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INSIDE Campus newsmakers..… 4 eWatch tracks stress....… 5 Awards and more........… 6 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume VIII • Number 29 • October 22, 2007 Eight New Legacy Laureates Named Alumni recognized for personal, professional achievements mages Y I gett Archbishop Tutu Pitt, Carnegie Mellon to Honor Tutu With Honorary Doctorate By John Harvith The Most Rev. Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and former Primate of the Anglican Church in the Province of Southern Africa, will participate in an “Interfaith Service for Justice and Peace” at 10 a.m. Thursday at Calvary Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh during which he will deliver a sermon and receive an honorary degree from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The honorary Doctor of Humane Let- ters degree will be conferred jointly during the Calvary service by University of Pitts- burgh Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg and Carnegie Mellon University President Jared ALEXANDER DENMARSH L. Cohon. This is the first time that the two The University of Pittsburgh honored its eight new Legacy Laureates during Homecoming 2007. From left, back row, Thomas M. Priselac, Audrey L. Holland, Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg, Gary A. universities have jointly conferred an honor- Amelio, and H. Raymond Primas Jr. From left, front row, John H. Pelusi Jr., Patricia D. Horoho, Bert W. O’Malley, and Douglas M. Browning. ary degree. Tutu will take part in the service at the invitation of Calvary Rector The Rev. Dr. The University of Pittsburgh has named Douglas M. Browning speech pathology and audiology in 1961. Harold T. Lewis, a member of the board eight new Legacy Laureates, alumni rec- Douglas M. Browning received his Holland is known for the contributions of Shared Interest, a New York-based not- ognized for their outstanding personal and BA degree from Pitt’s School of Arts and she has made in the field of neurological for-profit organization whose purpose is to professional accomplishments. The laure- Sciences in 1972. An attorney, Browning communication disorders, with special assist grassroots businesses in South Africa ates were honored Thursday evening during is a senior vice president at Sandler & emphasis on rehabilitation and the enhance- by making loans to them. Pitt’s Homecoming festivities. Travis Trade Advisory Services Inc., where ment of quality of life for patients with Beginning Friday, Pitt will post on its The Pitt Legacy Laureate program was he helps governments and multinational aphasia. Web site video coverage of the service. launched in 2000. Following are brief biog- businesses modernize their customs and As a professor, Holland taught at the Tutu is traveling to Southwestern raphies of this year’s honorees. security procedures. He also is of counsel University of Arizona, where she was named Pennsylvania for his first Pittsburgh visit to the Miami-based international law firm Regents’ Professor Emerita of Speech and to be in Oakland’s Carnegie Music Hall on Gary A. Amelio of Sandler, Travis, & Rosenberg. Hearing Sciences. Wednesday evening as the guest of honor at Gary A. Amelio attended the University Browning’s public service career She served as a visiting professor at the a gala fundraising dinner for Shared Inter- of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and received his spanned 27 years and included work with University of Queensland, Australia, and est, on whose board he serves as honorary BA degree from Pitt’s School of Arts and the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Case Western Reserve University; professor chair. Through a future symposium and Sciences in 1978 and his JD degree from Protection and its predecessor, the U.S. of otolaryngology and psychiatry in Pitt’s other local activities, Shared Interest plans the law school in 1981. Customs Service, for which he served as School of Medicine; and senior faculty to engage community leaders to continue Amelio is an acknowledged leader in acting commissioner for eight months. member at the National Center for Neuro- the challenge Tutu will present in his mes- the fields of employee benefits, investment As deputy commissioner of Customs genic Communication Disorders. sage. executive compensation, and asset manage- Service, Browning helped lead its merger She holds the Certificate of Clinical “It will be our honor and privilege to ment, and served as CEO of the Federal with the U.S. Border Patrol and other federal Competence in Speech Pathology and has welcome the archbishop to Calvary,” Lewis Retirement Thrift Investment Board. While agencies, integrating 42,000 employees and authored more than 125 articles, textbooks, said. “Dr. Tutu, the 1984 recipient of the there, he successfully directed the $125 bil- defining the new bureau’s mission under the and the recently published Counseling in Nobel Peace Prize, is arguably the most lion U.S. federal employee Thrift Savings U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Communication Disorders: A Wellness beloved figure in Anglicanism today. Most Plan, which provides benefits to more than His many awards and honors include a Perspective (Plural Publishing, 2007). noted for his fearless witness against apart- three million workers. He currently serves U.S. Senior Executive Service Presidential Holland has received numerous awards, heid and for his indefatigable work as chair as president of Retirement Services for Rank Award, a Chevalier of the National including the National Aphasia Association of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation ULLICO Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Order of Merit from the French government, Aphasia Advocacy Award, Council of Grad- Commission, he continues to stand as a holding company of The Union Labor Life and a U.S. Coast Guard Meritorious Public uate Programs in Communication Sciences beacon of hope for the elimination of eco- Insurance Company. Service Award. and Disorders Professional Achievement nomic injustice, racism, and poverty.” Amelio has served on the advisory Browning’s continuing commitment Award, and Academy of Neurologic Com- The Thursday service is open to the board of the University of Pittsburgh at to Pitt includes the establishment of the munication Disorders and Sciences Clinical public on a space-available basis. Doors to Greensburg, the Board of Directors of the Douglas M. Browning University Honors Achievement Award. the church, which seats approximately 1,100, Golden Panthers, and the Executive Com- College (UHC) International Field Study will open at 8:30 a.m. mittee of the Pitt Alumni Association. He Award for undergraduates who participate Patricia D. Horoho At 9 a.m., there will be an hour of live also serves as a member of the Leadership in study-abroad programs administered U.S. Army Col. Patricia D. Horoho, music performed by organists Alan Lewis, Council of the American Diabetes Associa- by UHC. who has a distinguished career in military director of music at Calvary, and Nicholas tion and on the development committee of health care administration, received an Will; the Calvary Adult Choir; and the the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Audrey L. Holland MS degree in nursing in 1992 from the CAPA (Pittsburgh High School for the Cre- He has received numerous awards, Researcher, clinician, professor, and University. ative and Performing Arts) Choir. including Federal Computer Week’s Federal author, Audrey L. Holland received three The 10 a.m. service will begin with a 100 Top Executives and UPG’s Alumnus of degrees from the University of Pittsburgh: Distinction Award. a BS in 1955, an MS in 1959, and a PhD in Continued on Page 3 Continued on Page 3 2 • Pitt Chronicle • October 22, 2007 SCIENCE2007 BrieflyNoted Contemporary Writers Series Romanian Film Series Continues With Evening Readings, Continues Through November Panel Discussion The new film series “Romanian Cinema on the Four poets will be featured in two evening Edge” began last week on campus and features a poetry readings and an afternoon panel discussion this younger generation of filmmakers whose films focus week as part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers on the Revolution of 1989 and on the social, economic, Series. and interpersonal relationships that resulted from Poets Jan Freeman and Allison Joseph will give a Romania’s transition to capitalism. poetry reading Tuesday and poets April Ossmann and According to the organizers, the title of the Martha Rhodes will read Wednesday; both readings series alludes to the “edgy styles” that dominate these are at 8:30 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. movies, as well as to a national cinema that is “on DDE All four writers will participate in a panel discus- the edge of well-deserved recognition, or just over the I sion, titled “Publishing Poets,” at 2 p.m. Wednesday in edge!” M BURKE/C I Room 501 Cathedral of Learning. “These are in-your-face stories that spare neither J Freeman is the author of Simon Says (Paris viewer nor characters,” said Irina Livezeanu, professor Press, 2000), which was nominated for a National of East European Studies in Pitt’s Department of History Science2007 was Pitt’s seventh annual celebration Book Critics Circle Award. Since 1987, she has been in the School of Arts and Sciences and the film series’ of science and technology, a showcase of Pitt’s academic a contributing editor of The American Poetry Review; curator. “The films are intense, gritty, low-budget strengths in science, medicine, engineering, and computation, she was also the recipient of the 1993 Cleveland State productions through which the unglamorous realities and the growing potential they hold as catalysts for economic Poetry Center Award. Her work appeared in several of the ‘transition’ period are stared down. They focus development in the region. publications, including The American Poetry Review, on familiar characters in recognizable circumstances, in This year’s theme, “Collaborate, Innovate, Transform,” The Oxford Companion to Women Writers in the U.S., which Romanian audiences can see themselves.” emphasized the capacity of new technology and contempo- The Massachusetts Review, and Prairie Schooner.