of modernity, This study explores the testimonial role interactions contribute to information mind about major issues from his early to especially in regard to the processes of of Italian Holocaust survivor Primo Levi’s processing in neuronal networks, based his later, more mature writings. industrialization and urbanization. translation work in a variety of contexts on interdisciplinary work including and from a number of foreign languages. experiments, modeling, simulations and Doing Without Concepts American Cinema of the 1920s: It was the winner of the Modern Language mathematical analysis. by Edouard Machery, history and Themes and Variations Association’s 2007 Scaglione Prize for a philosophy of science. edited by Lucy Fischer, English manuscript in Italian literary studies. Coping With Minority Status: Oxford University Press. and film studies. Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion The author argues that the dominant Rutgers University Press. Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the edited by John M. Levine, psychology and psychological theories of concepts fail This book provides both an overview of Golden Age of Children’s Literature LRDC, and Fabrizio Butera, University of to provide such a framework and that 1920s’ American cinema and a year-by- by Marah Gubar, English. Lausanne. drastic conceptual changes are required year discussion of films placed within a Oxford University Press. Cambridge University Press. to make sense of the research on concepts social/historical context. The author proposes a fundamental This volume brings together leading in psychology and neuropsychology. He reconception of the 19th-century attitude scholars in the fields of stigma, prejudice shows that the class of concepts divides The American People and the toward childhood. The spread of the and discrimination, minority influence and into several distinct kinds that have little in National Forests: The First Century ideology of innocence was much slower intergroup relations. They provide diverse common with one another. He concludes of the U.S. Forest Service than we think, she contends, and the people theoretical and empirical perspectives on that the theoretical notion of concept by Samuel P. Hays, history. whom we assume were most committed to the dynamics of minority and majority should be eliminated from the theoretical University of Pittsburgh Press. it — children’s authors and members of the relations with a particular focus on the apparatus of contemporary psychology and This book presents a history of the role of infamous cult of the child — actually were strategies that minorities use in coping should be replaced with theoretical notions American society in shaping the policies of deeply ambivalent about this Romantic with majorities. that are more appropriate for fulfilling the U.S. Forest Service. notion. psychologists’ goals.

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems On Holy Ground: Liturgy, Reason in Philosophy: The Second Elizabeth area editor: Panos Chrysanthis, Architecture and Urbanism Animating Ideas by Karen Lillis, cultural studies. computer science. in the Cathedral and the by Robert B. Brandom, philosophy. Six Gallery Press. Springer. Streets of Medieval Florence Harvard University Press. This novel of lyrical prose reveals the bonds The five-volume encyclopedia on very large by Franklin Toker, history of This book belongs to a venerable tradition of female friendship, the politics of naming databases, data management and database art and architecture. that distinguishes humans as rational and the sensuality of nature. The author systems includes more than 1,400 illustrated Harvey Miller/Brepols Publishing. animals and distinguishes philosophy by uses the device of a double to describe the essays and definitional entries that present This book examines the destroyed its concern to understand, articulate and nuances and contradictions of a woman’s basic terminology, concepts, methods and early medieval cathedral of Florence explain the notion of reason. The author experience. data-processing algorithms, key results (predecessor to the current building) calls this line of thought philosophical to date, references to the literature and through liturgical texts that here for the rationalism. The rationalism that is Social Complexity in cross-references. first time are transcribed and edited; creates articulated and explored in this book looks Prehistoric Eurasia: reconstructions of how church services back to Kant and Hegel as its forebears, and Monuments, Metals and Mobility Enlightenment Political Thought worked; details what the neighboring to Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz only as edited by Bryan K. Hanks, anthropology, and Non-Western Societies: buildings (all but one destroyed) were, and their deepest lessons came to be understood and Katheryn M. Linduff, history of art and Sultans and Savages describes how the religious processions within that German idealist tradition. architecture. by Frederick G. Whelan, political science. wound through the city, providing insight Cambridge University Press. Routledge. into the urban development of Florence. Religious Truth and This volume considers social and cultural These essays explore the interpretations Religious Diversity change in prehistoric Eurasia. It challenges and assessments of non-Western social Pittsburgh: A New Portrait by Nathan S. Hilberg, religious studies. current interpretations of the emergence, and political institutions, including those by Franklin Toker, history of Peter Lang Publishing. development and decline of social of North American Indians and Asian art and architecture. Interpreting religion poses a dilemma: complexity in the steppe region of China civilizations, by notable European thinkers University of Pittsburgh Press. Realist interpretations of religion face the and the former Soviet Union through a of the late 18th-early 19th centuries. This is a major revision of the 1986 philosophical problem of religious diversity thematic investigation of archaeological publication, “Pittsburgh: An Urban and irrealist interpretations of religion patterns. The Form of Practical Knowledge: A Portrait.” It examines Pittsburgh in are revisionary. The author explores the Study of the Categorical Imperative its historical context, regional setting implications of this dilemma and also Solid State Physics: by Stephen P. Engstrom, philosophy. and from the street level, revealing the clarifies the confusion caused by two abiding Essential Concepts Harvard University Press. rich architectural history of Pittsburgh, problems: those stemming from, first, the by David W. Snoke, physics and astronomy. neighborhood by neighborhood. concern over which religious beliefs are true Addison-Wesley/Pearson. The Imperial Trace: rather than attending to what it means for a This is a graduate-level textbook. Recent Russian Cinema Poetry Against Torture: belief to be true, and, second, the failure to by Nancy Condee, Slavic languages and Criticism, History and the Human acknowledge two fundamentally different Statistics for Archaeologists: literatures and film studies. by Paul A. Bové, English. forms of religious irrealism: anti-realism A Common Sense Approach, Oxford University Press. Hong Kong University Press. and non-realism. 2nd Edition This book sets out the clear conflict by Robert D. Drennan, anthropology. The Material Culture of Death between two competing conceptions of Romance Linguistics 2007: Springer-Verlag. in Medieval Japan society and civilization. Poetry represents Selected Papers From the Taking a jargon-free approach, this by Karen M. Gerhart, history of one: the fundamental human capacity to 37th Linguistic Symposium on book introduces the basic principles of art and architecture. make itself and its societies in ways that Romance Languages (LSRL), statistics to archaeologists. The author University of Hawaii Press. will produce the most nearly perfect form Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007 covers the techniques for analyzing data This is the first English language study to of the species. Torture — especially state edited by Erin O’Rourke, linguistics; Pascual collected in the field and laboratory as explore the ways medieval Japanese sought torture — represents the other, as that José Masullo, and Chia-Hui Huang. well as for evaluating the significance to overcome their sense of powerlessness which fears the human capacity to evolve, John Benjamins Publishing. of the relationships between variables. over death. By looking at both religious to create alternative futures for itself and This volume includes 21 peer-reviewed In addition, chapters discuss the special practice and ritual objects used in funerals to assume increasingly capacious and and revised papers, covering topics in concerns of working with samples. This in the 14th and 15th centuries, it seeks democratic responsibility for justice and morphology, syntax, phonology and illustrated guide features several practice to provide a new understanding of the joy of its own being. language acquisition. A number of problems, making it suitable for students relationship between the two. languages and varieties are analyzed. The in archaeology and anthropology. Principles of Physical Chemistry, volume also highlights theoretical issues Monument Wars: 2nd Edition being debated in Romance linguistics. Thucydides: Man’s Place in History Washington, D.C., the National Mall by David Waldeck, chemistry; by Hans-Peter Stahl, classics. and the Transformation Horst-Dieter Försterling, and Hans Kuhn. Same Difference The Classical Press of Wales. of the Memorial Landscape Wiley. by Siobhan Vivian, English. by Kirk Savage, history of This book uses simple physical models as well Scholastic Press/PUSH. An Uncommon Passage: art and architecture. as rigorous treatments for understanding After enrolling in a summer fine arts Traveling Through History on University of California Press. molecular and supramolecular systems program, Emily commutes between a New the Great Allegheny Passage Trail This book tells the story of how the capital and processes. In this way the presentation Jersey suburb, where everyone tries to fit in, edited by Edward K. Muller, history. city’s public monuments and its monumen- assists students in developing an intuitive and Philadelphia, where everyone wants to University of Pittsburgh Press. tal landscape have been politicized, fought understanding of the subjects as well as skill be unique. Between these two worlds Emily This lavishly illustrated book places the over and ultimately transformed. in quantitative manipulations. The unifying tries to find out who she really is. The book Great Allegheny Passage biking/hiking nature of physical chemistry is emphasized was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best trail, which runs between Pittsburgh and The Odds in the book by its organization — beginning Young Adult Novels of 2009 and singled Cumberland, Md., in its historic context. by Kathleen George, theatre arts. with atoms and molecules, proceeding out by the American Library Association as As part of a corridor of pathways, the trail St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne Minotaur. to molecular assemblies of increasing one of its Best Books for Young Adults. was the site of British outposts and forts, This is the fourth in a series of police novels complexity and ending with the emergence early settlers and frontier life, developing set in Pittsburgh. Library Journal named it of matter that carries information, i.e., the towns and cities, industrialization and later one of the five best mysteries of 2009. origin of life. recreation and second homes.

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Unsimple Truths: Science, How to Talk to Families About Complexity and Policy EDUCATION ENGINEERING Child and Adolescent Mental Illness by Sandra D. Mitchell, history and Bringing Reading Research to Life Advanced Intermetallic-Based by Melissa J. Marks, education, and Diane philosophy of science. edited by Linda Kucan, instruction and Alloys for Extreme Environment T. Marsh, natural sciences-psychology. University of Chicago Press. learning, and Margaret G. McKeown, and Energy Applications W.W. Norton. Acknowledging the world’s complexity instruction and learning. edited by Jorg Wiezorek, mechanical Although grounded in current theory and requires an appreciation for the many Guilford Press. engineering and materials science; B. Bewlay; research, this clinically oriented book is roles context plays in shaping natural This book of essays in honor of Pitt’s Y-H. He; M. Palm, and M. Takeyama. designed to enhance the effectiveness of phenomena. In this book, the author Isabel Beck includes chapters by prominent Materials Research Society. mental health and educational professionals argues that the long-standing scientific reading researchers who report on their This volume presents a cross-section of who work with families that include a child and philosophical deference to reductive current research efforts in literacy. Each papers discussed during a symposium or adolescent with a serious mental illness, explanations founded on simple universal chapter begins with an autobiographical held in Boston in 2008. It features recent such as bipolar disorder, major depression laws, linear causal models and predict-and- sketch of the author. technology applications and basic research or schizophrenia. act strategies fails to accommodate the kinds on intermetallic alloys. of knowledge that many contemporary The Qualitative Dissertation: A Guide sciences are providing about the world. She for Students and Faculty, 2nd Edition New Directions in Mathematical advocates, instead, for a new understanding by Noreen Garman, administrative and Fluid Mechanics: The Alexander V. HEALTH and that represents the rich, variegated, policy studies, and Maria Piantanida, Kazhikhov Memorial Volume REHABILITATION interdependent fabric of many levels and administrative and policy studies. edited by Giovanni P. Galdi, mechanical kinds of explanation that are integrated with Corwin. engineering and materials science; Andrei SCIENCES one another to ground effective prediction This book guides students through issues V. Fursikov, University of Moscow, and Care of the Combat Amputee and action. and questions that may arise as they conduct Vladislav V. Pukhnachev, University of edited by Rory A. Cooper, rehabilitation qualitative research, taking a reflective, Novosibirsk. science and technology, and Paul F. Pasquina, Vergil’s “Aeneid”: Augustan Epic experiential approach to help student- Birkhäuser Basel. Walter Reed Army Medical Center. and Political Context researchers become dialogic inquirers. The This book presents the latest contributions Borden Institute. by Hans-Peter Stahl, classics. authors help readers to integrate themselves from renowned world specialists in a In order to ensure optimal treatment and The Classical Press of Wales. into the research and writing process by number of new important directions rehabilitation of young combat-related using their own beliefs and experiences as for mathematical physics, mostly of amputees, the military care community Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! well as narratives from meritorious and, mathematical fluid mechanics and, more needs a road map to provide a focus for Female Stardom and Cinema in some cases, award-winning dissertation generally, in the field of nonlinear partial their efforts and priorities. This book is in India, 1930s-1950s authors. differential equations. These results mostly based on a three-day symposium in 2007 by Neepa Majumdar, English. are related to boundary value problems that united VA, civilian and military experts University of Illinois Press. School Crisis Prevention and to control problems for the Navier- in amputee care and rehabilitation to help This book maps out the early culture and Intervention Stokes equations, and for equations of establish consensus on standard-of-care of cinema stardom in India, combining by Mary Margaret Kerr, administrative and heat convection. Other topics include non- issues, as well as to help identify areas in need readings of films and stars with historical policy studies and psychology of education. equilibrium processes, Poisson-Boltzmann of further clinical, technical, translational and cultural analysis of distinctly Indian Pearson/Merrill. equations, dynamics of elastic body and and developmental research. notions of celebrity. Linking practical experience with research, related problems of function theory and this is a handbook of best practices for nonlinear analysis. Telepathology What Is Contemporary Art? preventing and responding to school crises. edited by Sajeesh Kumar, health information by Terry Smith, history of Each chapter features case illustrations with Recommendations for Seismic Design management, and Bruce E. Dunn. art and architecture. reflection questions, companion Internet of Hybrid Coupled Wall Systems Springer. University of Chicago Press. links, sample documents (letters, policies, edited by Kent A. Harries, civil and This book explains technical issues, digital Who gets to say what counts as con- checklists, plans) and reflection activities. environmental engineering; Sherif El-Tawil; information processing and collective temporary art: artists, critics, curators, The author has responded to more than Patrick J. Fortney; Mohammad Hassan; experiences of practitioners utilizing a wide gallerists, auctioneers, collectors or the 1,000 school-related crises. She draws on Yahya C. Kurama; Bahram M. Shahrooz, range of telepathology applications. This public? Revealing how all of these groups these experiences in chapters that address and Xiangdong Tong. includes telepathology for gastrointestinal have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, crisis team training, communications, American Society of Civil Engineers. biopsy specimens, applications of virtual the author shows that a historical approach school violence, accidents and illnesses, as This is a design guide to innovative microscopy, telepathology in micrographic offers the best answer to the question: What well as disaster and psychological supports structural systems for application in regions surgery, dynamic and static robotic is contemporary art? for victims and responders. of moderate to high seismicity. techniques for real-time telepathology, remote control of the scanning electron Student-Athlete Success: Meeting microscope and telepathology for rapid the Challenges of College Life diagnosis of neurosurgical specimens. BUSINESS by Carl I. 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The author focuses addresses theoretical issues, making a case enables client organizations to appraise on student-athletes’ personal capabilities for film realism based on narrative identity and improve their capability to foster the and accomplishments in the classroom and arguing that artistic depictions of human development of more effective sourcing and during athletic competition before experience parallel the existentialists’ relationships and to better manage those discussing different types of challenges methods of description. Part II applies those relationships. student-athletes are likely to encounter. arguments, pairing particular movies with specific existentialist themes.

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Sound, Society and Criminal Law: Cases, Materials The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh: INFORMATION the Geography of Popular Music and Problems, 3rd Edition Law, Technology and Child Labor SCIENCES edited by Ola Johansson, by John M. Burkoff; Leslie W. Abramson, by James L. Flannery. Handbook of Research social sciences-geography, and Thomas L. University of Louisville; Catherine Hancock, University of Pittsburgh Press. on Geoinformatics Bell, University of Tennessee and Western Tulane University, and Russell L. Weaver, This book examines the struggle in the edited by Hassan A. Karimi. Kentucky University. University of Louisville. early 20th century to stamp out dangerous Hershey’s Information Science Reference. Ashgate. West. child labor in the glass bottle industry’s last This reference work maps this This book looks at the meaning of music This casebook contains problems designed holdouts in western Pennsylvania. interdisciplinary field, discussing the from a spatial perspective and furthers to prompt reflection and stimulate complete range of contemporary research understanding of broader social relations classroom discussion. The problems are Understanding Corporate Law, topics such as computer modeling, and trends, including identity, attachment designed to help students learn criminal 3rd Edition geometry, geoprocessing and geographic to place, cultural economies, social activism law doctrine and to illuminate trends in by Douglas M. Branson, and Arthur R. information systems. and politics. The book’s editors have the law. Pinto, Brooklyn Law School. brought together a team of scholars to LexisNexis. discuss the latest thinking on music and its Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction This book offers a clear and comprehensive geographies, illustrated with a range of case edited by Anthony C. Infanti, treatment of key concepts in corporate law. JOHNSTOWN studies from the United States, Canada, the and Bridget J. Crawford. Significant business, economic and policy College Study Skills: Becoming Caribbean, Australia and Great Britain. Cambridge University Press. issues are highlighted in connection with an a Strategic Learner, 6th Edition This book explains the major themes and analysis of the important cases and statutory by Dianna L. Van Blerkom, Using Visual Evidence methodologies of scholars who challenge provisions used in the study of corporations. education-general administration. edited by Robert W. Matson, the traditional claim that tax law is neutral It includes the major theoretical approaches Wadsworth Cengage Learning. social sciences-history, and Richard Howells. and unbiased. The contributors include used in current corporate law literature. This text helps students acquire effective McGraw Hill/Open University Press. pioneers in the field of critical tax theory, as study skills through an emphasis on strate- This collection of essays brings together well as key thinkers who have sustained and gic learning and practice with college-level media and cultural theorists, historians expanded the investigation into why the tax LEARNING material. 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Van Blerkom, Acing Criminal Law The Export of Legal Education: Sciences, and Fabrizio Butera, University of education-educational psychology. by John M. Burkoff. Its Promise and Impact in Lausanne. Routledge. West. Transition Countries Cambridge University Press. This text shows prospective teachers how This study aid uses a checklist format to edited by Ronald A. Brand, and D. Wes Rist. to use measurement and statistics in their lead students through questions they need Ashgate. classrooms. It places an emphasis on the to ask to evaluate fully the problems in This book demonstrates the impact of U.S. MEDICINE practical, everyday uses of measurement and criminal law. master of law programs for foreign lawyers statistics, such as how to develop effective through the stories of graduates of the Pitt Applied Physiology in Intensive Care classroom tests. Business Enterprises: Legal LLM program. Medicine, 2nd Edition Structures, Governance and Policy edited by Michael R. Pinsky, critical care Myth, Legend, Reality: by Douglas M. Branson; Joan M. Federal Courts: Cases and Materials medicine; L. Brochard; G. Hedenstierna, and Edwin Laurentine Drake Heminway, University of Tennessee; on Judicial Federalism and the J. Mancebo. and the Early Oil Industry Mark J. Loewenstein, University of Lawyering Process, 2nd Edition Springer. by William R. Brice, natural sciences-geology Colorado; Marc I. Steinberg, Southern by Arthur D. Hellman; Lauren K. Robel, This book combines applied physiology and planetary science. Methodist University, and Manning G. Indiana University-Bloomington, and David papers with associated review articles Oil Region Alliance of Business, Warren III, University of Louisville. R. Stras, University of Minnesota. addressing central acute care issues. It Industry & Tourism. LexisNexis. LexisNexis. was created to address a fundamental This is a biography of Edwin L. Drake, This book undertakes a traditional and This book is the product of the authors’ unevenness in the understanding of applied who launched the modern oil and gas inclusive approach to the law of business rethinking of what a federal courts course physiology in critical care medicine. industry in 1859 when he successfully organizations. It includes materials can be. Although fully attentive to the drilled for oil in Titusville. The book tells many books omit, such as agency and deeper theoretical issues of federalism and the story of Drake’s life in the context of the unincorporated business associations. The separation of powers raised by the cases, the development of the modern oil industry, book allows professors to emphasize closely book also focuses on giving students the from the Babylonians to the time Drake held and other non-public companies while grounding they will need to be effective left Titusville in 1863. at the same time offering the basics on lawyer-litigators. The book’s objective is public company law and practice. It includes to provide students with the doctrinal, material on securities offerings, registration, theoretical and practical education that will exemptions from registration and lawyers’ enable them to pursue litigation in federal responsibilities under securities laws. court and to identify and strategically employ jurisdictional tools to serve their clients effectively.

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Essential Tissue Healing of the Face and Neck PHARMACY PUBLIC and UNIVERSITY edited by Patricia Hebda, otolaryngology; Hormones, Cognition and Dementia: INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY SYSTEM Craig D. Friedman, Yale University; State of the Art and Emergent AFFAIRS Classical Chinese Poems and Their Arun K. Gosain, Case Western Reserve Therapeutic Strategies Western Translations: Extensive University, and David B. Hom, University edited by Robert B. Gibbs, pharmaceutical Criminals, Militias and Insurgents: Indexes to Recent Renderings Organized Crime in Iraq of Cincinnati. sciences; Roberta Diaz Brinton, University of compiled by Haihui Zhang, East Asian People’s Medical Publishing House. Southern California; Victor W. Henderson, by Phil Williams. library; Yingzi Zeng, and Luo Zhou. Surgery of the most sensitive and visible area Stanford University, and Eef Hogervorst, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies China National Library Press. of the body — the face and neck — requires Loughborough University. Institute. This comprehensive reference book for a holistic approach that includes the healing Cambridge University Press. This monograph looks in detail at major classical Chinese poems can be used by process. More than 60 multi-specialty This book provides information about criminal activities, considers the critical scholars as well as general readers interested experts have contributed chapters that the risks and benefits of gonadal hormone role played by corruption in facilitating in various Western translations of China’s integrate scientific principles with state-of- therapy with respect to brain aging and and strengthening organized crime and best lyrics. the-art clinical precepts and practice in this cognition. It includes detailed analyses of identifies necessary responses to organized textbook centering on healing skin, bone, recent clinical trials and discussions of novel crime and corruption in Iraq. Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and cartilage, nerves, muscle and mucosa. therapeutic approaches and strategies. Information Guide, 2nd Edition by James P. Cassaro, music library. Neurology & Psychiatry: PUBLIC HEALTH Routledge. 1,000 Questions to Help You PROVOST AREA This is an annotated reference guide to Pass the Boards Smallpox — The Death of a Disease: the life and works of this important Italian by Asim Roy, neurology, and Kumar Budur, Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in The Inside Story of opera composer. The book opens with a Cleveland Clinic Foundation. the Face of Inconsistency Eradicating a Worldwide Killer complete chronology of Donizetti’s life Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. by Nicholas Rescher, philosophy and the by D.A. Henderson, public health and School (1797-1848) and career, relating it to This book is a review for those studying Center for Philosophy of Science. of Medicine. contemporaneous events. The balance of for the American Board of Psychiatry and University of Pittsburgh Press. Prometheus Books. the book details general sources, catalogs, Neurology certification and recertification The author defines apory as a group of correspondence, biographical sources, exams. individually plausible but collectively critical works, production/review sources, incompatible theses. Citing thinkers SOCIAL WORK singers and theatres, as well as the individual Smallpox — The Death of a Disease: from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, operas. The Inside Story of Hegel and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a Faith and Well-Being in Later Life: Eradicating a Worldwide Killer framework for coping with the complexities Linking Theories With Evidence in Winter in June: by D.A. Henderson, medicine and Graduate of divergent theses and shows in detail how an Interdisciplinary Inquiry A Rosie Winter Mystery School of Public Health. aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety edited by Amy L. Ai, and Monika Ardelt, by Kathryn Miller Haines, Prometheus Books. of fields including philosophy, mathematics, University of Florida. Center for American Music. This is the author’s personal account of the linguistics, logic and intellectual history. Nova Science Publishers. Harper Paperback. World Health Organization’s campaign to By using national, community and clinical This mystery is the third in the series of eradicate smallpox. Autobiographical samples and a variety of methodological World War II-era stories featuring actor- Philosophical Narrative approaches, the authors attempt to reveal turned-sleuth Rosie Winter. Faced with Systems Biology by Adolf Grünbaum, Center for Philosophy the nuances and complexities of faith effects the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might edited by Ivan V. Maly, of Science. on aging-related outcomes. The chapters not be coming home, Rosie and her best computational biology. Prometheus Books. explore common topics during the later pal Jayne accept an offer to go to the South Springer. The author traces his intellectual journey part of life, including disability, declining Pacific to perform with the USO shows. But This is volume 500 of the Methods in from his early years in Nazi Germany functioning, nursing home residency, being a greasepaint soldier isn’t as easy as Molecular Biology series. through his major career milestones to death and dying, terminal illness, heart they hoped. When tragedy strikes, Rosie his current interests. 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Center for Philosophy of Science. This book integrates the nursing process University of Pittsburgh Press. with pediatric physiology and psychosocial This broad-ranging study examines theories and will help emergency nurses the manifestations, consequences and assess and treat ill and injured infants, occasional benefits of ignorance in areas children and adolescents. of philosophy, scientific endeavor and ordinary life.

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Ethnology: An International Journal Social Networks: An International Mobile Computing and ARTS and SCIENCES of Cultural and Social Anthropology Journal of Structural Analysis Communications Review (MC2R) Adoption & Culture: Encountering editor-in-chief: Leonard Plotnicov, edited by Patrick Doreian, sociology, and Tom area editor: Prashant Krishnamurthy, New Worlds of Adoption anthropology; co-editors: Joseph S. Snijders, University of Oxford. telecommunications and networking. guest editor: Marianne Novy, English. Alter, anthropology; Richard Scaglion, Elsevier. ACM Sigmobile. Alliance for the Study of anthropology, and Marie Norman, Carnegie This is a quarterly journal. This peer-reviewed quarterly keeps Adoption and Culture. Mellon University; managing editor: the mobile computing and networking This issue includes essays on adoption in Katherine A. Lancaster, anthropology. Variaciones Borges community abreast of the happenings in recent films, memoirs and fiction by birth University of Pittsburgh. edited by Daniel Balderston, this rapidly exploding field. It publishes mothers, the moral significance of biological This journal, published quarterly since 1962, Hispanic languages and literatures. academic and industrial research on the ties, the adoption research industry in the focuses on aspects of cultural anthropology University of Pittsburgh. design of new generations of personal, United States, the politics of American and theoretical and methodological This biannual journal, focusing on the mobile and ubiquitous information and adoption from Vietnam in the late ’60s and discussions. writings of Jorge Luis Borges, is published communication technologies. early ’70s, political debates about adoption in Spanish, English and French by the in Australia 2005-07, adoption culture Hispanic American Historical Review Borges Center. Science, Technology & Human Values camps and South Korean family reunion edited by George Reid Andrews, history edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, library and television programs. Most essays are revised and UCIS; Alejandro de la Fuente, history Violence Against Women information science, and Susan Leigh Star, from papers delivered at a conference held and UCIS, and Lara Putnam, history guest editor: Lisa D. Brush, sociology. library and information science. on the Pitt campus in 2007. and UCIS; managing editor: Sara Lickey, Sage Publications. Sage Publications. history. This special issue on Evan Stark’s book, This peer-reviewed, international, boundary 2 Duke University Press. “Coercive Control,” features essays by interdisciplinary journal of the Society edited by Paul A. Bové, English. 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Edgard Varèse: Amériques, Morton Mirror on Mirror Mirrored ARTS and SCIENCES Feldman: Piece for Four Pianos, Five artists: Barbara Weissberger, studio arts; MEDICINE ACCOUNTING for ... Pianos Karlos Carcamo, and Nicholas Kashian. Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: artist: Paul Glabicki, studio arts. musicians: Amy Williams, music; Amy Dean Project, New York, N.Y. A Patient Care and Team Training Kim Foster Gallery, New York, N.Y. Briggs; Helena Bugallo; Benjamin Engeli, This exhibit was held Sept. 19-Nov. 19, Simulation This solo exhibition of a drawing series was and Stefan Wirth. 2009. author: John Mahoney, Office of Medical held April 4-May 9, 2009. Wergo. Education; co-authors: Barbara Offen, Office This CD includes the world premiere Mojo of Medical Education, and Joe Suyama, Bear Country recording of a newly discovered arrange- actor: Sam Turich, theatre arts. emergency medicine. lighting designer: Annmarie Duggan, ment of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking Playhouse Repertory Theatre, Association of American Medical Colleges theatre arts. orchestral work, “Amériques,” for two Point Park University. MedEdPORTAL. Alabama Shakespeare Festival, pianos, eight hands. It also includes two The actor played the role of Sweets in this In this exercise, teams of medical students Mongomery, Ala. important works for multiple pianos by the production of Jez Butterworth’s play and treat overwhelming numbers of influenza The premiere of this new play about the American composer Morton Feldman, who was cited as a Best Supporting Actor of the patients in a simulated hospital setting as a legendary University of Alabama football studied with Varèse. Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. means to learn about pandemic preparedness coach Paul “Bear” Bryant was staged Jan. and interprofessional teamwork. 9-Feb. 15, 2009. Frozen Hours Melt My Fair Lady Melodiously Into the Past lighting designer: Annmarie Duggan, Blues in the Night composer: Eric Moe, music. theatre arts. NURSING lighting designer: Annmarie Duggan, Dead Elf Music. Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, N.Y. READY-Girls! theatre arts. This 15-minute composition for flute, This play was staged Nov. 20-Dec. 20, authors: Denise Charron-Prochownik, health Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee, Wis. clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello 2009. promotion and development, and Julie S. This story of three women and their and piano was funded by the Jebediah Downs, Carnegie Mellon University. relationships with the same man played Foundation, commissioned by the Firebird My Illustrious Wasteland: University of Pittsburgh. in the Cabot Theatre March 13-April 5, Ensemble. A Musical About the Future This DVD and accompanying booklet 2009. lighting designer: Annmarie Duggan, teach adolescent girls with diabetes about Hairspray theatre arts. preconception counseling and raise their Count Dracula lighting designer: Annmarie Duggan, The New York Musical Theatre Festival, awareness about how diabetes can affect director: W. Stephen Coleman, theatre arts; theatre arts. New York, N.Y. reproductive health. actors: Elena Alexandratos, theatre arts; Cumberland County Playhouse, This play was staged Oct. 1-10, 2009. Holly Thuma, theatre arts, and Sam Turich, Crossville, Tenn. theatre arts. This play was staged June 25-Aug. 30, Off the Record IX: PUBLIC and Pitt Repertory Theatre. 2009. High School Confidential! INTERNATIONAL This play, staged Oct. 22-Nov. 1, 2009, actor: Sam Turich, theatre arts. AFFAIRS in the Charity Randall Theatre, was the Harry’s Friendly Service AFTRA and the Newspaper Guild of director’s final production for the Pitt actor: W. Stephen Coleman, theatre arts. Pittsburgh/CWA. The Invisible Tide: Rep/Department of Theatre Arts 2009- Pittsburgh Public Theater. Turich portrayed Pittsburgh icon Ben Towards an International Strategy 2010 season. Coleman played the role of Carmine Roethlisberger for the annual Off the to Deal With Drug Trafficking Carducci in this world premiere. The play, Record benefit at the Byham Theater Through West Africa Crush the Infamous Thing: which ran May 28-June 28, 2009, at the on Oct. 1, 2009. The benefit raised authors: Phil Williams and James Cockayne. The Adventures of the O’Reilly Theater, was the winner of an more than $30,000 for the Greater International Peace Institute. Hollywood Four Edgerton Foundation 2008 New American Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and A tide of money, influence and power born authors: Sam Turich, theatre arts; Tina Plays Award. other charities. of drug trafficking is sweeping the West Benko, and Gab Cody. Africa region. In this report the authors Bricolage Theatre, Pittsburgh. How the Other Half Loves Strange Exclaiming Music explain the risks and recommend steps that A staged reading of this play was presented lighting designer: Annmarie Duggan, composer: Eric Moe, music. policymakers and multilateral institutions Dec. 15, 2009, at Bricolage, which theatre arts. Naxos. might address. specializes in new work. Saint Michael’s Playhouse, Colchester, Vt. This CD is a recording of seven chamber This play was staged July 14-25, 2009, in works from Naxos American Classics Darwin and the Kid the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus series. author: Attilio Favorini, theatre arts; of Saint Michael’s College. director: Sam Turich, theatre arts. A Thousand and One Nights University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon Jozaphine Freedom composer: Florencio Asenjo, mathematics. University. composer: Eric Moe, music. Albany Records. This play, a multi-media production, was Dead Elf Music. This is an orchestral composition that staged in the Henry Heymann Theatre on This composition is for soprano, clarinet/ illustrates 10 stories from the book of the Oct. 16, 2009. It features the interaction of bass clarinet and piano/keyboard sampler. same title. a live actor (the Kid) with a video image (Darwin), who takes the Kid on a virtual Lavished Sunlight, Frozen Hours voyage of the HMS Beagle to teach him the composer: Eric Moe, music. BRADFORD principles of evolution. The play is intended Dead Elf Music. Age of Arousal for middle and high school students and This 11-minute composition for soprano, director: Kevin Ewert, communication and will tour local schools. Schools booking cello and piano is a setting of two poems the arts. the show get access to a computer game by Richard Wilbur. It was commissioned Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, N.C. and web site dedicated to supporting the by Monadnock Music. This play ran May 28-June 13, 2009. teaching of evolution. Love, Inc. Dead Cat Bounce lighting designer: Annmarie Duggan, composer: Eric Moe, music. theatre arts. Dead Elf Music. TCC Roper Performing Arts Center, This 12-minute composition for bass Norfolk, Va. clarinet/clarinet, violin, viola, cello This musical comedy had its premiere run and piano was commissioned by Feb. 5-22, 2009. counter)induction, a composer/performer collective.

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n an existential twist of irony, Wil- There’s always going to be this element, an But, Pamerleau said, Sartre likely would liam Pamerleau’s book, “Existentialist artistic portrayal of the human condition disagree. “I think Sartre would say that ICinema,” came about by accident. that goes beyond the philosophy, which I all there is outside of the human choice is “About 10 years ago, we were asked think makes it worthwhile to discuss film just luck. So it’s within the realm of human to do certain non-classroom events on in this way.” choice that we have to provide the mean- our campus, to provide some additional He chose the 10 films covered in Part ing,” he said. academic contact with students in con- 2 of the book primarily for their realistic Allen, on the other hand, seems stuck nection with our Academic Villages,” said representation of human circumstances in a world view that holds if the human the Pitt-Greensburg associate professor and the theme of searching for meaning condition is a purposeless place, life must of philosophy. in life. Two films each were chosen from be purposeless as well, Pamerleau said. Rather than delivering a philosophy directors Allen, Michelangelo Antonioni, “I think the existentialists, especially lecture, Pamerleau decided to attract Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, and Sartre, would say, ‘Well, no, even though students by showing Woody Allen’s film one film each directed by Peter Weir and the world may be inherently without pur- “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” which he Hal Ashby. Each chapter is devoted to a pose, we make the purpose with our own said is packed with philosophical issues and specific existentialist theme coupled with choices. You don’t wait for the purpose to insights, then follow up with a discussion a discussion of two films that in some way come from outside of you.’ I think Sartre of the film’s themes. In preparation for the address that theme, using the films’ lessons sounds too much like a moral traditionalist event, Pamerleau viewed the movie again to amend, critique, expand or strengthen when he says, ‘The thinking person would Peter Hart and took copious notes. the philosophical position. not choose evil because they realize their “Two students showed up,” Pamerleau “I really didn’t want to rely very heavily responsibility,’” Pamerleau said. recalled with a laugh. on films that try to be existential,” Pamer- “In contrast, Allen is saying that you But, serendipitously, soon afterward he leau said. “The operating criteria I was really can choose to do evil and get away stumbled on a call for papers for the journal using in picking the films had to do with with it. Allen may be more accurate about Film and Philosophy, which was doing a one of the theoretical theses of the book, the human condition than the existen- special edition on the films of Woody Allen. which was I wanted realistic depictions of tialists are,” Pamerleau said. “That’s the “I thought, ‘I prepared this stuff, I’ll just the human condition and what it was like genius of Allen’s contribution here. This turn this into a journal paper. Why not? It to live in the modern world in ways that got is a hard thing to accept, that people like sounds like fun.’” you in the mindset of people encountering the character Cliff in the movie you want That published paper, later expanded these difficulties or rising to the challenge to succeed and they don’t, and people like to include a discussion of another Woody of searching for meaning.” Judah, who don’t deserve to succeed, do, Allen film, “Match Point,” became the In his chapter “Rethinking Raskol- and that’s the way the world is.” foundation of a chapter in “Existentialist nikov,” for example, Pamerleau writes, The questions become: What should Cinema,” and Pamerleau was off and run- “‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’ has obvious be thought of a world where such unfair ning toward a book. similarities to the work of the Russian author consequences can prevail? What sense can At first he speculated that a book on Fyodor Dostoevsky. Though Dostoevsky’s be made of ethics? As Pamerleau writes, “If existentialism and film already must exist, ‘Crime and Punishment’ is not a philosophi- we accept the world view of philosophers but after poking around discovered there cal text, it nevertheless speaks in important like Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus, were none. “There are lots of articles and ways about our ability to make moral judg- who all take for granted that there is no lots of books that impacted that theme, but ments in a world of contingent values. ... justice forthcoming from an all-powerful none that directly focused on that,” said This section will be a comparison of Allen’s God or an inherently just universe, then the Pamerleau, whose research and teaching movie and Dostoevsky’s novel with the goal question of the film extends to existential center on existentialism, social philosophy of demonstrating how the movie addresses philosophy as well: What sense can we make and ethics. and goes beyond the book’s themes.” of morality in such a universe?” He said he is not a film buff in the sense The main plot of “Crimes and Misde- Does Pamerleau think the directors of studying film history or memorizing meanors” centers on prominent optometrist he chose would consider themselves exis- but that’s not what was going through my actors’ and directors’ names. “But there Judah (played by Martin Landau), who, tentialists? How might they react to his mind as I made it.’” have always been films that are very power- after wrestling with the moral implica- book? Pamerleau plans a sequel to “Existen- ful to me, that moved me, and I already had tions, has his mistress murdered because “Antonioni would probably be inter- tialist Cinema,” tentatively called “The Art the professional interest in existentialism,” she threatened to expose their affair, which ested in my analysis. In an interview at one of Authenticity in Philosophy and Film,” Pamerleau said. Judah sees as a threat to his marriage and point Antonioni says, ‘I can’t help but be that will expand on the range of themes As he writes in the book’s introduction, livelihood. Following the contract killing, influenced by these [existentialist] ideas,’ and films he covers. “The way I want to “Films and existentialism share the same Judah suffers from guilt and fear that his and he says he did think in these terms. I take it next is taking authenticity — which goal: to say something important about crime will be exposed, and even comes close don’t know exactly what he read, but in the requires self-honesty as well as realizing the human condition; [films] also help us to turning himself in, a la Dostoevsky’s interview he was clearly acknowledging the one’s values through accomplishments — in critique existential theories.” Raskolnikov. influences, and I think Bergman did too, to a larger scope than just the existentialists by To set the stage for his arguments on Eventually Judah realizes he will not a lesser extent,” Pamerleau said. looking at philosophers like John Dewey, the intersection of film and philosophy, in be caught and with time his guilt erodes “Fellini doesn’t strike me as intellectual who developed a more social view of the Part 1’s three chapters Pamerleau lays out until it disappears and he returns seemingly in the sense that he would articulate the self and wrote about how do we become various theoretical issues of existential- unscathed to his successful life, although views the way I do. He just wants to make free,” Pamerleau said. ism, then describes how film is a medium that interpretation has been challenged by a movie. I think that Fellini would say, ‘I “In ‘Existentialist Cinema,’ I talk a conducive to philosophical investigation certain film analysts, Pamerleau noted. just show what I want to show.’” lot about how existentialists don’t really and discusses film realism and narrative A similar theme of getting away with Pamerleau said Woody Allen speaks acknowledge that social element of the identity, all with the overarching goal of murder is explored in Allen’s “Match directly to the question with his quote: self. Some do better than others. But the understanding how humans generate and Point.” “I think all worthwhile films are to some next place I want to go, in addition to more maintain meaning in life. “What I found myself concluding was extent existential films.” films that depict how we really live, is to “At first I thought: I don’t know much that Allen was doing something here that “But all these guys would say, ‘I’m an open it up to different kinds of films that about writing about films, but I do know even Sartre didn’t do. What Allen was artist, I’m not a philosopher, I’m not a can affect you, more impressionist films. something about philosophy. As I started saying was: ‘Look, you can get away with theorist,’” he said. “These are people who They make you look at the world from a writing it, it became clear to me that I had murder. People rationalize it. This is what by and large are trying to make a statement different angle,” he said. to start addressing these existentialist issues. the world is really like,’” Pamerleau said. about what it’s like to live in the real world. The main philosophical theme of finding The academic in me took over. The way I “Even Sartre, when he’s accused of saying, I doubt that many of them if they read the meaning in the modern world will remain operate is I feel like I have to get the theory ‘We make our own choices. There is no book would say, ‘Oh yeah, that is what I in the next book, he added. off my chest before I get into the applica- absolute morality, therefore everything was thinking.’ But I would hope, at least, So, what is the meaning of life? tion,” Pamerleau explained. is permitted’ — the criticism directed to that most of them would say, ‘Yes, that’s a Pamerleau, laughing, answered, “You “That’s the justification for Part 1. It Sartre is: ‘Aren’t you existentialists, then, reasonable reading of my film. I can see choose.” was my theoretical development of how I basically amoral people?’” how you can articulate the insight like that, —Peter Hart n came to understand the philosophy of film, and what sorts of new things I was doing, namely making film be a critical tool for the investigation of philosophy, something BOOKS, I felt had not been done as much as other uses of film.” Part 1 also includes a summary of the positions of prominent existentialists, JOURNALS including Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Simone de Beauvoir and & MORE Paul Tillich. However, the book is not a philosophy text in the classical sense, Pamerleau said. A closer look “You can’t just boil it down to proposi- tions the way philosophy is usually done.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 “I didn’t know at either juncture that said, noting that all of a sudden details “There’s a lot to be said about the Caring for the responders we were in new ground. I remember being such as transferring a phone call, replac- local context, understanding it, engaging Psychological support for crisis team worried, confused, puzzled and wishing ing a toner cartridge or turning building the people in it to deal with what might members, who often find themselves the somebody would write a book on how to do systems on and off can become their own happen,” she said. brunt of anger or criticism, is crucial, she this, but it never occurred to me that they mini-crisis. said. “I think the teamwork you do up hadn’t written the book because nobody Her solution for such glitches is to have Practice front can really not only improve the effi- was really sure how to do this.” staff offer demonstrations covering these Kerr’s students appreciate having a safe cacy, the efficiency of the response, but it The idea for the book was born in the skills. “When you’re doing it in a simula- reflective time away from an immediate can also vastly protect people against the midst of a complicated crisis in which Kerr tion, it can be kind of fun,” she said. event to consider what a crisis does to a psychological assaults that are going to be and school personnel were responding Understanding individuals’ responses school, Kerr said. “What they don’t appreci- inevitable,” she said. to the discovery of hit lists that targeted to stress also is crucial, Kerr said. ate are the unannounced simulations I put One veteran crisis responder likens the teachers. Under pressure, frustrated, angry Team members’ roles not only must them through.” situation to being a resident alien. “You start and exasperated, the staff frantically were align with their skills and experience, Her students may return from a break out and people offer you a cup of coffee. surfing online, poring over what little but with their personalities as well. Some to find the classroom furniture rearranged By the time you are ready to leave, they’re information they could find. people become loud in stressful situations; and Kerr in press conference mode. She’ll wondering why you’re drinking all their One of them turned to her and said, others react in the opposite manner. “Take tell them: “‘You have 10 minutes. Here’s coffee,” she said. “You’re the professor. Why don’t you write the person who’s a little bit too hyper and the scenario. You’re the superintendent. Crisis response teammates need time to this?” Kerr recalled. have them order food for the group,” she There’s the podium. Get ready.’” get together to debrief — not only about recommends, and have the quieter, more Or she’ll spring an imminent board how the situation was handled, but also to Preparation reflective person meet with the parents, meeting on them. “‘You’re the superinten- express their own feelings about an event, Schools are well-prepared to respond for instance. dent. Bring together your cabinet. Here’s Kerr said. “Unpacking the incident and to some crises: “Meteorological events and Exercises must reach into the personal, the issue — there was a shooting or there learning from it is extremely important in fire drills, we’re really good at,” Kerr said, Kerr contends, citing the example of a was a riot or there was a fight. The PTA an area that is this experiential.” noting that only recently have schools begun woman who is an outstanding social worker, wants to know what you’re doing and the Kerr advises responders to keep a paid preparing for a wider range of crises. but whose immediate response to a crisis is board meeting is in two hours.’” professional counselor on retainer. “You Fortunately, much preparation and pre- to become quiet. “Other people interpreted The element of surprise is crucial. “I cannot do this kind of work and not have a vention is straightforward, Kerr contends. that as immobilization, incompetence, not can’t put it on the syllabus because we lose professional counselor available to talk to,” “For most crises much of it is pretty practi- going to be able to help us in a crisis…. that whole dimension of crisis that is ‘I didn’t she said, acknowledging that she’s consulted cal, common sense, but it’s common sense What I learned was to call that person, lay expect it and this has happened.’” one for years. “Don’t wait to go home and based on guiding principles of prevention out what the crisis was and say, ‘I’ll call Understanding the pace at which a burden your family,” she said. and preparation.” you back in 15 minutes.’ Many people tell crisis unfolds is difficult, Kerr said. “You She advises individuals involved in crisis She advocates for training and regular me, ‘If you hit me with a crisis, I need 10 can only comprehend that when you go response to take care of themselves. “You refresher sessions for school crisis teams. minutes to pull my thoughts together, then through that, either in simulations or real need a hobby, personal life, exercise, good “Our response is only as good as our prac- I’m fine,’” she said. “You need to know that life. You don’t want to learn it for the first nutrition, rest, relief from this.” tice for that response,” said Kerr, drawing about one another.” time in real life. You have to make a lot of Kerr said the message is an important a comparison to emergency medicine. In addition, teammates must be aware of decisions very rapidly and very well. one for school administrators. “I want “Would you want the ambulance to come if and sensitive to each other’s limitations. “We do a lot of adrenaline-rushing school leaders to understand the psycho- the last time they practiced this procedure Responders can become overwhelmed exercises,” she said. logical demands of this work so that they was a year ago?” or situations may strike a personal chord. “Do you feel your pulse? Do you feel that can safeguard that school social worker Kerr advises responders to prepare “There are some roles that certain people panic in your throat? Is your heart racing? who gets called out for every single crisis, well-stocked “go” kits containing impor- can’t take,” she said. Kerr, who lost her This is what it feels like to be in charge so they can protect the school nurse who’s tant information and resources as well as father in a car accident, said she said she isn’t of a school in a crisis,” she tells students. always being called up.” creature comforts to ensure that they will be fond of responding to accident situations. “When that feeling returns to you — as q able to concentrate on the crisis at hand. Likewise, when her children were small, it will — when it returns, you have more “Do not judge how other people need to Among the contents should be a CD or she found it particularly difficult to deal tolerance. You can handle more anxiety and respond to their tragedy,” Kerr said. “You thumb drive containing any form or letter with crises involving young children. Now can think despite your anxiety.” are not in their shoes. You cannot know. As that potentially might be needed, lists of that they are young adults, college-level long as it’s healthy and safe — I’d let people student names with their bus numbers and incidents are more troubling for her. Prevention do whatever they need to do,” she said. the stops they use and emergency contact Rather than solely focusing on preparing Likewise, she said, “Never critique information for parents as well as fellow Anticipation for rare types of crises, she’d prefer leaders someone else’s crisis unless you’re asked crisis responders from the school and While it is the nature of crises to be to practice regular day-in, day-out aware- to, because everyone is vulnerable.” community. unexpected, some can be planned for, Kerr ness of details. “Paying attention to their She will, however, offer praise for the “Your go kit not only needs to have in it said, although many school administrators surroundings, using good data to make their unsung heroes who respond in crisis. documents, but also personal supplies for don’t know how to figure out the kind of decisions, doing everything they can about Citing 9-11 as an example, she com- at least 36 hours,” she said. crises to prepare for in their own district. prevention,” Kerr said. mended the daycare providers and school In training responders, Kerr presents “They will buy from a commercial A typical example: “Way too often you personnel who cared for other people’s them with the prospect of being snowbound vendor a big binder that looks like step-by- buzz into a school … and the person lets children during the crisis. “Everyone in the school building overnight with a step recipes for every crisis. And they feel you in without ever looking up,” she said. talks about first responders, as well they classroom full of middle-schoolers. Along better because the binder is three inches “Or, the school office is surrounded by glass should. No one talks about the people who with water and snacks such as nutrition bars, thick and it looks like it covers everything. and completely covered with placards. You stayed at school so that other people could personal go kit items could include prescrip- What they don’t know is that it has not can’t see who’s out there. You can’t see that be reassured,” Kerr said. “Most schools tion medications, eyeglasses, family photos, engaged anybody on the local scene,” she this child had a bee sting, or fell.” did a remarkable job given that nothing a Bible or even a supply of chocolate. said, arguing for educating leaders in the Many prevention strategies are simple could have prepared them for that. People “I don’t want to be on your team when underlying principles. and easily learned. Assessments can be criticized, students criticized: ‘They let us you can’t see because your contact lenses “No two crises are ever identical,” Kerr done in small increments, or conducted by watch TV, they didn’t let us watch.’ I think have been in too long, or you’re going into said. “If you don’t understand the concept volunteers to minimize potential crises. altogether if you take the scale of that crisis, your caffeine withdrawal and you need to that should guide you, you sure can’t use “Most of the work is on responding and I think the fact that people just stayed in have your high blood pressure medicine the recipe,” she said, comparing the situ- recovering and people tend not to look at those classrooms and comforted children and you’ve been off it for 24 hours.” ation to a novice cook who may be able prevention, mitigation and preparation,” is just remarkable.” Kerr also advises that crisis team mem- to follow a recipe and succeed — until an Kerr said. Likewise, she was touched by the bers get to know one another before a ingredient is missing, or the oven isn’t quite response to a situation in which city school crisis occurs. When conducting training right or the person can’t identify a certain children witnessed a shooting while riding sessions, she has each participant enumer- ingredient. the bus home from school. ate a strength and a weakness they bring To have a better idea of which crises may “I will always remember ... when the — sometimes with eye-opening results. be likely, leaders should consult sources such call went out, our school security officers “In one team every single person said as school safety data on violence, theft and came back to work. They came back on they faint at the sight of blood. … Every fights that districts are required to file on duty and helped us and we escorted every single one!” she said. Another team was a national level. The Centers for Disease single child on that bus back home with a stacked with people who all cited their Control and Prevention has resources on uniformed security officer who could talk leadership abilities. “There was not a fol- potential health threats. Local police and with the parent and explain what happened,” lower or a less-dominant person in the health departments also are sources of she recalled. entire group,” she said. useful data. “What you do see in crisis is people Another training tactic she uses is having “I recommend that schools annually look really making personal sacrifices to do the a key member leave unexpectedly in the at those and also poll teachers, staff and right thing and to do the caring thing. And middle of a crisis exercise, forcing the others parents,” Kerr said. “Now you have a pretty that is what gives this work such meaning,” to manage on their own. good sense of what might happen.” Kerr said. “The people who people often rely In her Pitt graduate-level classes, Kerr “You don’t always have all the answers on are the school secretary, the custodian said, students analyze actual crisis plans. and most of the time you won’t,” because and the principal. And when you start to One district, for instance, has a plan for killer each crisis is unique, she said. “But your pull those people out of the team, it’s very bees; another, situated near an airport, has presence can be enormously helpful.” interesting to watch what happens,” she a plan in case of an airline disaster. —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S Vaccine for control inflammation and thereby IBD tested reduce the risk of future cancers,” Finn said. “These findings suggest follow-up to a clinical trial of a its job effectively.” An experimental vaccine Treg may also that the early stages of chronic therapeutic dendritic cell-based One theory is that HIV-infec- against an abnormal protein inhibit HIV inflammation might be considered HIV vaccine they developed to tion drives up Treg, which in turn found in some tumors has the vaccine a premalignant condition.” activate the CD8, or killer T cell, shuts down the HIV-1-specific potential to delay the onset of response The researchers tested trans- response. First reported in 2008, CD8 T cell response, he said. inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) genic mice that spontaneously Regulatory T cells (Treg) their findings indicated only lim- Bernard J.C. Macatangay, and in turn prevent progression to develop IBD and then progress may be limiting the effectiveness ited success of the vaccine in the 17 assistant director of Pitt’s Immu- colon cancer, according to School to colitis-associated colon cancer, of HIV vaccines by slowing the patients enrolled in the trial. nology Specialty Laboratory and of Medicine researchers. Their producing the human version of immune system response too For the current study, the the study’s lead author, said, “We findings are reported in Cancer MUC1 in both disease states. soon, report Pitt health sciences researchers went back to the know how to treat HIV, but are Prevention Research, a journal They found that animals that researchers in the current issue of freezer, removed Treg from the still learning how to use immu- of the American Association for received the vaccine showed the PLoS ONE. patients’ blood cell samples and notherapy strategies to completely Cancer Research. first signs of IBD significantly later Their study, which looks at found it was masking a two-fold flush it out of the body. Our find- People with chronic inflamma- than those in two control groups the role of regulatory T cells in increase in immune response to ings show Treg plays an important tory disorders such as IBD are at that did not get the vaccine. therapeutic HIV vaccines, may HIV induced by the vaccine. role, but we need to figure out how greater risk for developing cancer Microscopic evaluation of the help researchers improve the effi- Senior author Charles R. to maintain the right balance by at the inflamed site, said senior colon tissue showed less inflamma- cacy of such vaccines by devising Rinaldo Jr., chair of the Depart- getting around these cells without author Olivera Finn, chair of the tion in the vaccinated mice and no ways to circumvent the braking ment of Infectious Diseases and blocking them completely.” Department of Immunology. indication of cancerous changes. mechanism of these cells. Microbiology in the Graduate Other Pitt authors of the In other cases, genes that Nearly half of the animals in each Treg prevents the immune School of Public Health, said: study included Marta E. Szajnik develop cancerous changes can of the control groups had evidence system from turning against “When we removed Treg from and Theresa Whiteside of the trigger inflammation. The vaccine of abnormal tissue, and two had itself by suppressing the immune blood cells, we found a much University of Pittsburgh Cancer made by Finn’s team is directed colon cancer. response. Without Treg’s action, stronger immune response to the Institute and Sharon Riddler of against an abnormal variant of “The MUC1 vaccine seems autoimmune disease could flour- vaccine, giving us insight into how medicine. The research was sup- a self-made cell protein called to change the local environment ish. we can develop more effective ported by the National Institute MUC1, which is altered and from one that promotes cancer But what if these cells are shut- HIV vaccines. Treg normally shuts of Allergy and Infectious Dis- produced in excess both in IBD development to one that inhibits ting down the immune response down CD8 responses once the eases. The paper can be found at and colon cancer. it,” Finn said. “Certain immune before a therapeutic vaccine has infection has been controlled, but www.upmc.com/MediaRelations/ “Our experiments indicate that cells that we usually see in the had a chance to bolster immunity in this case it appears to be putting NewsReleases/2010/Documents/ boosting the immune response inflamed colon aren’t present, and against HIV? Pitt researchers on the brakes early and possibly Treg%20and%20HIV%20Vacc against this protein early in the dis- that could make the surround- sought to answer this question as limiting the vaccine’s ability to do ine.pdf. ease can delay IBD development, ings less friendly for potentially cancerous cells that also are directly targeted by the vaccine for destruction.” This study suggests that in the future the vaccine might be con- sidered as part of the therapeutic regimen for IBD as well. The experimental vaccine has been studied in patients with colon and pancreatic cancer and currently is being tested as a prevention measure in patients who have a high risk for developing colon cancer. Other Pitt authors of the paper included lead author Pamela L. Beatty of immunology and co-author Sarangarajan Ranga- nathan, a faculty member in the Department of Pathology and a Children’s Hospital clinician. The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute and the Cancer Prevention Foundation. BRCA1 impacts IP chemo success Ovarian cancer patients with lower levels of BRCA1 protein expression are more likely to ben- efit from chemotherapy delivered directly into the abdomen, or intraperitoneal (IP) chemother- apy, than are patients with high levels of BRCA1 expression. A study presented recently at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists annual meeting ana- lyzed 393 ovarian cancer patients who previously participated in a phase 3 clinical trial that compared the effectiveness of traditional chemotherapy delivery to IP chemotherapy. According to the results, patients with low expression of the BRCA1 protein were more likely to respond well to IP che- motherapy than those with high expression. BRCA1 is a gene associated with higher rates of breast and ovarian cancers in women, and other cancers for both genders. The research was conducted by Jamie Lesnock, a fellow in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Magee-Womens Hospital, under the direction of Thomas C. Krivak of the Depart-

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S including occasional misleading cide as the only solution. We are feedback, where the participants now using brain imaging to look CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 are told that they are wrong after a at brain activity in suicidal older ment of Obstetrics, Gynecology need to understand how certain Suicidal, correct response, and by changing adults as they make decisions. We and Reproductive Sciences, in characteristics of 3-D interface depressed the rule midway through the task. hope that this research will help conjunction with the nonprofit influence consumers’ attitudes elderly studied The study included participants doctors develop talk therapies, Gynecologic Oncology Group. toward the product and the com- who had attempted suicide, as medications and brain stimulation “This is potentially another pany,” Wang said. Being too focused on the pres- well as those who were depressed treatments for suicidal, depressed small step toward personalized “Our research provided evi- ent and not factoring experience and had contemplated suicide but older people.” treatment for ovarian cancer,” dence that 3-D rich media may into decisions could contribute hadn’t attempted it; who were Pitt co-authors of the study said Krivak. effectively attract consumers’ to suicide attempts in elderly depressed but not suicidal, and were Katalin Szanto, Greg J. Because IP chemotherapy can attention, but may not necessarily depressed adults, according to who were neither depressed nor Siegle, Meryl A. Butters and be so rigorous, identifying the increase consumers’ intention to a study by School of Medicine suicidal. Naho Ichikawa, all from the patient population most likely make a purchase. Consumers are and University of Cambridge The researchers found that Department of Psychiatry and to benefit from it is important, more willing to purchase if the researchers published recently most of the participants who had Western Psychiatric Institute Lesnock said. online interface allows a certain in the American Journal of Psy- attempted suicide were able to and Clinic. “Ovarian cancer has few level of interactions with the chiatry. learn the initial choice rule on the The study was supported in symptoms in its early stages, and products.” Using a computerized test of task, but had great difficulty re- part by funding provided by the because of this patients often are the ability to change behavior learning it when the rule changed National Institute of Mental diagnosed after the disease has based on positive and negative and were more sensitive to the Health, the American Foundation already spread,” said Lesnock. Women’s feedback, researchers found that misleading feedback. for Suicide Prevention and the “Currently, we know that patients health research those who had attempted suicide A smaller group of suicide John A. Hartford Foundation. respond in very different ways to funded performed poorly. attempters tended to continue chemotherapy. If we can know The Schools of the Health Study lead author Alexandre following the old rule despite ahead of time whether or not Sciences recently announced two Y. Dombrovski, a faculty member negative feedback for wrong WPIC named a patient will benefit from IP grant awards: in Pitt’s Department of Psychiatry, answers. HIV study site chemotherapy, it could help us • Anda Vlad received an said, “This is an important step The researchers discov- Western Psychiatric Institute improve outcomes.” Early Career Development Award forward in understanding why ered that participants who had and Clinic is among nine sites funded by the Ovarian Cancer some people with depression attempted suicide focused exces- chosen for a multi-center trial that 3-D online ads Academy of the Department of take their own lives while others sively on the last trial, ignoring will study 5,000 high-risk patients may not raise Defense. The five-year, $840,000 do not.” their experiences. Participants to determine whether rapid HIV sales grant will fund Vlad’s investiga- While two-thirds of older who were depressed but had never testing and counseling produce tion of tumor-promoting genetic adults who attempt suicide suffer attempted suicide did not show healthier results for those who Consumers may be drawn mutations and testing of novel from depression, the severity of the same problem and resembled test negative for the virus than in by 3-D ads online, but such ovarian cancer therapies. the depression alone does not healthy volunteers. testing alone. animations don’t necessarily raise • Jacob Larkin, a mater- explain suicidal behavior. Iden- “We consider this an important Researchers at Western Psy- their intent to buy, reports Pitt- nal fetal medicine fellow in tifying factors that are specific advance in understanding the chiatric Institute and Clinic, in Bradford computer information the Department of Obstetrics, to suicidal behavior could help decision processes in those elderly conjunction with the Allegheny systems faculty member Y. Ken Gynecology and Reproductive predict which individuals are depressed patients who may be at County Health Department, Wang in a paper published in the Sciences, received a three-year, most at risk. high risk of attempting suicide,” will evaluate the effect of routine conference proceedings of the $300,000 award, jointly sponsored The researchers assessed 65 said Dombrovski. “Older adults counseling at screening on two Americas Conference on Informa- by the American Association of individuals, age 60 and older, using vulnerable to suicide seem to primary outcomes: the incidence tion Systems. Obstetricians and Gynecologists a computerized test that requires make overly present-focused deci- of sexually transmitted infections “As more and more companies Foundation and the Society for the individuals to make the best sions, ignoring past experiences. and acceptance of HIV testing. start to use 3-D animated ads to Maternal-Fetal Medicine, to possible choices in an uncertain This may explain why people in Researchers also will measure present and promote their prod- support his research on placental and changing environment. a suicidal crisis fail to consider ucts on the Internet, there is a response to injury. The task is made difficult by important deterrents and see sui- CONTINUED ON PAGE 26

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S countermeasure.” Amitai said. He and his team have devised In their experiments, the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25 a polyurethane fiber mesh con- material fended off Staph aureus reduction of risky sexual behaviors health implications. This study to the National Institute on Drug taining enzymes that lead to and E. coli, which represent dif- and substance use during sex after in the STD program and clinic Abuse. the production of bromine or ferent classes of bacteria. After 24 six months, and cost-effectiveness at [the health department] will iodine, which kill bacteria, as hours, it restored 70 percent of the of counseling and testing. provide important and timely data New mesh well as chemicals that generate activity of acetylcholinesterase, an Public health experts encour- on the impact of HIV counseling thwarts toxins compounds that detoxify organo- enzyme that is inhibited by nerve age everyone between the ages in high-risk populations tested in In an ongoing effort to mirror phosphate nerve agents. agents leading to fatal dysfunction of 13 and 64 to be HIV tested. health care settings.” the ability of biological tissues to Lead investigator Gabi Amitai of an essential neurotransmitter. However, there currently is little Health department director respond rapidly and appropri- of the McGowan Institute and The researchers continue to scientific evidence to guide deci- Bruce Dixon said, “This study ately to changing environments, the Israel Institute for Biological develop alternate decontamina- sions on the benefit of provid- will give us the opportunity to scientists from the McGowan Research said the mesh could be tion strategies to address chemical ing prevention counseling for contribute to a better understand- Institute for Regenerative Medi- developed into sponges, coatings and biologic weapons. those who test negative for the ing of the role of counseling for cine have synthesized a single, or liquid sprays, and could be used Co-authors of the paper disease. all Allegheny County Health multifunctional polymer material internally or as a wound dressing included Hironobu Murata and Psychiatry faculty member Department patients undergoing that can decontaminate both bio- that is capable of killing bacteria, senior research technician Jill Antoine Douaihy, who will be HIV screening and potentially logical and chemical toxins. They viruses and spores. “The antibac- Andersen, both of the McGowan the Pittsburgh site’s lead research improve care.” described the findings recently in terial and antitoxin activities do Institute, and Richard Koepsel of investigator, said, “We are excited The research is funded through Biomaterials. not interfere with each other, and the McGowan Institute and the about participating in this study a $12.3 million American Recov- Senior investigator Alan Rus- actually can work synergistically,” Department of Surgery. n that has such significant public ery and Reinvestment Act grant sell, University Professor of Sur- gery in the School of Medicine and director of the McGowan New app gives UPMC docs more info Institute, said: “Our lab applies In an effort to put critical enabled by the health system’s biological principles to create patient information in the hands of interoperability platform, created materials that can do many things, physicians at the bedside, UPMC by technology partner dbMotion. just like our skin protects us from announced that it has developed The application allows UPMC to both rain and sun. Typically, its first electronic health record present clinicians with a compre- labs engineer products that are application for BlackBerry smart- hensive view of key patient data, designed to serve only one narrow phones. The pilot project gives including allergies, medications, function.” physicians access to such infor- lab results, problems and physician Conventional approaches mation as a patient’s allergies, notes, without replacing existing might not provide the best current medications and recently information systems. It also allows responses for weapons of mass completed lab tests. data to be transferred and orga- destruction, which could be William Fera, vice president, nized. For instance, if a patient’s biological, such as the smallpox medical technologies, and medi- records show allergies to penicillin virus, or chemical, such as the cal director, interoperability, at under a variety of drug names, nerve agent sarin, he noted. Ter- UPMC , explained: “We are look- all of the penicillin allergies are rorists aren’t going to announce ing for more effective ways to make grouped together in dbMotion’s what kind of threat they unleash patient information available at presentation of the data. in an attack. the point of care — and, increas- For 11 consecutive years “That uncertainty calls for a ingly, the point of care isn’t just in UPMC has been named one of single broad-spectrum decon- a hospital or doctor’s office. We the 100 Most Wired hospitals tamination material that can need to get the right information and health systems in the United rapidly neutralize both kinds of to the right clinicians at the right States by Hospitals & Health threats and is easily delivered or time, whether they are at home Networks magazine and also administered, and it must not ‘on call’ or in a variety of mobile was named among the top 10 damage the environment where health care situations.” most innovative users of tech- it is applied,” Russell said. “Much UPMC’s application for nology among all companies by work has gone into developing BlackBerry smartphones is InformationWeek magazine. n ways to thwart either germ or chemical weapons, and now we’re combining some of them into one WPIC recognized for nursing quality Western Psychiatric Institute (NDNQI), which bills itself as and Clinic (WPIC) has been the nation’s most comprehensive recognized by the American catalog of nursing-care outcomes Nurses Association (ANA) for tied directly to the high quality of consistently achieving outstand- care. More than 1,500 hospitals ing patient outcomes through participate in ANA’s database. high-quality nursing care. The award winners demon- As one of six nationally rec- strated superior patient outcomes ognized hospitals, WPIC partici- and high nurse job satisfaction on pates in ANA’s National Database the 18 performance indicators of Nursing Quality Indicators tracked by NDNQI. n

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P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S year. at Harvard University, is part of The MVP the foundation’s Building Human Two School of Education fac- members with the primary goal of patents and published two books award honors Capital initiative. As many as ulty members have been named advancing educational research since joining Pitt in 1981. His exceptional eight scholars are selected each 2010 American Educational and its practical application. work revolves around synthetic technical com- year who receive a yearly stipend Research Association (AERA) chemistry, particularly radical and munity leaders of $75,000 and $30,000 to use fellows. Pitt chemistry professor fluorous chemistry. from a wide toward research. The award runs Suzanne Lane, a faculty Dennis P. Curran was among Curran is considered one of range of back- for four years. member in the Department of eight scientists the pioneers of organic radical grounds who • Maribeth McLaughlin, Psychology in Education, and worldwide chemistry, using radical reac- share their real-world technical chief nursing officer and vice Margaret G. McKeown, a fac- selected to tions to initiate cascade processes expertise with the community and president of patient care services ulty member in the Department receive an hon- wherein complex molecules are with Microsoft. at Magee-Womens Hospital, of Instruction and Learning and orary doctorate produced organically from simple Stein assists members of the was elected to a three-year term a senior scientist at the Learn- from France’s materials. Katz institute with technology on the governing council of the ing Research and Development University He has received, among other issues, including cost reduction American Hospital Association’s Center, are being recognized of Pierre and awards, the Blaise Pascal Interna- and new technology. (AHA) section for maternal and by AERA “for their exceptional Marie Curie tional Research Chair, which goes child health. scientific or scholarly contribu- during a March to renowned foreign researchers The Schools of the Health Sci- The governing council is a tions to educational research or 26 ceremony and is awarded by the regional ences recently announced faculty 15-member body comprised of significant contributions to the at the Sorbonne. The honorary government of Ile-de-France and staff awards and accolades. CEOs and senior executives from field through the development degree was awarded in recognition (metro Paris). In 2009, he joined • J. Anthony Graves, a faculty women’s and children’s providers of research opportunities and of Curran’s three-decade career 162 scientists in the inaugural class member in pediatrics in the School who advise the AHA on member settings that are nationally and that includes pioneering contribu- of American Chemical Society of Medicine and a researcher service strategies, public policy internationally recognized.” tions to organic chemistry. fellows. and physician in the Division of issues, advocacy positions and Lane’s research focus is on The Parisian university’s bien- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, emerging issues. educational nial award recognizes scientists Robert Stein, manager of the Children’s Hospital, is an awardee • Elizabeth Skidmore, a measurement for their contributions to their information technology program of the Harold Amos medical faculty member in the Depart- and testing, fields and dedication to academic at the Institute for Entrepreneurial faculty development program ment of Occupational Therapy, particularly values. Excellence, part of the Joseph M. sponsored by the Robert Wood received the 2009 Pennsylvania design, validity A Distinguished Service and Katz Graduate School of Business, Johnson Foundation. Occupational Therapy Associa- and technical Bayer Professor of Chemistry, has won a 2010 Microsoft Most The award, which is named tion Academic Educator Award. issues related Curran has written approximately Valuable Professional (MVP) after the first African American Skidmore was selected for this to large-scale 400 papers, been granted 30 Award for the seventh consecutive to serve as a department head CONTINUED ON PAGE 28 assessment and accountability systems, including performance- based assessments. She is a member of the National Council on Measurement in Edu- cation and AERA, and has served as the council’s president, 2004- 05, and AERA’s vice president of Division D, Methodology, 2000-02. She also is a member of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Evalua- tion, Measurement and Statistics and the Psychometric Society. Lane is a member of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Technical Advisory Council and also served as a member of the joint committee on revision of the standards for educational and psychological testing. She has been the principal investigator on several large grants examining the validity of large- scale assessment systems. McKeown has pursued two major lines of research at Pitt — the develop- ment of vocab- ulary as it influ- ences reading comprehension and the com- prehension students achieve from school texts. She is a member of AERA, the International Reading Association, the National Reading Conference and the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. She was editor of the teaching, learning, human development sec- tion of the American Educational Research Journal, 2001-04; vice president for Division C, Learning and Instruction, of AERA, 1998- 2000, and is on the editorial board of several journals. McKeown also is a member of the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading standing committee. McKeown’s honors include being named to the International Reading Hall of Fame in 2008, receiving a Pitt Innovator Award in 2007 and being awarded a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship in 1988. The new Pitt AERA fellows will be inducted in May. Founded in 1916, AERA is an international professional organization of more than 26,000

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Susan “Leigh” Star School of Information Sci- information and communications Bowker the group’s journal, Sci- the end of the body corresponds ences professor Susan “Leigh” technology, helped the school ence, Technology and Human to the death of the spirit. She calls Star died suddenly March 24, move in new directions. “It made Values. on us to embrace the spirit beyond 2010. She was 55. her of interest for a school like ours Star’s students have established the body ‘…through rituals of The cause of death has not yet with a lot of technical initiatives,” a commemorative web page at remembering, through ceremo- been determined, according to the Larsen said. “Her work coupled http://rememberingleigh.word- nies we invoke the spirit presence Allegheny County Office of the a profound understanding of press.com/. of our dead, and through ordinary Medical Examiner. technology, looking at it from a In their memorial, Star’s stu- rituals in everyday life where we Star was director of the Sara humanistic perspective.” dents stated, “When Leigh and keep the spirit of those we have Fine Institute and held the Doreen A recent reorganization in Geof gave their job talk last fall, lost close. Sometimes we invoke E. Boyce Chair in Library and the school aimed in part to foster many of us became very excited the dead by allowing wisdom they Information Science. collaborative research endeavors, because we knew that if they came have shared to guide our present She and her husband, Geoffrey and the couple’s arrival at Pitt was to Pitt they would change our actions. Or we invoke through Bowker, joined the SIS faculty in part of that strategy. Larsen said a lives. Their hip and innovative reenacting one of their habits August 2009. cultural shift already was under- scholarship was to be admired of being. And the grief that may Star earned a PhD in sociology way in the school, adding, “We and when we found out they had never leave us even as we do not at the University of California-San were excited about that progress been hired, we could not wait allow it to overwhelm us is also a Francisco. Her research interests and very sad and disappointed at “I never saw her raise her voice to take classes with them. This way to give homage to our dead, included information worlds and the loss” of the professor who was to anyone,” he said, noting that semester, doctoral students at to hold them (202-203).’ naturalistic studies of informa- among the people contributing to she was an excellent listener who different points in their schol- “We set up this site to invoke tion infrastructure; classification those changes. “We will carry on appreciated others and who strove arly careers enrolled in Leigh’s Leigh’s spirit during this difficult and standardization; sociology in her memory,” he said. to understand and consider their Seminar in Research Methods time.” and history of science, medicine, Larsen said Star demonstrated viewpoints. ... . Her insight and passion for In addition to her husband, technology and information a quiet, reflective demeanor, “She was a gentle, thoughtful scholarship; the stories of Anselm Star is survived by her father, systems; qualitative methods; characterizing her as the kind of individual,” he said. Strauss, Howard Becker and the Glenn T. Kippax, and his wife, feminist theory, and sociology person who typically is quiet in Prior to arriving at Pitt, Star Chicago School of Sociology; the Elizabeth; her sister Cynthia of work. Star taught several new meetings, but “who, when they was a professor in the Center for ethical and moral implications Kippax Ripley and brother-in-law courses including Literacy in the start speaking, everyone stops and Science, Technology and Society of standards; boundary objects Don Ripley, and nieces Kristen Information Age. starts to listen.” In faculty meet- at Santa Clara University. She also and boundary infrastructure; Amy and Heather Leigh Ripley. SIS Dean Ronald L. Larsen ings, he said, Star brought a novel held academic and scholarly posi- affordances and constraints; Sci- A memorial service was held said Star’s background as a sociolo- perspective that was accepting tions at the University of Califor- ence and Technology Studies March 30 in Pittsburgh. Services gist and her work on “boundary and inclusive of alternative and nia-Irvine; University of Caligari meets Library and Information in Star’s native Rhode Island are objects” — exploring how differ- competing concepts. “In the best (Italy); University of California- Science — she was grounding us scheduled for April 2. ent groups of people interact when of academic style,” he said, “she San Diego, and the University of and challenging us every Monday Donations in Star’s memory they are brought together around showed it was okay not to agree,” Illinois/Champaign-Urbana. afternoon. ... may be made to the Sempervi- a common interest — and value- adding that she changed the tenor She was a past president of “In ‘All About Love: New rens Fund at http://sempervirens. centered design, which explores of conversation among faculty in the Society for the Social Stud- Visions,’ Bell Hooks notes how org/. the ways values are integrated into the school. ies of Science and co-edited with we can fall prey to the notion that —Kimberly K. Barlow n P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S CONTINUED FROM PAGE 27 honor for her excellence in teach- ing project by a physician-scientist tion for Preven- McGowan, a senior in the School rials and nanostructures to test ing and mentoring occupational in western Pennsylvania. tion Teaching of Social Work, who received the how coherence and entanglement therapy students and practitioners • Joon Sup Lee, clinical and Research. undergraduate award. behave in a solid-state environ- in neurobehavioral science and director of the UPMC Cardio- From 2010 The awards honor the late Iris ment similar to that of potential the treatment of neurological vascular Institute; associate chief, through 2013, Marion Young, a philosopher and electronic devices. disorders. Division of Cardiology, School of Meyer also will social theorist who was a faculty • Joanne Baird, also a faculty Medicine, and a faculty member serve as the member in the Graduate School of The Society for Cinema and member in the Department of in the Department of Medicine, organization’s Public and International Affairs. Media Studies has given the 2010 Occupational Therapy, received has been named president-elect secretary-treasurer and as a Austin has worked for 40 years Katherine Singer Kovács Book the 2009 Pennsylvania Occupa- of the American Heart Associa- member of the executive com- as an advocate for civil rights, Award “for outstanding scholar- tional Therapy Association Field- tion, Allegheny Division. Lee will mittee. human rights and peace — both ship in film and media studies” to work Educator Award. Baird was serve as president July 2010-July Her activities in pharmacy at the University and in the com- Nancy Condee, a faculty member selected for this honor because of 2012. education focus on curricular and munity. She helped form the Afro- in the Department of Slavic Lan- her longstanding and exemplary • Kareem Abu-Elmagd, institutional quality improvement, American Cultural Society, which guages and Literatures, for her contributions to fieldwork edu- director of the Intestinal Rehabili- instructional design and assess- works to increase the number of book “The Imperial Trace: Recent cation for occupational therapy tation and Transplantation Center, ment, faculty development and black students, staff and faculty Russian Cinema.” students. Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation interprofessional health profes- at Pitt. She served on the Pitt Condee specializes in con- • Jong Jin Kim, a research Institute, and a faculty member sions education. Divestment Coalition and was temporary Russian culture and assistant in the Department of in the School of Medicine, has active in Pittsburghers Against cultural politics, Soviet cultural Bioengineering, received an been named president-elect of the Anthony J. DeArdo, William Apartheid, the national Free South politics, late-Soviet and post- American Heart Association Intestinal Transplant Association. Kepler Whiteford Professor in Africa Movement, the No Dope Soviet cinema, imperial and Claude R. Joyner, MD Research He will serve a two-year term in the Department Campaign and African Americans postcolonial theory and Soviet Award for his work that will focus this role, followed by a two-year of Mechanical Against War. and post-Soviet popular culture. on the mechanism of complex term as president. Engineering and Her latest work focuses on She also is a film studies program cardiac arrhythmias and their role • Sandra Kane-Gill, a fac- Materials Sci- Black Voices for Peace, an orga- faculty member. in sudden cardiac death. ulty member in the Department ence and direc- nization that opposes the wars in She is co-founder and co- • John Pacella, a faculty of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, tor of the Basic Iraq and Afghanistan. editor of the journal Studies in member at the UPMC Cardio- was appointed co-chair of the Metals Processing Research Russian and Soviet Cinema. vascular Institute, also received Society of Critical Care Medicine Institute (BAMPRI), has been Gurudev Dutt, a faculty an American Heart Association’s program committee for Congress named recipient of the 2010 member in physics and astronomy, Robert Weber, chair of the Claude R. Joyner, MD Research in 2012. Kane-Gill will be the Benjamin F. Fairless Award from has been named a 2010 Alfred P. Department of Pharmacy and Award for his research on coro- first pharmacist to serve in this the Association for Iron and Steel Sloan Foundation Therapeutics, has won the Jack L. nary collateral blood vessels, the capacity. Technology. Fellow, a distinc- Beal Post-baccalaureate Alumni body’s natural bypasses to blocked Kane-Gill’s research interests The award honors individu- tion that carries a Award, sponsored by the Ohio arteries. focus on eco- als who have made distinguished two-year, $50,000 State College of Pharmacy and Pacella’s work will focus on nomic, clinical contributions to the field of iron grant. its Alumni Society. determining the size of these and humanis- and steel making and ferrous This program Weber, also UPMC execu- collaterals in the microcircula- tic evaluations metallurgy. recognizes the tive director of pharmacy, was tion, as well as how they regulate for critically ill DeArdo’s Pitt career includes achievements of young scholars recognized for his contributions blood flow between neighboring patients, spe- 35 years of teaching and research in science, mathematics, econom- to pharmaceutical sciences and to coronary arteries. cifically patient in the area of structural materials ics and computer science. Dutt the profession of pharmacy and for • Brian Zuckerbraun, Samuel safety, quality composition, especially engi- was one of 118 researchers who having excelled in health-system P. Harbison Assistant Professor of life in the critically ill, and neering alloys such as micro- received a 2010 fellowship. pharmacy of Surgery, School of Medicine, developing models of cost for alloyed steels and stainless steels. Dutt studies solid-state quan- administration received the American Heart acute illness. He is founder and director of tum systems ranging in size from and mentoring. Association’s James A. Shaver, She is a fellow in the Ameri- BAMPRI. single atoms to macroscopic He is inter- MD, Research Award for his work can College of Critical Care collections of atoms coupled ested in pro- focusing on the use of inhaled Medicine. Gail Austin, director of Pitt’s together. These systems show grams that nebulized sodium nitrate as a • Susan M. Meyer, associate Academic Resource Center, is significant potential in next-gen- establish potential therapy for pulmonary dean for education at the School the staff recipient of the 2010 Iris eration nanotechnologies as well patient-centered roles for phar- arterial hypertension, a disease of of Pharmacy, has been elected to Marion Young Award for Political as in information processing and macists to improve the safety the small arteries in the lung. The a second three-year term on the Engagement. storage devices. and efficiency of medication award is presented to the top-scor- board of directors of the Associa- Also honored was Michelle He uses diamond-based mate- use. n

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B, 1-3:30 pm “May We Suggest Something “From Spectrum to Beam in Bottle?” Carl June, Penn; Cooper Clinical Oncology & Hematol- CLAS Lecture in a Gene…? Sensors, Database Iraq Organizational Adaptation: Conf. Ctr. classrm. D, noon ogy Grand Rounds “New Courts for New Democra- Ads & Other PubMed Discovery Combat, Stability & Beyond,” Ctr. for Philosophy of Science “Current Treatment for Chronic cies: Judicial Changes in Latin Features,” Patricia Weiss; Falk Chad Serena; April 2, Ridgway Lecture Graft-vs-Host Disease,” Mary America From 1975 to 2009,” Library conf. rm. B, noon Ctr., Posvar, 10 am “Questioning Einstein Dilation Dantas Flowers; 2nd fl. aud. Daniel Brinks, Notre Dame; Neurology Seminar SIS/Information Science & of Unstable Quanton Lifetimes,” UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 8 am 4500 Posvar, 1:45 pm “Genetic Analysis of Neurode- Technology Gordon Fleming, Penn State; Pathology Seminar Senate Council Mtg. generation in Drosophila,” Mel “Influence of Motivation on 817R CL, 12:05 pm “Central Proteoglycan Roles in 2700 Posvar, 3 pm Feany; 120 Starzl BST South, Wayfinding,” Samvith Srinivas; Global Health Film Cancer & Angiogenesis,” Renato GI Grand Rounds 3 pm April 2, 522 IS, 10 am “For the Love of Water”; A115 Iozzo; 1105AB Scaife, noon “Endoscopic & Radiologic Geology & Planetary Science GSPH/Epidemiology Crabtree, 3:30-5:30 pm Raymond R. Webb Jr. Social Unknowns,” Sandra El-Hachem, Colloquium “Impact of Lifestyle Factors on Pharmacology & Chemical Work Lecture Kofi Clarke, Priya Roy & Su “High Resolution Chronol- Vascular Aging,” Kelly Lloyd; Biology Seminar “International Higher Educa- Min Cho; 1104 conf. ctr. 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Mon- IonSound Project Perfor- “The Future of the Book,” Sven Brazil,” Andrew Franz; Village Pitt Grad Student Composer tefiore, noon mance Birkerts & Maud Newton; G24 Hall, UPG, 7 pm Concert EOH Seminar “Recycle”; Bellefield aud., 7 CL, 8:30 pm “IonSound ‘Reduce, Renew, “Arsenic Enhanced Atheroscle- pm Tuesday 6 Recycle,’” Bellefield aud., 7 pm rosis: The Role of Liver X Recep- Friday 2 (4-4125) tor Inhibition,” Koren Mann; Monday 12 Gastroenterology, Hepatology 540 Bridgeside Pt., noon GSPIA Wherrett Lecture & Nutrition Pathophysiology/ Wednesday 7 Epidemiology Seminar HSLS Workshop “Innovation & the Future of Board Review “Tales From an EIS Officer: “EndNote Basics,” Patricia Local Government,” James “Non-Neuroendocrine Tumors Clinical Oncology & Hematol- Foodborne Disease Surveillance Weiss; Falk Library classrm. 2, Svara, ASU; U Club Ballrm. 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