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Panelists discuss how to provide
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The Senate anti-discriminatory
policies committee has proposed a
new name and expanded mission.....2
UNIVERSITY
Pitt touts its relationship with
the surrounding community at a
national anchor district conference
held here ..........................................4
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
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VOLUME 46 • NUMBER 6
Questions remain about actions
concerning 3 graduate programs
W
hat constitutes financial exigency? Whose
role is it to oversee
whether a school follows its own
bylaws in decision-making? And
was there a conflict of interest on
the part of the Dietrich School
of Arts and Sciences decisionmakers?
University Senate budget
policies committee (BPC) chair
John J. Baker in an Oct. 29 report
to Faculty Assembly detailed
the rationale underlying BPC’s
findings in its report on the suspension/termination of graduate
programs in classics, German and
religious studies.
While BPC’s report found
acceptable the processes behind
the proposals, some faculty members remained troubled.
The chairs of the German and
religious studies departments were
among faculty who continued to
voice concerns about how the
Dietrich school developed its proposals on the graduate programs’
future and the implications for
shared governance.
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Dietrich school Dean N. John
Cooper announced on April 5,
2012, indefinite suspensions to
the graduate programs in classics,
German and religious studies; on
June 4, 2013, he submitted proposals to Provost Patricia E. Beeson
to terminate the graduate program
in religious studies and suspend
indefinitely graduate programs
in classics and German.
A review last month by the
University Council on Graduate Study (UCGS), which makes
recommendations on graduate
programs to the provost, revealed
sharp division among council
members. (See Oct. 24 University
Times.)
In a 15-12 vote with one
abstention, UCGS endorsed the
proposal to suspend admissions to
the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in
classics. In separate 14-13 votes
with one abstention, UCGS
opposed the proposals to suspend
admissions to the M.A. and Ph.D.
programs in German and to terminate the M.A. and Ph.D. programs
in religious studies at the end of
the 2022 academic year.
Ken Service, vice chancellor
for University communications,
told the University Times this
week that Beeson has yet to decide
the fate of the three departments’
graduate programs and that no
immediate decision is expected.
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In his report to Faculty Assembly, Baker emphasized that BPC
looked only at the process and procedural requirements under Pitt’s
planning and budgeting system
(PBS) and the 1995 guidelines for
the review of academic planning
proposals, not the merit of the
Dietrich school proposals.
BPC’s full report, which was
approved by the committee in
a 7-2 vote Oct. 18, is posted on
the documents page at http://
univsenate.pitt.edu/committees/
budget-policies.
BPC’s underlying rationales
Baker elaborated on the reasoning behind three controversial
conclusions in the BPC report:
• The proposals did not violate
Pitt’s academic planning proposal
review guidelines.
BPC concluded that Dietrich
school deans, in their April 5,
2012, suspension of admissions
to the graduate programs, did not
violate the guidelines “because a
temporary suspension of admissions is not the same as termination
or substantial modification of a
program.”
Baker explained BPC was not
unanimous on this point, but the
majority felt the action did not
qualify as a substantial modification or fundamental change in an
academic program.
“The only thing that has
changed is students are not being
admitted,” which, BPC reasoned,
also would be true if the program
had no applicants in a given year or
if no applicants met the program
requirements, he said.
In addition, Baker said, UCGS
states that it reviews anything that
has a direct impact on a degreegranting program.
“Obviously suspension of
admissions impacts a program”;
however, PBS documents do not
use the term “direct impact,” he
said.
• The lack of prior consultation
with the chairs of the affected departments violated the spirit of the PBS.
“This decision to suspend these
graduate programs was made by
the deans of the Dietrich school.
It’s very clear,” Baker said. “It
was made by the deans without
consultation with the chairs of
the affected departments and
without discussion or approval
Fall arrives on the Pittsburgh campus.
Kimberly K. Barlow
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Annual internal campaign launched
T
he University’s annual
faculty and staff giving
campaign kicks off today,
Nov. 7, with a new online payroll
pledge option via the Pitt portal.
Faculty and staff can pledge by
selecting “Faculty and Staff Campaign” under the “My Resources”
tab after logging in to my.pitt.edu.
The pledge form enables donors
to select a dollar amount — with
a minimum of $1 per month — to
be deducted from their pay for up
to 12 months.
Lynn Shea of the Office of
Institutional Advancement (IA)
said that donors can use the portal
link to view their own pledge
history, see a list of funds most
popular among faculty and staff
donors, or search for a specific
fund. Donors can use the payroll
pledge option to support any existing Pitt fund.
Faculty and staff also can give
online at www.giveto.pitt.edu; by
phone at 4-5800, or by mailing in
a pledge card, which are to be sent
in early November. The fundraising campaign will begin making
calls to faculty and staff Nov. 19,
said Joe Junker of IA.
Chris Bell, senior executive
director of Pitt’s annual programs,
said that his team hopes to increase
both the number of donors and
the total campaign amount in
the FY14 campaign. “Pitt faculty
and staff have been generous supporters, and their contributions
provide scholarship support for
our students, enhance programs in
all of our schools, and help engage
our alumni community,” said Bell.
Reasons for giving are as
diverse as the faculty and staff
who make up the University
community.
Diane Mildner, who works in
word processing in the Office of
Admissions and Financial Aid,
gives to a fund that was established
in memory of IA staff members
whom she knew. The Susan
A. Steele and Donna L. Luiso
Student Resource Fund benefits
non-traditional students at Pitt.
Mildner also supports the
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation
Institute for reasons even closer
to her heart: Nine years ago her
husband received a kidney transplant there. Their daughter was
his donor. “Between my daughter
and the Starzl center, they saved
my husband’s life,” she said.
Each Aug. 18 — the anniversary of his transplant — the family
celebrates the gift of his “new life.”
Mildner, who has worked at
Pitt for more than 13 years, joined
the University staff when her
husband was ill. Her co-workers
were “a huge, huge support for
me,” she said, adding that she
feels lucky not only for her job and
co-workers but for the excellent
medical facilities here. “For me,
it’s just a personal thing. I want to
give back.”
Crystal McCormick Ware, the
University Library System’s coordinator for communications and
diversity, directs her donations to
the library system and to support
Equipoise scholarships.
Equipoise is an organization of
University employees that seeks to
provide opportunities for African
Americans.
Her desire to support students
is rooted in her previous employment in Duquesne University’s
admissions office, where she
saw up-close how finances could
impact a student’s ability to enroll.
“Although some students had
tremendous academic ability, they
didn’t have the financial means,”
she said, adding that sometimes a
sum as small as $1,000 or $2,000
could make the difference. “I
would hope any student who got
into Pitt wouldn’t have to make a
decision to come or not to come
based on a lack of money.”
While she also supports other
charitable organizations, Ware
said she always has directed a portion of her giving to her workplace.
“When you work for an organization, I think you should, as a
representative of the organization,
take one step beyond,” she said.
Her support for Pitt libraries, however, goes beyond her
work with ULS. “I really love the
library,” she said. “The library
is an important resource of the
University. A strong library is
important to any good college.
Even if I didn’t work here, I’d still
give,” she said.
Rich Henderson, director of
budget and financial planning in
the health sciences, who earned his
bachelor’s degree and two master’s
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U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES
Anti-discriminatory policies: New name, new mission?
T
. he University Senate antidiscriminatory policies
committee’s (ADPC) may
be no more, pending a vote of
Senate Council. If the committee
has its way, its focus will remain,
albeit under a new name and with
an expanded mission.
ADPC is seeking to change its
name and mission statement as
part of its efforts to be more proactive, ADPC co-chair Claude Mauk
told Faculty Assembly Oct. 29.
Faculty Assembly endorsed
unanimously the changes in name
and mission. The matter was to be
presented to Senate Council yesterday, Nov. 6, after the University
Times went to press.
ADPC’s new name would be
the equity, inclusion and antidiscrimination advocacy committee, or EIADAC.
Members recognized that the
committee typically has reacted
to issues as they arose, Mauk said.
The changes reflect their desire
to be proactive: “Being aware
of potential issues and trying to
mediate them if possible before
they become major issues that
become problematic for the University,” he told Faculty Assembly.
Some ADPC members felt the
old name seemed to anticipate
negativity, Mauk said, adding,
“We wanted to allow ourselves
the possibility of having more
positivity in the group rather
than finding something negative
to worry about.”
Mauk said the committee is
expanding its mission but not
making a major change in course. The new name retains the
anti-discrimination aspect of the
committee’s ongoing mission and
the term “equity and inclusion”
mirrors terminology used elsewhere in the University, he said. The committee has developed
a four-fold framework for action
that will utilize working groups
within the committee. “We found
we weren’t in possession of a very
good infrastructure for being proactive,” he said. “We needed some
mechanics to be able to do that.” The first step starts with gathering data from the University
community. “We want to be able to
figure out what’s happening in the
community to anticipate potential
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problems,” Mauk explained. From
there, the committee will identify issues and opportunities for
action. Next, it would recommend
initiatives — either to address
negative areas in hope of correcting problems, or to encourage
positives that should be enhanced.
The fourth step would bring the
recommended initiatives before
the Senate to be implemented by
the appropriate entities.
Mauk said the committee
would review outcomes, bringing
the cycle full circle to the initial
information-gathering step. Details are posted in the
documents section of the ADPC
committee page at www.univsenate.pitt.edu/committees/
anti-discriminatory-policies.
Senate past-president Thomas
C. Smitherman commended the
committee for its efforts. “The
final work is thoughtful and
excellent and I know how much
diplomacy and negotiation and
compromise went into it,” he told
Mauk. I think it’s an excellent job
and an excellent outcome.”
University Senate President
Michael B. Spring noted that the
change “signals an effort to move
to the next generation of equity
and inclusion — not just to eliminate discrimination but to make
sure things are as good as they
can be for all of our constituent
members.”
BPC report
Senate budget policies committee chair John J. Baker reported
on BPC’s major activities over
the past year, including its annual
budget recommendation and faculty salary reports.
He also detailed the committee’s rationale underlying several
points in its recent report on
whether the Dietrich School of
Arts and Sciences proposals to
suspend graduate programs in
classics and German and to terminate the religious studies graduate program followed University
academic planning guidelines. (See
related story, page 1.)
New business
At the request of assembly
member Seth Weinberg of dental
medicine, who called email quotas
“antiquated,” the Senate will
inquire about why faculty have
caps on the size of their University
email accounts.
President’s report
• Spring invited comments
on the Senate plant utilization
and planning (PUP) committee’s
recently updated mission statement. The new mission statement,
which was modified Oct. 24, is
posted at http://univsenate.pitt.
edu/committees/plant-utilization-and-planning.
M A T T E R S
/
• Assembly members observed
a moment of silence in memory of
Barbara Shore, Distinguished Service Professor emerita and former
Senate president, who died Oct.
23, 2013. (See obituary, page 12.) • University Center for International Studies (UCIS) constituent faculty have been invited to
nominate candidates for four
faculty slots on the director search
committee following UCIS director Lawrence Feick’s decision
to step down on Aug. 1, 2014.
Details, including a link to a list
of faculty eligible to vote and to
serve as Senate representatives on
the search committee, are posted
at univsenate.pitt.edu.
Spring said he and Senate
members Cindy Tananis and
Jerome McKinney will serve as
the Senate nominating committee
for the election.
Spring told the University
Times on Nov. 5 that ballots had
been mailed to UCIS constituent
faculty and voting was expected to
end early next week.
Nominees for the four slots are
Nancy Condee of Slavic languages
and literatures; Rebecca I. Denova
of religious studies; Giuseppina
Mecchia of French and Italian
languages and literatures; Scott
Morgenstern of political science;
Josephine Olson of business;
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán of political
science; Gayle Rogers of Eng-
Technology Corner
Nathan Hershey
lish, and Andrew J. Strathern of
anthropology. • The Senate’s expanded
executive committee met Oct.
14 to review the past year and
plan the upcoming year, Spring
reported. The Senate plenary
session focus will be on higher
education in the digital world. In
addition, cross-committee issues,
committee coverage of research
concerns and public and executive
sessions in committee meetings
were discussed.
• Spring announced that a
forum will be held at 6 p.m. Nov.
19 in the O’Hara Student Center
ballroom on “The Future of Our
Region,” featuring Allegheny
County Executive Rich Fitzgerald
and Mayor-elect Bill Peduto.
RSVPs are due by Nov. 8 to
www.alumni.pitt.edu/event/pittadvocates.php.
• Mark Redfern, vice provost
for research, is scheduled to attend
the next Faculty Assembly meeting
to discuss the current state and
future of research at Pitt. Spring invited assembly members to forward to him or the
Senate office questions they
would like Redfern and Senate
appointees on research-related
University committees to address
in the discussion.
The meeting is set for 3 p.m.
Nov. 26 in 2700 Posvar Hall.
—Kimberly K. Barlow
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JoAnn Keslar
Project and
Communication
Services
Technology topics and trends from Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD)
Tech training needs in the 21st century
In assessing the Pitt community’s needs for technology training, we heard a common refrain
from people: anytime, anywhere,
any device — and free.
Teaching and learning are 24/7
activities, and people asked for
training that fit their individual
needs and schedules. In addition,
the range of need — from people
who wanted to learn how to use
a new iPhone, to people who
needed to brush up on Excel skills,
to people who wanted assistance in
helping students master programming languages like C++ — was
dramatic.
CSSD recognized that it
needed to supplement the regular in-person training it offers
through Pitt’s faculty and staff
development program and its
occasional workshops with something much broader.
Enter lynda.pitt.edu
This fall, CSSD began to
provide free online tech training
to University faculty, staff and
students through a partnership
with lynda.com. More than 1,000
people used the service in its first
month.
Video tutorials are available on
more than 2,000 topics, making
it easy to find the information
needed to gain new technology
skills or to improve proficiency in
established skill areas. The need
for that breadth of subject matter
became clear as CSSD looked at
early usage patterns.
Some of the most popular
topics for Pitt users in the first
few weeks were Access 2013,
Computer Literacy for Windows,
Excel 2010 and 2013 Essentials,
Foundations of Programming,
InDesign CC, Java Essentials,
Learning Word and PHP with
MySQL.
But Pitt faculty, staff and students also were exploring tutorials
on digital photography, creating
infographics, responsive design,
animation and building apps.
Instructors using online
tech training resources
CSSD’s online tech training
service helps Pitt faculty to take
advantage of the benefits of online
learning and flipped-classroom
pedagogy with their students.
Pitt instructors have begun to
use this resource in a range of ways.
A statistics instructor, for instance,
pointed the students in her introductory class to the lynda.com
tutorials on using Excel, giving
students without extensive Excel
experience the chance to reach a
level playing field with others in
the class. This strategy also freed
up class time that otherwise would
have been spent addressing questions or confusion stemming from
disparate software skills, allowing
the professor to focus on concepts
during class time rather than on
“how-to” demonstrations.
In the information sciences,
students have been assigned specific videos as homework, targeting course-related skills such as
Photoshop techniques or PHP.
Because Pitt has a premium membership, students also have access
to exercises associated with these
tutorials, so that their experience
goes beyond watching a video
and instead becomes hands-on
learning. Instructors can develop a
“playlist” of related videos as part
of the class syllabus and share that
playlist with students.
Professional development
at your convenience
Instructors, of course, are
learners, too. The 24/7 availability of the online tutorial library
makes it convenient for Pitt faculty
and staff to find time to master
new professional tools such as
OneNote or Evernote. Faculty
exploring the potential role of
incorporating digital media in
their courses can learn more about
popular tools such as WordPress,
iPad apps for the classroom and
SoundBooth.
Employees who regularly use
software such as InDesign, Access
and PowerPoint in their jobs
can find lynda.com tutorials to
improve their proficiency. When
changing positions or accepting a
new role, staff members have ready
access to a library of tutorials to
help them master the technology
tools needed in the new position.
The broad range of tutorials
include videos on effective graphic
design for promotional materials,
creating a mail merge in Word or
Pages, and learning HTML for
updating a web page.
In addition, after watching all
of the videos within a particular
lynda.com course, people can
generate a certificate of comple-
tion. The certificate can be shared
with supervisors as part of ongoing
professional development efforts.
While the focus of the service
is technology training, tutorials
also are available for a range of
nontechnical professional development skills such as communicating across cultures, increasing
workplace creativity and mentoring others.
Only the beginning
CSSD has received positive
feedback from Pitt faculty, staff
and students on the online tech
training service’s range and flexibility, with particular appreciation
for its convenient, “on the go”
capabilities. These early adopters
appreciate that they can access
tutorials that fit their specific needs
from any Internet-connected
device, at any time and at any pace.
I would like to encourage you
to try the service today to see how
it can help you meet your professional goals. The online tech
training videos and helpful FAQs
can be found at lynda.pitt.edu; you
will need to log in using your Pitt
username and password to have
full access. New videos are added
to the library of tutorials every day
in response to users’ needs. If you
don’t see a tutorial on a topic you
think Pitt users need, please send
an email to [email protected].
CSSD is eager to make this service
fully responsive to your needs. n
JoAnn Keslar is director of project
and communication services for
CSSD.
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
A
p a n e l o f f a c u l t y,
administrators and
students shared their
experiences and discussed ways
to improve accommodations for
students with disabilities as part
of a conference sponsored by the
Pitt student group Students for
Disability Advocacy (SDA).
Paula Davis, senior vice chancellor for health sciences diversity,
moderated the Nov. 1 roundtable
that concluded the SDA’s “Disability Experience: State of the
Arts in Research, Scholarship
and the Arts” conference. About
170 people attended the two-day
conference in the William Pitt
Union, organizers estimated.
Arranging for accommodations
Communication among students, faculty and the disability
resources office is key in requesting accommodations. Lynnett Van
Slyke, director of Pitt’s Office of
Disability Resources and Services,
said that students who are seeking
accommodations must disclose
and document their disability at
the disability resources office on
their campus, then discuss with
a disability specialist how their
disability affects their learning or
other participation in campus life.
The disability specialist will
discuss whether the requested
accommodation is reasonable,
how it can be implemented and
whether it will fundamentally
alter the standard of the program.
Once accommodations have
been decided upon, the disability specialist notifies the faculty
member of the appropriate accommodations and, if necessary, helps
the student and instructor implement them.
“The very crux of the law is
we have to engage in interactive
conversation,” Van Slyke said.
“We all have a responsibility to
continue to engage in conversation about what are reasonable
accommodations.” Students must
share the responsibility by discussing their needs; the administration
and faculty must determine the
standard for a program or course.
Van Slyke said her office often
struggles with the concept of “reasonable”: “How much can you and
your colleagues tolerate in terms
of an alteration to a standard?”
she said.
“I think faculty get frustrated
with our office because they’re
looking for disability services to
provide them an absolute. We
can’t do that.”
Consulting with the disabilities office is useful, said Kathleen
Ryan, assistant dean for medical
education in the School of Medicine.
“If I feel that I have to extend
something to a student that I
cannot in conscience extend to
everybody in the class, I need
to clear that with the disabilities
office,” she said.
“I may not have enough
understanding to say what are
the accommodations that we use
for this and how does this make
it level as opposed to making it an
advantage.”
She noted that accommodations can be put into place temporarily until the disabilities office
completes a review.
“It protects all the individuals
— both the students who are not
getting accommodations as well
as the self-esteem of the student
who does need the accommodation. Both of those are clearly
DISABILITIES
on campus
Panel discusses how to improve
the Pitt experience for those
needing accommodations
important to a healthy educational
environment,” Ryan said.
Students’ experiences
Student panelists said their
experience with arranging accommodations at Pitt had been largely
positive.
Elizabeth Dunn, a senior in
nutrition and dietetics, transferred
to Pitt last year from Gannon
University after taking two years
off from school following a 2010
spinal cord injury.
“It’s been difficult adjusting
to a new school and adjusting
to a completely different way of
studying than I previously knew
before my injury. It’s been very
different but everyone’s been
pretty open in helping me learn
to do stuff differently,” she said,
noting that peers elsewhere with
similar injuries have been a source
of support.
On campus, Dunn said she
worked with Van Slyke initially but
this year is working more directly
with her professors on classroom
accommodations. “They’ve all
been very open with me,” she said.
“If I need a change they’re willing
to work with me.”
For example, because she
doesn’t have full control of her
hands, “In one class, they’re letting me use one of the graduate
students to be my hands. I just
have to explain what I’m doing,”
she said.
Alexandra Corral Edmonds, a
student in communication, said
she’s been met with “a great level
of understanding” when discussing her needs with faculty.
Because her disability is invisible, she tries to meet in advance
with prospective faculty members.
“I always like to speak with my
professors prior to signing up for
their class to make sure there’s
a good agreement between my
accommodations and the structure
of their class,” she said. Because
she doesn’t “look like” she has a
disability, sometimes she needs to
explain what she needs.
“I enjoy telling faculty when
they need to know more,” she said,
adding that she emphasizes that
she’s not seeking an advantage, just
to level the playing field.
Brian Lupish of the College of
General Studies, who has learning
disabilities including dysgraphia,
and an autism spectrum disorder,
agreed, adding that not only have
his faculty members been helpful, but the disabilities office has
helped him with academic strategies in addition to the accommodations.
Lisa Ripper, a graduate student
in public health who has hearing
loss, uses hearing aids and lipreads. In class she uses an FM
radio system and sits at the front
of the room, which helps, but
sometimes isn’t enough. “I keep
trying to find ways to adapt,” she
said, noting that it can be difficult
to lip-read if the speaker has facial
hair or doesn’t move his or her lips
when speaking.
Ripper said one faculty member’s thick accent made understanding difficult. “I just felt so
bad asking her to repeat herself
constantly and in front of everyone
in my class,” she said. Rather than
asking in class, Ripper arranged to
go over material during the professor’s office hours. “She’s been
very patient and accommodating
with me, so I appreciate that a lot.”
Self-advocacy
Self-advocacy is important,
but it’s not always easy, students
agreed.
Matt Hannan, a sophomore
majoring in public service who
was injured in combat in Iraq
while serving in the Marines,
said, “I found that when I didn’t
go seek the help, I started to go
downhill quickly.” He suffered
a traumatic brain injury and has
mobility issues, post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) and cluster
headaches that sometimes prevent
him from attending class.
He credits self-motivation for
helping him continue his education. While some students may
be tempted to say “it’s not working out for me” and give up, he
said taking steps to correct each
problem is crucial.
“You really have to be proactive
about your personal care and your
education if you want to advance,”
he said.
Lupish said, “When someone
just arrives at college it especially
can be really challenging to seek
out the help you need.” He
admitted that it took him years
to become comfortable talking
with faculty about his disabilities.
While at another university
earlier in his academic career, a
professor who was familiar with his
type of disability took the lead by
asking in an indirect way if Lupish
was in need of help. “He kind of
tried to steer the conversation,”
Lupish said. “He was helpful in
getting me the accommodations
I ultimately needed.”
Ripper noted, “It’s very hard to
talk about a disability sometimes.
You want to be viewed as normal
— whatever normal is. I think that
makes it hard.
“While my hearing loss is a
part of me, it’s not the only thing
about me. ... I do think that in the
classroom students with disabilities need to self-advocate. That is
so important because they’re the
ones that know what they need.
“If something is going to help
you, why wouldn’t you speak up?”
she said.
Reluctance to seek help
A perception of stigma can
make it hard to seek help. Hannan,
who is president of Pitt’s Student
Veteran Association, said misconceptions — that all veterans have
PTSD, for instance — hurt.
“Stigmas have had a significant
impact not only on myself but on
the student vets here in Pittsburgh
and throughout the nation,” he
said, noting the inherent differences of being a nontraditional
student are compounded for vets.
“We’re having a hard enough time
moving from military culture to
academic culture,” he said.
Stigmas hurt, Lupish agreed,
adding that he is hesitant to discuss his autism spectrum disorder
diagnosis. “When people think of
someone on the spectrum, they
think of people somewhat different from the way I present myself,”
he said. “Sometimes people have
preconceived notions.”
Faculty feel the strain of students’ reluctance, too, said the
medical school’s Ryan. Medical
school students often have been
told by their families not to accept
accommodations out of fear that it
will affect their future career, Ryan
said. While medical licensure
forms used to ask whether applicants ever had sought psychiatric
assistance or medication — “and
you can imagine what happened
if you said yes” — that’s no longer
legal, she said. “But this rumor
persists,” Ryan said.
“We have a psychologist and
psychiatrist available for students
to work with who have mental
health disabilities,” but their fears
of accepting the help have to be
settled first.
Whatever the condition, she
said the school expects students
to handle it maturely.
“That goes with learning disabilities too,” she said, adding that
she tells students that the school
showed confidence in them by
accepting them into the program.
“We knew about this when we
said that you can get through the
program,” she says. “What we
look for is not that you have an
effortless trajectory. What we look
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ANCHORING
the
DISTRICT
Pitt details its work with surrounding area
at national conference on city revitalization
P
itt played host last month
to leaders from anchor
districts and institutions
nationwide who came together
to share ideas on revitalizing
their cities. Representatives from
groups in Baltimore, Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Detroit were
among the presenters.
The Anchor District Council,
which bills itself as “a coalition of
nonprofit community corporations working in partnership with
education, medical and cultural
institutions to transform city
anchor districts and their neighborhoods,” brings together leaders from neighborhoods anchored
by large education, medical and
arts organizations to share best
practices on strengthening and
revitalizing their neighborhoods.
Local conference organizers
included the Oakland Business
Improvement District, Oakland
Planning and Development
Corp. (OPDC), Peoples Oakland,
Oakland Transportation Management Association and Community
Human Services.
“Cities are back and they’re
back better than ever,” said Chris
Ronayne of the Cleveland-based
community development corporation University Circle as part of
the Oct. 24 anchor district forum,
“Shaping the New Metropolis:
The Role of Anchor Districts in
Reshaping Cities” in Alumni Hall.
Anchor districts are where
much of the growth in cities is
happening. The so-called “eds
and meds” employment sector is
responsible for 5 percent of jobs
today, but the percentage is double
that in cities, he said. “Cities have
10 percent of the jobs they have
because of a university or hospital
presence,” he said.
“They’re starting to leverage
that in cities to make neighborhoods around them better,”
Ronayne said, adding that anchor
institutions and community service corporations need each other
to achieve that success.
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Paul Supowitz, Pitt vice chancellor for community and governmental relations, cited Pitt’s
growth in recent years and its partnerships with Carnegie Mellon
University and the numerous
institutions in the area as evidence
that Oakland is special.
Just outside Alumni Hall, he
said, Pitt’s life sciences complex,
music building, William Pitt
Union and library; CMU’s Mellon
Institute; the Pittsburgh Board
of Education headquarters; the
Carnegie Museum; Carnegie
Library; the Pittsburgh Athletic
Association, and Schenley Plaza
all serve as evidence of the breadth
of institutions and organizations
contributing to the neighborhood’s vitality, he said.
“It’s a special place not just
because it’s (Pennsylvania’s) thirdlargest downtown workplace
destination, behind downtown
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia; not
because the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC are the region’s
two largest private employers. It’s
special because of what happens
and what goes on here,” he said.
UPMC has invested $335
million in capital improvements
in Oakland, said John Innocenti,
president of UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, who was among
the forum’s keynote speakers.
“Everything that surrounds us
is the University of Pittsburgh
and Oakland. What we do affects
Oakland.”
He said, “We live kind of like
a family in Oakland. We all hold
hands and do.”
Part of the hospitals’ mission is to serve the community
by effectively utilizing resources
to promote innovation, he said,
citing partnerships with Pitt’s
industrial engineering department
and participation in the Innovation Oakland wayfinding and
digital information project (see
Jan. 21, 2010, University Times)
as examples.
“This is where we live. UPMC
lives in Oakland. Our staff and
associates work in Oakland. They
go down to the business district
in Oakland. Oakland’s problem
is our problem.”
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Keynote speaker Renny Clark,
Pitt’s vice chancellor for community initiatives and chief of
staff, said, “The University of
Pittsburgh has long recognized
that our success is linked with
the success of our neighboring
communities.”
Among the accolades Pitt has
garnered for community partnerships are a “Best Neighbor”
public education institution
designation in the 2009 “Saviors
of Our Cities” survey of college
and university civic partnerships;
three consecutive Good Neighbor
awards from the United Way, and
recognition on President Obama’s
2013 National Honor Roll for
Extraordinary and Exemplary
Community Contributions.
Anchors may secure a ship
from drifting, Clark said, but
without a chain, an anchor is
useless. “Pitt may be an anchor in
this community, but we need our
neighbors and partnering organizations, the connecting chain, as
much as they need us.”
Clark cited the transformation
of Schenley Plaza from a parking
lot to what has become a town
square as a powerful example
of Oakland anchor institutions
and community partners working together to meet community
needs.
Planned with input from community members, Schenley Plaza
has had an outstanding impact on
Oakland residents and visitors,
Clark said. “The parklet fulfills
what I can now see is an essential
function; it is a place where the
community gathers.”
He also noted the University’s dependence on community
members as volunteers in University research — an important
relationship that’s mentioned
less often than other community
partnerships, he said. Clinical
trials here have led to progress in
understanding autism, Alzheimer’s disease and addiction recovery
as well as to the development of
HIV-prevention drugs, Clark said.
A stabilizing role
Employers in the education,
health care, technology, finance
and professional services segments
grew following the devastating
decline of the region’s steel industry in the 1980s.
But, the city lost nearly half its
population, with residents moving
to the suburbs or out of the region
entirely to find work. “Still today,
many neighborhoods and communities are struggling with the
impact of this devastating loss of a
sustaining population and related
tax base,” Clark said.
“Institutions based here in
Oakland – Carnegie Mellon University, UPMC and Pitt, among
others — have played a critical role
in stabilizing the local economy.
Along with other significant
employers in the region, these
institutions continue to fulfill the
role of economic engines, leading
the way to a new, post-industrial
economy.”
Clark enumerated some of the
many ways in which the University
has contributed in community
partnerships:
— Development
In addition to building and
renovating University buildings
in Oakland, since the 1990s Pitt
has increased student housing
by 3,000 beds, Clark noted. And
University projects have played
a role in reviving other areas of
the city: the Pediatric Research
Institute adjoining Children’s
Hospital was an early investment
in Lawrenceville; more recently,
the Human Engineering Research
Laboratories have contributed to
the revitalization of Pittsburgh’s
East End.
He added that Pitt has aided
the city by providing dollars and
in-kind services to upgrade intersections and traffic signals on the
Fifth and Forbes corridor and
water lines on Bigelow Boulevard.
— Student participation
Pitt students last year logged
30,000 hours in service-learning
projects and internships in Oakland and beyond, Clark said. And
the student-led Pitt Make a Difference Day, launched in 2007, this
year engaged 4,000 students, with
a waiting list of 500, in volunteer
projects county-wide.
— Community initiatives
Despite a discontinuation of
funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), the University has continued, through
other programs, initiatives in
Hazelwood, Oakland and Oak
Hill that were launched with a
2000 HUD community outreach
partnership center (COPC) grant.
Clark noted that Pitt participates in OPDC’s Keep It Clean
Oakland program, which includes
tree planting, adopt-a-block
cleaning and community garden
projects.
He said the University also has
been instrumental in establishing and supporting the Oakland
food pantry and, through federal
grants, operates the Matilda
Theiss Health Center in Oak Hill,
which serves uninsured patients.
— Investments in
children and youth
More than 57 percent of Pitt
alumni live in Pennsylvania, with
nearly 30 percent remaining in
the Pittsburgh region, Clark said.
“These alumni represent another
kind of chain to the anchor that
is Pitt, for they continue the
good works they began here as
students.”
Clark quipped that Pitt also
partners in projects that could
add to the Pitt alumni ranks. For
example, the University supports
local early head start programs for
children up to age 3 and OPDC’s
School 2 Careers program, which
aids at-risk teens through mentoring, job development and career
exploration.
And, the Swanson School of
Engineering’s “Investing Now”
college preparatory program
provides academic support for
students from groups that are
underrepresented in science,
technology, engineering and
mathematics.
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Clark said, “From my perspective, the relationships that
the University of Pittsburgh has
formed with the Oakland neighborhood and the city with which
we have shared our name and our
home for over 225 years, as well
as our other home communities
in western Pennsylvania — Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and
Titusville — are strong relationships because Pitt cares about partnerships. Together we collectively
enhance our neighborhoods with
respect and collaboration.”
Although anchor institutions
take their role seriously, Clark
said, community needs persist.
“I know there is a mother living
in the shadow of the Cathedral of
Learning who doesn’t know how
she will feed her children tonight,”
he said. “Let us commit today and
all of the days to come to continue
building partnerships so that we
may fully meet the needs of our
community.”
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DISABILITIES
on campus
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Making things better
Students on the panel expressed
frustration with housing. Accessible off-campus housing is scarce,
which is particularly problematic
for graduate students who are not
guaranteed on-campus housing at
Pitt and who may be searching for
housing from out of town.
Dunn, who has moved off
campus, said her on-campus room
was mostly accessible, but noted
some problems with balky automatic doors, a lack of space for her
therapy equipment and occasional
issues with security guards who
didn’t always understand when
her personal care assistants who
didn’t have Pitt IDs tried to enter
the building.
She continues to have problems with the doors in her apartment complex. “I’m still working
to figure it out,” she said.
Hannan said he’d like to
see a “one-stop shop” veterans’
resource center to aid retention as
well as to attract vets to the University. Likewise, more specialized
vocational rehabilitation staff who
could better tailor tutoring to an
individual’s learning style, for
instance, could help outside the
classroom.
Lupish said educating faculty
in a more detailed way about
disabilities would be helpful. He
noted that his dysgraphia means
he has to give more attention to
handwriting than would a typical
student. Educating faculty on
“what it means to have these disabilities” could lead to increased
help for students, he said.
Edmonds added, “The most
uncomfortable interactions I have
with faculty members stem from
the fact that they view the accom-
Ellen Sue Ansell, a faculty
member in the School of Education and co-chair of the University Senate anti-discriminatory
policies committee, said, “The
more students come forward and
the more there is that helps us as
faculty realize there’s a need, the
more you’ll see people seeking it.”
However, the issue goes
beyond faculty who would like
to educate themselves on these
issues, Ansell said.
She noted that the University
has established required online
training in other areas such as
sexual harassment. “I think that
kind of thing would help with
those people who don’t know
they need to know more,” she
suggested.
Faculty often don’t educate
themselves “until there’s a situation that is very difficult for them,”
Ansell said, adding that this topic
“has not had the kind of publicity
as other areas of discrimination. It
really is something that needs to
have more,” she said, noting that
the conference “is a nice beginning
for that.”
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for is that you deal with this just
as seriously as you will want your
patients to. You accept the help
you need to do what you need to
do,” she said.
“It’s not a definition of self as
damaged: It’s ‘Look, lots of students have burdens to carry. They
have extra things that make their
job harder.’ And students with
significant disabilities almost have
another part-time job in addition
to the medical school workload. So
they need to acknowledge that.”
Accommodations will help
them move forward, she said. “It
doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy.”
Generally speaking, the medical school workload is so high
that sooner or later most of these
students will go and seek help,
Ryan said.
Learning to manage health
conditions is important in the
long run as well. Some conditions
— bipolar disorder or depression
for instance — “aren’t things that
get fixed once and then go away.
We really need to work with them
so they can maintain function all
through a fairly challenging curriculum,” she said.
“It’s very important. We all
know that if that doesn’t happen,
even if they manage to graduate,
they are not going to be able to
continue to work,” Ryan said.
“It’s a real challenge in any
of the schools that have a high
academic stress level.”
modations I’m requesting as an
advantage or something I don’t
deserve,” agreeing that education
would be helpful.
She noted that some education
for graduate students who teach
would be useful. As an undergraduate, “We interact with them
as faculty,” she said. “From my
experience they really don’t know
how the disability process works
and why the student is requesting
accommodations and what they’re
supposed to do with that.”
Not all faculty are equally
aware when it comes to disabilities
and accommodations, noted audience member Carol Mohamed,
director of Pitt’s Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity and
Inclusion. Adding such training
to an already-full faculty orientation schedule is unworkable, she
said. And, although the disabilities
office presents workshops through
the University faculty and staff
development program, attendance
varies. “What might we do to make
sure more faculty members are
aware that this workshop is occurring so they can avail themselves
of it?” she asked.
Faculty, administrators and students discussed disability issues
in a Nov. 1 roundtable as part of the first-ever disability studies
conference at Pitt, “The Disability Experience: State of Scholarship, Research and the Arts.” The event, sponsored by the Pitt
student organization Students for Disability Advocacy, took place
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 in the William Pitt Union.
Panelists were, left to right: Lynnett Van Slyke, director of Disability Resources and Services; Kathleen Ryan, assistant dean
for medical education (obscured); Ellen Sue Ansell, co-chair of
Pitt launches internal campaign
the University Senate anti-discriminatory policies committee
and faculty member in instruction and learning (not visible);
moderator Paula Davis, senior vice chancellor for health sciences
diversity; Alberta M. Sbragia, vice provost for graduate studies
and faculty member in political science; and students Alexandra
Corral Edmonds of communication; Brian Lupish of the College
of General Studies; Student Veteran Association President Matt
Hannan of rehabilitation science and technology; Elizabeth Dunn
of sports medicine and nutrition, and Lisa Ripper, a graduate student in behavioral and community health science.
degrees at Pitt, and his wife Cindy,
associate director for the Office
of Admissions and Financial
Aid, have 48 years of University
employment between them. “We
both love the University and want
to support the University in its
missions,” he said.
The bulk of their support is
directed to the Panther Club
Athletic Scholarship Fund, which
reflects their passion for Pitt athletics and admittedly comes with
the added benefit of affecting their
priority ranking in seating for Pitt
football and basketball games.
Pink Glove Dance voting ends Nov. 8
Voting concludes Nov. 8 in the Pink Glove Dance video contest that aims to increase awareness about breast cancer. UPMC
CancerCenter’s entry features breast cancer survivors among the
more than 200 UPMC physicians, staff and community members
who participated in this year’s video. If chosen as the first-place
winner of $25,000, UPMC CancerCenter will donate the prize
to Hair Peace Charities, a nonprofit that helps women and girls
buy wigs while undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
Last year, UPMC CancerCenter placed ninth out of more than
250 videos.
To vote for UPMC CancerCenter’s video, go to www.pinkglovedance.com and find UPMC CancerCenter’s video. Enter
your email address. Pink Glove Dance will send a link to that email
address. Open the email from Pink Glove and click the link that is
provided. The email verification is required only the first time you
vote.
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“We direct our dollars to support student athletes,” said Cindy
Henderson, whose work includes
being the financial aid office’s
liaison to athletics. “We want to
support the student athletes as
much as we can.”
According to IA, last year more
than 2,900 faculty and staff donors
contributed $1.3 million to the
University. Nearly 1,000 of them
chose to give to specific programs
and school-based funds in which
they have a special interest. Many
supported the general scholarship
fund, which helps to ensure that
the University remains accessible
and affordable to its students, and
the Pitt Fund, which generates
funding for areas of greatest need,
including student scholarships and
educational programs.
A list of University employees who donated in fiscal year
2013 is at www.giveto.pitt.edu/
FSDonors.
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P E O P L E
O F
Yoel Sadovsky, director of the
Magee-Womens Research
I n s t i t u t e
(MWRI) and
faculty member
in obstetrics,
gynecology
and reproductive sciences in
the School of
Medicine, has
been elected to the Institute of
Medicine (IOM), an honor that
is considered one of the highest
in its field.
Current active IOM members
select new members who have
made major contributions to
the advancement of the medical
sciences, health care and public
health. IOM’s charter ensures
diversity of talent among the institute’s membership by requiring at
least one-quarter of the members
to be selected from fields outside
the health professions, such as
engineering, social sciences, law
and the humanities.
Sadovsky’s research focuses on
the development of the placenta
and the function of specialized
placental cells called the trophoblast. Using human placental
cells as well as mouse models, he
studies molecular pathways that
govern placental development
and adaptive response to stress.
His primary areas of research
include placental uptake and
processing of metabolic fuels, the
role of microRNA in placental
function, and placental injury and
adaptation.
Sadovsky completed his MD
at Hebrew University-Hadassah
Medical School in Jerusalem, his
residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University
in St. Louis, and his postdoctoral
training at the University of
California-San Francisco.
T H E
T I M E S
Established in 1970 by the
National Academy of Sciences,
IOM has become recognized
as a national resource for independent, scientifically informed
analysis and recommendations
on health issues. With their election, members make a commitment to volunteer their service
on IOM committees, boards and
other activities. Projects during
the past year included studies of
environmental factors in breast
cancer; health IT and patient
safety; nutrition rating systems
and graphics on food packaging;
the scientific necessity of chimpanzees in research; establishing
crisis standards of care during
catastrophic disasters; improving
care for epilepsy, and treatment
of post-traumatic stress disorder. Margaret S. Hannan, a faculty
member in the School of Nursing’s
Department of Health Promotion and Development, has been
named a 2013 Cameos of Caring
Nurse Educator Honoree.
The award is part of the School
of Nursing’s annual Cameos of
Caring program that honors
nurses from participating health
care facilities. The School of
Nursing developed the program
in 1999 to celebrate the profession
and to help alleviate the shortage
of nurses by promoting nursing
as a viable and rewarding career
choice.
In 2006, the Nurse Educator
Award was created to honor the
educators at schools of nursing
who are preparing the next generation of nursing professionals.
Prior to joining the Pitt
faculty, Hannan was a pediatric
nurse practitioner at Children’s
Hospital. “I had been an adjunct
faculty member for a number of
years here. I truly enjoyed teaching
and serving as a clinical adviser to
students — it is so rewarding to
see the ‘aha’ moment on students’
faces,” Hannan said.
Her teaching responsibilities
include the pediatric undergraduate theory course and courses
within the graduate programs.
Her research examines reproductive health communication
between mothers and their adolescent daughters with a chronic
disorder, such as diabetes. Her
work has been funded the American Diabetes Association Clinical
Research Award, Sigma Theta
Tau, the American Association
of Diabetes Educators and the
International Transplant Nurse
Society.
She continues to serve as
a pediatric nurse practitioner
with the Children’s Home of
Pittsburgh and Lemieux Family
Center.
Hannan pursued her undergraduate education at Community
College of Allegheny County and
Carlow University; she earned her
MSN and PhD at Pitt’s School of
Nursing. She was inducted into Sigma
Theta Tau International in 2000
and has been honored with the
Ruth Perkins Kuehn Award by
Sigma Theta Tau, Eta Chapter.
This year’s Cameo of Caring
awards were presented Nov. 2.
Lawrence Feick, faculty
member in business administration, will step down from his
administrative roles as senior
director of international programs, director of the University
Center for International Studies,
and as a member of the Council
of Deans, effective Aug. 1, 2014.
Feick will continue as a member
of the faculty of the Joseph M. Katz
Graduate School of Business and
will remain involved in projects
currently underway in Europe,
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Brazil and China.
Among Feick’s accomplishments was the creation of Plus3,
a joint program with the Swanson
School of Engineering, which won
the 2005 Andrew Heiskell Award
from the Institute of International
Education for excellence and
innovation in international education. Feick also was central in
the development of Pitt’s recent
agreement to form a joint engineering institute with Sichuan
University.
Feick helped transform the
University’s study-abroad offerings through an expansion of
programs developed by Pitt
faculty for Pitt students, which
now enroll more than 70 percent
of Pitt students studying abroad,
compared with one-third when he
began. He also oversaw an almost
20 percent increase in the number
of Pitt students participating in
study-abroad programs, and participation in UCIS’s international
and area studies certificates has
increased nearly 40 percent. Feick joined the Katz school
in 1982 and served as associate
dean, 1989-96.
Jessica Taylor has been promoted to director of housing at
Pitt-Bradford.
Taylor joined Pitt-Bradford in
2011 as a residence life coordinator. During the 2012-13 academic
year, her title was changed to
assistant director of residence life.
In her new position, Taylor
will take care of all housing assignments, reassignments, residence
hall assessments and other aspects
related to the housing side of the
residential life operation.
At Appalachian State University she earned a BS in political
science and an MA in college
student development.
She worked at St. Bonaventure
University before coming to PittBradford. Three members of the Pitt
community have been included
in this year’s Pittsburgh Magazine
list of “40 under 40.”
• Adam Paul Causgrove is
a grant administrator in the
Department of Microbiology and
Molecular Genetics.
In 2012, Causgrove helped to
form Side Project, which offers
fundraising, legal and administrative support to up-and-coming
nonprofits and community groups.
• Ken Smythe-Leistico is
assistant director in the Office of
Child Development.
He is the founder of Ready
Freddy, a program that encourages children and families in
low-income neighborhoods to
get excited about school through
engagement, programs and
resources such as its kindergarten club curriculum for parents
and children.
• Kurt R. Weiss is a faculty
member in orthopaedic surgery,
Division of Musculoskeletal
Oncology in the School of Medicine.
A survivor of osteosarcoma
that developed when he was
a teen, Weiss helped to found
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma, a group
that sponsors an annual 5K run/
walk that has raised more than
$100,000 for sarcoma research. In
honor of Weiss, who as a teenager
received a wish from the Make-AWish Foundation, Make-A-Wish
established the Kurt R. Weiss
Scholarship for Wish Children
to help Make-A-Wish recipients
with the cost of higher education.
Ann Dugan, who founded
Pitt’s Institute for Entrepreneurial
Excellence in 1993, will step down
early next year as executive director of the institute and assistant
dean in the Katz Graduate School
of Business. The Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence has assisted
in the start of 800 businesses,
attracted $300 million in client
funding and developed and
delivered more than 1,400 management education programs
attended by more than 40,000
regional business owners and
entrepreneurs. Among Dugan’s honors was a
regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for
the creative approach she took in
developing the institute within
a large research university. The
award enabled Dugan to take her
message to the national level and
work with universities and other
institutions across the country to
help them develop their initiatives
and connect within their regions. A search committee is being
formed to identify Dugan’s successor as executive director.
Margaret Potter, faculty
member in health policy and management at the Graduate School
of Public Health, has received
a 2013 Association of Schools
and Programs of Public Health
(ASPPH)/Pfizer award.
The Faculty Award for Excellence in Academic Public Health
Practice is a national award that
honors graduate public health
faculty who are notable for their
teaching, practice and research
excellence. Potter’s selection was
based, in part, on her national
leadership in translating public
health scholarship to improve
public health systems, thereby
improving the general population’s health and well-being.
Potter, who also is associate
dean for public health practice
and the director of the Center for
Public Health Practice, has served
as chair of the board of the Public
Health Foundation, was a member
of the model design working group
for the National Health Security
Preparedness Index project and
currently chairs the Pennsylvania
advisory committee on public
health laws.
She was an adviser to the
Health Resources Services Administration in creating public health
training centers. After the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, she led
the Center for Public Health Preparedness at Pitt’s public health
school with funding from the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Her research has spanned a
range of topics, including public
health systems, law and policy, and
use of computational modeling in
preparedness research.
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Questions remain about actions
concerning 3 graduate programs
of the suspension of these three
specific programs by the Dietrich
school shared governance bodies.”
BPC’s conclusion on this point
“may well disappoint some people
who wanted to see a stronger
statement here about shared
governance,” Baker said.
The problem is that there are
two sides to the issue and merit
on both sides of the argument.
“You really can’t let your feelings
about the merit issue influence
the procedural part,” Baker said.
“Normally this would be a
faculty decision,” he said, noting
that school governance gives faculty responsibility for curriculum
while deans are responsible for
budgets and day-to-day operations. “But in the case of financial
exigency, the deans can make
curriculum decisions,” Baker
said. The deans cited Gov. Tom
Corbett’s proposed 30 percent
cut in state funding for Pitt as the
reason why they found it necessary
to act. At the same time, as part
of a five-year plan, the Dietrich
school had been considering
reallocating funding from smaller
departments to others “that were
ranked in the U.S. News and had
a chance of possibly moving to the
top quartile,” Baker said.
Although the governor’s proposed cuts failed to materialize,
the validity of the decision under
the circumstances remained,
Baker said.
He reiterated that BPC found
that even if the April 5, 2012,
decision violated PBS, the deans
subsequently complied with PBS
requirements.
• The Dietrich school processes met
bylaws and PBS guidelines.
BPC concluded that the school
fulfilled its school bylaws requirements. “The proposals went
through their committees...
graduate council, school council
and the planning and budgeting
committee,” Baker said.
What is controversial relates
to the Dietrich school’s use of
Robert’s Rules of Order as its
parliamentary guide, he said.
Under Robert’s Rules, when a
committee is to make “substantive
recommendations or decisions on
an important matter, it should
give members of the society an
opportunity to appear before it
and present their views on the
subject at a time scheduled by the
committee,” Baker cited. “None
of the three arts and sciences
governance bodies did that,” he
said. “However, they didn’t have
to,” he continued, emphasizing
the word “should.”
“To get back to procedures:
They met the procedural requirements,” BPC concluded. “We
might feel differently about it in
terms of whether that was a meritorious way to do it,” Baker said.
The three department chairs
were permitted to present their
comments at a Sept. 17 UCGS
meeting, therefore BPC felt the
review met acceptable shared
governance standards.
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Following Baker’s presentation, German department chair
John Lyon and classics chair Mark
Possanza commended BPC for its
investigation but each took issue
with some aspects of the report.
Senate and to the provost.”
School bylaws issues
Lyon said that under Dietrich
school bylaws, formal actions take
effect 30 days after appearing in
the school gazette, which is the
official record of the school and
its councils’ activity. The actions
took effect April 5, 2012, but were
not published in the gazette until
Oct. 8, 2013, Lyon said.
Baker responded that BPC
was reviewing PBS guidelines,
not Dietrich school bylaws in its
report, and did not consider the
gazette requirement.
Senate President Michael
Spring reiterated that BPC is
charged with monitoring the University Planning and Budgeting
System and school planning and
budgeting systems, but not necessarily the bylaws of the individual
schools.
“Whose job is it to oversee if
a school doesn’t follow its own
bylaws?” Lyon asked.
Senate officers remained
unclear on the issue. While the
Senate has no governance committee to review such questions,
Vice President Irene Frieze said
the issue could be a matter for
the tenure and academic freedom
committee.
Both Spring and Senate pastpresident Thomas C. Smitherman
noted that under Senate bylaws,
the body serves to address matters of University-wide concern,
while issues within a particular
school are not within the Senate’s scope. “There’s a big gray
zone in between,” Smitherman
acknowledged.
Under shared governance,
Spring said, “Our first course of
action is to work with administrators to make sure things are
straightened out. It may be that
it’s the responsibility of the provost
to enforce that. So we try to keep
a distinction between our advice,
our consent, our agreement, our
disagreement and the execution
of policies.”
Lyon said, “I’m just trying to
get these issues out there to make
sure these matters are addressed.”
While BPC’s report did not
focus on internal school policies,
Spring assured Lyon his concerns
would be raised with the University administration.
“As part of these minutes and
as a part of our regular meetings
with the senior administration,
this concern will be raised. I can
assure you of that,” Spring said.
He told the University Times that
the next such meeting was set for
Nov. 6, after the University Times
press time.
Baker cited the 1995 academic
planning proposal guidelines
which state: “All planning proposals must be reviewed by the
appropriate academic unit(s) and
academic responsibility center(s)
as well as by the responsibility
center planning and budgeting
committee (PBC) and relevant
departmental PBC.” “There’s definitely a problem
here,” Baker said, telling Lyon, “I
think it’s something that has to be
addressed within arts and sciences
and then if for some reason there
is no satisfaction, bring it to the
Financial considerations
Lyon also asked whether BPC
investigated the Dietrich school
administration’s claim of financial
exigency. Even in the face of 30
percent cuts in state support, Lyon
said, the dollars associated with the
proposals represented only a fraction of a percent of the Dietrich
school’s budget.
Baker said he didn’t believe
BPC could be the judge of that
issue, but directed Lyon to the
American Association of University Professors (aaup.org),
which defines financial exigency
as “an imminent financial crisis
that threatens the survival of the
institution as a whole and that
cannot be alleviated by less drastic
means.”
“I’d say what happened here
doesn’t fit that definition,” Baker
said.
Nicholas Bircher, chair of the
Senate’s bylaws and procedures
committee, inquired whether a
claim of financial exigency must be
established through documentation, such as an accounting report,
“or is it, as appears to be the case
in this particular instance, that
some vague fear can be declared
exigency?”
Terminology concerns
Lyon also questioned the use
of the word “temporary” in BPC’s
description of the suspensions,
fearing that “somebody’s trying
to do an end run around the
budgeting process by changing
the terminology.” He pointed
out that the department chairs
received letters that stated the
suspensions were “immediate and
for the foreseeable future,” rather
than temporary and that prior
to that memo they had received
documents that discussed “not
suspensions, but closures.”
Classics department chair
Possanza disagreed with BPC’s
conclusion that suspension of
admissions did not constitute
a “substantial modification or
fundamental change” to those
programs.
“Suspension, as already has
been mentioned, is the mechanism
for implementing the reallocation
of funds by removing TA/TF slots
from one department and giving
them to another,” Possanza said.
“Although we’re still discussing this issue, of course, at least in
the case of classics the reallocation
has already been implemented,”
he said, adding that the department’s allocation of four TA/TF
slots has been reduced to one.
“I believe this constitutes a
substantial modification or change
in our academic program.”
Possanza said that the April
5, 2012, announcement “came
very late in the graduate student
admissions cycle,” adding that his
department at that point already
had students who had accepted
offers to come to Pitt.
“We then had to inform them,
rather embarrassingly, that our
program was now in suspension.
As a result... we lost an applicant
who already had been awarded a
University fellowship,” Possanza
said.
Conflict of interest
among the deans?
Possanza raised the issue of a
possible conflict of interest among
the Dietrich school decisionmakers behind the proposal to
suspend graduate admission to
the three departments.
He congratulated BPC “for
publicly stating for the first
time” that the Dietrich school
deans were behind the decision
announced in the April 5, 2012,
memo, noting that the memo
itself did not identify the decisionmakers.
“Conflict of interest as a factor
in forming a judgment about a
controversial matter creates only
more controversy,” Possanza
said. The Dietrich school deans
“were also an influential presence
on the Dietrich school councils
or committees that supported
suspension in the case of classics
and German and the termination
of religious studies. They are the
Dietrich school graduate council,
the Dietrich school council and
the Dietrich school planning and
budgeting committee,” he argued.
“The review of the proposals
for suspension/termination by
governing bodies whose membership includes the very persons
who are influential supporters of
the proposals under review, in my
view, is not the best procedure for
obtaining a fair verdict,” he said.
“Persons in positions of power
and with a vested interest in the
approval of the proposals are not
impartial judges of the fates of
these three graduate programs,”
Possanza said, pointing out that
he was not surprised that UCGS
— whose membership extends
beyond the Dietrich school to
include representatives from
across the University — “reversed
the trend of approval” by voting
against the indefinite suspension
of graduate programs in German
and termination of the religious
studies graduate program.
“Clearly, members of the
UCGS saw unresolved issues and
unanswered questions in moving
forward with suspension/termination that escaped the notice of the
members of the Dietrich school’s
councils and committees,” he told
Faculty Assembly.
The issue of merit
Smitherman noted, “We do
have the issue of merit. We do
have the recent council’s vote.
And the provost has not yet made
a final decision,” directing faculty
who want to join in the discussion
of merit to a petition being circulated by English faculty member
Marianne Novy. (See Letters, Oct.
24 University Times.)
Baker added, “I think the issue
needs to be decided on its merits.
(Novy’s) petition does an excellent
job of discussing some of the issues
of merit.”
Lyon likewise encouraged
faculty members to consider the
arguments Novy outlined in her
letter.
A difficult decision
Spring reiterated that he would
bring faculty concerns to the
University administration, adding
that he likewise was confident that
Carey Balaban, vice provost for
faculty affairs, who was in attendance, would convey the content
of the Faculty Assembly discussion
to the provost.
Spring said his heart went
out to Provost Beeson when he
learned of the sharply divided
UCGS vote, “because it doesn’t
help her at all when it comes to a
final decision.”
He expressed confidence, however, in Beeson’s careful and serious consideration of the matter.
“The provost has a very difficult
set of decisions to make. She is
more than sensitive to the issues.
But she’s the decision-maker. ...
The situation is not easy. I don’t
know that there is anything that
we could say ... that would cause
her to take it more seriously than
she’s going to,” he said.
Assembly member Cindy
Tananis of the School of Education
pointed out that although she has
“no skin in the matter” as a faculty
member outside of the Dietrich
school, she remains saddened by
the situation.
“I’m left with a sense of deep
concern as a member of the University community. To me this has
been a series of sad and unfortunate events that while perhaps
technically correct seem deeply
flawed in intention, both in terms
of programs and people affected
and in the spirit of a fully engaged
faculty government,” Tananis said.
While it may be important to
parse out details of procedure and
order, doing so does not “represent
the spirit of community that creates a university, and that’s where
my concern lies,” she said.
“When dust clears over this
issue and Provost Beeson eventually makes a decision and we all
learn to live with it, I hope we don’t
lose sight of the spirit of engagement that has been impacted here.
“To me there is a serious issue
about intent and form and style
that needs to be communicated
and it tends to get lost when we get
into these very detailed discussions
of procedure and rules and the
order of what came first, second
and 20th,” she said.
“I just find this very sad. And
I hope the provost sees it in that
way as well.”
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R E S E A R C H
N O T E S
New treatment
possible for
gum disease?
The red, swollen and painful gums and bone destruction
of periodontal disease could be
treated by beckoning the right
kind of immune system cells to
the inflamed tissues, according
to an animal study conducted by
Pitt researchers. Their findings,
published this week in the early
online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, offer a new therapeutic
paradigm for a condition that
afflicts 78 million people in the
U.S. alone.
Periodontal disease currently
is treated by keeping oral bacteria
in check with daily brushing and
flossing as well as regular professional deep cleaning with scaling
and root planing, which remove
tartar above and below the gum
line. In some hard-to-treat cases,
antibiotics are given.
These strategies of mechanical
tartar removal and antimicrobial
delivery aim to reduce the amount
of oral bacteria on the tooth
surface, explained co-author and
co-investigator Charles Sfeir,
director, Center for Craniofacial
Regeneration and faculty member
in periodontics and oral biology
in the School of Dental Medicine.
“Currently, we try to control
the buildup of bacteria so it doesn’t
trigger severe inflammation,
which could eventually damage
the bone and tissue that hold the
teeth in place,” Sfeir said. “But
that strategy doesn’t address the
real cause of the problem, which
is an overreaction of the immune
system that causes a needlessly
aggressive response to the presence of oral bacteria. There is a real
need to design new approaches to
treat periodontal disease.”
In the healthy mouth, a balance exists between bacteria and
the immune system response to
forestall infection without generating inflammation, said senior
author Steven Little, chair of
the Department of Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering in the
Swanson School of Engineering.
But in many people, a chronic
overload of bacteria sets up the
University of Pittsburgh
English Department
D irector of
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The Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh is
expecting to create a new, non-tenure stream position as the Director
of Digital Media Lab to begin August 2014, pending budgetary
approval, and seeks a digitally-skilled, experienced educator to
fill this cross-programmatic position. Our department recognizes
that new genres of scholarship and pedagogy require writers,
teachers, and students to learn and produce work in emerging
audio-visual and interactive platforms. Through teaching, digital
lab consultation, and curricular activities, the DDML will support
this work. Specifically, the DDML will develop and disseminate
digital media practice across programs in composition, creative
writing, literature, and film, build on existing momentum, and forge
new initiatives and partnerships that position Pitt English on the
vanguard of digital media projects and pedagogy.
The DDML will: (1) support and collaborate with other faculty to
design and produce innovative multimedia projects, remain current
with emerging platforms, practices, and genres; (2) design and
teach production-based digital courses across programs, as needed,
including regular courses in composition and writing, which
prepare Graduate Teaching Assistants to take on courses within
the department’s digital curriculum; (3) supervise the activities
of the Digital Media Learning Coordinator (graduate student
appointment) to provide training and support in digital technology
and pedagogy; and (4) participate in the development of emerging
digital initiatives, including the creation of an interdepartmental
Digital Studies Certificate and a dedicated lab space for digital
narrative and production.
MFA or PhD required. Appointment will be at the rank of lecturer,
outside of the tenure stream.
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supply the following materials by November 15, 2013:
(1) Cover letter;
(2) CV that details scholarly and creative work
informing digital pedagogy;
(3) Teaching Portfolio; and
(4) Names of three references.
Selected candidates will be invited to submit letters of
recommendation.
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Employer and values equality of opportunity, human dignity and diversity.
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immune system to stay on red
alert, harming the oral tissues
while it attempts to eradicate
germs.
“There is a lot of evidence
now that shows these diseased
tissues are deficient in a subset of
immune cells called regulatory
T-cells, which tells attacking
immune cells to stand down, stopping the inflammatory response,”
Little said. “We wanted to see
what would happen if we brought
these regulatory T-cells back to
the gums.”
To do so, the researchers
developed a system of polymer
microspheres to slowly release
a chemokine, or signaling protein, called CCL22 that attracts
regulatory T-cells, and placed
tiny amounts of the paste-like
agent between the gums and
teeth of animals with periodontal
disease. The team found that even
though the amount of bacteria
was unchanged, the treatment
led to improvements of standard
measures of periodontal disease,
including decreased pocket depth
and gum bleeding, reflecting a
reduction in inflammation as a
result of increased numbers of
regulatory T-cells. MicroCTscanning showed lower rates of
bone loss.
“Mummified remains from
ancient Egypt show evidence of
teeth scraping to remove plaque,”
Little noted. “The tools are better
and people are better trained now,
but we’ve been doing much the
same thing for hundreds of years.
Now, this homing beacon for Treg
cells, combined with professional
cleaning, could give us a new way
of preventing the serious consequences of periodontal disease by
correcting the immune imbalance
that underlies the condition.”
Next steps include developing
the immune modulation strategy
for human trials.
In addition to Sfeir and Little,
Pitt members of the research team
included Andrew J. Glowacki,
Sayuri Yoshizawa and Siddharth
Jhunjhunwala. Researchers from
Sao Paulo University in Brazil also
participated.
The project was funded by
National Institutes of Health,
the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, the Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Foundation, the Arnold
and Mabel Beckman Foundation and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
Low vitamin D
may trigger
preterm births
African-American and Puerto
Rican women who have low levels
of vitamin D during pregnancy are
more likely to go into labor early
and give birth to preterm babies,
according to research led by the
Graduate School of Public Health.
The study is the largest to date
to look at the association between
vitamin D and preterm birth.
Said lead author Lisa Bodnar,
epidemiology faculty member:
“Vitamin D is unique in that while
we get it from our diets, our primary source is our body making
it from sunlight. Previous studies
using conservative definitions for
vitamin D deficiency have found
that nearly half of black women
and about 5 percent of white
women in the United States have
vitamin D concentrations that are
too low.”
Among nonwhite mothers, the
incidence of spontaneous, preterm
birth — naturally going into labor
two or more weeks before the 37
weeks of pregnancy considered
full-term — decreased by as much
as 30 percent as vitamin D levels
in the blood increased.
Bodnar and her co-authors
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did not find a similar relationship
between maternal vitamin D levels
and preterm birth in white women.
“We were concerned that
finding this association only in
nonwhite women meant that
other factors we did not measure
accounted for the link between low
vitamin D levels and spontaneous
preterm birth in black and Puerto
Rican mothers,” said Bodnar. Her
team accounted for the expected
influence of discrimination and
socioeconomic position, as well
as fish intake and physical activity. “Even after applying these
methods, vitamin D deficiency
remained associated with spontaneous preterm birth.”
A novel part of the study was
the availability of information
from placental examinations. The
researchers found that vitamin
D deficiency was most strongly
related to preterm births with
damage to the placenta caused
by inflammation. They used a
sample of more than 700 cases of
preterm birth and 2,600 full-term
births collected by the Collaborative Perinatal Project, which was
conducted in 12 U.S. medical
centers from 1959 to 1965. The
blood samples collected by the
project were well preserved and
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able to be tested for vitamin D
levels 40 years later.
“It is critical to repeat this study
in a modern sample,” said Bodnar,
noting that pregnant women today
smoke less, have less sun-exposure
and receive more vitamin D in
their foods than the mid-century
cohort. “Further, it is especially
important to understand how vitamin D influences preterm birth
among black mothers. Vitamin
D supplementation could be an
easy way to reduce the high rates
of preterm birth in this group.”
Pitt co-authors on this research
included Alison D. Gernand,
Janet M. Catov and W. Tony
Parks. Researchers from Ohio
State and McGill University also
contributed.
The research was supported by
the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) and appears in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Local attitudes
mixed on
environment
Long after the decline of
southwestern Pennsylvania’s steel
industry, pollution levels in the
region continue to be unhealthy
by U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency standards. Yet 65 percent
of the region’s citizens view air
quality as a minor problem or not
a problem at all. These are some of the findings released from the Pittsburgh
Regional Environment Survey,
conducted by PittsburghTODAY and the University Center
for Social and Urban Research.
The survey queried more than
800 citizens in the seven-county
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area on their views and
behaviors related to the environment. The results provide an
extensive profile of the region’s
environment-related behaviors
and views on such issues as air and
water quality, climate change and
Marcellus Shale drilling. According to Douglas Heuck,
director of PittsburghTODAY,
key survey findings include: • Climate change: 64 percent
of citizens describe climate change
as a severe or moderate problem;
55 percent of the region’s residents believe human activities are
the root cause, while 40 percent
believe climate change is the result
of natural conditions.
• Economy and the environment: More than 55 percent
of citizens say protecting the
environment should be a priority
over energy production, even at
the risk of limiting the nation’s
supply of coal, natural gas or oil.
Nearly 80 percent view natural gas
drilling in the Marcellus Shale as a
significant or moderate economic
opportunity for the region; at the
same time, 59 percent believe it
poses a significant or moderate
threat to public health and the
environment.
• Energy-saving actions and
behaviors: 95 percent of citizens
regularly turn off lights and electronics in unoccupied rooms, 74
percent make a conscious effort
to take short showers, 63 percent
turn down the thermostat when
asleep or away from home during
winter, and 42 percent say they
reduced car trips by carpooling,
taking public transportation or
walking in the past year.
• Governmental policy: 78
percent of citizens believe that
government should be most
responsible for solving Pennsylvania’s environmental issues. More
than 30 percent believe environmental regulations strengthen job
growth, while 28 percent believe
regulations weaken growth.
• Parks and recreation: Nearly
75 percent give the quality of the
region’s public parks and trails
high marks; 12 percent rate them
as “excellent,” while another 63
percent grade them as “very good”
or “good.”
Additional data and statistics
from the Pittsburgh Regional
Environment Survey are available at pittsburghtoday.org/
special_reports.html. Improving
heart disease
risk assessment
Physicians caring for people
with Type 1 diabetes might be
better able to determine their
patients’ chances of developing
heart disease if they include their
levels of protective antioxidants
in the assessment, according to a
new study from the public health
school.
The study, funded by NIH, was
published in the November issue
of Diabetes Care. It relied on data
from “Pittsburgh Epidemiology
of Diabetes Complications,” a
historical prospective investigation of childhood onset Type 1
diabetes cases diagnosed, or seen
within one year of diagnosis, at
Children’s Hospital between 1950
and 1980.
Said lead author Tina Costacou, an epidemiology faculty
member: “Currently in clinical practice, physicians assess a
patient’s risk factors for developing
a disease to determine what, if any,
preventative measures to take. In
our study, we found that the risk
of people with Type 1 diabetes
developing heart disease is better
predicted by looking at the ratio
of factors representing protection (for example, antioxidants)
to those representing harm (for
example, oxidative stress levels).
Currently, doctors most commonly determine heart disease risk
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by looking at the level of harmful
risk factors alone, which may not
give an accurate picture of the
person’s risk.”
In a statistical analysis over
time, it appeared that patients
with higher levels of oxidative
stress (measured with a urine test)
who also had higher levels of a
form of the antioxidant vitamin E
(measured with a blood test) had
a lower risk of developing heart
disease compared to those with
higher levels of oxidative stress
and lower levels of protective
antioxidants.
Thus, although both patient
groups had higher levels of oxidative stress, they actually were at a
different risk of developing heart
disease, and only those with the
lower levels of antioxidants may
need additional treatment to try
to prevent heart disease from
developing.
“This improved way of determining risk is not necessarily limited to the hypothesis of oxidative
stress and antioxidants in terms of
heart disease development,” said
Costacou. “It could be expanded
to other risk/protective factors
and other pathologic conditions.
If further supportive data are
published, it may one day become
possible to better classify a person’s
disease risk and individualize
treatment based on simultaneous
assessment of risk and protective
factors.”
Epidemiology co-authors were
Trevor J. Orchard, Robert W.
Evans and Gerald L. Schafer.
PSC gets
$7.6 million
NSF grant
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved a grant
to Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center (PSC) to develop a prototype Data Exacell (DXC), a
next-generation system for storing, handling and analyzing vast
amounts of data. The $7.6-million, four-year grant will allow
PSC to design, build, test and
refine DXC in collaboration with
selected scientific research projects that face unique challenges
in working with and analyzing
“big data,” under PSC scientific
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
director Michael Levine.
Big data is a broad field including challenges from both traditional high-performance computing and other fields of research
that depend on methodologies
more focused on data collection
and analysis than on computation.
These fields not only require
very large amounts of data (the
European Bioinformatics Institute
alone now stores 20 petabytes of
life sciences data) but also require
access methods and performance
beyond the capability of traditional large data stores. The DXC
project will directly address these
required enhancements.
Said Nick Nystrom, director
of strategic applications at PSC:
“What’s needed is a distributed,
integrated system that allows
researchers to collaboratively
analyze cross-domain data without the performance roadblocks
that are typically associated with
big data. One result of this effort
will be a robust, multifunctional
system for big data analytics that
will be ready for expansion into a
large production system.”
The core of the DXC will be
SLASH2, PSC’s production soft-
ware for managing and moving big
data. It is currently represented
by the Data Supercell (DSC), a
4-petabyte, disk-based, production storage system that combines
archival-quality storage with
access times comparable to data
stored on a user’s own computer
and able to support remote access.
DXC will incorporate updated,
DSC-type storage and highperformance analysis resources,
both existing and new.
DXC will concentrate primarily on enhancing essential
functionality for conducting
data-intensive research. Said J.
Ray Scott, PSC director of systems and operations: “The Data
Exacell will have a heavy focus
on how the system will be used.
We’ll start with a targeted set of
users who will get results but who
are experienced enough to help
us work through the challenges
of making it production quality.”
PSC external collaborators
from a variety of fields will work
closely with the center’s scientists
to ensure the systems applicability
to existing problems and its ability to serve as a model for future
Neurology
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The Department of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine is seeking an established, full-time faculty member to conduct
research on basic mechanisms and models of neurodegeneration who
will also supervise research and prepare grants. We are particularly
interested in candidates with expertise in eukaryotic DNA damage and
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primary neuronal cultures, viral-mediated gene transfer and confocal
microscopy. Must have outstanding verbal and writing skills.
This non-tenure stream position will be at the Research Assistant
Professor level, depending on qualifications.
Candidate must have academic credentials appropriate for faculty
appointment at the University of Pittsburgh; hiring is contingent upon
eligibility to work in the United States.
Please send a CV to:
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Dawn A. Marcus
of Wagging Tails: A
Doctor’s Guide to Dog
Therapy and Healing,” “Fit as Fido:
Follow Your Dog to
Better Health,” “The
Woman’s Fibromyalgia Toolkit: Manage
Your Symptoms and
Take Control of Your
Life,” “The Woman’s
Migraine Toolkit: Managing Your Headaches
From Puberty to Menopause” and “Therapy
Dogs in Cancer Care.”
She was a therapydog handler who took
her two soft-coated
wheaten terriers,
Wheatie and Toby, to
nursing homes, convents and hospitals, as
well as programs aimed
at reducing stress for
college students.
Marcus also was a
volunteer at Animal
Friends.
“She was a great
educator and mentor,”
said anesthesiology faculty member Cheryl
Bernstein, who arrived
at what is now called
UPMC Pain Medicine at Centre Commons a dozen years
ago and began working
with Marcus. There,
they did research on
the effects of animalassisted therapy on
patients with fibromyalgia and chronic pain.
“She was just a very
compassionate physician, really attentive to
patients and focused
on their needs, giving
people time to deal with their
pain,” Bernstein says.
After Marcus stopped her
clinical practice, Bernstein added,
she was “a prolific writer. She had
a real talent for connecting with
people. She was just a brilliant
woman, a brilliant physician, very
patient and kind [and] very dedicated to seeing the whole picture
in treating pain. It’s a terrible loss
for all of us.”
Her writing focused on multifaceted approaches to pain therapy, which included medication
and relaxation techniques with
additional therapies. Her book
“10 Simple Solutions to Migraine”
won the National Headache
Foundation’s Excellence in Media
Award in 2007.
She is survived by husband
Richard J. Marcus and sons Steven
and Brian.
—Marty Levine
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social work values as vital, guiding
and driving forces. It would be
impossible to enumerate the many
groups of poor, disenfranchised,
physically and mentally ill victims
of a variety of forms of social,
economic, political or personal
exploitation, discrimination and
oppression who were her concern
and for whom she toiled.
“Equally at home relating
to the weakest, poorest, least
educated and those most unable
to speak for themselves as well
as those at the opposite end of
the spectrum in high-ranking
positions of power and authority,
she used her prodigious intellect,
formidable skills and legendary,
indefatigable capacity for work
to bring people together, to illuminate differences in constructive
ways, to foster understanding, and
to achieve solutions.
“Barbara’s love seemed inexhaustible. For those of us fortunate
enough to have been close to her
and to have been beneficiaries, her
generosity, infectious optimism,
vast gifts and forgiveness could be
a life-shaping experience.”
Shore is survived by four
children and their spouses, Erika
Shore and Barry Wofsy, Deborah
Shore and Andy Henson, David
Shore and Karen Catoe, and Benita
and Joseph Dombrowski; her
sister and brother-in-law, Joan and
George Shames; brother-in-law
Sherman Shore; sister-in-law Lorraine Shore; 11 grandchildren;five
great-grandchildren, and many
nieces and nephews.
Memorial donations can be
made to the Barbara K. Shore
Doctoral Fund, which supports
the School of Social Work’s doctoral program, c/o Institutional
Advancement, Attn: Liz Cooper,
128 N. Craig Street, Pittsburgh
15260, or the Shore-Whitehill
Award Fund at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, 234
McKee Place, Pittsburgh 15213.
The Shore-Whitehill Award
honors individuals who display
commitment to enabling people
with disabilities to participate fully
in the life of the community.
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Kimberly K. Barlow
Dawn A. Marcus, professor of
anesthesiology and associate professor of neurology, died Oct. 19,
2013, after suffering a heart attack
while bicycling in North Park.
Born July 31, 1961, in Utica,
N.Y., she received her bachelor
of science degree in biology from
Marywood College in Scranton
and her medical degree from the
State University of New York in
Syracuse.
She became a resident in
neurology here in 1987 and never
left, joining the anesthesiology
faculty as an assistant professor in
1990 and receiving her secondary
appointment in neurology the
next year.
She also was a staff neurologist
and coordinator at the Pain Evaluation and Treatment Institute.
Marcus was an expert on
chronic pain and migraines.
Her books include “The Power
Dawn Marcus with Wheatie
Barbara K. Shore, Distinguished Service Professor emerita
from the School of Social Work,
died Oct. 23, 2013, in Tucson,
Ariz. She was 92.
Shore earned her bachelor’s
degree in social work summa cum
laude from Carnegie Institute
of Technology (now Carnegie
Mellon University) in 1942 and in
1945 earned her master’s in social
work at Pitt.
In 1972 she joined the Pitt
faculty after earning her Ph.D. in
social work and a master’s degree
in public health here. She spent her
academic career at the University,
retiring in 1992.
Shore directed the School of
Social Work’s doctoral program
(1975-78, 1984-92) and was a
member of the school’s faculty
executive committee.
Among many publications in
her field, she co-authored books
including “Building Support
Networks for the Elderly” (1984),
“Advanced Case Management:
New Strategies for the Nineties”
(1993) and “Social Work Intervention in an Economic Crisis:
The River Communities Project”
(1996).
Shore served as a member of
the University Senate and was
elected to a term as vice president (1975-76) and three terms
as president (1985-86, 1986-87
and 1990-91). She was a member
of the Senate’s nominating committee and chaired the tenure and
academic freedom committee and
the anti-discriminatory policies
committee (ADPC).
In 2006, ADPC established an
annual award to honor her contributions as well as those of the
late Richard C. Tobias, an English
department faculty member who
also was a former Senate president. The Shore-Tobias Award
for Action Against Discrimination
was created to honor significant
contributions in identifying and
rectifying discriminatory policies
or practices at Pitt.
Senate President Michael
Spring remembered Shore as
“one of the warmest and most
generous people it’s been my pleasure to know at Pitt,” citing her
dedication to issues of inclusion
and faculty rights as well as her
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extensive history of community
and professional service.
Shore was an advocate for
many causes including women’s
rights, children, the elderly, Jewish
culture, crime victims, sexual
minorities and people with special
needs. She was active in professional organizations and served
on many community boards. In
1972 she helped found what would
become the Persad Center, serving
the local gay and lesbian community. She also helped found what
is now the Center for Victims of
Violent Crime and the Children’s
Lobby of Western Pennsylvania.
She was active in the National
Association of Social Workers
(NASW). Its southwestern Pennsylvania chapter in 1974 named
her Social Worker of the Year. She
was the Pennsylvania state chapter
president, 1975-80, and NASW
national program chair, 1978-83.
She also served as president of
the Group for the Advancement
of Doctoral Education in Social
Work.
She headed an Allegheny
County task force that studied
Children and Youth Services (now
known as the Office of Children,
Youth and Families) in 1987 and
subsequently co-chaired the
committee that oversaw implementation of its recommendations. She was vice chair of the
CYS Advisory Board, co-chair
of the prevention subcommittee
and chaired an ad hoc committee
to make recommendations on
improving relationships between
CYS and juvenile court. In 1994,
she chaired a committee that
examined CYS issues and made
recommendations on its policy
and practices. She also served on
the Allegheny County Mental
Health and Mental Retardation
Board and co-chaired the Jewish
Healthcare Foundation’s Healthy
Jewish Community Study.
Colleague Edward Sites, professor emeritus of social work,
eulogized Shore as a person who
“loved extravagantly, unconditionally and expansively.
“Her ability to love took
many forms from immediate and
extended family to colleagues,
friends, students, the neighbor
and many others.
Bruce Steele
Barbara K. Shore
“Barbara’s understanding of
neighbor extended to every human
being, many of whom she never
met personally. As a tireless and
fearless advocate for those others
refused to love, she lived her
theology and her professional
Anthony Debons
Anthony Debons, who retired
in 1986 as professor emeritus in
the School of Information Sciences, died Oct. 19, 2013.
He was born in Malta on April
16, 1916.
He earned a B.S. in psychology and sociology from Brooklyn
College in 1948 and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in psychology from
Columbia University in 1952 and
1954, respectively.
He was an expert in psychology, engineering and the social
significance of computers.
As an experimental psychologist specializing in human information processing, he assisted the
U.S. Air Force in its development
of command and control systems
in the 1950s and 1960s. He retired
from the Air Force as a colonel
in 1964.
He joined Pitt’s information
sciences school in 1970, where
he was professor and vice chair of
the Interdisciplinary Department
of Information Science, 1968-86.
During that time he was also a
NATO adviser, honorary consul
to the Republic of Malta and
chaired the board of the Research
Institute for Information Science
and Engineering.
According to the school’s
online Hall of Fame, Debons created an information-counseling
service for graduate students,
training them to use their research
for real-world applications.
His principal research interests were the measurement of
information and knowledge; the
organization of information and
knowledge for creativity, and
theories and principles for the
analysis and design of information/knowledge systems.
In 2008, he published the book
“Information Science 101.”
Michael B. Spring, faculty
member in information science
and telecommunications, noted:
“Professor Debons had a long and
distinguished career… Well into
his late 80s, Tony was teaching and
writing and working with students
and faculty in the school. “The son of a bird colonel
myself, I affectionately referred
to Col. Debons as the Maltese
Falcon. I had the honor of working with him in several courses.
His contributions to the field are
numerous, but I will remember
him most for his passion. I can still
hear his deep, rumbling voice as
he proclaimed the devastation of
another information system failure, be it the Challenger tragedy
or the nuclear meltdown at Three
Mile Island. “He had an uncanny ability to
cut to the chase and see where the
lines of communication or information processing were broken.”
Debons was married to the
late Margaret Kenneally Debons
and is survived by a daughter,
Janet Waddel, her husband John,
and their children Christina and
Megan; a son Eugene, his wife
Cindi and their daughter Amanda,
and siblings Albert, Robert,
Joseph, Edward and Dolores
Rigano.
—Marty Levine
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NOVEMBER 7, 2013
Alfs T. Berztiss
Alfs T. Berztiss, emeritus
associate professor of computer
science in the Dietrich School of
Arts and Sciences, died Oct. 22,
2013, of pulmonary fibrosis.
Berztiss was born in Latvia on
Oct. 12, 1933, became a displaced
person in World War II and moved
to Australia. There, he received all
his degrees from the University
of Melbourne: a B.Sc. in physics,
1956; an M.Sc. in physics, 1959,
and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, 1965.
He began his academic career
at his alma mater in 1957, serving
there until 1970. He was a visiting
professor at Pitt in the 1967-68
academic year, then joined the
University faculty fulltime in
1970, teaching here until the late
1990s. Berztiss retired on Dec.
31, 1998. He also served as a visiting professor at the University
of Stockholm, where he was a
research associate of its SYSLAB.
His research interests included
specification languages for software; automatic transformation of
specifications into software; application of artificial intelligence
techniques in software engineering, and developing curricula in
computer science and software
engineering.
He was the author of the books
“Data Structures: Theory and
Practice,” which had its second
edition published in 1975, as well
as “Programming With Generators: An Introduction” (1990) and
“Software Methods for Business
Reengineering” (1995). He was
co-author of “Principles of Visual
Programming Systems” (1989).
Panos K. Chrysanthis, faculty
member in computer science
and director of the department’s
Advanced Data Management
Technologies Lab, said of Berztiss:
“He was very encouraging of my
database and transaction processing research during my first years
as an assistant professor. Maybe
one big reason was that we had
a similar academic background.
We were both physicists before
becoming computer scientists.”
Computer science faculty
member Rami G. Melhem first
encountered Berztiss in the early
1980s, when Melhem was a graduate student in the department.
“I took a course from Alfs from
which I learned a lot about formal
reasoning (in) computer programs
and data structures. Alfs had written one of the very early books on
this subject.”
Later, Melhem said, “I knew
Alfs as a colleague who would do
anything in his capacity to help
the department. In fact, he did
that even after his retirement. For
example, when I was chairing the
department, I asked Alfs, who was
retired at that time, to help organize, coordinate and supervise the
offerings of the service courses in
the department. He did not hesitate for a minute and, for a period
of four years, he found the time to
accomplish this task despite all his
travels and all his post-retirement
engagements.”
Departmental colleague ShiKuo Chang said in addition to
his professional expertise, Berztiss
displayed expertise in the kitchen.
“Every Sunday he would cook new
dishes for his family and sometimes invite friends to join. Once
I asked him how can he come up
with new recipes every week? He
smiled and said: ‘Well, by applying
combinatorics you can come up
with an infinite variety of recipes!’
I suspect this was also a way for
Alfs to attract his daughters to
come home every Sunday.”
Berztiss is survived by his
wife, Mara; daughters Leonora
and Dagmara, and three grandchildren.
—Marty Levine
n
and master’s degrees in sanitary
engineering at Penn State and a
doctorate in civil engineering at
the University of Texas-Austin.
He was born in Kingston,
Pa., on Sept. 12, 1939, and was a
retired lieutenant colonel in the
U.S. Army Reserves.
He began his academic career
in 1975, at the University of TexasSan Antonio, where his wife Linda
was also a faculty member. There,
he began the Center for Applied
Research and Technology in the
College of Science and Mathematics. He became associate dean of
engineering for academic affairs
at the College of Engineering on
the University of Texas Austin
campus in 1980.
He also was president of the
Water Environment Federation
1992-93, a diplomate of the
American Academy of Environmental Engineers and a fellow
of the American Society of Civil
Engineers.
In addition to his wife, he is
survived by daughter Kimberly
and grandson Stephen Schirmer,
as well as siblings Melinda Sorber
Graham, William A. Sorber and
David A. Sorber.
n
“We need programs that
will get these young men safely
through the ‘killing years,’” said
Garland. According to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the risk of becoming
a victim of gun violence is highest
from ages 15 to 24.
The researchers recommend
engaging individuals and families
at risk for violence in nontraditional settings, including emergency room trauma departments.
Said Albert: “A specialized
team of trained peer mentors can
meet with family members in the
waiting room. It’s a way to drive
home the potential outcomes of
gun violence.” All four hospitals providing
level 1 trauma services in Allegheny County have agreed to host
the program. The research was funded by the
Richard King Mellon Foundation.
children and their families, with
the goal of developing improved
treatment protocols. The network
also will provide an opportunity to
gain new insights into the genetic
pathways that underlie language
impairments, intelligence and
psychiatric illness in autism.
The study is being funded by
the Simons Foundation and the
NLM Family Foundation.
operations teams to actually get
the performance they need.”
Web10G and the new tool
target an unintended consequence
of TCP/IP, the first set of rules
to help make an electronically
interconnected world work on a
massive scale.
Andrew K. Adams, PSC
senior network engineer, said:
“The primary protocol used on the
Internet, TCP/IP, actually hides
everything that happens from the
end user.” That structure helped
the Internet to grow and independent applications to be developed,
but networking glitches essentially
were invisible, even to the people
who run the networks.
“One of the big issues you have
with network problems is that they
all basically look the same,” Rapier
said. “Either you can’t connect
or the connection is really slow.”
Web10G and its predecessor,
Web100, allowed the collaborators in essence to open up TCP/
IP and acquire data about the
network, making it a standard
part of the Linux operating system
favored by researchers. The new
grant will allow the Web10G
researchers to develop a simple
tool to make those data useful
to nontechnical users. The team
envisions a kind of dashboard, possibly including the equivalent of a
speedometer and warning lights.
Web100, which involved the
same collaborating institutions
as well as the National Center
for Atmospheric Research, also
created networking tools such as
automatic received buffer tuning,
which allows today’s network connections to adjust automatically to
maximize network throughput.
“That actually became a part
of every major operating system,”
Rapier said. “It was a huge win;
we’d like to see the same adoption
level for Web10G.”
n
Charles Sorber
Charles Sorber, dean of Pitt’s
School of Engineering 1986-93,
died Oct. 19, 2013. He was 74.
Prior to assuming the deanship here, Sorber had served in
a number of academic, research
and administrative positions in
the University of Texas system,
1975-86.
He left Pitt to return to the
University of Texas system as
R E S E A R C H
president of the Permian Basin
campus.
In 2001, he returned to the
Austin campus to teach and conduct research, then in 2003-04
served as interim president of the
University of Texas-Arlington. He
also served as interim president
of the University’s Pan American
campus in 2009-10.
Sorber earned his bachelor’s
N O T E S
systems. The collaborating fields
are expected to include genomics, radio astronomy, analysis of
multimedia data and others.
A third of
homicides may
be preventable
More than 30 percent of the
homicides in Pittsburgh in 2012
likely were related to peer violence, not gang activity, and are
the type of crime most readily
prevented by early intervention,
according to a new report by the
public health school’s community
violence prevention project.
The group’s research indicates
that 19 percent of the 42 homicides
in the city last year were due to peer
violence and not gang-related;
another 12 percent were identified
as possibly related to peer violence.
Peer violence is defined as a
purposeful, self-motivated conflict
stemming from drugs, money or
perceived disrespect between two
individuals who know each other.
Gang activity involves leadership and internal organization, and
often is associated with conflicts
over neighborhoods, or “turfs.”
Said Steven Albert, chair of
the Department of Behavioral
and Community Health Sciences:
“Casual observers often confuse
gang violence and peer violence.
Peer violence may have different
contributing factors and requires
different interventions.”
Added Richard Garland, visiting instructor in the Department
of Behavioral and Community
Health Sciences and co-author of
the report: “Peer violence could
involve a disagreement over a girl,
or money or even a pair of shoes.
The Pittsburgh gangs of the 1990s
barely exist anymore. The leaders
are in jail — or dead.”
Using data from the Pitts-
burgh Initiative to Reduce Crime
(PIRC), Allegheny County Jail,
Allegheny County Department
of Human Services, Allegheny County Adult and Juvenile
Probation and the Allegheny
County Medical Examiner’s
Office, researchers studied all 42
homicides that occurred within
the city of Pittsburgh in 2012
to identify their root cause and
patterns. In 95 percent of the
homicides, the cause of death was
a gunshot wound.
In addition to the homicides
where peer violence was a possible motive, researchers found
the following:
• 28 percent of all homicide
victims were killed during illegal
transactions (for example, a drug
deal gone bad, or a home invasion).
• In another 23 percent, the
victim was an unintended target.
• 7 percent occurred due to
gang violence.
• 3 percent were related to
child abuse.
• 7 percent could not be
determined.
Researchers also found homicides disproportionately affected
certain groups and areas:
• 93 percent of all homicide
victims were male.
• 83 percent were African
Americans.
• 36 percent were ages 18-25.
• 43 percent of the homicides
took place in Pittsburgh Police
Zone 5 — East Liberty, Garfield,
Lincoln-Lemington, Larimer and
Homewood.
Information beyond a victim’s
gender, race, age and location from
these reports was very limited, so
researchers gathered additional
information by attending community and coalition meetings,
conducting informal interviews
and engaging in community
outreach.
Grant to create
network
targeting
most-impacted
autism patients
Psychiatry faculty member
Carla Mazefsky is a co-investigator on a two-year, $1.2 million
grant to develop a nationwide
collaborative to study children
who are most severely affected by
autism, directed by Spring Harbor
Hospital in Westbrook, Maine,
and the Maine Medical Center
Research Institute.
The Autism and Developmental Disorders Inpatient Research
Collaborative is made up of
specialized inpatient child psychiatry units that exclusively serve
children with autism and other
developmental disorders.
The network will seek to better
understand the characteristics and
complex challenges faced by these
Grant creates
tool to spot
network
glitches
The Web10G Project has
received a $178,000 Software
Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) supplemental
award from NSF to develop a
“dashboard” that will allow users
of computer networks to identify
when and where a networking
problem is slowing or blocking
their access.
Web10G, funded by an earlier
SDCI grant, is a collaboration
between Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) — Pitt’s
joint effort with Carnegie Mellon
and Westinghouse Electric Co.
— and the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications.
Said Chris Rapier, PSC
network applications engineer:
“We’ve found that a lot of network
users either have unrealistically
high expectations or unrealistically low expectations for network
performance. Web10G has produced 127 different instruments
that report on what’s going on
with the network connection,
ways in which it might be failing
and ways in which it might be
improved. With the supplemental
grant, we’re going to automate
that process to let users know
what’s reasonable and then help
them work with their network
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C A L E N D A R
Thursday 14
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
Ivet Bahar; 6014 BST3, 11 am
Epidemiology Seminar
“Geriatric Pharmacoepidemiology Studies Using Health ABC
Study Data,” Joseph Hanlon;
A115 Crabtree, noon
UCSUR Seminar
“A Bridge for a Thousand Years:
How Planners Should Think
About Infrastructure,” Ernest
Sternberg, SUNY; 3343 Forbes
Ave., noon
CIDDE Workshop
“Cheating & Plagiarism”; 815
Alumni, 2 pm (www.cidde.pitt.
edu/workshops)
Chemistry Seminars
“The Coordination Chemistry
of Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals,” Hin Owen, Columbia,
2:30 pm; “Surface-Induced
Dissociation/Ion Mobility Mass
Spectrometry as a Structural
Biology Tool,” Vicki Wysocki,
OH St., 4 pm; 150 Chevron
Geology & Planetary Science
Colloquium
“The Transport & Fate of
Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition
in Appalachian Forests,” Lucy
Rose; 11 Thaw, 3:45 pm
Provost Inaugural Lecture
“Infectious Diseases: The Surgeon’s Battlefield,” Brian Zuck-
erbraum, medicine; Scaife lect.
rm. 6, 4 pm
Friday 15
GSPH Open House
130 DeSoto St., 10 am-2:30 pm
(www.publichealth.pitt.edu/
openhouse)
Emerging Legends Concert
Celtic Shores; Cup & Chaucer,
gr. fl. Hillman, noon
Sr. VC’s Research Seminar
“The Use of Molecular Markers to Stratify Thyroid Cancer
Patient Care Pathways,” Linwah
Yip; Scaife lect. rm. 6, noon
(www.svc-seminar.pitt.edu/
details11.html)
T he Universit y of Pi t t sb urg h
Department of Anthropology
In conjunctIon wIth the unIversIty honors college, AsIAn studIes center,
humAnItIes center, And the center for russIAn And eAst europeAn studIes
P R E S E N T S
lecture series on discoveries
Mysteries of Athatthree-part
challenge the long-held and widely
Human Evolution believed story of human evolution
The first representatives of Homo out of Africa
NOVEMBER 12, 8:00 PM - Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
DaviD
LorkipaniDze
generAl dIrector, georgIAn nAtIonAl museum, tbIlIsI, republIc of georgIA
the single fossil site dmanisi, republic of
georgia, rivals numerous sites in tanzania and
east Africa not only in geological age, 1.851.78 million years ago, but also and especially
in morphological diversity of human fossils.
recent research has demonstrated that
although brief, the geological history of the
site was not, as might be expected, relatively
uniform, but rather very complex. this interesting
and unique situation impacts interpretation of
the human remains and, more broadly, raises
important questions about the interpretation
of human evolution during this period.
for more information visit:
http://tinyurl.com/mysteries-david
CIDDE Workshop
“iPad Meetup”; B23 Alumni,
noon (www.cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
European Studies Lecture
“The (Relative) Decline of the
West & the Rise of the Rest,”
Mircea Geoana; 4217 Posvar,
noon (www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce)
Sociology Lecture
“Revolution in Bad Times,” Asef
Bayat; 2432 Posvar, 1 pm (www.
sociology.pitt.edu)
Senate Anti-Discriminatory
Policies Committee Mtg.
826 CL, 2 pm
Philosophy of Science Lecture
“Time’s Arrow & the Cosmos,”
Andreas Albrecht, UC-Davis;
817R CL, 3:30 pm (www.pitt.
edu/~pittcntr)
Education Lecture
“Building the Capacity of Schools
to Meet Students’ Needs,” Pedro
Noguera, NYU; 121 Lawrence,
3:30 pm (www.education.pitt.
edu)
Exhibit Opening Reception
Digital Imagers Group; Barco
Library, 5-8 pm
Saturday 16
Football
Vs. UNC; Heinz Field, 12:30 pm
Sunday 17
Women’s Basketball
Vs. Lafayette; Petersen, 1 pm
Nationality Rooms Christmas
Decoration-Making
1228 CL, 3 pm
Men’s Basketball
Vs. Howard; Petersen, 5 pm
Monday 18
Academic Career Development Lecture
“Biotechnology,” Ned Uber;
S100 Starzl BST, noon (8-8486)
Humanities Lecture
“Tumbas, Gusanos y Epitafios:
Recuperando Escritores Cubanos Prohibidos,” Antonio Ponte,
NYU; 602 CL, 1 pm
Senate Athletics Committee
Mtg.
Petersen Minno Conf. Rm.,
1:30 pm
HSLS Workshop
“EndNote Basics,” Linda Hartman; Falk Library classrm. 1, 4-6
pm ([email protected])
The Annual Robert S.
Totten Lecture
“Biliary Diseases with Pancreatic counterParts–
anatomical anD Pathological Bases”
Wednesday
November 13
Noon
1104 Scaife Hall
Department of Pathology
Yasuni Nakanuma, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Human Pathology Kanazawa University
Kanazawa, Japan
Dr. Nakanuma is known for his work on the pathology
of bile duct diseases, including pathology and the
pathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis as well as
the pathogenesis of hepatolithiasis. In particular, he
has contributed to the pathology and pathogenesis
of cholangiocarcinoma. The precursor and early
lesions of lesions cholangiocarcinoma, such as biliary
intraepithelial neoplasm (BilIN) and intraductal papillary neoplalsm (IPN)
which have been accepted by WHO classification of cholangiocarcinoma (2010).
Recently, he proposed a new disease concept “Biliary diseases with pancreatic
counterparts” for better understanding of biliary diseases.
Tuesday 19
Engineering Innovation/
Entrepreneurship Lecture
“Ideas at Play: The Gaming of
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Education,” Cheryl Bodnar,
Peter Vigeant & Leticia Cavagnaro; 102 Benedum, 11:30 am
(www.engineering.pitt.edu/eerc)
Basic & Translational Research
Seminar
“Purinergic Receptor in StressInduced Senescence & Mobilization of Hematopoietic Stem
Progenitor Cells,” Byeong-Chel
Lee; Hillman Cancer Ctr. conf.
rm. D, noon ([email protected])
Senate Community Relations
Committee Mtg.
Community Human Services,
374 Lawn St., Oakland, noon-2
pm
MWRI Work-in-Progress
Seminar
“FSH Rerouting & Ovarian
Function,” T. Rajendra Kumar,
U of KS; Magee 1st fl. conf. rm.,
noon ([email protected])
HSLS Workshop
“Adobe Photoshop,” Julia
Jankovic; Falk Library classrm.
2, 12:30 -2:30 pm ([email protected])
Graduate Study Council Mtg.
817 CL, 3-5 pm
Pharmacology & Chemical
Biology Seminar
“Estrogen Receptor Integrative
Genomics & Signaling Networks
in Breast Cancer & Target Tissues,” Benita Katzenellenbogen,
U of IL; 1395 BST, 3:30 pm
“Rehabliomics Research: Examining Approaches to Personalized Medicine in TBI,” Amy
Wagner, medicine; Scaife lect.
rm. 6, 4 pm
Chemistry Seminar
“At the Water’s Edge: Understanding Environmentally
Important Processes at Aqueous
Surfaces,” Geraldine Richmond,
U of OR; 150 Chevron, 4 pm
Wednesday 20
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,” Linda Hartman; Falk Library classrm. 1, 9
am ([email protected])
Pathology Seminar
“New Pathophysiologies for
Osteoporosis,” Mone Zaidi, Mt.
Sinai School of Medicine; 1104
Scaife, noon (8-1040)
Artful Wednesdays Performance
Dieter Hennings; Nordy’s WPU,
HSLS Workshop
“Introduction to CLC Main
Workbench,” Ansuman Chattopadhyay; Falk Library classrm.
2, 1-3 pm ([email protected])
CIDDE Workshop
“Designing Effective Assessments”; B26 Alumni, 3 pm (www.
cidde.pitt.edu/workshops)
Chemistry Seminar
“Line ’em All up: Macromolecular & Nanoparticle Assembly at
Liquid Interfaces,” Geraldine
Richmond; 150 Chevron, 4 pm
Men’s Basketball
Vs. Lehigh; Petersen, 7:30 pm
Thursday 21
James Chou, Harvard; 6014
BST3, 11 am
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NOVEMBER 7, 2013
C A L E N D A R
UCSUR Seminar
“The Promise & Power of Open
Data,” Mark Headd; 3343 Forbes
Ave., noon
SAC Seminar
“The Retiree Benefit,” John
Kozar, human resources; WPU
Ballrm., noon (www.sac.pitt.edu)
“Heart Disease in Women:
Lupus as a Model,” Susan Manzi;
A115 Crabtree, noon
EOH Seminar
“Molecular Imaging of Immune
Cells as It Applies to Tuberculosis
& Cancer,” Carolyn Anderson,
radiology; 540 Bridgeside Pt.,
Law Lecture
“Return of Secondary Genomic
Findings vs. Patient Autonomy,”
Robert Klitzman, Columbia;
Barco Courtrm. ground fl.,
12:30 pm
Chemistry Seminar
“Open/Path Atmospheric Monitoring by FT-IR Spectroscopy
Under Pastoral & Simulated
Battlefield Conditions,” Peter
Griffiths, U of ID; 150 Chevron,
2:30 pm
Senate Plant Utilization &
Planning Committee Mtg.
4127 Sennott, 3 pm
Colloquium
“Millennial-Scale Climate
Change Velocity in the Northern
Neotropics: A Conservation Perspective,” Alex Correa-Metrio;
11 Thaw, 3:45 pm
Classics Lecture
“Pinned to the Grave: Fear of
the (un)Dead in Greek Sicily,”
Carrie Weaver; G24 CL, 4:30
pm (4-4494)
Concert
Jazz Ensemble; Bellefield aud.,
8 pm
Defenses
Public Health/Behavioral &
Community Health Sciences
“A Mixed-methods Evaluation
of a Falls Prevention Program
at a Continuing Care Retirement
Community,” Roderick Harris;
Nov. 7, 210 Parran, 10 am
A&S/Chemistry
“Regioselective Functionalizations of Heterocycles: Applications in Methodology & Medicinal Chemistry,” Kara Rosenker;
Nov. 7, 307 Eberly, 3 pm
A&S/Geology & Planetary
Sciences
“The Processes & Products of the
Emplacement of Basaltic Lavas
Under Ice Masses: Inferring
Paleo-Ice Conditions at the Time
of the Tennena Cone Eruption on
Mount Edziza, British Columbia,
Canada,” Jefferson Hungerford;
Nov. 8, 214 SRCC, 10 am
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical
Sciences
“Vaginal Polymeric Films Containing Combination of Antiretrovirals for Prevention of HIV-1
Sexual Transmission: Impact
of Co-delivery,” Ayman Akil;
Nov. 12, Magee conf. rm. 1st
fl., 1:30 pm
A&S/Linguistics
“The Dynamics of Medical
Interviewing in the Triadic
Relationship Between Doctor,
Patient & Computer,” Abdesalam Soudi; Nov. 13, 2816 CL,
9:30 am
A&S/History of Art & Architecture
“Political & Ritual Usages of
Portraits of Japanese Emperors
in 18th & 19th Centuries,” Yuki
Morishima; Nov. 13, 104 FFA,
10 am
Medicine/Cellular & Molecular Pathology
“Regulation, Function & Clinical
Relevance of ABCG2 in Prostate
Cancer,” Kathryn Sobek; Nov.
13, Hillman Cancer Ctr. 2nd fl.
conf. rm., 11 am
A&S/Communication
“Constituting Conservatism:
The Goldwater/Paul Analog,”
Eric English; Nov. 13, 1109B
CL, 1 pm
GSPH/Biostatistics
“Efficient Estimation of Relative
Risk in Case-Cohort Studies,”
Emmanuel Sampene; Nov. 14,
109 Parran, 9 am
GSPH/Environmental &
Occupational Health
“From Home to Community to
City: Different Approaches to
Environmental Exposure Assessment of Particulate Matter Across
the Pittsburgh Region,” Brett
Tunno; Nov. 14, 100 Bridgeside
Pt. 3rd fl. conf. rm., 11 am
Medicine/Immunology
“Dissecting the Mechanism of
NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation in Individual Cells: The
Role of Reactive Oxygen Species
& Organelle Damage,” Michelle
Heid; Nov. 15, E1095 BST,
9:30 am
Science
“Isotopic Investigation of Subsurface Rock & Fluid Interactions: Case Studies of CO 2
Sequestration & Gas-Bearing
Shale Formations,” James Gardiner; Nov. 15, 214 SRCC, 10 am
A&S/Anthropology
“Community Matters? Investigating Complexity, Differentiation & Demography in the
Middle Through Final Bronze
Age (2100-1000 BC) of the
Southern Urals, Russian Federation,” James Johnson; Nov. 15,
3307 Posvar, 10 am
Education/Administrative &
Policy Studies
“Early Adolescents’ Interpretations of Caring Teacher Practice,” Tina Chekan; Nov. 15,
4321 Posvar, noon
Medicine/Neuroscience
“Anion Conducting States of
Excitatory Amino Acid Transporters,” Christopher Divito;
Nov. 18, 6014 BST3, 3 pm
Education/Administrative &
Policy Studies
“A Multi-Case Study of Three
Florida Community Colleges
Offering Applied Baccalaureate
Degree Programs & How the
Programs Assist Students With
Their Postsecondary Needs,”
Jerilyn Morton; Nov. 19, 4317
Posvar, 1 pm
A&S/English
“Architectures of Freedom:
Literary Collaboration in Contemporary American Poetry,”
Shelagh Patterson; Nov. 20,
501G CL, noon-2 pm
Science
“Nitrogen Sources & Dynamics in Nine Mile Run, an Urban
Stream in Pittsburgh, PA, Determined Through Modeling,
Triple Nitrate Isotope Analysis
& Streamwater Chemistry,”
Marion Divers; Nov. 21, 214
SRCC, 11 am
Medicine/Molecular Virology
& Microbiology
“Primary & Recall Cytotoxic
T Lymphocyte Responses to
Autologous Antigen in HIV1-Infected Subjects,” Kellie
Smith; Nov. 21, A115 Crabtree,
1:30 pm
Theatre
Theatre Arts Student Lab
Production
“Machinal”; Henry Heymann
Theatre, through Nov. 10, W-Sat
8 pm, Sat & Sun 2 pm (www.play.
pitt.edu)
Theatre Arts Mainstage Production
“Venus”; CL Studio Theatre;
through Nov. 10, T-Sat 8 pm,
Sun 2 pm (www.play.pitt.edu)
Greensburg Campus Production
“A Waking,” Megan Hughes;
Nov. 9, 28 West Second Gallery,
Greensburg, 7:30 pm; Nov. 10,
Campana Chapel, UPG, 2:30 pm
Johnstown Campus Production
“Ring of Fire: The Music of
Johnny Cash”; Pasquerilla,
UPJ, Nov. 14 at 7:30 pm (www.
upjarts.org)
Bradford Campus Production
“The Seagull”; Blaisdell Studio
Theater, UPB, Nov. 21-23 at 7:30
pm, Nov. 24 at 2 pm (814/3625113)
Exhibits
Barco Law Library
“Collected Posters on Civil
Rights & Social Injustice,”
Daniel Paul Melaney, through
Nov. 8; M-Th 7:30 am-10 pm,
F 7 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm,
Sun noon-8 pm (8-1376)
Hillman Library
“Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Papers”; Hillman ground fl.,
through Dec. 7; Sun 10 am
through F 10 pm & Sat 9 am-10
Hillman Library
“Pitt Football: Through the
Years,” through Jan. 17; ground
fl., Sun 10 am through F 10 pm
& Sat 9 am-10 pm
Deadlines
Pitt Community Relations/
Advocates Lecture
RSVP by Nov. 8 for Nov. 12
event: “The Future of Our
Region,” Rich Fitzgerald & Bill
Peduto; O’Hara Ballrm., 6 pm
(www.alumni.pitt.edu/event/
pittadvocates.php)
Mallinckrodt Scholar Award
Applications due Nov. 14.
([email protected])
CTSI/RAND Dissemination
& Implementation Research
Award
Letters of intent due Nov. 15.
([email protected])
Greensburg Campus NaNoWriMo Write-Ins
Submission deadline Nov. 30.
(http://nanowrimo.org)
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C A L E N D A R
November
Thursday 7
Mazda3 CARnival
WPU, 10 am-4 pm
Susan Hafenstein, Penn St.; 6014
BST3, 11 am
“Body Weight Development in
Participants of the Pittsburgh
Girls Study,” Kathleen McTigue;
A115 Crabtree, noon
Bradford Campus Concert
Neil Jacobs, guitar; KOA lobby,
UPB, noon
Chemistry Seminars
“Chemoenzymatic Synthesis &
Applications of Carbohydrates,”
Xi Chen, UC-Davis, 2:30 pm;
“Advances in the Development
of Multipolar & Density-Based
Polarizable Force Fields,” G.
Andres Cisneros, Wayne St. U,
4 pm; 150 Chevron
Colloquium
“Assessment of Geohazards by
Superconducting Gravimetry &
Satellite Radar Remote Sensing,”
Jeong Woo Kim, U of Calgary;
11 Thaw, 3:45 pm
“Colon Cancer: Progress &
Promise at the University of
Pittsburgh,” Kenneth Lee,
medicine; Scaife lect. rm. 6, 4 pm
English Lecture
“The History of the Novel &
Empire in the Works of Edward
Said & Georg Lukacs,” Joseph
Cleary, Yale; 602 CL, 4-6 pm
Contemporary Writers Lecture
Emily Raboteau; FFA aud., 8:30
pm (4-6508)
Friday 8
• Last day for spring term
enrollment appointments.
Endocrine Grand Rounds
“Complimentary & Alternative
Therapy in Thyroid Cancer,”
Heather Brooks; 1195 BST, 8:30
am ([email protected])
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,” Pat Weiss;
Falk Library classrm. 1, 10 am
([email protected])
Biomedical Informatics Lecture
“Applying the Extended Benefits Model in a Resource-Constrained Country: Uncovering
the Foundation,” JoAnn Hillman; 407A Baum, 5607 Baum
Blvd., 11 am ([email protected])
Women’s Basketball
Vs. Bucknell; Petersen, 11 am
U N I V E R S I T Y
O F
Physical Therapy Clinical
Rounds
“Symptomatic Patellofemoral
Joint: An Important Subgroup
of Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis,” Shawn Farrokhi; 4060
Forbes Twr., noon
Psychiatry Lecture
“Pressure on the Brain or in
the Brain: Central Function &
Hypertension,” J. Richard Jennings; WPIC aud., noon
Human Genetics Seminar
“Phenome-Wide Association
Studies,” Marylyn Ritchie, PSU;
A115 Crabtree, noon
CIDDE Book Discussion
“Evidence-Based Teaching,”
James Groccia; 532 Alumni,
noon (www.cidde.pitt.edu)
CRSP Lecture
“Race & Culture in the Family:
Their Impact on Youth Outcomes of Asian-American Adolescents,” Yoonsun Choi, U of
Chicago; 2017 CL, noon
Emerging Legends Concert
The Weedrags; Cup & Chaucer,
gr. fl. Hillman, noon
UCSUR Seminar
“The City After Abandonment:
Urban Policy After Neoliberalism,” Jason Hackworth, U of
Toronto; 3343 Forbes Ave., noon
“Explanatory Games,” Chrys
P I T T S B U R G H
FEEDBACK IS GOOD!
Pitt’s Office of Measurement and Evaluation of Teaching
(OMET)’s Student Opinion of Teaching Surveys are online.
All surveys are available online and will be
administered November 18–December 8.
WHAT CAN FACULTY MEMBERS
DO TO ENCOURAGE STUDENT
PARTICIPATION?
• Talk about the survey process in class.
• Inform students that the feedback you
receive matters.
• Give examples of how you have used
student feedback in the past.
• Allow time in class for students to
complete surveys on a mobile device.
• Post announcements and
reminders on CourseWeb/
Blackboard.
• E-mail students directly asking
them to participate.
To request your
FALL 2013 SURVEY,
go to my.pitt.edu,
My Resources,
OMET Survey Request.
OMET has moved to Alumni Hall. For more information,
visit omet.pitt.edu or call 412-624-6440.
Mantzavinos, U of Athens;
edu/~pittcntr)
Sociology Lecture
“Women, Politics & Power: A
Global Perspective,” Melanie
Hughes, U of TX-Austin; 2432
Posvar, 1 pm (www.sociology.
pitt.edu)
English Lectures/Readings
“The Late Style of Bandung
Humanism,” Aamir Mufti,
UCLA, 2 pm; Nuruddin Farah,
Bard College, 4-6 pm; 501 CL
Men’s Basketball
Vs. Savannah St.; Petersen, 7 pm
Greensburg Campus Concert
Zach Rohlwing; Campana
Chapel, UPG, 7:30 pm
Saturday 9
• Spring term open enrollment
begins.
English Panel Discussion
“Legacies of the Future: The
Life & Work of Edward Said”;
501 CL, 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Football
Vs. Notre Dame; Heinz Field,
8 pm
Sunday 10
Episcopal Service
Heinz Chapel, 11 am (Sundays:
http://pittepiscopalchaplaincy.
wordpress.com/)
Polish Festival
Commons Rm. CL, noon-5 pm
IonSound Production
“Eyes on Sound”; Bellefield
aud., 7 pm
Monday 11
Electric Power Industry Conf.
“Advancing Grid Technologies:
From Micro to Macro”; UClub,
9 am-8 pm (http://engineering.
pitt.edu/epic/)
Veterans Day Roll Call
Heinz Chapel, 10 am-noon
Classics Lecture
“Anaximander & Zoogony:
Some Philosophical, Linguistic
& Historical Issues in Greek
Natural Philosophy,” Andrew
Gregory; 349 CL, 3:30 pm
(4-4494)
Medicine Lecture
“Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine,” Meirg Aridor, Jeffrey
Brodsky & Alexander Sorkin;
S123 BST, 4 pm
Biology Lecture
“Mechanisms of Extreme
Growth,” Douglas Emlen, U
of MT; 169 Crawford, 4:15 pm
(www.biology.pitt.edu)
Law Lecture
“Solidarity in Solitary Confinement,” Jules Lobel; 113 Barco,
7-9 pm (412/361-3022)
Tuesday 12
Electric Power Industry Conf.
UClub, 9 am-3 pm; keynote:
Patricia Hoffman, assistant
secretary, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Office of Electricity Delivery and
Energy Reliability, noon (http://
engineering.pitt.edu/epic/)
CTSI Workshops
“Detecting, Addressing & Preventing Scientific Misconduct,”
Karen Schmidt, 202A Herberman Conf. Ctr., 7 am; “Reviewing
Scientific Colleagues: Responsibilities of Peer Review,” Clayton
Wiley, S100A BST, noon
Basic & Translational Research
Seminar
“UPCI Retreat Poster Winners,”
Tiffany Katz, Yu Zhou, Kevin
McCormick & Shikhar Uttam;
Hillman Cancer Ctr. conf. rm.
D, noon ([email protected])
Global Health Film
“The Final Inch”; 109 Parran,
noon-2 pm
MWRI Work-in-Progress
Seminar
“Regulation of Receptors &
Transporters by Endocytosis,”
Alexander Sorkin; Magee 1st fl.
conf. rm., noon (klazar@mwri.
magee.edu)
“The Epistemology of Causal
Selection: Insights From Systems Biology,” Beckett Sterner;
edu/~pittcntr)
HSLS Workshop
“Advanced PowerPoint for Presentations,” Julia Jankovic; Falk
Library classrm. 2, 12:30-2:30
Chemistry Seminar
“New Transformations Mediated
by Coinage Metals,” Jennifer
Schomaker, U of WI-Madison;
150 Chevron, 2:30 pm
Pharmacology & Chemical
Biology Seminar
“The Role of NRF2 on VEGFA/
VEGFR Expression, Hepatic
Vascularization & Cancer
Growth,” John Skoko; 1395
BST, 3:30 pm
HSLS Workshop
“Painless PubMed,” Ester
Saghafi; Falk Library classrm.
1, 3:30 pm ([email protected])
GSPH/English Book Discussion
“You Are Not Forgotten,” Bryan
Bender; O’Hara, 5:30 pm
Greensburg Campus
“From IdiomA to Pussy Riot:
Women Artists in Russia From
Glasnost to Today,” Kristen
Harkness, WVU; Campana
Chapel, UPG, 5:30 pm
Bioethics Lecture
“Being Struck through the Ages:
From Hippocrates to Modern
Stroke Care,” Kerstin Bettermann, Penn St.; Scaife lect. rm.
5, 6 pm (www.bioethics.pitt.edu)
Men’s Basketball
Vs. Fresno St.; Petersen, 7 pm
Anthropology Lecture
“The First Representatives of
Homo out of Africa,” David
Lordkipanidze, Georgian Nat’l
Museum, Tbilisi; FFA aud., 8 pm
Wednesday 13
Greensburg Campus Transfer
Decision Day
UPG, 9 am
SAC Mtg.
342 Craig, noon
Artful Wednesdays Performance
Puro Queso; Nordy’s, WPU,
Pathology Seminar
“Biliary Diseases With Pancreatic Counterparts: Anatomical
& Pathological Bases,” Yasuni
Nakanuma, Kanazawa U; 1104
Scaife, noon (8-1040)
HSLS Workshop
“Primer Design & Restriction
Analysis,” Carrie Iwema; Falk
Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm
([email protected])
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