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 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 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 ’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 . “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. She Films are shown free of charge at 7 p.m. in rary research for driving the development of innovations founded Paris Press, a nonprofit independent press Auditorium. The remaining film screenings in medicine and technology. The event featured noted based in Ashfield, Mass., in 1995. in the series are: speakers, spotlight sessions presented by scientists from Joseph has published five books of poetry: Thursday: The Paper Will Be Blue (Radu Muntean, Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University, a technology showcase What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train 2006). The film reconstitutes the bleak atmosphere highlighting recent inventions now available for licensing, a (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997), In Every in Romania during the revolution of December 1989, career development workshop for emerging scientists, and Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), Imitation focusing on a moment when the long-awaited fall of the Chronicling various networking and social events. of Life (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003), and Communist regime was still in question. An ongoing series highlighting Above, Carol W. Greider, Daniel Nathans Professor and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her honors Friday: 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porum- University of Pittsburgh history director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics include the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize and the boiu, 2006). On the 16th anniversary of Romania’s at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, talks with Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professorship. revolution, a small town journalist plans a discussion Arthur S. Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences She also has won fellowships from the Bread Loaf about the uprising on his daily talk show “Issue of and dean of the School of Medicine. Her research focuses on Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Day.” The live debate turns into a confrontation telomerase, an enzyme that controls the length and integrity and Illinois Arts Council. She is the head of Southern between the two guests and callers contesting the of chromosome ends. Scientists think that learning how this Illinois University’s master’s degree program in creative guests’ claims. enzyme works will help them understand how stem cells writing. Nov. 1: Occident (Cristian Mungiu, 2002). This and cancer cells grow. Greider delivered the Dickson Prize in Ossmann’s first collection of poems, Anxious film captures the difficult interpersonal relationships Medicine Lecture on Oct. 11. Music, was published this month by Four Way Books. of the young generation during the post-Communist Above left, Mario R. Capecchi, winner of the 2007 Her poetry also has been published in numerous jour- era. The backdrop of all three intertwined stories is the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, presents the Klaus nals, including Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry fantasy of escaping to the West. Mungiu’s film Oct. 28, 1962—Circular buildings were Hofmann Lecture Oct. 12. Capecchi is a Distinguished Profes- Review, Harvard Review, and Seneca Review. She has 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days won The Palme d’Or at becoming the rage “around” the world, sor of Biology and Human Genetics and a Howard Hughes received several awards for her poetry, including the the Cannes film festival this year. reported The New York Times. “The Greeks had their Medical Institute investigator at the University of Utah. He is Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award in the summer Nov. 2: California Dreamin’ (Cristian Nemescu, temples and the Italians the Tower of Pisa. The North best known for pioneering the technology of gene targeting of 2000. Ossmann has taught creative writ- 2007). Inspired by an actual incident during the war American continent was the birthplace of one of the in mouse embryo-derived stem cells that allows scientists to ing and literature courses at Lebanon in Kosovo in 1999, California Dreamin’ is a drama oldest of all circular structures, the (igloo).” Across create mice with mutations in any desired gene by choosing College and the University of that illustrates Romanians’ fascination with the the United States, airport terminals, office buildings, which gene to mutate and how to mutate it. As a result, his Maine at Farmington and is the American dream. and museums were being built “in the round,” and work has facilitated the production of murine models for executive director of Alice James The “Romanian another set of structures attracting national attention numerous important human genetic diseases. Books, a poetry press founded Cinema on the were the University of Pittsburgh’s circular residence in 1973. Edge” film series halls, then under construction. Rhodes is the author of is sponsored by “The round dorms, designed by Deeter & three collections of poetry: the University Ritchey (a Pittsburgh-based architectural firm), Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, of Pittsburgh’s make all rooms equally desirable to students and 2004), Perfect Disappear- Office of the provide a ready access from centrally-located baths PittNewspaper ofChronicle the University of Pittsburgh ance (New Issues Poetry Dean of the and other facilities to each bedroom,” the Times & Prose, 2000), and At the School of Arts and said. But waggish students thought the Towers A, PUBLISHER Robert Hill Gate (Provincetown Arts, 2000). She is Sciences, Department B, and C, which opened in 1963, resembled cans of ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith director and founding editor of Four Way of History, Graduate Program cleanser, so they nicknamed them “Ajax,” “Bab-O,” EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer Books, a nonprofit literary press based in for Cultural Studies, Film Studies and “Comet.” They were officially renamed in honor EDITOR Jason Togyer New York City that she and three partners Program, and Center for Russian of former Chancellor Edward Litchfield in 1968, fol- ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake founded in 1993. Rhodes publishes several and East European Studies; lowing his death in an airplane crash. collections a year out of her loft in Tribeca, The Pittsburgh Roma- John Fedele Deeter & Ritchey went on to design several Morgan Kelly N.Y., and hosts several poetry readings nian Studies Group; other prominent Pittsburgh landmarks, while Amanda Leff in her area. She teaches at New School and the Romanian —still Pitt’s largest residential Anthony Moore University and at the Master of Fine Cultural Institute of New facility—have been treated to extensive renovations Patricia Lomando White Arts Program at Warren Wilson College. York, with assistance from the since 2002. The most recent project, completed in Pitt’s Book Center, Women’s Romanian National Center August, gave the complex’s dining facilities a $12.5 HAPPENINGS EDITOR Tearsa Brown Studies Program, and University of for Cinematography. million makeover. Pittsburgh Press cosponsor the Pitts- For more informa- The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by burgh Contemporary Writers Series, tion, contact Irina University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, which runs through April 2, 2008. Livezeanu at 412-648- Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, All events in the writers series are 7466 or [email protected]. E-mail: [email protected] free and open to the public. —Anthony M. Moore Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu —Tearsa Brown The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any basis prohibited by law. October 22, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • 3 Eight New Legacy DRUE HEINZ PRIZE Laureates Named Continued from Page 1 Enlisted as a staff nurse with the U. S. national championship football team, Pelusi Army, Horoho became the first nurse and was voted to the All-East football team, was first woman to serve as commander of the named Sports Illustrated Lineman of the DDE Walter Reed Health Care System. While Week, and earned honorable mention for I she was head nurse at Womack Army the Kodak All-American football team. He Medical Center’s Emergency Department, is a member of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the the hospital was awarded the Superior Unit Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. BRADEN WOLFE/C Citation for its heroic efforts in treating Pelusi serves the University as a those injured in the Pope Air Force Base member of the Board of Trustees, chair- crash, one of the worst aircraft incidents in ing the Property and Facilities Commit- Air Force history. tee and serving as a University director The American Red Cross, Nursing on the UPMC Board of Directors. He has Spectrum magazine, and Time-Life Publi- provided generous financial support to the cations also honored Horoho for her work University, primarily through scholarships in rescuing victims from Flight 77’s crash to assist student-athletes. He also provides Drue Heinz Literature Prize judge Hilary Masters and 2007 winner Kirk Nesset came together into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. civic and community leadership through the to give an evening reading Oct. 17 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. Nesset, a graduate of the Her many other military assignments Holy Name Foundation and the Manchester University of California at Santa Cruz, later received MA and PhD degrees in English from the have included helping to inspect medi- Bidwell Corporation. University of California at Santa Barbara. He is currently a professor of English and creative cal facilities in Haiti during the 1994-95 writing at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. His most recent books include the Drue Heinz-winning Paradise Operation Uphold Democracy, the U.S.- H. Raymond Primas Jr. Road (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) and Mr. Agreeable (Mammoth Press, 2006). led multinational military intervention H. Raymond Primas Jr. earned the BS to restore Haiti’s democratically elected degree in 1946, the DDS degree in 1947, Masters, a professor of English and creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, is perhaps best known for his memoir government. and the MPH degree in 1969, all from the Last Stands: Notes from Memory (David Godine, 1982). A U.S. Navy veteran and a 1952 graduate of Brown University, Horoho’s numerous honors include the University of Pittsburgh. Masters first published his work in The Quarterly Review of Literature in 1963. Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Following in the footsteps of his father, Above, from left, are Masters, Nesset, and , Pitt professor emeritus of English, who supervises the Drue Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, H. Raymond Primas Sr., who graduated Heinz prize and the Pitt Poetry Series. the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, from Pitt’s dental school in 1924, Primas and the Fort Bragg Supervisor of the Year had a distinguished and lengthy career in award. dentistry. He demonstrated a vigorous com- mitment to aiding African countries that Bert W. O’Malley were struggling to free themselves from Pitt to Sponsor Slovak Festival Bert W. O’Malley, who received his BS European rule during the mid-20th cen- and MD degrees from Pitt in 1959 and 1963, tury. He solicited support from the United By Patricia Lomando White respectively, is a medical doctor renowned States through repeated requests to the U.S. for his work in the fields of endocrinol- government, including the Department of The 17th annual Slovak Heritage of songs during the festivities. A member ogy, reproduction, genetic disease, and State and the newly elected president, John Festival—featuring Slovakian song and of the Spolok Fujarasov (Fujarist’s Guild), endocrine cancers. He has helped advance F. Kennedy. dance, educational lectures and displays, Sorensen is also a member of the Folk Group the field of molecular endocrinology by In 1962, Primas led a State Depart- ethnic foods, and vendors selling Slovakian Vagonar, which has recorded a new album encouraging his colleagues to embrace ment initiative to inventory and distribute merchandise—will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. that will be released later this year. molecular biology technology. supplies to Benin, Africa, and from 1970 Nov. 4 in the Cathedral of Learning. The Singing Revil’ak Family’s reper- O’Malley currently serves as the to 1975, he directed a health education pro- This year’s free event will include artists toire includes Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Thomas C. Thompson Chair in Cell Biology gram for Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and speakers performing in the Cathedral of folk art songs and international favorites and chair of the Department of Molecular and International Affairs that provided Learning’s Commons Room, including Josef featured in its 20-year performance history and Cellular Biology in the Baylor College technical personnel in the African Nations Ivaska and the Singing Revil’ak Family from on European, Canadian, and U.S. stages. The of Medicine (BCM). He also directs BCM’s of Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Slovak Republic as well as The Pitts- family—the parents, two daughters, and a Center for Reproductive Biology and is and Chad. burgh Slovakians, Pittsburgh Area Slovaks, son—grew up singing in Bardejov, Slovakia, associate director for basic science at the Primas has served as a professor within and Ben Sorensen, representing the Western and has received many national awards. school’s Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center. GSPIA and as president of the National Pennsylvanian Slovakian community. Ivaska, known in Slovakia as the “Man O’Malley served as president of the Dental Association. In 2007, he received the This year, speakers will present several of a Thousand Songs,” is making his third Endocrine Society and was instrumental in School of Dental Medicine Award of Appre- lectures, titled “Slovak Pittsburgh,” “Learn- concert tour of the United States. During establishing the journal Molecular Endocri- ciation at the Dean’s Scholarship Ball. ing Slovak on Your Own: Textbooks, Dic- the Communist era, Soviet officials forced nology, one of the most-cited peer-reviewed tionaries Strategies,” “The Foreigner’s Guide Ivaska out of the country, banning his music. biomedical science journals. O’Malley has Thomas M. Priselac to Living in Slovakia,” “Slovak Folk Tales Currently residing in Austria, he performs written more than 600 scientific and medi- Thomas M. Priselac received his MPH and Slovak Storytelling,” “Slovenska’cesta- operetta, rock, pop, jazz, and folk music cal publications and holds 19 patents for degree from Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Slovak Journey,” and “Music in Slovakia: internationally and sings tenor with the Met- special techniques and inventions related Health in 1975. The Carpatho-Rusyns.” ropolitan Operetta Theater in Slovakia. to molecular and cellular biology. Priselac has made lasting contributions Sorensen, an American musician who Pitt’s Slovak Studies Program and the Pitt has honored O’Malley with the to the field of health care administration studied the fujura under the guidance of Pitt Students’ Slovak Club are cosponsors of Dickson Prize in Medicine, the Philip S. in an impressive range of leadership roles; Dusan Holik, who has performed at previ- the event. For more information, call 412- Hench Distinguished Alumnus Award, and he currently serves as president and CEO ous Pitt events, will be singing a selection 624-5906 or e-mail [email protected]. the Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction. of Cedars-Sinai Health System, one of the O’Malley has received numerous additional largest private hospitals and providers of honors, including the Academia Nazionale health care services, medical education, and dei Lincei Antonio Feltrinelli International research in the United States. Tutu Makes First Pittsburgh Visit; Will Receive Joint Degree Prize for Biology and the Brinker Interna- He has been named chair-elect of the tional Award for Breast Cancer Research. American Hospital Association, a national Continued from Page 1 He also was elected to the National Acad- organization that serves 5,000 hospitals and emy of Sciences and Royal Academy of health care systems, and serves as a trustee procession from the back of the nave includ- fragan Bishop of Ohio, retired; The Rev. Medicine in Ireland. of the National Committee for Quality ing the Calvary Adult Choir; an academic Paul Roberts, pastor of Eastminster Presby- Health Care and the Charles R. Drew Uni- contingent led by mace bearers for the Uni- terian Church; Pittsburgh Roman Catholic John H. Pelusi Jr. versity of Medicine and Science. He also versity of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon Bishop David A. Zubik; Rabbi Aaron Bisno John H. Pelusi Jr. received the BA holds the Warschaw Law Endowed Chair University—Professor of Dental Medicine of Congregation Rodef Shalom; Rabbi degree from the School of Arts and Sci- in Health Care Leadership at Cedars-Sinai John Baker, president of the University Alvin Berkun, president of The Rabbinical ences in 1977 and the MPA degree in public Medical Center. Senate, for Pitt, and Gordon Rule, associate Assembly, the worldwide association of management and policy from the Graduate Priselac has endowed The Thomas and professor of biological sciences, for Carnegie Conservative Rabbis, and Rabbi Emeritus School of Public and International Affairs Jody Priselac Endowed Fund for Health Mellon—and Nordenberg and Cohon, fol- of Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh; in 1979. Care Leadership at the University. lowed by Pitt Provost James V. Maher and and Amal Namangani of the Islamic Center Pelusi is executive managing direc- He has received numerous awards, Carnegie Mellon Vice Provost for Educa- of Pittsburgh. tor and managing member of Holliday including the National Healthcare Leader- tion Indira Nair, as well as presidents and Lewis will officiate at the service, Fenoglio Fowler, L.P., one of the world’s ship Award from the National Center for representatives from other Pittsburgh-area which will include readings by Bisno, largest real estate capital firms. Ernst and Healthcare Leadership, the Charles R. Drew colleges and universities and standard bear- Namangani, and Roberts, as well as the Young recognized his business acumen by University of Medicine and Science Board ers carrying the official Pitt and Carnegie sermon and closing blessing and hymn naming him Entrepreneur of the Year for of Trustees Medal of Honor, the B’nai B’rith Mellon flags; and, finally, an assemblage of delivered by Tutu, who will receive his joint Upstate New York, Western Pennsylvania, National Healthcare Leadership Award, and interfaith clergy, among them Tutu; Lewis; Carnegie Mellon-Pitt honorary degree at the and West Virginia in the financial services the Partners in Care Foundation’s Mathies Episcopal Bishops The Rt. Rev. Robert conclusion of his sermon. category. Award for Vision and Excellence in Health- Duncan and The Rt. Rev. Henry Scriven; A reception in the church’s Parish Hall The starting center on Pitt’s 1976 care Leadership. The Rt. Rev. Arthur B. Williams Jr., Suf- will follow the service. 4 • Pitt Chronicle • October 22, 2007 CampusNewsmakers Law School Reunion

COLKER LECTURE

Ruth Colker, the Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law at Ohio State University’s Michael E. Moritz College of Law, delivered the keynote lecture, “Why I Only Give Take-Home Exams: A Disability Perspective,” at this year’s Thornburgh Family Lecture Series in Disability Law, held Sept. 27 in the ’s Teplitz Memorial Courtroom. Shown below from left are former Pennsylvania Governor and U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh (LAW ’57); Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg; Colker; and Colker’s parents, Janice and James Colker of Shadyside. DDE I Y JANE BENT/C DDE I MAR C From left, Norman Rubash, Richard Thornburgh, and Derrick Bell, three distinguished graduates from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law’s Class of 1957, were the featured speakers during the law school’s Law Alumni Reunion Weekend, Sept. 28 and 29. The three presented a panel discussion titled “Ethical Challenges Facing Attorneys and Law Schools: The View From 50 Years in the Legal Profession” on Sept. 28 in the Barco Law Building’s Teplitz Memorial Courtroom. The speakers, whose paths led to careers in legal education, politics, and business, offered perspectives informed by a half-century as practicing attorneys. Thornburgh, formerly governor of Pennsylvania, attorney general of the United States, and undersecretary-general of the United Nations, is currently of counsel at Kirk- patrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP. Lawyer, teacher, activist, scholar, and author Bell is a visiting professor of law at New York University School of Law, while Rubash is the retired international executive vice president of Amoco Corporation. Other reunion events included a reception Sept. 28 and a dinner Sept. 29. At the dinner, held in Alumni Hall’s Connelly Ballroom, Bell and U.S. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (LAW ’62) were honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards.

international week EDWARD C. GRUDEN DDE I /C I NSK I KE DRAZDZ I M

In cooperation with campus, student, and community organizations, the University of Pittsburgh celebrated International Week from Sept. 23 through 30 with panel discussions, lectures, and international food, dance, art, music, and films. The annual slate of events is sponsored by the Global Stud- ies Program of Pitt’s University Center for International Studies and the Student Affairs Office of Cross-Cultural and Leadership Development. At left, The Brazil Nuts Portuguese Club performs the Brazilian samba in ethnic costumes. Above, Mary Burke of the Project to End Human Trafficking, a nonprofit organization working regionally, nationally, and internation- ally in the antislavery movement, explains human trafficking and

some of the ways in which policy makers, public health professionals, DDE I /C and concerned citizens can get involved. Burke is the project’s execu- I tive director as well as director of training for the doctoral program in counseling psychology at Carlow University. Community members who purchased tickets for the Oakland JOE KAPELEWSK International Restaurant Tour were able to sample a variety of ethnic foods (above right) at participating restaurants. At right, students, faculty, and staff learn the basics of salsa dancing from instructor Marlon Silva, who gave lessons in the first floor Galleria of Posvar Hall. October 22, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • 5 Science&Technology

Preparing for Disaster Pitt, other universities co-organize Regional Energy Infrastructure Conference By John Fedele

How long will it take to restore essential an exercise led by emergency experts services after a disaster event? What hap- that simulates a mock emergency,” pens if major portions of the health care and explained Ken Sochats, a Pitt assistant public health infrastructures are disabled? professor, codirector of the Center for Who is responsible for restoring power? National Preparedness, and director of The University of Pittsburgh, West the Visual Information Systems Center.

Y OF KAMARCK Virginia University (WVU), and Carnegie “Participants will be able to take the Mellon University—in association with lessons learned from the exercise—as

COURTES the U.S. Department of Energy’s National well as information from state, federal, Energy Technology Laboratory—are co- and local emergency leaders—back to organizing a Regional Energy Critical Infra- their organizations, where they can be Taking a Licking, but Still Ticking: New structure Resiliency Conference to address translated into plans and policies.” these and other questions Oct. 29-31 at the Professionals in industry and gov- “eWatch” Measures Life’s Daily Stresses Holiday Inn Select Pittsburgh at University ernment from Pennsylvania, West By Sharon S. Blake Center. Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Keynote speakers will be Jenny Kentucky are invited A new device developed by a joint their response to current activities. Are they Menna, director of the U.S. Department to register for the team of researchers from the University working? Is the work hard? of Homeland Security’s Critical conference and of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon Previous research has shown that Infrastructure Protection Cyber par ticipate in University will allow doctors to more responses to such interviews help predict Security Division; James Powers, the exercise and accurately measure the amount of stress who will show higher rates of plaque devel- director of the Pennsylvania Office conference dis- people are feeling during their daily opment in the arteries, a risk factor for heart of Homeland Security; and Robert cussions. lives. attack or stroke. Reed, regional coordinator of To regis- About the size of an ordinary wrist- Using interviews in real time allows the U.S. Department of Energy’s ter or for more watch, the “eWatch” records a person’s researchers to quantify how stressors affect Region III Infrastructure Security information, visit skin temperature and activity level, one’s daily life, as well as to pinpoint when and Energy Restoration. the University of along with ambient light and noise condi- these effects begin and when they end. Participants include the Pittsburgh Center tions and other data. Use of the eWatch technology, devel- National Research Center for for National Pre- Pitt Psychology Professor Thomas oped at HCII, should assist researchers in Coal and Energy and the paredness Web Kamarck, director of the University’s finding the optimal method for responding Advanced Power Engineer- site: www. Behavioral Medicine Research Group, is to such interviews during daily activities, ing Research Center, both cnp.pitt.edu/ leading a team that is developing more whether by pressing a button, moving the at WVU, as well as the CIRconfer- effective ways of measuring psychoso- wrist, or speaking into a wireless device Pittsburgh Regional ence. cial stress exposure during the course nestled in the user’s ear. Business Coali- of daily life. Environmental data collected by the tion, the Allegh- Kamarck’s collaborators include eWatch also may assist the researchers in eny Conference, Pitt Psychology Professor Saul Shiff- characterizing the types of environments Indiana Univer- man; Barbara Anderson, Pitt senior people find most stressful, so that their sity of Pennsyl- research associate in psychology; Daniel location may automatically be recorded vania’s John P. Siewiorek, a Carnegie Mellon com- (for example, whether at home or work) Murtha Institute puter science professor who directs in a manner that will not require the par- for Homeland that university’s Human-Computer ticipant’s response, potentially reducing Security, and Interaction Institute (HCII); and the number of interview questions the Region 13 Asim Smailagic, Carnegie required. Counter Terror- Mellon research professor “We want to capture a ism Task Force. of electrical and computer slice of life in people’s daily Participants engineering. routine,” Kamarck says. will explore issues Previous studies “We hope that these new in regional coordi- have determined that tools will allow us to do nation for critical people who report highly so while minimizing dis- infrastructure resil- stressful lifestyles may ruptions imposed by the iency and protection. develop higher rates of a act of measurement.” The program fea- variety of illnesses, rang- Kamarck also wants tures a tabletop exercise ing from viral infection to to work toward making in failure of interdepen- heart disease. But quantify- the measurement very user- dent infrastructures and ing exposure to stress has been friendly for a study participant presentations by knowl- difficult, Kamarck says. Thomas Kamarck such as a bus driver, who can’t edgeable representatives “Some say we’re exposed to necessarily stop what he is doing of agencies and organiza- stress when demands we face exceed to answer questions. tions with responsibility for our resources for dealing with them,” Another part of the project is aimed at critical infrastructure resiliency. says Kamarck, adding that traditional improving face-to-face interview measures The tabletop exercise, mod- methods of measuring life stress don’t of chronic stress as well, he says. eled on similar exercises conducted quantify the duration or intensity of Kamarck and his colleagues have in New York City and Silicon exposure effectively. received a $426,000 National Institutes of Valley, will be led by a team from “A husband and wife may react to Health (NIH) grant for the first year of their Verizon Business with expertise in the death of the same relative very dif- four-year project, which is part of a larger cybersecurity and business telecom- ferently,” he says. “Furthermore, stress is NIH initiative to study environmental fac- munications. an ongoing fluctuating process. At what tors that people encounter every day that Additionally, information will point does a stressor begin or end?” may increase their risk of certain diseases. be presented on disaster recovery Kamarck and his collaborators will The study is part of the NIH Genes, and restoration operations, as well outfit several hundred participants, five Environment, and Health Initiative, a col- as a working session on lessons at a time, with eWatches. laboration between geneticists and social learned and next steps for improving Every 45 minutes over the course of and behavioral scientists that will give regional collaboration for resilient five days, participants will be prompted researchers an unprecedented look at gene- infrastructures. to take part in a 2-to-3-minute interview environment interactions and effects on “Attendees at the conference will administered by the eWatch. It will ask disease across large population samples. have the opportunity to participate in 6 • Pitt Chronicle • October 22, 2007 Awards&More

Anthony Delitto, chair of the ponent Reaction Chemistry and Its Applica- GlaxoSmithKline Senior Fellow for the year. Lesgold received the award in 2001. Department of Physical Therapy in the tions to Drug Discovery, at the University The award is one of four senior fellowships Judy McConnaha was named senior School of Health and Rehabilitation Sci- of Bologna in Italy. He conducted the same presented each year by the pharmaceutical director of undergraduate studies in Pitt’s ences, is the first Pitt faculty member course at the Technical University of Vienna company. School of Arts and Sciences effective to receive the Mary McMillan Award in Austria, where he stayed as a visiting Steven L. Kanter, vice dean of the Sept. 17. McConnaha has worked in from the American Physical Therapy professor. The course also will be held at University of Pittsburgh School of Medi- university administration for more than Association (APTA). The award is the Universities of Lund and Göteborg in cine, has been named the new editor-in- eight years and has expertise in budget- given to acknowledge and honor a Sweden in December. chief of Academic Medicine, the monthly, ing, personnel management, team build- member of the APTA who has made Albert B. Ferguson Jr., who chaired peer-reviewed journal of the Association ing, and policy development. She earned a distinguished contribution to the the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). BA degrees in horticulture and English profession and to provide the recipient Pitt’s School of Medicine from 1953 to 1986, Kanter will become editor of the journal on at Ohio State University and a Master of with an opportunity to share his or her is this year’s recipient of the Pennsylvania Jan. 1, 2008, while maintaining his current Public Policy degree at the University of achievements and ideas with members Medical Society’s Distinguished Service position at the University, where he oversees Northern Iowa. through a lecture presented at the asso- Award. Ferguson, who pioneered the use of the School of Medicine’s faculty affairs and Two faculty members and a student ciation’s annual conference. Delitto will titanium and other durable materials for hip all academic programs. Kanter has served in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences address the annual APTA conference and knee replacements, joins a distinguished on the editorial board of American Medi- have been awarded fellowships by the June 2008 in San Antonio. list of past recipients, including Pitt polio cine since 2005. His background includes American Council of Learned Societies Michael L. Boninger, professor vaccine team leader Jonas Salk and former experience in clinical medicine, medical (ACLS). Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, of physical and medical rehabilitation U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. informatics, medical education, and medical professor of French literature, received and associate dean for medical student Ferguson was nominated for the award school administration. an ACLS Fellowship for her paper The research in Pitt’s School of Medicine, on behalf of the Allegheny County Lauren B. Resnick, director Dream World of Philippe de Mézières is the recipient of the eighth annual Ben Society by its president, Krishnan of Pitt’s Learning Research and (1327-1405): Politics and Spirituality in L. Boynton, M.D., Lectureship. This Gopal. The nomination described Development Center (LRDC), the Late Middle Ages, which examined honor is given through the Department Ferguson as an orthopedic sur- was honored with the Ameri- the ideals and ideology that defined of Physical Medicine and Rehabilita- gery pioneer who is credited can Psychological Associa- and divided late medieval Europe and tion at the Northwestern University with setting the standard for tion’s (APA) Distinguished the Near East as well as contemporary Feinberg School of Medicine. using metals in the body. Contributions to Education religious and political divisions; Cian Robert J. Weber, professor and While at Pitt, he trained and Training Award on Aug. Dorr, assistant professor of philosophy, chair of pharmacy and therapeutics in dozens of the world’s top 18. The APA established the received a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, has been orthopedic surgeons, who today Distinguished Contributions to Fellowship; and Clayton D. Brown, chosen to receive the Clifton J. Latiolais practice not only throughout the Education and Training Award graduate student in history, received an country, but in many foreign coun- in 1999 to acknowledge the career Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Award at the Association of Schools of Lauren B. Resnick Public Health (ASPH) Midyear Clini- tries as well. achievements of psychologists who Early Career Fellowship Program Dis- cal Meeting at Ohio State University. Ferguson retired from active have contributed solutions to learn- sertation Completion Fellowship. The annual award is given to an OSU practice in 1986. Ferguson has published ing problems through research findings and ACLS is a nonprofit federation of graduate who demonstrates exemplary several medical textbooks and more than evidence-based practices. 69 national scholarly organizations. It career accomplishments in hospital 200 scientific articles. In 2004, he was Resnick was recognized for her study of describes its mission as “the advance- pharmacy. honored with the American Orthopedic how to improve the nation’s schools and for ment of humanistic studies in all fields Marilyn Hravnak, assistant pro- Association Medal for outstanding contribu- implementing the ideas she developed over of learning in the humanities and the fessor in Pitt’s School of Nursing, has tions to orthopedic surgery. several decades, keeping apace with evolv- social sciences and the maintenance been chosen to receive the Dan Drawbaugh, chief ing educational issues. Resnick is the eighth and strengthening of relations among 2008 Norma J. Shoemaker information officer at the Uni- APA member to receive the award and one the national societies devoted to such Award for Critical Care versity of Pittsburgh Medical of two current Pitt faculty to be so honored. studies.” More than 200 scholars were Nursing Excellence at the Center (UPMC), was honored Pitt’s School of Education Dean Alan M. honored with fellowships in 2006-07. Society of Critical Care Sept. 17 as InformationWeek Medicine (SCCM) Awards magazine’s “Chief of the Year” Presentation in February for 2006. In its Dec. 4, 2006, in Honolulu. The award is issue, InformationWeek spot- PITT INNOVATORS presented in recognition lighted the efforts of Draw- of an active SCCM nurse baugh and his team to deploy member who demonstrates integrated information systems that ensure that patients at superiority in critical care Marilyn Hravnak practice. UPMC hospitals get the right L. Dade Lunsford, care at the right time. Lars Leksell Professor of Neurological In addition, UPMC was named to the Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh 2007 InformationWeek 500 list. According and codirector of UPMC’s Center For to InformationWeek, UPMC’s inclusion Image-Guided Neurosurgery, was the was based on its industry-leading efforts honored guest and featured speaker at to improve service while reducing costs the 2007 Annual Congress of Neuro- through technology “virtualization.” The logical Surgeons meeting in San Diego resulting consolidation of computers and in September. servers will save the hospital system an Hans-Christoph Pape, chief of estimated $11 million in leases, connection the orthopedic trauma division in the costs, and power consumption over three Department of Orthopedic Surgery years. in Pitt’s School of Medicine, has been To be ranked, companies with at least appointed to the editorial board of the $500 million in annual revenue are asked Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection to complete qualifying applications that and Critical Care. Pape was chosen include essays on business technology for his expertise in trauma care and his strategies and a quantitative section on review of manuscripts submitted to the technology priorities. UPMC, ranked at Journal of Trauma. He will serve on the No. 105, was among 22 health care and

board for five years. medical companies identified in the top 250. DDE I Kristine Schonder, assistant The health system has made the list every C professor in Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, year since 2002. The University’s third annual Celebration of Innovation honored 69 “Pitt Innovators” at a reception and awards was appointed to serve as a member Recent Rhodes Scholar Justin Chalker ceremony Sept. 24 at the . Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of of the American College of Clinical (A&S ’06) received the top score in organic Technology Management, the event recognized the Pitt faculty, staff, and students who participated in the Pharmacy Educational Affairs Com- chemistry for his first year thesis at Oxford mittee. The committee is developing a University, London, where he pursuing an University’s technology commercialization activities. Pitt Innovators submitted 246 invention disclosures pharmacotherapy curriculum tool kit to MS degree in organic chemistry. His thesis and executed 58 licenses and options, including the creation of eight start-up companies, last year. Above, assist schools and colleges of pharmacy was rated along with the other 49 students Marlin Mickle (third from left), Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor of Electrical Engineering, professor of computer in shaping their own curricula. in organic chemistry. engineering, telecommunications, and industrial engineering, and executive director of Pitt’s RFID Center of Alexander Doemling, professor Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Pro- Excellence, received an Innovator Award. He is shown with (from left) Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg; Arthur in the Department of Pharmaceutical fessor of Contemporary Art History and S. Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine; and James V. Sciences in Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, Theory in Pitt’s Department of the History Maher, provost and senior vice chancellor. conducted the short course, Multicom- of Art and Architecture, has been named a October 22, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • 7

Miscellaneous Gender, History, and Popular Culture in Indian Film, panel discussion, Neepa Majumdar, professor of English at Pitt, Happenings 7 p.m. Oct. 24, Mattress Factory, India: Below the Surface, 412-231-3169, www. University of Pittsburgh mattress.org. Symphony Orchestra Project Bundle-Up Shopping Day, Oct. 26 7-9:30 a.m. Oct. 27, various locations, Salvation Army and The Pitt Volunteer Pool, 412-624-7709. La Escuelita Arcoiris, cultural presenta- tion, 2-3 p.m. Oct. 28, Quiet Reading Room, Carnegie Library at Oakland, World Kaleidoscope! Series, 412-622- 3151, www.carnegielibrary.org. Eighth Annual Young Playwrights Festival, various times and plays through Oct. 28, 1300 Bingham St., South Side, City Theatre Company, 412- 431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org. Farmers’ Market, 3:30-6:30 p.m. every Friday through Nov. 16, Sen- Concerts Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, nott Street between Atwood Street and Nakashima Revealed: The Carnegie Meyran Avenue, Oakland Business Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orches- Mellon Collection and Dee Briggs, Improvement District, 412-683-6243, tra, through Oct. 28, Purnell Center for the www.onlyinoakland.org. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23, Pasquerilla Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Performing Arts Center, Pitt-Johnstown, Forbes Ave., 412-268-3618, www.cmu. www.ceskafilharmonie.com. edu/millergallery. Pitt PhD Elaine Alverez, Cuban-American Carnegie Museum of Art, Forum 60: soprano, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26, Bromely Rivane Neuenschwander, through Dissertation Defenses Family Theater, Blaisdell Hall, Pitt- Oct. 28; Design to Be Lit, through Feb. Jeffrey Hole, Department of Eng- Bradford, www.upb.pitt.edu. 10; 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-441- The Peabody Trio Oct. 27 lish, “Invention of an Infidel: Herman University of Pittsburgh Symphony 9786 ext. 224, www.cmoa.org. Melville’s Literary Heresies and the Orchestra, performing works by Max Doctrines of Empire,” 12:30-2:30 p.m. Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Russian and Eastern European Studies, Oct. 25, 11 , Pitt Department Oct. 25, 526 Cathedral of Learning. Bruch and Camille Saint-Saens, 8 p.m. Regional History Center, Soul www.ucis.pitt.edu. of Geology and Planetary Science, www. Oct. 26, Epiphany Catholic Church, 1018 Soldiers: African Americans and the geology.pitt.edu. J. Darwin King, Jr., Center for Centre Ave., Uptown, 412-471-1008, Vietnam Era, through Oct. 31; Points “Using Organotypic Models to www.music.pitt.edu. Neuroscience, “Action potential Gating in Time, through Dec. 31; Glass: Shat- Understand Mammary Gland Biol- “Postnatal Development of Sero- of Calcium Channels and Transmitter tering Notions, through Dec. 31; and ogy, Breast Cancer, and Metastasis,” tonin Signaling Mechanisms in the The Peabody Trio, 8 p.m. Oct. 27, Release,” noon Oct. 29, Floor 2 Audito- Discovery Place, through Dec. 31; 1212 Mina Bissell, scientist at Lawrence Gut as Probed by In Vitro Continuous rium, Learning and Research Develop- Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt’s Music Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454- Berkeley National Laboratory, 4 p.m. Amperometry,” Greg M. Swain, assis- on the Edge series, 412-624-4125, www. ment Center. 6000, www.pghhistory.org. Oct. 24, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, tant professor of chemistry at Michigan music.pitt.edu. Pitt Biomedical Graduate Student Asso- State University, 4 p.m. Oct. 25, , ciation and Interdisciplinary Biomedical 12 , Pitt Depart- Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Rare Book Exhibition, through Oct. 31, 412-648-8191. Graduate Program, www.bgsa.pitt.edu. ment of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu. Theater/Opera/Dance Orchestra, A Chamber Orchestral Mother Teresa Is Dead Showcase, 8 p.m. Oct. 25, Carnegie “Gender, History, and Popular Cul- “Better Images of the Thinking by Helen Edmundson, 8 p.m. through Oct. 28, Music Hall; 8 p.m. Oct. 27, Upper St. Lectures/Seminars/ ture in Indian Film,” Neepa Majumdar, Brain: The RF Rx for Susceptibility Clair High School, 1825 McLaughlin Distortions,” Douglas C. Noll, profes- City Theatre Company, 1300 Bingham Pitt associate professor of English, 7 p.m. St., South Side, 412-431-2489, www. Run Road, Upper St. Clair, 412-392- Readings Oct. 24, Mattress Factory, 500 Sampso- sor of biomedi- 4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org cal engineering citytheatrecompany. nia Way, 412-231-3169, www.mattress. org. “Globalization and the Changing org. and professor of Social Contract Between Science and radiology at the You Can’t Take It Exhibitions Poetry Reading, University of Society: Some Implications—Covering April Ossmann and With You, Pitt-John- the Issue of Capitalizing Knowledge Martha Rhodes, 8:30 p.m. Oct. 24, Frick Michigan, Mattress Factory, India: New Instal- 4-5 p.m. stown’s Studio The- via University-Industry Relations,” Fine Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh Con- atre, through Oct. lations Part 1, through Oct. 25, 500 V. V. Krishna, professor of science temporary Writers Series, www.english. Oct. 25, Audi- Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231- torium 5 Scaife 28, Pitt-Johnstown policy at Jawharlal Nehru University, pitt.edu. theater department, 3169, www.mattress.org. noon today, 4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt Asian Hall, Depart- Discussion: Publishing Poets, ment of Biomedi- www.upj.pitt.edu/ Studies Center, www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc. Jan ArtsCenter. Filmmakers Galleries, Purple Hearts Freemann, Allison Joseph, April Oss- cal Engineering, by Nina Berman and Grave and Deterio- “Motives, Goals, and the Study mann, and Martha Rhodes, 2 p.m. www.mirm.pitt. Good Black Don’t rating: Images of the Iraq War by Chris Abroad Experience: Student Perspec- Oct. 24, 501 Cathedral of Learning, edu. Hondros, both exhibitions through Crack by Rob Penny, tives,” Heather Willis Allen, assistant Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, through Nov. 3, Oct. 25, 477 Melwood Ave., 412-681- professor in second-language acquisition www.english.pitt.edu. “The Second 5449, www.pghfilmmakers.org. Step: Develop- 7th-floor Auditorium, and French at the University of Miami, Alumni Hall, Pitt 4:30 p.m. today, 803 , Reception and Artist Lectures, Miriam ing a Business Digging Pitt Gallery, Conceived Bully, Plan,” Kuntu Repertory The- University Center for International Stud- Cabessa, Seth Cohen and Peter Ros- 8-10 City Theatre Company atre, 412-624-7298. featuring works by urban art designers ies, www.ucis.pitt.edu. tovsky, 7 p.m. Oct. 24, Fine, Perlow and a.m. Oct. 26, Mother Teresa Is Dead Evil Design, ExperiBreed, and Magmo; Weis Gallery, Irene Kaufmann Building, 104 , through Oct. 28 Trifles by Susan Same Frequency, works by Jon Ander- “Angst and Megalomania: The Jewish Community Center of Greater Small Business son, Jean McClung, and Sherry Rusinack; Glaspell and Cowboy ‘German East’ in the 19th Century,” Pittsburgh, 5738 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Development Center, 412-648-1542, Mouth by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, both exhibitions through Oct. 27; 4417 Gregor Thum, Pitt professor of history, 412-521-8011, www.jccpgh.org/museum. www.pitt.edu/~sbdc. Butler St., Lawrenceville, 412-605-0450, Oct. 24-28, Cathedral of Learning Studio 4 p.m. today, 3703 Posvar Hall, Depart- asp. Theatre B-72, Pitt Repertory Theatre, www.diggingpitt.com. ment of History, www.pitt.edu/~pitthist. “Emotional Consistency, Conflict, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: and the Stockholm Syndrome,” 412-624-PLAY (7529), www.play.pitt. edu. The Andy Warhol Museum, “Andy and “Liquid Opals, Photonic Crystals, Race, Gender, and Etiquette in Marion Ledwig, assistant professor of Oz: Parallel Visions, A National Gallery and Light-Scattering Studies of Formal Meals,” Alice Julier, Pitt philosophy at the University of Nevada, of Australia 25th Anniversary Exhibi- Always…Patsy Cline, by Ted Swind- Protein Folding: Never Met a Boring scholar in women’s studies program, Las Vegas, 12:05 p.m. Oct. 26, 817R ley, through Oct. 31, Theater Square tion,” “Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Photon,” noon Oct. 24, 2201 Posvar Hall, Pitt Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Department Warhol,” and “Elusive Signs: Bruce Sanford A. Asher, professor of 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh chemistry, 4 p.m. Oct. 23, 2500 Posvar Women’s Studies Program, www.pitt. of the Philosophy of Science, www.pitt. Civic Light Opera, 412-456-6666, www. Nauman Works with Light,” all through edu/~wstudies. edu/~pittcntr. Dec. 30, 117 Sandusky St., 412-237-8300, Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry, clopittsburgh.org. www.chem.pitt.edu. www.warhol.org. “Functional Status Outcomes of ICU “This Blue-Eyed Hag: Race and The Comedy of Errors by William Poetry Reading, Jan Freeman and Survivors: The Role of Empirical Data Shakespeare’s Sycorax,” Jonathan in Ethical Analysis,” Shakespeare, through Nov. 4, O’Reilly Allison Joseph, 8:30 p.m. Oct. 23, Frick Howard Degen- Burton, Woodburn associate professor Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Fine Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh Con- holtz, professor of health policy and of English at West Virginia University, 3 Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-316-1600, temporary Writers Series, www.english. management at Pitt, noon-1 p.m. Oct. 25, p.m. Oct. 26, 332 Cathedral of Learning, www.ppt.org. pitt.edu. 113 School of Law, Center for Bioethics Pitt Department of Medieval and Renais- and Health Law, www.pitt.edu/~bioethic. sance Studies, www.pitt.edu/~medren. “On Scientific Observation,” Delphine Chapuis-Schmitz, professor of the phi- “Reaction Mechanisms and Mecha- “Catalysis-Based Total Synthesis losophy of language at College de France, nochemistry in Small Molecules, of Marine Anticancer Agents,” 12:05 p.m. Oct. 23, 817R Cathedral of Interfaces, and Macroscopic Materi- Alois Furstner, associate professor Learning, Pitt Department of the Philoso- als,” Stephen Craig, associate professor of organometallic chemistry phy of Science, www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr. of chemistry at Duke University, at Max-Planck-Institut of 2:30 p.m. Oct. 25, 12B Chevron Science Germany, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 29, “Probing Chemical Pathways in Center, Pitt Department of Chemistry, 12A Chevron Science Center, Bioactivation-Mediated Genotoxic- www.chem.pitt.edu. Pitt Department of Chemistry, ity,” Shana Sturla, assistant professor of www.chemistry.pitt.edu. medicinal chemistry at the University of “Schools in Shanghai,” Julia H. Kauf- Minnesota, 7:15 p.m. Oct. 23, man, Pitt research associate of the Learn- “Using Single Molecule 12 Chevron Science Center, Pitt Depart- ing Research and Development Center, Spectroscopy to Investigate ment of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu. noon Oct. 25, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia the Reverse Transcription Over Lunch Lecture Series, Pitt Depart- Mechanism of HIV-1, the AIDs “Interwar Prague Women and ment of International Studies, www.ucis. virus,” Paul Barbara, director of Modernity,” Karla Huebner, Pitt pitt.edu. the Center of Nano- and Molecu- predoctoral fellow in Department of the lar Science and Technology at the History of Art and Architecture, noon “Magnetic Fabrics and Physical University of Austin, 4 p.m. Oct. 29, 12 Digging Pitt Gallery Oct. 24, 4217 Posvar Hall, Center for Process in Mafic Magma Chambers,” Chevron Science Center, Pitt Department Magmo Eric Ferre, assistant professor of geology of Chemistry, www.chemistry.pitt.edu. 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Regional Development Summit Will Focus on “Growing Opportunity” Pitt, Sustainable Pittsburgh host free public summit Nov. 16 to share their thoughts and ideas. “The annual Regional Equitable Devel- opment Summit plays an important role in illustrating the many ways that our region’s growth and development can either narrow the disparities gap or inadvertently increase it and move us in the wrong direction,” said David Miller, associate dean of GSPIA. Community panelists will discuss community benefits agreements, minority contracting, environment and public health, access to work, education, affordable hous- ing, workforce development, economic development, and racial and economic inclusion. Moderated by Sala Udin of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership, panelists will include Jane Downing of the Pittsburgh Foundation, Aimee LeFevers of Good Schools Pennsylvania, Luis Rico of Western Pennsylvania Diversity Initiative, and Tim Stevens of the Black Political Empowerment Project. A full listing of panelists can be found on Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Web site, By Amanda Leff www.sustainablepittsburgh.org. The summit is sponsored by the Richard Sustainable Pittsburgh, in partnership “The disparities querque. King Mellon Foundation and The Heinz with the Johnson Institute for Responsible gap between Blacks and “The disparities gap The keynote address Endowments. To register or for more infor- Leadership in Pitt’s Graduate School of Whites in our region, between Blacks and will serve as GSPIA’s mation, contact Sustainable Pittsburgh at Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), among the worst in Annual Wherrett Lecture 412-258-6642, or visit its Web site. will present the region’s fourth-annual the nation, is a serious Whites in our region, on Local Governing. Regional Equitable Development Summit. human and economic “To truly tout our- Titled “Most Livable Region by Grow- crisis that compro- among the worst in the selves as America’s most ing Opportunity for All,” the free public mises quality of life and livable city—or region summit will be held from 8:30 a.m. to competitiveness,” said nation, is a serious human for that matter—we must PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of Pitt 12:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Twentieth Cen- Court Gould, executive be accountable to ensure Chronicle will be published Oct. 29. The dead- tury Club, 4201 Bigelow Blvd., Oakland. director of Sustainable and economic crisis that all people of the region line for submitting information is 5 p.m. Oct.24. It will feature a keynote address by David Pittsburgh. have an opportunity to Items for publication in the newspaper’s Rusk and a panel discussion on initiating Rusk, author of compromises quality of live to their full pro- Happenings events calendar (see page 7) reforms that will narrow the region’s racial Cities Without Sub- life and competitiveness.” ductive potential,” said should be submitted to [email protected]. disparities gap. urbs (Woodrow Wilson Kevin Kearns, professor Happenings items should include the fol- lowing information: title of the event, name According to Sustainable Pittsburgh, Center Press, 1993), —Court Gould of public and nonprofit and title of speaker(s), date, time, location, the region’s sustainability is dependent on Baltimore Unbound management in GSPIA sponsor(s), and a phone number and Web increasing social equity, so all people can (Johns Hopkins Univer- and director of the John- site for additional information. Items may live and work to their productive potential. sity Press, 1995), and Inside Game/Outside son Institute for Responsible Leadership. be faxed to 412-624-4895 or sent by campus The summit is intended to serve as a cata- Game (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), The summit will feature information on mail to 422 Craig Hall. For more informa- lyst for engaging civic leaders in helping is a former chair of the Ways and Means the current work of some of the region’s lead- tion, call 412-624-1033. advance existing efforts for regional equity Committee of the New Mexico House of ing champions of equitable development, as in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Representatives and former mayor of Albu- well as provide an opportunity for attendees