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Green things are sprouting all over Scantron’s busiest time of the year is the campus — and it’s not all tulips fast approaching...... 3 and daffodils. See page 9. What we earn: Pitt’s annual report details the highs, lows and every- U N I V E R S I T Y thing in between...... 6 TIMES VOLUME 41 • NUMBER 16 APRIL 16, 2009 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Hard times Weighing in hit home one last time Final weigh-ins for Pitt’s second annual MyHealth Weight Race continue Some staff through April 20 (April 24 at Pitt-Greensburg). Left: Steve Verba, a graduate student in exercise physiol- utilizing ogy, records Nanju Besagara- halli’s weight Wednesday in Bellefield Hall. Besagarahalli, of Computing Services and Food Bank Systems Development, works out in the Bellefield fitness ollection boxes for Pitt’s facilities and walks at lunch- “Partnership for Food” time to manage his weight. drive have a prominent Right: Beverly Jablonowski, C a technical services staffer place in the reception area in front for the University Library of Kathleen Allport’s desk on the System, steps onto the scale for a final weigh-in before sixth floor of Sennott Square. health and physical activ- The computer science depart- ity graduate student David White. ment secretary has marshaled the A list of weigh-in times and department’s donations for the locations is available online food drive for several years, even at www.hr.pitt.edu/fitness/ pdf/2009_weigh_in_loc_ fanning the flames of competi- binder.pdf. tion that pit comp sci faculty and According to organizers, 740 staff against graduate students in participants signed up either as individuals or as members a friendly challenge to see which of weight race teams. group will donate the most non- Winners will be announced perishable items to benefit the April 30. Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. N.J. Brown Kimberly K. Barlow It never occurred to Allport that she might find herself in need of its services. “I never gave 2009 open it a thought,” she said, thinking, Spring cleaning? Don’t toss that sofa “That’s for poor people.” s it time again for spring clean- vacate their off-campus residences ment Corp. (OPDC) three years However, in spite of her full- ing? Don’t put that old chair at the end of spring term, large ago began a program of collecting enrollment time job and part-time work Ior sofa out on the curb. numbers of discarded furniture and reselling abandoned furniture. cleaning houses on weekends, for An Oakland nonprofit organi- — desks, dressers, tables and chairs This year OPDC will begin scour- about six months last year Allport zation is helping to clean up areas — are strewn about the neighbor- ing Oakland and surrounding to begin found herself among the clients near Pitt’s campus by recycling hood, abandoned to scavengers neighborhoods in the East End of Employees can expect to of the food pantry at Rosedale cast-off furniture — and welcomes and the whims of weather, often Pittsburgh on April 24, gathering receive information on ben- United Methodist Church in contributions from Pitt staff and ending up in landfills. salvageable pieces and restoring efits options for the coming Verona — one of some 350 agen- faculty. To help solve the problem, the them in preparation for a furni- fiscal year soon. Information cies in Allegheny County that are Each year, as Pitt students Oakland Planning and Develop- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 packets will be mailed during supplied by the Duquesne-based the week of April 20, accord- food bank. ing to Benefits director John Allport, 62, said she was a stay- Kozar. The open enrollment at-home mom until divorce forced period is April 23-May 13. her into her first “real job” at a card Among this year’s options store in 1996. A series of oppor- is the opportunity to enroll in tunities brought her to Pitt in Pitt’s long-term care insurance 2001. She began as a receptionist plan. in the School of Arts and Sciences Benefits fairs are scheduled dean’s office before moving to in the Cambria Room at Pitt- computer science, where initially Johnstown 10:30 a.m.-1:30 she was a department receptionist p.m. April 28; in the William before being promoted recently to Pitt Union lower lounge noon- department secretary. 3 p.m. on April 29 and 30; in She found herself in debt after Village Hall rooms 101 and treatment for breast cancer in 118 at Pitt-Greensburg 11 2003. Allport said she continued a.m-1:30 p.m. on May 5; in the to work during her illness but Frame-Westerberg Commons co-pays for doctors and prescrip- Mukaiyama University Room tions added up. In addition, in the at Pitt-Bradford 11 a.m.-2 p.m. confusion that accompanied her May 6, and Haskell Memorial chemotherapy, some bills didn’t Library lobby at Pitt-Titusville get paid. 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. May 7. Although her credit had been Human Resources staff and good, that all changed after she benefits vendors will be avail- began juggling her bills by paying able to answer questions about them with credit cards, amassing a Pitt benefits programs. Addi- debt of about $20,000. “I’m trying tional information on open Kimberly K. Barlow to dig myself out of it,” she said. Last August, the Oakland Planning and Development Corp. spring/summer furniture recycling enrollment will be posted at Cutting expenses includes clip- program netted 350 pieces of cast-off furniture, which were gobbled up by area bargain hunters www.hr.pitt.edu. n CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 during the two-day sale.

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Mission statement proposed for Senate group U N I V E R S I T Y S E N A T E he University Senate anti- opportunity.” that were lower than the inflation M A T T E R S / Tracy M. Soska discriminatory policies The committee’s current mis- rate of 4.1 percent for the pay Connecting community service Tcommittee is on its way to sion statement is more specific, period in question,” he said. with teaching and research having a new mission statement stating in part, “We consider “Given the current economic that better represents its role and policy issues that impact women, climate we should not be overly The Senate community relations committee has helped to responsibilities. minorities, individuals with dis- critical but it is a concern. Pitt will sponsor University Senate plenary sessions examining service in Faculty Assembly on April abilities, etc. and attempt to assist become uncompetitive in retain- our University mission and promoting the scholarship of our com- 7 unanimously approved the the University through discussion ing faculty if it continues to give munity engagement. These campus-wide discussions have led to committee’s proposal, which also and advice.” Fitzgerald said that most of its faculty pay raises below greater recognition of service in faculty work. is on Senate Council’s April 15 mission statement doesn’t reflect the inflation rate over multiple Pitt faculty have begun to incorporate a wide variety of service- agenda for approval. the committee’s role and responsi- years.” Baker noted that while the learning approaches in their courses: Committee chairperson Lynn bilities, which have changed. administration is aware of this, it • Maureen Porter (www.pitt.edu/~mporter/service3.html) in Fitzgerald said the new state- “The committee wanted it to be has no easy options given the lack the School of Education used her Provost’s instructional excellence ment emphasizes the committee’s open as communities change,” she of state support. New revenue award grant to take a group of faculty and students to Urumbamba, availability to all members of the said. In the past year the commit- streams need to be found, he said. Peru, where they constructed a preschool and community center community without identifying tee has taken up issues regarding “Some tough choices are going to and studied comparative educational programs. specific groups and reflects the gender, age and aging, disability, have to be made in the next few • Dan Bain’s hydrology class in geology has been studying committee’s ability to address any diversity and racial issues, sexual years. Making the right ones will water levels in Panther Hollow and Nine Mile Run on behalf issue related to discrimination and orientation and sexual harassment, be the major challenge facing the of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, which is hoping to restore inclusion. Fitzgerald noted. administration and my successor Panther Hollow’s lake. The new mission statement q as Senate president.” • Kevin McLaughlin’s health and physical activity coaching reads: “The anti-discriminatory Senate President John J. Baker In other business: students are teaching advanced swimming and lifesaving to local policies committee supports the reminded members that Senate • Ivy Ero of the Greater Pitts- youth who, if certified, will be eligible for summer lifeguard jobs overall mission of the Univer- elections take place April 13-24. “I burgh Community Food Bank at city pools. sity through discussion of the would like to see a record turnout encouraged donations during • Laura Lund’s freshman honors engineering seminar created University’s policies, practices for this election,” he said. Pitt’s Partnership for Food drive. the handicapped accessibility links for campus buildings on the and programs regarding diversity The Senate commonwealth (See related story on page 1.) University web site and also mapped hiking trails in Hill District and inclusion. The committee relations committee and Pitt’s • Assembly’s April 7 meet- greenways as well as safe Oakland walking routes. reviews issues relating to fairness Governmental Relations office ing was held at the University • Drew Armstrong’s urban design lab in architectural studies and respect for all members of has scheduled luncheons April 24 Club. Eli Shorak, associate vice designed public spaces and buildings in Hazelwood that addressed the diverse University commu- with state Rep. Rob Matzie (D-16) chancellor for business, said 471 community needs. nity and offers recommendations and May 1 with state Rep. Mike members have joined the club, • Fiona Cheong’s creative writing students worked with area for maintaining, developing and Turzai (R-28). Those interested in which opened April 1. high school students to develop and compare visions of the city promoting anti-discriminatory attending should call 4-6504. • Regional campus faculty for the Pittsburgh 250 Celebration. policies at the University. While Baker commented on Pitt’s presidents have been invited to These faculty members used service-learning to link com- the committee establishes its annual continuing faculty salary Assembly’s May 5 meeting to dis- munity service to teaching and research. Through these classes own areas and topics of inquiry, report. (See April 2 University cuss regional salary benchmark- students learned to apply their knowledge critically and reflect on it encourages communications Times.) “Even though we had the ing. Proposed changes in tenure the learning experience; local communities benefited through the from students, staff, faculty and highest salary pool increase in for medical school faculty also will service-learning process and products. the administration on all matters years, for which I am grateful, over be on the agenda, Baker said. According to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse of access, civil rights and equal half our faculty had pay increases —Kimberly K. Barlow n (www.servicelearning.org) and Campus Compact (www.compact. org), national initiatives advancing this educational approach, “service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection Faculty Assembly candidates announced to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and andidates for openings on both the faculty-only Assembly There are no openings this year strengthen communities.” Service-learning combines service objec- Faculty Assembly have been and on Senate Council, which for new Assembly members from tives with learning objectives to change both the recipient and the Cannounced. Electronic bal- includes faculty, staff, students the Graduate School of Public and provider of the service by combining service tasks with structured loting for new members continues and administrators. International Affairs, the School opportunities that link the task to self-reflection, self-discovery and through April 24. The following are candidates of Dental Medicine, the Health the acquisition and comprehension of curriculum-related values, Newly elected members to for Faculty Assembly. The number Sciences Library System, the skills and knowledge content. Faculty Assembly serve the first of vacancies in each unit is indi- School of Nursing or the School How do you go about beginning to integrate service-learning year of their three-year terms on cated in parentheses. of Pharmacy. into your classes? the Assembly; during their second Pitt’s Bradford, Greensburg, The School of Arts and Sciences (www.as.pitt.edu/undergradu- and third years, they serve on School of Arts and Sciences Johnstown and Titusville cam- ate/offices/experiential-learning/index.html) and the Center for (A&S) puses elect their own representa- Instructional Development and Distance Education (www.cidde. Credit • Humanities (1 vacancy) tives to Faculty Assembly. pitt.edu/fds/lrn_service_lrn.htm) have more information about how Marcia Landy, English; Kimberly Candidates for officers of the service-learning works. Some Pitt faculty and students have been “Warhol-a-rama, ” written Latta, English. University Senate were announced completing service-learning courses funded by the new SPRING by Peter Oresick and featured • Natural Sciences (2) previously. Service Learning Network (www.duq.edu/springnetwork), a con- in the April 2 University Jon Johnson, neuroscience; Vladi- Running for president are sortium of local universities that provides extensive resources for Times, was published by mir Savinov, physics and astron- Michael R. Pinsky, professor of developing and integrating service-learning. Also, Amizade Global Carnegie Mellon University omy; Chandralekha Singh, physics critical care medicine, bioengi- Service Learning Center (www.amizade.org), once housed at Pitt, Press. n and astronomy; Marc Sommer, neering, translational and clinical has re-established a Pittsburgh office. neuroscience. research, cardiovascular diseases Through the University’s Community Outreach Partnership • Social Sciences (2) and anesthesiology, School of Center, Sabina Deitrick and I have partnered with the Univer- Martha Chaiklin, history; Janelle Medicine; and Wesley M. Rohrer, sity Honors College to fund several research service-learning Greenberg, history. assistant professor, Department courses, and we incorporate this model in our own courses (www. of Health Policy and Manage- pitt.edu/~copc). As advanced at Duke University (http://rslduke. U N I V E R S I T Y Professional schools ment, Graduate School of Public mc.duke.edu), “research service-learning (RSL) is an emerging • Business (1) Health. practice connecting service-learning with the mission of research TIMES Jay Sukits. (For a discussion of issues by the universities to create new knowledge that benefits both university EDITOR • Education (1) two presidential candidates, see April and community. Students participate in a structured process of N. J. Brown 412/624-1373 Consuella Lewis; Amy Otto. 2 University Times.) critical reflection on the ethical, intellectual and civic aspects of [email protected] • Engineering (1) Candidates for vice president their experiences while also producing a tangible research product WRITERS Paolo Galdi; Patrick Smolinski. are incumbent Susan B. Hansen, for their community partner.” For faculty who want to learn more, the SPRING Service Learn- Kimberly K. Barlow 412/624-1379 • Information Sciences (1) professor of political science, [email protected] Daqing He; Michael Spring. A&S; and Steven Husted, profes- ing Network will hold a Service-Learning Course Development • Law (1) sor of economics, A&S. Institute on May 14 and June 10 at Carlow. Area faculty will have Peter Hart 412/624-1374 Nancy Burkoff. Incumbent Lisa Marie Ber- the opportunity to work intensively on redesigning a course with [email protected] • Social Work (1) nardo, associate professor of guidance from faculty-development and service-learning profes- BUSINESS MANAGER Keith Caldwell. health and community systems in sionals. Participation is free. For information and registration, go Barbara DelRaso 412/624-4644 • University Library System the School of Nursing, is running to the SPRING Network at www.duq.edu/springnetwork. [email protected] (1) for secretary unopposed. Pitt already is among 25 Saviors of Our Cities, universities sig- Events Calendar: [email protected] Ed Galloway; Miriam Meislik. Senate officers will serve one- nificantly impacting their community as recognized by Evan Dobelle The University Times is published bi-weekly of the New England Board of Higher Education. However, as we on Thursdays by the University of Pittsburgh. year terms beginning July 1. press for increased public funding, service-learning affords another Send correspondence to University Times, Schools of the Health Sci- The slate of candidates for the 308 Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, ences University Senate’s 15 standing important pathway for academic excellence that builds on our com- Pittsburgh, PA 15260; fax to 412/624-4579 • Medicine (3) committees is being compiled and munity service strengths. Learn more about service-learning and or email: [email protected]. Anto Bagic; Jeff Isenberg; Lisa will be published in a future issue help advance this work at Pitt. n Subscriptions are available at a cost of $12.50 for the remainder of the publishing year, which Pan; Raymond Pitetti; Adam of the University Times. runs through July. Make checks payable to the Rosendorff; Tom Smitherman; For more information on elec- Tracy M. Soska is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and University of Pittsburgh. Scott Tashman; Adele Towers. tions, contact the Senate office at a member of the University Senate’s community relations committee. He The newspaper is available electronically at: • Public Health (1) 4-6505. can be reached at [email protected]. www.pitt.edu/utimes/ut.html Joe Costantino; Rodger Beatty. —Peter Hart n

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Rubinstein sets up the scanning With master’s and doctoral job on a computer attached to the degrees from Pitt’s educational machine, puts in the answer key research methodology program, and students’ forms and watches she’s more than qualified merely as they are processed. to feed the Scantron machine’s Ordinarily, the OMET staff hopper. She’s able to explain in allow the jobs to accumulate detail the additional analysis that throughout the day and run them can accompany a job. as a batch late in the afternoon. Faculty can request just the The high-speed scanner — a noisy basics — student names and scores P machine that is housed in a closet- — but also can receive statistics, sized room to keep the grinding including standard deviation, the IT and clanging noises it emits from grading distribution curve and disturbing others in the OMET how consistently the students office — can process a job ina answered items across the entire T matter of minutes. During busy test. times, two batches a day are run, The analysis can reveal more Rubinstein said. than just data about the students; That all changes at the end of it can provide statistics on the test the term. “During finals week we itself. Professors can learn which scan all the time,” said Wyman. questions were easiest and which OMET, which has five full- tripped up students most fre- time staff, six part-timers (three of quently. It also gives the frequency them graduate student assistants) of keyed responses — how often and a contracted Computing each option A, B, C, D or E was Services and Systems Develop- the correct answer, for instance. ment employee, does more than Experts who teach how to create test scoring. OMET administers multiple-choice tests advise pro- student evaluations of professors. fessors to keep the choices equal, The office also provides testing Rubinstein said. services for admissions and cer- The University has just one tification exams such as the SAT, optical grading machine to handle GRE and MCAT and offers con- the workload. Should it fail, sulting services to aid in research the entire process could grind and survey design and analysis. to a halt. But OMET staff are A 20-year veteran of the proactive: Late in the term, they OMET office, Rubinstein offi- call in a service technician for a cially is a research specialist. little preventive maintenance to Her main job is to consult with ensure all goes smoothly once faculty and graduate students finals week puts the machine to about research projects and to its biggest test. help develop testing instruments “It went out last fall,” Rubin- and assist with data analysis. stein said. OMET staff had to call WORK Following the departure last all the faculty members who had Pitt’s senior administration grabs most of the headlines. The faculty here get noticed when May of the staffer who handled orders pending to let them know they bring in research dollars, win teaching awards or publish in their fields. Scantron scoring, “We’ve all taken their scores would be delayed. But behind the scenes, University staff, some 7,000 strong across five campuses, often toil in turns doing it,” said Rubinstein, “Fortunately, that doesn’t jobs ranging from the mundane to the esoteric. From mailroom workers to data entry specialists, who since fall has taken the lead happen that often,” she said. costume designers to biosafety officers, photographers to accountants, staff at Pitt perform tasks in processing the tests. —Kimberly K. Barlow n great and small, year-in and year-out, for the greater good of the University. Like the proverbial purloined letter, some staff, such as secretaries, receptionists and mainte- Elaine Rubinstein sets up a Scantron test-scoring job in the Office nance workers, go unnoticed even though daily they plug away at their jobs in plain view. of Measurement and Evaluation of Teaching. During finals, OMET This is one in an occasional series profiling University staff, providing a glimpse of some of the staff expect to process some 425 test scoring requests from pro- fessors — all on the Pittsburgh campus’s sole OpScan 10 machine, less recognized employees whose primary business is making Pitt work. at Rubinstein’s left. s students sharpen their are more likely to give multiple- No. 2 pencils and prepare choice tests. Afor final exams, staff in the Processing a typical week’s Office of Measurement and Evalu- workload of scanning jobs may ation of Teaching (OMET) are take about an hour a day, esti- readying their Scantron machine mated Elaine Rubinstein, who for the busiest time of the term. sets up the jobs and feeds stacks of With the exception of the answer sheets into Pitt’s OpScan first week of the term, demand 10 machine. “Most of the time it’s for machine-graded test scoring manageable,” she said. remains relatively steady, rang- If answer sheets are brought ing from about 90 to about 140 to the OMET office by 5 p.m., requests per week, according professors can count on picking to OMET statistics. However, up the graded papers by 10 the during finals, requests pour in. next morning. Although there is a The office may receive as many mail slot for latecomers who can’t as 80 in just a day. In fall 2007, arrive before the office closes at a typical term, OMET scored 5 p.m., Wyman said sometimes 428 different final exams for Pitt OMET staff can hear the late- professors. day jobs coming as the sound of Many of the tests come from racing footsteps echo down the the sciences: Psychology, biology, corridor outside OMET’s office physics, chemistry, pharmacy and on the Cathedral of Learning’s the medical school are among ground floor. the areas that frequently bring The actual scanning process is in Scantron sheets for grading. simple. Professors receive a blue While some subject areas are claim ticket from OMET when more conducive to the multiple- they leave answer sheets to be choice format, OMET staffer Liz scanned. That card or an ID is Wyman said class size is more of a required in order to collect the

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to shop rather than use a food pantry. Then other needs arise to thwart the plan. “There’s a child Hard times hit home that needs a doctor’s visit, so you take the grocery money and make the doctor’s visit,” Ero said. In response to rising local need, Ero said the food bank has formed Need for Food Bank services widespread an outreach team to help make CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 people aware of benefits that are available from other sources. She ping coupons and buying clothing they need the food. The economy be doubled by the chancellor’s Shop there. You can buy a lot more said team members have found at yard sales. “I don’t shop,” said is bad this year.” challenge match. (See April 2 groceries online than you can at many people who qualify for food Allport, who shares her home Steve Zupcic, director of Pitt’s University Times.) the grocery store.” stamps are unaware that they are with her adult son. Although she’s annual food drive, said Allport is The need is especially great this The food bank is not only eligible. Others are reluctant to eliminated about half the debt, “At not alone among Pitt employees year, said Ivy Ero, director of the looking for food and money. “We apply. “People don’t fill that docu- times I feel I’m never going to get who have needed the help of the food bank’s educational programs. need time,” she said, stressing ment out because it’s eight pages those paid off.” food bank to make ends meet. The Greater Pittsburgh Commu- that volunteer help is essential in of two-sided copies. It’s intimi- She didn’t apply for help from Although he has no way of nity Food Bank’s mission is simple: preparing some 400,000 pounds dating if you don’t read well; it’s the food pantry until a friend knowing how many Pitt staffers “To feed the hungry among us.” of groceries for distribution each intimidating if your pride has been lost her job. They agreed to go might visit their neighborhood But Ero told Faculty Assembly month. pushed aside. It’s intimidating and together to see whether they both food pantries, Zupcic said the start last week that accomplishing the humbling if that’s your last line of might qualify. “I wasn’t sure I’d of the food drive always prompts mission is a challenge. “We are defense,” Ero said. be eligible,” she said, adding, “I a handful of calls from members struggling with less food dona- q wouldn’t have gone by myself.” of the University community. tions and more people who need Although the food bank’s main She was surprised to find that “Every year I get two to four direct us,” she said. mission is to supply soup kitchens, she qualified —just barely— for inquiries from among our staff” As part of the University food food pantries, shelters and other food pantry assistance. “I had seeking information on how to drive kickoff, Ero has made pre- agencies that distribute food to mixed feelings,” she said. “I knew receive help, he said. sentations to a number of campus some 120,000 individuals in south- I wasn’t getting paid a lot, but, oh q organizations including the Staff western Pennsylvania, in March it wow, ‘I’m among the poor’” was Pitt has been among the top Association Council (SAC), designated the fourth Thursday of difficult. “You look around and supporters of the Greater Pitts- Senate Council and the Senate each month to distribute groceries think, ‘Do I really need this? Has burgh Community Food Bank, community relations committee directly from its warehouse in the it come to this? Am I that poor?’ having contributed more than (CRC) in recent weeks. RIDC Park in Duquesne. It was hard.” 2 million units of food in more She said 85,000 people in The initial response exceeded When she went to the food than two decades of support. Allegheny County suffer the organizers’ expectations. “We had pantry on her twice-monthly (Donations are calculated not effects of hunger — sometimes plans for 500 customers. We had visits, she found that need came by the number of items, but in in the form of parents skipping 700 individuals who for a 5:30 in a variety of faces: “I saw a lot “units” loosely based on an item’s meals so their children can eat or distribution started to show up at 3 of senior citizens, a lot of women nutritional value.) Last year, Pitt children relying on school meals in the afternoon,” Ero said, adding with kids, a lot of single guys. It ranked No. 4 among Pittsburgh to supplement meager meals at that many recipients walked four was always packed. area employers (behind UPMC, home. blocks from the nearest bus stop “I did feel uncomfortable United States Steel Corp. and In introducing Ero at the April

Rich Colwell and crossed a busy highway in because I was working full-time,” Industrial Scientific Corp.) with 7 Faculty Assembly meeting, Ivy Ero of the Greater Pitts- pouring rain to get to the industrial but no one ever made an issue of a total of 285,294 units, Zupcic CRC co-chair Wes Rohrer noted, burgh Community Food Bank park to collect their food. it, Allport said. said. “Given the fact that we are in very spoke at last week’s Staff Asso- ciation Council meeting. The fourth Thursday distri- Although her friend has run Although totals for this year’s difficult economic circumstances butions will continue through out of unemployment benefits collection won’t be known until we can expect that is going to be q summer and could be extended and continues to be served by the final food donations are collected more of a problem regionally and Ero said the food bank has if additional funding is found to food pantry, Allport’s promotion in May, a new online giving globally.” created “Get Help. Give Help” support them. put her “just a squeak over” the option enables organizers to Ero urged Pitt faculty, staff and cards that offer contact informa- Pitt’s Volunteer Pool has income limits this year. get a sneak peek at some of the students to support the food drive tion for the food bank and request pledged support for the distribu- The experience gave her a new progress. Zupcic said that as of in whatever way they can. donations of food, money or time tion days. Free shuttle buses for appreciation for the food bank’s mid-Wednesday 51,429 units of “Donate to Pitt’s Partner- from those who are able. “We’re volunteers depart campus at 3:45 work. “I think that’s why I’m really food had been donated online ship for Food,” she told Faculty out there asking for your support p.m. and return around 8 p.m. gung-ho this year about the food in the University’s virtual collec- Assembly. “Bag it, bring it. If you but we’re also out there in the com- Sign-up information is available drive,” she said. “I see how they’re tion at www.Pittsburghfoodbank. don’t want to carry it to work, go munity looking for more people at www.commrel.pitt.edu/CRO- struggling there and how much org/pitt — an amount that will online to our virtual food drive. to serve at a time when we have volunteerpoolform.html. less inventory. Local food pantries SAC plans to select a date are serving growing numbers of for its members to volunteer as a Spring cleaning? Don’t toss that sofa the unemployed as well as those group on the project. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 who have jobs but can’t make CRC member Tracy Soska, a ture sale Aug. 28 and 29. The sale refuse any donation based on was recently passed by City Coun- ends meet. professor in the School of Social will take place at the intersection condition, weight or type of item, cil, we hope to use this as a way to “Most people who use our ser- Work, said faculty, staff, students of Atwood and Sennott streets, Wawrzeniak added. increase our couch inventory for vices are working men and women. and administrators volunteered adjacent to OPDC’s office. For those donors outside the the 2009 Oakland furniture sale. Many more have lost their jobs and side by side for the March dis- “The items we sell at the Oak- Oakland area, this year, OPDC Rather than residents putting their are on the unemployment rolls tribution. land furniture sale are perfect for is partnering with 1-800-GOT- porch couches out on the street — people who have never been Ero said the initial opportunity everyone living in and around the JUNK, a nonprofit organization for bulk pickup, we encourage unemployed before in their lives drew some 40 volunteers, but neighborhood because you get a that will collect donated furniture them to donate these items to our and don’t know where to turn and more are needed to help recipi- great item for an affordable price items from households through- program. When it comes time for who to ask for help.” ents, some of whom are elderly while making a positive impact out the City of Pittsburgh on the Oakland furniture sale, we plan In addition, many people or disabled, get the 40-50 pound on the environment through behalf of OPDC. to make couch buyers aware that are underemployed or their grocery bags to their vehicles or recycling,” said Kelly Wawrze- To schedule a pickup this they are not allowed to place them work hours have been cut. “The transit stops. niak, OPDC community orga- summer or for more information outdoors on a porch or patio.” majority of our customers make Zupcic noted that volunteers nizer. “Collections will continue on the furniture recycling pro- Students who are moving off minimum wage. They have no are welcome to bring family mem- throughout the summer and we gram, contact Brandon DeHain- campus for the first time next fall medical benefits and it’s impos- bers age 12 and over to help. “It’s are planning to do so every Friday. aut at 412/621-7863 ext. 23. also may not be aware of the new sible to do everything,” she said, a good life experience for teenage We will travel outside of the area Last year the pickup effort legislation, she said. “We plan to adding that many of them set children,” he said. to pick up items for those living netted about 350 items, selling work together with the Oakland aside grocery money, intending —Kimberly K. Barlow n within a three-mile radius.” for $7,574. That money also is Community Council to keep the Pitt faculty and staff are wel- being “recycled” to fund this residents — both student and come to join the recycling effort year’s expenses for the recycling long-time — informed of the Scholarship endowed at Bradford by donating items to the furniture program, including truck rental, legislation.” The children of Robert L. and The Robert L. and Patricia A. sale, Wawrzeniak said. “We will furniture repairs and cleaning and OPDC’s 2009 furniture recy- Patricia A. Carlson have endowed Carlson Scholarship will benefit be accepting items like tables, advertising for the sale. cling program is sponsored by a scholarship at Pitt-Bradford in local UPB students, including chairs, dressers, desks, couches “The furniture recycling pro- the Pennsylvania Department their parents’ memory. those living in nearby western and lamps. We will not be taking gram continues to gain momen- of Community and Economic The $10,000 gift from R. New York. mattresses, bed frames or smaller tum throughout the community Development’s Neighborhood Michael and Susan Carlson, The Agnes L. and Lewis Lyle household items such as pots and each year. As we increase our Partnership Program, with sup- John P. and Terry Carlson, and Thomas Scholarship Challenge pans or plates,” she said. inventory, we are decreasing port from PNC Bank and the Michael and Cathy Medden has was made possible by a $1 million Donors can drop off their items the amount of salvageable fur- Pittsburgh Partnership for Neigh- been matched by the Agnes L. and gift from Agnes L. Thomas. For at OPDC’s 235 Atwood Street niture that is being thrown into borhood Development. Partners Lewis Lyle Thomas Scholarship as long as the funds last, the chal- office 10 a.m.-6 p.m. during the dumpsters and landfills,” said in the effort include Moore Self Challenge. lenge allows donors to double the April 24 and 25 furniture recycling Wawrzeniak. Storage, 1-800-GOTJUNK and Michael Carlson has served amount of gifts between $5,000 kickoff weekend. “With the new ‘outdoor stor- Furnish-a-Start. on the UPB advisory board since and $10,000 to new and existing OPDC reserves the right to age of furniture’ legislation that —Peter Hart n 1995. scholarships. n

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This project will develop a new software engineering course that Provost’s innovation awards announced — along with teaching the tech- niques of project management, Eleven teaching proposals process so that professors can that will be used to train nurses, With the goal to infuse sustain- design, coding and other require- have been selected for funding better gauge how well students nurse anesthetists and medical ability concepts into civil engi- ments — will offer a significant under the 10th annual Provost’s are understanding the course students on how to place feeding neering courses, this project will communications component. Advisory Council on Instructional material. Specifically, the goal is tubes and nose-to-stomach tubes use three active, team-based learn- The class will introduce project Excellence (ACIE) innovation in to develop and evaluate methods in patients. ing activities to link three classes: management skills, usability test- education awards program. to solicit peer-reviewer feedback A laptop interface will allow Design for the Environment, ing and customer interviewing ACIE identifies proposals that in a structured way on assignments for direct measurement of how Introduction to Nondestructive — so-called soft skills aimed at show promise for introducing and to provide instructors with the procedure was performed on Evaluation and Structural Health making graduates more competi- innovative approaches to teaching an in-depth report of how well the simulator and how well the Monitoring, and Green Buildings: tive in the global marketplace. that can be adapted for use in other students understood the assign- students scored. Design and Construction. The new class also will estab- courses. Funding for this year’s ments’ issues. Ferguson estimates the system Students will work together lish a repository of software engi- awards totaled $182,113. Ashley said this approach will help train 400 Pitt medical and on mapping energy losses in neering code that can be reused Winners of the 2009 awards should be useful especially in any nursing students annually. buildings around Pittsburgh and and expanded in future editions along with titles and summaries University course in which stu- • Margo B. Holm, professor then will propose energy-efficient of the course. of their proposals follow. dents learn to analyze ill-defined in SHRS’s Department of Occu- solutions, creating a case study • Marlin H. Mickle, the • Amy E. Aggelou, instructor problems. The model will be pational Therapy, “How Reliable to calculate a building’s energy Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor and clinical coordinator in the available on the Internet and will Am I?” using an infrared camera and in Electrical and Computer Engi- undergraduate athletic training be field-tested this fall in a law The goal of this project is to comparing indoor environmental neering and director of the RFID education program, and Kevin course’s peer-reviewed legal writ- develop online inter-observer quality between green and regular Center of Excellence, “Remote Conley, program director for the ing exercise. training modules for students buildings. Experiments for Wireless Com- program, which is housed in the • Jean Ferguson Carr, direc- who need to establish reliability • Karen T. Lee and Bruce puter Networks.” Department of Sports Medicine tor of the women’s studies pro- in scoring and interpreting patient W. Robart, professors of biology This project involves the cre- and Nutrition, and assistant dean gram and professor of English observational assessment tools. at the Johnstown campus, and ation of a virtual laboratory to for undergraduate studies in the and women’s studies, and Frayda Inter-observer reliability is one of Frances M. Zauhar, professor give students in the Introduction School of Health and Rehabilita- Cohen, visiting assistant professor four types of reliability estimates, of English and chair of UPJ’s to Computer Networks course a tion Sciences (SHRS), “Creating of women’s studies with a joint and it is used to assess the degree Humanities Division, “Develop- concrete understanding of wire- Clinical Competence Through appointment in the Department of to which different raters give ing a Multidisciplinary Student- less computer networks. Unfor- Interactive Technology.” Anthropology, “Theory and Prac- consistent estimates of the same Faculty Learning Community tunately, the equipment necessary This project’s goal is the cre- tice: An Interactive Web Site.” phenomenon. at UPJ.” for students to be able to observe ation of a computer program to This project will create a web The project idea stemmed Beginning in spring 2010, and manipulate data-transmission help train athletic trainers and site to provide an interdisciplinary from the federal directive that UPJ will enroll its first students parameters is expensive, costing assess their competence. space where faculty and students hospitals and health care provid- in a course on natural resources more than $100,000 per set. The idea was prompted, in can collaborate on webliographies ers, to be reimbursed for Medicare that will be team-taught by fac- Mickle will create a remote part, by the national certification (online bibliographies), personal outpatient services, must evaluate ulty from the natural sciences, laboratory, which students can test for athletic trainers, which and group blogs and wikis, which patients using valid and reliable education, humanities and social access via the Internet. The lab will has a multiple-choice section are server programs that allow tools and be reliable in scoring sciences departments. enable a single set of equipment to comprising an interactive loop- users to collaborate in forming a and interpreting them. Students will engage in inde- be shared by an entire class. The ing of questions and information. web site’s content. “How Reliable Am I?” will pendent research, as well as schol- remote lab also could be extended Each student begins with the same This collaboration is expected use online clinical video cases arly and creative projects, and will to other courses. question, but the remainder of to lead to the creation of a refer- to teach students to score reli- have the opportunity to attend • Susan M. Meyer, associate the question sequence depends ence database and links to key ably and interpret observational films, field trips, social activities dean for education in the School on how the student answers each research sites. It also will serve screening and assessment tools. and guest lectures. of Pharmacy; Helen K. Burns, subsequent question. The hybrid as a way for students and faculty This approach allows individual- The project’s goal is to create associate dean for clinical edu- questions are visual and require to better share their research and ized pacing and repeated practice a multidisciplinary learning com- cation, School of Nursing, and students to use critical thinking experiences within the women’s and enables students to “pre- munity comprising students and Hollis D. Day, director of the by applying their knowledge in studies community. establish” screening/assessment faculty and to introduce students Advanced Clinical Education real-life clinical situations. • Berrylin Ferguson, profes- tool reliability prior to clinical to undergraduate research, and Center, School of Medicine, • Kevin D. Ashley, profes- sor and director of the Division of internships. scholarly or creative collaborative “We Need to Talk: Facilitating sor of law and intelligent systems Sino-nasal Disorders and Allergy •Amy E. Landis, Melissa M. experiences. Improved Interprofessional Com- and senior scientist in the Learn- in the School of Medicine’s Bilec and Piervincenzo Rizzo, • Elisabeta G. Marai, assistant munication Through the Use of ing Research and Development Department of Otolaryngology, assistant professors in the Swanson professor in the Department of Standardized Colleagues.” Center, “A Peer-Review-Based “NASAL Project: Nasal Anatomy, School of Engineering’s Depart- Computer Science and founder This project is aimed at Student Model for Ill-Defined Simulation and Learning.” ment of Civil and Environmental and director of the Pitt Interdis- improving interprofessional com- Problem-solving.” This project focuses on the Engineering, “Enhancing Cross- ciplinary Visualization Research munication between pharmacists, This project seeks to fine-tune development of a sino-nasal cutting Sustainability Education Lab, “Immersive Software Engi- nurses and physicians. The and strengthen the peer-review simulator device, or NASAL, in Civil Engineering.” neering.” approach will be based on the schools’ current use of a standard- ized-patient teaching strategy where health professions students learn patient-assessment and com- munication skills by working with an individual who is trained to act as a patient. Meyer, Burns and Day will adapt that strategy to create what is known as standardized-colleague methodology. This process trains health professionals to portray a particular professional role, attitude and communication style in a teaching situation with a student. • Sarah E. Scott and Linda Kucan, assistant professors of reading education in the School of Education, “Using Innovative Video Technology to Transform the Preparation of Literacy Teachers.” Scott and Kucan will redesign the Reading and Language Arts in the Intermediate Grades course, seeking to optimize students’ opportunities to learn effective literacy teaching practices. The project will video-record the Pitt students’ classroom ses- Kimberly K. Barlow sions with their elementary stu- A final salute dents and also will employ Video ROTC cadets were among community members who lined Fifth Avenue April 9 to pay their respects as the funeral cortege Traces, a software program that for Pittsburgh Police officers Stephen J. Mayhle, Eric G. Kelly and Paul J. Sciullo II made its way to a memorial service at the will allow the Pitt students and Petersen Events Center. their professors to better critique the classroom sessions. n

 U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES Annual report details salaries here mong the nine executives, administrators financial disclosure report that the University is and managers in the Office of the Senior required to submit to the state annually. It covers AVice Chancellor for Health Sciences, both the mean (or average) and median salaries WHAT the average salary was $204,195 as of Oct. 31, of full-time Pitt employees as of Oct. 31, 2007, 2007. the latest complete figures available. The median During the same period, the 27 lecturers/ is the salary for the employee whose pay falls in others in the School of Medicine earned average the middle of the group — with an equal number salaries of $17,075. of salaries above and below. Those highs and lows — and everything in The fiscal year 2008 report offers a snapshot between — appear in a recent report by Pitt’s of faculty and staff salaries for each responsibility WE Management Information and Analysis office. center, categorized by faculty rank or staff job Copies of the annual report on salaries of full- classification. time Pitt employees were distributed at the March For more information on the report, con- 27 University Senate budget policies committee tact Management Information and Analysis at (BPC) meeting. BPC, which is charged with moni- 412/624-6767 or [email protected]. toring Pitt salaries and salary policies, is expected —Peter Hart n to discuss the data at a future meeting. EARN Staff member Barbara DelRaso provided editorial support The report, which covers all 45 Pitt respon- sibility centers, is an in-house companion to a on this story. Staff/administration salaries

he annual mean and median salary analysis compiled by Pitt’s Management Information and Analysis At a glance Toffice divides staff by responsibility center into four categories: Executive, administrative and managerial employees (including executive staff who also may have a Highest-paid staff Lowest-paid staff faculty appointment); other professionals; secretarial and clerical, and technical, skilled and service. Highest average (by job category) Lowest average (by job category) The report includes salary figures only for regular (not Executives, administrators & managers Technical, skilled & service temporary) full-time staff as of Oct. 31, 2007. Research Senior Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences, $204,195 Associate vice chancellor, Human Resources, $18,898 associates are excluded. Mean and median salary amounts were suppressed Highest average (net total by area) Lowest average (net total by area) when the number of employees in a category was three Executive vice chancellor’s office, $87,487 Education-University service programs, $26,295 or fewer. The net total reflects the exclusions. Highest median (by job category) Lowest median (by job category) • Arts and Sciences (A&S) dean’s office: net total Executives, administrators & managers Secretarial/clerical of 30 staff who made $50,055 average, $42,144 Senior Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences $218,400 Libraries (University Library System), $17,468 median. That included six executives, administrators and man- Highest median (net total by area) Lowest median (net total by area) agers: $90,225 average, $83,028 median; 24 other profes- General counsel’s office, $78,037 Libraries (University Library System), $23,327 sionals: $40,013 average, $38,604 median. • A&S humanities division: 58 net total who made • Business Operations: 413 net total, $33,576 aver- • General Counsel: 20 net total, $82,687 average, $30,477 average, $28,823 median. age, $29,765 median. $78,037 median. 42 other professionals: $33,806 average, $33,035 Nine executive, administrative and managerial employ- 10 executive, administrative and managerial employees: median; 16 secretarial and clerical: $21,737 average, ees: $65,737 average, $60,176 median; 96 other profession- $128,914 average, $122,136 median; four other profes- $20,886 median. als: $39,517 average, $38,748 median; 71 secretarial and sionals: $43,274 average, $41,006 median; six secretarial • A&S natural sciences division: 194 net total, clerical: $19,937 average, $19,442 median; 237 technical, and clerical: $31,919 average, $31,994 median. $34,605 average, $31,073 median. skilled and service: $34,035 average, $30,659 median. • Graduate School of Public and International Six executive, administrative and managerial employees: • Chancellor: 241 net total, $61,169 average, Affairs: 16 net total, $36,543 average, $36,039 $71,538 average, $71,473 median; 144 other professionals: $46,372 median. median. $34,314 average, $32,207 median; 27 secretarial and cleri- 66 executive, administrative and managerial employees: 16 other professionals: $36,543 average, $36,039 cal: $26,622 average, $24,604 median; 17 technical, skilled $111,655 average, $84,316 median; 151 other profession- median. and service: $36,710 average, $28,002 median. als: $44,071 average, $41,200 median; 10 secretarial and • Graduate School of Public Health: 431 net total, • A&S social sciences division: 29 net total, $30,112 clerical: $28,415 average, $23,811 median; 14 technical, $40,591 average, $38,295 median. average, $27,900 median. skilled and service: $30,971 average, $32,009 median. 24 executive, administrative and managerial employees: 21 other professionals: $32,829 average, $30,525 • College of General Studies: 22 net total, $31,835 $67,049 average, $65,500 median; 354 other profession- median; eight secretarial and clerical: $22,979 average, average, $29,808 median. als: $40,467 average, $39,646 median; 53 secretarial and $23,858 median. 18 other professionals: $34,309 average, $31,978 clerical: $29,438 average, $30,369 median. • A&S undergraduate studies: 62 net total, $36,127 median; four secretarial and clerical: $20,701 average, • Greensburg campus: 92 net total, $34,603 aver- average, $35,907 median. $20,711 median. age, $29,959 median. 52 other professionals: $38,912 average, $36,909 • Computing Services and Systems Development: 15 executive, administrative and managerial employees: median; 10 secretarial and clerical: $21,645 average, 181 net total, $60,817 average, $54,049 median. $61,644 average, $57,442 median; 40 other professionals: $20,828 median. Eight executive, administrative and managerial employ- $31,456 average, $30,560 median; 14 secretarial and cleri- • Associate vice chancellor for Human Resources: ees: $117,437 average, $122,200 median; 159 other profes- cal: $23,478 average, $21,502 median; 23 technical, skilled 82 total, $37,353 average, $28,265 median. sionals: $60,502 average, $54,842 median; 14 technical, and service: $29,213 average, $29,021 median. 13 executive, administrative and managerial employees: skilled and service: $32,035 average, $33,545 median. • Honors College: six net total, $40,411 average, $86,896 average, $72,106 median; 41 other professionals: • Education-University Service Programs: eight $38,875 median. $33,230 average, $33,782 median; eight secretarial and net total, $26,295 average, $26,671 median. Six other professionals: $40,411 average, $38,875 clerical: $24,108 average, $23,776 median; 20 technical, Four other professionals: $31,559 average, $32,867 median. skilled and service: $18,898 average, $19,238 median. median; four secretarial and clerical: $21,031 average, • Johnstown campus: 211 net total, $33,948 aver- • Athletics: 128 net total, $61,977 average, $42,557 $20,107 median. age, $29,799 median. median. • Executive Vice Chancellor: 28 net total, $87,487 Nine executive, administrative and managerial employ- Eight executive, administrative and managerial employ- average, $71,321 median. ees: $74,284 average, $69,251 median; 89 other profession- ees: $93,829 average, $95,486 median; 102 other profes- 16 executive, administrative and managerial employees: als: $38,689 average, $36,477 median; 41 secretarial and sionals: $65,655 average, $44,249 median; 18 secretarial $116,897 average, $105,100 median; 12 other profession- clerical: $23,734 average, $23,000 median; 72 technical, and clerical: $26,980 average, $27,000 median. als: $48,273 average, $44,768 median. skilled and service: $28,864 average, $28,059 median. • Bradford campus: 116 net total, $38,675 average, • Facilities Management: 455 net total, $39,247 • Katz Graduate School of Business: 91 net total, $33,552 median. average, $28,683 median. $42,740 average, $37,285 median. 10 executive, administrative and managerial employees: Six executive, administrative and managerial employees: 13 executive, administrative and managerial employees: $87,066 average, $75,957 median; 72 other professionals: $93,986 average, $93,289 median; 68 other professionals: $83,915 average, $81,000 median; 60 other profession- $36,342 average, $34,500 median; 22 secretarial and cleri- $47,941 average, $47,242 median; nine secretarial and als: $39,241 average, $38,576 median; 18 secretarial and cal: $26,401 average, $24,259 median; 12 technical, skilled clerical: $25,121 average, $25,137 median; 372 technical, clerical: $24,666 average, $24,054 median. and service: $34,847 average, $37,385 median. skilled and service: $37,117 average, $28,683 median. 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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 • School of Medicine: 1,422 net total, $40,163 ees: $204,195 average, $218,400 median; 39 other profes- • Learning Research and Development Center: 46 average, $36,221 median. sionals: $31,495 average, $29,264 median; five secretarial net total, $37,644 average, $36,063 median. 61 executive, administrative and managerial employees: and clerical: $32,069 average, $31,394 median. 41 other professionals: $38,593 average, $37,121 $59,964 average, $66,689 median; 1,247 other profession- • Student Affairs: 148 net total, $41,697 average, median; five secretarial and clerical: $29,865 average, als: $40,133 average, $36,985 median; 95 secretarial and $35,468 median. $30,359 median. clerical: $29,870 average, $29,558 median; 19 technical, 16 executive, administrative and managerial employees: • Libraries (University Library System): 124 net skilled and service: $30,064 average, $24,701 median. $85,728 average, $77,416 median; 103 other professionals: total, $29,325 average, $23,327 median. • School of Medicine Division Administration: 285 $39,846 average, $36,631 median; 23 secretarial and cleri- 90 other professionals: $32,171 average, $26,681 net total, $43,327 average, $32,004 median. cal: $24,210 average, $22,983 median; six technical, skilled median; 34 secretarial and clerical: $21,792 average, 33 executive, administrative and managerial employees: and service: $23,090 average, $22,710 median. $17,468 median. $119,420 average, $85,388 median; 137 other profession- • Titusville campus: 46 net total, $27,929 average, • School of Dental Medicine: 158 net total, $29,879 als: $41,152 average, $37,260 median; six secretarial and $27,468 median. average, $27,103 median. clerical: $27,879 average, $26,848 median; 109 technical, 25 other professionals: $31,164 average, $30,022 80 other professionals: $35,383 average, $32,324 skilled and service: $23,873 average, $25,813 median. median; 11 secretarial and clerical: $19,763 average, median; 32 secretarial and clerical: $24,905 average, • School of Nursing: 75 net total, $40,457 average, $17,537 median; 10 technical, skilled and service: $28,824 $23,405 median; 46 technical, skilled and service: $23,765 $38,587 median. average, $29,141 median. average, $21,939 median. Seven executive, administrative and managerial employ- • University Center for International Studies: 52 • School of Education: 106 net total, $41,237 aver- ees: $70,623 average, $72,178 median; 61 other profes- net total, $38,343 average, $34,168 median. age, $37,711 median. sionals: $38,509 average, $38,587 median; seven secretarial Seven executive, administrative and managerial employ- Eight executive, administrative and managerial employ- and clerical: $27,270 average, $26,742 median. ees: $67,116 average, $66,237 median; 37 other profes- ees: $70,095 average, $70,100 median; 87 other profes- • School of Pharmacy: 61 net total, $41,787 aver- sionals: $36,510 average, $35,640 median; eight secretarial sionals: $40,376 average, $38,237 median; 11 secretarial age, $40,264 median. and clerical: $21,641 average, $21,107 median. and clerical: $27,063 average, $26,324 median. Four executive, administrative and managerial employ- • University Center for Social and Urban Research: • Swanson School of Engineering: 91 net total, ees: $79,888 average, $72,190 median; 57 other profes- 24 net total, $39,943 average, $40,377 median. $41,794 average, $35,301 median. sionals: $39,113 average, $39,037 median. 24 other professionals: $39,943 average, $40,377 Six executive, administrative and managerial employees: • School of Social Work: 78 net total, $44,694 median. $82,262 average, $76,291 median; 62 other professionals: average, $47,625 median. • University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute: 180 $41,399 average, $36,014 median; 14 secretarial and cleri- Six executive, administrative and managerial employees: net total, $38,422 average, $34,295 median. cal: $25,301 average, $25,199 median; nine technical, skilled $63,745 average, $65,070 median; 72 other professionals: Five executive, administrative and managerial employ- and service: $43,195 average, $41,056 median. $43,107 average, $47,625 median. ees: $88,340 average, $72,450 median; 157 other profes- • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: 30 • Secretary of the Board of Trustees: eight net sionals: $37,812 average, $34,608 median; 12 secretarial net total, $39,522 average, $36,893 median. total, $64,267 average, $51,018 median. and clerical: $30,571 average, $30,216 median; six technical, 30 other professionals: $39,522 average, $36,893 Four executive, administrative and managerial employ- skilled and service: $28,487 average, $27,456 median. median. ees: $89,161 average, $69,606 median; four other profes- • Vice Chancellor for Budget and Controller: 214 • School of Information Sciences: 21 net total, sionals: $39,374 average, $40,016 median. net total, $52,703 average, $44,013 median. $43,056 average, $41,937 median. • Senior Vice Chancellor and Provost: 291 net total, 50 executive, administrative and managerial employees: 16 other professionals: $46,050 average, $43,500 $56,865 average, $36,945 median. $100,035 average, $82,476 median; 135 other profession- median; five secretarial and clerical: $33,475 average, 61 executive, administrative and managerial employees: als: $41,533 average, $39,596 median; 29 secretarial and $31,323 median. $142,422 average, $112,457 median; 151 other profession- clerical: $23,097 average, $22,963 median. • School of Law: 41 net total, $37,178 average, als: $40,390 average, $39,125 median; 64 secretarial and • Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement: $32,975 median. clerical: $21,437 average, $20,316 median; 15 technical, 104 net total, $52,806 average, $41,260 median. Five executive, administrative and managerial employ- skilled and service: $25,933 average, $24,578 median. 33 executive, administrative and managerial employees: ees: $68,495 average, $58,349 median; 23 other profes- • Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences: 53 $88,740 average, $72,718 median; 57 other professionals: sionals: $36,693 average, $35,843 median; 13 secretarial net total, $60,876 average, $31,833 median. $38,840 average, $36,885 median; 14 secretarial and cleri- and clerical: $25,990 average, $23,804 median. Nine executive, administrative and managerial employ- cal: $24,965 average, $24,874 median. n Faculty salaries

he annual mean and median salary analysis compiled by Pitt’s Management Information and Analysis Toffice categorizes faculty by academic rank: pro- At a glance fessor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor and lecturer/other. Highest-paid faculty Lowest-paid faculty Salaries for faculty with 12-month contracts have been converted to a nine-month equivalent using a multiplier Highest average (by rank) Lowest average (by rank) of 0.818. Full professors Lecturers/others The report includes salary figures only for regular (not Katz Graduate School of Business, $148,976 School of Medicine, $17,075 temporary) full-time faculty as of Oct. 31, 2007. Research associates are excluded. Highest average (net total by area) Lowest average (net total by area) Mean and median salary amounts were suppressed School of Arts & Sciences dean’s office, $135,913 Education-University Service Programs, $43,993 when the number of faculty in a category was three or fewer. The net total reflects the exclusions. Highest median (by rank) Lowest median (by rank) • Arts and Sciences (A&S) dean’s office: 27 net Full professors Lecturers/others total, $135,913 average, $135,944 median. A&S dean’s office, $139,747 School of Medicine, $14,724 22 at the rank of professor: $145,222 average, $139,747 median; five associate professors: $94,952 average, $92,012 Highest median (net total by area) Lowest median (net total by area) median. A&S dean’s office $135,944 Education-University Service Programs, $36,229 • A&S humanities division: 291 net total, $60,364 average, $57,000 median. 63 professors: $103,883 average, $92,000 median; 65 associate professors: $71,929 average, $68,964 median; 30 15 professors: $105,575 average, $108,936 median; nine associate professors: $68,178 average, $66,351 median; 53 assistant professors: $67,470 average, $63,603 median; 18 associate professors: $91,504 average, $87,402 median; assistant professors: $54,780 average, $57,000 median; 31 lecturers/other: $45,149 average, $42,425 median. eight assistant professors: $71,521 average, $72,567 instructors: $27,432 average, $25,675 median; 79 lectur- • Bradford campus: 71 net total, $53,468 average, median. ers/other: $35,898 average, $34,000 median. $52,719 median. • Graduate School of Public Health: 154 net total, • A&S natural sciences division: 262 net total, 10 professors: $66,892 average, $67,412 median; 26 $83,756 average, $70,965 median. $78,067 average, $73,274 median. associate professors: $58,515 average, $56,996 median; 29 38 professors: $129,293 average, $125,984 median; 34 89 professors: $108,997 average, $106,080 median; 60 assistant professors: $47,675 average, $48,000 median; six associate professors: $85,266 average, $79,196 median; 82 associate professors: $73,232 average, $74,352 median; 68 instructors: $37,223 average, $40,647 median. assistant professors: $62,028 average, $62,723 median. assistant professors: $65,932 average, $65,161 median; 12 • Education-University Service Programs: Seven • Greensburg campus: 76 net total, $53,370 aver- instructors: $35,168 average, $37,941 median; 33 lectur- net total, $43,993 average, $36,229 median. age, $49,653 median. ers/other: $44,043 average, $43,004 median. Seven instructors: $43,993 average, $36,229 median. Six professors: $71,271 average, $72,264 median; 26 • A&S social sciences division: 120 net total, $80,478 • Graduate School of Public and International associate professors: $60,846 average, $57,710 median; average, $75,588 median. Affairs: 32 net total, $93,104 average, $93,130 30 assistant professors: $48,601 average, $48,148 median; 42 professors: $111,017 average, $104,216 median; 30 median. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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tors: $36,580 average, $32,724 $90,099 median; 42 assistant median. professors: $72,428 average, • School of Education: 114 $74,011 median. Faculty salaries net total, $68,490 average, • School of Health and $68,119 median. Rehabilitation Sciences: 84 net CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 19 professors: $96,586 average, total, $64,728 average, $62,108 14 instructors: $42,032 average, average, $119,430 median. average, $47,813 median; 15 at $95,361 median; 34 associate pro- median. $45,261 median. 32 professors: $148,976 aver- librarian II: $41,518 average, fessors: $78,956 average, $76,875 11 professors: $105,019 aver- • Johnstown campus: 146 net age, $138,533 median; 21 associ- $38,242 median; 11 at librar- median; 24 assistant professors: age, $110,635 median; 18 associ- total, $54,428 average, $52,674 ate professors: $108,433 average, ian I: $30,229 average, $27,812 $63,700 average, $65,000 median; ate professors: $71,825 average, median. $99,400 median; 14 assistant median. 10 instructors: $47,385 average, $69,660 median; 35 assistant pro- 19 professors: $68,717 average, professors: $120,754 average, • School of Dental Medicine: $42,409 median; 27 lecturers/ fessors: $57,402 average, $57,330 $65,432 median; 58 associate pro- $120,995 median; seven lecturers/ 85 net total, $82,962 average, other: $47,612 average, $44,867 median; 20 instructors: $49,000 fessors: $60,318 average, $59,369 other: $53,192 average, $32,475 $77,914 median. median. average, $48,068 median. median; 40 assistant professors: median. 10 professors: $116,372 aver- • Swanson School of Engi- • School of Information $48,481 average, $47,263 median; • Libraries (University age, $111,171 median; 22 associ- neering: 116 net total, $99,051 Sciences: 29 net total, $84,719 29 instructors: $41,488 average, Library System): 65 net total, ate professors: $88,152 average, average, $90,099 median. average, $84,996 median. $40,605 median. $46,896 average, $40,941 $84,423 median; 46 assistant 42 professors: $132,408 aver- Five professors: $110,218 aver- • Katz Graduate School of median. professors: $80,275 average, age, $124,991 median; 32 associ- age, $103,567 median; 15 associ- Business: 74 net total, $123,070 39 at librarian III: $53,665 $76,146 median; seven instruc- ate professors: $90,212 average, ate professors: $87,221 average, $89,146 median; nine assistant professors: $66,382 average, $68,704 median. • School of Law: 52 net total, $99,409 average, $94,856 median. PittBenefits 29 professors: $130,893 aver- Office of Human Resources• April 2009 age, $134,676 median; 12 associ- ate professors: $66,458 average, $62,881 median; five assistant Years Until Total LTC Maximum professors: $61,861 average, Open Enrollment Age at Monthly LTC enroll- Insurance LTC Insur- Insurance Lifetime Benefit $52,761 median; six lecturers/ The annual Benefits Open Enrollment period will begin April 23, 2009 ment Premium ance Benefit Premiums Provided by LTC is Needed* Paid Insurance other: $44,429 average, $43,295 and continue through May 13, 2009. Benefits information, including median. 25 $25.80 55 $17,028 $432,000 a summary of your current benefits elections and a “Summary Guide • School of Medicine: 2,034 to Benefits,” will be distributed beginning April 22, 2009. Benefits 40 $34.20 40 $16,416 $432,000 net total, $72,231 average, Fairs will be held on each campus, once again providing an oppor- $57,260 median. tunity for faculty and staff members to meet face to face with repre- 50 $56.40 30 $20,304 $432,000 416 professors: $114,819 aver- sentatives from each of the insurance carriers. *Assuming the Long Term Care Insurance benefit will begin at age 80 (benefit age, $115,583 median; 445 associ- Presentations by investment companies TIAA-CREF and the Vanguard may begin at any age if meeting Unum’s eligibility criteria). ate professors: $78,530 average, Group, as well as the University’s Long Term Care Insurance carrier, What Can You Do? $76,084 median; 1,044 assistant Unum, will be given during each Benefits Fair. TIAA-CREF and the professors: $56,970 average, Vanguard Group will discuss strategies for staying calm and on track During the open enrollment period you will have the opportunity to enroll for Group Long Term Care Insurance, or increase your Group $43,063 median; 102 instructors: for retirement in a volatile market. Unum’s presentation will discuss $41,863 average, $40,900 median; preparing for long term care needs. Long Term Care Insurance if you are currently enrolled, without com- pleting an Evidence of Insurability Application (referred to as Guar- 27 lecturers/other: $17,075 aver- Open Enrollment for Long Term Care Insur- antee Issue). The opportunity to purchase this insurance at a group age, $14,724 median. rate is available to faculty and staff, and their extended families. • School of Medicine Divi- ance for Faculty, Staff, Family Members There is no guarantee this opportunity will be available in the future. sion Administration: five net total, $73,787 average, $79,053 The University of Pittsburgh is committed to providing benefit solu- All enrollment forms must be received by the Benefits Department no later than May 13, 2009. median. tions that will help you plan for a future of financial stability and Five assistant professors: security. In keeping with this commitment, we are pleased to an- The University’s Long Term Care Insurance carrier, Unum, will have $73,787 average, $79,053 nounce that there will be an open enrollment for the University of representatives at this year’s on-campus Benefits Fairs. Please feel median. Pittsburgh sponsored Group Long Term Care Insurance plan April free to visit the Unum table at one of the Benefits Fairs. The Ben- • School of Nursing: 73 net 23, 2009 to May 13, 2009. efits Fairs will be held on the Oakland and regional campuses as total, $64,359 average, $60,957 What is Long Term Care? follows: median. Long Term Care is defined as the type of care received either at Benefits Fairs Six professors: $100,392 aver- home or in a facility when someone needs assistance with activities age, $97,630 median; 15 associ- of daily living, or suffers severe cognitive impairment, due to an ac- Date Location Time ate professors: $76,276 average, cident, an illness or advancing age. Johnstown April 28 10:30 am–1:30 pm $73,529 median; 36 assistant pro- Student Union, Cambria Room Long Term Care Insurance can help you preserve your independence fessors: $58,843 average, $59,223 Oakland median; 16 instructors: $52,084 and financial security, and can help relieve your family members of April 29 Noon–3:00 pm the burden of making decisions about how to pay for care. In addi- William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge average, $41,180 median. tion, Long Term Care Insurance provides you with a choice of how Oakland • School of Pharmacy: 80 net April 30 Noon–3:00 pm and where you receive care. Like most people today, you want to re- William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge total, $81,601 average, $77,124 median. ceive quality care that lets you stay at home for as long as possible Greensburg May 5 11:00 am–1:30 pm and have the flexibility to choose the care options that work best for Village Hall, Rooms 101 and 118 16 professors: $108,535 aver- you and your family. age, $103,465 median; 15 associ- Bradford ate professors: $89,961 average, How Much Does Long Term Care Cost? May 6 Frame-Westerberg Commons Bldg. 11:00 am–2:00 pm $84,004 median; 49 assistant Mukaiyama University Room The national average cost for care in a long term care facility is professors: $70,246 average, $70,000 per year. Home-based care costs vary depending on the Titusville May 7 10:30 am–1:30 pm $70,773 median. type and frequency of care required. For most of us, this expense Haskell Memorial Library Lobby • School of Social Work: could have a significant impact on our financial security. Group Long Term Care Insurance presentations separate from the 25 net total, $66,379 average, Who Pays for Care? Benefits Fairs will be conducted by Unum representatives on the $64,869 median. Many people believe that health insurance or a government program Oakland campus as indicated below: Eight associate professors: will pay for long term care. Health insurance will not cover these $82,555 average, $77,130 median; costs, and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid fall Oakland Campus 17 assistant professors: $58,766 short as well. Without insurance protection, your assets could dis- Date Location Time average, $60,532 median. appear quickly, along with your ability to make choices and maintain • Senior Vice Chancellor control over your life. In fact, 72 percent of those entering nursing April 24 William Pitt Union – Ballroom Noon – 1:00 pm for Health Sciences: 25 net homes are impoverished within one year. April 27 Sennott Square Building, Room 4127 Noon – 1:00 pm total, $44,411 average, $43,009 median. The Return on Your Investment May 1 William Pitt Union – Ballroom Noon – 1:00 pm 25 lecturers/other: $44,411 To illustrate the value of Group Long Term Care Insurance, consider May 4 Sennott Square Building, Room 4127 Noon – 1:00 pm average, $43,009 median. the following grid. The grid shows the return on investment an indi- • Titusville campus: 26 net vidual may experience when enrolled in the Group Long Term Care May 8 William Pitt Union – Ballroom Noon – 1:00 pm total, $47,621 average, $49,149 Insurance plan, based upon the amount of money paid in premiums May 11 William Pitt Union – Ballroom Noon – 1:00 pm versus the lifetime benefit provided by the coverage. The examples median. below are based upon enrollment in Plan 2 of Unum’s Group Long Please contact the Unum toll-free line at 1-800-227-4165 if you have Four professors: $57,830 aver- Term Care Insurance (covering long term care facilities, professional questions. You may also access Unum’s informational Web site at age, $57,218 median; seven associ- home care, and total home care, without inflation protection) with http://w3.unum.com/enroll/upitt/enrollment.aspx. ate professors: $52,085 average, a monthly benefit of $6,000 and benefit duration of 6 years. As $53,247 median; eight assistant indicated by the grid, the maximum lifetime benefit provided by the professors: $47,535 average, Group Long Term Care Insurance coverage far exceeds the total pre- $45,953 median; seven instruc- miums paid by participants of almost any age. tors: $37,421 average, $39,387 median. n

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he growing season is fast addition to the Falk Laboratory approaching and as back- School also includes a green roof. Tyard gardeners prepare It is scheduled for planting in Benedum’s roof is the latest their plots for spring planting, May, said school director Wendell Pitt is too, with some green McConnaha. spaces planned for some high and Fusaro, who earned a bachelor’s campus sustainability project unlikely places. degree in mechanical engineering A 10,000-square-foot green and completed a master’s in civil roof is under construction as part engineering at Pitt, said the main of the Swanson School of Engi- reason for using green roofs is to neering’s $100 million Benedum reduce the construction footprint Hall renovation and expansion of new buildings. “You put back as GOING GREEN project. much green space as you’re taking Layers of materials for water- away,” he said, noting that Pitt’s proofing, insulation, drainage and project is somewhat unusual in soil filtering are in place beneath a that part of the existing auditorium 4-inch layer of lightweight soil mix structure is being topped with a made up of organic and mineral green roof. components that was hauled by Adding a green roof earns crane onto the roof atop the exist- points toward Leadership in ing Benedum Hall auditorium. Energy and Environmental As soon as temperatures permit Design (LEED) certification, a planting, hardy low-maintenance set of standards for sustainable plants will complete what is known construction developed by the as an “extensive” green roof — one U.S. Green Building Council. that needs no irrigation system and The building council currently is essentially maintenance free, lists 32 LEED-certified projects said project engineer Jeremy P. in Pittsburgh, including Pitt’s Fusaro of P.J. Dick. McGowan Institute for Regenera- Exactly what will be planted tive Medicine (See Oct. 25, 2007, remains at the discretion of Uni- University Times). versity architect Park L. Rankin. Installing a green roof means Rankin said sedum will dominate. more upfront costs — in part due Gold moss, crooked yellow, two- to the labor required to put down row and watch-chain sedum vari- the additional layers of mate- eties are among the choices, but a rial that are required. Industry full list of the plant varieties has yet sources estimate green roofs can to be selected. The plants will be cost nearly 40 percent more than arranged informally to take advan- a typical thermoplastic polyolefin tage of the variations in leaf and (TPO) membrane roof — $25 per blossom colors and of the varying square foot compared to $18 for times different varieties bloom, the TPO material. Rankin said. “These are more or However, green roofs offer less native plants that are toler- multiple environmental benefits, ant to wet weather and drought, Fusaro said. They cut noise and so depending on the rainfall, this help reduce the urban “heat will determine the lushness of the island” effect that causes city vegetation and blooms.” temperatures to be higher than The auditorium roof will have their surrounding areas. The plant no public access, but graduate material insulates the roof, saving student spaces on the third floor utility costs by leaving the building of the new Mascaro Center for beneath it cooler in summer and Sustainable Innovation will look warmer in winter. out over the green space. Green roofs also help reduce A second type, or “intensive” storm water runoff, retaining green roof is planned for the between 50 and 90 percent of plaza between the structures. a typical rainfall, according to The 3,000-square-foot space will American Hydrotech, which is be planted with grass and, unlike supplying the Benedum project’s the auditorium roof, will need green roof system. an irrigation system and regular “Pitt has been a pretty good mowing, Fusaro said. It is expected proponent of green construction,”

Kimberly K. Barlow to be in place when students return Fusaro said. “This is the future The expanse of soil behind P.J. Dick project engineer Jeremy P. Fusaro soon will be covered in plants for the fall term. here,” he said. and blooms. A green roof is being installed atop the Benedum Hall auditorium as part of the Swan- On Pitt’s upper campus, the —Kimberly K. Barlow n son School of Engineering’s $100 million renovation and expansion. Pitt engineering school, Westinghouse sign pact The Swanson School of Engi- issues between the two institu- The agreement builds on the neering has entered a master tions. Instead of addressing these established partnership between research agreement with Westing- issues for each individual project the Swanson school and West- house Electric Co. that will allow — which can delay the start of inghouse, said Mark Redfern, for easier collaboration between research — University researchers the school’s associate dean for researchers at the two entities. and Westinghouse personnel now research. When Pitt developed Pitt is the first university to sign simply must provide a budget and its nuclear engineering certificate a master research agreement with an explanation of the scope of work program, engineers and managers Westinghouse that covers all legal to commence a research study. from Westinghouse joined their colleagues from Bechtel Bettis and UPB Energy Institute awarded $238,000 federal grant FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Pitt-Bradford’s Energy Insti- UPB President Livingston Co. on an advisory committee that tute will receive $238,000 through Alexander said, “An important helped design a curriculum with the Omnibus Appropriations Act. aim of the institute is to work the most relevant and up-to-date Sustainability fair rescheduled The appropriation will support closely with industrial leaders information. Pitt’s program was The University’s “Blue, Gold, and Green” sustainability the launch of the Energy Institute’s to address current and future launched in 2007 and is the only festival and exposition will be held April 22. economic development compo- workforce development needs nuclear engineering program in The event, originally set for April 9, was rescheduled to nent and enhance its current work- in traditional and newer forms western Pennsylvania. Experts accommodate the Pittsburgh Police officers’ memorial service force development activities. of energy. The grant will enable from Westinghouse and the other at the Petersen Events Center. Pitt-Bradford established us to do precisely that, while partner companies serve as adjunct Festival events will include supplier exhibits, sustainable the Energy Institute last year in also helping us to develop a cur- professors. space displays, the I Made It! Market, lectures and entertain- cooperation with the region’s riculum that prepares students “The master research agree- ment, as well as food samples and food for sale. energy industry to train work- to deal with energy challenges of ment enhances our faculty mem- Events will begin at 9 a.m. in the William Pitt Union. ers, support the energy industry the future. Our vast service area bers’ ability to deploy their techni- Festival events also will be held on the WPU lawn as well as in establishing and improving contains huge reservoirs of oil and cal expertise on solving problems Schenley Plaza. operating processes and stimulate gas, including the enormous new of importance to the company For a schedule of events, go to www.bluegoldandgreen.pitt. thinking throughout the region reservoir of untapped natural gas through collaborative research edu. n about renewable energy. in the Marcellus Shale.” n efforts,” Redfern said. n

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S input and memories on brain Corneas cleared activity,” Ermentrout said. “Brains by stem cell Shell patterns program that can generate the structures. convert sensory information into therapy model neural complex patterns and shapes of Boettiger, Ermentrout and action. If a ball is thrown at you, Stem cells collected from function most mollusk shells. Oster simulated the neural net- you duck or catch it because you human corneas restore transpar- The researchers traced the work with integral equations that know that the ball could hit you. ency and don’t trigger a rejection Computer models that retrace trail of brain activity that begins retrace the previous pattern but That knowledge and the sight of response when injected into eyes how mollusks build dazzling with a mollusk’s tongue-like organ can be manipulated to accurately the ball coming at you dictate your that are scarred and hazy, School shells illustrate how memory and called a mantle and leads to the predict how a shell will form under action. A mollusk collects sensory of Medicine researchers report sensory input infl uence action, cells that produce the shell and specifi c conditions. The resulting information from its previous in the journal Stem Cells. The researchers report in Proceed- pigmentation. models help illustrate how neural pigmentation and converts it into fi ndings, based on experiments ings of the National Academy of The team supposed that as networks — including mammalian motor action by producing more conducted in mice, suggest that Sciences. mollusks build their shells, they cortices — function in response to pigmentation and continuing the cell-based therapies might be G. Bard Ermentrout, a retrace their previous work with a combination of sensory infor- pattern.” an effective way to treat human University Professor of Math- the mantle and use those “memo- mation and experience, the team To construct their model, the corneal blindness and vision ematics, worked with the paper’s ries” to continue the pattern. At reported in PNAS. The project team studied electron micro- impairment due to the scarring lead authors, Alistair Boettiger the same time, the new pigment was supported by the National scope images of mollusk mantles that occurs after infection, trauma and George Oster of Berkeley, and shell growth are infl uenced Science Foundation. to understand the neurons that and other eye problems, said oph- to model the neural network of by external factors that result “These models demonstrate connect the mantle’s sensing thalmology professor James L. mollusks and design a computer in the varied patterns and shell the combined infl uence of sensory cells with the cells that secrete Funderburgh, senior investigator calcium carbonate and pigmented of the study. proteins. The team found that the “Our experiments indicate that excitatory and inhibitory synapses, after stem cell treatment, mouse which promote or diminish cell eyes that initially had corneal activity, surrounding the secretory defects looked no different than cells and the cells’ fi ring thresh- mouse eyes that had never been olds act as a neural network that damaged,” Funderburgh said. determines how much calcium and The ability to grow millions of pigment the mollusk secretes. Dif- the cells in the lab could make it ferent rates of calcium carbonate possible to create an off-the-shelf secretion determine the shape of product. the shell, while different amounts “Corneal scars are permanent, of pigment result in a pattern so the best available solution is unique to each species. corneal transplant,” Funderburgh For instance, shell ridges said. However, the popularity of result from one cell increasing LASIK eye surgery is expected to calcium carbonate secretion reduce the availability of donor while depressing secretion from tissue because the procedure surrounding cells. With striped makes it unsuitable for trans- shells, a pigment-secreting cell plantation. inhibits secretion of pigment by Funderburgh and other Pitt neighboring cells but not itself, so researchers previously identifi ed that the same pattern is repeated stem cells in a layer of the cornea day after day, yielding a stripe. called the stroma, and recently Bands parallel to the growing edge showed that even after many form when pigment secreted one rounds of expansion in the lab, day inhibits secreting cells for a these cells continued to produce few days, resulting in an on/off the biochemical components, or pattern. matrix, of the cornea. One such “Traveling wave” patterns of protein is called lumican, which diamonds, zigzags, arrowheads plays a critical role in giving the and other shapes come about when cornea the correct structure to a pigment inhibits future secretion make it transparent. at that site but excites secretion in Mice that lack the ability to surrounding cells, so that pigment produce lumican develop opaque moves laterally on successive days areas of their corneas comparable like a wave. to the scar tissue that human The paper can be found at eyes form in response to trauma www.pnas.org/content/early/200 and infl ammation, Funderburgh 9/04/07/0810311106.abstract. said. But three months after the Video and photos of the lumican-deficient mouse eyes shell simulations are available at were injected with human adult www.berkeley.edu/news/media/ corneal stem cells, transparency releases/2009/04/01_seashells. was restored. shtml. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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R E S E A R C H N O T E S size. As with people, the lungs of to identify at-risk children and to mice fully form as they mature to develop a medication that would CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 adulthood. foster optimal lung development, The cornea and its stromal these dismal outcomes.” The in children, making them more The better-functioning mice he added. stem cells themselves appear to importance of prompt coronary vulnerable to diseases such as maintained levels of SOD3 four The researchers also are be “immune privileged,” meaning angiography is well established chronic obstructive pulmonary times higher at the final stage exploring sex differences in SOD3 they don’t trigger a significant for cardiac arrest patients with disease (COPD) later in life, of lung development. The pres- gene expression and lung develop- immune response even when certain types of heart problems. say researchers at the Graduate ence of single nucleotide poly- ment; girls appear to be at greater transplanted across species. “But our study, which shows that School of Public Health and the morphisms (variations in DNA risk than boys. The researchers intend to use angiography is independently German Research Center for sequences) in SOD3 was linked The study was funded by NIH the stem cells to treat lab animals associated with good neurologic Environmental Health. Their to lung function in mice. and the German Research Center that have corneal scars to see if outcomes, suggests that clinicians study, published online in Physi- After analyzing DNA from for Environmental Health. they, too, can be repaired with should consider the procedure for ological Genomics, measured 1,555 German children who Other Pitt authors were Kifai stem cells. Under the auspices all post-cardiac arrest patients.” expression levels of the superoxide were part of the International Bein, Cheryl Fattman and Fei of UPMC Eye Center’s recently Coronary angiography uses dismutase 3 (SOD3) gene and its Study of Asthma and Allergy in Gao of environmental and occu- established Center for Vision a contrast dye and X-rays to see variants in both mouse lungs and Children, researchers discovered pational health and Tim D. Oury Restoration, researchers also plan the blood vessels and chambers children ages 9-11. two common single nucleotide of pathology. The study can be to develop the necessary protocols of the heart. The procedure is SOD3 has been shown to polymorphisms associated with viewed at http://physiolgenom- to enable clinical testing of the usually done in conjunction with protect lungs from the effects of poorer lung function. One of these ics.physiology.org/cgi/content/ cells. catheterization. Dye is injected asbestos and oxidative stress. likely alters the expression levels abstract/90363.2008v1. n Other Pitt authors were Yiqin into the catheter to highlight any Study author George Leikauf, of SOD3. Du and Martha L. Funderburgh blockages in blood flow, which are professor of occupational and Previously, genetic variants in The Research Notes column aims to inform readers about fund- of ophthalmology. visible by X-ray. environmental health at GSPH, SOD3 have been associated with ing awarded to Pitt researchers and The research was supported by The researchers analyzed the said, “People lose lung function loss of lung function in COPD, to report briefly on findings arising the National Institutes of Health, charts of 241 adult cardiac arrest as they age, so it’s important to which is mainly caused by cigarette from University research. the Eye and Ear Foundation and patients. Just over half of patients identify possible genetic targets smoking. “We know SOD3 pro- We welcome submissions from tects the lung against injury caused all areas of the University. Submit Research to Prevent Blindness. who received coronary angiogra- that control healthy development information via email to: utimes@ phy had a good clinical outcome of the lungs during childhood.” by chemicals in cigarette smoke, pitt.edu, by fax to 412/624-4579 Gotta dance? — defined as being discharged to The researchers compared and it could be a link between or by campus mail to 308 Belle- UPB research home or to an acute rehabilita- SOD3 expression levels in strains childhood exposure to environ- field Hall. tion facility — compared to 24.8 of mice with poor lung function to mental tobacco smoke and poor For submission guidelines, visit examines why www.umc.pitt.edu/utimes/dead- Why do people dance? Pitt- percent of patients who did not a strain of mice with more efficient lung development,” said Leikauf. lines.html online. Bradford sociology professor have the procedure. airways and lungs two times the In the future it might be possible Helene Lawson, who took up Early angiography, performed tap dancing five years ago, inter- within 24 hours of a patient’s viewed 75 adult dance students to arrival, was not associated with discover their motivations. The improved survival when compared results are published in the winter to having the procedure done later, 2008/2009 edition of Music and but researchers noted that the Arts in Action, published by the small number of patients might University of Exeter. have made it impossible to prove She discovered that the reasons a difference. could be grouped into six catego- “Coronary angiography ries: keeping fit; seeking stability; appears to put patients on a more seeking a sense of community; proactive path of care, which may seeking to capture life; seeking lead to a better outcome,” said to free one’s spirit, or seeking a Rittenberger. new identity. Researchers found no sig- According to Lawson, “Re- nificant differences between those examining the dancers’ motiva- who received angiography and tions, I see that they experience those who did not with respect to a documented exhilaration from age, history of cardiac disease and dancing together and especially use of therapeutic hypothermia, a from public performance as a procedure used to prevent brain troupe.” damage in patients who remain In addition to addressing why comatose after resuscitation fol- people dance in her paper, “Why lowing cardiac arrest. However, Dance? The Motivations of an patient sex, location of the arrest, Unlikely Group of Dancers,” the initial heart rhythm distur- Lawson also writes about how bance and certain coronary and dancers are affected by recitals, neurologic abnormalities were which she said are emotional roller among the predictors of who coasters, and why some of them would receive angiography. eventually dropped out of class Men who suffered cardiac despite the benefits they originally arrests outside of the hospital were claimed to receive from dancing. more likely to have the proce- dure. The researchers also found that coronary angiography was Angiography more likely to be performed on aids cardiac patients with better neurological patient survival status. However, with the use of People who suffer cardiac therapeutic hypothermia, patients arrests and then receive coronary may not reveal their true neuro- angiography are twice as likely to logical state for several days after survive without significant brain the return of spontaneous blood damage than those who don’t circulation, they noted. have the procedure, according Other Pitt authors were Clif- to a study by School of Medicine ton W. Callaway, emergency researchers. medicine; Samar R. El Khoudary, The study, published in the epidemiology; Charity G. Moore May/June issue of the Journal and Rene J. Alvarez, medicine, of Intensive Care Medicine, and Joshua C. Reynolds, now at showed that patient outcomes the University of Maryland. improved with coronary angi- Rittenberger is supported by ography, regardless of certain the National Center for Research clinical and demographic factors Resources and the National Asso- that influenced who received the ciation of EMS Physicians/Zoll procedure. EMS Resuscitation Research Jon C. Rittenberger, corre- Fellowship. sponding author of the study and professor of emergency medicine, said, “Given the low odds of sur- Genetic vival — about 6 percent — for variation linked patients who suffer out-of-hos- to lung pital cardiac arrests, it’s important development to understand which treatments Mutations in a gene may might make a difference in cause poor lung development

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P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S The People of the Times column features recent news on faculty and staff, including awards and other honors, accomplishments and administra- David Y. Miller, professor and the 2009 Naismith Men’s College ment of Orthopaedic Surgery at tive appointments. associate dean in the Graduate Basketball Coach of the Year by the School of Medicine and found- We welcome submissions from all areas of the University. Send informa- tion via email to: [email protected], by fax at 412/624-4579 or by campus mail School of Public the Atlanta Tipoff Club. ing medical director of the UPMC to 308 Bellefield Hall. and Interna- During the season Dixon Center for Sports Medicine, For submission guidelines, visit www.umc.pitt.edu/utimes/deadlines. tional Affairs guided Pitt to a 31-5 record (15- last week was named president html online. (GSPIA), has 3 in the Big East), earned the of the International Society of been appointed school’s first-ever No. 1 seed upon Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Athletics. assistant professor of psychiatry, the inaugural entering the NCAA Tournament Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Over the years, Fu has trained received the American Psychi- director of Pitt’s and led the Panthers to the NCAA (ISAKOS) at its biennial congress more than 500 surgeons and phy- atric Institute for Research and Dick Thorn- East Regional final with three in Osaka, Japan. Fu, who has been sicians worldwide and more than Education Kempf Fund Award burgh Forum wins, the program’s most wins in a member of the ISAKOS board of 60 in the United States through for Research Development in for Law and an NCAA Tournament. directors for 10 years, will serve a the Department of Orthopaedic Psychobiological Psychiatry. Public Policy. As director, Miller Pitt also achieved the consen- two-year term as president. Surgery fellowship program. This award honors research will help integrate the forum into sus No. 1 national ranking for the ISAKOS is an international excellence in the physiological, the larger University academic first time in school history, set or forum for the exchange of ideas Several faculty in the Schools psychological and/or sociological community through the devel- tied school records for victories that advance arthroscopy, knee of the Health Sciences have been causes and treatment for schizo- opment of programs that reflect and league wins and finished the surgery and orthopaedic sports acknowledged recently with phrenia. the career and interests of Pitt year with a perfect 19-0 home medicine. ISAKOS promotes and awards or accolades, including: • Hank Weiss, associate pro- alumnus and trustee Thornburgh, record. Dixon now has guided Pitt provides educational opportuni- • Alan Russell, director of fessor, Center for Injury Research a former two-term Pennsylvania to NCAA Tournament appear- ties for specialists from around the the McGowan and Control, was honored with the governor and attorney general of ances in each of his first six seasons world, across cultural traditions Institute for Alex Kelter Vision Award from the the United States. as head coach, becoming the first and economic disparities, includ- Regenerative State and Territorial Injury Pre- Established in 2007, the Dick coach in school history to achieve ing developing countries. Medicine and vention Directors Association. Thornburgh Forum for Law and that honor. He has amassed a Fu also is the current president professor of The award recognizes individ- Public Policy provides an oppor- career record of 163-45, which of the American Orthopaedic surgery in the uals who have brought leadership tunity to foster public education places him third on Pitt’s all-time Society for Sports Medicine. School of Med- and vision to the field of injury and and civic action on important coaching wins list. Fu is known for his pioneer- icine, has been violence prevention. public policy issues. With his 163 career wins, ing surgical techniques to treat ranked No. 32 • Dennis Ranalli, senior Since 1998, Miller has served Dixon set an NCAA Division I sports-related injuries to the knee of 100 people associate dean in the School of as associate professor and associ- record for most victories after and shoulder and his extensive who are changing America by Dental Medicine, has been named ate dean in GSPIA, where he has six seasons as a head coach. He scientific and clinical research in Rolling Stone magazine. a distinguished member of the been responsible for the graduate concluded the 2008-09 season as biomechanics. He holds second- • David J. Hackam of pedi- Academy for Sports Dentistry. and undergraduate curricula. He the Big East’s all-time winningest ary appointments as professor of atric surgery and Satdarshan The recognition was presented also has served as interim dean coach by percentage in overall physical ther- P.S. Monga of pathology were in honor of Ranalli’s service to of GSPIA and as co-director and league games (.698). He also ended apy, health and elected into the American Society the academy, of which he is past professor at GSPIA’s Center for the 2008-09 campaign ranked physical activity for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). president and a board member. Public Policy and Management third among NCAA active coaches and mechanical This honor recognizes the contri- • Mark Gladwin, chief of the in Macedonia. in career winning percentage. engineering and butions of physician-scientists at a Division of Pulmonary, Allergy is the head team young age. They will be inducted and Critical Care Medicine and Head men’s basketball coach Freddie H. Fu, David Silver physician for the into the society on April 24 at director of the Hemostasis and Jamie Dixon has been named Professor and chair of the Depart- Department of the ASCI/Association of Ameri- Vascular Biology Research Insti- can Physicians joint meeting in tute, and Michael J. Fine, profes- Chicago. sor of medicine and director of • The National Multiple the VA Center for Health Equity Sclerosis Society has appointed Research and Promotion, have Rock Heyman, Department of been selected for membership Neurology, chair of the society’s in the Association of American National Council of Clinical Advi- Physicians (AAP). sory Committee Chairs. Heyman The goals of AAP members served as a member of this com- include the pursuit of medical mittee previously and will direct knowledge and the advancement the regional clinical advisory through experimentation and committees as they implement discovery of basic and clinical a new process to better define science and their application to comprehensive MS care centers clinical medicine. Each year, 60 in addition to the current efforts individuals who have attained to improve clinical effectiveness. excellence in achieving these goals Heyman’s term runs through are recognized by nomination for December 2011. membership by the council of the • David A. Lewis, professor association. of translational neuroscience • Francis X. Guyette III, and psychiatry, and David Volk, assistant professor of emergency medicine in the School of Medi- cine, was recognized as a “top 10 innovator” in emergency medical services in 2008 by the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, with support from Physio-Control. Guyette’s innovations include implementing therapeutic hypo- thermia, or cooling of the body, to prevent brain damage in cardiac arrest patients at UPMC. Guyette also serves as associate medical director of STAT MedEvac.

Beatriz Luna, associate pro- fessor of psychiatry and psychol- ogy at the School of Medicine, has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a member of the advisory committee to the director (ACD). Since 1966, the ACD has advised the NIH director on policy and planning issues important to the NIH mission of conducting and supporting biomedical and behav- ioral research, research training and translating research results for the public. Luna is the first Pitt faculty member to be named to the advi-

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12 APRIL 16, 2009 Abundance of applicants poses good problem for SAC n abundance of pro- tor Steve Zupcic said Pitt’s food associate vice chancellor for Allegheny County. SAC members proposal asking administrators to spective members may drive runs through April and Human Resources, with copies had expressed concerns about promote the use of flex time and Aprompt changes to Staff food donations will be picked up to Chancellor Mark Nordenberg, these issues at a prior meeting. (See to create policies on flexible work Association Council bylaws. through May. Volunteer opportu- Executive Vice Chancellor Jerome March 19 University Times.) hours and a compressed workweek SAC elections committee chair nities to help with food distribu- Cochran and SAC steering com- Schiffer said a CPR class will fell flat last fall. At a SAC meeting Annabelle Clippinger said the tion at the food bank’s Duquesne mittee members. be offered at 9 a.m. May 9 in 669 last September, Frisch said there group has 16 applications for SAC warehouse will continue on the last Another letter requesting Benedum Hall. Cost is $30 for Pitt would be no change to the policy membership, which if approved Thursday of each month through statistics from Human Resources faculty, staff or students, $40 for and that flex time would remain would raise the group to 79 mem- summer. (See April 2 University about reductions in staff, percent- non-Pitt participants, cash only. at the discretion of department bers, four over the 75-member Times.) age of effort and attrition will be Register through the SAC office leaders. (See Sept. 25, 2008, Uni- limit set by SAC bylaws. Watkins proposed that SAC sent once Losagio reviews it. (4-4236) by May 1. versity Times.) “We are at the juncture where volunteer one evening at the food Discussion is continuing in Pam Weid requested that the Zupcic explained, “A response we have to ask the question, ‘What bank as a group. Members will be conjunction with SAC’s benefits safety and security committee came prior to the submission of are we going to do about this?’” notified when a date is selected. committee on a request to the look into a sign for the pedestrian the proposal. That response was Clippinger said at the April 8 SAC • Colwell asked members administration for non-monetary crossing between the Cathedral read at last September’s meeting. meeting. for a moment of silence for the compensation in response to the of Learning and the William But as far as our committee’s Among the options being three Pittsburgh police officers announced salary pool freeze for Pitt Union. She pointed out that concerned, we’ve never received considered by the committee are who were killed April 4 in the fiscal year 2010. (See March 5 drivers who are not familiar with a response. Once the proposal putting the applicants on a wait- line of duty. and March 19 University Times.) the Oakland area might not be was voted on, subsequent to the ing list until a seat is available; • The April 8 meeting was Among the considerations are aware that there is a crossing in voting on the proposal, there has accepting applicants as associate held at the new University Club requests for additional University the middle of the block. been no response.” members until space becomes where SAC members were offered staff holidays and/or personal • Weid also asked what response Colwell said he would address available, or increasing the size tours and a complimentary lunch. holidays. there was to SAC’s recommenda- the issue with Frisch to obtain a of the group. Colwell said SAC is looking into • Clippinger reported on tion that Pitt endorse flexible work verbal or written response to the Clippinger said the committee permanently moving its meetings other elections committee busi- hours. She inquired whether there SAC request. preferred some option other than to the University Club, which ness, noting that a good group was a policy on how to proceed if • SAC’s next public meeting is a waiting list. Further discussion is more central than Benedum of candidates is vying for officer administrators fail to respond to set for 12:15 p.m. May 20 in 1175 within the committee is needed. Hall. slots. Those who have accepted SAC requests. Benedum Hall. “It’s a good problem,” SAC • Program and planning com- nominations should submit bio- A SAC benefits committee —Kimberly K. Barlow n President Rich Colwell noted. mittee chair Marissa Arlet noted graphical statements. Additional In addition, SAC’s steering that upcoming events include the nominations, including self-nomi- committee is reviewing its bylaws Council of Campuses on June 3 nations, will be accepted through UPJ to offer principal’s certificate program to eliminate possible inconsisten- and 4, a new member orientation May 20. Johnstown area educators soon wikis and videoconferencing cies within the document, SAC luncheon in July and the annual Clippinger said she had met will be able to expand their cre- throughout the school year. Vice President Gwen Watkins Kennywood picnic Aug. 1. SAC with Frisch, who expressed will- dentials through a new master’s- Several University partners are said. volunteers are needed for the ingness to provide a third party level program at Pitt-Johnstown. involved: Joseph M. Katz Gradu- In other business: Kennywood event, she said. to observe ballot counting. He Beginning this summer, UPJ will ate School of Business; Institute of • Ivy Ero of the Greater Pitts- • Salary and job classification also offered advice on simplify- offer a Leadership Initiative for Learning; Learning Research and burgh Community Food Bank committee chair Monika Losagio ing the elections process. Among Transforming Schools (LIFTS) Development Center; Learning discussed the food bank’s need reported on several letters that his suggestions was to announce K-12 principal certificate pro- Policy Center; Urban Education for support through donations have been drafted by the com- new officers outside of SAC’s June gram. The program will be offered Center, and Watson Institute/ of food, cash and time, citing a mittee. meeting in consideration for those in cooperation with the School of Pittsburgh Public Schools/School growing need in the face of dif- The annual request for staff who are not elected. Education. of Education. ficult economic times. salary benchmarking analysis SAC bylaws call for the names This 15-month program will The LIFTS and principal Pitt Volunteer Pool coordina- has been sent to Ron Frisch, of newly elected officers to be include course combinations of preparation programs promote announced at the SAC meeting online and face-to-face inter- leadership in the field of educa- that immediately follows the actions, executive-style week- tion and offer practical, real-world CLAS gets grant for Brazil seminar determination of the election end formats, summer institutes, study rooted in disciplinary lit- results, with new officers taking internships and mentoring expe- eracy and organizational theory. Pitt’s Center for Latin Ameri- The seminar project includes their seats in the month following riences. Teachers will be given For more information, call can Studies (CLAS) has received three phases: a pre-trip seminar; the announcement. support online via “webinars,” 814/269-2934. n an $83,968 grant from the U.S. a research trip to Brazil, and a • A governance commit- Department of Education’s post-trip seminar. The pre-and tee report submitted by Peggy Fulbright-Hays group project post-trip seminars will be funded McNeil, who was not present at Children’s gets teaching award abroad program. by CLAS and its program partner, the meeting, stated that the com- The Division of General program. Programs must dem- The grant will allow 13 social the Andy Warhol Museum. The mittee is reviewing attendance Academic Pediatrics at Children’s onstrate excellence in educational studies and art teachers from research-travel portion will be forms for committee meetings Hospital of Pittsburgh has been teaching methods; acceptance public and private secondary 95 percent funded by Fulbright- and composing a list of members named the recipient of the by students and/or residents; schools in Pennsylvania, Ohio Hays, with 5 percent paid by the who need to be reminded of their 2009 Teaching Award from the acceptance by the community and West Virginia to participate participants. committee attendance commit- Academic Pediatric Association and the institution; innovations in a five-week seminar project in For more information on the ments. The committee will meet (APA). and adaptability, or outstanding Brazil that will prepare the educa- Fulbright-Hays program, visit the at noon April 23 in 331 Victoria The award will be presented quality of the individuals trained tors to teach Brazilian culture and U.S. Department of Education’s Building. to Alejandro Hoberman, chief of in the program. Emphasis is placed society from a visual, literary and web site at www.ed.gov/programs/ • Safety and security commit- the division, at the 2009 Pediat- on the award being given to an n performance arts perspective. iegpsgpa/index.html. tee chair Fred Schiffer said the ric Academic Societies meeting, outstanding program. committee had discussed the need which will be held May 2–5 in The APA teaching award P E O P L E O F T H E T I M E S for more visible “One way” and Baltimore. recognizes efforts faculty in the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 “Do not enter” signs on Thackeray The purpose of the award is division have made to update, sory committee. In 2005, she received the Street and North Bouquet Street to foster interest in the teach- strengthen and expand the educa- Luna’s primary research Presidential Early Career Award and had addressed the issue of ing of general pediatrics by tion and training of medical stu- focuses on using innovative in Science and Engineering for speeding buses in the Fifth-Forbes giving national recognition to an dents, residents, fellows and allied brain imaging technologies, such her work investigating the neural corridor with the Port Authority of outstanding general pediatrics health professionals. n as functional magnetic resonance basis of developmental changes in imaging and diffusion tensor behavior through adolescence. imaging, to characterize how the brain mechanisms underlying Two members of the Health cognitive skills mature during Sciences Library System staff have adolescence. Her work provides been recognized recently. insight into how vulnerabilities Leslie Czechowski, assistant inherent to adolescence lead to director of HSLS Collections and psychopathology and risk-taking Technical Services, was awarded behavior, and is central to the the Daniel T. Richards Prize by the recent view that brain function collection development section of continues to be immature during the Medical Library Association adolescence. for her paper, “Edging Toward Luna is the founding director Perfection: Analysis of the New of the Laboratory for Neurocogni- Approval Plan in a Health Sci- tive Development at the Western ences Library.” Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Melissa Ratajeski, HSLS and training faculty member in reference librarian, has been the Center for the Neural Basis appointed to the Medical Library of Cognition and the Center for Association Beatty Award jury for Neuroscience at UPMC. 2009-10. n

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C A L E N D A R Monday 27 Clinical Oncology & Hematol- ogy Grand Rounds CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 “The Emerging Role of Novel Psychiatry Lecture Therapies in Multiple Myeloma,” “‘For Want of a Nail’: Hierarchi- Wednesday 22 Sr. VC’s Laureate Lecture GSPH C.C. Li Lecture Paul Richardson; Herberman cal Cascades of Neurocognitive “A Cilia Pathway to Congenital “Pro/Con of Genome-Wide Conf. Ctr. 2nd fl. aud., 8 am Dysfunction in Schizophrenia,” Blue, Gold & Green Sustain- Heart Disease,” Cecilia Lo, Nat’l Association Studies for Phar- Epidemiology/Biostatistics Daniel Javitt; S100A Starzl BST, ability Festival Heart, Lung & Blood Inst.; Scaife macogenetics & the Role of Lecture noon A showcase of “green” busi- aud. 6, noon Population Genetics, in Honor “An Overview of Recent Devel- Unum Long Term Care Insur- nesses, artists & speakers; WPU Endocrine Research Confer- of C.C. Li,” Daniel Schaid, Mayo opment of Group-Based Trajec- ance Presentation & Schenley Plaza, 9 am-4 pm ence Clinic; A115 Crabtree, noon tory Modeling,” Daniel Nagin; 4127 Sennott, noon (1-800/227- (to register: www.bluegoldand- “Beyond Fat: Leptin as a Cardio- Faculty Development Lecture A115 Crabtree, 11:30 am-1 pm 4165) green.pitt.edu) protective Adipokine,” Kenneth for Medical Educators Pathology Research Seminar Pgh. Chamber Music Society Clinical Oncology & Hematol- McGaffin; 1195 Starzl BST, “Tools to Enhance Teaching, “Mechanisms of Hepatic Stel- Concert ogy Grand Rounds noon Session 2: Clinical Resources late Motility in Liver Cirrhosis Pacifica Quartet & Miró Quartet; “Myeloma Geneticx,” Rafael Epidemiology Seminar at HSLS,” Ahlam Saleh; Scaife & Cancer,” Vijay Shah, Mayo Carnegie Music Hall, 8 pm Fonseca; Herberman Conf. Ctr. “Insights of Aging From Studies lecture rm. 3, noon Clinic; 1105 Scaife, noon of Longevity,” Anne Newman; Unum Long Term Care Insur- 2nd fl. aud., 8 am Tuesday 28 Benefits Fair CRSP Lecture A115 Crabtree, noon ance Presentation WPU lower lounge, noon-3 pm “Marriage, Men & Money: OED Limbach Lecture WPU Ballrm., noon (1-800- (also April 30) Johnstown Campus Benefits African-American Women’s “Perspectives on Starting a 227-4165) HSLS Workshop Fair Continued Investment in the Company Using University Simulation & Modeling Semi- “Gene Regulation Resources,” Cambria Rm., UPJ, 10:30 am- Romantic Ideal,” M. Belinda Technology,” Paul Petrovich; nar Ansuman Chattopadhyay; Falk 1:30 pm Tucker, UCLA; 2017 CL, noon- 1105 Scaife, 1-3 pm Ivet Bahar, computational biol- Library conf. rm. B, 1-3 pm Survival Skills & Ethics Brown 1:30 pm (4-7382) MMG Seminar ogy; 1175 Benedum, 2:30 pm Bag Lunch HSLS Workshop “Using CT/PET Imaging to (8-3094) “Grants Over Lunch”; S100 Thursday 30 “Microarray Data Analysis,” Monitor TB Progression & Its Response to Chemotherapy,” BST 2, noon-1:30 pm (412/578- Uma Chandran; Falk Library Saturday 25 EOH Seminar Charles Scanga; 1295 Starzl 3716) conf. rm. B, 1-3 pm “Intrinsic Dynamics of Pro- BST, 2:30 pm CVR Seminar • Spring term ends; official teins: Insights From Network Chemistry Lecture “Molecular Mechanisms of Thursday 23 date for degrees awarded for Models,” Ivet Bahar; 540 Brid- “Molecular Ingredients of Cata- Pathogenesis in the Human spring term. geside Point, noon Pathogen, Toxoplasma Gondii,” Bioethics & Health Law Grand lytic Selectivity,” Gabor Somor- Jon Boyle; 6014 BST3, noon Rounds jai, UC-Berkeley; 12B Chevron, Survival Skills & Ethics Work- Health Services Research PhD Defenses “A Short History of Clinical 2:30 pm shop Seminar Medical Ethics Ending in My “Grant Writing”; Scaife lecture “The Cost-Effectiveness of A&S/Hispanic Languages & Being Banned in Canada,” Friday 24 rm. 2, 10 am-3 pm Osteoporosis Screening Strat- Literatures William Meadow, U of Chi- “Conflicto, hegemonía y nacio- Dental Education Seminar egies for Postmenopausal cago; Children’s Hospital gr. fl. Sunday 26 nalismo tutelado en colombia “Esthetic Implant Solutions Women,” Smita Nayak; 305 McCluskey aud., 8 am 2002-2008: Entre la comuni- 2009,” Robin Windl; 2148 Salk, Parkvale, noon HSLS Workshop • Residence halls close, except cación gubernamental y la ficción 9 am-4 pm Pharmacology & Chemical “PowerPoint for Beginners & for graduating seniors. noticiosa de televisión,” Fabio Endocrine Conference Biology Seminar Advanced PowerPoint,” Sam López de la Roche; April 16, “Developing Molecularly Tar- “Zinc Regulation of Ionic Fluxes Lewis; Falk Library classrm. 2, Commencement 1528 CL, 10 am geted Therapies for Thyroid in the Life & Death of Neurons,” 10 am-2 pm Bert O’Malley, Baylor College of SIS/Library & Information Cancer,” Steven Sherman; 1195 Elias Aizenman, neurobiology; HSLS Lunch With A Librar- Medicine; Petersen, 1 pm Science Starzl BST, 9:30 am 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pm ian Pgh. Chamber Music Society “On & On We Go With Copy- WPIC Lecture Endocrinology & Metabolism “PubMed: Something Old, Concert right: The Role of the Associa- “Traits, States & Dysfunction: A Bone Club Something New,” Patricia Weiss; Pacifica Quartet; Carnegie Music tion of Research Libraries in the New Formula for DSM-V Diag- “The Osteoporotic Fractures in Falk Library conf. rm. B, noon Hall, 3 & 8 pm Development of the Copyright noses?” Lee Anna Clark; Detre Men Study,” Elsa Strotmeyer; Act of 1976,” Jonathan Miller; 2nd fl. aud., 11 am-12:30 pm 1195 Starzl BST, 4:30 pm April 16, 501 IS, 11 am Wednesday 29 A&S/Political Science “Surveying Public Opinion in Transitional China: An Exami- • Spring term grades must be nation of Survey Response,” approved by 5 pm. Liying Ren; April 16, 4606 Posvar, 11 am Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Education/Health & Physical Rounds Activity “MRI of Abnormal Knee “Validation of Adult OMNI Mechanics,” Jeffrey Towers, Perceived Exertion Scales for radiology; Montefiore LHAS Elliptical Ergometry,” Ryan aud. 7 Main, 7 am Mays; April 16, Baierl Conf. Rm., Petersen, 2 pm CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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C A L E N D A R Medicine/Molecular Phar- Photography Exhibit macology “Landscapes,” James Wesley CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 “Epithelial Reparative Capacity Morar; through May 31, Barco A&S/History of Art & Archi- A&S/Classics A&S/History Regulates Extracellular Matrix Law Library Gallery, M-Th 7:30 tecture “Medea & Its Chinese Audi- “‘Under the Colombian Flag’: Dynamics & Innate Immunity,” am-11:45 pm, F 7:30 am-8 pm, “The Sanctuary of Demeter ence,” Lihua Zhang; April 17, Nation-Building on San Andres Joshua Snyder; April 30, 1395 Sat. 10 am-8 pm, Sun. 10 am- at Pergamon: Architecture & 1518 CL, 1 pm & Providence Islands, 1887- Starzl BST, 2 pm 11:45 pm (8-1376) Dynasty in the Early Attalid A&S/Anthropology 1930,” Sharika Crawford; April Capital,” Cornelie Piok-Zanon; “Between the Kitchen & the 22, 3703 Posvar, 10 am Theatre Deadlines April 17, 104 FFA, 9 am State: Domestic Practice & A&S/Theatre GSPH/Epidemiology Chimu Expansion in the Jequete- “Jacques Milet’s ‘Destruction Pitt Theatre Arts Production Chancellor’s Affirmative “Mycoplasma genitalium: Risk peque Valley, Peru,” Robyn de Troie la Grant’: Reassess- “Cold Mountain Elementary”; Action Award Factors, Clinical Characteristics Cutright; April 17, 3307 Posvar, ing French Theatre in the April 15, 8 pm, Studio Theatre, Nominations should be sent to & Pregnancy Outcome,” Vanessa 3 pm Late Medieval Period,” Lofty CL (4-0933) the Univ. Senate office, 1234 Short; April 17, A638 Crabtree, A&S/History Durham; April 22, 1627 CL, Kuntu Repertory Theatre CL, by May 1. (info: Office of 9 am “In the Footsteps of Cristo 10 am “Pain in My Heart” & “Reach- Affirmative Action, Diversity GSPH/Behavioral & Com- Obrero: Chile’s Young Catho- GSPIA ings”; through April 18, 8 pm, & Inclusion, 412 Bellefield, munity Health Sciences lic Workers Movement in the “Institutions, Values Conflict Alumni 7th fl. aud. (4-7298) 8-7860) “Health Information Technology Shantytown, Factory & Family, & Values Hierarchies,” Ann Bradford Campus Perfor- Pharmacy Celebration & Nursing Homes,” Darren Liu; 1946-1973,” Tracey Jaffe; April Rudnicki; April 22, 3412 Posvar, mance Event will be held May 30. Regis- April 17, 226 Parran, 9:30 am 20, 3703 Posvar, 11 am noon “Bye Bye Birdie”; April 30, Bro- ter by May 15 at www.pharmacy. SIS/Telecommunications & Nursing GSPIA meley Family Theatre, Blaisdell, pitt.edu/about/gala/about. (info: Networking “Whole Genome Expression “The Role of Information UPB, 7:30 pm (814/362-5113) 8-3304) “Overflow Channels for Opti- Profiling of Acute Ischemic Among Policy Elites in the Bread & Puppet Theatre mal Core Optical Networks,” Stroke in Humans,” Taura Federal Communications Com- “Sourdough Philosophy Caba- Event Deadline Pratibha Menon; April 17, 502 Palfreyman-Barr; April 20, 138 mission: A Case Study,” Mark ret”; April 25 at 8 pm & April IS, 10 am Victoria, noon Perry; April 22, 3200 Posvar, 26 at 7 pm, Studio Theatre, CL The next issue of the University GSPH/Epidemiology A&S/Sociology 12:30 pm (4-0933) Times will include events of April “Inflammatory Cytokines Inter- “Contentious Urbanization A&S/Economics 30-May 14. Information for leukin-1A (IL-1A), IL-1B, IL- From Below: Land Squatting in “Essays on Dynamic Matching Exhibits events during that period must 1RN, IL-6 & IL-6R Gene Montevideo, Uruguay,” Maria Markets,” Morimitsu Kurino; be received by 5 pm April 23 at Polymorphisms & Prostate Jose Alvarez; April 21, 2431 April 22, 4716 Posvar, 3 pm Studio Arts Student Exhibit 308 Bellefield Hall. Information Cancer Risk in African-Ameri- Posvar, 2:30 pm GSPIA Through April 25, University may be sent by fax to 4-4579 or can & Caucasian Men,” Kwame GSPIA “US Decision-Making on Mis- Art Gallery, FFA, M-F 10 am-4 email to [email protected]. Appenteng; April 17, 109 Parran, “EU-Russia Regional Coop- sile Defense,” Yeonmin Cho; pm (8-2430) 10 am eration & Energy Networks in April 24, Ridgway Ctr. conf. rm., Education/Health & Physical the Russian Northwestern & Posvar, 10 am Activity Southern Regions: Implications GSPH/EOH “The Relationship Between for Democratic Governance,” “Signaling Mechanisms for Gene Physical Activity, Physical Per- Ekaterina Turkina; April 21, 4217 Regulation by Metals & Metal formance & Psychosocial Vari- Posvar, 3 pm Mixtures,” Antonia Nemec; April Children’s books, games sought ables in Individuals s/p Gastric A&S/Economics 24, 540 Bridgeside Point, 2 pm The Pitt Volunteer Pool is sponsoring two drives to aid needy Bypass Surgery,” Deborah Jos- “Essays on Social Insurance,” school-age children. beno; April 17, 6050 Forbes Athanasios Thanopoulos; April For after-school programs in the local area, donation are needed Tower, 1 pm 22, 4900 Posvar, 9:30 am for age-appropriate games such as Junior Scrabble, Twister, Sorry, Monopoly, Clue, Uno, Yahtze, Pictionary Jr. and checkers, as well as playing cards, lacing beads, Lego sets and math-skill games. The deadline for donations is May 1. The Volunteer Pool also is soliciting donations of books (English and Spanish), coloring books, crayons, flat puzzles, paper dolls, art kits, pencils and school supplies as part of a Children Incorporated Commencement 2009 events drive to benefit needy children in the United States and Central America. The deadline for this effort is May 29. All donations should be sent to Gwen Watkins, 710 Alumni Hall. For more information, contact Watkins at 412/624-7702. n SIS Recognition Ceremony April Alumni 7th fl. aud., 9:30 am, followed by breakfast reception in CL Commons Rm. (4-9749) Friday 24 Hispanic Languages & Literatures Graduation C L A S S I F I E D Ceremony SUBJECTS NEEDED Business Graduation Ceremony • $8 for up to 15 words; $9 for 16-30 WPU Assembly Rm., 9:30-11 am YOUNG ADULTS Alumni 7th fl. aud., 1 pm, followed by reception in Bradford Campus Nurses’ Pinning Ceremony words; $10 for 31-50 words. Alumni Ballrm. 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