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PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume XIII • Number 8 • March 19, 2012 Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh Forum, Swanson School to Host March 27-28 Symposium on Future of Nuclear Power

attorney general of the United States, and “This symposium brings together former U.N. under- secretary general, highly regarded experts with a and now counsel to the international law variety of vantage points to con- firm K&L Gates in its Washington, D.C., sider the future of nuclear power. office—will open the symposium with wel- And there could be no more coming remarks. Pitt appropriate venue for this event Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg and Gerald than Pittsburgh, where nuclear D. Holder, the Swan- son School’s U.S. Steel power was born.” Dean of Engineering, —Dick Thornburgh also will speak. Dick Thornburgh Gerald D. Holder “This symposium is built on two of the highly regarded experts with a variety of Clue Uncovered for many strengths of this vantage points to consider the future of By Patricia Lomando White University,” said Pitt nuclear power,” said Thornburgh. “And Chancellor Mark A. there could be no more appropriate venue Origins of Type of “From Its Birthplace: A Symposium on Nordenberg. “The first is the Dick Thorn- for this event than Pittsburgh, where nuclear the Future of Nuclear Power”—a two-day burgh Forum for Law and Public Policy, power was born. During the symposium, event that will include presentations on such which honors the legacy of achievement the in-depth presentations will examine Supernovae Explosion topics as engineering technology, public and impact of University of Pittsburgh not only the many aspects of nuclear power, health, emergency management, insurance, trustee and alumnus Dick Thornburgh, but also the accidents at Three Mile Island, By B. Rose Huber and financing—will take place March 27-28 who, through a lifetime of public service, Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union, and in the University of Pittsburgh William Pitt has made extraordinary contributions to the Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.” An important clue has been uncovered Union Ballroom. The symposium is cospon- public good. The other is Pitt’s Swanson According to Edward McCord, direc- about the origins of an important type of sored by Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh Forum for School of Engineering, which is among tor of the Dick Thornburgh Forum, the sym- exploding star, Type Ia supernovae, thanks Law and Public Policy and Swanson School this country’s finest by almost any standard posium stands apart from others by virtue to a research team at the University of of Engineering. of measure, among them its cutting-edge of the role Western Pennsylvania has played Pittsburgh. Studying supernovae of this Dick Thornburgh (LAW ’57)—Pitt research, faculty stature, industry partner- historically and continues to play as a leader type helps researchers measure galaxy emeritus trustee, former governor of the ships, and quality of its student body.” distances and can lead to important astro- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, former “This symposium brings together Continued on page 9 nomical discoveries. A paper detailing this research has been accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Principal investigator Carlos Badenes, Pitt Researchers Develop New Science of assistant professor of physics and astronomy Spotlight on Research in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, detailed the ways in which his National Preparedness team used the Sloan Digital Sky Survey—a collection of multicolor images and more than a million spectra covering more than By Daniel Bates a quarter of the sky—to determine what kinds of stars produce Type Ia supernovae It could be said that nothing shook the explosions. nation to its core—and catalyzed a transfor- “We knew that two stars had to be mation in the way the nation thinks about involved in such an explosion, and that one the complexities of national security and of them had to be a white dwarf,” says Dan disaster preparedness—like the tragedies Maoz, professor of physics and astronomy of Sept. 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina at Tel-Aviv University in Israel and coauthor in 2005. of the soon-to-be-published paper on the Certainly, preparedness discussions discovery. “But there were two possibilities already were occurring at places like the for what the second star is, which is what University of Pittsburgh long before those we sought to discover.” infamous events. But amidst those disas- According to Badenes, there were two ters, the nation’s lawmakers, law enforc- potential outcomes for the star’s type. It ers, policy analysts, constitutional rights could be a “normal star,” like the sun, or advocates, public health officials, first it could be another white dwarf, which is responders, the military, and academia sud- a smaller, more dense faint star composed denly found themselves front and center in of electron-degenerate matter. The team national and regional debates. With a new suspected the latter, as two white dwarfs sense of urgency, they grappled with the within the same star system would revolve future what-ifs of disasters—how to better around one another at half a million miles prepare for them, anticipate them, manage an hour, speeding up and getting closer them, and mitigate their consequences. and closer until one day they merge, most An intellectual “Code Orange” thus likely producing the fireworks of Type Ia ensued over the coming years as thought- supernovae. ful leaders around the country theorized, develop science-driven, big-picture frame- and Nursing, as well as, among others, “There were obvious reasons to sus- planned, and simulated possible future works to harness the complexities of large- the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts pect that Type Ia supernovae come from disasters—and worked to solve technologi- scale disasters. That collective initiative and Sciences and the Graduate Schools of the merging of a double white dwarf,” cal problems at a level of intensity not seen culminated in 2004 with the launch of the Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) says Maoz. “But our biggest question was before. University of Pittsburgh Center for National and Public Health (GSPH). The center’s whether there were enough double white Among them, of course, was a diverse Preparedness. researchers have developed new innova- dwarfs out there to produce the number of group of University of Pittsburgh research- Since then, the multidisciplinary center tions in such areas as disaster management, supernovae that we see.” ers and policy experts who joined forces has helped drive the national agenda. Its robotic search and rescue, information Because white dwarfs are extremely to hold their own academic discussions, leaders hail from Pitt’s Schools of Medicine, conduct intensive research, and, ultimately, Information Sciences, Engineering, Law, Continued on page 6 Continued on page 5 2 • Pitt Chronicle • March 19, 2012 Brieflynoted Pitt Day in Harrisburg, 2012

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Pitt Schools, Programs Chakraborty, the Robert T. Haslam Professor Advance in U.S. News’ Best of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Graduate Schools Rankings Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as the recipient of the Bayer In the latest edition of U.S. News & Distinguished Lectureship 2012. Chakraborty World Report’s Best Graduate Schools, a is one of the nation’s leading researchers in number of University of Pittsburgh schools and experimental immunology through theoretical and programs have advanced in the guidebook computation methods, especially autoimmune rankings, according to the publication’s 2012 deficiencies and HIV. 2 3

methodology. These rankings appear in Chakraborty will present two lectures at Pitt: BURKE/CIDDE JIM BY PHOTOS highlights form in the Best Graduate Schools “How to Hit HIV Where It Hurts” at 5 p.m. March As many as 500 Pitt students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, and other supporters participated in the annual Pitt Day in book, available for newsstand purchase on April 22 and “Understanding Adaptive Immunity: A Harrisburg on March 13. Six buses departed from the William Pitt Union at 7 a.m. for the three-hour journey to the state’s 3, and for purchase online; visit www.usnews. Crossroad of the Physical, Life, and Engineering Capitol, where they joined supporters from the University’s four regional campuses. At the top of participants’ to-do lists was com/usnews/store/grad_school_compass.htm Sciences” at 9:30 a.m. March 23. Both lectures, to discuss with legislators the state’s proposed 30 percent cut in Commonwealth appropriations to three of the four state- for more information. which are free and open to the public, will be related universities: Pitt, Penn State, and Temple. 1. Students gathered in the Capitol Rotunda before fanning out to visit Within the Top Schools of Medicine— held in Room 102 Benedum Hall. For more their respective legislators to discuss how the proposed cuts would affect Pitt. 2. Jeff Gleim (left), Pitt Alumni Association Primary Care category, Pitt’s School of Medicine information, call 412-624-9630. executive director, talks with State Rep. Dan Frankel (D-23), minority caucus chair. 3. Michael Pinsky (left), Pitt Faculty advanced to No. 18, up from No. 28 last year. The Bayer Distinguished Lectureship Senate president, and Jack Smith, Pitt Alumni Association president. The event was organized by Pitt Advocates, a network And in the Medical Specialties—Pediatrics is presented annually by Pitt’s Department of alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends who share a commitment to higher education and to Pitt; the Pitt Alumni category, Pitt moved up to No. 9 from No. 11 of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Association; and Pitt’s Office of Governmental Relations. last year. In the Health Disciplines categories last recognizes excellence in chemical education, ranked in 2008, Pitt jumped from No. 16 last outreach, and research. year to No. 8 this year in Audiology, tied with —By B. Rose Huber 225 Stories to Celebrate Northwestern University; from No. 9 to No. 6 in Occupational Therapy, tied with Colorado State, Pitt’s Honors College Sets Thomas Jefferson, and Tufts universities; from March 22 Panel Titled “The No. 19 to No. 14 in Pharmacy, tied with the Press and Campaign 2012” University of Florida and the University of Illinois- Chicago; from No. 14 to No. 11 in Social Work, Political reporters on the campaign trail Pitt Nurses Travel the World tied with Fordham University, the University will be making a stop at the University of Southern California, the University of of Pittsburgh to share their insights in a “I want to see Pitt nursing students Wisconsin-Madison, and Virginia University Honors College-sponsored panel practice around the world, and I want nursing Commonwealth discussion titled students from around the world to come here University; and from “The Press and to Pitt,” says Pitt School of Nursing professor No. 12 to No. 8 in Campaign 2012” Ann Mitchell. Speech-Language at 7:30 p.m. March Mitchell’s vision is working; Pitt nurses Pathology, tied with 22 in the O’Hara travel to various countries and benefit from the University of Student Center. international, multidisciplinary networks. Kansas. The five national Mitchell herself received a Fulbright award to In addition, the journalists are lecture and do research in Oman. Swanson School of David Espo, the Mitchell’s colleague Paula Sherwood Engineering moved into the Associated Press; received a Fulbright award to work in Finland. top 50 in The Top Schools Michael Kranish, the She works with family caregivers to develop of Engineering category, advancing Boston Globe; James ways to relieve stress that may accompany from No. 52 last year to No. 47 this year, O’Toole, the Pittsburgh Post- caring as patients recover—or fail to recover—from treatment. tied with Case Western Reserve University. Gazette; Joe Rago, The Wall Street Journal; and For his work in distance and simulation education as well as —By John Harvith Karen Langley, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. David international volunteerism, Richard Henker earned both a Chancellor’s Shribman, executive editor of the Post-Gazette, will Distinguished Teaching Award and a Human Volunteers Overseas Golden Swanson School Names moderate. Apple Award. Henker is professor and interim chair of Pitt nursing school's MIT’s Chakraborty to Seating is limited for this free public event; Department of Acute and Tertiary Care. Receive Bayer Distinguished those interested in attending must RSVP at www. Lectureship honorscollege.pitt.edu/press-panel-2012 and click the link to reserve a seat. Additional information is For more stories about Pitt's legacy of achievement or to share your own The University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson available at http://tinyurl.com/presspanel. stories about the University, visit www.225.pitt.edu. School of Engineering has chosen Arup K. —By Patricia Lomando White March 19, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 3 Women’sHistoryMonth

As Army Surgeon General, Horoho Pioneers Leadership for Nurses, Women By Niki Kapsembellis This article is reprinted with permission from Pitt Nurse, which published it in its Spring 2012 issue. Horoho also urges young Patricia D. Horoho, lieuten- ant general (three stars), in the U.S. nurses to develop a strong Army, has enjoyed a career marked clinical background that will by significant firsts: She was the first woman and the first nurse to com- better inform them as they mand the Walter Reed Health Care System, and she mounted the first eventually move on to leader- medical response to the attacked side of the Pentagon when it was struck by ship roles: By learning how terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. Ten years after that fateful morn- to balance direct patient care ing in the Pentagon, Horoho (NURS with administrative experi- ’92G) was again honored as a pio- neer, becoming the first nurse and ence, they will have added first woman in the 236-year history of Army Medicine and of the U.S. insights about the impact poli- Department of Defense to serve as a surgeon general. cies have on care. “I would submit that I am just the next person who is passing through “You need to be able to the crack that has been opened by be open to new experiences pioneers and leaders who came before me, regardless of gender, cul- and make sure that life is a ture, race, or creed,” she says. “And I will take that role (Army Surgeon continual lifelong learning General) seriously. It’s a tremendous honor to be able to serve in that posi- process.” tion.” —Patricia D. Horoho On Horoho’s most recent deploy- ment to Afghanistan, officers and enlisted men and women approached her to say that her nomination to the tion, along with Serving and the Gifts surgeon general’s post inspired them offered by the profession. “The reason and gave them hope that their daugh- those words are so powerful is because ters could one day serve in such a we have strategic implications at the role. point of health care delivery,” she says. Considering that nurses could “We not only impact the health of that not command when Horoho first patient and his or her family members, joined the service in 1983, her rise to we also have the ability to impact the the highest rank in the medical corps strategic aspect of health care.” becomes virtually meteoric. Working in a dynamic environ- Horoho credits, among her many ment means nurses must have the cour- mentors, her grandfather, an Italian age to change. “If you don’t change, you immigrant named Eddie Tarone, with become irrelevant,” she says. “And for instilling the values that she consid- nurses, I think it takes a tremendous ers the bedrock of what it means to Patricia D. Horoho amount of courage to connect emotion- be an American: faith, family, hon- ally and spiritually with patients.” esty, and being a team player. A coal miner with a sixth-grade education, ardent supporters. Texas—Horoho also intends to travel to Looking Ahead Tarone never bought anything on Today, her parents live with Horoho, parts of the world where Army Medical During the next four years of her credit. He later opened a small bar her husband, Ray, and their three children. Department members are assigned. “I want tenure as Army Surgeon General, and owned apartments, making his She credits their support for allowing her to be able to hear and see how the provision Horoho plans to focus on collabora- way in his new homeland and teach- to spend 28 years on active duty while of care is implemented in all environments tive partnerships and the collective ing his descendants the value of a serving as a mother, wife, daughter, officer, where care is rendered,” she says. health of military service members, kind word. warrior, and nurse. That desire to see firsthand what is their families, and all those entrusted to “I never heard my mom or him As the senior officer of the U.S. Army happening on the ground has followed their care. She believes that the Army say a bad word about anybody,” Medical Department, the surgeon general Horoho throughout her military career. Medical Department can work not only recalls Horoho, whose mother, Jo provides advice and assistance to the sec- Though she initially joined with the inten- with colleagues within the Depart- Dallas, has been one of her most retary of the Army and chief of staff of the tion of staying three years and “seeing the ment of Defense, but also with civilian Army on health care matters. In her new world,” as she puts it, she quickly learned counterparts in an effort to improve role, Horoho serves as medical commander that the Army offered a breadth of experi- On Horoho’s most recent for an organization that provides health ences and opportunities that could not be Continued on page 4 care to 3.9 million beneficiaries—including duplicated in civilian life. deployment to Afghanistan, both active and retired personnel and their She has traveled to Haiti, Egypt, dependents—and oversees 616 fixed medi- Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Australia, Swit- officers and enlisted men and cal facilities as well as 345 field units. The zerland, and virtually all of Europe. Every- She has traveled to Haiti, Egypt, budget alone, which she also manages, is where she goes, she helps to ensure that the Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Aus- women approached her to say $13 billion. best possible care is available for American that her nomination to the sur- “It’s a very comprehensive system,” service members. Moreover, she has served tralia, Switzerland, and virtually says Horoho, who served as deputy sur- in a diplomatic role by helping to partner geon general’s post inspired geon general prior to her 2011 confirma- with other countries to improve care. all of Europe. Everywhere she tion. “Army service allows you to meet them and gave them hope international health care leaders and be goes, she helps to ensure that the Hands-on Leadership able to look at where there’s a global issue that their daughters could one Although she has three offices in the that might spark collaboration,” she says. best possible care is available for United States—in the Pentagon; else- As a nurse leader, Horoho often speaks American service members. day serve in such a role. where in the Washington, D.C., area; and about her “C4SG” philosophy: Connec- at the medical command in San Antonio, tion, Character, Competency, and Convic- 4 • Pitt Chronicle • March 19, 2012 Women’sHistoryMonth

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“None of this would Universities Prepare Leaders in Nation’s Academia, Industry, and Military have been possible if ate education. It is this nation’s universities partners with the U.S. government to [my mother and grand- that help keep us a world leader and help help our men and women in uniform. create tomorrow’s leaders in academia, I particularly want to mention the father] had not been private industry, or—should you value partnerships that Army Medicine and service to country as highly as I do—in our our Institute of Surgical Research have instrumental in guiding country’s military. with our nation’s research universi- It has been my great opportunity to ties—the McGowan Institute for Regen- me to pursue a profes- be of service to an outstanding organiza- erative Medicine of this university in sion in nursing.” tion—Army Medicine—that also claims a particular—that help rebuild the lives magnificent tradition and more than 236 of our soldiers and improve our capa- years of service to country in support of bilities to do facial reconstruction, burn American service members’ those who wear the cloth of our nation. Since treatment, healing without scarring, health and well-being and part- 1775, America’s medics have stood shoulder limb salvage, and limb reconstruction. ner to improve the health of the to shoulder with our fighting troops—ready These commercial and academic nation. when called to put their lives on the line to partnerships—together with military Horoho also urges young care for our wounded soldiers. and government organizations—are nurses to develop a strong clini- One such outstanding soldier is one of essential to the long-term success cal background that will better 2010’s Distinguished Alumni from the Uni- of efforts such as the Department inform them as they eventually versity of Pittsburgh—Jeremy Feldbusch. of Defense’s regenerative medicine move on to leadership roles: By Sgt. (Ret.) Feldbusch (A&S ’01) is an Army research. Without these partnerships, learning how to balance direct Ranger, Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipi- we cannot effectively solve the problems patient care with administra- ent, and the first national spokesperson for that our wounded warriors face and help tive experience, they will have Horoho speaking at the 2012 Pitt Honors the Wounded Warrior Project. I thank Sgt. rebuild their lives. added insights about the impact Convocation ceremony Feldbusch for his service to country and his There is one other partnership I’d policies have on care. fellow soldiers. I have never been prouder like to mention. Currently, there are “You need to be able to be as a military officer than to say that I can more than 500 veterans attending the open to new experiences and (This is the printed version of remarks stand alongside the world’s finest medics and campuses of the University of Pitts- make sure that life is a contin- delivered by Patricia D. Horoho (NURS ’92G) soldiers—soldiers such as Sgt. Feldbusch. burgh, and each year, between 10 and ual lifelong learning process,” during the Feb. 24, 2012, University of Pittsburgh The Army, however, could not prepare 30 active duty members of the military she says. Honors Convocation in Carnegie Music Hall, soldiers such as Mr. Feldbusch without the graduate from Pitt. Nearly 150 addi- And while Horoho cites Oakland. Horoho, who was honored as a 2012 education, research, training, and partner- tional students are cadets with ROTC. many role models—as varied Distinguished Alumni Fellow, is a U.S. Army ships provided by institutions such as this No partnership is more critical to the as President Ronald Reagan; lieutenant general and the U.S. Army surgeon one. It was my training at the University success of our military and country Anna Mae Hays, the first general and commanding general.) of Pittsburgh as a clinical trauma nurse than one that ensures that our veterans woman to earn the rank of brig- specialist that helped to propel me along in receive the finest education we can adier general; and Elizabeth L. Chancellor Nordenberg, Provost Beeson, my career. Without colleges and universities provide for them. (Noroian) Graham (NURS ’68, [Pitt Alumni Association President] Dr. [Jack] providing the education that they do, our Finally, let me repeat how deeply ’70G, EDUC ’80G), her trauma Smith, distinguished alumni and f aculty, honored nation would not be the greatest country in honored I am to be here. By recognizing instructor at the University of students, my fellow honorees David Tepper and the world. my distinguished fellow alumni and me Pittsburgh School of Nursing— John Petersen, and, especially, family members It is the partnerships that academia with this award, you are helping to build she says none is as influential who are here to support the University family, it forms with private industry and government bridges of success that benefit students, as her mother and grandfather. is my privilege and pleasure to be here today and that allow us to develop ideas and products industry, and government equally. “None of this would have be honored as one of your distinguished alumni. for success. This university partners with Thank you, Mr. Nordenberg, for been possible if the two of them This year the University of Pittsburgh cel- students and families, it partners with indus- this prestigious recognition—and to all had not been instrumental in ebrates “225 Years of Building Better Lives” and try to research and develop better products of the student honorees here today— guiding me to pursue a profes- providing outstanding undergraduate and gradu- that improve our lives, and this university congratulations! sion in nursing,” she says.

Launch of Teenie Harris, Photographer PHOTOS BY MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE The University of Pittsburgh Press and Pitt’s Office of Public Affairs celebrated the launch of the new book Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) at a special Black History Month program on Feb. 28 at the Twentieth Century Club. The book, which was coauthored by Pitt history professor Laurence Glasco, reveals the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh from the end of the Great Depression through the civil rights movement. As a photographer for The Pittsburgh Courier, Harris captured on film historic events and celebrities coming through town, as well as everyday scenes at Hill District locations. Pictured, from left, Robert Hill, Pitt vice chancellor for public affairs; Joe Trotter, book coauthor and Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice at Carnegie Mellon University; Glasco; and Cynthia Miller, University of Pittsburgh Press director. March 19, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 5 Scholars&Stewards

Bayer Group Is Generous Funder of STEM Education Initiatives at Pitt By Lynn Shea The Bayer Group is gener- Fellow Hyo Jeong Kim was ously supporting the University of required to teach—like all first- Pittsburgh’s programs in science, year graduate students—during technology, engineering, and math her first term, in the fall of 2011. (STEM) education. As the recipient of a Bayer Among the many contributions Graduate Fellowship, Kim will that Bayer—a global health care, not be required to teach in the nutrition, and high-tech materials spring term, so she can devote company—has made to Pitt’s STEM more time to research. She plans programs is a recent $276,520 grant to work with Haitao Liu, an assis- from the Bayer USA Foundation tant professor whose research to fund the Bayer Graduate Fel- group focuses on the physical lowship, which directly supports and synthetic chemistries of graduate students in the Kenneth nanomaterials. P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sci- Haider said that corporate ences’ Department of Chemistry. research and development opera- The fellowships are part of a larger tions rely more heavily now upon commitment that Bayer has made to their collaborations with top provide 50 internships for students University research programs from various universities in STEM- than before. related fields in 2012. “You need both,” Haider Bayer, which defines its mis- said, because the new concepts sion as “Science for a Better Life,” often stem from university labs, sponsors a number of programs but corporate scientists must nationwide to improve science translate the idea or technology education. Its Making Science Make into a commercial application. Sense program—created 15 years Bayer also values the net- ago to advance science literacy working opportunities provided through hands-on, inquiry-based by its association with its uni-

learning, employee volunteerism, MARY BETH CONROY versity partners. “We need to and public education—includes support STEM programs in several partnerships with schools From left, Haitao Liu, an assistant professor in Pitt’s Department of Chemistry, and Hyo Jeong Kim, a Bayer Graduate Fellow. order to help develop the future in Southwestern Pennsylvania. In workforce,” said Haider. 2010, Bayer became one of 100 com- While all 200 doctoral candidates in highly qualified applicants to the program,” Bayer offers internship opportuni- panies that signed on to Change the Pitt’s graduate program in chemistry receive said Jay Auses, assistant chair in Pitt’s ties to fellows. In addition, the company Equation, an effort championed by the stipends as teaching or research assistants, Department of Chemistry. “It also allows funds endowed professorships in Pitt’s Obama Administration to help improve being selected a Bayer Graduate Fellow us to provide the recipients with a secure chemistry department and the Swan- STEM education. benefits both the student and the department. funding source, and that helps faculty son School’s Department of Chemical Karl Haider, a research fellow with Bayer fellows receive financial support for researchers who otherwise must pay for and Petroleum Engineering. Bayer has the New Technologies group at Bayer, as many as six semesters, enabling them to graduate research assistants from their own sponsored the Bayer Lecture Series in says, “We are fortunate to be headquar- concentrate on their research studies. Also, funding,” he added. the chemical and petroleum engineering tered in Pittsburgh, where there are funds targeted by their research advisor to During the fall and spring terms, Pitt’s departments as well as the chemistry so many great university programs in support these Bayer Fellowship recipients chemistry department teaches more than department at Pitt. The chemistry depart- polymer and materials science—includ- can be redirected to other aspects of their 4,000 undergraduates in the Dietrich School, ment’s lecture series has hosted promi- ing Pitt’s chemistry and engineering programs. the School of Nursing, and the Swanson nent chemists, including seven winners departments.” “The Bayer Fellowship helps us recruit School of Engineering. Bayer Graduate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Clue Uncovered for Origins of Type of Supernovae Explosion

Continued from page 1 small and faint, there is no hope of seeing distant galaxies that resemble the Milky Way.” them in distant galaxies. Therefore, Bad- The result was that, on average, one double enes and Maoz turned to the only place white dwarf merger event occurs in the Milky where they could be seen: the part of the Way about once a century. Milky Way Galaxy within about a thousand “That number is remarkably close to the light years of the sun. To find the star’s rate of Type Ia supernovae we observe in gal- companion, the team needed two spectra axies like our own,” says Badenes. “This sug- to measure the velocity between the two. gests that the merger of a double white dwarf However, SDSS only took one spectrum of system is a plausible explanation for Type Ia most objects. The team decided to make use supernovae.” of a little-known feature in the SDSS spec- In addition to providing a key clue about tra to separate each one into three or more the nature of these important events, the team’s subspectra. Although the reprocessing of the discovery shows the potential of giant astro- data was challenging, said Badenes, the team nomical surveys like the SDSS. was able to compile a list of more than 4,000 “Twenty years ago we decided to take three white dwarfs within a year, each of which subspectra for each spectrum. We did that for had two or more high-quality subspectra. entirely practical reasons,” says Robert Lupton, “We found 15 double white dwarfs senior research astronomer in Princeton Uni- in the local neighborhood and then used versity’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences computer simulations to calculate the rate at and a colleague of Badenes. “We had no idea which double white dwarfs would merge,” that it would someday give us an important says Badenes. “We then compared the clue to the mystery of the Type Ia supernovae.” number of merging white dwarfs here to For more information on the SDSS, visit the number of Type Ia supernovae seen in http://www.sdss.org/. 6 • Pitt Chronicle • March 19, 2012 Pitt Researchers Develop New Science of National Preparedness

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after the 9/11 tragedy included the following. Regional Biocontainment Laboratory. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded Pitt a $17.5 million grant in 2003 to establish this laboratory—one of nine in the country. The lab is housed in the University’s state-of-the-art Biomedical Science Tower 3. Preparedness today: an evolving discipline Today’s Center for National Prepared- ness continues to pave new paths in helping to drive the nation’s preparedness agenda. “It has morphed in a lot of ways,” Klinz- ing says of the center. “I think that, after a broader focus earlier in its evolution, we’ve found some solid niches on which to build. I’m happy with them; we have the right talent.” Sochats, who has spent more than 30 years working in both academia and the telecommunications industry, says the center has matured in its focus since “the early days, when everybody was scurrying around exploring a number of competing theoretical approaches to managing disasters.” He adds: “It’s still a new field, but now

MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE we’re actually developing tools and produc- Carey Balaban (left) and Kenneth Sochats brought a unique mix of academic disciplines to the 2004 creation of the University of Pittsburgh Center for National Preparedness, which they ing educational programs.” And the center’s doing so in partnership codirect. Balaban is a professor in the Pitt School of Medicine’s Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurobiology; Sochats is a professor in Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering. The work with, among others, the Potomac Institute, they and other researchers do for the Center for National Preparedness has helped to create a new academic field at Pitt—the science of national preparedness. “We have taken an evidence- Harris Corp., Lockheed, the military, federal based, systems-of-systems analytic approach to issues of national preparedness. We are bringing the full rigor of the academic endeavors to practical problems that improve outcomes for agencies such as NORAD, FEMA, NIST and the good of society,” Balaban says. NORCOM, and numerous other universities, state agencies, and regional preparedness analysis, and public health monitoring. time, according to George Klinzing, vice outbreaks, with the idea that such spikes consortia. But that’s only the beginning. provost for research at Pitt: “You already could serve as a first warning of a possible “With the new funding picture nation- By taking the issue of national pre- have one. The Scharpenburg Report [as the bioterrorism event. The RODS research team ally,” Sochats says, “we need to partner very paredness to a new level, these collaborative consulting firm’s report came to be known] also had worked on the development of a closely with the commercial sector, where experts have created a whole new academic confirmed that we have great strength in National Retail Data Monitor, which would they actually make things.” discipline at Pitt. the areas of health and information science. collect and analyze data on the sale of over- What follows are descriptions of some “National preparedness is about having The knowledge is here. Now we’re pulling the-counter drugs—also designed to detect of the center’s research endeavors, which leaders who expect or anticipate things it together.” disease outbreaks. build largely on the same academic strengths that previously were unimaginable,” says And they did. But as Klinzing noted At the same time, a Pitt research team that had been identified in 2002. Carey Balaban, a professor in the School of at the time of the launch of the Center for was developing a decision-making process Medicine’s Departments National Preparedness, for first responders that included recogni- An unlikely partnership of Otolaryngology and “This is not just about tion, protection, decontamination, triage, in disaster management Neurobiology and a seem- homeland security. We’re and treatment. That same team embarked One could fairly describe Balaban and ingly unlikely codirector “National preparedness finding that the differ- on developing what it called the Pittsburgh Sochats as the most unlikely of research of the Center for National ent aspects of national Matrix, which measured survivorship and partnerships. Balaban is a prolific and Preparedness. “These lead- is about having leaders preparedness add up to a cost over a timeline beginning with the frenetic thinker and idea man with a back- ers know the possibilities, who expect or anticipate much larger picture.” detection of a biocontaminant as well as ground in medical science and a passion try to mitigate them before- the scale of medical resources required to for neuroscience. Sochats is an electrical hand, respond quickly things that previously Disease outbreak respond. engineer with a penchant for visual infor- when they occur, and build surveillance and the At the same time, Margaret Potter, a Pitt mation systems, electronic record keeping, to prevent them from recur- were unimaginable. national agenda professor of health policy and management and practical, buildable solutions. The pair ring. It’s a cycle.” As the consultant and director of Pitt’s Center for Public Health originally was brought together by Klinzing And now it’s a science, These leaders know the pointed out, Pitt found Practice, was advocating with the Penn- as part of a brainstorming team to explore too, according to Balaban strength—and much sylvania legislature for a statewide public the establishment of the center. and Kenneth Sochats, an possibilities, try to miti- favorable national media health communications network that would As Klinzing is quick to acknowledge, information systems engi- gate them beforehand, attention—largely in improve the response to local emergencies. “They’re just two of the most creative people neer who also is a founding its collaborative mix Potter also served as principal investigator I know. They really work great together.” codirector of the center. respond quickly when of public health and with the Graduate School of Public Health’s Once together, though, this emerging “We’re making a sci- information sciences Center for Public Health Preparedness, one team not only agreed to lead the new center, ence of national prepared- they occur, and build research. In early 2002, of 22 such centers nationwide that were but they also began to explore—over lots ness,” Balaban declares. for instance, Pitt became funded by the Centers for Disease Control of Starbucks coffee—the need for new “We have taken an evi- to prevent them from a poster child for the and Prevention. decision-making tools in managing disas- dence-based, systems-of- national agenda on pre- Today, that center (www.prepare.pitt. ters that account for the many “actors” systems analytic approach recurring. It’s a cycle.” paredness and security edu) continues to thrive, educating and train- responding to or affected by a disaster and to issues of national pre- — Carey Balaban when then-President ing public health workers and school person- the fast-changing dynamics of the disaster paredness. We are bring- George W. Bush and his nel in preparedness issues such as emerging scenario. Eventually, their collaboration ing the full rigor of the Department of Home- infectious diseases, disasters, preparedness led to the development of what they call academic endeavors to land Security director, law and policy, and crisis leadership. The their Dynamic Discrete Disaster Decision practical problems that improve outcomes former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, center also oversees a graduate certificate Simulation System, or D4S2. for the good of society.” visited Pitt. Their focus, which at the time program in public health preparedness and The patent-pending system, which became an integral talking point within the disaster response. continues to evolve, integrates a geographic A brief history president’s national agenda: a Pitt research On the ethics front, the Matthew B. information system, discrete event simula- While Pitt researchers had been study- initiative called RODS, or Real-time Out- Ridgway Center for International Security tion, a custom-built decision-modeling ing national preparedness issues substan- break and Disease Surveillance. Studies within Pitt’s Graduate School of system, and a control interface that resem- tively prior to Sept. 11, 2001, the fall of RODS is an information system that Public and International Affairs began to bles an emergency operations center. It the World Trade Center towers quickly was designed by Michael M. Wagner of the study the ethical dilemma presented by allows users to overlay all actors in a given prompted the University’s Office of the Pro- School of Medicine’s Department of Bio- effectively gathering security intelligence disaster and informs each group continu- vost to evaluate its own potential for creating medical Informatics to immediately identify on potential terror threats while still respect- ously as situations change and decisions are a national preparedness-focused research sudden jumps regionally in emergency room ing the constitutional privacy rights of U.S. made. program, which included an inventory of visits related to specific complaints. The citizens. “It’s all about situational awareness,” any current, related research. system, which captures and monitors such Another initiative that brought Pitt to A consulting firm’s conclusion at the activities, was designed to detect disease the forefront of national preparedness shortly Continued on page 7 March 19, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 7

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“To make decisions, policy makers have to be aware of what people are writing and saying. What are all of the opinions being expressed, and how do they travel over time and forums? There are vast amounts of texts, and humans can’t possibly read it all, so we want to develop systems that can bring the relevant data to analysts’ attention.” —Janyce Wiebe

for those models. “To make decisions, policy makers have to be aware of what people are writing and saying,” Wiebe says. “What are all of the opinions being expressed, and how do they travel over time and forums? There are vast amounts of texts, and humans can’t possibly read it all, so we want to develop systems that can bring the relevant data to analysts’ attention.” And what are these systems looking for in those texts? “I’m looking for subjectiv- MIKE DRAZDZINSKI/CIDDE ity—the linguistic expression of somebody’s Louise Comfort (seated), a professor in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), travels the globe in her quest for understanding how governments and residents opinions, sentiments, emotions, evaluations, handle natural disasters. “I’m very interested in the decision making” that’s done at the time of disasters, says Comfort, an organizational design theorist and policy analyst. She has beliefs, speculations,” Wiebe says. “But developed a computer-based decision support tool that can be used by emergency managers in a rapidly changing, urgent environment. Above, Comfort talks with Pitt’s Center for Disaster you can’t just look for points like ‘good’ Management staffers Aya Okada, a GSPIA doctoral candidate who traveled with Comfort to Japan following the 2011 tsunami there, and Clayton Wukich, a postdoctoral fellow. and ‘bad.’” Multiple-robot search Balaban says, as he compares the system nobody put the pieces together. Nobody saw Is she obsessed with studying disaster and rescue simulation to the human body’s neural system. “It’s all the whole. That’s exactly what we’re trying response? Maybe a little bit. “I am think- Also building on Pitt’s strength in about prediction and dealing with complex to facilitate with computational decision ing about disasters all the time,” Comfort information sciences is Michael Lewis, a interactive networks and how they operate support for human managers.” deadpans. “But given my teaching schedule, professor of intelligent systems programs in together. I think it’s actually a very powerful Comfort, who also spent time recently I can probably manage [researching] one the University’s School of Information Sci- platform for other applications … We expect in Japan studying the response to the March disaster a year.” ences. He started working on human-robot this to become a premier tool in emergency 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent interaction research in the area of search and response.” nuclear disaster there, has turned her analy- Making opinions matter rescue beginning in 2002, supported by a Balaban and Sochats are working with sis into what she calls an Interactive Intel- While some researchers work on ways National Science Foundation Information the University’s Office of Technology Man- ligent Spacial Information System (IISIS). to prevent or manage disasters and possible Technology Research grant. agement to commercialize their innovation. She describes her innovation as a computer- security threats, one Pitt professor and her Lewis, in collaboration with Carnegie based decision support tool research team are trying to Mellon University researchers, began to Avoiding the that tracks and monitors harness the potential intelli- develop robots, design interfaces, and equip- “cascade of failure” the interactions between “I believe that the gence that could be extracted ment, all aimed at search and rescue with When Louise Comfort, a professor in critical conditions, actors, and interpreted from vast multiple robots in extreme environments. GSPIA since 1984, looks at a disaster, she and agencies in real time, decisions made in amounts of printed text. Ultimately, the researchers developed an sees multiple actors and situations and a providing decision support Janyce Wiebe, a profes- urban search-and-rescue simulation that sequence of decision points that can, in for emergency managers in the initial response sor in the Dietrich School’s eventually was used in a national Virtual cases like the Hurricane Katrina disaster, a rapidly changing, urgent Department of Computer Sci- Robots RoboCupRescue Competition. lead to a “cascade of failure.” environment. to a disaster will ence and codirector of a multi- The simulator also has been used by many “I’m very interested in the decision “I study ways that com- university Intelligent Systems researchers across the country to support and making,” says Comfort, an organizational puters can extend human set the trajectory Program initiative, is collabo- test their own robotic development efforts in design theorist and policy analyst. “I capacity for decision making of the rest of the rating with Rebecca Hwa, a search and rescue. believe that the decisions made in the initial in urgent situations, when professor of computer sci- Among the challenges that Lewis and response to a disaster will set the trajectory human decision-making situation and deter- ence at Pitt. They, along with his collaborators tackled with the simulation of the rest of the situation and determine cognitive capacity drops researchers from several other platform: organization and command and whether it will escalate or not.” under stress,” Comfort mine whether it will universities, are working to control using multiple platforms, Lewis says. Take Hurricane Katrina, for example, says of her innovation develop what Wiebe describes “When you have four or five robots in which Comfort has studied extensively over and research. “The one escalate or not.” as machine learning-based one area, you get lots and lots of redundancy, the years. “It’s incredible that all four levels constraint is that human statistical models that can rap- and it gets very confusing,” Lewis says. of government failed” in handling many minds are much faster than —Louise Comfort idly process large volumes of “They may be good for search and rescue aspects of the disaster response. “One of the machines, but human beings unstructured text in search of of static targets, but it’s more difficult with critical issues was a lack of understanding of also make more mistakes.” opinions, general sentiments, dynamic targets.” the scientific information available and how Comfort says she continues to update motivations, and tensions. More recently, Lewis and researchers this affected their decisions. There was no her computer system, recently adding The computational models are being from Carnegie Mellon, Lockheed Martin, capacity to imagine what would happen to modules for an engineering dashboard for designed to automatically merge facts and and the Eglin and Wright Patterson Air the aging infrastructure of the city under the hospitals and collaborative decision support entity relationships across sets of docu- Force bases, have been developing prototype impact of the interconnected dynamics of for airport fire-rescue teams. Meanwhile, ments and populate large databases with interfaces and intelligent-agent coordination a storm surge from a Category 3 hurricane she also is studying the concept of regional information from many text sources as they algorithms for interacting with small teams flowing through the Mississippi River Gulf risk assessment and is working on helping relate to such events as terrorist incidents or of Wide Area Search Munitions, or WASMs. Outlet into the low-lying districts of New others “to look at the whole set of hazards disease outbreaks. The design challenges, WASMs are a cross between unmanned Orleans.” that could happen in a region” and helping Wiebe says, are complicated, particularly aerial vehicles and munitions. One of the Her biggest complaint: “The informa- them develop “complexity profiles,” among when considering the researchers’ goal of tion was there, but it was very complex, and other tools, she says. developing retrainable, robust components Continued on page 8 8 • Pitt Chronicle • March 19, 2012

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major challenges, Lewis says, is trying to control multiple independent WASMs in close proximity to one another as they search for targets to destroy. Among the solutions: more elaborate communications systems capable of managing large WASM teams. “We have to find ways to command them cooperatively,” Lewis says of WASMs.

The academics of nonstate violence One doesn’t need to look much beyond the so-called Arab Spring uprisings through- out North Africa and the Middle East, or the chaos of Somalia, or the insurgent Taliban, or Mexico’s drug culture to real- ize that national preparedness and security in the future will depend largely on a new and better understanding of the world’s fast-emerging threats. That is what GSPIA Professor Phil Williams calls such violent nonstate actors as terrorists, criminals, insurgents, pirates, militias, warlords, and drug traffickers, among other armed groups. Williams, the Wesley W. Posvar Chair in International Security Studies and director of GSPIA’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, has redirected the center’s research focus to target this threat category—and develop an academic program around it, in collabora- tion with the likes of the Carlysle, Pa.-based U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. He has found plenty to observe. MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE “If you look around the world, there has Phil Williams contends that violent nonstate actors—terrorists, insurgents, pirates, warlords, and drug traffickers, among other armed groups—are one of the world’s fastest-emerging been a phenomenal rise of violent, nonstate threats. Williams is the Wesley W. Posvar Chair in International Security Studies and director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, both within Pitt’s Graduate actors,” says Williams, who singles out School of Public and International Affairs. In defining the future academic challenges of the Ridgway Center, Williams told an audience during his inaugural lecture that “The rise of violent, Mexico and the Middle East to make his nonstate actors is one of many developments that have made the security agenda in the 21st century both more crowded and more complex.” point. “Around the world, something is going on with states, where we have more weak states, unstable states, and even failed states. subject,” he adds. whether these threats represent disparate ented, and visual. And because of globalization, the instability Among Williams’ own academic inter- threats that seem to be converging to create “We’re trying to develop scholars in is spilling over to developed countries. So we ests, which focus largely on the “pernicious” fewer but bigger threats—or threats that this area,” Balaban says of the certificate have a much less stable world where things interconnectedness of these armed groups, are diverging, creating more threats about program. “We now have the vision of what are much less predictable.” are the following: the relationship between which to worry. a Pitt graduate in this area should look like: Williams says the Ridgway Center has terrorists, criminals, and drug-trafficking Williams also notes that, in cyberspace, one who adopts an analytic, often innovative been developing an academic effort “to get a organizations; the question of whether drug the tools developed by criminals for cyber- approach, to managing issues of national handle on the new threat.” The new endeavor organizations in Central and South America crime also are being employed by states as preparedness.” also has led to the addition of several new are willing to help fund terrorists; links part of their own cyberwar strategies—yet As the courses largely reflect what the security studies faculty members in GSPIA, between those drug-trafficking organiza- another focus of Williams’ national security- collective research at Pitt has shown over which has increased the Ridgway Center’s tions and terrorist groups in West Africa; related research. time, Balaban and Sochats do acknowledge depth. “We’re building a niche within that and, more academically, the question of As Williams, in defining the future that their own views and approaches to pre- academic challenges of the Ridgway paredness have evolved, extending to their Center, told an audience during his academic pursuits. Initially, for instance, the inaugural lecture, “The rise of violent, two subscribed to an “all-hazards” approach nonstate actors is one of many devel- to disaster prevention, response, manage- opments that have made the security ment, and mitigation. That is, they focused agenda in the 21st century both more more on the various actors responding to a crowded and more complex.” disaster and the commonality of response His contention, which drives his elements that can be identified across a research and teaching, is, “The issue variety of disaster scenarios. Recently, and is not simply that governance is inad- based on extensive research, the team has equate to meet security challenges; adopted an “all-needs” philosophy, which rather, it is that poor governance itself means focusing more on the immediate and is a major source of insecurity and longer-term needs of the population that is disorder.” affected by the disaster. A problem with the all-hazards approach The emergence of is that “the effectiveness of response cannot an academic discipline be measured exclusively in terms of logisti- Recognizing a need to turn all cal indicators, but rather by the recovery of this collective research into a and resiliency of the region,” according to big-picture academic discipline with a paper by Balaban, Sochats, and Potomac substance, Balaban and Sochats have Institute researchers Donald Donahue and spearheaded a Center for National Stephen Cunnion that was published in Preparedness-based initiative to February 2012 in Homeland Security Affairs. develop an entire University curricu- The article also states, “By basing plan- lum around national preparedness. As ning on the needs of the impacted popula- such, the team, in partnership with tion—the ‘all needs’ approach—planners Pitt’s College of General Studies, can better prioritize the full range of require- launched in Fall 2010 an 18-credit ments and fully integrate both the govern- Certificate in National Preparedness ment and nongovernment contributions.”

MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE and Homeland Security program. The Center for National Preparedness’ The program focuses on the new certificate program builds on that phi- Michael Lewis, a professor in Pitt’s School of Information Sciences and Intelligent Systems Program, researches human-robot analytical and managerial aspects losophy, Balaban and Sochats note. interaction in the context of search-and-rescue efforts. Lewis, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University researchers, develops of preparedness at the international, Says Balaban: “We’ve learned it well robots and designs interfaces and equipment, all aimed at search and rescue with multiple robots in extreme environments. The national, state, and local levels. It enough that we actually can distill it and trick, he says, is coordinating the robots: “When you have four or five robots in one area, you get lots and lots of redundancy, and describes itself as evidence-based, teach it, and we’re focusing on developing it gets very confusing.” analytical, systems-of-systems-ori- the leaders of tomorrow.” March 19, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 9 Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh Forum, Swanson School to Host March 27-28 Symposium on Future of Nuclear Power

Continued from page 1 of the energy industry. Also relevant, said McCord, is the unique position Pennsylvania holds as a result of the March 28, 1979, Three Mile Island accident, which serves as a case study of nuclear crisis management under the Thornburgh administration. Last March, the Three Mile Island accident again was thrust to the forefront of media attention with the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, and this month marks both the first anniversary of Japan’s accident and the 33rd anniversary of Three Mile Island, an align- ment that positions the symposium to make an important contribution towards public awareness of this critical policy issue. The symposium comprises four panel sessions featuring national and international experts in nuclear, fossil fuel, and passive energy; federal, state, and local govern- ment leaders; and academic and scientific researchers. The titles, times, dates, and speakers for each session follow.

Nuclear Power and Energy Alternatives, 2:15-4:45 p.m. March 27 Patrick Moore, cochair of the CASEn- ergy Coalition; Matthew Wald, environment and energy reporter at The New York Times; Peter B. Lyons, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in the U.S. Department of Energy; Anthony Cugini, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory; of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy; and Matthias Kurth, president of the Federal William Magwood IV, commissioner of Network Agency, Germany; and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jim Ferland, president of Westinghouse, Kathy Kiely, national political journalist Americas, and, effective April 1, president at USA Today and managing editor at the and CEO of Westing- Sunlight Foundation who house Electric Company. covered the Three Mile David Shribman, Island story in 1979 for executive editor of the The University’s Swanson The Pittsburgh Press, will der, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, will also The forum engages in a variety of activities Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, School of Engineering is moderate. be shown during the luncheon. across the University that are designed to will moderate. There is a $300 fee to attend. For more enhance the accountability and integrity one of the oldest engi- Legal and Financial information about the symposium or to reg- of governmental institutions at the local, America’s Nuclear Aspects of Nuclear ister, visit www.thornburghforum.pitt.edu. state, and national levels. Internationally, Future, 7-9:30 p.m. neering programs in the Power, 2-5:30 p.m. In addition, the sessions provide up to it seeks to advance those values as well as March 27 March 28 11.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education the commitment to the rule of law for all Vicky A. Bailey, United States. The Swan- Barton Cowan, of (CLE) credits and are presented in con- levels of government. president of Anderson counsel to the Pittsburgh- junction with the University of Pittsburgh The University’s Swanson School of Stratton International, son School has excelled based law firm of Eckert School of Law. Both of Engineering is one of LLC, and a member in basic and applied Seamans Cherin & Mel- the March 27 sessions the oldest engineering of the President’s Blue lott, LLC, and a visiting have been approved by Established in 2007, programs in the United Ribbon Commission on research during the past professor of law at the the Pennsylvania CLE States. The Swanson the Future of Nuclear West Virginia University Board for four-and-one- the mission of the Dick School has excelled in Power; decade and is on the College of Law; half hours of substantive basic and applied research David Lochbaum, Mark Cooper, senior credit, for $45; the March Thornburgh Forum for during the past decade director of the Nuclear forefront of 21st-century research fellow for eco- 28 session has been Law and Public Policy is and is on the forefront of Safety Project for the technology, including nomic analysis at the Insti- approved for seven hours 21st- century technology, Union of Concerned Sci- tute for Energy and the of substantive credit, for to foster public educa- including sustainability, entists; sustainability, energy Environment, Vermont $70. Participants seek- energy systems, bioen- Ann Bisconti, Law School; ing credit may pay at the tion and civic action on gineering, microsytems president of Bisconti systems, bioengineering, Peter P. Sena III, pres- door with a check made and nanosystems, com- Research, Inc.; and ident and CEO for FirstEn- payable to the University important public policy putational modeling, and Jacques Besnainou, microsytems and nano- ergy Nuclear Operating of Pittsburgh School of advanced materials devel- CEO of AREVA Inc., Company; Law. Separate checks are issues, building on opment. Approximately North America. systems, computational Steve Kuczynski, required for each date. For Thornburgh’s legacy by 120 faculty members Douglas Heuck, modeling, and advanced chair, president, and CEO more information, contact serve more than 3,200 publisher and editor of of Southern Nuclear Oper- Lila Steffy at 412-648- creating a framework undergraduate and gradu- Pittsburgh Quarterly, materials development. ating Company; and 1305 or [email protected]. ate students and Ph.D. will moderate. Robert F. Powelson, Professional Devel- for advancing his vision candidates in six depart- chair of the Pennsylvania opment Hours (PDHs) ments, including bioen- Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Public Utility Commission. verification will be pro- of creating effective and gineering, chemical and Fukushima Daiichi, 9 a.m.-noon Bill Flanagan, host of WPXI-TV’s vided, upon request, for petroleum engineering, March 28 Our Region’s Business and executive vice professional engineers principled governance. civil and environmental Harold Denton, former director of the president for Corporate Relations at the for two PDHs for each engineering, electrical Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Allegheny Conference On Community session attended (eight engineering, industrial Nuclear Reactor Regulation; Development, will moderate. PDHs maximum). engineering, and mechanical engineering Adolf Birkhofer, managing director Barton J. Gordon, partner at K&L Gates Established in 2007, the mission of the and materials science. For the two most- of the Institute for Safety and Reliability, in Washington, D.C., and former member Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public recently reported consecutive years, 2009 Germany; of the U.S. Congress from Tennessee, will Policy is to foster public education and civic and 2010, the Swanson School has had Isao Kato, deputy general manager of give a lunch presentation titled “The Politics action on important public policy issues, the second-highest percentage of doctoral the Nuclear Power Department, Tohoku of Nuclear Power: A View From the Con- building on Thornburgh’s legacy by creating degrees awarded to women in North Amer- EPCo, Japan; gress”—from noon to 2 p.m. March 28. A a framework for advancing his vision of cre- ica, according to the American Society for Daniel Roderick, senior vice president video presentation featuring Lamar Alexan- ating effective and principled governance. Engineering Education. 10 • Pitt Chronicle • March 19, 2012

Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Pitt Regional Biocontainment Laboratory Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, ongoing, and professor, Pitt School of Medicine’s 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622- Department of Immunology, and Daniel Happenings 3131, www.cmoa.org. J. Fisher, Pitt assistant vice chancellor for research operations within the Westmoreland Museum of Department of Facilities Management, American Art, The Art of Seating: 3 p.m. March 22, 532 Alumni Hall, Pitt 200 Years of American Design, Center for National Preparedness, www. includes The Jacobsen American cnp.pitt.edu. Chair Collection, a comprehensive private collection of iconic and “The Haqqani Network, Quetta historic chairs from the mid-1800s to Shura, Pakistan, and the End Game pieces from today’s studio movement, in Afghanistan,” Kenneth Alford, through April 8, 221 N. Main St., Christian Becker, Ira Guberman, Greensburg, 724-837-1500, www. Timothy Kish, and Neeti Rajput, wmuseumaa.org. Pitt Graduate School of Public and International Affairs students, The Warhol, About Face, a series 3 p.m. March 22, 3431 Posvar Hall, of three-dimensional large-format Pitt’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center portraits by photographer Anne for International Security Studies, Svenson; Warhol and Cars: American University Center for International Icons, examining Warhol’s enduring Studies, www.ridgway.pitt.edu. fascination with automobiles as products of American consumer “Cell-Extracellular Matrix society, both through May 13; Adhesion: Molecular Basis, I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Signaling, and Human Diseases,” Video, and Television, ongoing, 117 Chuanyue Wu, Lombardi and Shinozuka Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237- Experimental Pathology Research Chair, 8300, www.warhol.org. Pitt’s School of Medicine, 4 p.m. March 22, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, Hillman Library, an exhibition of Pitt Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series, first editions and significant works of www.provost.pitt.edu. famed novelist Charles Dickens, March 28-May 1, Room 363; Pitt— “How to Hit HIV Where It Hurts,” 225 Years of Building Better Lives— Arup K. Chakraborty, Robert T. Haslam 1787-2012, exhibition of vintage Professor of Chemical Engineering, photographs, maps, and copies of Chemistry, and Biological Engineering, front pages of Pitt’s two original state Massachusetts Institute of Technology, charters, on loan from Pennsylvania’s 5 p.m. March 22, 102 Benedum Hall, state archives, through May 18, Bayer Distinguished Lectureship 2012, ground floor; also on display in Swanson School of Engineering, glass Audubon case are actual front 412-624-9630, [email protected]. (See pages of Pitt’s original state charters, page 2.) University’s 225th anniversary commemoration, through May 18, Eula Biss, artist in residence, 412-953-3298, [email protected]. Northwestern University, 8:30 p.m. March 22, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Draw Me a Story: A Century of 2011-12 Season, Pitt Writing Program, Children’s Book Illustration, survey The Book Center, 412-624-6508, www. of drawing styles and techniques pghwriterseries.wordpress.com. Rare first editions of Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens, spanning more than 100 years, and a photograph of Dickens taken at the time he wrote David Copperfield. including watercolors, pen drawings, “Understanding Adaptive and experimental combinations from Immunology: A Crossroads of the Hillman Library, artists like Randolph Caldecott, Chris Physical, Life, and Engineering an exhibition of first editions and significant works by novelist Charles Dickens van Allsburg, Ernest Shepard, and Sciences,” Arup K. Chakraborty, March 28-May 1 Maurice Sendak, through May 20, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412- Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological 371-0600, www.thefrickpittsburgh. Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Concerts org. Technology, 9:30 a.m. March 23, 102 Benedum Hall, Bayer Distinguished Robert Ward and Eric Moe, Chang, violinist, performing works by Phil Smith & Steve Weber, Pitt Hunt Institute for Botanical Lectureship 2012, Swanson School of performances of works by Pulitzer Gould and Sibelius and Bernstein’s West professors of English and chemistry, Documentation, Native Engineering, 412-624-9630, che@eng. Prize-winning composer Ward and Pitt Side Story Suite, March 23 and 25, respectively, and lifelong supporters Pennsylvania, A Wildflower Walk, pitt.edu. professor Moe, 8 p.m. March 21, free, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, of acoustic blues and folk music, noon collaborative exhibition between Hunt Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Roger Zahab BNY Mellon Grand Classics, Pittsburgh March 30, free, Cup & Chaucer Café, Institute and Carnegie Museum of “New Research in Asian and conducting University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, ground floor, Hillman Library, Emerging Natural History, through American Music,” international Symphony Orchestra, 412-624-4125. www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT Legends Series, Calliope: The Pittsburgh June 29, 5th floor, Hunt Library, symposium honoring Pitt Professor of ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Folk Music Society, University of Carnegie Mellon University, 4909 Music Bell Yung for his 31 years Sean Jones Duets, poet Vanessa pittarts.pitt.edu. Pittsburgh Library System, www. Frew St., Oakland, 412-268-2434, of teaching at Pitt, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. German joins trumpeter Sean Jones in an calliopehouse.org/legends.htm. http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu. March 24, Music Building, Pitt evening of lyrics, rhymes, and rhythms, Music for Three Sovereigns, Department of Music and numerous 7 p.m. March 22, August Wilson performed by the 12-voice vocal A Cinderella Suite, Leonard Carnegie Museum of Natural other sponsors, www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/ Center for African American Culture, ensemble Blue Heron, 8 p.m. March 24, Slatkin conducting works by Stucky History, Warhol’s Cats and Dogs conference/music/index.html. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, August Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady and Prokofiev and, in Saint-Saëns’ Series, through June 30; M is for Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Ave., Shadyside, Renaissance & Baroque, “Egyptian” Piano Concerto, soloist Museum, through Aug. 30, 4400 412-456-6666, www.trustarts.org, PITT 412-361-2048, www.rbsp.org, PITT Stephen Hough, March 30-April 1, Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, [email protected]. pittarts.pitt.edu. pittarts.pitt.edu. BNY Mellon Grand Classics, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, Steve Gallo and Donna Occhipinti, IonSound Project, avant-pop music, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT Lectures/Seminars/ acoustic singer-songwriters, noon 7 p.m. March 25, Bellefield Hall ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, March 23, free, Cup & Chaucer Café, Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Readings ground floor, Hillman Library, Emerging 412-624-4125. Legends Series, Calliope: The Pittsburgh “Community Practice: From Folk Music Society, University of Genticorum, a fixture on the world, Exhibitions Local to Global Perspectives and Pittsburgh Library System, www. traditional, and Celtic music circuit, Back,” Marie Weil, Berg-Beach calliopehouse.org/legends.htm. 7:30 p.m. March 29, Pittsburgh Center Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt Studio Distinguished Professor, University of for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside, Arts Student Exhibition, featuring North Carolina at Chapel Hill School Sara Chang, West Side Story, Yan Roots Cellar, Calliope: The Pittsburgh creative works by graduating seniors of Social Work, noon March 20, Pitt Pascal Tortelier, conductor, and Sarah Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse. alongside pieces by Studio Arts majors School of Social Work Conference org/legends.html, PITT ARTS Cheap and nonmajors, April 4-28, www. Center, 20th floor, Cathedral of Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt. studioarts.pitt.edu. Learning, Pitt School of Social Work edu. Speaker Series, World Social Work Day, 412-624-6304.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Teenie “Bioengineering at the Harris, Photographer: An American University of Pittsburgh: Story, through April 7; Maya Lin, Past, Present and a Terrific imaginative recreations of natural Future,” Harvey S. Borovetz, forms transformed into objects of Pitt Distinguished Professor of contemplation, through May 13; Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering, 4 p.m. March 20, 2500 Posvar Hall, Pitt Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series, www.provost.pitt. edu.

“Islamic Resurgence in Post-Colonial Malaysia,” Ya-wen Yu, Pitt postdoctoral visiting scholar in political science, noon March 22, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Series, Pitt Asian Studies Center, 412-648-7370, asia@ pitt.edu. Eric Moe Phil Smith and Steve Weber, “Planning to Ensure Safety at Robert Ward and Eric Moe, Cup & Chaucer Café, Biological Research Facilities,” Bellefield Hall Auditorium, March 30 Kelly Stefano Cole, associate director, March 21 March 19, 2012 • University of Pittsburgh • 11

Miscellaneous TIES Informational Luncheon for Researchers and Research Assistants, talk on Text Information March 25 Extraction System (TIES), Rebecca Bellefield Hall Crowley, director, Department of Biomedical Informatics Graduate Training Program, Pitt School of Medicine, 11 a.m. March 19, Magee- Womens Hospital Conference Room CR2131, open to Pitt and UPMC faculty, staff, and students, registration required, http://ties.upmc.com/register/ index.html, 412-623-4753.

Pitt Five Campus College Fair for University Faculty and Staff and family members interested in educating a dependent at Pitt, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. March 22, Alumni Hall’s Connolly Ballroom, [email protected].

Harvest of Loneliness (2010, Gilbert Gonzalez, Vivian Price, Adrian Salinas), screening of the award-winning documentary about the Bracero Program, a guest workers program that brought Mexican workers The Press and Campaign 2012, to the U.S. between 1942 and 1964, O’Hara Student Center, Pitt Honors College, 4:30 p.m. March 22, McConomy March 22 Auditorium, University Student Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Tosca by Puccini, diva defies the most or Markedness Predict Development?” 5032 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill, 412- powerful and corrupt man in Rome, 10 a.m. March 28, 2809 Cathedral of 268-1895, www.harvestofloneliness. in life and in death, March 27, 30, Learning. com/englishversion/english.html. April 1, Benedum Center, 237 7th St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281- James Moore, Kenneth P. Dietrich The Press and Campaign 2012, 0912, www.pittsburghopera.org, PITT School of Arts and Sciences’ panel discussing how the press has ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. Department of Music, “A Comparative been covering Republican primary pittarts.pitt.edu. Study of the Modern Jazz Trumpet and the Obama campaign, featuring Styles of Clifford Brown, Donald Byrd, five political reporters and moderator The Electric Baby by Stephanie and Freddie Hubbard: An Examination Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Executive Zadravec, the titular character is fragile, of Improvisational Style, 1953-1964,” Editor David Shribman, 7:30 p.m. yet powerful, and his tale of urban 9 a.m. March 29, 114 Music Building. March 22, O’Hara Student Center, folklore connects his Romanian Pitt Honors College, limited seating, mother and Nigerian father with Michelle W. Moore, School of reserve seat by contacting www. colorful Americans in Pittsburgh, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’ IonSound Project, honorscollege.pitt.edu/press- March 29-April 22, The Waldorf Communication Science and Disorders Bellefield Hall, panel-2012. (See page 2.) School, 201 S. Winebiddle St., Program, “Differences Between Early- March 25 Bloomfield, Quantum Theatre, 412-362- Developing and Late-Developing Faces of Others, Carnegie 1713, www.quantumtheatre.com, PITT Phonemes in Phonological Processing,” Mellon International Film Festival ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. 9 a.m. March 30, 4014 Forbes Tower. “Japan and Its World: Late Edo “A New Surveillance Method for cosponsored by Pitt, screenings of pittarts.pitt.edu. Period and Today,” Constantine International and Drug Trafficking,” films shining a cinematic light on the James S. Hale, Kenneth P. Vaporis, professor of history and director Siddharth Chandra, professor and human faces that reflect the themes Freud’s Last Session, an evening of Dietrich School of Arts and of the Asian Studies Program, University director of Asian Studies Center, shaping our contemporary social conversation between C.S. Lewis and Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, of Maryland, Baltimore County, Michigan State University’s James landscape, with a focus on the concept Sigmund Freud about God, love, sex, “Implementation of Catalytic, 9:30 a.m.-noon, March 24, 4130 Posvar Madison College, 4 p.m. March 26, 3431 of “the other,” March 22-April 15, at and the meaning of life, through April Asymmetric Technology Towards the Hall, Pitt World History Seminar, Posvar Hall, Pitt’s Matthew B. Ridgway various locations around Pittsburgh, 1, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Total Synthesis of Apoptolidin C,” National Consortium for Teaching Center for International Security Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, www. Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 3 p.m. March 30, 325 Eberly Hall. About Asia, Pitt’s Global Studies Center, www.ridgway.pitt.edu. cmu.edu/faces. 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org, PITT ARTS [email protected]. Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www. “Disengagement and De-Radical- Writing Research Articles, pittarts.pitt.edu. ization From Terrorism: Current and workshop providing an introduction Future Directions for Research,” to writing and publishing research Ruthless! The Musical, featuring crazy John Horgan, director of International articles, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 24, antics of a homicidal eight-year-old Center for the Study of Terrorism, Lecture Room 2, Scaife Hall, Pitt aspiring actress, through May Penn State University, 12:30 Survival Skills and Ethics Program, 6, CLO Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., p.m. March 28, 3911 Posvar www.skillsandethics.org, survival @ Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO Hall, Pitt’s Matthew B. Ridgway pitt.edu. Cabaret, www.pittsburghclo. Center for International Security, org, 412-325-6766, PITT ARTS University Center for Interna- 12th Annual Computer Science Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, tional Studies, www.ridgway. Day, gathering of educators, students, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. pitt.edu. alumni, and industry for a day of computing science, computing Stanley McChrystal, retired business, and computing fun Pitt PhD four-star general and former commander 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. March 30, fifth of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, 8 p.m. and sixth floors, Sennott Square, Pitt Dissertation March 28, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Department of Computer Science, 412- Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Speakers 624-5755, www.cs.pitt.edu/csday. Defenses Series, Robert Morris University, www. pittsburghspeakersseries.org. Faisal Jamalallail, School of Opera/Theater/ Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’ “China’s America: The Chinese View Rehabilitation Science Program, “Spatial the United States, 1900-2000,” Jay Dance and Multidimensional Visualization of Jing Li, associate professor of history, Jeddah Health Resources: A Community Duquesne University, noon March 29, Jesus Christ Superstar, rock opera Health Assessment of Jeddah City,” 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch by Andrew Lloyd Webber with 11 a.m. March 19, 6053 Forbes Tower. Series, Pitt Asian Studies Center, 412- lyrics by Tim Rice, March 22- 648-7370, [email protected]. April 1, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Mark Fromm, Kenneth P. Dietrich Downtown, PNC Broadway Across School of Arts and Sciences’ “Stealing Digital Assets—Piracy America, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Department of Music, “Pitch Symmetry and Privacy,” David H. Holtzman, 412-456-6666, www.trustarts.org, in Martin Bresnick’s ‘My Twentieth author, Privacy Lost and Surviving PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624- Century’ and ‘Meden Agan’ for Identity Theft, 3 p.m. March 29, Lower 4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Chamber Ensemble,” 12:30 p.m. March Lounge, William Pitt Union, Sara Fine 23, 114 Music Building. Institute Annual Lecture Series, Pitt Diespace by PIPS:lab, an innovative School of Information Sciences, www. look at life, death, and the Internet, Matthew Heap, Kenneth P. sis.pitt.edu/~fineinst/lectures.html. March 23-25, Trust Arts Education Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Center, 805-807 Liberty Ave., Department of Music, “Keep Going: “Emerging Trends in Search Downtown, Distinctively Dutch Narrative Continuity in Luciano Berio’s User Interfaces,” Marti Hearst, Festival 2012, Pittsburgh Cultural Sinfonia and Dillinger: An American professor in UC Berkeley’s School Trust, 412-456-6666, www.trustarts. Oratorio,” 1 p.m. March 27, 114 Music of Information, 1:30 p.m. March org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412- Building. 30, 403 Information Sciences 624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Above: Andy Warhol, Dog (Dachshund) (1976) Building, iSchool Colloquium Raynard Washington, Graduate Below: Andy Warhol, Cat (1976) Series, Pitt School of Every Tongue Confess, a blend School of Public Health’s Department of Information Sciences, www. of the secular with the spiritual, Epidemiology, “Epidemiology of Type The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; ischool.pitt.edu. including Bible stories with everyday 1 Diabetes Complications in African Founding Collection, Contibution The Andy Warhol Foun- occurrences of newsworthy events, Americans,” dation for the Visual Arts, Inc., “The Steel Bar: Pittsburgh set in rural Alabama in the 1990s, 1 p.m. March 27, 2nd-Floor Conference © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Lawyers Forging America March 23-April 1, August Wilson Room, Diabetes and Lipid Research From the Frontier to Center for African American Culture, Building. the Future,” symposium 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, August Carnegie Museum of Faces of Others, presented by Pitt Law Review, Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Cultural Carrie Bonilla, Kenneth P. Dietrich Natural History, Various Pittsburgh locations, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. March 28, University Trust, 412-456-6666, www.trustarts. School of Arts and Sciences’ Department Warhol’s Cats and Dogs Series, March 22-April 15 Club, course approved for CLE credits, org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412- of Linguistics, “Testing Processibility ends June 30 $10 lunch fee, www.law.pitt.edu/events. 624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. Theory in L2 Spanish: Can Readiness

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Rare First-Edition Works of Charles Dickens PittChronicle Exhibited at University’s Hillman Library Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh By Sharon S. Blake PUBLISHER Robert Hill Pitt’s University Library System lawyers. McKnight’s personal ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith (ULS) joins the world in celebrating diary, in which he recorded an EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer the 200th anniversary of Charles account of his visit with Dickens, EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet Dickens’ birth with a display of rare also is on display. ART DIRECTOR Gary Kohr-Cravener first editions of some of the author’s The rare volumes in the STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake most significant works. The free Dickens display are from Pitt’s John Fedele display is open to the public through Darlington Memorial Library, B. Rose Huber May 1 in Room 363, Hillman Library. which comprises at least 11,000 Audrey M. Marks From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 28— books, 3,000 photographs, hundreds Patricia Lomando White to mark the 170th anniversary of the of maps, letters, pamphlets, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Daniel Bates day that Dickens visited Pittsburgh— and other materials pertaining Niki Kapsembellis an open house will be held in Room 363, to the history of Southwestern Lynn Shea featuring the Dickens books as well as Pennsylvania and Colonial America. HAPPENINGS EDITOR Baindu Saidu those of some of his contemporaries, It was the first major collection of The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by including Anthony Trollope and Wilkie books, atlases, and maps ever donated University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, Collins, among other British literary to Pitt, assembled by Pittsburgh 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. figures. The display also will showcase attorney William M. Darlington. Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895. historical documents that relate to After Darlington’s death in 1889, E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu Dickens’ stay in Pittsburgh, which was his widow, Mary O’Hara Darlington, part of his first North American reading of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations and the couple’s children continued The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal tour, in 1842. Librarians will be on hand (1861), and others. The Dickens Christmas to acquire materials for the collection. opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any during the open house to answer questions. books, comprising The Christmas Carol Darlington’s son, O’Hara, built the collection basis prohibited by law. Long considered to be one of the greatest (1843), The Chimes (1844), and several of Dickens works that comprises the Pitt novelists of the Victorian period, Dickens others, also are part of the display and display. More information on the library can emerged on the scene with a serialized maintain their original gold and crimson be found at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/d/ publication of comic sketches called The bindings—a valuable resource in the darlington/. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club study of the history of printing, binding, The ULS is the 23rd-largest academic PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of (1836), written under the pen name Boz. The publishing, and descriptive bibliography. library system within the United States. Pitt Chronicle will be published April 2. Pickwick Papers continued monthly through Pittsburgh welcomed Dickens and his Under the administration of the Hillman Items for publication in the newspaper’s 1837, became an enormous popular success, wife, Catherine, on March 28, 1842, for a University Librarian and ULS Director Happenings calendar (See pages 10-11) and eventually were published as a novel. three-day stay, during which he toured the Rush G. Miller, it includes 20 libraries should be received at least two weeks prior to the event date. Happenings items should Oliver Twist (1838) and The Old Curiosity city, visited the prison, and received people and collections and holds more than 6.2 include the following information: title Shop (1840) followed, and Dickens went on at the Exchange Hotel. His guests included million volumes and world-class specialized of the event, name and title of speaker(s), to pen some of the most renowned works of William Barclay Foster, mayor of Allegheny collections, among them the Archive of date, time, location, sponsor(s), and a all time that continue to be read today. City, whose son Stephen Foster would go Scientific Philosophy and the Archives of phone number and Web site for additional The Pitt exhibition includes an on to be one of America’s most admired Industrial Society, as well as major foreign- information. Items may be e-mailed to extremely rare complete set of The Pickwick composers. Others who visited with Dickens language materials from around the world [email protected], or sent by campus mail to Papers as well as Nicholas Nickleby (1839), were Andrew McDowell, a physician who totaling 1.4 million volumes. The ULS offers 422 Craig Hall. For more information, call Barnaby Rudge (1841), Life and Adventures treated the author for an ailment during state-of-the-art facilities and services, with 412-624-1033 or e-mail [email protected]. of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843), Dombey and his stay, and Charles B. Scully and Robert innovative digital library collections and Son (1848), Bleak House (1853), A Tale McKnight, two prominent Pittsburgh capabilities.