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U N I V E R S I T Y What can be done about the con- tinuing pay gap between men and women? A Pitt conference tackles TIMES the problem...... 8 & 9 VOLUME 41 • NUMBER 13 MARCH 5, 2009 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Stimulus funding could Scholarly No raises hike state appropriation publishing this year, HARRISBURG—Following minutes as part of the annual state challenges a last-minute financial reprieve budget-making process. David Shulenburger, from the governor, the top execu- Earlier in the day, Gov. Edward the National Asso- chancellor ciation of State Uni- tives of Pennsylvania’s four state- G. Rendell announced he would versities and Land- related institutions acted a little direct $42 million of the state’s Grant Colleges’ like the doomed who had been $1.9 billion share of federal eco- vice president for announces academic affairs, spared the gallows at a hearing nomic stimulus funds to restore presented the key- n hopes of avoiding job cuts, March 3 before the state House planned budget cuts to the state- note address and there will be no salary increase took questions from pool included in Pitt’s fiscal appropriations committee. But the related universities’ common- the audience at the I four leaders and members of the wealth appropriations for fiscal University Senate’s year 2010 budget, Chancellor committee agreed it was merely a year 2010, which begins July 1. March 3 plenary Mark A. Nordenberg announced session on scholarly temporary reprieve. Half of the $1.9 billion will be publishing. in a March 2 University Update. Chancellor Mark Norden- used in 2009-2010 and the remain- The decision was made on Coverage of the the recommendation of the Uni- berg and his counterparts, Penn der in 2010-2011, a governor’s event will appear in State’s Graham Spanier, Temple’s press release stated. the March 19 Uni- versity Planning and Budgeting Ann Weaver Hart and Lincoln’s The $42 million equals the versity Times. Committee (UPBC), which Ivory Nelson, testified before the combined cuts, ordered by the advises the chancellor in decisions Kimberly K. Barlow appropriations committee for 90 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 regarding the University’s annual operating budget. The University’s salary pool increase was 4 percent last year. In the update, Nordenberg 2 win Bellet A&S teaching awards stated that, after discussion on the retchen Holtzapple Bryn Mawr College in 2001. students.” than her students may have, “It continuing economic crisis and the Bender of the Depart- She was awarded the Doris Sill The task is easier when the doesn’t mean their point of view difficulties that need to be faced Gment of History of Art Carland Prize for Excellence in teacher knows the individual is less valued.” in crafting a budget, UPBC at its and Architecture and Joseph J. Teaching from Bryn Mawr Col- students, she said. In a small class, In her dossier, Bender cited February meeting “recommended Grabowski of the Department of lege, and at Franklin and Marshall knowing the students is not so a student’s observation that she that next year’s budget not include Chemistry have been named win- College won the Robert M. and hard, she said. In an auditorium displayed passion, knowledge of a salary increase pool. I agree with ners of the 2009 Tina and David Elizabeth Hatton Landis Art class with hundreds of students, her subject and accessibility. “My that recommendation and plan to Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Award and was inducted into Phi the undertaking is more difficult desire to enter the classroom with implement it.” Excellence Award. Beta Kappa. but not impossible. “There are a sense of humility would seem- Pay and benefits are the Uni- School of Arts and Sciences Bender is working on a book ways to create an environment ingly run counter to the perceived versity’s largest expense, totaling alumnus David Bellet and his titled “Tracing Caroline: Gender where learning is stimulating and identity of the college professor, $967 million on the $1.66 mil- wife, Tina, established the award and the Landscape Practice of exciting,” she said, adding that it’s the authoritative scholar who lion expense side of Pitt’s current in 1998 to recognize outstanding C.D. Friedrich.” her practice to “come out from bestows knowledge,” Bender budget. and innovative undergraduate Winning the Bellet award is behind the podium and converse stated, adding “a mastery of one’s The state may withhold 6 teaching in the school. “tremendously flattering,” Bender with them in addition to lecturing research specialty and discipline percent of Pitt’s $189.3 million Full-time faculty who have said, crediting in part supportive at them.” can be communicated and shared combined appropriation for taught in Arts and Sciences during colleagues who submitted letters Bender said she favors an open most effectively through passion, the current fiscal year and Gov. the past three years are eligible. on her behalf as well as her “bril- and communicative classroom encouragement and approach- Edward G. Rendell, in his budget An awards committee appointed liant and creative” students who atmosphere. “I have the expecta- ability.” proposal for next year, sought to by the Arts and Sciences associate add excitement to her classroom. tion in the classroom that we’re Although she initially planned keep Pitt’s appropriation at the dean for undergraduate studies “It’s fun to get up every morning all learning and collaborating a career in studio arts, “I always current reduced level, placing state evaluates nominees’ teaching skills and walk into the classroom,” together,” she said, stressing had the sense teaching would be support for the University at less based on student-teaching and she said. that her students are able to help exciting,” Bender said. than fiscal year 2006 levels. peer evaluations, student testimo- “What motivates and excites her see a different point of view. She said she had a fine role However, Rendell on Tuesday nials and dossiers submitted by the me to teach is the ability to get “I’m hopefully inspiring them to model in her father, a physician announced one spot of bright news nominees. Each award recipient to know students individually,” know they have their own critical who taught in the State University emanating from $953 million in receives a prize of $5,000. Bender said. “I’m challenged to voice,” she said, adding that simply of New York system. “I grew up federal economic stimulus money find ways to make the course because she’s read more or devoted having students at our house,” she that is set to come Pennsylvania’s Gretchen Bender content exciting and relevant to more time to her subject matter said. Among other teachers who way in FY10. Of that money, $42 Bender, a lecturer in modern influenced her was the Franklin million is to be allocated to restore art and architecture, has been and Marshall art history professor planned budget cuts to Pitt and its the department’s undergraduate whose energy and excitement in fellow state-related universities. advising director since 2002. teaching the art history classes Vice Chancellor for Govern- Among the classes she has that Bender “had to take” helped mental Relations and Associate offered are an introductory history her instead choose a career in art General Counsel Paul A. Supow- of world art, several courses in history. itz noted that the governor’s 18th- and 19th-century European She plans to use the Bellet announcement stated that the 6 art, research and methodology award money to travel to see more percent cut would be restored for seminars on feminism and art his- of the things she teaches about. fiscal year 2009-10, which begins tory, and Romantic landscape. Bender said she is glad to see July 1. She also serves on the Pitt Arts undergraduate teaching being “At this point, there has been and Sciences writing board. recognized through the Bellet no indication that the 6 percent cut She earned a bachelor’s degree award. “At large research univer- for the current fiscal year 2008-09 in art history, cum laude, at Frank- sities sometimes undergraduates will be restored,” he said. lin and Marshall College in 1991, can be sort of an afterthought,” The impact of the governor’s a master’s degree at American she said. “I’m delighted that’s not announcement about the federal University in 1994 and a PhD in the case at Pitt.” stimulus money is not yet clear. German art of the Romantic era at Bellet award winners Gretchen Bender and Joseph Grabowski CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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L E T T E R S No raises this year, Fiduciary responsibility? To the editor: idea to address the crucial question modest returns above the index chancellor announces I must admit, fi nding out that of fi duciary responsibility because commensurate with little incre- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 our beloved University is a plaintiff without securing the latter, the mental risk. In addition, the fund Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs stable employment base. Holding in a securities fraud case (Associated calls to manage the former may manager and strategy were vetted, Robert Hill stated, “Because this salaries at their current levels will Press, Feb. 25) involving a hedge begin to sound a bit hollow. not only by our own investment announcement has just been help us do that.” fund (WG Trading Company LP Gautam Mukerjee professionals but by one of our made, we will need to follow up University Senate president & Westridge Capital Management Associate Professor outside investment advisers, one with the administration regarding John J. Baker pointed out that Inc.) has been a bit of a shocker. It Economics of the largest and most respected the specifi cs of both the plan and the chancellor has been caution- fl ies in the face of the University’s Bradford Campus investment consulting fi rms in the process for its implementa- ing since fall that the upcoming fi scal conservatism about which the country. As has been publicly tion. And given the continuing budget year would be a diffi cult we at the branch campuses receive Arthur G. Ramicone, vice chan- reported, the fund also attracted economic decline, it is clear that one. Baker said administrators regular reminders. cellor for Budget and Controller, other large and experienced insti- many serious budget challenges are being “very, very cautious” in Hedge funds, we teach our responds: tutional investors. remain. developing next year’s budget and students, are utterly risky phe- At Pitt, we take our respon- We do not anticipate that this “However, this is a very impor- that the announcement of a freeze nomena akin to casino gambling; sibility to preserve and protect issue will have a short-term impact tant form of support as we work to doesn’t come as a surprise. to add to that, they operate in a University assets very seriously. on distributions from the endow- control tuition increases, maintain “I’m not happy about it, but totally unregulated market with That commitment is refl ected in ment. Many of our longer-term program quality and intensify it would appear to be necessary tremendous downside risks. It is a record of effective performance questions will not be answered our efforts to help stimulate the at this stage,” Baker said. therefore a bit disconcerting that that now spans many years. It also until the proceedings recently regional economy.” In response to the news, Staff an estimated sum of $57 million is refl ected in the action taken initiated by federal regulatory The University’s belt-tighten- Association Council President or more from the coffers of the more recently, and in partnership agencies have moved forward. As ing is not unique: Among the many Rich Colwell said, “SAC recog- University of Pittsburgh should with our colleagues from Carnegie the ongoing investigation into schools resorting to pay freezes are nizes the diffi cult decisions that have been committed to such a Mellon University, by bringing Westridge provides more infor- the 14 Pennsylvania State System Chancellor Nordenberg faces and highly speculative vehicle. To suit in federal court as soon as mation about how the alleged of Higher Education schools, is supportive of his decision to be sure, the alacrity with which it appeared that there might be fraud occurred, we will vigilantly Penn State, Temple University forgo a salary increase pool in lieu the University has proceeded to problems with our investments search for ways to bolster the Uni- and neighboring Carnegie Mellon of decreasing the workforce. recover as much of the funds as in Westridge. versity’s protection against such University. “These are diffi cult fi nancial possible is quite commendable The monies in question were risks. n In the March 2 update, Nor- times for all — together, working although the outcome is anyone’s invested in a federally regulated Letters should be submitted at least one week denberg stated, “Even though with the University administra- guess. fund that also was regularly prior to publication. Persons criticized in a letter many other universities already tion, SAC is confi dent that we To be sure, this latest bit of audited by a Big Four accounting will receive a copy of the letter so that they may prepare a response. If no response is received, the have taken this step, the decision will grow through this process news only feeds into the economic fi rm. Although no investment letter will be published alone. not to provide for salary increases and become a stronger University uncertainties already upon us as is without risk, this investment Letters can be sent by email to njbrown@pitt. in next year’s budget was not an tomorrow.” hiring freezes go into place and strategy was considered to be edu or by campus mail to 308 Bellefi eld Hall. The University Times reserves the right easy one for me to make or for the Nordenberg’s update is avail- planned construction projects are conservative — an enhanced index to edit letters for clarity or length. Individuals UPBC to recommend,” adding, able online at www.chancellor.pitt. scuttled or postponed. Before the approach tied to the S&P 500. The are limited to two published letters per academic “We value the efforts of our edu/news/2009-03-02.html. term. Unsigned letters will not be accepted for current fi scal exigency plays itself enhancement came from a strategy faculty and staff and have made —Kimberly K. Barlow n out, however, it may not be a bad which was expected to provide publication. investments in compensation a high priority over the course of many years.” In his update, the chancellor went on to say, “A signifi cant workforce reduction, the most obvious alternative in an institu- David Bryan Clubb tion with such heavy commit- ments to personnel expenses, was considered to be a far less Recruiting and retaining international faculty desirable option by all involved. Recruiting and retaining the institutions, corporate research ulty member. For example, J-1 3, etc.) do not allow spouses to As we know from almost daily best faculty are critical for Pitt’s facilities, museums, libraries, post- visa regulations preclude placing work in this country. The abil- media reports, many organiza- continuing success. And in today’s secondary accredited educational visiting faculty members in the ity of OIS staff to address these tions are moving forward with global market, that often means institutions or similar types of tenure stream, but the H-1B visa concerns in an appropriate and substantial employment cutbacks going beyond the borders of the institutions. The research scholar is very appropriate for tenure- sensitive manner is often a factor but sitting at the very heart of our United States and hiring faculty may also teach or lecture, unless stream hires. for an international faculty recruit core strengths are the dedicated from all over the world. disallowed by the sponsor. While international faculty when deciding whether to accept individuals who work tirelessly Hiring international faculty • H-1B Specialty Occu- members usually begin in one of Pitt’s offer. OIS works closely and effectively to advance our may seem daunting, confusing and pation Workers: A “specialty these non-immigrant visa classifi - with the hiring department and important institutional mission. complex to academic departments, occupation” for H-1B purposes is cations, they ultimately may seek the international recruit to get the It is both equitable and essential, but it need not be so. While U.S. an occupation that requires “(A) to remain in the United States dependent spouse in a visa status then, that we do everything pos- government policies and regula- theoretical and practical applica- permanently. When this also is in that will allow employment when sible to maintain a reasonably tions since 9/11 have made recruit- tion of a body of highly specialized the interest of the University and that is preferred. ing international talent more dif- knowledge, and (B) attainment consistent with the department’s The ability of the hiring fi cult, Pitt’s Offi ce of International of a bachelor’s or higher degree goals, the academic department department, in coordination with Services (OIS) has been able to in the specifi c specialty (or its may work with OIS to seek U.S. OIS, to address these issues can successfully navigate the new equivalent) as a minimum for Lawful Permanent Resident make the difference between an regulatory maze not only to ensure entry into the occupation in the (LPR) status on behalf of the academic department success- institutional compliance but also United States.” international faculty member. By fully recruiting its No. 1 choice U N I V E R S I T Y to enable academic departments • O-1 Aliens of Extraor- utilizing OIS services early in the or having to go back to the to maximize their options when it dinary Ability: The O-1 non- faculty member’s employment, the drawing board. Departments are TIMES comes to recruiting and retaining immigrant category is for the stress and anxiety of immigration encouraged to engage OIS early EDITOR the best international faculty. employment of foreign nationals issues can be relieved so that the in the recruitment and selection N. J. Brown 412/624-1373 International faculty may come who have achieved and sustained new faculty member can focus on process in order to most effi ciently [email protected] to the University on a variety of national or international acclaim teaching, research and the tenure facilitate the immigration-related WRITERS non-immigrant visas, which allow for extraordinary ability in the process. With few exceptions, aspects of the new hire and ensure foreign nationals to come to the sciences, arts, education, business OIS has the in-house expertise to acceptance of the offer. Kimberly K. Barlow 412/624-1379 [email protected] United States for a temporary or athletics. process LPR petitions internally, In a recent situation in the period of time for a limited pur- Each of these classifi cations has which cuts costs and ensures School of Law, OIS worked closely Peter Hart 412/624-1374 pose: its own set of qualifying criteria, greater control of the process. with the dean’s offi ce on offers to [email protected] • J-1 Professors or Research as well as its own set of limitations While any faculty hiring situa- two international faculty recruits. 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He told Senate Council his ability to comment was limited. Pitt-CMU suit over investment losses on hold “I begin with that express limi- he disgraced investment addition to requesting more than fraud and the wire fraud counts ing approximately $293 million; tation because there are limits to fund operators who are $900,000 to cover third-party each carry maximum sentences Walsh allegedly wrote IOUs to what we know, which is the nature Taccused of spending insti- expenses for his horse farm, of 20 years. WGTI for $261 million. of fraud. There also are legal pro- tutional money — including a according to the filing Green- The SEC suit charges that q ceedings that are underway that chunk of Pitt’s endowment — to wood sought monthly household “Greenwood and Walsh have used In 2001, Pitt trustees approved we cannot afford to complicate, fund extravagant lifestyles have expenses of $9,900; $35,000 for their affiliated entities to engage a three-year plan to diversify the both because as a general matter asked a U.S. District Court judge orthodontists, $62,000 for tuition, in an egregious investment fraud” University’s portfolio that raised we want to support the efforts of in New York to release more than loan interest of $54,000 and annual and have “used client money to 10 percent the portion of the the involved federal agencies and $1 million in frozen assets to cover property upkeep expenses of more invested in [their partnership WG University’s endowment invested because these are proceedings in living and other expenses. than $350,000. “If these excessive Trading Investors] as their per- in hedge funds and other “market- which we hope to recover at least The Commodity Futures expenses are allowed to be paid sonal piggy-bank to furnish lavish able alternatives.” some of our assets.” Trading Commission (CFTC), with frozen assets, this would and luxurious lifestyles, which The trustees’ investment Nordenberg said he chose to one of the organizations that irreparably harm the defendants’ include the purchase of multi-mil- committee last summer again make his first public comments filed civil suits against partners victims by greatly reducing their lion dollar homes, a horse farm, changed the endowment asset to Senate Council “because the Paul Greenwood and Stephen possible recovery,” CFTC’s filing cars, horses and rare collectibles allocation policy to increase that people around this table are a part Walsh and their related firms, is stated. such as Steiff teddy bears.” percentage. of the community that includes hoping the judge won’t buy their q In addition, according to a In consultation with the Uni- groups and people who have a argument. In a March 3 filing in Pitt could be out some $65 mil- Department of Justice statement, versity’s investment staff and direct stake in these matters” and response to the pair’s request to lion in endowment funds invested Walsh is alleged to have misap- consultants Wilshire Associates that he would speak further when release some assets, CFTC reiter- with New Yorkers Greenwood and propriated investor funds for and Cambridge Associates, in a he could. ated its concern that investors may Walsh, who were arrested by the himself, and to have made large June 16, 2008, vote, the committee Absent a definitive accounting be left holding the bag. FBI last week on federal charges cash payments to his ex-wife. authorized an additional 3 percent from Pitt administrators, exactly “[T]he Commission’s initial of conspiracy, securities fraud and Greenwood and Walsh are of the endowment’s total market what percentage of the Universi- review of their assets indicates wire fraud. Neighboring Carnegie alleged to have misappropriated value to be invested in marketable ty’s endowment was invested with a strong probability that the Mellon University had invested most of the millions that insti- alternatives such as those made Greenwood and Walsh’s firms is defendants do not have sufficient $49 million with them. tutional investors believed were with Greenwood and Walsh. unclear. assets to remotely cover the losses The universities jointly filed being invested in what was pitched The target allocation in the As of June 30, 2008, Pitt’s incurred by their misappropria- a complaint against the duo and as a conservative “enhanced stock marketable alternatives category endowment was nearly $2.4 bil- tion of investor funds. Any addi- their firms Feb. 20 in federal indexing” trading strategy that was set at 18 percent of the endow- lion, according to the financial tional dispersing or dissipation court in Pittsburgh in hopes of beat the returns of the S&P 500. ment’s market value with a range audit report approved by trustees of funds would serve to further recouping their investments, The apparent fraud came to of 13-23 percent. (See June 26, at their summer meeting. reduce the likely recovery for the which include $21.25 million Pitt light after Greenwood and Walsh 2008, University Times.) According A Dec. 18 University Update victims of this scheme,” CFTC’s invested with the partners in early refused in early February to coop- to the University’s consolidated stated that, as of Nov. 30, 2008, counsel stated. February. That suit has been put erate with a National Futures financial statements, as of June 30, market conditions had caused CFTC’s opposition scoffed on hold while civil actions filed Association audit of WG Trading 2008, the endowment’s exposure the endowment to shed some 22 at what Greenwood requested by the Securities and Exchange Investors (WGTI). to such hedge and arbitrage funds percent of its value. as necessary living expenses. In Commission and CFTC actions In the audit, the NFA, an inde- was 16 percent. Based on an endowment of work their way through the New pendent self-regulatory group q $2.4 billion, a 22 percent drop York court. for the futures industry, found Pitt administrators aren’t would mean an estimated loss Pitt and CMU are among that of approximately $812 mil- saying much about the invest- of $528 million, leaving $1.87 some 16 institutional investors lion supposedly on the books of ment losses. However, Chancellor billion. Given the estimated $65 in a commodity pool controlled WGTI, more than $794 million Mark A. Nordenberg reiterated million Pitt investment cited in by the two, who face prison time was booked as receivables due in his March 4 report to Senate the lawsuits against Greenwood and fines related to the criminal from Greenwood and Walsh and Council the points made in the and Walsh, approximately 3.5 charges. The conspiracy count investments in entities that they administration’s written response percent of Pitt’s endowment could carries a maximum sentence of controlled. Greenwood allegedly to a University Times letter to the be impacted. five years in prison. The securities signed IOUs to WGTI total- editor (see page 2). Kimberly Barlow & Peter Hart 2 win Bellet A&S teaching awards CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Joseph Grabowski tutoring and office hours to find said. Just as in medicine doctors and thought, “I really like what Grabowski, director of under- the mix that works for them,” he don’t know what symptoms their you do.” He also naively thought, graduate research in Arts and wrote. While each student is dif- next patient will present or in “I could do your teaching better Sciences, came to Pitt’s chemistry ferent, Grabowski stated, “With baseball a batter doesn’t know than you,” he said. GSPIA prof hit department in 1991 from a posi- the necessary effort, every student what sort of pitch is coming next, “I had no idea how hard they by bus released tion at Harvard. can master organic chemistry at students must have the confidence were working. When I started He earned a bachelor’s degree the level of their commitment.” to handle the next problem. teaching, I learned to appreciate from hospital in chemistry, magna cum laude, Getting students to make “The next situation you’re what my professors put forth.” Graduate School of Public at the University of Maryland- that commitment is a challenge going to be presented with is going Grabowski said he began and International Affairs pro- Baltimore County in 1978 and a that faculty must not concede, to be a new situation. You’ve got to looking to the education litera- fessor Sabina Deitrick, who PhD in organic chemistry at the he wrote. apply what you’ve learned.” ture and pondering how to teach was struck by a Port Authority University of Colorado in 1983. “We do our students disser- He noted that he always has while training graduate students bus Feb. 27, plans to return His research focuses on physi- vice by designing courses to low been an active learner. “I’d rather to be TAs and to lead recitations to the classroom after next cal-organic chemistry and ana- expectations,” he stated. solve a chemistry problem than at Harvard. week’s spring break, a GSPIA lytical mass spectrometry. Current “Our students are capable of read about it,” he said. For his Since then, he’s devoted him- spokesperson said. research in his lab is directed more than they are willing to admit students, the text and lecture are self to understanding what the Her Wednesday evening toward defining and utilizing the to, and perhaps much more than “sort of redundant” and they may experts are doing and what current economic development strat- fundamental dynamics of organic they often fervently believe they choose to emphasize one or the research from cognitive neuro- egies and practices class was reaction mechanisms and the are capable of.” other. While they must attend scientists and learning specialists canceled this week. intrinsic properties of reactive Grabowski told the University the recitations and work practice says about how students learn. Deitrick, who also co- intermediates. Times that he finds Pitt students problems, the remaining choices Conversations with colleagues directs the University Center Grabowski received the Chan- amazing and more engaged than of how to get to the necessary skill within his discipline and beyond for Social and Urban Research cellor’s Distinguished Teaching ever, yet too often willing to settle level are up to them, he said. also have been helpful. and Pitt’s Community Out- Award in 2003, the same year for less than they can accomplish It’s all very different from when At Pitt, he said the climate in reach Partnership Center, was he received a Carnegie Science for the sake of an A on their he was in school, Grabowski said. the School of Arts and Sciences hit by a 54C traveling in the bus Center Award for Excellence. transcripts. He advocates a step- The professor entered the class- has been supportive of improv- lane on Fifth Avenue near the Among his publications are by-step teaching process that room, pulled a piece of chalk from ing undergraduate teaching. He William Pitt Union. She was articles on active learning, experi- gradually removes support until his pocket and lectured, never cited teaching excellence lectures, taken to UPMC Presbyterian, ential learning and mentoring. students can stand on their own asking or taking questions from Center for Instructional Devel- but since has been released, the In his dossier, Grabowski with confidence. the class. opment and Distance Education spokesperson reported. compared his way of teaching Internalizing the basic prin- Although he entered college workshops, faculty article and Port Authority spokesper- chemistry as a smorgasbord from ciples of chemistry is particularly intending to become a doctor, as book discussions on teaching, son David Whipkey said the which students must choose their important because each course a sophomore chemistry major he the annual CIDDE Teaching driver, Daryl Glaze, honked own “plateful for success” from builds upon a prior one. “There became a research assistant. “I Excellence Fair and presenta- and tried to swerve, but could opportunities based on traditional are things you have to take and discovered you can do that the tions from Advisory Council on not avoid hitting Deitrick. Per methods as well as new technolo- master,” he said, adding that what rest of your life,” and ditched his Instructional Excellence grant company policy, Glaze was gies. he asks students to do is “think, plans for medicine. “I really, really winners all as places he picks up held off from work with pay, “Students select from lecture, not regurgitate.” liked playing in the lab. I’ve never tips on teaching. “There are a lot but was expected to return textbook, computer animations, The ability to apply knowledge been sorry about that.” of great teachers here,” he said. to work this week, Whipkey virtual laboratories, practice prob- is crucial because in addition to In choosing to attend gradu- “A lot of people have made this said. n lems, web-graded exercises, old scientific principles, chemistry ate school, Grabowski said he environment what it is.” exams, group study, workshops, contains a lot of art, Grabowski considered his professors’ jobs —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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asked the Office of Budget and Controller to prepare a fiscal year Release of revenue/expense report on hold 2008 attribution study. He had no estimate of the study cost, but he Senate budget policies UPBC of the value of the report, understanding and judgment of things,” he said. “And if this isn’t a noted that from the perspective of committee won’t receive issues that Pratt said he felt would the institution,” he said, compar- useful document, then what would the Office of Budget and Control- Tanytime soon the athletics be legitimate to discuss with the ing it to the secrecy among bankers be a useful document?” ler, “It’s a very time-consuming funding information it expected to provost in April. who seek government bailouts but Carr said, “Rather than see enterprise. As resources get con- receive in a University report last “Is there some reason they feel don’t want to disclose what they’re this as an occasion to get rid of strained, that’s when the question June. The report, prepared by the a document which didn’t seem doing with the money. “That’s not information, in the interest of of utility comes to the fore.” Office of Budget and Controller to do much harm when it was a the direction I’d like to see this transparency it would be useful No alternative has so far been for the University Planning and public document because nobody institution go.” to share documents, in whatever proposed, Pack said, adding that Budgeting Committee (UPBC), paid much attention to it” no Wion said he saw no reason for appropriate form and with what- the question of what alternate tool shows the revenues and expenses longer should be available? Pratt withholding the report, noting it ever appropriate restrictions, would be useful to UPBC would attributable to each Pitt unit. asked. “Has that changed? Has the is “dull budget stuff” and “nothing that actually are used in decision be pondered in the fall. BPC, which reviewed a draft external environment changed? scandalous and controversial.” making.” Until then, the report will not of the University’s fiscal year 2007 Or is it that the administration is If disclosure prompted unwar- q be released. “UPBC has decided attribution report in executive becoming more cautious?” ranted attention to small parts of Pack told the University Times to review the utility of the report,” session last May, sought the public Staff Association Council the report, Wion said, “Some- that the attribution report was Pack said. “Until there has been release of the final document as a representative to BPC Michael times I think it’s worth the risk of implemented when UPBC was such a review, there’s no reason to precursor to inviting Pitt Athletic Semcheski noted, “It seems a somebody pouncing on some little new, to help the committee gain an release something whose utility is Director Steve Pederson to discuss key point is that some level of detail and making a fuss about it understanding of the University’s seen in such serious question.” athletics funding in an open BPC transparency and openness isn’t because it can be countered by structure and distribution of Pack questioned BPC’s inter- meeting. a complement to good manage- people like us who’ve invested the resources. “From discussion quite est in the document, noting that BPC’s plan has been put on ment, it’s a component of good time to understand the institution early, it was weak,” Pack said, BPC’s role is not one of budget hold as the administration, which management.” and its finances.” Without having noting that the report “doesn’t overseer and adding that the com- last year indicated that the report BPC members noted that skep- the data available to the University reflect the reality of what is going mittee hasn’t showed interest in would be made public once a final ticism about the value of the study community, “It’s harder to coun- on.” For instance, Pack noted, discussing the attribution report version was approved by UPBC, is nothing new, but maintained it ter whatever suspicions or ill will the units don’t get a percentage as it applies to other units. since has failed to release it. remains useful. somebody out there might have,” of the state appropriation nor “BPC is not an investigative None of the three chancellor’s BPC member Phil Wion, who Wion said. do they keep tuition dollars they organization,” he said. “I can liaisons to BPC attended the also has served on UPBC, said that Former BPC chair Stephen generate. In addition, the report understand they have an interest committee’s Feb. 27 meeting. the attribution report not only Carr, who also has served on attributes support expenses using in athletics, but I’m not sure that’s Richard Henderson, budget calls attention to the finances of UPBC, said that if UPBC doubts a formula that is applied across an area in which they have budget director for Health Sciences, individual units but also provides the value of the attribution report, the board, which likewise doesn’t oversight,” Pack said. cited travel, and Vice Chancellor a record, and aids in decision he would be open to an alternative. reflect reality. In addition, he questioned the for Budget and controller Arthur making. Over time, study of the “I don’t see what the problem is. BPC members noted, and Pack need for the report as a prerequi- G. Ramicone cited the 11:30 a.m. annual document can reveal the But let’s hear what the problem is confirmed, that the attribution site for discussion with Pederson. trustees meeting in regrets sent to effects of decisions that change the and what would be a better way of report does not factor into the “I think you can have a reasonable BPC chair Richard Pratt. Robert structure or relationships among doing it,” he said. allocation of resources to units. conversation with people about F. Pack, vice provost for Academic various programs and functions of “Rather than say simply we “It was developed as a tool for their goals and ambitions without Planning and Resources Manage- the University, Wion said. want this — and we do want this UPBC,” Pack said. “It was never being able to look at their budget,” ment, told the University Times The study shows not only the — we’re open in principle to sim- designed for other purposes. he said. he missed the meeting because a direct revenues and expenses of plifying it, perhaps adding some Pack said UPBC has not —Kimberly K. Barlow n grant proposal was due. the various schools and units, With no administrators pres- “but reminds everybody that ent at BPC’s Feb. 27 meeting, the those units require the support committee got few answers about of the registrar and the auditors the public release of the study, but and the Facilities Management Stimulus could hike appropriation this week Pack told the University people and the Provost’s office CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Times that UPBC is question- and the Chancellor’s office and all governor, that the state-relateds also no increase, it’s important for vania college students, but not ing the utility of the attribution those other parts of the University expect to absorb at the end of the us to talk about what we’re going to students from the state-related report and will not take up the that otherwise we tend to lump current fiscal year. do, because we do have inflation- institutions. discussion again until fall, when together as administration and Prior to passage of the fed- ary forces operating. We already Committee member Dan budget discussions are complete. as bureaucracy that many people eral stimulus package, Rendell, are having to make cuts across the Frankel (D-Allegheny Co.), a Pitt Among UPBC’s duties is to advise tend to assume is bloated and full in his Feb. 4 budget message, whole university.” Penn State has trustee, commented, “It makes the chancellor on the University’s of fat,” Wion said. “When you had proposed a $160.5 mil- announced more than 200 layoffs no sense to me whatsoever to be operating budget. have this study you see it’s not that lion appropriation for Pitt — 6 and frozen salaries and hiring. excluding the state-relateds in BPC members at the commit- simple. The relationship is com- percent less than the $170.73 Nordenberg announced this this situation. Tens of thousands tee’s Feb. 27 meeting questioned plicated and the costs of all those million legislators approved last week that Pitt, which already of students are in the system and whether transparency within the staff people and support people July. “Certainly, the stimulus bill had frozen most open position they are important.” administration is eroding and are going for something. They does good for next year and the searches and limited travel and Nordenberg said that plan in whether another sort of report don’t pay for themselves.” following year. But this looks to other expenses, is instituting a effect causes in-fighting among might be of value. Both are issues Transparency is another ben- me like a stopgap measure,” said salary freeze for its employees. Pennsylvania institutions. members plan to address with efit, Wion said, pointing out that Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia), Temple and Lincoln also are “We ought to be in this Provost James V. Maher, who also such transparency didn’t exist committee chair. “It doesn’t solve taking belt-tightening measures, together because we have enough chairs UPBC and who is scheduled prior to the implementation in your long-term problems,” he told their respective leaders said. battles to fight just dealing with to meet with BPC April 17. 1992 of the University’s planning the school leaders. The federal stimulus package the [economic] environment,” Pratt, who as BPC chair is a and budgeting system. Rep. Bill Kortz (D-Allegheny provides some cause for opti- Nordenberg said. “I hope people voting member of UPBC, said “I think [UPBC is] saying Co.) added, “The stimulus goes mism, Nordenberg said. “The understand, with respect to this there had been “reasonably exten- they’re finding it of not much away in a couple years and I’m president and the Congress have tuition relief act that the governor sive discussion” about the attribu- use in the decisions that they’re afraid we’re just delaying the set a pretty clear direction. That has proposed, that when we fight tion study at the Feb. 19 UPBC making about priorities among pain.” stimulus bill provides for the big- about that, we’re really fighting meeting. UPBC’s meetings are units,” Wion said, adding, “The While the chief executives all gest investment ever in research: for our students. Those are dollars not open to the public. value of transparency is that expressed gratitude, they agreed $16 billion. That’s more than $10 that are going to be directed to Pratt added, “It was agreed people who are interested — like that Rendell’s measure does billion to the National Institutes of Pennsylvania students and their that if I was asked what happened, the Senate budget policies com- not do enough for institutions Health, $3 billion to the National families.” I would defer to [Pack] to make a mittee and UPBC and deans and suffering from dwindling state Science Foundation, $2 billion to For many of Pennsylvania’s statement.” potentially faculty in the various support, especially in a depressed the Department of Energy. The most-talented students, the state- In his Friday regrets message units — can see what’s going on economy. institutions before you are particu- related institutions are the univer- to BPC, Pack sent a statement for rather than being confronted by “We really are grateful that larly well-suited to attract those sities of first choice, he noted, a Pratt to convey. “If the subject of a black box.” this additional revenue will be dollars,” he said, noting that Pitt message he also shared with the the attribution report comes up The lack of information puts coming our way,” Nordenberg is No. 6 nationally in NIH funding Board of Trustees on Feb. 27. you can simply say that the UPBC interested parties in a position to said. “What happens in the next and in the top 10 in science and “Why should they be left out? discussed it at its recent meeting wonder whether the University two years is going to tell a good engineering grants. When you read the bill further and is considering the utility of the is being run responsibly, he said. bit of the tale of what we’re able Pitt generates a return of $3.60 and it says we need to prepare study and its relevance to under- When the connections between to do ... down the road, because for every dollar of commonwealth students for the jobs of the future, standing the University’s overall units are visible, “then [BPC] can there is this cliff that we’re facing, appropriation, Nordenberg said. we’re strongest in the areas that budget process. Pending comple- say, ‘We’ve seen a much greater and we need to find a way to climb “It would be difficult to find are likely to be in demand in those tion of that review, the UPBC increase in efficiency and respon- out of the economic crisis and anywhere a better leveraged jobs and, in fact, we’re generating felt that it would be premature to sibility than when this process begin generating jobs and wealth investment.” many of those jobs through our subject the attribution report to started.’ We have some credibility and everything that goes into a q research and technology transfer wider scrutiny,” Pratt read. because we have something to strong economy.” The four university leaders programs. We all want to be dip- BPC’s concerns center on two base it on.” Spanier added, “Even with the were less complimentary about lomatic and non-fighters, but we main issues: Whether the attribu- Wion said having a measuring governor’s announcement this the governor’s tuition relief plan, need to stick up for our students,” tion report is an open or closed stick is crucial. “Take that away and morning that for 2009-2010 there which would provide grants of Nordenberg said. document and the questioning by you take away grounds for realistic would be no cut in our budget, but up to $7,600 to some Pennsyl- —Peter Hart n

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this. I’m just going to tell what I know truthfully, and other people Felon tells own tale of political corruption would have to deal with that,” Juliano said. as I was starting my third year I he recent impeachment will be eligible to apply for re- the higher-ups, particularly Scott During the investigation, encountered corruption person- and ouster of Illinois Gov. instatement. Fawell, to use those resources for Patrick Fitzgerald (now famous ally,” Juliano said. Rod Blagojevich is only Juliano first met Fawell as political advantage.” for his role in the Valerie Plame T “Scott and I sat down and one in a long series of political an undergraduate during Ryan’s Specifically, Juliano became “outing” as a CIA agent case) was discussed my role. I said, ‘I can corruption cases that have dogged campaign for Illinois secretary aware of a number of government named new U.S. district attorney, work for you part time, why don’t that state’s reputation. A key of state. staff who were working on Ryan’s and all talk of immunity for Juliano you just pay me from campaign player from an earlier case against “I do not come from a political campaigns while drawing a tax- stopped. funds?’ Blagojevich’s predecessor offered family, but I was always interested payer-funded salary for govern- “The process went on for “He said, ‘No, I can’t afford his story as “a cautionary tale” in politics myself, and I started to ment work. several months and I continued that. I’ll get you another part-time to all those who are tempted by get involved in political campaigns Fawell also forced some to cooperate. Ultimately, I was employee contract in my office corruption. in Chicago while I was still in col- employees of the Illinois secre- charged with mail fraud, which is and that will take care of it.’ He Richard Juliano, former deputy lege,” said Juliano, who earned his tary of state’s office to sell raffle a felony. I pled guilty, but it was didn’t specifically say, ‘I don’t chief of staff to former Gov. undergraduate and law degrees tickets to raise money for Ryan’s more than four years before I faced care whether you don’t do gov- George Ryan and himself a at the University of Chicago. gubernatorial campaign by tying sentencing. Part of my plea agree- ernmental work,’ but it certainly felon, spoke at Pitt’s law school “I was 20 years old when I met pay raises to how many tickets ment was that the government was implicit in what he was saying, Feb. 19. Scott Fawell. He started working employees sold. For their part, would allow the judge to depart that the important thing is: Do Juliano, who pleaded guilty to for George Ryan who then was the employees found it easier to from the sentencing guidelines, the politics.” mail fraud in 2002 as part of the running for Illinois secretary of issue commercial driver’s licenses and that the government would Fawell also has the kind of larger investigation, later testified state, a very powerful office. They (CDLs) to unqualified applicants make the judge aware of the level personality that inhibited arguing at the trials of Ryan and Ryan’s handle all the driver’s licenses, for $500-$l,500 apiece in bribes of my cooperation.” with him, Juliano said. chief of staff, Scott Fawell, who vehicle registration, traffic safety. and then to use that money to As it happened, Juliano faced He acknowledged misgivings was his friend and colleague for In 1990, I was helping in that purchase the tickets themselves. At that same judge, U.S. District about this arrangement, but said a decade. campaign.” least $170,000 from illegal CDLs Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, who that, to his folly, he ignored them. Both Ryan and Fawell were He learned quickly that Illinois wound up in the former governor’s had presided over the Ryan and “There are a couple reasons I convicted of multiple felonies and politics was competitive in the campaign coffers. Fawell cases, so she was familiar used. These are not meant to each was sentenced to six and a extreme and that sometimes meant “It started out kind of small, with his testimony. excuse what I did, but to put it half years in prison. turning a blind eye to wrongdoing. but over the years it got more and Juliano was the lead witness into context,” Juliano said. “Part For his role in aiding the “In the political culture in Illinois more egregious and the culture in the Fawell trial. “I was on the of it was my rationalization: I told prosecutions, Juliano received it is common to use your incum- was: These are the rules of politi- witness stand for six days. I was myself ‘Maybe I’ll try to do some a sentence of four years’ proba- bent office to political advantage,” cal engagement in Illinois; the responsible for laying out the governmental work to justify the tion, including three months of Juliano said. “There’s nothing other side is doing it too, and we case. It was emotionally challeng- money I’ll be getting,’ which was home detention, 350 hours of inherently wrong in that. There have to do it to be competitive,” ing because there he was right in really a fantasy given all my [law community service and a $10,000 are right ways to do that. But for Juliano said. front of me.” school] responsibilities. Part of it fine, a somewhat lighter sentence some, not all, they do it for com- He stayed connected with the Juliano’s own sentencing day was this is politics as usual.” than the 24-30 months in prison petitive political reasons. In the Ryan organization, working part was nerve-wracking. “The assis- It’s also human nature to com- that federal guidelines dictated. Ryan organization, across eight- time while attending law school. tant D.A. started out saying, ‘We partmentalize different areas of He also was disbarred, but soon 10 years, there was pressure from “Nothing wrong with that. But should make an example of him.’ one’s life, he added. “Sometimes You never want to hear this when that’s a good thing. If you have a you’re being sentenced. But in my bad day at work, you don’t want case, he added ‘... for telling the H O N O R S to come home and take it out on truth.’ He argued that there are your family. Sometimes it’s not other ongoing investigations of good, when you can’t relate your corruption and other people will studies to your professional life. I be pressured not to testify, and that convocation knew it was wrong, but it’s Illinois At right: Raymond W. Smith, chair of something good should come out investment banking firm Rothschild, politics, everybody does it, maybe of this,” Juliano said. Inc., and a Katz Graduate School of it’s wrong, but who cares? I felt I Business alumnus, was the keynote Upon reflection some seven speaker at the 33rd annual honors was committed to our candidate,” years after his guilty plea, Juliano convocation, which recognizes student Juliano said. shared three lessons he learned achievement, outstanding alumni and Following Ryan’s election faculty and staff accomplishments, from the ordeal. and doubles as a celebration of Pitt’s as governor in 1998, Juliano “If you are told by a colleague founding on Feb. 28, 1787. worked in his office for a couple or a superior that ‘We need to Smith, who was awarded an honorary of years. “I’m proud of the work Doctor of Commercial Science degree, do something,’ whatever it is, offered a host of life lessons in is I did there, but I became weary ‘because everybody does it,’ and address “Heisenberg’s ‘Certainty’ Prin- of ‘ethical boxes’ and I went to ciple,” a reference to the phenomenon you have misgivings, that should in physics where in some instances Washington, D.C., in 2001 and be a red flag. It doesn’t necessarily peripheral vision is superior to direct took a job with the Department mean it’s wrong, but think about sight. “So, look away occasionally at of Transportation.” something outside your realm, some- it a little bit before agreeing,” thing different, something irrelevant In the interim, dating back to he said. and every so often you will find order; 1998, the FBI had been investi- “Second, assume whatever you beauty, even — and if you’re lucky — gating corruption in the Illinois truth,” Smith told those who gathered do will be scrutinized some day, Feb. 27 at Carnegie Music Hall. secretary of state office under whether by the media, bar exam- Ryan’s watch. Below: Kathy Humphrey, vice provost iners, law enforcement, clients. and dean of students, lends a hand to “The investigation started to When you do things because it’s senior Ryan Haddad, who received a branch out in a lot of different politics as usual, again maybe it’s student leadership award and accepted directions. Scott Fawell, I learned the honor on behalf of all student lead- not wrong, but it may look wrong ers. through the rumor mill, was a Photos by Jim Burke/CIDDE and you need to be prepared to target of the investigation, and so, defend your actions.” having worked for him, I expected Finally, Juliano recommended, to be interviewed and I was advised when faced with ethical dilemmas informally that I would be.” in employment, simply change The FBI issued a subpoena jobs. “Don’t get emotionally and Juliano retained counsel. “I tied down. In the big picture was told that Scott was being you’re going to pay a price for it. investigated and did I want to help Ultimately, you have to have the them or not?” he said. self-confidence to remove yourself “I started to look at the past from that situation. Most of us will a little differently, because in my have other options,” he said. mind, and I think in the minds of Since leaving federal govern- most of the people I worked with, ment service in 2002, Juliano what it had all been about was poli- has worked as a national trade tics, campaigning, elections. Now association executive based in it came down to scrutinizing the Washington, D.C. situation. So I made the decision “This was a horrifying experi- pretty expeditiously to cooper- ence, and you really learn who ate. Not to ‘save myself.’ I didn’t your friends are,” he said. “I was think I’d face any criminal liability fortunate to have good support, myself, and at the beginning there and a CEO in Washington was was some talk of immunity from willing to take a chance on me. prosecution. I thought: I’ve seen So, this has a happy ending. I have Washington and learned that poli- a great family and I’m enjoying a tics didn’t have to be like it was in second career.” Illinois. I had a new perspective on —Peter Hart n

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ficult in terms of the squishiness percent of relevant documents of human language than a very were found by Boolean searches; Electronic information explosion focused exercise.” 47 percent by some other tech- Raising the efficiency of nique, said Baron. In the second searches so more relevant docu- year, 78 percent of relevant poses retrieval-effort challenge ments are found in less time is documents were found using other crucial. “What keeps me up at methods versus 22 percent found he explosion of new infor- litigation obligations,” he said. his teenage daughter it’s a chat night,” Baron said, “is false nega- by Boolean searches. mation technologies has In the same way anyone would code for “parent over shoulder.” tives — The ‘smoking gun’ docu- “That’s a potentially startling Tbrought with it an explo- search for information online, his “The search issue is multi- ment that I don’t find.” figure for the legal profession,” sion of information — in print solution was to devise a set of rel- plied,” he said. Attorneys may not be aware said Baron. “It means that 78 or audio forms to be stored and evant keywords to help retrieve the The goal in a good search is that there are other methods percent of relevant documents in retrieved in novel ways. information. “It was a simple task to maximize pertinent results and beyond basic Boolean keyword a large universe of information are Jason R. Baron, director of in one sense,” he said. However, minimize the “noise” of irrelevant searches that can be employed. left on the table and are not found litigation at the National Archives the database search for TI — an ones, Baron said. “That task is a Research is needed to answer by keyword searches of the type and Records Administration, dis- abbreviation for Tobacco Institute harder one than the Google task “whether I’m doing well enough that lawyers use.” cussed his role in improving the — sometimes turned up informa- of finding a good restaurant in using keywords versus some other The paradox is that there isn’t retrieval of relevant electronically tion related to “ti” as in the tone on Pittsburgh tonight.” set of search methodologies that a single method that beats Bool- stored information (ESI) in a Feb. the musical scale. PMI — short for Hungry searchers don’t care if might be out there when I have a ean searching — the comparison 20 talk sponsored by the School Philip Morris Institute — yielded their search yields 10,000 results. big litigation like the Philip Morris represents a sum function of of Information Sciences Digital results about presidential manage- “You look at the first few pages and case,” Baron said. other methods. “Nobody finds Libraries and Cyberscholarship ment interns. call it a day,” Baron said. “But for To aid the legal community everything,” he said. Colloquium. Using keywords including my task as a lawyer, I need those in more efficiently generating “TREC is telling us you need Baron’s talk, “What Do I Do “tobacco,” “smoking” and “tar,” 10,000 hits — I need to find all searches that yield relevant results, to use a bunch of different meth- With a Billion Emails? The TREC his search yielded 200,000 results relevant documents related to a the TREC Legal Track sponsored ods,” Baron said. “No automated Legal Track and the Future of — 1 percent of some 20 million case.” by the National Institute of Stan- method is going to be perfect.” Information Retrieval in E-Dis- presidential email records. “Of Attorneys want those relevant dards and Technology researches The premium is on finding covery,” focused on his work with those, I spent six months with 25 hits to be found — and the non- the efficiency of various informa- methods that locate “the really the Text Retrieval Conference people — lawyers and archivists relevant ones to be omitted from tion retrieval methods. good stuff, the highly relevant, (TREC), a project that is evalu- — culling that down to 100,000 the results. The pro bono project, now in hot document,” Baron said, noting ating more efficient methods of relevant emails,” 80,000 of which Certain searches, such as its fourth year, creates imaginary that an added aspect of the TREC wading through the ever-increas- were turned over to the opposing patent searches that contain very legal complaints, complete with Legal Track this year is to have ing numbers of electronic records party. specific technical terms, are more fictional document requests. volunteers evaluate search results in response to litigation-related The rising numbers of elec- suitable for a keyword search. Searches for the pertinent docu- to rate them in terms of being requests. tronic records are rendering Others, such as for antitrust ments are fed into a publicly “highly relevant” rather than “The world we live in at the manual searching impossible. “I evidence, are tougher. “People available database of 7 million “merely relevant.” National Archives is the world of can do 1 percent of 20 million in don’t say in email they have com- documents as a means of compar- “It is of great interest to find email,” Baron said. “It’s not just six months with 25 people, but I mitted fraud, or ‘We violated ing the success of Boolean key- the methods to find the smoking the Constitution or the Declara- can’t do 1 percent of a billion,” the Sherman Act today,’” Baron word searches against alternative gun,” he said. “It’s the elusive tion of Independence and a bunch he said. said. “You need to come up with methods. grail quest.” of old dusty records. It’s email To illustrate, he said it would proxies that are much more dif- In the project’s first year, 53 —Kimberly K. Barlow n and more email and lots of email take 100 people working 10 hours and then lots of other electronic a day 54 years to go through a bil- records that are eventually going lion documents manually. “Even to be coming to us through Web 10 million would take 28 weeks,” Butt is it art? 2.0 stuff.” he said. “I don’t have time as a wo creations that illustrate Baron said lawyers increas- National Archives lawyer to spend the impact of cigarettes on ingly have had to request ESI in that amount of time.” Tpublic health are winners addition to paper records as they Those numbers aren’t too far in a “butt art” contest conceived by prepare cases. “Asking for docu- into the future. “There will be Pitt’s Reduce Smoking and Expo- ments didn’t cut it because there’s a billion emails at the National sure to Tobacco (ReSET) Center. all this other stuff in electronic Archives at the end of the Obama Funded by the Graduate School form,” he said. administration if there are two of Public Health and the Office ESI isn’t clearly defined, but is terms,” Baron noted. of Research, the center aims to open-ended. A common example Lawyers now need to rethink reduce tobacco exposure through is email, but the list of other ESI everything they learned in the 20th research and education. grows. “Today it’s email, tomor- century about discovery and how ReSET director Stephanie row it’s wikis, the next day it’s to do it, he said. “If you have a task Land, a GSPH research profes- the next thing — RSS feeds and to go through a whole collection sor, said anti-smoking groups on beyond to Web 2.0 and whatever to look for relevant documents, other university campuses have else,” he said. “All of it is evidence you can’t do it manually.” collected cigarette butts and in litigation and all of it needs to Automated database searches displayed them in glass jars to be searched.” have their problems. In spite of illustrate the impact of smoking. The problem of retrieving the thought that a well-crafted Land said she wanted to go beyond relevant information from an keyword search will yield most that to create an object that might ever-growing variety of electronic relevant documents, there are better depict the impact of the sources isn’t limited to the legal plenty of inefficiencies in that tossed butts. profession, he said, noting that method. Yardlee Kauffman, the fifth- archivists and historians face simi- The optical character recogni- year pharmacy student who larly daunting searches and that tion (OCR) scanning process that coordinated the Pitt cigarette butt the fields of information science, translates words into computer- collection event, organized the art ReSET director Stephanie Land, left, and contest law, business and engineering editable documents is prone to contest with Land. co-organizer Yardlee Kauffman, flank Ana Lungu with her winning work titled “You Must Tend to share a common set of issues with letter recognition errors. “When While the individual impacts Your Planet.” At right is Alexa Ray with her win- regard to the problem. you have 250 ways to spell tobacco, of cigarette smoking are well- ning project, “Think About it.” Baron got involved in search- that’s a problem,” Baron noted. In known, “It’s more of a public Kimberly K. Barlow ing electronic records during his addition, “every word that you can health issue than people realize,” the individual effects of smoking; “Billions of cigarette butts plague 13 years as a justice department think of that’s material to a major Land said, adding that beyond the other represents the more our planet every day. Our world trial lawyer and later moved on litigation has multiple uses for being unsightly and costly to clean global public health impact of deserves better. It is our duty to to his position at the national the term,” he said, citing “strike,” up, the toxins that are trapped in tobacco use. preserve its beauty.” archives. He was involved in the which can refer to baseball or cigarette filters are released into Fifth-year pharmacy student In her entry proposal, Lungu case against tobacco giant Philip labor, as one example. waterways when the cast-off butts Ana Lungu’s project, “You Must stated that her project is “meant Morris in which the National Even searching on a person’s are washed into storm drains. Tend to Your Planet,” features a to evoke respect for the planet Archives was ordered to produce name isn’t foolproof. In the Finding the materials to get the sphere covered with pictures of and inspire responsibility for our all the relevant documents it National Archives, for instance, artists started wasn’t hard. It took natural beauty, representing the world.” held. a search on George Bush begs only about an hour to collect 12 earth. In contrast, stark, leafless Fourth-year pharmacy student “I got a request to produce the question of which one — the cups of cigarette butts on campus branches spring from a vase filled Alexa Ray took a more individually that was 1,726 paragraphs long,” nation’s 41st president or 43rd? — all within 15 feet of doorways, with cigarette butts. oriented approach. Her project, he said, adding that the request “It’s all contextual,” he said. where smokers were spotted in Banners entwined in the “Think About It,” depicts a meant that the archives had to In addition, there are com- spite of campus policy prohibit- branches are inscribed with a life-size stick-figure human with search all its paper records on plexities caused by synonyms. ing smoking near main building quote from Lungu’s favorite book, lungs made of cigarette butts. Just tobacco policy in the presiden- “None of us are smart enough to entrances, Land said. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The below, a red exclamation mark tial libraries dating back to the think of a bag of words completely Project proposals were solic- Little Prince.” “‘It’s a question of with the message, “Think about Eisenhower administration, plus on our own,” Barron noted. ited in December with the promise discipline,’ the little prince told me it,” emphasizes her point. some 32 million electronic fed- Changes in word usage also of a $100 prize. later on. ‘When you’ve finished The two art objects will be eral records dating back to the complicate matters. Baron noted In the end, two complemen- washing and dressing each morn- displayed at ReSET events, Land Clinton administration. “It was a that to him, POS is a business term tary interpretations of the theme ing, you must tend to your planet’” said. tremendous problem meeting our meaning “point of sale,” while to were chosen — one emphasizes and Lungu’s own admonition: —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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’ll cut to the chase and and some may debate whether address why an aging that’s actually true.” “Iwhite guy is talking to Perceptions can be deceiv- you about race and the media,” MASS MEDIA ing, Roth maintained. “There said Mark Roth, senior staff writer are research studies that find in a for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, scientific way that our memories at a Center on Race and Social of bad things far outweigh our Problems Feb. 17 lecture. Not all black & white, memories of good things. That’s Roth, who has more than 30 just a common human condition years of experience as a newspaper not particular to anybody of a writer and editor, explored three P-G staffer says certain race,” he said. “So when broad themes as reasons for listen- people see the negative stories ing to what he had to say: America’s about race, even though there shifting racial demographics; the near the ideal. We still have a long are many fewer of them, they dangers of judging newspapers way to go on that,” Roth said. “In remember them more.” solely on the number of race- the meantime, we have to think On the flip side, reporters also related stories they publish, and about stories and write about will feel a backlash from readers the responsibility of established them no matter what our racial who object to the relevance of journalists to keep the lessons of makeup is. The issues of race and certain race-based stories. Roth history alive in the public con- class not only are not going away, cited the example of a story he sciousness. they’re going to become increas- wrote on Larry Davis, dean of “I and all of us are in the midst ingly important and increasingly Pitt’s School of Social Work and of a rapid sea change in the racial complicated and nuanced.” director of the Center on Race makeup of this country, and I don’t He cited as an example a recent and Social Problems. think we’re at all prepared for it. Post-Gazette story on two young “When I did a profile on Dr. We’re riding the crest of this wave biracial friends reflecting on Davis, one of his primary themes, and trying to stay balanced, but Barack Obama’s election. “One part of his ongoing research, is the without knowing where it’s going friend wanted to be known as legacy of slavery and how it’s never to take us,” said Roth in his lecture, being biracial and was willing to gone away,” Roth said. “He talked “Not All Black and White: The fight anyone who called her either about that in a very articulate way, Challenges of Covering Race in black or white. She was a little and I wrote down what he said. the Mass Media.” angry that Obama hadn’t declared Any reporter at the Post-Gazette According to a 2008 U.S. himself to be biracial rather than who’s ever written about racial Census Bureau report, Caucasians black; she felt he ought to be lead- discrimination and the ongoing are expected to be in the minority ing the way for her perspective on impact of it gets ‘the calls,’” as of the American population by things,” Roth recounted. “The Roth termed the complaints that 2042, Roth noted. “Even more other friend wanted to be known invariably follow. “It’s angry white interesting is that a tipping point as black, even though physically men who get on the phone and say will occur in 2023, when Cauca- she appeared less black than her they’re sick and tired of reading sian kids who are 18 and under biracial friend. There are all kinds about this. Their grandparents in 2023 will no longer be in the of complicated issues swirling immigrated after slavery; their majority of that cohort.” around in this story. I think these grandparents never owned slaves; However, that growing minor- kinds of conversations and com- they get along fine with black ity population is not reflected plex issues are going to continue people; they have lots of friends adequately in the racial makeup of on into the future.” who are black people. Why don’t news journalists, Roth maintained. Roth noted that many of his we get off this hobby-horse? The In 1978, about 4 percent of the generation of news journalists fact of the matter is I don’t think 46,000 journalists nationally were are leaving the profession, partly Mary Jane Bent/CIDDE we do half as many stories as we minorities. “That’s even roughly due to age and partly because the Mark Roth, senior staff writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ought to on these important issues, a decade after the assassination of industry is in trouble economically. but every time we do, we get that Dr. Martin Luther King, when a “I’m in a generation of journalists what’s often mentioned is how versus nine he would categorize as set of calls. This goes to the ongo- push began to get more diversity that, when we started out, lived often we run crime stories that negative and three as neutral. ing challenge of trying to change in the newsroom,” he said. through the civil rights struggle,” only talk about blacks, that only “This may be somewhat public attitudes and getting more “Come forward 30 years, and he said. “We are populating our show black faces,” he said. “First skewed because we’re in the progress going in the best way we in 2008 we have 56,600 full-time newsrooms with younger report- of all we [at the Post-Gazette] middle of Black History Month, can as journalists,” he said. journalists — a number that’s ers who by-and-large did not live rarely explicitly mention race but let me tell you that this kind “Part of the challenge to cover- grown, but nowhere near as much through those years. So one reason unless there’s a suspect who’s being of proportion is not atypical at ing race issues is not just to never as the overall population — and I personally feel a strong motiva- hunted, or in rare cases where race all,” he said. forget the civil rights struggle. minorities are up to 13.5 percent, tion to stay in touch with these seems to be a relevant cause of the In the nine negative stories, We have to go back much further still not achieving a proportional issues is because it’s important to crime. People think the stories four were crime stories with a than that. We have to never forget representation of the country as bring a perspective of somebody mention race more than they do, suspect at large. “The rest I labeled slavery; never forget the Civil a whole.” who, even as a white person who because the stories mention loca- as negative, although they were War; Reconstruction, Jim Crow. One of the positive ramifica- was very new to these issues, lived tion and readers make their own actually stories about ongoing Without that, we won’t really tions of this continued imbalance though those times.” inferences. If you write a crime discrimination,” Roth said. “One know where we came from. We is that the news media have altered When riots broke out in major story, you have to say where the story, for instance, was the lack won’t really understand not only the longstanding perception that U.S. cities following the assas- crime took place. Neighborhoods of blacks and Latinos in chamber how much things are changing, stories dealing either with the black sination of Martin Luther King can act as a proxy for race in these music groups, an arts story. These but how much they’re still the community or black issues have to Jr., the news was covered almost inferences,” especially in heavily kinds of stories are really negative same. It is so important for us to be covered by black journalists, exclusively by white reporters segregated Pittsburgh, he said. only in the sense of holding the write the kind of history stories Roth maintained. “I believe I need because of the dearth of black jour- Roth said his accounting of P- majority society up to scrutiny. where people in the past tried to to be able to explore these issues in nalists. “For many reporters this G stories in the first half of Febru- The 41 that were positive were achieve the same kind of justice my job as a journalist, just as much was a transformative experience. ary showed exactly the opposite: everything from listing documen- we’re trying to achieve today, and as I believe that black journalists They had been in journalism, their The vast majority — 41 — of all taries to profiles of people. At any to remind us of how far we still need to explore issues in the white newspapers had done some cover- stories that mentioned African rate, this kind of pattern is pretty have to go.” society,” a lesson black journalists age of the black community, but a Americans or blacks were positive consistent. This surprises people —Peter Hart n by necessity learn early on, he lot of these folks had never had to said. “They are consistently put deal with something so traumatic, in situations where they are the so disturbing, so important, and PBS official to speak at Greensburg’s graduation minority because most stories are for many of them it changed their Michael D. Jones, Public Commission and has worked for about white people, and they have lives forever,” Roth said. “So I Broadcasting System (PBS) chief two U.S. senators. to deal with that. In newspapers, think we have a responsibility to operating officer, will be the key- Jones received his bachelor’s traditionally, when you’re starting pass on that legacy to younger note speaker at the 21st annual degree from Boston College, out the first assignments are sub- journalists, some of whom come commencement ceremony at Pitt- where he was selected as a scholar urban or even rural coverage. In into their jobs expecting certain Greensburg, scheduled for 11 a.m. of the college. He earned his western Pennsylvania that means rights and privileges who don’t April 25 in Chambers Hall. juris doctor from Boston College the person covering a meeting may really have any idea — whether Prior to joining PBS in January, School of Law. be the only black person there. it’s the issue of race or of gender Jones was senior executive vice He is a member of the bars Black journalists have to get used or of gays — what some people president and chief administrative of the State of Maryland and the to that very quickly. That’s not in previous generations had to go officer of the Financial Industry District of Columbia. necessarily a bad thing.” through to allow them to have the Regulatory Authority. FINRA Active in community affairs, The imbalance also means opportunities they have.” is the largest non-governmental Jones has been a member of the more white journalists are cover- Roth also defended the news regulator for all securities firms board of trustees of Boston Col- ing black issues, he said. “Unfortu- media against the perception that doing business in the United lege and the board of advisers of nately, part of the reason we have news coverage targets African States. Boston College Law School. He to keep doing it that way is that Americans for negative stories. An attorney, Jones also has is a member of the board of Jump- our record as an industry, while “When we’ve talked to com- served as deputy director/counsel start and president of the Alliance it has improved, is still nowhere munity groups about this issue, for the Securities and Exchange for Investor Education. n

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employer. Employers also would be required to provide yearly reports to the Equal Employ- ment Opportunity Commission GENDER WAGE GAP (EEOC) that break down their workforce by salary, gender, race and ethnicity. In January, Congress began considering a similar law, the Pay- Pitt conference looks at strategies check Fairness Act, which passed the House of Representatives and now is being debated in the Senate. That law would expand for eliminating pay disparities damages under the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It also calls for a study of data collected by the EEOC and proposes voluntary guidelines to show employers how to evaluate Wages for average working women in the region and the nation continue to lag behind their male jobs with the goal of eliminating counterparts. To explore the causes of the pay gap — and efforts to eliminate the disparity — Pitt hosted unfair disparities. a daylong conference Feb. 20 titled “The Gender Wage Gap: Strategies for the Future.” Featured were “The Paycheck Fairness Act would help a little bit,” Brake said. two keynote speakers; panel sessions on the current research data and legal and public policy responses, “Although employers very rarely and testimonials from Pitt alumnae offering strategies for women to succeed in the workplace and close lose federal discrimination cases the wage gap. because of the difficulty of proof, The conference, which attracted wage-disparity scholars and researchers and advocates of equal-pay it might incentivize employers to examine their pay systems” and policy at the local and regional levels, was sponsored by Pitt’s School of Law, the University Center for correct gender pay disparities, Social and Urban Research (UCSUR), the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the she said. College of General Studies. Brian Litzinger/Jane Orie According to a 2007 UCSUR study, between 1970 and 1990 the female labor force participation rate “This issue has been critical to in the United States increased from 43.3 to 59.9 percent. But “despite increases in the number of female Sen. Orie for many years,” said workers and female labor force participation rates over the past few decades, earnings of women workers Litzinger, who read a statement have been slow to converge with male earnings,” the report states. from Orie. According to Orie, Litzinger In 2004, full-time U.S. female workers earned 76.5 percent of men’s earnings, an improvement from said, “Women work for pay in approximately the 60 percent of men’s earnings level that persisted through the early 1980s. Data also greater numbers, in more occupa- show that the gender wage gap in Pittsburgh appears to be larger than most other metropolitan regions, tions and for more years than ever with local women earning 74 cents on the dollar compared to men. before yet they still make less than their male counterparts.” Although the wage gap has narrowed from the days of women ollowing keynote speeches employers to offer family-friendly Not so, said Brake. According things are left undone. The most being paid on average 58 cents by Jocelyn Frye and Linda policies; the failure of government to 2004 statistics from the Depart- troubling thing is that the courts on the dollar compared to men, FBabcock, a Carnegie and policy makers to encourage ment of Labor, on average female have taken a very narrow view on women’s wages have remained Mellon professor of econom- those kinds of policies; sex-seg- lawyers earn 73 percent of male what counts as discrimination: It stuck between 77 cents and 78 ics and co-author of the book regated jobs, where women are lawyers’ wages, she said. is only discrimination when there cents on the dollar since 2001. “Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation concentrated heavily in just a few For lawyers, the gap has been is an intentional decision to pay a “A new report from the Key- and the Gender Divide,” a panel categories that always pay less than attributed to factors such as woman less based on sex.” stone Research Center finds discussion examined legislative men’s jobs; sexual harassment, women working fewer hours and So a legal complaint needs to that in recent years, even before and grassroots efforts to promote which damages women’s careers to legal specializations women prove a conscious act by an individ- the current economic crisis, the equal pay. and prevents them from advancing choose. ual who is biased against women. progress of women in the Penn- Panelists at the law and public in the workplace, and the difficulty “But looking closer, among Instead of classifying the practice sylvania workforce came to a policy forum were: women have compared to men lawyers it’s not just choices, not itself as unlawful, the courts say a grinding halt,” Orie stated. “The • Pitt law professor Deborah with negotiating for higher pay. just the specialization, say, that suit must prove a conscious act of KRC found that in the 1980s and Brake, a nationally recognized “This conference is encourag- more women attorneys go into discrimination. ’90s, the 47 percent of the Penn- scholar on gender discrimination ing as a way to shine a very much family law, which is lower paying, “Lilly Ledbetter was being paid sylvania workforce that is female who co-authored an amicus brief needed light on the issue of the and it’s not just the hours worked, less for no justifiable reason: not made great strides. Since 2003, in the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter gender wage gap and encouraging when women lawyers spend more seniority, not performance, not Pennsylvania women actually have v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. us to look to constructive ways to time with family responsibilities,” any merit-based reason. That is sex lost ground.” case. That case eventually led to address the issue, ” Frietsche said. Brake said. “The problem exists discrimination,” Brake said. While the numbers of women the passage of the Lilly Ledbet- “The information presented at even after controlling for other She added that the Ledbetter in traditionally male dominant ter Fair Pay Act, the first piece of this conference [so far] has been factors. Nonetheless, it’s also dif- Fair Pay Act does a better job in fields, such as law, medicine and legislation signed by President illuminating, but also a little ficult to say the disparity is due to buoying discrimination claims accounting, continue to increase, Obama. (See University Times, June upsetting and depressing. At the discrimination, because the courts because it does not require that the the rising proportion does not 14, 2007.) current rate, we will be holding have taken a narrow view on what discrimination be intentional. carry over to the highest-paid • Brian Litzinger, legal counsel gender pay gap conferences well counts as discrimination.” “But the courts are very strict in jobs. to state Sen. Jane C. Orie (R- into the next generation. We must Ledbetter was an unlikely case to requiring the ‘substantially equal “Women remain largely locked McCandless). find a solution and we must find galvanize the issue of gender pay work’ standard. The jobs have to out of the highest-paying mana- • Selena Schmidt, chief of it in our lifetime, before we leave disparities, because it was decided be so much the same,” Brake said. gerial positions because of the staff for Pittsburgh City Council this terrible form of inequity to on a technical procedural ruling “Under that standard, coaching ceiling that continues to permeate President Doug Shields. our daughters.” under Title VII, Brake noted. two different sports is not doing the working world,” Orie stated. • Heather Arnet, executive The ruling hinged on interpret- the same job. She’s coaching vol- “Many women also remain in the director of the Women and Girls Deborah Brake ing when the 180-day statute of leyball, he’s coaching baseball; lowest-paying jobs: housekeeping, Foundation and a Pittsburgh Although passage of the Lilly limitations for filing a claim of it’s not the same. If there are any restaurant service, care-giving and Public Schools board member. Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was a clear sex discrimination begins. The subtle differences, such as he’s a other fields. The wage gap hurts Conference invitees Orie and victory for advocates of equal pay Supreme Court ruled that Led- vice president of something versus women, families and children Shields were unable to attend due for women and men, it likely will better, who was paid less than her she’s a vice president of something and it’s something we must do to schedule conflicts. not end gender pay disparities, the male counterparts over a 19-year else, they’re not the same jobs.” something about because it flies Susan Frietsche, a senior staff Title VII legal scholar said. “We career at Goodyear, should have That reading of the law tends in the face of fairness.” attorney at the Women’s Law still have the need for stronger filed suit within 180 days of her to favor emphasizing other fac- For these reasons, Orie is Project, a nonprofit legal advocacy equal-pay federal laws,” Brake first unfair paycheck, not 180 days tors in pay decisions. The courts sponsoring a state Senate resolu- organization for women, moder- said. from the time she learned of the will say that anything other than tion urging the U.S. Congress to ated the discussion. Partly that need continues disparity in pay. intentional animus will suffice for study the issue of workplace pay In her introductory remarks, because of the difficulty of estab- The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act justifying pay differences. disparity. Frietsche ticked off a litany of lishing employment discrimina- now defines as illegal “paying an One attempted legal remedy “My resolution would also possible contributing factors to tion based on gender. employee less solely on the basis was the Fair Pay Act, a predeces- direct the Joint State Government the nationwide gender pay gap. Brake noted that opponents of of sex.” sor to the Ledbetter law, which Commission to examine the issue Among the factors, she said, equal-pay legislation cite employ- “It truly is a victory and it is was introduced in 2007 but never and revisit state law related to that are: outright sex discrimination, ers’ rights to evaluate employees; something to celebrate, which passed Congress, Brake said. issue and make recommendations including widespread gender say that the gender gap is not I want to make clear before I Under that proposed legislation, to the [Pennsylvania] General stereotypes supporting the view due to discrimination of women, make my next point, which is: employers could not pay jobs Assembly,” the senator stated. that men need and deserve higher and maintain that when work We’re nowhere near done,” Brake that predominantly were held by She applauded the progress wages than women; wage secrecy; experience, education and type of said. “The Ledbetter decision women less than jobs predomi- signaled by passage of the Ledbet- women opting out of careers occupation are taken into account, overturned a terrible wrong that nantly held by men if those jobs ter Fair Pay Act and supported to raise children; the failure of the gap virtually disappears. had set back the law. 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Act. “These acts would amend the twisting, got City Council to Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 commission a study of the city by strengthening the provisions payroll, which is being conducted of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and by an independent Florida firm. Equal pay for equal work: further expand damages under A report is due in April, Schmidt Title VII of the Civil Rights Act said. of 1964,” according to Orie. “These studies at the very least Orie is focusing particularly create new levels of awareness. If Not just a women’s issue, on changing Pennsylvania law we discover anomalies then we’ll to prohibit discrimination in look at where we can change poli- employment based on marital or cies,” she said. “There also may be family status. more lawsuits that arise from the keynote speaker explains “We need to amend the Penn- study. To be fair, making change sylvania Human Relations Act, by is hard. I prefer the carrot to the qual pay for equal work breadwinner role. gender, geography, race, industry making it unlawful to discriminate stick, but lawsuits might make is more than simply a Frye stressed the importance or job type — can be crucial pieces against prospective employees on [pay parity] happen quicker. They Ewomen’s issue, said key- of data in unraveling the complex of the puzzle. the basis of marital or family status might also prompt the county note speaker Jocelyn Frye. “Even gender gap problem, citing two The reasons that a pay gap during the interviewing or hiring to say, ‘We’d better look at this, though we often talk about it in examples from her prior work that exists are complex, she said. process,” she stated. too.’” gender terms it’s clearly not just a demonstrate how a macro exami- Discrimination and educational “I have personally spoken to women’s issue,” she said. “These nation of data doesn’t necessarily disparities play roles and must be Heather Arnet numerous women who have been days it’s much more than a gender tell the whole story. addressed. Enforcement of the discriminated against during the In the last five years, the issue; it’s really an economic secu- She said a closer look at rising law should be encouraged, but interviewing and hiring process Women and Girls Foundation has rity issue.” Equal Employment Opportunity talk about the limits of the law by being asked: Are you mar- helped to pass eight gender-pay In spite of the fact that the Commission (EEOC) retaliation and gaps in what it can do also ried? Do you have children? Are equity pieces of legislation and concepts of equal opportunity and claims revealed that women were must be part of the conversation, you planning to have children? has awarded more than $500,000 fair pay are rooted in the nation’s driving the numbers up. “It was Frye said. It is contemptible to think that in grants to other organizations core principles — seemingly not an important part of the story,” Better education about job depending on the way a woman and agencies that advocate for controversial or radical — discus- she said. “There was something options and better opportunities answers those questions she could women’s and girls’ rights. At the sion of the gender wage gap “often about the jobs women had or how to prepare women for higher- lose an opportunity for gainful grassroots level, the foundation is not a noncontroversial issue,” women were viewed in the job or paying jobs can be part of the employment.” supports the annual Equal Pay she said. treated in the job that led to the solution. Other states, such as New Day rally, this year to be held Frye, who was the director sizable increase in discrimination If women continue to work in York and New Jersey, already have Downtown April 28. of the National Partnership for claims filed by women.” historically low-paying, traditional banned the practice, she noted. Among the projects the foun- Women and Families workplace Another example sorted EEOC fields, a wage gap will persist, Frye On April 28, Orie plans to join dation supported was funding the fairness program when she was pregnancy discrimination claims said. If women are directed into some of her Harrisburg colleagues citywide study backed by council invited last October to address by race and ethnicity. “Again we nontraditional fields, they need to at the Equal Pay Day rally, “to member Shields. “We had been the conference, has since taken found differences,” she said. Over have the training required to find draw attention to the persistent concerned about wage gaps among a post in the Obama administra- a 15-year period, such claims rose and keep those jobs. gaps in pay between men and city employees and we supported a tion. In January Frye was named 65 percent. “What was found was “It’s all part of the puzzle,” women and to show support for gender and race wage equity audit deputy assistant to the president a lot of that increase is driven by she said. national efforts to close those to learn the data. Not just look at for domestic policy and director claims filed by women of color,” Change doesn’t necessarily gaps. Equal Pay Day is the annual the gaps in numbers, but to look of policy and projects for the she said. come at a national level, Frye said. reminder of the shameful fact that at the whole structure of employ- first lady. The reasons for that remain an “It’s often the case that states are it takes the average woman nearly ment in the city and to have the “You say ‘pay equity’ and open question, Frye said, citing leaders in trying to accomplish four months into the following roadmap for how we can improve people go to their respective sides as contributors greater numbers change at the national level,” she year to catch up with what men that structure,” Arnet said. and fall into the rhetoric of the of women in the workforce and said, noting that some states are earned in the previous year. We “We’re strong believers in past” without much conversation women working further into looking inward to formulate their must do more to see that women the power of advocacy, of coali- on strategies for eliminating the their pregnancies, “but none own policies and strategies. earn what they deserve based on tion-building and the effective- problem, she said, arguing that of that really accounted for the Such voluntary introspective the job, not on gender,” Orie ness of lobbying,” she said. “Our the subject needs to be tackled sharp rise,” she said. Persistent practices — whether by states or stated. mission is to build small groups creatively without getting caught stereotypes about what pregnant individual employers — should Litzinger added to Orie’s into coalitions pursuing the goal up in old arguments. women could and could not do in be rewarded and others should be statement that there is a pressing of gender equity. Why the wage Fair pay is a high economic the workplace also had an impact, encouraged to replicate the best need for more women to enter the gap exists is a key priority for the priority as research increasingly Frye concluded. strategies. political arena at the state level. foundation.” shows it as part of the broader Such basic stereotypes and Frye said it’s critical to begin “Our legislature is pretty close to Regardless of what the data challenge of economic security, assumptions call for higher-profile a comprehensive conversation on the national average on the Senate from the city employment survey Frye said. “Many, many families efforts to combat them, she said. the issue. “Pay equity is at the heart side,” he said. “The national aver- show, she said, the hope is the are looking to women as primary “For me, examination of the of the ability of women to really age of state legislatures [overall] Pittsburgh study will become a or sole breadwinners” as mount- issues always starts with examina- achieve equality of opportunity,” is about 23-25 percent women. model that is duplicated at the ing job losses among men push tion of the data,” Frye said. Find- she said. In Pennsylvania it’s 20 percent. county and state levels as well as more and more women into the ing where disparities lie — be it in — Kimberly K. Barlow n On the House side, there are 27 a model for corporations. women out of 203 representatives, “The intention was not to so we lag behind there. What we expose the gap. Our intention need are more women candidates was to partner with the city to to take office.” do a better job. If the data show a significant wage gap, the story Selena Schmidt/Doug Shields becomes: Pittsburgh knew it had a Schmidt touted the efforts problem and did something about of her boss Doug Shields to end it. If the data show there isn’t a gender- and race-based wage problem, that’s also a major story. disparities. The headlines across the country After fielding several com- would read: ‘Pittsburgh does not plaints from female city workers have a gender wage gap.’ You can’t who had discovered pay gaps that buy P.R. like that,” Arnet said. didn’t reflect seniority, level of “This is not about complain- education or job performance, ing. This is about solutions. We Shields went into action, Schmidt want these issues in the public said. discourse: How do you change “As a husband and father of social mores?” she said. a daughter, he has always been “We need to re-frame the concerned with these issues,” issue and explain why it is not she said. a women’s issue, but a regional But because these complaints economic issue. The majority of were anecdotal, Shields told new college graduates are women Schmidt, “We as a region have and women are growing in the got to say, ‘This is not okay.’ But workforce. The majority of most let’s get the facts. How do we go companies’ customers are female. about this? How does it impact our So it’s good business to market population loss? What are other to females. There’s no reason effects to the region?” why you should not be thinking Schmidt said, “The worst-case about how you can attract and scenario is there is a system-wide retain women in your workforce. disparity. The best-case scenario is Without addressing the gender Joe Kapelewski/CIDDE we don’t know if there is a system- wage pay gap, the region will fail Jocelyn Frye, former director of the National Partnership for Women and Families workplace fair- wide disparity.” economically.” ness program, now is deputy assistant to President Barack Obama for domestic policy and director So Shields, after much arm- —Peter Hart n of policy and projects for first lady Michelle Obama.

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S ing. Such tips include using a firm The University Times Research mattress, avoiding extra pillows Notes column aims to inform read- Balance ously, like walking while paying Galbiati, professor of pharmacol- and covers and putting babies to ers about funding awarded to Pitt research close attention to a conversation, ogy and chemical biology, said, sleep on their backs. researchers and to report briefly on findings arising from University presented may become more difficult for “Our findings indicate that the Senior study author Judy research. Researchers from the Depart- people as they age past their late free radicals or oxidants produced Chang, professor of obstetrics, We welcome submissions for ment of Otolaryngology pre- 70s, according to research led by by smoking accelerate the aging gynecology and reproductive all areas of the University. Submit sented their findings on balance Joseph Furman. of lung fibroblasts, which may sciences, said, “These findings information via email to: utimes@ should give physicians a better idea pitt.edu, by fax to 412/624-4579 at a meeting of the Association for Furman is a professor in the contribute to the pathogenesis of or by campus mail to 308 Belle- Research in Otolaryngology. otolaryngology and neurology emphysema.” of the reasons behind bed sharing, field Hall. Among their presentations departments in the School of Cells cannot replicate forever, allowing them to offer more cus- For submission guidelines, visit were two studies funded by the Medicine and a professor in the he explained. After a certain tomized advice on the subject. In www.umc.pitt.edu/utimes/dead- National Institute on Deafness Department of Physical Therapy number of divisions, the cycle addition to counseling against bed lines.html online. and Other Communication Dis- at Pitt’s School of Health and stops due to a cellular aging pro- sharing, physicians should include Levy how the entire interface orders. Rehabilitation Sciences, as well cess called senescence. Oxidative suggestions for room sharing and could be switched between a con- as director of UPMC’s Center for stress, meaning increased produc- reducing bed-sharing risks. Room ducting and insulating state. Virtual reality Balance Disorders. tion of free radicals, can induce sharing may be an alternative to Levy thought of adapting the helpful to balance Randomized trials with three that process prematurely. parents, as it allows them to watch process to nanoscale dimensions, Research suggests that “walk- groups of healthy adults, ages In Galbiati’s study, normal over their infants while decreasing and his student and co-author, ing” through a virtual reality gro- 24-27, 65-71 and 76-82, com- mice began to show signs of pre- risks for SIDS.” Cheng Cen, brought the idea cery store can benefit people with pared how well they were able to mature aging in lung fibroblasts Former pediatrics professor to fruition. Using the sharp con- balance disorders who otherwise accomplish listening tasks while after six weeks of exposure to Jennifer Chianese also was an ducting probe of an atomic force may find maneuvering through their visual and balance systems cigarette smoke and developed author of the study. microscope, he created wires less grocery store aisles a source of were kept busy. Seated in swivel pulmonary emphysema after six This study was funded by the than 4 nanometers wide at the anxiety or dizziness. chairs that were either upright or months. But premature senes- Department of Pediatrics. interface of a crystal of strontium Such a virtual store in the at a 30-degree tilt, the volunteers cence and emphysema induced by titanate and a 1.2 nanometer thick Department of Otolaryngology performed listening exercises smoke exposure were significantly Tiny transistors layer of lanthanum aluminate, is like a life-size video game that while motionless or spinning in prevented in mice that lacked the created both of which are insulators. The projects 3-D, moving images darkness or in light. gene to make caveolin-1. Pitt researchers have created conducting nanowires could then of a grocery store around a real The researchers found all age The research was supported a platform for creating electron- be erased with a reverse voltage or shopping cart on a custom-built groups reacted more slowly in by the National Institutes of ics at a nearly single-atom scale with light, rendering the interface treadmill. A person operating general to the listening tasks when Health. that could yield advanced forms an insulator once more. the shopping cart can control his spinning than when motionless, of high-density memory devices, The current publication in Sci- or her own speed and direction but it was especially true for people Bed sharing transistors and computer proces- ence illustrates that the potential while walking up and down 18 in the oldest group. persists despite sors. of this process extends beyond aisles that display realistic-looking They also found that stimula- expert advice The work stems from a tech- simple insulators and conductors products. “Easier” aisles display tion of the ear’s gravity-sensing In spite of expert advice oppos- nique previously developed by the to other uses — most notably, larger products, like paper towels, organs — through the 30-degree ing the practice, many parents same team to fashion rewritable field-effect transistors (FETs), the while the more challenging aisles tilt of the chair — was especially believe the perceived benefits nanostructures at the interface building blocks of computers and contain smaller products, like tiny powerful in slowing down a of sharing their bed with their between two insulating materials. electronics. bottles of medicine. person’s auditory reaction time infants outweighs concerns and The researchers demonstrate this Levy and his colleagues fash- Led by Sue Whitney, a and also was most pronounced for warnings, according to a Pitt study process’s various applications in ioned a transistor they call a physical therapist at the School people in the oldest age group. published in the journal Academic the Feb. 20 edition of Science. “SketchFET” with feature sizes of Health and Rehabilitation The National Institute Pediatrics. Physics and astronomy pro- of only two nanometers — con- Sciences and a researcher at the on Aging also supported this Research that suggests fessor Jeremy Levy, the paper’s siderably smaller than the most Medical Virtual Reality Center, research. increased risk of sudden infant senior author, said, “We’ve dem- advanced silicon transistor, which the study followed 11 patients death syndrome and accidental onstrated that we can make measures 45 nanometers. with balance disorders who par- Emphysema suffocation has prompted the important technologies that are The SketchFET transistor can ticipated in the grocery store trial protein found American Academy of Pediatrics significantly smaller than exist- be erased at will and replaced with at increasing difficulty levels for A study by School of Medicine to advise against bed sharing. ing devices and all from the other devices such as high-density six weekly sessions. researchers has found that block- The Pitt study interviewed same material. To sustain the memory, wiring or chemical sen- Patients went through a series ing the activity of a structural 28 caregivers of infants up to six development of smaller and faster sors that could rival the ultra-sen- of balance and mobility tests and protein called caveolin-1 stops months of age — all who “bed computers, we will probably need sitive detectors made from carbon self-reported surveys before and free radical-induced aging and share” regularly — in four focus to transition away from existing nanotubes. after participating. After six weeks, damage of fibroblasts, a kind of groups. In every focus group, materials in the coming decade. Because the sensitive region of the majority of patients improved lung cell, in an animal model of parents reported near-miss inci- The memory bits in magnetic Levy’s proposed sensor can be the in every test taken. emphysema. dents of their infants suffocating. hard drives are about as small as same size as a single molecule, it This ongoing trial will com- The study appears in the Feb. Some parents reported they would they can get; silicon transistors can be used to sense the presence pare the virtual reality treatment 27 issue of the Journal of Biological recommend against bed sharing to will get increasingly difficult to or absence of a single molecule, to traditional physical therapy. Chemistry. others, despite the fact that they miniaturize. We have created making it ideal for chemical and In patients with emphysema, bed share themselves. Others advanced storage and processing biological sensing technologies, Balancing while listening alveoli (the lungs’ air sacs in which denied that bed sharing posed any capability using the same material, he explained. is harder with age oxygen exchange occurs) are dam- risk to their infants, describing presenting a totally new flexibility Additionally, the scale of these Everyday tasks that require aged, impairing lung function. themselves as “light sleepers” and in building electronics.” components is such that funda- listening and balancing simultane- Senior investigator Ferruccio able to wake up if their children Levy and his team reported mental properties of quantum were near harm. in Nature Materials in March mechanics too complex to simu- Researchers found that better 2008 that their process of swap- late with ordinary computers can sleep, convenience, tradition, ping insulators and conductors be observed. So-called quantum child safety and emotional needs works like a microscopic Etch A “tunneling” — in which electrons were common motivations for Sketch. pass through forbidden regions bed sharing. The idea for the process origi- — was directly observed and con- Doctors’ recommendations nated from a visit Levy made to the trolled. Such behavior also may not to bed share did not dissuade University of Augsburg in Ger- be useful in quantum simulations any of the caregivers. However, many where the Science paper’s of novel electronic materials, and parents did appreciate advice on co-authors, Jochen Mannhart and for the construction of a quantum increasing the safety of bed shar- his student Stefan Thiel, showed computer. n

10 MARCH 5, 2009 Breastfeeding resolution amended aculty Assembly last week Senate President John Baker building. He is seeking assurance amended its resolution pointed out that University poli- that a club meeting room could Furging Pitt units to provide cies can be modified by the senior be equipped with microphones. private space for new mothers to administration and that the faculty Baker said microphones will be pump breast milk. are free to make suggestions or needed for discussion of a tenure A similar resolution was passed offer advice. “We will certainly and academic freedom committee by Assembly in January, but the pass on these concerns to the law- proposal to extend the “tenure wording was altered to accom- yers for a response,” Baker said. clock” for basic science faculty in modate an objection from the In other Faculty Assembly the medical school from seven to senior administration, according developments: 10 years. “I want every member of to Paul Munro, chair of the Uni- • The renovated University this Assembly to be able to express versity Senate’s plant utilization Club at 121 University Place an opinion on this very important and planning committee, which is expected to open on April 1, issue,” he said. proposed the resolution. (See Feb. according to Eli Shorak, associ- • Wesley Rohrer, co-chair of 5 University Times.) ate vice chancellor for Business. the Senate community relations In addition to breast pumping, Guided tours of the facility will committee, presented a summary the previous resolution advocated be held on March 25 (9 a.m.-1 report on last October’s Senate finding space for new mothers to p.m.), March 27 (noon-4 p.m.) and plenary session (see Nov. 6 Uni- breastfeed their babies. March 30 (3-6 p.m.). The web site versity Times). Copies of the report The new resolution, which www.uc.pitt.edu contains infor- are available at the Senate office, members approved unanimously, mation on club dues and facilities. 1234 CL; 4-6504. states: “Resolved, that Faculty For more information, contact • Irene Frieze, chair of the Assembly encourages all units of Cathie Caliguiri-Kahn, 412/383- Senate elections committee, said the University to identify private 9496; [email protected]. faculty members still are needed to space, if needed, within existing • Baker said he is hopeful that fill the ballots for Senate officers facilities for mothers who wish to the April 7 Faculty Assembly and Assembly. Interested faculty express breast milk.” meeting can be held at the Uni- should contact the Senate office As the University Times went versity Club to allow members at 4-6504. to press, Munro was expected to to browse around the renovated —Peter Hart n introduce the resolution to Senate Council, which met at 3 p.m. yesterday, March 4. Assembly members also heard a report from Senate Vice Presi- dent Susan Hansen on Pitt’s revised sexual harassment policy (Policy 07-06-04). Hansen chaired a working group with representa- tives from three University Senate committees and lawyers from the Office of General Counsel to revise the wording. A change was required, Hansen said, to comply with a recent Third Circuit Court of Appeals (Case No. 07-2220, Christian M. DeJohn v. Temple University) ruling holding that Temple’s harass- ment policy, which has wording similar to Pitt’s, is unconstitutional because it is too broad. Hansen reported that two sections were added to Pitt’s revised policy: “Section III-B, Sexual Harassment Standard When Constitutionally Protected Speech Is Implicated” and “Sec- tion IX, Application of Policy in the Academic Setting.” In a nutshell, the first new sec- tion refers to First Amendment protections. To rise to the level of prohibited sexual harassment, the section states, “the law requires a tenable threat of material and sub- stantial disruption of University operations or interference with the rights of others.” The latter new section states that the sexual harassment policy “does not prohibit legitimate aca- demic activities ... involving con- tent of a sexual or gender-related nature that is reasonably related to the academic topic.” In addition, Hansen said, a clause was added that broadened the group of people who are pro- tected from retaliation to include those who provide “information in an investigation of sexual harass- ment” in addition to those who make a claim of sexual harass- ment. The new policy went into effect Feb. 17. Assembly members discussed whether the policy was sufficiently clear in covering an accused person’s rights in response to those claims of sexual harass- ment that are made in bad faith or that intentionally provide false information.

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Peter E. Siska Longtime chemistry professor interactions in 1984. During his admired teacher, patient with He served as a visiting profes- Peter E. Siska died Feb. 27, 2009. long career here, he served on the students. He had the highest sor in 1998 at Harvard, where he He was 65. provost’s advisory committee on standards and loved to perform taught honors freshman chem- Siska began his academic undergraduate programs, the Arts demonstrations to show chem- istry. career at Pitt in 1971, where he and Sciences curriculum review istry in action. It’s also true that Outside of chemistry, Siska’s conducted pioneering research committee, the University Honors his research on the fundamental interests included history, astron- in molecular beam kinetics. College advisory council and the questions relating to chemi- omy, travel throughout the United He also was an award-winning Provost’s Advisory Council on cal reactivity was scholarly and States and Europe, as well as clas- teacher, earning the Chancellor’s Instructional Excellence. dedicated and of the highest sical music. Distinguished Teaching Award in Siska was a volunteer for the integrity. Although he had a very He was a member of the Sha- 1987, an Innovations in Education Chemistry Olympics at Pitt, and soft-spoken and quiet personality, dyside Choral Society and other Award in 2001 and a Bellet Arts gave the Faraday Lecture and his passion became evident when community choirs, and a member and Sciences Teaching Excellence numerous National Chemistry describing chemistry and chemical of St. Irenaeus Catholic Church. Award in 2003. Week demonstrations. principles.” Siska is survived by his wife In addition, Siska received Siska was the author of “Uni- A native of Evergreen Park, of 41 years, Jeanne Siska; his son, several other acknowledgments versity Chemistry,” an honors Ill., Siska was first in his class at David Siska; his daughter, Sarah of his teaching, including the freshman chemistry textbook pub- Mendel Catholic High School. Siska; his mother, Marie Siska; his Student Government Board lished in 2006. He was working on He received his bachelor’s degree brothers William Siska and Robert Faculty Honor Roll Award and a physical chemistry textbook at in chemistry with minors in Siska; his sister, Margaret Siska, the Golden Key National Honor the time of his death. physics and mathematics from and many nieces and nephews. Society honorary faculty inductee His research lab focused on DePaul University and his PhD in Memorial contributions are designation. He had taught in the intermolecular forces and molecu- physical chemistry from Harvard suggested to the St. Vincent University Honors College since lar reaction dynamics. Among Bandik added, “He also had a University as a National Science De Paul Society of St. Irenaeus its inception in 1987. his scientific publications is a big impact on me. We would sit Foundation Fellow. Following a Catholic Church, Oakmont. In a 2005 statement prepared highly cited review on Penning around and talk about teaching postdoctoral appointment at the A campus memorial service for for the Center for Instructional ionization, an ionization process and how to improve teaching and University of Chicago, he joined Siska is being planned. Development and Distance Edu- involving reactions between find better ways to do things.” the Pitt faculty. —Peter Hart n cation’s teaching support web site, neutral atoms and other atoms Bandik noted that Siska won Siska described himself: “Whether or molecules. both a Chancellor’s teaching in actual lecturing, in text writ- Colleague and friend George award and a Bellet award, some ing, in supervising or in pushing C. Bandik, senior lecturer and 15 years apart. “So his dedication Cohen memorial service set back the knowledge frontier, I see director of undergraduate studies to teaching — and his success as A memorial service for Cohen was co-director of myself primarily as a teacher and in the chemistry department, said, a teacher — was always there. He William I. Cohen is planned the School of Medicine’s medi- abettor of the educational enter- “He was most noted for being a was dedicated, concerned about for 2 p.m. March 9 in Heinz cal interviewing and advanced prise. Thus I especially cherished great teacher. And he was proud of students, compassionate and Chapel. medical interviewing courses, a being chosen to receive a Bellet that fact. I attended the funeral ser- understanding,” Bandik said. Cohen, a professor of pedi- developmental-behavioral pedi- Award.” vices [on March 2] and it’s amazing David Waldeck, professor and atrics and psychiatry, died of a atrician in Children’s Hospital’s Siska served as an Alfred P. how many former students were chair of the chemistry department, heart attack Feb. 6, 2009, while child development unit and Sloan Fellow, 1975-79, and he there. He taught a wide variety of said, “He was very dedicated and inline skating in Miami Beach. director of the hospital’s Down chaired a Gordon Research Con- students, from freshmen to senior passionate about teaching and He was 62. Syndrome Center. n ference on atomic and molecular chemistry majors.” research. He was a beloved and Carl F. Poke A memorial service will be politics, American national gov- ally a world traveler, most often “Our favorite conversations held April 2 for Carl F. Poke, one ernment and modern political spending his summer vacations revolved around old movies with of the “founding fathers” of Pitt’s theory. abroad. He was a natty dresser, me standing behind the library Greensburg campus, who died Larry Whatule, associate pro- frequently buying clothes during desk and him coming in to pick Feb. 23, 2009. He was 75. fessor of communication at UPG, these trips and bringing a Conti- up a movie to show in class,” The service is scheduled for 4 said, “In addition to his admin- nental touch to the campus. He Duck said. “One day we got into p.m in UPG’s Mary Lou Campana istrative duties, he also taught encouraged students to travel, and a spirited conversation as to why Chapel and Lecture Center. one course per term. His feeling so it was fitting that he established students today couldn’t stand Poke was named assistant to was that academic administrators a scholarship for students to travel black and white movies, would the president, dean for Academic should experience firsthand what and study abroad.” barely tolerate them in his class. Affairs and instructor in political was happening in the classroom Wesley Jamison, vice president We both agreed that day that it science in 1963 — UPG’s founding since they make decisions that for Academic Affairs at UPG, said, was sacrilegious for someone to year — becoming the first appoint- affect students’ academic lives.” “Carl became a strong advocate have colorized ‘Casablanca.’ He ment made by Pitt-Greensburg’s Poke was awarded the UPG for campus efforts to encourage will be missed.” first president, Albert Barnes President’s Medal for Distin- global awareness and foreign Joanne J. Viano, assistant Smith Jr. According to the cam- guished Service in 2004. In the travel among the students. One of professor of French and English pus’s archives, Smith commented: award citation, then-President his legacies to the campus will be at Greensburg, said, “Carl was “It was quickly apparent that Frank A. Cassell stated, “With the financial support he provided devoted, dedicated, kind and he was the man for the job and vision, leadership and energy, for student study abroad.” generous with his time, talents for the next 18 years we shared you have helped this campus environment that he was able to On a personal note, Jamison and financial support. He came to the development of the campus to become a distinguished bac- create.” said, “I always appreciated his sup- UPG primarily as an administra- together.” calaureate institution. ... During Poke always led with a “light port for my efforts as a beginning tor. Yet, perhaps, he was always Poke’s charge was to establish your years as an administrator touch” and the best of academic faculty member [in 1987] when he first a teacher. He believed that, the academic mission for Pitt- and professor, the campus has instincts, Scanlon said, adding was dean and for my interest in in order to ‘take the pulse’ of the Greensburg and he dedicated his become an ever more important that the faculty both liked and moving to administration when he campus, he needed this contact life to its advancement, friends and educational resource in this region trusted him. was a senior faculty member.” with students and with his col- colleagues said. He remained as and far beyond.” “Carl was essentially a gentle Poke hired Patricia Duck as the leagues in political science. This dean until 1991, when he returned Poke retired in 2005, earn- man with some interesting con- campus library director in 1986. dual role, as academician and as to teaching full time. ing an appointment as professor trasts. In some ways he was very “He ‘stole’ me away from Hillman administrator, was at the core of A Pittsburgh native, Poke emeritus of political science. sophisticated and cosmopolitan Library,” Duck said. “He always Carl’s devotion to and love for earned three degrees at Pitt: a “I knew Carl as a colleague and — with an interest in steeple chase impressed me as being patient, UPG.” BA, cum laude, in 1955; a master’s friend for 40 years,” said Norman horse racing, for example — but cool under pressure, very thought- Contributions in Poke’s degree in 1958, and a doctoral Scanlon, former vice president for in some ways he exemplified the ful and always a gentleman — good memory may be made to the Carl degree in 1968. Academic Affairs at UPG. “As the Pittsburgh culture of hard work attributes for an administrator.” A. and Florence R. Poke Endow- He began his teaching career as person primarily responsible for and determination on a day-in Poke was a big library booster, ment Fund for international a graduate teaching assistant in the the development of the academic and day-out basis,” Scanlon added. she said, including on occasion student travel or the Carl F. Poke Department of Political Science program in the early years of “UPG was literally his life’s work. writing personal checks to buy Endowment Fund for Millstein at the Pittsburgh campus, 1956- the campus, Carl had to recruit Even in death, his presence will videos or books he felt the library Library at Pitt-Greensburg. 59. He also served as a graduate faculty and students and build a continue to be felt through the needed. —Peter Hart n teaching fellow, 1959-60. curriculum. In all of this, Carl two endowed funds that he estab- Poke briefly left Pitt in 1960 was amazingly successful. The fact lished for the campus,” Scanlon to serve as an assistant professor that he could get talented faculty said, referring to the Carl F. Poke Parking Office closing March 9-11 in the Department of History members to commit to a campus Endowment Fund for Millstein Pitt’s Parking Office will be closed March 9-11. The office is and Social Sciences at Millersville without any real infrastructure Library and the Carl A. and Flor- upgrading the parking database and staff will be training on the State College. and certainly without any ameni- ence R. Poke Endowment Fund new system during that time. At UPG, he taught courses ties is a testimonial to the kind of for international student travel. The office will reopen on Thursday, March 12. n in comparative government and work atmosphere and academic Whatule said, “Carl was liter-

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ogy. He was promoted to associate Advancement of Science. professor in 1970, and served as He served as occasional spokes- Francis Byrne Colavita psychology department chair, person for scientific psychology at A memorial service will be other races,” said Colavita in the 1980-88. high school career nights, for held at 3 p.m. March 26 in Heinz Dec. 6, 2001, University Times. In 1983, he was appointed social workers’ organizations and Chapel for Francis Byrne Colavita, “I like to challenge myself. And associate professor in educational at various Unitarian churches. associate professor emeritus of teaching these huge classes and psychology at the School of Edu- A native of Newark, New psychology, who died Feb. 16, trying to keep everybody awake, cation. Jersey, Colavita earned his under- 2009, in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., alert and interested is quite chal- He served as academic dean graduate degree with honors in as the result of a traffic accident. lenging. for the Semester at Sea program experimental psychology at the He was 69. “I warn them very early: ‘This summer 2003 voyage. University of Maryland in 1961. Colavita’s wife, Harriet Phil- is a broad discipline; there’s going Colavita retired in 2005 and Three years later, he completed lips, 67, died at Memorial Regional to be something here to interest was named emeritus associate his PhD at Indiana University- Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., everybody.’ I say, ‘It’s okay to have professor. Following retirement Bloomington. shortly after the Feb. 13 accident, a little fun.’ Let’s face it, good he held an adjunct faculty position Prior to coming to Pitt, he which involved a pickup truck teaching is more fun than bad at Florida Atlantic University. was a lecturer and postdoctoral and six other vehicles. Colavita teaching. Saying something outra- Colavita won five teach- research fellow at Indiana’s Center died three days later at the same geous is sometimes necessary. It ing awards, including in 1997 for Neural Sciences, 1984-86. hospital. breaks the rhythm, so students can the Chancellor’s Distinguished Colavita is survived by his The driver of the pickup truck re-focus,” he said. “I don’t think Teaching Award, Pitt’s highest daughters, Lisa Colavita Keibler has been arrested and charged with how I was and if I said I was having there’s any one personality that award for pedagogy. and Jill Colavita Vertes; his two counts of DUI manslaughter, a bad day, he’d say, ‘Let me tell you makes a good teacher. Different He authored “Sensory Changes son, Francis Byrne Colavita Jr.; three counts of DUI with serious a story.’ It was always very funny people are effective in different in the Elderly” and published his stepdaughters, Jamie Lynn bodily injury and six counts of DUI and cheered me up.” situations. In a graduate seminar more than 30 scholarly articles Phillips and Lisa Blake Phillips; property damage, according the Known for his extemporaneous they’ll cut you some slack. To be in the areas of sensory processes, his brother, Henry Colavita; Broward County sheriff’s office. teaching style and his enthusiasm confident, dynamic, energetic perception and recovery of func- grandchildren Kara Elizabeth Friends and colleagues remem- for teaching large introductory — these are much more impor- tion following brain damage. Keibler, Kiley Decker Keibler, bered the personable Colavita as psychology courses, Colavita tant with a large group. I believe Colavita was a member of Chase Caleb Keibler, Ryleigh an outstanding teacher and a man shared some of his teaching that I am effective in a seminar, a several professional organizations, Valer Vertes, Charlotte Marie of great wit. philosophies with the University small class and a large class. But including the American Psycho- Vertes and Kendall K. Vertes, and “I’d known Frank for more Times in 2001. the one that excites me the most logical Association, the Eastern great granddaughter Lily Marie than 40 years and I can honestly “I’m an excitement junkie: I is the large one.” Psychological Association, the Keibler-Robinson. say I never knew a funnier person,” skydive and I ride motorcycles. Colavita began his Pitt career Pittsburgh Psychological Associa- A scholarship fund in Colavita’s said Tony Caggiula, a fellow psy- I was a ranked runner in my age in 1966 as assistant professor with tion, the Psychonomic Society and honor is being planned. chology professor and friend. “He group and I still run marathons and a specialty in biological psychol- the American Association for the —Peter Hart n lit up the room when he walked into it. I don’t know anyone who knew him who didn’t love him. He was so bright and a tremendously Montgomery Culver witty, funny person. He absolutely Former English faculty Gutkind said Culver sacri- ticed, Ochester said. In conver- enthralled his students. When member Montgomery (Monty) ficed his own work to dedicate sations with writing program they weren’t laughing, they were Culver died Feb. 23, 2009. He himself to his students. “He was alumni over many years, “The learning. He had tremendous was 80. so involved in life, in his teach- one person they always mentioned communication skills. His lectures Culver earned his bachelor’s ing, his students and in reading, with extraordinary fondness was were so clear and crisp.” and master’s degrees at Pitt and he kind of put his writing in Monty Culver.” Many of Colavita’s former stu- a PhD from the University of the background,” Gutkind said. Culver’s availability extended dents told Caggiula they went into Illinois. A fiction writer, he joined “Typically, writing teachers teach to his former students as well, psychology because of him. Pitt’s English department in 1953 writing in order to get time to Gutkind said, recalling how “Ironically, Frank did research and attained the rank of professor write. Monty did it backwards.” Culver mentored him after he in recovering from brain damage. in 1971. Ochester recalled Culver as had completed his undergradu- He was an expert on that, too,” He was a former editor of being extraordinarily modest. ate degree. Caggiula said. “His research was the Bulletin of the American “If Monty would want to be “He had taken a number of always logical and well-organized. Academy of Psychiatry and the remembered for one thing, it former students under his wing,” We loved going to his brown bag Law and had served as president would be his service to other Gutkind said, teaching them after presentations, which were a model of the Pittsburgh chapter of the people. He never advertised hours in a room in the Cathedral of clarity. He was an extremely American Association of Univer- the fact that he was a wonderful of Learning. “He guided us for talented man, and just the nicest sity Professors. teacher; he simply did his work one-on-one basis in that way,” years for no reward except for person in the world. He will be Culver’s early work appeared as he saw fit.” Gutkind said. our friendship, our loyalty and sorely missed.” in several prestigious publications. Culver wasn’t known as a Culver made himself available our love. He worked with us for Colleague Susan Campbell, His story “Black Water Blues,” charismatic classroom figure, to his students, Ochester said, hours.” professor and chair of the psychol- published in Atlantic Monthly Gutkind said, citing Culver’s noting that during the time their Culver conducted the seminars ogy department’s developmental in 1951, won an O. Henry Short soft-spoken nature and tendency offices were side-by-side in the “just for the love of it,” Oches- program, said, “Certainly, Frank Story Award. to mumble. “Because he was so English department, he often ter agreed, adding, “I’ve never was a devoted teacher. He spent Other stories included “Lousy shy, he wasn’t the greatest lecturer could hear Culver discussing with known anyone else who just did so much of his career teaching Luck,” which appeared in Esquire in the world. Students went to students the elements of a story he this because he was so called to and inspiring undergraduates, in 1962, and “Chance of a Life- him for the gold he wrote on thought were great as well as those it. It always knocked me out to especially in the large introductory time,” which was published in the your manuscripts,” Gutkind said, he felt could be improved. see that kind of dedication, and courses, but also teaching gradu- Saturday Evening Post in 1966. remembering him more as an “Every time I came into the Monty had it.” ate students how to become good Most notably, Culver was insightful evaluator rather than office, Monty was there. … He Culver is survived by his teachers. He kept his students a central figure in the English merely an editor of students’ clearly did more than he was partner, Madelyn Mankoff; his engaged because he could make department’s creative writing pro- written work. asked by the department and daughter, Carol Culver; his son, scientific things come to life, but gram for many years and served as “He was so smart — he clearly more than would seem Ralph Culver, and nieces and also he was so funny.” its director for more than a decade. knew how to take a pencil to a reasonable.” nephews. She added, “As a person, he His former students include writ- manuscript and help you on a That devotion didn’t go unno- —Kimberly K. Barlow n was open, warm, nonjudgmental ers Jonellen Heckler, Peter Beagle and such a positive force in the and Lee Gutkind, and publisher P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S department. He would have made Joni Evans of Random House and Faculty in the Schools of the School of Medicine and director ences in the School of Pharmacy, a great therapist, even though that Simon and Schuster. Health Sciences recently won emeritus of the Thomas E. Starzl received the 2009 Bristol-Myers was not his specialty. We were Pitt Poetry Series editor Ed awards or received accolades. Transplantation Institute, will be Squibb Mentorship in Clinical all shocked and saddened by his Ochester, who became director of They include: honored with one of two lifetime Pharmacology award from the death, and by Harriet’s too. They the writing program in 1978, said • Charles F. Reynolds, pro- achievement awards, the National American College of Clinical had a warm marriage. It was very Culver led the program during a fessor of psychiatry, neurology Physician of the Year Awards, Pharmacology. This bi-yearly tragic.” time when it expanded from one and neuroscience; senior associate from Castle Connolly Medical award recognizes sustained excel- Pitt retiree Marilyn Kramer focused mainly on composition to dean of the School of Medicine, Ltd., whose mission is to help lence in clinical pharmacology worked as Colavita’s secretary encompass more courses in fiction, and professor of behavioral and consumers find the best health mentorship in an academic, regu- when he served as department poetry and nonfiction. community health sciences at the care in America. latory and/or industrial setting. chair. “I worked at Pitt for 32 years, Gutkind, a Pitt English pro- Graduate School of Public Health • Donald B. DeFranco, pro- • Gwendolyn Sowa, assistant and I worked for a lot of people, but fessor emeritus, credited Culver has been elected to a one-year term fessor and vice chair for education professor in the medical school’s he had to be the most wonderful with being instrumental in the as the president of the American in the Department of Pharmacol- Department of Physical Medicine person of all. He was kind and very growth of Pitt’s creative writing Foundation for Suicide Preven- ogy and Chemical Biology in the and Rehabilitation, has received considerate,” Kramer said. program as well as in motivating tion. This person serves as an School of Medicine, has started the 2009 Young Academician Colavita also had a knack for others to begin similar programs. officer on the foundation’s board a five-year term as the editor-in- Award from the Association of boosting departmental morale, “He planted the seeds,” Gutkind of directors. chief of Molecular Endocrinol- Academic Physiatrists. Kramer said. “All you had to do said. “Monty did it when nobody • Transplant pioneer Thomas ogy. Sowa is the third faculty was mention a subject and he’d paid attention to writers in the E. Starzl, distinguished service • Raman Venkataramanan, member from her department to come up with a joke. Or he’d ask academic world.” professor of surgery at Pitt’s professor of pharmaceutical sci- win this national award. n

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C A L E N D A R Global Studies Lecture Wednesday 18 “Internationalization of Korean CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 Higher Education,” Heejin Park, Clinical Oncology & Hematol- HSLS Workshop Friday 13 CRSP Lecture education; 4130 Posvar, noon ogy Grand Rounds “Adobe Photoshop for Begin- “Discrimination & Its Health (4-2918) “Monoclonal B Cell Lymphocy- ners,” Sam Lewis; Falk Library Consequences Across Diverse Philosophy of Science Talk • University closed in obser- tosis & Its Relationship to CLL,” classrm. 2, 10 am-noon Racial Groups,” David Takeuchi, “Hobbes: Science & the Science vance of spring holiday. Marc Levesque; Herberman Endocrine Research Confer- U of WA; 2017 CL, noon-1:30 of Politics,” Martin Bertman, Conf. Ctr., 2nd fl. aud., 8 am ence pm (4-7382) Helsinki U; 817R CL, 12:05 WPIC Meet the PI Lecture Info Sciences Lecture “Pten Tumor Suppressor Func- pm (4-1052) “Tipping Point: The Future of “Historic Photos of Pgh.,” tion in the Tumor Microenviron- Asian Studies Lecture Psychiatry,” Charles Reynolds; Tuesday 17 Miriam Meislik, Pitt Archives ment,” Gustavo Leone; 1195 “Korea’s State Ritual Music,” Bell Detre 2nd fl. aud., 11 am-12:30 Services Ctr.; 501 IS, 10:30 am Starzl BST, noon HSLS Workshop Yung, music; 4130 Posvar, 2:30 Pathology Research Seminar pm pm (8-7426) Chemistry Seminar Saturday 14 “PubMed Basics,” Carolyn “New Roles for the uPA/Plas- “Mechanistic Studies of C-4 Biglow; Falk Library classrm. 1, Pharmacology & Chemical minogen System in Vascular Deoxygenation in the Biosyn- 10-11:30 am Biology Seminar Dental Education Seminar Pathology,” David Dichek, U thesis of Unusual Sugars,” Ben CIDDE Faculty Book Dis- “Genome-Wide Approaches “Digital Radiography,” Anitha of WA; 1105 Scaife, noon (8- Liu, U of TX; 12B Chevron, cussion to Studying Androgen Recep- Potluri & L.G. Schneider; 2148 1040) 2:30 pm “Learning & Motivation in the tor & Associated Coregulators Salk, 8:30 am-12:30 pm Pharmacy Distinguished Lec- Chemistry Seminar Postsecondary Classroom”; 815 in Prostate Cancer,” Michael ture “Ions & Ionizable Protein Side Garabedian, NYU; 1395 Starzl Monday 16 Alumni, noon-1:30 pm (also “The Pharmacist Factor in Chains Crossing Membranes: March 19, 3:30-5:30 pm) BST, 3:30 pm Health Promotions & Patient With & Without Ion Channels,” CVR Seminar Classics Lecture Management,” Gary Matzke, CIDDE Workshop Toby Allen, UC-Davis; 12B “Malaria-Induced Inflammation “Escaping One’s Own Notice VA Commonwealth U; 355 “Evaluating Online Courses”; Chevron, 4 pm & Dendritic Cell Response,” Ana Knowing: Meno’s Paradox Salk, noon 815 Alumni, noon-1:30 pm Rodriguez; 6014 BST3, noon Again,” M.M. McCabe, King’s CIDDE Faculty Article Dis- College, London; 144 CL, cussion 3:30 pm “General Education: The Chemistry Seminar Changing Agenda”; 815 Alumni, “Zeolitic Imidazolate Frame- noon-1:30 pm (also March 20, works & Application to CO2 noon-1:30 pm) Capture,” Omar Yaghi, UCLA; Global Studies Lecture 12A Chevron, 4 pm “A Taste of Democracy From Classics Lecture American & Israelis’ Schools,” “Project Paphlagonia: Multi- Ofira Roll, education; 4217 Period Archaeological Survey Posvar, noon (4-2918) in North-Central Turkey,” Religious Studies Collo- Roger Matthews, Univ. College, quium London; 304 CL, 4:30 pm “And We Got to Get Ourselves Law Forum Back to the Garden,” Rebecca “The Molly Maguire Commis- Denova; 2628 CL, noon (4- sion”; WPU Ballrm., 7 pm 5990) Global Studies Lecture “The Veil in Islamic Societies: A Historical & Social Overview,” Shane Minkin, NYU; Sutherland Hall lounge, 8 pm (4-2918) CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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C A L E N D A R Conflict of Interest Filing Event Deadline Deadline is April 15. COI dis- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 closures must be filed through The next issue of the University https://coi.hs.pitt.edu. Biological Sciences Seminar Geology & Planetary Science A&S/History Times calendar will include “Plasticity & Ecological Breadth Colloquium “An Essential Link in a Vast events of March 19-April 2. in Polygonum: An Eco-Devo “Overview of Real-Time GPS Chain: New England & the Information for events during Case Study,” Sonia Sultan; A224 Networks & the New Virtual West Indies, 1700-1775,” Eric that period must be received by Langley, 12:30 pm Reference System in PA,” Kevin Kimball; March 18, 3703 Posvar, 5 pm March 12 at 308 Bellefield HSLS Workshop Chappell, Precision Laser & 9 am Hall. Information may be sent by “Sequence Similarity Search- Instruments; 11 Thaw, 4 pm A&S/Chemistry fax to 4-4579 or email to utcal@ ing,” Ansuman Chattopadhyay; Chemistry Distinguished “Application of Allene-ynes to pitt.edu. Falk Library conf. rm. B, 1-3 Lecture the Synthesis of Novel Carbo- pm “Methodological Advances in cyclic & Heterocyclic Scaffolds,” Bradford Campus Concert Computer Simulation of Bio- Thomas Painter; March 18, 245 C L A S S I F I E D College-Community Choir; molecular Systems,” Wilfred van Chevron, 1 pm SERVICES Bromeley Family Theater, Blais- Gunsteren, Swiss Federal Inst. • $8 for up to 15 words; $9 for 16-30 ELDER LAW—ESTATE ATTORNEYS dell, UPB, 7:30 pm (814/362- of Technology; 12A Chevron, Theatre words; $10 for 31-50 words. Michael H. Marks & Associates. 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C A L E N D A R Neck,’” Heather Perinis; 2148 Health Services Research Salk, 8:30 am-3:30 pm Seminar March Men’s Basketball “Subjective & Objective Sleep Vs. UConn; Petersen, noon Geology & Planetary Science WPIC Meet the PI Lecture Quality & Aging in the Sleep Thursday 5 Heart Health Study,” Mark Colloquium “A Model of Gene-Environment Sunday 8 Unruh; 305 Parkvale, noon Five-Campus College Fair “The Astrochronologic Calibra- Interaction in Schizophrenia: Pharmacology & Chemical “The College Selection Process,” tion of Oceanic Anoxic Event Joint Effect of Exposure to Infec- • No classes for students Biology Seminar “Writing a College Essay” & 2: Toward a Global Synthesis,” tious Agents & Host Genetic through March 13 due to “Mitochondrial Disease: Enigma “Scholarships & Financial Aid”; Stephen Meyer, UNC; 11 Thaw, Variations,” Konasale Prasad; spring recess. University Wrapped in a Puzzle,” Russell Connolly Ballrm. Alumni, 11 am- 4 pm Detre 2nd fl . aud., 11 am-12:30 offi ces & buildings remain Saneto, Children’s Hospital; 2 pm (also 5-7 pm; 4-4096) Chemistry Philips Lecture pm open & staffed except on 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm Asia Over Lunch Lecture “Materials Advances for Elec- UPMC Bariatric Surgery Info Friday, spring holiday. Endocrinology & Metabolism “Guide to New Japanese Digi- trical Energy Generation & Session Bone Club tal Resources: Asahi Shinbun Storage: Fuel Cells, Lithium Ion Magee zero level aud., 11:30 am- UPMC Sports Medicine Ath- “TZDs & Osteoporosis,” Hugo Database & Institutional Deposi- Batteries & SuperCaps,” Héctor 1 pm (also March 17; 412/641- letic Trainer River Run Lin; 1195 Starzl BST, 4:30 pm tories,” Hiro Good, East Asian Abruña, Cornell; 12 Chevron, 3632) Registration, 8 am; warm-up, 9 Graduate Certifi cate in Ger- Library; 4130 Posvar, noon 4 pm Human Genetics Seminar am; 5K race, 10 am; 1-mile chal- ontology Info Session (8-7370) Philosophy of Science Work- “Biology in Silico: Online Tolls lenge, 11:30 am; UPMC Sports CGS, 4th fl. CL, 6 pm (4- ADRC Lecture shop for ‘Omics,’” Ansuman Chatto- Performance Complex, South 6600) “Physiological Indicators of Per- “Doing Without Concepts”; padhyay; A115 Crabtree, noon Side (412/432-3770) Johnstown Campus Concert ceived Suffering,” Joan Monin, 817R CL, 4 pm (4-3879) Sr. VC’s Research Seminar Ahn Trio; Pasquerilla Perform- UCSUR; S439 ADRC conf. rm., “Regulation of Gene Expression Monday 9 ing Arts Ctr., UPJ, 7:30 pm Montefi ore, noon Friday 6 During Maturation & Mainte- (814/269-7200) EOH Seminar nance of the Ocular Surface,” Memorial Service “DNA Repair in Human Disor- • Spring term deadline for Shivalingappa Swamynathan; For William Cohen, professor of Wednesday 11 ders With Accelerated Aging,” students to submit monitored Scaife aud. 6, noon pediatrics & psychiatry, who died Vilhelm Bohr; 540 Bridgeside withdrawal forms to dean’s Simulation & Modeling Semi- Feb. 6; Heinz Chapel, 2 pm Staff Assn. Council Mtg. Point, noon offi ce. nar Biological Sciences Seminar 1175 Benedum, 12:15-2 pm Endocrine Research Confer- Rami Melhem, computer science “Golgi Complex: Another ence SBDC Workshop & electrical engineering; 1175 MTOC?” Irina Kaverina; 169 “Mitochondrial Dysfunction “The 1st Step: Mechanics of Benedum, 2:30 pm (8-3094) Thursday 12 Crawford, 4:05-5:15 pm in Muscle Insulin Resistance: Starting a Small Business”; 117 Film Program/English Film Etiological Factor or Epiphe- Mervis, 7:30-10 am (8-1542) “Benny’s Video,” Margaret Emergency Medicine Grand nomenon?” Frederico Toledo; Health Policy Inst. Briefi ng Barton-Fumo; 1501 Posvar, 6:30 Tuesday 10 Rounds 1195 Starzl BST, noon “Governance Challenges in the pm (917/325-4981) “Amonia & Hepatic Encephalo- Epidemiology Seminar New Political & Economic Envi- Offi ce of Research/NCURA pothy,” Brianna Garrett; “Trau- “Preterm Birth & Later Life ronment”; Heinz History Ctr., Saturday 7 Broadcast Workshop matic Injury in Pregnancy,” Jason Maternal Cardiovascular Dis- Strip District, 8 am-1 pm “Cost Sharing: No Good Deed Sperry; “Reading Upper Extrem- ease,” Janet Catov; A115 Crab- Dental Education Seminar Dental Education Seminar Goes Unpunished”; Detre 2nd ity X-Rays,” Robert Kaliappan; tree, noon “What’s Hot & What’s Getting “Important Prosthodontic fl . aud., 11:30 am-3:30 pm (4- “Morbidity & Mortality,” Adam National Preparedness Lec- Hotter,” Howard Glazer; 2148 Points,” Medick Capirano; 7405) Tobias; “eRecord Update,” ture Salk, 9 am-4 pm “Forensic Dentistry Update,” UPMC Practical Flow Cytom- Valerie Kogut; 230 McKee Pl. “Federal Emergency Man- Endocrine Conference Michael Sobel; “How to Bullet etry Lecture classrm. A, 8 am-noon agement,” Jonathan Sarubbi, “Understanding Post-Trans- Proof Your Prosthetic Cases,” “Multiparameter Evaluation of Homeland Security; 528 Alumni, plant Diabetes Mellitus,” Fred- John Gruendel; “Yoga Hints Bone Marrow Specimens,” Brent 3 pm erico Toledo; 1195 Starzl BST, to Relieve the ‘Crick in Your Wood, U of WA; S100A Starzl 9:30 am BST, noon (412/623-7780) CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 Join Us for an Open House at Join the Newest Tradition on Campus Now owned by the University of Pittsburgh, the University Club is newly restored and eager to serve as Pittsburgh’s premier location for weddings, banquets, and conferences. In addition, the University Club includes an exclusive, members-only club for Pitt faculty and staff. the Club. 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