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Pitt opens China office
new University office
has opened nearly 7,000
miles from Pittsburgh
to provide Pitt with a home base
in China.
The University’s Beijing office
is in a small office tower suite in
the university district alongside
other American companies and
universities. Although Beijing
office director Kevin Ming already
is at work, a formal grand opening is planned for early next year,
said University Center for International Studies (UCIS) director
Lawrence Feick, who, as Pitt’s
senior director of international
programs, is overseeing the office.
Ming, who studied in Pitt’s
cultural anthropology doctoral
program, holds a master’s degree
in Chinese studies from Illinois,
and speaks Cantonese and Mandarin. He has done extensive scholarly fieldwork in China and has
worked in programs that cultivate
international educational links.
T H I S
“For somebody like me, this
is a wonderful opportunity,” said
Ming, 42. “I consider myself a
Pitt person and a China person.
To be director of the new office
in China — the first one we had
of this type — is amazing.”
Pitt’s Council of Deans
included the office as part of a 2010
international plan that deemed
China a priority, Feick said. As a
representative office, the Beijing
site will not offer classes, but is
intended to support Pitt’s existing
academic ties in China, develop
new relationships and assist with
recruiting, international alumni
relations and special projects.
Pitt’s arrival in Beijing comes
at an important time, Ming said.
“Now is a real time of opportunity for education, programmatic
and institutional links in China,”
he said, noting that the Chinese
government has identified greater
international cooperation as one
Profs elected to IOM
Above: Nancy Davidson
Below: Jeannette South-Paul
Two School of Medicine faculty members have been elected to
the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an honor that is considered among
the highest in their field.
The election of Nancy E. Davidson, associate vice chancellor for
cancer research and director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer
Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers, and Jeannette E. South-Paul,
Andrew W. Mathieson Professor and chair of the Department of
Family Medicine, were announced last week at IOM’s annual meeting.
Current IOM members select new ones from the health sciences,
medicine and public health; election requires a commitment to
volunteer on boards and in other activities carried out by IOM in
its role as an independent, science-based adviser on health issues.
IOM is the health branch of the National Academy of Sciences.
Davidson’s research focuses on the role of hormones, particularly
estrogen, on gene expression and tumor growth in breast cancer. She
received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and medical
degree from Harvard Medical School. Also the Hillman Professor
of Oncology, she joined Pitt in 2009.
South-Paul studies maternal and child health as well as fitness,
and maintains a family practice including maternity care. She joined
Pitt in 2001 after more than two decades as a family physician in the
U.S. Army. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of
Pennsylvania and, in 1979, a medical degree from Pitt.
Pitt alumnus Jonathan D. Gitlin of Vanderbilt University also was
one of 65 individuals elected to the Institute of Medicine this year. n
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What drives lower pay for lower-level Pitt faculty?
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Administrators, BPC chair disagree
ow state support is driving
faculty salary challenges at
Pitt, University administrators told Senate budget policies
committee members Oct. 21 in
response to assertions by BPC
chair John J. Baker that high
tuition discounts to out-of-state
students were having a negative
effect on faculty pay.
Baker presented his analysis of
data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
(IPEDS) at the committee’s Sept.
30 meeting, contending that low
faculty pay could in turn negatively
affect the University’s ability to
fulfill its mission. (See Oct. 13
University Times.)
BPC did not discuss Baker’s
report in depth at the Sept. 30
meeting, and administrators
requested time to review and
respond to Baker’s analysis.
David DeJong, vice provost for
Academic Planning and Resources
Management, took Baker to task
for not sharing the Sept. 30 report
in advance to allow administrators
and committee members time to
review and prepare to discuss it
during the meeting.
“That strikes me as running
counter to advancing our academic mission. I don’t think that
that’s productive,” he said.
Before DeJong presented
some calculations prepared by the
administration, Baker recapped
his earlier report, noting it was
designed to explain why salaries
for low-ranking faculty at Pitt
were at or near the bottom of the
pay scale of public members of the
Association of American Universities (AAU). In examining IPEDS
data, “I noticed that Pitt’s net
tuition per [full-time-equivalent
student] was below its published
in-state tuition rate, and I got
curious about that,” Baker said.
(According to his analysis, Pitt’s
2008-09 net tuition per FTE
student was $12,753 while its
published in-state undergraduate
tuition was $13,642.)
“I tried to identify factors
affecting why salaries were low,”
he said, citing three: “We do have a
low number of FTE students compared to the AAU public schools’
average,” he said. “We presumably
make up for that because we have
higher tuition and fees ... and the
state appropriation.”
(In his original report, Baker
noted that Pitt’s fall 2009 FTE
enrollment of nearly 28,000 was
smaller than the average of more
than 33,500 among its AAU public
peers, and that its published 200809 Pittsburgh campus in-state
tuition of $13,642 was higher
than the peer institutions’ average
of $7,797.)
Another factor, he said: “We
have more faculty and staff than
most of the other public AAU
universities,” noting Pitt still is
bigger even after medical school
faculty are subtracted from
the numbers. “Presumably that
reflects the research function of
this University,” Baker said.
A third factor he said he
identified was “a very high proportion of tuition discounts from
unrestricted revenue. … If you
compare Pitt to a lot of these
other public AAU universities,
we’re really very high in terms of
our tuition discounts from unrestricted revenue.” Using IPEDS
data, “I discovered most of the
total federal, total state, local,
total institutional aid for freshman
students, most of it was going to
out-of-state students. Pitt’s very
unusual in that regard.”
Administrators cautioned
about using IPEDS data for such
peer comparisons, noting that the
University doesn’t use the data as a
basis for its benchmarking models.
Chief Financial Officer Arthur
J. Ramicone said IPEDS figures
are “reported on a good-faith
basis,” adding that they are not
audited by the U.S. Department
of Education, which collects the
data, and that institutions have
leeway in interpreting what figures
to report — all of which make
comparisons difficult.
“Our basic position is that
tuition discounting is not the
reason why faculty salaries are
challenged. It’s the lack of commonwealth support, period. …
That’s our challenge,” Ramicone
said, reiterating that Pitt’s current state appropriation has been
reduced to 1995 levels.
Faculty pay
DeJong said the University
Planning and Budgeting Committee (UPBC) put stable working
conditions and salary issues among
its top priorities. “When you look
over the past several years, you
see many, many of our peer institutions resorting to layoffs and
furloughs to balance their budgets.
We have not had to do that,” he
said, pointing as well to a 2 percent
salary pool increase amid doubledigit cuts to Pitt’s fiscal year 2012
state appropriation.
“The administration is very
committed to maintaining competitive salaries not just for faculty,
but also for our very dedicated
staff, and in the face of our of fiscal
challenges, we are still working to
generate improvements.”
DeJong added that the University has made efforts over the
past decade to improve salaries and
contract positions for non-tenure
stream faculty.
“We’ve worked hard to convert part-time positions into
full-time positions and to convert
short-term visiting positions into
full-time or longer-term positions that have the possibility of
renewal, in response to excellent
performance,” he said, adding that
in Arts and Sciences areas alone,
last year several dozen visiting
positions were converted to longterm non-tenure stream positions
with salary increases.
“That doesn’t leave us satisfied with where we are,” DeJong
said. “We certainly recognize that
there’s more work to do but we are
dedicated to the maintenance of
competitive salaries and we will
continue to be.”
DeJong elaborated on some
details of his Sept. 30 closedsession report on the administration’s analysis of whether salaries
for longstanding Pitt faculty were
keeping up with inflation. (See Oct.
13 University Times.)
The report followed salaries
over time for three cohorts of faculty who were at Pitt, 1995-2010,
and found that salaries:
• For assistant professors who,
by 2010, had become full professors, 82 percent of the 127 from the
Pittsburgh campus had exceeded
inflation, as did all 12 from the
regional campuses.
• For associate professors who
had been promoted to full professor by 2010, 91 percent of the 157
in Pittsburgh and all eight from
the regional campuses exceeded
inflation.
• A third group of faculty who
had been full professors for the
entire 15-year period showed that
74 percent of the 223 in Pittsburgh
and 89 percent of the nine regional
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Community collaborations:
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Adrienne Walnoha and Tracy Soska
Honoring an Olympian
Kimberly K. Barlow
The gold medal won by Pitt freshman John Woodruff in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin was
unveiled Oct. 14 in a new display case in Hillman Library. Taking a closer look are Herb Douglas
Jr., a Pitt trustee and alumnus who won a bronze medal in the 1948 Olympics; John Woodruff Jr.,
and University Library System director and Hillman librarian Rush Miller.
Pitt increases police patrols
due to neighbors’ complaints
P
itt has stepped up campus
police patrols as a result of
an unusually high number
of Oakland residents’ complaints
about off-campus student partying, officials said last week.
Renny Clark, vice chancellor
for community initiatives, and
John Wilds, assistant vice chancellor for community relations,
reported to the University Senate
community relations committee
(CRC) Oct. 18 that since early in
the fall term an additional campus
police detail now is patrolling
Oakland streets, 10 p.m.-4 a.m.,
Thursdays-Saturdays.
The additional patrol consists
of two uniformed officers in police
cars, two plainclothes officers in
unmarked cars and two officers
on bicycles, Clark said.
Wilds said, “For whatever
reason, we’ve had a lot more complaints this year about excessive
partying, so we’ve tried instituting
measures that would address that
issue. We’ve met with neighbor-
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hood groups on numerous occasions in the evening. We’ve had
students actually attend Bellefield
Area Civic Association meetings.
The students said they were not
aware of the mayhem they were
causing the neighbors. The neighbors told the students they were
not anti-parties, but they were
anti-noise and misbehavior on the
part of our students.”
As a result of those and other
community meetings, Wilds said,
the University stepped up its
patrols in the north, central and
south Oakland neighborhoods.
“Since that time we haven’t had
any calls or any police reports that
suggest there have been excessive
parties going on,” he said.
“We also were concerned
about [parties during] homecoming, and steps were taken by
Student Affairs: writing a letter to
those known party houses advising the students about what their
responsibilities were. We put ads
in The Pitt News and on some
of the bulletin boards around
campus. We want students to
celebrate but we want them to
celebrate responsibly. I know it’s
a never-ending battle we have
because students turn over, but we
try to educate them every year.”
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In other CRC business:
• Responding to a request
by David Givens, a leader of the
Graduate and Professional Student Association, CRC members
agreed to consider offering voting
rights to GPSA appointees. Student groups currently appoint
non-voting members.
• Oakland Planning and
Development Corp., which is
overseeing the Oakland 2025
planning initiative, is holding
an open meeting 6-8:30 p.m.
today (Oct. 27) at St. Nicholas
Cathedral, 419 S. Dithridge St.,
to review the status of the planning process, which is endorsed
by CRC as well as other Pitt units.
For more information, call
412/621-7863 ext. 17 or email
Tara Sherry-Torres at tarat@
opdc.org.
Sherry-Torres reported that
formal recommendations by the
project’s consultants, Pfaffman
Associates/Studio for Spatial
Practice, will be presented 6-8:30
p.m. Nov. 17, also at St. Nicholas.
—Peter Hart
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Two Pitt alumni last week were
nominated for emeritus trustee
status.
George A. Davidson Jr. (Engineering 1961), retired chair of
energy producer and distributor
Dominion Resources, and David
B. Fawcett Jr. (Law 1953), senior
partner in the law firm Dickie,
McCamey & Chilcote, were
recommended by the trustees
nominating committee as emeritus trustees.
The board is expected to act
on the recommendations Oct. 28.
Davidson has served continuously as a trustee for the past 24
years.
He also has served on the
Katz Graduate School of Business board of visitors since 1987,
including 15 years as board chair
(1996-2011). Currently, he serves
as vice chair of the Swanson School
of Engineering board of visitors.
He is a lifetime member of
the Pitt Alumni Association and
a member of the Cathedral of
Learning Society and the Brackenridge Circle.
Fawcett, a lifetime member of
the Pitt Alumni Association, was
an alumni trustee 1997-2005 and
served on the boards of visitors for
the schools of medicine and law.
He is a past president of the
School of Law Alumni Association. In 1991, the law school honored him with its Distinguished
Alumni Award.
Fawcett has served as president
of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny
County bar associations and was
a member of the American Bar
Association’s house of delegates
for 10 years.
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Emeritus trustees nominated
This fall’s University Senate plenary session, “Community and
Campus Partnerships for Health and Well-Being,” will be held
Nov. 10 in the William Pitt Union and is open to the public. The
plenary session will focus on innovative and sustainable efforts
to promote community-engaged teaching, service and research.
Kevin Jenkins, senior program officer and director of community
initiatives at the Pittsburgh Foundation, will be the keynote speaker.
A panel discussion will highlight ongoing community/campus
partnerships in the region, and a poster session/marketplace will
provide an opportunity for University and community members
to network and share ideas about potential collaborations.
The theme is particularly appropriate as the Pittsburgh campus’s
community, Oakland, completes its long-term strategic planning
project, Oakland 2025. University members have participated in
the planning process and will benefit from the initiatives that come
out of it — initiatives that already have and will continue to emerge
from concerns that the community itself has voiced and prioritized
in numerous meetings and work sessions.
Successful community and academic partnerships are based on
the recognition that experts come in all shapes and sizes and include
many people who live, work and play outside the academy. When
we pool our resources — intelligence, material goods, money,
ideas, creative energy — we are much more likely to identify and
develop effective, sustainable solutions to the problems that both
educational institutions and communities face.
Traditionally, researchers in the academy have conducted studies and implemented interventions in communities with very little
input from residents. In many instances, this approach has resulted
in populations that mistrust researchers and research. This mistrust
then can present challenges for those who want to do participatory
work in communities and can, unfortunately, prevent the introduction of projects that actually might benefit those communities.
Over the last decade, a different approach has gained acceptance.
Community engagement research (CeR) and community-based
participatory research (CBPR) both are pieces of an approach
guided by the philosophy that interested communities should be
equal partners at the table when identifying, planning, implementing, evaluating and reporting on studies and interventions to be
conducted within their boundaries. Teaching, research and service
projects that grow out of this kind of collaboration take advantage
of skills and expertise from many sources, perhaps most especially
those of community members, while at the same time building the
capacity of communities to address issues on their own.
One such successful initiative is Oakland Neighborhoods
Engaged (ONE) Pittsburgh, which is one aspect of the University’s
Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s larger community
partnership. Designed to cultivate collaborations and apply the
principles of partnered research between community sites and the
academy, ONE Pittsburgh began with a series of interdisciplinary
workshops on key elements of CBPR, followed by primary data
collection with groups of community members in the Oakland area.
Issues of health and safety emerged as concerns, and findings to date
have been used to develop numerous partnerships for research and
service such as the Oakland Arts event held in August. This event
was organized by student interns at Community Health Services
Corp. to create an opportunity for Pitt students and community
members to meet each other in a neutral, non-combative space.
Another example is a project involving Pittsburgh Early Head
Start (EHS) families and Pitt researchers using a technique called
Photovoice. EHS families used disposable cameras to capture the
process of preparing their kindergarten-aged children to attend
school for the first time, then told their stories to the researchers
as they reviewed the photographs together. This work revealed
the importance of understanding both that underserved families
have their own perspectives on school readiness and that school
readiness is a community public health issue.
The University is the largest institution of higher learning in
southwestern Pennsylvania and a leader in the region. As such,
it is fitting for Pitt to showcase exciting and successful local
community-campus partnerships projects that have grown out of
mutual respect and appreciation for each other’s strengths. The
plenary session will help participants understand how this kind of
research can directly and sometimes immediately have a positive
impact on the community.
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The authors are members of the plenary session planning committee
co-chaired by Martha Ann Terry, assistant professor of behavioral and
community health sciences in the Graduate School of Public Health and
co-chair of the University Senate community relations committee. Michael
Yonas is assistant professor of family medicine. Adrienne Walnoha is
chief executive officer of Community Health Services Corp. Tracy Soska
is assistant professor, director of continuing education and director of the
community organization and social administration concentration in the
School of Social Work and a member of the University Senate community
relations committee.
OCTOBER 27, 2011
What is choice?
“What does choice mean in
the context of learning? In large
lecture classes you’re likely to
have half the class choose not to
come. That’s one choice. Second,
there is choosing to listen if you do
come. You chose to be here. But
that doesn’t mean you’re actively
taking in knowledge. The Internet, cell phones and other things
provide distractions that make it
easy to zone out,” Schunn said.
“Then there’s choosing to
think about what was said afterward. Do I really buy it? What does
it mean? If I’m expected to remember it afterwards, am I choosing
to be an active participant in the
learning — these are all pieces
of motivation. Am I choosing to
How to motivate students
A cognitive psychologist weighs in
practice it? Or will I understand
it only briefly? It takes extra work
to remember it and that requires
motivation. Studying leads to
success, so homework, practice
problems are important.”
Equally important is the learning environment, and that’s controlled by the instructor, Schunn
pointed out.
“I would argue that the expectation of success [in the classroom]
should be effort-dependent rather
than IQ-dependent or talentdependent,” he maintained.
There are two main barriers
to that expectation, Schunn said.
The first is that each class will have
students who think they can just
show up to class once in a while
and wing it. “That’s the way they
got by in high school, so why put in
the effort? That’s a rational choice
from their perspective, given what
they know.”
The other extreme is those students who believe that no matter
what they do they’ll fail, so there’s
no point in trying — also a rational
choice based on their beliefs.
“Either way, this ‘talent view,’
or IQ view, is very destructive,
both for those who think they have
it and aren’t trying and those who
think they don’t have it and aren’t
trying,” Schunn said. “If they have
a genetic view of intelligence, they
believe it can’t change, versus an
incremental view of intelligence
where you can always change how
intelligent you are if you put in the
effort. Intelligence is modifiable.”
Students express these kinds of
beliefs all the time, and disabusing
them of these notions is not easy,
but he said it can be done.
A student might say: “‘I’m just
not a writer. It’s not my thing.
It’s a genetic variable.” Schunn
said: “Attacking that view is very
important. You can change that
view to say: Effort, not talent, is
required for success in this course.
But if that’s not done early in the
semester, it may become too late.”
Most Pitt students were quite
successful in high school, Schunn
noted. “But did they apply effort?
They’d cram the night before,
they’d breeze through, they’d
wing it — that’s been good enough.
But it isn’t good enough here.” If
they don’t get that feedback early
on, you may lose them, he said.
What kind of models should
the instructor use to stimulate
interest in the discipline?
Virtually all academic disciplines have a history that includes
famous people. However, by
pointing to a discipline’s geniuses,
students become burdened with
the stereotype that only geniuses
can succeed, he pointed out.
“When we hold up models of
genius, we point to them as people
with innate talent. That plays into
the stereotype of the people who
have talent and the people who
don’t,” Schunn said. “Whereas
if you provide information about
how these people struggled along
the way to success, all the missteps, it shows the kind of effort
and problem-solving needed to
get there.”
How does an instructor get
across to the students what
is required to succeed in the
course?
“At the beginning of the
course, you can survey your
students to find out what their
expectations are, to find out what
people think they can get away
with and still succeed, as well as to
identify those who believe that no
matter how they try they’re going
to fail,” Schunn said.
What is the concept of value in
the educational context?
“For all of you who teach, your
discipline to you is super hot. You
love the thing you teach,” Schunn
said. Students rarely share that
enthusiasm, at least at first.
“Students need a reason to care
to be motivated. They don’t need
all the reasons, but they do need
at least one. You should always
be playing up reasons to care,”
he said.
One approach, called mastery motivation, is to emphasize
intrinsic value: This subject is
interesting in and of itself. Teachers should stress: “It is important
to understand this content, not to
get an A, but for its intrinsic value.
Intrinsic interest leads to learning
through increases in interest,”
Schunn said.
“And your discipline has many
elements in it. There are lots of
things that are of broad appeal,
and then there are the things with
narrow appeal. There are lots of
surveys you can do to measure
student interest” at the outset,
he said.
There also are methods to
increase that level of interest.
But there is a distinction
between gimmicks and real hooks,
Schunn pointed out. “You can put
on a clown suit when you teach,
and some people enjoy that kind
of thing. But it is counterproductive because essentially it reinforces the view that this subject
isn’t interesting on its own. It
becomes palatable only when we
add a whole lot of sugar on it,” he
maintained.
A different view is to look for
things in the discipline itself that
have a wow factor.
“An example of a real hook is
from my own teaching in psychology. There is a very interesting
study in which a group watches
a short video and they’re asked
to count how many times a basketball is passed back and forth,”
Schunn said.
In the middle of the video a
person in a gorilla suit walks in,
waves his arms and then walks out.
“At the end you ask how many
times the basketball was passed,
and you get answers from the viewers. Then you ask ‘Did anybody
Kimberly K. Barlow
T
he age-old question on
how to motivate students
this month got a cognitivepsychology treatment from a Pitt
research scientist.
“Motivation is one word, but in
fact is a really big thing with many
pieces,” said Christian Schunn,
associate professor of psychology
and research scientist at the Learning Research and Development
Center. “A student’s performance
can suffer from just one broken
piece. The solution depends on
what is broken, and the diagnosis
usually requires empirical work”
on the part of the instructor, he
said in a lecture titled “It’s Half
Time and You’re Behind: Motivating Students in and out of the
Classroom.”
The Oct. 10 lecture, sponsored
by the Center for Instructional
Development and Distance Education, was followed by a questionand-answer session with Pitt head
basketball coaches Agnus Berenato and Jamie Dixon (see page 4).
Traditional thinking on how
to motivate individuals in a broad
sense derived initially from an
economics concept on why people
make the choices they do, said
Schunn, who drew on psychological theory as well as performanceunder-pressure motivation.
“That idea begins with the
assumption that each person,
each buyer or seller, as a rational
thinker tries to optimize” what he
or she gets in return, he explained.
“This idea was popular in psychology 100 years ago but fell out of
favor. Educational psychologists
began believing that it’s bogus that
people are that rational or always
make rational choices. But over
the last 20 years in the study of
thinking and the study of motivation, it turns out that actually the
original insights were right, but
they need tweaking.”
Rather, Schunn said, in making
choices people exhibit a special
form of rationality: They will
make sensible choices, given what
they know about how achieving
success will benefit them versus
the amount of effort they believe
is required to achieve that success.
That analysis, he said, can be
codified into a simple formula:
Choice equals success times
value minus cost. In other words,
the choices a person makes are
coming from how successful they
will be if they make that choice,
multiplied by the value to them
of what they’re trying to achieve,
while subtracting the cost, that
is, the amount of effort it takes
to achieve that success.
Schunn then applied that
general formula to the context of
education.
Christian Schunn, faculty member in psychology and research scientist at the Learning Research and
Development Center, advises on how to motivate students.
notice anything else? Did anybody
notice the gorilla? No? Well, let’s
play it again.’
“They see the gorilla and you
hear, ‘Wow! Psychology is cool!’
That’s a very different approach
than if I taught wearing a gorilla
suit,” Schunn said.
Another approach to build
students’ interest is to focus on
the fundamental need in humans
to know things that affect them
directly, he said.
“The push is to have the
students feel that what they’re
working on has relatedness — that
need for what you’re working on
to somehow connect to who you
are, what you think of yourself.
That you also can assess by doing
surveys. How do students think of
themselves now and how do they
see themselves in the future?”
Schunn said.
Another method for raising
interest is to make students feel
competent. “Tell them: ‘I know it’s
hard, but you can do it.’ You want
to give them a certain amount of
autonomy, so they’ll feel competent. Too much autonomy is bad,
but you can give some sense of
choice, just not an infinite choice.
You can give hints: Tell them: ‘You
can explore this in this way, or do
you want to explore this in that
way?’ It allows them to build on
that relatedness,” he explained.
“There are external reasons to
care: There is the utility value,
when they learn how useful learning X is for their after-college
career or in their personal life,”
Schunn said.
To tie all these recommendations together, he said, “A basic
question for you as teachers is:
Do you know why your students
are taking your classes? Do you
ask them? Why did they sign up?
Some might be there only because
it’s required for their major or
minor, but many may have other
motives. Are they merely interlopers that show up? It makes a
difference in how you can motivate
them,” he said.
“You should tell your students
how the skills they learn are relevant to their personal and social
goals, which will vary. It’s also
important to note that not all
motivation derives from making
money or gaining fame — again,
returning to intrinsic value. There
are some social benefits to changing the world for the better. Actually, social change, social action
historically comes from a higher
percentage of people who are not
motivated by money or fame,”
Schunn said.
What is the cost in the learning
context?
“Often we create environments
where various things evolve into a
whole. You can think of things to
do at each step. The trick here is
to lower the incremental costs of
learning, to set in front of them
some simple steps,” Schunn said.
“If you’re asking someone: ‘Are
you committed to spending 1,000
hours on this major project — yes
or no?’ They’ll ask themselves:
‘Why am I doing this?’ Whereas
if you’re putting in front of them
a task that takes an hour, that
serves the purpose of lessening
the conflict between difficulty and
amount of effort.”
When students come into a
course thinking it will be very difficult and will require untold hours
of effort, an instructor can counter
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U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES
Mars vs. Venus
The coaches acknowledged a
gender-based difference in how
men and women learn and are
motivated.
Men’s coach Dixon recounted
a conversation with his sister, who
had coached women’s basketball at
West Point, about preparing for a
big game. “She told me they had
an ice cream party the night before
the game,” he said.
As for his men’s team? “We’re
not having any ice cream parties
with our guys. That’s the best way
to sum up the differences,” he said.
Women’s coach Berenato said
that stopping for ice cream as a
team is a favorite road trip ritual.
And, she said, “I’m a big question
girl,” asking her athletes about
their feelings. “With women,
feelings are very, very important.”
In Dixon’s practice sessions —
which Berenato can watch from
her courtside office in the Petersen
Events Center — he is able to
correct his players in ways that
would leave her players in tears.
The women players take constructive criticism very personally,
she said. “Women are so different
and it’s so true. They have to like
you; they don’t have to respect you.
… Also, women remember what
you say for constructive criticism,”
she said. “They remember every
time you tell them what they need
to do, and fail to listen to the other
10 things you told them they did
positive,” she said. “Men … they
want to play, and I think that’s
a big difference. It’s the feelings
and emotions, whereas the guys
probably don’t carry that into
the game.”
Dixon said his players’ desire to
someday play pro basketball is one
motivator. Fear works, too, even
if it’s not the best tactic, he said.
One basic motivation he
stresses is “don’t embarrass your
family,” he said. “That’s our simplest motivation.” Encouraging
them to make their friends, family
and hometown proud can provide
a positive motivating force.
He also looks to senior members of the team for leadership
in inspiring and motivating the
group.
Dixon said the coaching staff
uses real-life examples when
there’s news about athletes in other
programs who’ve gotten into
trouble. “We’ll read that to them
right after practice and show what
it could do to somebody’s career.”
Coaches also need to build
trust and demonstrate respect for
their players by being “consistent
and fair in how you treat kids,”
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How to motivate students
Coaches tell what works for them
he said.
Whether it’s a walk-on or the
team star, Dixon said it’s important
to make every player feel important. They need to know you care
about them off the court as well,
he said.
Passion and flexibility
To better motivate students,
professors would be wise to
demonstrate their own motivation and passion and be willing
to make changes when necessary,
Berenato said.
Just as in basketball practice,
where a coach can tell by the first
drill whether it will be a good practice, she said, “If it’s not going well,
you have to make a conscientious
choice as an educator to change
the course of the class.”
If motivation is flagging, “You
have to teach in a different way,”
she said. In practice, she can get
angry, or make the girls run,
which they hate. “Or, I can say,
‘Let’s finish this drill and pick it
up tomorrow’” and move on to
3-on-2, 2-on-1 drills to change
the pace.
She said professors have an
obligation to find what will motivate their students. When students
text under their desks or otherwise
demonstrate they’re not paying
attention, “You can’t say ‘get out’
or ‘your parents are wasting their
money,’” she said.
She advised the faculty, “Have
interaction with them. Throw
them out a question — ‘What
are your goals?’ Kids today are
really needy. They all want to feel
important and they’re entitled,”
she said. “So feed it. I don’t care
— feed their ego.”
Coaches have an advantage:
“Our kids come motivated. We
can recruit our kids,” Dixon said.
“If I’m going to have to motivate
a kid, I made a mistake two years
ago in recruiting.”
Dixon said many of his players are the first in their families
to attend college. “Their first
priority is basketball,” he said,
adding that his staff tries to
increase their motivation in the
classroom. Perhaps they’ve never
been encouraged to strive for a
3.0 GPA. Pushing them to go
beyond their limits — especially
in the classroom — starts early,
Dixon said.
Emphasizing the value of their
scholarship and the opportunity
they’ve been given can reinforce
recognition of how fortunate they
are to be here and to realize what
they’re working for. “Sometimes
they forget how tough this is,” he
said. “Emphasize what the goal is
at the end.”
Boosting skills
A faculty member asked how
to approach highly motivated
students who are accustomed to
being on top, then meet a task
that they can’t master immediately.
At Pitt, “every student on the
court is a star in their own right,”
with MVP, all-conference or allstate honors in their high school
careers, Berenato said. Suddenly,
they are surrounded by similar
stars. “They find out that everyone
Photos by Kimberly K. Barlow
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n a Q&A session following his
Oct. 10 talk on motivating students (see page 3), psychology
faculty member Christian Schunn
asked Pitt head basketball coaches
Agnus Berenato and Jamie Dixon
for insights on how they motivate
their student-athletes and how
their techniques might translate
to the classroom.
“Your classroom is your court;
my court is my classroom,” Berenato said, stressing that a teacher’s
own passion level is important
when it comes to motivating students to learn.
The coaches agreed they have
an advantage over professors when
it comes to getting to know their
students. “We’re with them 24/7;
you only have them three hours a
week,” Berenato told the faculty
audience. “We know everything
about our kids.”
Above: Women’s basketball
coach Agnus Berenato
Below: Men’s basketball coach
Jamie Dixon
else is the same or better,” she said.
“Women struggle much more, I
think, than men.”
Whereas men tend to devote
themselves to practice, practice,
practice, women can lose their
confidence and security when they
face the prospect of not measuring
up, Berenato said, pointing out the
gender differences once again. She
said, “I always tell my studentathletes, ‘It doesn’t matter, keep
practicing.’”
Pulling the player aside and
giving them some individual attention can be useful, she said. Dixon
agreed that different methods
work at different times, adding
that it’s important not to push
too hard when a student is down
or deflated.
They don’t want to let their
teammates down or look bad
in front of their peers, he said.
One-on-one pre-practice sessions
provide an opportunity for individuals to work on problem areas
without the entire team nearby.
Individual attention and help with
the problem areas demonstrates
that the coaches care, he said.
Insight into individual differences and moods is important as
well. “Every kid is different too,
and different at different times,”
Dixon said. If they’re feeling good
and have played well, they can
withstand a little tougher coaching than if they are down, he said.
The buck stops with the
coaches when it comes to motivating players, Berenato said, stressing the importance of recognizing
how best to handle different
personalities on the team. Some
players need to be taken aside and
corrected quietly, while others
respond to the opposite tack. For
some, “If spit wasn’t landing on
their face, I wasn’t getting through
to them,” she said.
The half-time talk
So what do coaches tell their
team at halftime to get that extra
motivation?
“There’s often times where I
just go off, and you probably can’t
go off,” Berenato told the faculty
audience. Small adjustments and
saving anything new for the second
half are among her strategies,
she said.
“With women, it has a lot to
do with motivation. Sometimes
you just have to turn the fire up a
little bit and hope they react to it.”
On the men’s team, “We don’t
panic if we’re not playing well,”
Dixon said. Sticking to the plan
and making small adjustments is
his strategy, adding that a positive self-fulfilling prophecy can
be beneficial: “Our guys believe
we’re better in the second half.”
In the context of the second
half of a two- or three-hour class,
Berenato joked that her half-time
motivational strategies would
include ice cream, Oreos or Jolly
Ranchers. “I don’t know who
would take a three-hour class,”
she joked. “I don’t have the attention span.”
Like coaches, teachers have
to recognize that students have
only so much to give physically
and mentally. “You really have to
pick and choose how much you
want from your kids,” she said.
Dixon said integrating activities that boost energy for slow
times is important — for his team
it’s competition drills or scrimmaging that lights the fire. Keep
that high-energy activity in hand
for such moments, he advised.
What’s important
In response to a faculty member’s inquiry about any “aha”
moments as they looked back, the
coaches showed that it’s not just
X’s and O’s that matter.
Dixon acknowledged that his
important lesson was learning to
reserve judgment after getting a
report that one of his players —
who’d recently been slipping in
his grades and performance — had
been arrested. Admittedly furious,
he said the player was fortunate
to be met by an assistant first the
following day. “He says he wasn’t
out,” the assistant told Dixon.
“I’d already convicted him,”
Dixon admitted, only to discover
someone had been impersonating
his player and using his name.
“Keep an open mind. Find out.
Make sure,” he advised, adding
that had he blown up at the player
it likely would have destroyed their
respect for each other. “Make sure
you have all the information first.”
Berenato’s revelation came as a
coach at Georgia Tech in a game
that followed the death of a player
in a traffic accident. Mid-game, as
the opposing coach was screaming
about a call and play was whistled
to a halt, her “aha” moment came.
Berenato thought to herself
in the heat of the moment: “Do
you know one of our players just
died? Do you know we were just
at a funeral eight hours ago? What
am I doing here?”
It became clear then, she said.
“Really, it’s about who we are. …
It’s not about what you do. It’s not
about the X’s and O’s but it’s all
about us being educators.” Berenato said she determined then that
“X’s and O’s will never take that
priority. But being an educator
and being a person and trying to
teach and educate will always be
important. We don’t ever know
how long we’re here.”
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Editor’s note: Links to the discussions are posted at www.cidde.pitt.
edu/teaching/fall-instructionaldevelopment-institute.
A cognitive psychologist weighs in
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that sense of being overwhelmed,
Schunn said. “You can say, ‘Well,
in general it is difficult, but how
hard is it for you to do X?’ So what
you’re really doing is lowering
the perceived incremental costs
of learning.”
Writing assignments are a
good example, he said. “It’s easier
to motivate students when the
small tasks build to larger ones, like
the process of writing goes from
jotting down notes, to informal
writing, to drafts to final versions,”
Schunn said.
“It’s also best to offer hints to
eliminate blind searches, which
can waste a lot of time off the
track. We want to challenge students, but sometimes we give them
assignments where they pursue
blind alleys. They’re approaching
it from completely wrong directions. They come to feel that this
class requires crazy amounts of
work and it’s not worth it,” he said.
Will this be on the test?
“An age-old student question:
How do I spend the time learning what I need to learn for the
test?” Schunn said. “Motivation
also plays itself out in counterproductive ways. A focus on fear
of failure can create failure. Some
students will say, ‘I just want to
not fail; that’s my goal,’ and that
becomes a performance avoidance
goal,” he said.
Research shows that such
performance avoidance affects
the complex reasoning skills,
Schunn said. “Worrying reduces
our working memory. Rather than
having the ‘head space’ to see it
through, your head space is filled
with anxiety. It happens at all levels
of performance.”
Schunn recommended that the
instructor at the beginning of a test
tell the students to take a couple
minutes and write out their worries. Tell them, “If you’re stressed,
say that,’” Schunn said. “This can
have very large benefits, especially
for the people with a stereotype
stigma of themselves as likely to
fail or those with the only goal of
not failing.”
—Peter Hart
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OCTOBER 27, 2011
OTM celebrates
record number of
invention disclosures
schools and the Swanson School
of Engineering. (See Sept. 29 University Times.)
• A mentoring and other
startup initiatives program that
supports innovators as they move
their innovations to market. The
program is funded in part by a
Pennsylvania Innovation Partnership grant.
• The Wells Student Health
Care Entrepreneurship Competition. Winners of this competition
for health sciences student-entrepreneurs are paired with business
mentors, who help prepare them
to participate in the technology
showcase at the University’s
annual science symposium. The
competition is funded by the
Michael G. Wells Entrepreneurial
Scholars Fund.
q
As evidenced by the record
number of disclosures, more
innovators are interested in participating in technology transfer
and commercialization of their
work. Increasingly, faculty are
viewing the continuum of research
as ending not with publication of
results, but with a product, Malandro said.
Faculty want their research
results to be as broadly applied
as they can be, but often lack
time — especially in a difficult
funding environment when the
importance of writing grants is
magnified. He said they need to
know that their time investment
in commercialization will be
worth it.
OTM’s reputation is growing
Mary Jane Bent/CIDDe
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n its annual Celebration of
Innovation, Pitt’s Office of
Technology Management
(OTM) recognized 60 faculty
members, staffers and students
whose innovations were licensed
or optioned to industry or startup
companies in fiscal year 2011.
The Pitt Innovator Awards were
presented Oct. 12 at the University Club.
“It was a great year,” said
OTM director Marc S. Malandro, associate vice chancellor for
Technology Management and
Commercialization.
Approximately 375 individuals were involved in a record 257
invention disclosures submitted in
FY11, an increase of 14 percent
from the year before. Disclosures
are the first step on the pathway
toward commercializing research
developed at the University.
According to OTM’s annual
report, 87 new patent applications were submitted in FY11,
an increase of 26 percent, and 37
patents were issued, an increase
of 12 percent.
Licensing and other revenue
totaled nearly $6.17 million,
including $3.82 million in licensing, $2.28 million in legal fee
reimbursements and $18,724 in
equity sales.
The 2011 results bring invention disclosures to 2,322 since
1996, when OTM was established.
In the past 15 years, 961 patent
applications were submitted, 441
patents were issued, 80 startups
were spun out of the University
and 685 licenses/options were
executed.
Two startups were formed in
FY11: Ortho-Tag, which uses
engineering professor Marlin
Mickle’s radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track
and monitor implanted artificial
joints, and LINC Design, which
is based on a barrier system for
wheelchairs on transit vehicles.
The latter innovation was developed by Linda van Roosmalen,
a visiting faculty member in the
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Department
of Rehabilitation Science and
Technology, and collaborator
Michael Turkovich.
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Five OTM initiatives were
started in fiscal year 2011:
• A life science startup accelerator program, which helps life
sciences companies commercialize Pitt-based innovations. The
partnership between the University, the Idea Foundry and the
Urban Redevelopment Authority
is funded by URA and a $200,000
Keystone Innovation Zone grant.
• An executive-in-residence
program, in which entrepreneurs
with startup business experience
shepherd commercially viable
innovations to market. (See Sept.
29 University Times.)
• A Coulter translational
partnership, in which the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has
awarded a five-year, $3.5 million
grant for collaborative translational research projects between
clinicians in the Health Sciences
Among
those at
this year’s
annual Celebration of
Innovation
were, from
left:
Provost
Patricia
Beeson;
Samir Saba,
medicine;
Marlin
Mickle,
computer
and electrical engineering,
and Ajay
Ogirala, also
of computer
and electrical engineering.
as innovators see results emerging from the pipeline that’s been
primed over the office’s 15-year
history.
Malandro pointed to two Pittbased startups with products that
are poised for the marketplace:
Cohera Medical and ALung
Technologies.
Cohera, which spun out in
2006, last month won approval to
sell its TissuGlu surgical adhesive
in the European Union. The product was developed by engineering
faculty member Eric Beckman
and former dental medicine faculty member Michael Buckley.
The company is pursuing FDA
approval and plans trials in the
United States next year.
ALung’s Hemolung catheterbased lung assistance device likewise is being used in Europe and
is poised for U.S. clinical trials
next year.
The company spun out in
2001, based on the respiratory
dialysis technology developed by
William Federspiel, director of the
medical devices laboratory at the
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and a professor in
the departments of chemical and
petroleum engineering, surgery
and bioengineering, in conjunction with the late Brack Hattler,
a cardiothoracic surgeon.
Malandro said he expects to
see startups and the number of
technologies out the door increase
under the new OTM initiatives.
“We should see several products
coming on the market every year,”
Malandro said.
“Our whole goal is to get as
many products out there as possible that can help people.”
Noting that the executivein-residence and life sciences
accelerator programs are bearing fruit, he said further cultural
changes are possible with the new
Coulter funding, which Malandro
said would build bridges between
Pitt’s upper and lower campuses.
The partnership will connect
engineering and health sciences
faculty with the goal of translating
research into practical applications. The Coulter grant “allows
a number of people to focus all
their energy in a specific direction”
— toward moving technology to
the marketplace, he said. “We saw
with the Coulter process we could
learn a lot from them on how to
do medical device translation a
better way.”
The culture of innovation also
is growing through word of mouth
among innovators themselves, said
Malandro, who added that trust is
developing. “They feel confident
that if they disclose, [their innovation] will be properly looked at
and properly managed,” he said.
“Everyone knows that the
University had the technology
transfer office,” he said, crediting
the faculty as central to increasing success. “Where it’s working
comes from colleagues.”
He noted that OTM’s 15-year
history “is a really short time in
technology transfer,” given that
the Bayh-Dole Act, which enabled
universities to commercialize
intellectual property arising from
federal funding, was put in place
in 1980.
“In a short time, we’ve had
some really great results,” he said.
“Fifteen years is just building the
foundation from which we can
spring forward.”
—Kimberly K. Barlow
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5
U N I V E R S I T Y TIMES
ONE
ON
ONE
Peter
DeNARDIS
This month, Peter L. DeNardis, senior management information analyst
in the Department of Planning and Analysis and a part-time instructor in the
Department of Computer Science, won a 2011 western Pennsylvania Jefferson
Award for his volunteer service to the International Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation (IWMF).
In addition to his Pitt responsibilities, DeNardis, who earned a Pitt MBA
and has completed coursework for a doctorate at the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs, volunteers up to 40 hours a month at IWMF. The
foundation was established in 1994 as a support group for those diagnosed
with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM), a rare — and incurable —
lymphomic cancer.
About 1,500 people are diagnosed with the disease in the United States
each year; worldwide, the ratio is approximately three per 1 million people.
DeNardis has served on the IWMF board since 2007, is the foundation’s
webmaster and has provided guidance to WM patients as manager of the discussion list, which boasts more than 1,500 members. He also speaks at the annual
IWMF educational forum, a national gathering of WM patients and families.
And DeNardis really knows of what he speaks: In 2003 at age 43, with a
wife of 20 years and kids aged 16, 14 and 7, he was diagnosed with WM and
told that the disease likely would kill him in a few years.
DeNardis — now 51, in remission for the past two years and determined
to beat the disease — sat down recently with University Times staff writer
Peter Hart to reflect on his life and WM’s impact on it, as well as to spread
the word about this rare disease.
UNIVERSITY TIMES: How did you
discover you had this disease?
DeNARDIS: It was through a routine
blood test. At the time — it was June
2003 — I was having some symptoms, but
I attributed them to over-work, just being
tired. Fatigue is one of the symptoms. I also
had night sweats and severe nose bleeds.
Those are classic symptoms, but at first I
didn’t know what it was.
I have another chronic condition — not
as bad as WM — called Crohn’s disease. I
found out about that in 1983. It’s not necessarily fatal, but it is a chronic illness that
affects your intestines. The first couple years
were rough, but ever since then I haven’t
had any symptoms, which is rare.
My gastroenterologist does blood work
every time I go in for a check-up. The
results came back that June, and he said,
“You have elevated protein levels. You need
to call this doctor.” A specialist.
But I put it off. Then [my doctor] called
me in September and asked, “Did you go
yet? You really have to go.” He normally
doesn’t call me. So I called the number and
the response on the other end was “Division of Hematology.” I said: Wait a minute:
Hematology? That sounds like cancer. So
I went in and was diagnosed [with WM]
in October.
At the time of the diagnosis, I was
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shocked, especially because it was incurable and also because normally it’s people
in their 60s who get it, not somebody in
their 40s. At the time, the prognosis was
seven years to live.
There are a lot of other factors associated with WM. It does affect your immune
system. It’s a blood cancer. Your B-cells
(white blood lymphocytes) are producing
proteins at levels that are out of control.
It’s the chemotherapy that brings that back
under control. But that affects all your
B-cells; unfortunately, even the good ones
go away. I was fortunate that I got treated
right away in 2004.
Did you have to alter your lifestyle as a
result of the diagnosis?
No, I was able to maintain a regular
working schedule and have regularly
scheduled chemotherapy sessions. But the
disease depressed my immune system, so
I just had to be careful.
I didn’t even lose my hair. Research has
advanced now in chemotherapy so there
are a lot of things they can do now to keep
you from losing your hair or getting sick,
at least for lymphoma.
Then I had five pretty good years of
remission. I’m not sure it’s called complete remission, because I still had some
abnormal blood values, just not enough to
Peter Hart
A Pitt staffer’s efforts
to help others is recognized
with a Jefferson Award
make me sick.
What was your reaction when you were
first diagnosed?
My wife and I went in together. And
the doctor wrote on his whiteboard, trying
to explain to me what my condition was.
So I said, “Well, okay, what can we do
about it?”
He said, “Well, there’s chemotherapy,
but the general consensus is you can expect
about seven or eight years of longevity.”
My wife and I just sat there, kind of
looking at each other. And he looked at
us and said, “You guys don’t look upset.” I
said, “Well, I’m just ready to fight it now.
I have children to think about.”
Did your experience with Crohn’s disease help prepare you?
I think that experience kind of gave me
a false sense of invincibility. But also it gave
me determination and the knowledge that
if I tried things I could beat it. Of course,
at the time I didn’t know the full ramifications of WM, but in the back of my mind
I was saying, “Okay, I’ve done this before,
I can do it again.”
So, from that point on it’s been basically
a battle. My concern, even right from the
start, was not for me but it was for my wife
and kids, that I might not be there for them.
Did you hold a family meeting after the
diagnosis?
Yeah. We thought a lot about what we
were going to say. We just told [the three
children] I was sick but that I was going to
get treatment and I would be okay. They
took it well; they were just concerned.
You said there have been rough spots
even after five years of remission. Did
the disease recur?
Yes. We went on vacation to Italy. And
right before I came back I started to have
flu-like symptoms and coughing, and when
I got back to the United States, I realized
my immune system had gone out of whack.
I had noticed beforehand that some of my
bad blood values were trending upward. Not
too significantly, but still I saw a pattern, so
I knew something was coming.
So after I came back, I started to get odd
symptoms and infections and severe back
pain. I learned the disease was reoccurring
and I had a tumor at the base of my spine,
which is rare also. Only about 10 percent
of WM patients get that. So, I was hitting
the lottery once again. I’d be rich if it wasn’t
disease-related (laughs).
Did you need an operation to remove
the tumor?
No, it was a combination of chemo and
radiation, although that time I did lose my
hair. That was almost two years ago.
When the disease recurred, did you have
to stop working?
The folks here were very flexible, and
I’m really appreciative of what they did. I
was able to work at home on certain occasions. Other occasions, of course, I had to
use up my vacation and sick time, and I had
to go on short-term disability for a time.
Still, they worked very carefully with me
to make sure that things worked out. Every
employer should be like that.
Other than your determination, is there
anything that has helped you cope with
this disease?
I still go to church and we would tell
people at our church to put me on their
prayer lists. People in the church’s support
group would say yes to that. One person
even said when she went to Israel, she went
so far as to go to the Wailing Wall and put a
note in there for me. Covering all bases — I
think that helped, I don’t know. I can’t be
sure, but I can’t discount it, because medically we still can’t pinpoint what worked,
other than maybe it was the combination
of chemo and radiation, but still for others
with WM that doesn’t work. Every experience with this disease is different.
I count myself fortunate, put it that
way. Maybe it was the good intentions, the
positive thought processes or whatever. But
I’m back in remission and have been for
two years. All the blood work is normal,
although I have a lingering reminder:
peripheral neuropathy in my right foot,
where basically your foot gets numb, but
you also get shooting nerve pain.
Do you think of yourself as a survivor?
I think of myself as a warrior. Survivor is
too passive for me. My experience, though,
has led me to be a supporter of others.
What that comes from is that when I was
first diagnosed I contacted other people
who had the disease and they helped me.
So through that whole process I just felt,
Jeez, those people helped me, I should be
able to help other people, because there are
always new people being diagnosed. Kind
of a mentorship.
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How do you advise other patients?
It’s usually by email or the Internet,
but also by phone. Once a year we have
a major gathering that rotates among
different cities, and that’s all coordinated
through the IWMF. The foundation was
started in ’94 by a patient who happened to
be a pharmacist. I guess having a medical
background he was surprised at the rarity
of the disease, but more surprised by the
lack of information about it. He decided
to do something about it. IWMF started
out as a small support group, and then
branched out to be an organization that
reaches around the world.
When you speak at the IWMF educational forums, what is your message?
We usually have 200-300 patients
attending, along with their spouse or
significant other. The IWMF researchers,
the doctors are there, too. At the last event
they had what they call the veteran panels
— it’s kind of odd now to me that after so
many years I’m now a veteran. Three of
us spoke about our experiences, and I presented everything I went through. I tried
to present it in a positive light: Here I am
and I feel fine, but I have had some rough
patches. And the comments we got back,
some of them said, “That was great to know
that.” Others felt, “That was so depressing,”
because they’re newly diagnosed and they
come in hearing what sounds to them like
horror stories. But to me it was like: This
is fantastic; I’ve been able to beat these
obstacles. So, it’s all a matter of perspective.
What advice do you give fellow WM
patients?
I tell people to educate yourself about
the disease and what the treatment options
are. Understand your body. Understand the
medical tests and results, and be a proactive patient, your own advocate in a sense.
Understand that most of these oncologists
or hematologists are busy treating a wide
array of patients. There’s no way they know
every detail about your disease. I tell people
to get educated and keep the doctor and
even the hospital on their toes. They’re
human. They have your best interests at
heart, but they’re worked to their stress
limit and they make mistakes, so you have
to watch out for yourself.
And I tell patients: Life goes on, no
matter what your condition is. The important thing is to try to remember to enjoy
things, knowing that you still have the same
stresses, you still have to pay the bills, you
still have to take care of the kids. But every
once in a while there are still things that
you should enjoy, that you shouldn’t pass
up. I also tell them to take advantage of the
IWMF resources.
Which are?
It is a nonprofit, almost entirely volunteer-run. What’s interesting to me about
the organization is what they have achieved,
which is creating this informational booklet
for patients — and for doctors — about
different tests, about manifestations of the
disease, and making those available upon
request for free.
There’s no underwriting. I guess you’d
say it’s paid for by volunteers, by gifts from
the patients and families themselves. It’s
not a glamour disease. It’s not like we can
put the picture of a kid on the cover and
say: Help this kid stay alive. Parents and
grandparents get it mostly, so it’s not sexy,
it’s not glamorous, but it impacts a lot of
lives: children, grandchildren.
Does the disease strike men and women
equally?
Yes, it’s equally men and women, and
predominantly Caucasian.
Have WM researchers made any headway in combating the disease?
Because it is so rare it’s hard for doctors
to get the critical mass of numbers to make
scientific judgments. The foundation also
funds research. Some of the newer areas of
research, directly because of our involvement, include creating a cell line, which is
basically the collection of cells put in a test
tube where they can run different types of
tests against them. That didn’t exist before.
Also, we have a mouse model now. They’ve
injected the tumors into the mice and now
they’ve been able to create a mouse with
this particular type of disease, so they can
run clinical tests. There’s no known genetic
element to the disease; not yet.
Are there other developments that give
you hope?
Yes. At IWMF we now have a patient
database. We’re still fine-tuning it, but now
we can do an average, like the average age
that people were diagnosed. We have 200
enrolled now. There are not many rare diseases that have anything like that. We have
an internationally renowned researcher on
our board of trustees who is interested in
it, WM and myeloma.
The object right now is to make WM a
treatable chronic disease that you can live
with. The researchers realize that cancer
is a complex disease and a cure is a far-off
target.
But the treatments have progressed.
When I was first diagnosed they were saying
seven years is the projected longevity; now,
they’re saying around 11-15, primarily
because of a neuro-class of drugs called
monoclonal antibodies, which are new,
developed in the last decade or so. But
now there are other targeted therapies in
development that may change the landscape
again. And I think this resource — the
Volunteers sought for Pitt Veterans Day roll call
Pitt’s Office of Veterans Services (OVS) needs volunteers for a Remembrance Day
National Roll Call event honoring the more than 6,200 military personnel who have
lost their lives in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, OVS will host the event in the William Pitt Union
lower lounge. Volunteers each will read 50 names of fallen service members, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Some 130-150 volunteers are needed.
Events throughout the day will include: at 9 a.m. an ROTC Color Guard opening ceremony and speaker Vice Chancellor Renny Clark; the reading of the names;
a pause for the national moment of silence at 2 p.m.; continuation of the reading of
names, and a closing Color Guard ceremony at approximately 4 p.m.
“We want volunteers to be able to come for a few minutes based on their schedules,” said OVS spokesperson Harry Crytzer. “We timed-out reading 50 names, and
it should take only about 5 minutes of the volunteer’s time.”
To date, some 120 schools in 43 states plus the District of Columbia have agreed
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Volunteers at Pitt should contact OVS staff member Arielle Juberg at 412/624-1689
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OCTOBER 27, 2011
Sestak: Knowledge, not capacity,
is key in preventing terrorism
K
nowledge, speed and a
coordinated response are
key in preventing acts of
terrorism on U.S. soil, said Admiral Joseph Sestak Jr. in his Oct. 20
lecture “The Role of Intelligence
in Counterterror Strategy.” Pitt’s
Center for National Preparedness
hosted the former Pennsylvania
congressman in Alumni Hall as
its first seminar series speaker for
the fall term.
Sestak drew from his experience as former deputy chief of
naval operations and as former
head of the Navy’s “Deep Blue”
counterterror program as he
described what he’d learned and
what he believes must change in
order to better protect the nation.
“It’s no longer capacity, it’s
capability based on knowledge,”
he said, arguing that although it’s
critical that the nation shift away
from measuring its defense prowess in terms of size, the political
culture has been slow to refocus.
q
Knowledge, Sestak said, “is the
real domain of warfare today and
in the future.”
Early in the war on terror it
became evident that cyberspace
was important to prevention.
What was most needed, he said,
was the ability to procure intelligence rapidly — whether from
humans or satellites — then pass
it on quickly for joint interagency
assessment and possible action.
While some would cut foreign aid and assistance, Sestak
touted the value of allies in the
information-gathering process:
“I don’t think they’ve ever been
more critical than they are today.”
Whether it’s information from
individuals or organizations,
“we need that intelligence from
somewhere ‘over there,’” he said,
adding that “over there” is where
we want to keep, find and destroy
adversaries.
That takes money. “When
you think about friends and allies,
sometimes we have to invest to get
a return for our benefit, for our
security,” he said.
“There’s no more foreign or
domestic policy. There is security
policy,” Sestak said in calling for
a restructuring of the National
Security Council, which he said
remains dominated “by those who
think about what happens overseas
as ‘foreign’ policy.”
Some agencies that play a valuable role are slowed in their ability
to respond quickly because they
are under-resourced in comparison to defense. “I think this has
led to an over-militarization of
the global war on terror,” he said.
For instance, quickly imposing financial sanctions — on a
nation such as Libya, for instance
— might be desirable, but could
be slowed by lack of resources if
the Department of the Treasury
is under-resourced compared to
the Department of Defense.
The nation continues to measure its prowess in terms of size:
how many ships, airplanes or bases
it has. Now, however, “it’s all about
the knowledge.”
A plan several years ago to cut
the number of Navy submarines in
favor of moving money into other
areas of knowledge warfare — such
as underwater sensor systems to
identify vessels on the seas —
“went nowhere. Not just because
of naval or defense department
opposition, but because that is
jobs in Groton, Connecticut, and
other places where the submarines
are built,” he said.
Although knowledge is the
most critical element for the
future, the culture hasn’t permitted the shift toward it to be as fast
as it might, Sestak said.
He argued that the nation must
shift from measuring its defense
prowess in terms of size “and
recognize the new measurement
is knowledge, the speed to act in
response to that knowledge — not
because someone struck us — and
coordination so vital among these
agencies,” to ensure against terrorist attacks.
—Kimberly K. Barlow
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CHANCELLOR’S AWARD FOR STAFF
EXCELLENCE IN
SERVICE TO THE
COMMUNITY
Kimberly K. Barlow
Former congressman Joseph Sestak Jr. spoke on “The Role of
Intelligence in Counterterror Strategy” Oct. 20.
CHANCELLOR’S AWARD FOR STAFF
EXCELLENCE IN
2012
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY 2012
Nominations are being solicited for this University-wide award
to recognize staff members whose dedication and effort have
made their community a better place to live and have improved
quality of life for others. This award is given annually to part-time
or full-time staff members who have been employed at the
University for a minimum of five years. Nominations can be made
by individuals, groups, students, or alumni. Self-nominations
are allowed. If you know of a staff member whose work in the
community surpasses the expectations of the organization(s) he
or she serves, and whose commitment and effort have made
a significant impact on the community while also demonstrating
a consistent pattern of dedication to the University, please visit
www.hr.pitt.edu/chancellors-award to review the nomination
guidelines and complete the online nomination form. The
nomination will be reviewed to confirm that the nominee is
eligible, after which the nominee, nominee’s supervisor, and
nominator will receive notice of the nomination along with a
request for additional information.
Nominations are being solicited for this University-wide award
to recognize staff members who have made outstanding
contributions to the University. This award is given annually
to part-time or full-time staff members who have been employed
at the University for a minimum of five years. Nominations
can be made by individuals, groups, students, or alumni.
Self-nominations are allowed. If you know of a staff member
whose work demonstrates a consistent pattern of extraordinary
dedication to the University, above and beyond the
responsibilities of the nominee’s position, please visit
www.hr.pitt.edu/chancellors-award to review the nomination
guidelines and complete the online nomination form. The
nomination will be reviewed to confirm that the nominee is
eligible, after which the nominee, nominee’s supervisor, and
nominator will receive notice of the nomination along with a
request for additional information.
The nomination deadline is Monday, November 14, 2011.
A committee appointed by the Chancellor and chaired by Jane W.
Thompson will review the nominations and materials submitted
and will select up to five people to be honored. For more information,
please visit www.hr.pitt.edu/chancellors-award-nominate.
A committee appointed by the Chancellor and chaired by Jane W.
Thompson will review the nominations and materials submitted
and will select up to five people to be honored. For more information,
please visit www.hr.pitt.edu/chancellors-award-nominate.
The nomination deadline is Monday, November 14, 2011.
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Making Pittsburgh
“MOST LIVABLE”
for everyone
Mary Jane Bent/CIDDE
P
ittsburgh’s accolades are
many and wide-ranging.
In recent years the city has
been rated highly on numerous
lists and rankings, including those
that peg Pittsburgh as “a great
place to work,” “a wonderful place
for community services,” “top 7 in
public schools,” “best place to raise
a family,” “most affordable city”
and the grand-daddy of rankings:
“No. 1 most-livable city in the
United States.”
“What makes Pittsburgh most
livable?” asked John Wallace,
associate professor of social work,
who spoke on “Making Pittsburgh
‘Most Livable’ for All: Lessons
Being Learned From the Homewood Children’s Village.”
Wallace, who is founder of the
fledgling Homewood Children’s
Village community initiative,
delivered the Provost’s Inaugural
Lecture Oct. 18, celebrating his
appointment as the Philip Hallen
Chair in Community Health and
Social Justice.
“First of all, comparing Pittsburgh to other cities, our unemployment is low. Our crime rate,
using the example of homicides,
compared to the rest of the country also is low. Income growth
between 2000 and 2009 is 140
percent. We have a low cost of
living, and a median home price
in Pittsburgh of about $140,000
compared to about $220,000 for
the rest of the country. Our arts are
small scale, but world-class. These
are the metrics,” Wallace said.
But, he said, closer scrutiny
of those metrics tells a different
story for those — primarily African Americans — living in one
of a half-dozen of Pittsburgh’s 90
neighborhoods, with concentrations of high unemployment, high
crime rates, vacant housing, poor
schools and, in general, impoverished conditions.
“The question then becomes:
Most livable for whom? What the
data suggest is that there are two
Pittsburghs,” Wallace maintained.
While city-wide income
growth in the last decade was
140 percent, African-Americans’
income increased only 22 percent.
The city of Pittsburgh’s homicide
rate is 4.8 per 100,000 people, “but
if you’re a young African-American male, it’s 60 times greater,”
Wallace said. The unemployment
rate for whites is 6.3 percent versus
11 percent for blacks.
“When you look at Pittsburgh,
you all remember the mills
closed in the 1970s. When a city
experiences 140,000 jobs lost,
and particularly in industry and
manufacturing, positions in which
African-American men, uneducated men, are concentrated, it
has a tremendous adverse effect
on communities,” Wallace said.
Among the 40 largest metro
areas in America, Pittsburgh has
the highest rate of working-age
African Americans living in poverty, he said.
“When work disappears, those
who can’t afford to leave are stuck.
Communities become bereft of
people with jobs, people who have
to get up and go to work every
day. What is it like to grow up in
a community where you don’t see
people get up in the morning and
have somewhere to be? What does
that mean when an alarm clock is
never set?” Wallace asked.
“These two worlds are so
separated that neither knows
nor understands largely how the
other lives. Have you ever been to
John Wallace, the Philip Hallen Chair in Community Health and Social Justice and founder of the
fledgling Homewood Children’s Village community initiative
LeMont or the Tin Angel? On the
other hand, have you ever tried to
carry six bags of groceries on the
bus? Two different worlds.”
What happened in Pittsburgh, simply, is that the city
has concentrations of poverty,
he said. Homewood, East Hills,
Lemington, Garfield, the Hill
District and Glen Hazel are the
most challenged neighborhoods,
and the most isolated.
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Turning to Homewood, where
he is pastor of the Bible Center
Church of God in Christ, Wallace
told the audience why he decided
to start the Homewood Children’s
Village (HCV), a comprehensive,
cradle-to-career community project designed to improve the lives
of the neighborhood’s kids.
“My inspiration: I was going
to a meeting at the YMCA [in
Homewood] and the Y was organizing their summer camp. There
were little kids 4-5 years old there,
and the counselor said, ‘Okay,
everybody get in line.’ And one
little boy said, ‘Are we going to
jail?’” Wallace recounted.
“There comes a time in your
life when something changes. It
goes from being just intellectual
and interesting to be a calling.
When I think about my own son,
at 4 years old if he was asked to
line up he would never ask, ‘Are
we going to jail?’ I asked myself:
Do I want for others’ children
what I want for my own? That’s a
disturbing question. And, second:
Am I willing to work to achieve
it?” he said.
Wallace looked for answers and
was influenced by the acclaimed
Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ),
which, using a holistic approach,
serves more than 10,000 children
in a 100-block area of central
Harlem, New York. By focusing
efforts on all the neighborhood
stakeholders, including children
and families who live, learn, work
and worship there, HCZ strives to
rebuild the community so children
can stay on track through college
and go on to the job market, essentially the same goals that Wallace
has for Homewood.
“We get inspiration from
Harlem. The mission of the
Homewood Children’s Village is
to improve the lives of children
and reweave the fabric of the
community in which they live.”
HCV was established as a notfor-profit organization in 2009,
and now boasts support from local
foundations and community organizations, as well as the United
Way, Department of Human
Services, Pitt’s School of Social
Work, which provides interns, and
Pitt’s Office of Research, which
provided start-up funding.
“You cannot, cannot, cannot
transform children’s lives without
addressing the context in which
they live: the neighborhood; the
household; the sets of relationships; the social capital that connects them to one another and
that connects them to outside of
their community. Our vision is
to provide opportunity for every
child on their terms to the best
of their ability to go out into the
world and get work.”
Some HCV projects include
Bridge to Benefits, which assists
families with children in securing
available benefits and community
services in order to avert financial
crises; the Westinghouse Lighthouse Project, which strives to
develop young people who are
civically engaged, developmentally and academically prepared
for college, and the Pittsburgh
Prep program, which works via
mentors to decrease the school
drop-out rate by encouraging
attendance, modifying behavior
and stressing class performance.
Homewood is a perfect incubator for HVC, Wallace said.
The neighborhood’s population
has dipped from almost 40,000
in 1950 to 6,600 today. Of those,
2,100 are young; 98 percent are
African American.
“Almost 90 percent of the kids
have free or reduced-cost lunches;
three-quarters of the kids are
living below the poverty level.
This is really not hard to figure
out: Concentrated problems suggest the need for concentrated
efforts,” Wallace said.
“But we spend millions of
dollars on interventions, trying
to figure out stuff that works, but
it never gets from the university
to the community,” he said. “Our
idea is to take the best of what
we know and link it end-to-end:
the best of what we know about
parenting, about early childhood,
about how to educate little kids,
about issues in adolescence and
about getting kids eventually to
college.”
That is a steep hill to climb,
he said, especially given that these
children are starting way behind
most of their peers. Last year at
Westinghouse High School, only
3 percent of 9th and 10th graders
were deemed proficient in science,
7 percent in math. That compares
to 40 percent student proficiency
in science and 60 percent in math
in schools across Pennsylvania.
Wallace noted that the recently
established Pittsburgh Promise
provides up to $40,000 in scholarship funding to any Pennsylvania
higher education institution for
qualified city students, that is
those who achieve a 2.5 grade
point average and a 90 percent
attendance rate.
“For poor black kids in Homewood that makes a big, giant,
humongous difference,” he said.
But the percentage of children
in local high schools who are Pittsburgh Promise-eligible differs
widely. At the Pittsburgh Creative
and Performing Arts school it is
85 percent; at Allderdice it is 70
percent. At Westinghouse that
number dips to 7 percent.
“What are we doing about this?
First of all, we convene partners.
We’re trying to build an umbrella
for all the people and organizations, every program, that deals
with kids,” he said. HCV coordinates programs and services to
avoid duplication and waste.
“We build capacity. That
means connecting someone to
someone, it’s raising money, it’s
expanding programs. Our conceptual model, how we work, is
beginning before birth, working
with parents [about what good
parenting is],” Wallace said. “And
we focus on the two-thirds of children who aren’t in a Head Start
program. If we can do for other
people’s kids what we do for our
own children, we’ll be successful.”
But there are many barriers
to success, he acknowledged,
recounting a suburban news story
involving a squirrel that was run
over by a car. Grief counselors
were sent to the school where it
happened, he said. Meanwhile, in
Homewood, where homicide is
not rare, “I’ve never seen a grief
counselor, ever, in Homewood.
Why is that? Perhaps some people’s children are more valuable
than others?”
And parents, for instance those
working two jobs to make ends
meet, often are not engaged in
their children’s lives, Wallace
noted. “I heard one parent say to
a teacher, ‘You’re going to love
my son, because I ain’t taught him
nothing.’”
What has Wallace learned
from his HCV work?
“I learned umbrellas are better
than silos. It’s important to come
together as a community,” Wallace
said. “I learned many kids come
to school ‘unavailable to learn.’
Kids’ minds and emotions are
elsewhere, often on what goes on
before they even get to school, like
having to take care of a younger
sibling. To address that, teachers
have to meet and greet, listen and
ask if there’s a problem. Many kids
don’t have positive relationships
with adults. When you see a young
person on the street, rather that
clutching your bag, say ‘Good
morning, young man’ or ‘Good
morning, young lady.’ Simple
stuff, but it can make all the difference in their world.”
Poor young people also face
logistical problems.
“When kids have to get up
at 6:45 and walk to get to school
that starts at 7:30 — How many of
you would walk two miles in the
dark from East Liberty to Westinghouse in Homewood? And we
wonder why kids are late. The
result turns into a warning, into
suspension into — and, oh by the
way, you can’t get the Pittsburgh
Promise,” Wallace said.
“Academics aren’t enough.
Children’s social, emotional issues
have to be addressed. All the stuff
that we do for our own kids.
“The assumption is not that
these children are deficient, it’s not
that they can’t learn. It’s that they
lack opportunity. Adults need to
be held accountable. No excuses.
None of ‘Well, the mother’s on
drugs, the father’s not home,’ all
the reasons we use to explain why
kids are failing. The grown folks
have to be responsible,” Wallace
maintained.
“Kids are nested in families
and families are nested in communities. Pittsburgh has about
six communities where the vast
majority of this drama lives, and
our notion is that Homewood is
the franchise prototype for how
to do this kind of work. Our goal
is once we fix those six neighborhoods, we’ll make Pittsburgh most
livable for all.”
—Peter Hart
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Kimberly M. Bailey
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Manimalha Balasubramani
James L. Baldwin
Sara E. Balitski
Judith L. Balk
Kenneth Raymond Balkey
Gayle Lightfoot Ball
Shani Lynn Ballani
Jill M. Ballard
Joan E. Ballas
Francis A. Balog
Sondra A. Balouris
Carolyn Ban
Michael Kim Ban
Susan L. Ban
Bryan D. Bancroft
George C. Bandik
Ipsita Banerjee
Ralph Louis Bangs
Layla Banihashemi
Catherine M. Baranet
Karen A. Barbadora
Aaron Barchowsky
Susan Elizabeth Bare
Lynn I. Barger
Leonce L. Bargeron
Emma J. M. Barinas-Mitchell
Patricia L. Barkell
Elana Rachel Barkowitz
David Barnard
Vickilyn Barnot
Daniel T. Barr
William Walker Barrington
Matthew R. Barry
Elizabeth Kompaniec Barsom
Brian A. Barth
Daniel Dunlop Bartholomae
David L. Bartlett
Ronald E. Bartlett
Kristen M. Bartoli
John David Barton
Christa Elizabeth Bartos
Gary Bash
Michael J. Bashline
Debra Colbus Bass
Per H. Basse
Sheldon Ira Bastacky
Kelly A. Bateman
Aaron P. Batista
Nikola Bayat
Elena Annette Baylis
Rama Bazaz
Herbert Bazron
Michael Beach
Edwin H. Beachler
Maureen R. Beal
Todd M. Bear
Antoinette Renda Beasley
Sheila Beasley
Patricia E. Beatty
Rodger L. Beatty
Dianna Beaver
Sally Beck McNulty
Joseph R. Beck
Quincella Becton
Lillian L. Beeson
Patricia Beeson
Jaideep Behari
Christopher A. Belasco
Aaron W. Bell
John E. Bell
Rachelle L. Bell
Tara S. Bell
Velouise Bell
Brandi Liskey Belleau
George Gust Bellios
Elisabeth T. Bell-Loncella
Catherine Marie Benchoff
Catherine Marie Bender
Gretchen Holtzapple Bender
Theresa Benedek
Thomas G. Benedek
Mary Louise Benedetti
Ronald L. Bennett
Linda A. Berardi - Demo
Agnus M. Berenato
Richard W. Berg
Anthony Christopher Berich
Carol L. Beringer
Kimberly Beringer
Ronald O. Berkman
David Martin Berkowitz
Jose Francisco Bernardo
Lisa Marie Bernardo
Ellen Sue Berne
Suzanne Bertera
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Gina Bertocci
Marianne Harris Bertolet
Elisa Eileen Beshero-Bondar
Nicole Marie Beswick
Jan Hendrik Beumer
Douglas M. Bevan
Mary Kathryn Biagini
Andrea C. Bianco
Tyler E. Bias
Rebecca Felt Bickel
Daphne Bicket
Bopaya Bidanda
Meghan E. Bielich
Steven Allen Bienio
Deborah M. Biernesser
Debra Diane Biggerstaff
Karen S. Billingsley
Sharon Hixson Bindas
Ronald S. Binder
Julie Ann Bish
Stephanie J. Bissel
David J. Bissonette
Laura Esther Blackman
Lisa Rose Blackrick
Diane Elizabeth Blackwell
Charles Michael Blackwood
Andrew R. Blair
Sharon Stewart Blake
Robert O. Blanc
David A. Blandino
Dennis Blasiole
Dale A. Blasko
Alice Maus Blazeck
Richard Lowell Blevins
Karen K. Block
Sue Anne Bloom
Charles D. Bluestone
Eileen Chasens Blumenfeld
George Board
Julius A. Boatwright
*Brian J. Bobby
*Kelly Stell Bobby
Judith A. Bobenage
Carl D. Bodenschatz
Richard John Bodnar
Michael L. Bodolosky
Susan E. Boehm
Andrew R. Bogaty
Debra Louise Bogen
Charles Edward Bogosta
Matthew D. Bohn
Kevin R. Bohner
Jennifer A. Boles
Rosemary Sgriccia Bolinger
Monica A. Bolland
John O. Bolvin
Joseph J. Bon
John Edwin Bonaroti
Gregory H. Bondar
Vasyl Bondarenko
Richard Paul Bondi
Cynthia May Bonetti
Donald M. Bonidie
Michael John Bonidie
Janet Teemer Bonk
Brian Peter Bonnar
Heather Elizabeth Bonnar
Michelle M. Bopp
Ernest Joseph Borghetti
Laura Beth Borish
Harvey S. Borovetz
James J. Borowski
Luann Borowski
Susan Lynn Borowski
Bernard G. Borum
Kelly L. Bossola
Carole A. Bost
Janeen R. Bost
Thomas John Bost
Jacqueline Marie Bosworth
Rita E. Botts
Charles David Boucek
Lynn Owens Boucek
Robert M. Boudreau
Paul R. Bouthellier
Robert D. Bowden
Marcus J. Bowman
Daniel Boyanovsky
Elise A. Boyas
Mary Beth Boylan
Thomas Edward Boyle
Christopher J. Bozym
James P. Bracaglia
Cynthia K. Bradley-King
Robert Whipple Bragdon
Deborah Lynn Brake
Randall E. Brand
Rhonda Metter Brand
Ronald A. Brand
Gerald Brandacher
Barbara W. Brandom
Sandra E. Brandon
Joann E. Brant
Hilary M. Braun
Thomas W. Braun
Jennifer Lowery Brauser
Betty J. Braxter
David Alan Brent
Lauren Michelle Breskovich
Sarah Jane Brett
John C. Brigham
Lu Ann Lynn Brink
Joan E. Britten
Hernán Brizuela
Linda Brizuela
Joyce Ruth Broadwick
Jeffrey L. Brodsky
Zachary L. Brodt
Suzanne O. Brody
Joyce Toby Bromberger
Kristy Lynn Bronder
Maria Mori Brooks
Teresa Kissane Brostoff
Elsie Rita Broussard
Andrew J. Brown
Jacob E. Brown
Quinten Cabot Brown
Rochelle A. Brown
Sherry Miller Brown
*Walter E. Brown
Todd A. Brownfield
Clifford Brubaker
April D. Bruce
Kirk M. Bruce
Joseph W. Brucker
Adam Brufsky
E. Maxine Bruhns
Kay Michelle Brummond
Joseph J. Brun
*Timothy Robert Brundrett
David J. Bruno
Stephen Bruno
Lance Michael Brunton
Lisa D. Brush
Peter Leonid Brusilovsky
George R. Bryant
Thomas Bryant
Andrew David Bryer
Carl W. Bryner
Mary Jo Bryner
Joyce Bucchi
Rhea Buccigrossi
William G. Buchanan
Casey Bucher
David Steele Buck
Linda L. Buck
Robin Lynn Buck
Lawrence Allan Bucklew
Michael J. Buckley
Robert Michael Budd
Marianne L. Budziszewski
Kathleen W. Buechel
Sandra S. Buehner
Charles Buffington
Joanne E. Buffo
Diemthuy Duc Bui
Kevin V. Bui
Leigh A. Bukowski
Gregory Matthew Bump
Clareann H. Bunker
Mark David Burdsall
John H. Burk
Donald S. Burke
Jeffrey David Burke
Linda Beerbower Burke
Lora E. Burke
Timothy F. Burke
John M. Burkoff
Nancy M. Burkoff
Alex J. Burkowsky
Charles P. Bud Burnett
Helen Kissell Burns
Lorene Marie Burns
Patrick Raymond Burns
Karen Manning Bursic
Stuart S. Burstein
Barbara Stern Burstin
Edward Alan Burton
Steven A. Burton
Sidney N. Busis
Ashley C. Butela
Glenn Allen Buterbaugh
Bret A. Butler
Briana R. Butler
Christopher Sean Byland
Lauren M. Byland
Mary T. Byrnes
Linda M. Cadaret
Ohad Cadji
Helen Grove Cahalane
John Francis Cahalane
James Gordon Cain
Brigid E. Cakouros
Keith J. Caldwell
Judith A. Callan
Bernadette G. Callery
Derek T. Callihan
Jeremy P. Callinan
Judy Ann Cameron
John C. Camillus
Amanda A. Campbell
Gerard Lawrence Campbell
Patric E. Campbell
Timothy Canavan
Carol A. Capson
Jeffrey L. Carasiti
Joyce D. Carbaugh
John P. Card
Mary Ellen Carey
Robert E. Carey
Beatrice Anne Carlin
Melanie J. Carosi
Marci B. Carothers
J. Timothy Carr
Linda S. Carr
Wendy Marie Carricato
Andrew P. Carrizales
Russellyn Sandra Carruth
William Carson
Robert A. Carter
Jennifer Lorraine Cartier
Donna Dvorsky Caruthers
David Paul Casale
Carol Jean Casey
Michael Patrick Casey
Paul B. Casey
Frances Elizabeth Casillo
James P. Cassaro
Margaretha L. Casselbrant
Brenda Lee Cassidy
Shannon Lynn Cataldi
Cindy M. Cavallero
Elizabeth A. Cavanaugh
Ellen Patricia Cecchetti
Susan Cecchetti
Reena S. Cecchini
Barbara Ellen Cek
Patricia Frantz Cercone
H. Daniel Cessna
Steven M. Cetra
Alexander C. Chacon
John Martin Chadam
Martha Chaiklin
John R. Chaillet
Sue M. Challinor
Peter Gordon Chambers
Yvonne Ruoh Lei Chan
Julie Chandler
Jason Sungkwon Chang
Yue-Fang Chang
Chloe-Chlothilde E. Chapman
Toby Marshall Chapman
Denise C. Charron-Prochownik
Gurkamal Singh Chatta
Charma D. Chaussard
Diane E. Cheek
Anna Marie Chekan
John Drew Chelosky
Qianyi Chen
Yong-Zhuo Chen
Shiyuan Cheng
Kadiamada N. Chengappa
Christine A. Chergi
Marc K. Cherna
Lori L. Cherup
Maryam A. Chiani
Andrew B. Chikes
SueMoy Mary Chin
Jason Anthony Chippich
Michael Allen Chirdon-Jones
Denise Chisholm
Marcia E. Chmill
JiYeon Choi
Wolfgang J. Choyke
Brian A. Christopher
Panos K. Chrysanthis
Charleen T. Chu
Edward Chu
Tianjiao Chu
Albert E. Chung
Tammy Ann Chung
William Lee Chung
Ming King Chyu
Lee Ann Wagner Cica
Brady Michael Cillo
John R. Claherty
Sam Clancy
G. Reynolds Clark
Gloria R. Clark
Lynette V. Bethune Clark
Patricia Heller Clark
Theresa A. Clark
Thuy M. Clark
Lynne Evette Clarke
Robert Leonard Classens
Gilles Clermont
Annabelle Clippinger
Brian T. Clista
Donna Sue Close
John M. Close
Kelly Buller Close
Patricia Anne Cluss
Shelley K. Cockrell
Scott W. Coffman
Lynn Elizabeth Coghill
Charles C. Cohen
Diane Roth Cohen
Elan Cohen
Frayda Naomi Cohen
Laurie Cohen
Peter Zelig Cohen
Richard L. Cohen
Susan M. Cohen
Barbara Ann Cohlan
Zachary H. Cohle
Ellen R. Cohn
D. Kathleen Colborn
Eileen M. Cole
Theresa J. Colecchia
Richard Zane Coleman
Nicholas J. Coles
Kim C. Coley
Richard D. Collage
Ronna Sarsfield Colland
Diane Marie Collins
Mark Joseph Collins
Patricia L. Colorito
Joseph Patrick Colosimo
Patricia M. Colosimo
Megann E. Colwell
Lidia Comini Turzai
Sheila Elaine Confer
*Kevin Michael Conley
Yvette Perry Conley
Patricia Anne Connell
Pamela Wilkins Connelly
Sharon E. Connor
Lee Ann Conover
Brian D. Conrad
Gregory M. Constantine
Leo M. Constantino
Rose Eva Bana Constantino
Sheila J. Conway
Kathleen C. Cook
Paul Michael Cook
Elizabeth Cooper
Gregory F. Cooper
Lorraine A. Cooper
Martin Howard Cooper
N. John Cooper
Rory A. Cooper
Rosemarie Cooper
Doris Kathleen Cope
Valire Carr Copeland
David A. Coplan
Brian R. Copple
*Sarah A. Cordek
Pamela Ross Cordero
Sharon E. Corey
Patrick D. Cornell
Karin Corsi Payne
Frank Joseph Costa
Tina Costacou
Joseph Paul Costantino
James Stephen Costlow
Brendan M. Coticchia
Gregory Michael Coticchia
Gina Marie Coudriet
Anita Pauline Courcoulas
Elizabeth L. Cox
James Alexander Cox
Richard J. Cox
James A. Craft
Elizabeth A. Crago
Joshua A. Craig
Donald Crammond
Gary Addison Cravener
Thomas Patrick Crawford
Tracy L. Crawford
Tara L. Crespy
Richard L. Cribbs
Frederic W. Crock
Thomas William Crock
Dennis M. Crovella
Deborah Anne Crowley-Lisowski
Harry R. Crytzer
Jamez P. Crytzer
Sharon Lee Cubarney
Mary Ellen Chorazy Cuccaro
Michael Allen Cuddy
Anthony Vincent Cugini
Cheng Cui
Xinyan Cui
Colleen Margaret Culley
James David Currier
Scott Robert Curry
Julie Ann Cursi
Gloria A. Curtis
Steven James Custer
Jill M. Cyranowski
Victoria C. Czarnek
Anne Czerwinski
David Joseph Dabbs
Kristin Marie D’Acunto
*Joseph Robert Dailey
Meredith Mary Dailey
Patricia Lorraine Dalby
David Dalessandro
John P. Dalessandro
Robert P. Daley
Daniel William Daliman
Thomas Joseph Damski
Jack L. Daniel
Joyce Ann D’Antonio
Patrick H. Danvers
Javid Ahmad Dar
Joseph Michael Darby
Brandi S. Darr
Christina M. Daub
Nancy E. Davidson
Brian Peter Davies
Erin D. Davies
Marilyn Brickner Davies
Sarah E. Davin
Brian Marc Davis
Derek J. Davis
Larry Earl Davis
Jan Davis
Lacey L. Davis
Monique C. Davis
Paula Kay Davis
Peter J. Davis
Richard P. Davis
Timothy James Davis
Jon M. Davison
Billy W. Day
Debra H. Day
Nancy L. Day
Richard D. Day
Carolyn De La Cruz
Olivier De Montmollin
Anna Louise De Witt
Albert Paul DeAmicis
Sean Denaro Dean
Robin A. Deangelo
Anthony DeArdo
Carol Frick DeArment
Lisa M. DeBellis
Richard E. Debski
Diann Blank DeCenzo
Jason J. Dechant
Marie Colette DeFrances
Donald L. DeFurio
Gina M. Deible
David N. DeJong
Steven T. DeKosky
Kelli Marie DeLallo
John T. Delaney
Linda K. Delaney
Ryan Patrick Delaney
Emily Nicole DeLeo
William T. Delfyett
Anthony Delitto
Ronna Sue Delitto
Laurie B. Dennis
Renette Delle Donne
Christopher DeLuca
Neal A. DeLuca
Nicholas R. Deluca
Linda Ann DeLuco
William Alfred DelVecchio
Peter Nicholas Demas
Julie M. Demel
Chelsea N. Demerice
Daniel J. Dennehy
Tammy Lee Dennis
Mary Rychcik Derkach
Kyle A. DeRoner
Frederick R. DeRubertis
Sandra DesLouches
Emily E. DeStefano
Ellen Gay Detlefsen
Matthias Stephan Dettmer
Ernest Dettore
Melvin Deutsch
Susan Irene Devan
Robert P. Devaty
Alejandro Dever
Terri L. Devereaux
Janice Ann Devine
Joan Marie Devine
* Annette J. DeVito-Dabbs
Bernard J. Devlin
Kelly M. DeVoogd
Kathleen M. Dewalt
James C. Dewar
Stephanie Buck Dewar
Charlene Susan Dezzutti
Adrianne A. Dias
Hollis Ann DiBiasi
Laura Jean Dietz
Robert Charles Dilks
Autumn M. Dillaman
Rebecca DiMedio
Lorraine A. DiMeno
John D. Dimoff
Sadie L. DiMuzio
Mark Albert DiNardo
Theresa Marie Dinardo
Andrea O. Dinga
Charles Dinsmore
Jill F. Dione
Maria L. Diril
Amie R. DiTomasso
Denise A. DiTommaso
Balwant Narayan Dixit
Bettina A. Dixon
Jamie P. Dixon
Nam H. Do
Michael Anthony Dobos
John Mark Dobransky
Constance I. Dobrich
Patricia Isabel Documet
Judith Lomakin Dodd
David C. Doerfler
Richard Joseph Doerfler
Yohei Doi
Brent David Doiron
Donna M. Dombek
Alexandre Yurievitc Dombrovski
Robyn Therese Domsic
William F. Donaldson
Kathleen A. Donatelli
Michael J. Donnadio
Albert D. Donnenberg
Eric Christian Donny
Shannon D. Donofry
Caroline Donohue
Donna J. Donovan
Heidi S. Donovan
Terence Michael Doran
Michele L. Dorfsman
Janice Scully Dorman
James K. Doty
Monica A. Dougherty
William Francis Dougherty
Gerald Paul Douglas
Deborah Jean Downey
Kelly Cesaretti Downing
Scott Richard Drab
Jon Draeger
Sam Dragan
Kathy Ann Dragone
Peter Francis Drain
Iva N. Drasinover
Seymour Drescher
Karen J. Dreyer
Robert Joseph Drombosky
Eamon T. Drury
Jennifer Lynn Dubbs
John J. Dube
Gary Dubin
Thomas E. Dubis
Jeffrey P. Dubovecky
Mark Anthony Duca
Patricia M. Duck
Amelia L. Duckett
Robert L. Duda
Linda Anne Dudjak
Jessica Lee Duell
John Duffy
Ann M. Dugan
Melissa J. Dukes
Richard Paul Dum
Elizabeth C. Dummer
Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob
Dean Michael Duncan
Susan Mitchell Dunmire
Leslie O. Dunn
William N. Dunn
Brent Alan Dunworth
Stephanine Sue Duplaga
Corrine Durisko
John Michael Duska
Kristine M. Dwyer
Ervin Ellis Dyer
Julia Marie Dykstra
James Viers Earle
Erin T. Eaton
Sarah J. Ecklund
Stephanie Arlene Eckstrom
Daniel Israel Edelstone
Deborah Lynn Edwards
Jon Edwards
Pamela A. Edwards
Robert Gordon Edwards
Loreto Adriana Egana
Ann Marie Egloff
James S. Eiben
Steven W. Eichenlaub
Martin E. Eichner
Amy Lynn Eidenshink
Nathaniel W. Eilert
Julie L. Eiseman
Samar Riyad El Khoudary Abushaban
Janet M. Elder
Matthew C. Elder
Mary Patricia Elhattab
Thistle Inga Elias
Andrew W. Eller
Amy Lyn Elliott
Margaret A. Elliott
Peter G. Ellis
Jenelle M. Elmquist
Sandra Joyce Engberg
Rafael J. Engel
Robert Leo Engelmeier
Johnathan A. Engh
Sharon Slingerland England
Stephen Engstrom
Robert Michael Enick
Michael Francis Ennis
Arnold Mark Epstein
Barbara A. Epstein
W. Arthur Erbe
William E. Erdlen
Richard T. Esch
Apryl Eshelman
Michael R. Espina
Denise Ann Esposto
Erin C. Estabrook
Ellen R. Estomin
Joseluis F. Estrada
Nancy B. Estrada
Kenneth R. Etzel
Andrew Richard Evans
Carol Evans
John H. Evans
K. James Evans
Steven A. Evans
Carys Evans-Corrales
Thomas John Evansky
F. Eugene Ewing
Kevin B. Faaborg
Louis A. Fabian
* Tanya Joye Fabian
James R. Faeder
Becky Lee Faett
Donald James Faith
Andrew D. Falk
Joel Falk
Louis Dominick Falo
Pouran Famili
Abimbola Omolola Fapohunda
Adam M. Farkas
Russell M. Farr
Kaitlin F. Farrell
Kenneth Edward Fasanella
Carrie C. Fascetti
Bahar Fata
Christina Marie Fatzinger
Attilio Favorini
Roxann Marie Favors
Jody Marie Federer
William Federspiel
Haya Sara Feig
Jody E. Feiner
Brian David Feingold
Wendy K. Fellows Mayle
Jennifer Whitehurst Fellows
Elizabeth M. Felter
Kathleen Mary Fennell
Laura Ann Fennimore
* Andrew J. Feola
Richard J. Fera
Stephen M. Ferber
Alicia L. Ferguson
Barbara Jean Ferketish
Laura A. Ferree
* Christopher Charles Ferris
Robert Louis Ferris
Carl Irwin Fertman
Lawrence Lee Feth
Kimberly A. Fetsick
Linda Sue Feuster
Catherine Elizabeth Fickley
Stephanie R. Fiely
Julie A. Fiez
Margaret Anne Figore
Patricia Filipiak Kirch
David N. Finegold
Joseph William Fink
Cheryl Schratz Finlay
Marie A. Fioravanti
Roberta M. Fiore
Lisa M. Fiorentino
Raymond Edward Firth
John M. Fisch
Donald R. Fischer
Gary S. Fischer
James Herbert Fischerkeller
Amanda M. Fisher
Anne Marie Fisher
Barry W. Fisher
Bernard Fisher
D. Michael Fisher
G. Kelley Fitzgerald
Kelsey M. Fitzgerald
Lynn Mary Fitzgerald
Lisa M. Fitzsimmons
Regan Scott Flannagan
Harry M. Flechtner
Diane M. Fleishman
Kimberly Flessner
John C. Flickinger
Paul Edward Floreancig
Roger R. Flynn
Lisa Y. Foertsch
Rick A. Fogle
Mary M. Folan
* Barbara Louise Folb
William P. Follansbee
Laura A. Fonzi
Katherine A. Forleo
Lissa M. Foster
Ronald Earl Fowkes
Linda Rose Frank
Marietta A. Frank
Robert Julius Frankeny
Joan H. Franklin
Richard Franklin
Brian Joseph Frankowski
Anne B. Franks
Gordon Fraser
John Frechione
Richard G. Frederick
Barbara W. Fredette
Connor R. Freer
Ayres Mario Freitas
Jay Michael Frerotte
Colleen S. Frey
Linda Lee Freytag
Thomas R. Friberg
Linda Faith Fried
Timothy J. Friedberg
Samuel A. Friede
Eric Jason Friedlander
Edward S. Friedman
Patricia Weiss Friedman
Irene Hanson Frieze
Ronald W. Frisch
Rachel Froehlich
Lawrence A. Frolik
Kristin N. Fromholzer
Freddie H. K. Fu
Julie Elizabeth Fulesday
Ernest Leroy Fullerton
Mark A. Fulton
Sunny Fulton
Mira Gornick Funari
James L. Funderburgh
Rachel Fusco
Michael D. Gaber
Karen Roche Galey
R. Kent Galey
Anita Rieger Gallagher
Jere D. Gallagher
Robert P. Gallagher
Dennis Galletta
Renee Michelle Galloway
Robin Elizabeth Gandley
Shameem Gangjee
Mary Ganguli
Rohan Ganguli
Bin Gao
Linda J. Garand
Calixto Isaac Garcia
Kara Lisa Gardner
Paul Andrew Gardner
Alan Arthur Garfinkel
Louise M. Gargis
Tony Gaskew
Thomas M. Gasmire
Cynthia Louise Gastgeb
Colleen Gaughan
James J. Gavel
Karen Gavula
Abby L. Gearhart
Raymond R. Geary
David A. Geller
Cynthia L. Genard
Frank Nicholas Genovese
Amanda Gentry
William Keith Gentz
Donna Jean George
Kathleen Elizabeth George
Erica M. Germanoski
Joseph F. Germanoski
Lynette M. Gerner
George J. Gerneth
Larisa Geskin
Elodie Ghedin
Jessica L. Ghilani
Mary Elizabeth Gibbons
Patricia K. Gibbons
Robert B. Gibbs
Alice Springer Gibson
Anthony Lamont Gibson
Donald E. Gibson
Kevin F. Gibson
Michael Kevin Gibson
Susan D. Giegel
Robert John Gilbert
Susan Marie Gilbert
Janie M. Gilchrist
Ariel G. Gildengers
Cynthia J. Gill
Keith B. Gillogly
Michael Lawrence Gimbel
Eugene Hugh Ginchereau
Annette Mae Giovanazzi
Joseph Albert Giovannitti
John Philip Gismondi
Anthony C. Giunta
Rachel Joy Givelber
Peyman Givi
Mark Thomas Gladwin
Laurence Glasco
Nancy Glazener
Sherrianne M. Gleason
Susan Renee Gleason
Jeffery Gleim
Leon J. Gleser
Ronald M. Glick
James R. Gnarra
Ted A. Gobillot
Gregory John Godla
Amanda Joan Godley
Walter Orr Goehring
Valerie A. Goff Whitecap
Jeffrey Scott Goff
Robert D. Goga
Barry I. Gold
Cynthia Golden
Bernard D. Goldstein
Gerald Goldstein
Thomas Golightly
Susanne M. Gollin
Helen D. Golubic
Diana P. Gomez
Guillermo Rica Gonzalez Burgos
Luis Suarez Gonzalez
Barbara K. Good
Henry M. Goodelman
William E. Gooding
Sara Goodkind
Mark A. Goodman
Edward John Goralczyk
Richard M. Gordon
Elieser Gorelik
Nancy L. Gorsha
Kimberly Lewis Gottschalk
Daniel A. Gotwald
Albert H. Gough
Donald H. Goughler
Balasubramani K. Goundappa
Michael F. Gowen
Joseph J. Grabowski
Paula Grabowski
Jean A. Grace
Larysa S. Gradeck
Anthony R. Graham
Christina L. Graham
Joseph William Graham
Steven Hunt Graham
Cynthia Gralewski
Jennifer Grandis
Robert A. Gratzmiller
Matthew F. Grau
James A. Graves
Georgia J. Gray
Richard L. Green
Sandra M. Green
Todd David Green
William T. Green
Brandy L. Greenawalt
* Megan Catherine Greenawalt
Janelle Greenberg
K. Elizabeth Greene
Carla Howell Greenfield
Sayre Greenfield
Joel Bruce Greenhouse
Catherine Greeno
James G. Greeno
John Gordon Greeno
Susan Lynn Greenspan
John Joseph Grefenstette
Emily Gress Stayshich
Elizabeth Cleland Greville
Steven Charles Gribar
Jennifer Marie Griffin
Kristopher R. Grimes
Michael Lillis Grimes
Stephen K. Grivnow
Nancy Frambach Grove
Susan S. Grove
Suzanne A. Grove
Robin E. Grubs
Harry Joseph Gruener
Lorelei J. Grunwaldt
Geraldine Michelle Grzybek
Marah Jean Gubar
Christopher Thomas Gubish
Vanessa Lee Guenther
Francois J. Guilleux
* Stephanie Constance Guimond
Brooke H. Gunter
Zong Sheng Guo
Anil Gupta
Anupam Kumar Gupta
Phalguni Gupta
David Gur
Margaret Flaherty Gurtner
Kimlee Gustafson
Kristin Gusten
Jeffrey C. Guterman
Bernice Eleanore Gutowski-Budd
Kristin L. Guynn
Gregory Guzewicz
Patsy B. Guzzi
James F. Gyure
Jeanann Croft Haas
Michael Brian Haas
F. Gary Haberle
Linda Patricia Haberman
Miguel Ernesto Habeych
Kevin M. Hadi
Tanya J. Hagen
Patricia C. Hagerich
Sigrid Anne Hagg
Neale M. Hahn
Jean M. Hale
Anna Doris Halechko
Deanne L. Hall
Tamara Lee Haller
Mike D. Hamane
Marie J. Hamblett
Jona Edith Hammer
Max Daniel Hammer
Marcia A. Hammerle
Jie Han
Alan Mark Hancock
Linda Lee Hand
Steven Mark Handler
* Margaret S. Hannan
Meredith J. Hanrahan
Stephanie Hanville
Bruce W. Hapke
Mary Elizabeth Happ
Lois C. Harder
Rachel Page Hardie
Steven Edward Hardin
Beverly Harding
Jeremy E. Hare
Gail Forwood Harger
Yvonne A. Harlow
Christopher D. Harner
Maria Lourdes Harper
Thomas R. Harper
Susan M. Harrier
Ann B. Harris
Robert E. Harris
Sheleah L. Harris
Lee H. Harrison
Ross Harrison
Beverly A. Harris-Schenz
Mark B. Harshberger
Brian K. Hart
Jonathan Adam Hart
Kathleen James Hartle
Colleen C. Hartner
Joan Harvey
Andrea Cortese Hassett
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faculty members in the group
exceeded inflation.
Employee numbers
DeJong spoke to the issue of
faculty and staff numbers, noting
that Pitt far exceeds most of the
AAU public schools in research
output, ranking No. 4 in National
Institutes of Health funding
(behind Michigan, Washington
University in St. Louis and Berkeley) and sixth in total government
funding.
“Relative to the AAU average,
we’re way off the charts and that’s
going to make our [employee]
counts high,” he said.
DeJong presented a chart
prepared by the University, comparing Pittsburgh campus FTE
employees, excluding medicine,
with the AAU median. (DeJong
told the University Times later
that he preferred using the
median, rather than an average, to
provide a more accurate statistic.)
The Pittsburgh campus’s FTE
instruction, research and public
service faculty of 2,005 excluding
medicine, ranks No. 14, below the
AAU median of 2,192, DeJong
said. With 453 executives/administrators/management employees,
the campus ranks No. 25, below
the AAU median of 349. Pitt ranks
No. 15 in other professionals with
2,737, below the median of 2,921,
No. 6 in non-professionals with
1,284, below the median of 2,623,
according to the University’s figures. Overall, he said, the campus
was No. 13 with 6,480, below the
median of 8,085.
“To say in [Baker’s] report we
are high relative to the AAU publics, when you exclude medicine,
is not true,” DeJong said.
BPC pro-tem committee
member Linda Rinaman commented, “some of these schools
are half our size, some are twice
our size.” She asked for enrollment
to be factored into the equation.
DeJong agreed to follow up on
her request.
Tuition discounts
DeJong addressed tuition
discounts, noting they too were a
UPBC priority. “It’s true we have
made a point, particularly in the
difficult economy we’re facing, to
be sensitive to meeting the need of
our students. We do meet a higher
proportion of need than some of
our other competitors,” he said.
However, he called into question Baker’s analysis, which used
IPEDS data to calculate the
average tuition after discounts
for first time undergraduates as
$10,897 for in-state students (80
percent of the published in-state
rate of $13,642) and $13,943 for
out-of state students (60 percent
of the published out-of-state rate
of $23,290) in 2008-09.
DeJong said Baker’s additional
assertion that out-of-state freshmen paid only about $300 above
published in-state tuition rates
failed to account for several factors, including the fact that federal,
state and local government aid
cuts students’ tuition bills while
still counting as revenue to the
University. While institutional
aid is provided by Pitt, the other
categories, which include Pell
and PHEAA grants, “obviously
reduce the financial burden to
the students of attending Pitt, but
that’s money for us, revenue for us
that we use to finance academic
programs,” he said.
He also expressed concern
about Baker’s analysis that calculated tuition discounts (for
all students) from unrestricted
funds at more than $109.6 million. “The institutional funding
that’s reported there is a combination of aid that we provide to
undergraduate students as well as
graduate and professional students
including students in the medical
school who don’t even show up in
our budget on the lower campus.
This paints a highly misleading
picture because of three things:
First of all, we know the funding
models for graduate and professional students are completely
different from funding models for
undergraduate students. Second
of all, we know that graduate
and professional school students
come disproportionately from out
of state. And third of all, at Pitt,
we’ve got a disproportionately
high number of graduate and
professional students relative to
the AAU publics.”
DeJong presented a net undergraduate tuition calculation,
weighted for in-state and outof-state students, that showed
overall net undergraduate tuition
averaged $14,058 at Pitt in FY11.
“After we discount institutionally financed aid to our undergraduates, we’re the third mostexpensive school among the AAU
publics,” he said.
“The impression you get from
the [Baker] report is violently at
odds with this calculation,” he said.
Although DeJong distributed
a list of net tuition figures the
administration calculated for
the AAU peers, he said some
were based on “guesstimates”
to account for multiple ways the
institutions define their student
populations. “Fact books are
very different across institutions.
Some institutions, like us, have
a very clear dichotomy between
what our undergraduate, in- and
out-of-state numbers are; some
institutions — there were a couple
we just couldn’t find anything on
for what they were, so we excluded
them — other institutions do inand out-of-state based on total
populations including graduate
populations and we know that
those are not representative, so
we had to do some work to try to
figure out what the ratios look like
for undergrads. We had to make a
couple of approximations.”
He also presented an institutional funding model the administration uses in comparison with
a dozen peer and aspirational peer
schools that includes Michigan,
North Carolina, Ohio State,
Virginia and Penn State.
The schools were identified
only by a letter of the alphabet,
rather than by name. The reason
for hiding their identities was that
while some of the data were publicly available, some come from
surveys the University administers. “They respond under the
guarantee that we provide that we
will not reveal their data specifically,” DeJong said.
Pitt’s out-of-state tuition and
fees for all students, graduate
and undergraduate, for FY09
was $23,200, fifth-highest in the
group. Adjusting for institutionally financed scholarships and
financial aid averaging $1,200
per student and a $7,500 in-state
student tuition differential, Pitt
ranked sixth in the group, with
tuition averaging $14,500. Factor-
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Lawrence Ming Wei
Pamela J. Weid
Gregory J. Weidner
Melissa R. Weidner
Jason M. Weimer
Jillian Rebecca Wein
Kimberly Weinberg
Lee Snyder Weinberg
* Matthew A. Weinstein
Steven Darrow Weisbord
Christopher M. Weiss
Cody P. Weiss
Robert Frederick Weiss
Joel L. Weissfeld
Mark Joseph Weixel
James D. Weldon
Alan H. Wells
Celeste M. Welsh
Debra Ann Welsh
Karen Ann Welsh
Brandon C. Welt
Jennifer M. Welton
Marian Wencil-Tracey
Alex C. Wendler
Sally E. Wenzel
Shannon M. Werkmeister
Joseph S. Werlinich
Charles F. Werner
Cindy L. Wertz
Robin D. Weschitz
Susan Watters Wesmiller
David Norman Wessel
Kenneth Paul West
Robin V. West
Gregory Weston
R. Stanton Wettick
Robert J. Weyant
Diana J. Whalen
Larry J. Whatule
David C. Whitcomb
Michael John White
Patricia Lomando White
Teraya Danelle White
Theresa L. White
John Ryan Whiteford
Karen A. Whitehead
Elizabeth A. Whitehouse
Ellen M. Whyte
Karen E. Wickersham
Susan Marie Wieczorek
John C. Wiersch
Jorg Michael Wiezorek
Charles V. Wigle
Durand T. Wilder
John Milton Wilds
Mary Elizabeth Peterson
Wilkins
Timothy M. Willenken
Carol A. Williams
John Bates Williams
John P. Williams
Kathy A. Williams
Laurie J. Williams
Mary Carole Williams
Steven E. Williams
Susan Strauss Williams
Mary Ellen Williams-Candek
Joseph J. Wilson
Maria R. Wilson
Mark A. Wilson
Molly E. Wilson
Norma J. Wilson
Thurman Wingrove
Elizabeth A. Winter
Peter Wipf
Stephen R. Wisniewski
Elspeth A. Wissner
Selma F. Witchel
James Scott Withers
Beverly Williams Withiam
Robert Edward Witkowski
Gail A. Wolf
Paula J. Wolf
Eric J. Wolfe
Lee Klein Wolfson
Michael R. Wollman
Chaim-Gadi Wollstein
Ronit Wollstein
Dewi Wong
Savio L. Y. Woo
Diana Marston Wood
James J. Wood
Carrie Annette Woods
Matthew E. Woodske
Jennifer Eugenia Woodward
Barbara L. Woolcott
Kelley Sacco Wooldridge
James L. Woomer
Virginia Gail Ratliff Woomer
Eric A. Wrenn
Dianne F. Wrocklage Dakis
Klaus Wuersig
Dane Kent Wukich
Linda K. Wykoff
Danielle Marie WymardTomlinson
David A. Wyszomierski
Yaqin Xia
Siyu Xiao
Wen Xie
Lauren Yaich
Mehmet Yalin
Hidenori Yamatani
Kyeongra Yang
Linda Susan Yankoski
Billy Joe Yates
Feifei Ye
John L. Yeager
Joelleen Yerace
Joseph Wai Sang Yip
William Henry Young
William K. Young
Julius S. Youngner
Rina Claire Youngner
Thomas E. Youngs
Samuel A. Yousem
Hashim A. Yousif
Jian Yu
Victor L. Yu
Bell Yung
Roger E. Zahab
Maliha Zahid
Joseph Zairo
Deborah Smiach Zakrzwski
Sara A. Zakutney
Dianne Marie Zalenski
Abdolreza Zarnegar
Hassane Mohamed Zarour
Susan R. Zavage Grivnow
Ronald J. Zboray
Julia A. Zebley
Judith Frances Zedreck
Gonzalez
Herbert J. Zeh
Jamie Michele Zelazny
Karen D. Zellars
Michael Alan Zemaitis
Loretta M. Zerby
Aiyuan Zhang
Haihui Zhang
Lin Zhang
Xianghong Zhang
Yingze Zhang
Jinming Zhao
Bin Zheng
Ping Zheng
Leming Zhou
Kimberly A. Ziance
John G. Ziats
Timothy F. Ziaukas
Jacqueline Zidanic
Shanta M. Zimmer
Deborah Ann Zipay
Megan E. Zirkel
Barbara Ann Zischkau
Susan Jean Zitterbart
Edward J. Zivic
Joseph M. Zmuda
Nicole C. Zottola
Xiuying Zou
Marilyn Zrust
Kathleen J. Zubal
Carey Anne Zucca
Brian Scott Zuckerbraun
Noel S. Zuckerbraun
Daniel Mark Zuckerman
Laura Wirth Zullo
Thomas Guy Zullo
Barbara Anne Zupcic
ing in the relative effect of perstudent state appropriations “is
where we get destroyed,” he said.
When adjusted for state support
of $4,500 per student, Pitt ranked
No. 11 — third-lowest among
the peer group, with an adjusted
average tuition of about $20,000.
“It’s not our financial aid policies that are causing us a challenge
in funding our undergraduate and
professional programs, our academic programs. It’s the amount
of money we’re getting from the
commonwealth, and that’s not
shocking news.”
Part-time teaching
Baker’s Sept. 30 report cited
FY10 Snyder Report data submitted to the state, which indicated
that one-third of FTE faculty are
part time and that they taught 42
percent of the total classroom
student credit hours.
In response, DeJong said the
report is “very, very misleading”
in terms of showing the number
of classes taught by part-time
faculty. “Every credit hour that we
offer has to show up in that report
somehow or other,” he said. Recitation sessions taught by graduate
students, wellness program offerings, study abroad and courses
associated with Pitt’s college in
high school program all show up
as student credit hours taught by
part-time faculty, he said.
“Eighty-two percent of our
instructional faculty are assistant,
associate or full professors and
they are teaching between 70-75
percent of the courses,” DeJong
said.
What’s next?
Lacking a quorum, BPC took
no action on the information
presented, but members suggested
finding ways to better understand the University’s goals and
directions in terms of its student
population, rather than debating
data sources and their analyses.
Committee member Michael
Spring said, “Every number we
use gets qualified about 15 ways,”
making it difficult to analyze the
issues. But he said he found the
discussion healthy even amid
the discrepancies in data. More
productive, he suggested, would
be to better understand the University’s intended direction. “Do
we want to increase the number
of out-of-state students? Do we
want to increase the international
students? How do we want to view
this? I think these are all good and
healthy questions.”
Baker told the University
Times he expects additional discussion at BPC’s next meeting,
set for 12:10 p.m. Nov. 11. The
location, typically 512 CL, had
not been confirmed at press time.
q
In other business, DeJong
also responded to a concern that
some administrators had not notified employees about their salary
increases in a timely manner, nor
were all informing employees
of their right to request salary
reconsiderations.
He said he would discuss with
Ronald Frisch, associate vice chancellor for Human Resources, the
merits of issuing a reminder when
each year’s salary pool announcement is made. DeJong said some
unit leaders were surprised there
was a salary increase this year,
which he said could have affected
the timeliness of the notifications.
—Kimberly K. Barlow
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OCTOBER 27, 2011
Assembly
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
William Pitt Union, Assembly Room
12 to 4 pm
Effectively Using Technology in Your Job
Welcome
Mark A. Nordenberg, Chancellor
Keynote Presentation
Jinx Walton, Director
Computing Services and System Development
Bring a brown bag lunch, drinks and dessert are on us!
Technology Workshops
* Sample IT: Using Key Technology Services
* Secure IT: Protecting Your Data with the Secure Your Data Community
* Share IT: Technology Tools for Communication and Collaboration
* Green IT: Sustainable Technology Tools and Services
* Mail IT:
Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tips and Tricks
* Tweet IT: An Introduction to Social Media: Networking on the Web
For a complete description of the technology workshops available
and for registration, please visit www.sac.pitt.edu
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SAC wants to improve information flow
T
he Staff Association
Council (SAC) is making
changes to improve the
flow of information among its
membership.
SAC President Deborah
Walker said that the group’s four
officers will act as formal liaisons
to the 11 standing committees,
each of them assigned to three-five
committees.
“This operational model will
in no way be a policy change,”
Walker said. “However, we will
be setting a course, laying the
groundwork and the foundation,
for how we will direct the official
work of SAC in the future. We’re
creating new lines of communication.”
At the Oct. 12 meeting, SAC
members expressed concern about
the increased time commitment
needed for officers to attend regular standing committee meetings,
but agreed the basic concept was
sound.
In addition, Walker reported
that SAC has petitioned the
Provost’s office to have formal
representation on the Provost’s
Advisory Committee on Women’s
Concerns.
Walker said, “Someone from
the PACWC committee contacted me because they wanted
to collaborate with us on our staff
mentoring [efforts].” Following
that action, a SAC member noted
that SAC formerly had a representative on PACWC and that it
would be good for SAC to regain
that representation.
In other SAC business:
• Jinx Walton, director of
Computing Services and Systems
Development, will be the keynote speaker at the fall assembly,
“Effectively Using Technology in
Your Job,” set for noon Nov. 15 in
the William Pitt Union Assembly
Room.
Six technology training workshops will begin at 1:30 p.m.
Online registration for the workshops is available at www2.hr.pitt.
edu/sac/default.html. For more
information, contact the SAC
office at 4-4236.
• The safety and security
committee is sponsoring two
CPR classes on Nov. 19 in G34
Benedum Hall.
A session for non-health care
personnel will be held 9 a.m.-1
p.m. This session will cover adult
and pediatric CPR, as well as
choking care and the use of the
automated external defibrillator.
Another session, geared toward
medical students and health care
workers, will be held 1-5 p.m.
This session will cover health
care provider CPR/AED training.
Each session yields a two-year
certification.
The cost for each session is $40
for Pitt employees and students,
$50 for others. Payment is due
by Nov. 7 at the SAC office, 504
Craig Hall. Cash and checks will
be accepted. (Checks should be
made payable to Nashaun Forney,
the workshop instructor.) For
more information, contact the
SAC office at 4-4236.
• Elections chair Barbara
Mowery is compiling a list of
which Pitt units SAC members
hail from in order to recruit mem-
bers from underrepresented areas.
• SAC announced two new
associate members, Belinda
McQuaide of the Department
of Epidemiology, and Aiju Men,
Department of Health Policy and
Management, Graduate School
of Public Health. New members
serve for six months as non-voting
associates who sit on one or more
of SAC’s standing committees.
• SAC plans to meet occasionally in out-of-the-way locations,
such as a Pitt building on Second
Avenue. “In addition, as officers
we plan to go meet staff who work
[in remote locations] to tell them
who we are and what we’re about,
and ask what their concerns are,”
Walker said.
• Steering Vice President J.P.
Matychak reported that, under
SAC bylaws, chairs and vice chairs
are to be affirmed by vote at the
Nov. 9 meeting.
Matychak requested that
former chairs and vice chairs
send him an email describing
what they wish they knew about
leading a committee before they
became chair or vice chair. He is
developing a training session for
current chairs and vice chairs on
organizing committee functions
and meetings.
—Peter Hart
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
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12:40 p.m.
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Pop music
touts
alcohol brands
Researchers in the School of
Medicine have found that the
average U.S. adolescent is heavily
exposed to alcohol brand references in popular music, according
to a study published online in the
international journal Addiction.
Branded alcohol references are
most common in rap, R&B and hip
hop songs and often are associated
with a luxury lifestyle characterized by degrading sexual activity,
wealth, partying, violence and the
use of drugs, the study found.
Researchers analyzed 793 of
the most popular songs in the
youth market between 2005 and
2007 and reported that a brand
name was included in a song about
25 percent of the time alcohol was
mentioned, representing about
3.4 alcohol brand references per
song-hour. Given that the average
adolescent is exposed to about 2.5
hours of popular music per day,
young people’s annual exposure
to alcohol brand references in
popular music is substantial, the
study reported. Consequences
associated with alcohol were more
often positive than negative (41.5
percent vs. 17.1 percent). Alcohol
brand appearances were commonly associated with wealth (63.4
percent), sex (58.5 percent), luxury
objects (51.2 percent), partying
(48.8 percent), other drugs (43.9
percent) and vehicles (39 percent).
Study leader Brian Primack,
a faculty member in medicine
and pediatrics, said, “Frequent
exposure of young people to
brand-name references in popular
music may constitute a form of
advertising and could encourage
substance use among adolescents.”
Brand-name references to
alcohol typically are aligned
strongly with positive associations,
which often are the goal of advertisements. The brands found in
music represent the same distilled
spirits brands that increasingly are
named as favorites by underage
drinkers, especially women.
The authors suggested that
the relatively high level of brandname alcohol appearances in popular music may be a consequence
of strengthening ties between the
alcohol and music industries.
Some alcohol companies
formally have entered the music
industry, such as Seagram’s ownership of Universal and Polygram
between 1995 and 2001. Individual artists, particularly those
in the rap and hip-hop communities, have begun to establish and
promote their own alcohol lines.
According to the authors,
most instances of brand-name
references in song lyrics seem to
be unsolicited and unpaid for by
advertising companies. However,
the authors noted that the line
between paid advertising and
brand references is difficult to
distinguish because advertising
companies have begun to reward
artists retroactively with product,
sponsorship or endorsement deals
after a song containing their
product’s name becomes popular.
Alcohol trade associations such
as the Distilled Spirits Council
of the United States have developed self-regulation codes that
specify inappropriate marketing
practices, such as a guideline forbidding marketing to audiences
below legal drinking age. However, because rap music is popular
among high school students, the
authors suggested that advertising
campaigns that focus on rap artists
are inconsistent with the alcohol
industry’s stated intent to avoid
marketing to underage drinkers.
Pitt collaborators were Erin
Nuzzo and Kristen Rice, both
of medicine.
NIMH funds
$9 million in
depression
research
The Center for Late Life
Depression Prevention and Treat-
ment Research has received nearly
$9 million from the National Institute of Mental Health. Under the
direction of Charles F. Reynolds
III, the federally funded Center of
Excellence will conduct three new
research studies in depression prevention among vulnerable older
adults, in addition to continuing
existing research.
“Depression erodes quality
of life, productivity in the workplace, and fulfillment of social
and familial roles,” said Reynolds,
a faculty member in psychiatry
and behavioral and community
health science at the School of
Medicine and Graduate School
of Public Health. “In knowledgeand service-driven economies,
the population’s mental capital
becomes both more valuable and
vulnerable to depression’s impact
across the life cycle, including
late life. Depression prevention
research and practice have pro-
gressed from a pioneering stage
to one in which investments on
a larger scale are necessary and
appropriate to diminish depression’s global illness burden. This
center will push the field forward
to the benefit of older adults and
their caregivers.”
The first of three new depression prevention studies will look
at the use of learning-based
interventions to help seniors
who receive supportive services
and face a variety of psychosocial
vulnerabilities that put them at
risk for depression. One group at
high risk is older adults receiving
aging services through Medicaid
waiver programs. This three-year
study will test the effectiveness of
enhancing problem-solving skills
and of teaching ways to sleep
better as a means of preventing
depression in these seniors.
The second study will adapt
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problem-solving strategies for
use by people living with mild
cognitive impairment and for their
caregivers as an intervention for
preventing major depression. In
addition, an exercise intervention
will be used in both groups to
enhance protection from depression.
The third study focuses on
osteoarthritis pain and associated
disability as risk factors for major
depression. The first stage will
compare the relative effectiveness of treating pain with either
cognitive behavioral therapy or
physical therapy. The second stage
will adapt interventions based on a
participant’s response to stage one.
Each study will collect infor-
mation about biomarkers, such as
measures of inflammation, which
may enhance the identification of
older adults at high risk for depression and provide information
about whether and how interventions may be protective against the
onset of depression. Data from the
three clinical trials will be pooled
to further develop models of per-
sonalized intervention.
Collaborators included Steven
Albert of behavioral and community health science; Howard
Aizenstein, Meryl A. Butters,
Mary Amanda Dew, Anne Germain, Ariel Gildengers, Jordan
Karp, Frank Lotrich, Jennifer
Morse, Paul Pilkonis, Richard
Schulz and Etienne Sibille of
psychiatry; Stewart Anderson
and Abdus Wahed of biostatistics;
Elizabeth Skidmore of occupational therapy; Kirk Erickson
of psychology; Linda Garand
of health and community systems; Julie Donohue of health
policy and management; Kelley
Fitzgerald of physical therapy;
Debra Weiner of geriatric
medicine, and Oscar Lopez of
neurology.
Melatonin
delays
Huntington’s
Melatonin, best known for its
role in sleep regulation, delayed
the onset of symptoms and
reduced mortality in a mouse
model of Huntington’s disease,
say researchers at the School of
Medicine and Harvard Medical
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School. Their findings, published
in the Journal of Neuroscience,
show for the first time that certain
receptors for the hormone reside
in the mitochondria, and that mice
and humans with Huntington’s
disease (HD) have fewer of these
receptors in their brains.
HD is an inherited, lethal disorder of involuntary movement,
emotional problems and progressive loss of intellectual function,
explained senior investigator
Robert M. Friedlander, chair of
the Department of Neurological
Surgery and UPMC Endowed
Professor of Neurosurgery and
Neurobiology.
A mutant protein, called huntingtin, kills neurons in the brain’s
striatum and then the cortex. “In
earlier work, we screened more
than 1,000 FDA-approved drugs
to see which ones could block
the release of a small protein
called cytochrome c from the
mitochondria to interrupt a key
step in a chain reaction known
as apoptosis, or programmed cell
death,” Friedlander said. “Melatonin, which we know to be a potent
antioxidant, was one of the agents
that could do this in the test tube,
but we needed to determine if it
would also be neuroprotective in a
transgenic animal model of HD.”
The researchers injected HD
mice daily with either melatonin
or a placebo, evaluated them
weekly for signs of the disease and
examined their brain tissue after
death. They found that melatonin treatment delayed the onset
of disease by 19 percent, slowed
disease progression and prolonged
lifespan by 18 percent.
The researchers determined
also that type 1 melatonin (MT1)
receptors are found on mitochondria, which supplies energy for the
cell, and that they were depleted
in both HD-affected human and
mouse brain tissue samples. In lab
experiments, administration of
an agent that prevents melatonin
from binding to the MT1 receptor encouraged cell death, while
gene-engineering to increase the
number of receptors led to greater
neuroprotection, even when melatonin levels were normal.
“Extra melatonin might help
fill all the available MT1 receptors, allowing the hormone to
counter the programmed cell
death cascade and thus protect
neurons,” Friedlander said. “This
suggests that melatonin or similar
agents that influence the MT1
receptor have potential as an HD
treatment, which we’ve never had
before.”
Low levels of circulating
melatonin have been seen in
other neurodegenerative diseases,
including Alzheimer’s disease and
Parkinson’s disease. The research
team is continuing to explore
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what might cause the loss of MT1
receptors and to assess other drugs
that block cytochrome c and cell
death.
“Perhaps the best approach will
be to develop a cocktail of drugs
that target different molecular
pathways that are responsible for
creating HD,” Friedlander said.
The team includes researchers
from Harvard Medical School,
where Friedlander began the
research effort prior to joining
Pitt, as well as researchers from the
Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Bedford, Mass.; Boston
University School of Medicine,
and Seoul National University
Hospital.
Grants from the National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the
Huntington’s Disease Society
of America and the U.S. Veterans Administration funded the
research.
Nursing grants
received
The School of Nursing recently
announced the following grants:
• Susan Albrecht of health
and community systems received
a U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services Health
Resources and Services Administration funding award for the
nursing faculty loan program.
• Betty Braxter of health
promotion and development
received a Civilian Research and
Development Foundation award
for her grant entitled, “Doulas as
Change Agents: My Doula and
Me Project.”
• Yvette Conley of health promotion and development received
an NIH nursing research award
for her grant entitled, “Targeted
Research and Academic Training
of Nurses in Genomics.”
• Sandra Founds of health
promotion and development has
been awarded a 2011 Vision Grant
by the Preeclampsia Foundation. Founds, also a member of
the Magee-Womens Research
Institute, leads a team that aims
to develop a set of discoverybased genes from first-trimester
placentas of women who subsequently developed preeclampsia.
The Vision Grant will support
translation of these predictive
biomarkers to a multiplex serum
profile of proteins for an early
clinical screening test that could
save lives and improve the health of
mothers and babies by preventing
preeclampsia.
• Julius Kitutu, assistant dean
for student services, received an
award from the Health Resources
and Services Administration
for his work on studies entitled
“Scholarships for Disadvantaged
Students” and “Advanced Education Nursing Traineeships.”
• Faith Luyster of health and
community systems received an
award from the National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute for
her grant entitled, “Enhancing
Motivation for CPAP Adherence
in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.”
• Ann Mitchell of health and
community systems received a
Health Resources and Services
Administration grant entitled,
“Nurse Education, Practice,
Quality and Retention Grant:
SBIRT Training for Emergency
Room Registered Nurses,” which
teaches emergency room nurses
how to screen and intervene for
alcohol and other substance use.
Brain power
moves
prosthetic arm
A paralyzed man has moved a
prosthetic arm with his thoughts.
Tim Hemmes, 30, is the first
participant in a trial assessing
whether a person’s thoughts can
be used to control the movement
of an external device, such as a
computer cursor or a prosthetic
arm. He was paralyzed when his
spinal cord was damaged in a
motorcycle accident.
The project, one of two braincomputer interface (BCI) studies
underway at the School of Medicine and UPMC Rehabilitation
Institute, used a grid of electrodes
placed on the surface of the brain
to control the arm, designed by the
Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory.
Co-principal investigator
Michael Boninger, chair of the
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the
School of Medicine and director
of the UPMC Rehabilitation
Institute, said, “This first round
of testing reinforces the great
potential BCI technology holds
for not only helping spinal cordinjured patients become more
independent, but also enhancing
their physical and emotional connections with their friends and
family.”
On Aug. 25, an electrocortigraphy (ECoG) grid about the
size of a large postage stamp was
placed on the surface of Hemmes’s
brain during a two-hour operation
performed by co-investigator
Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara of the
Department of Neurological
Surgery. After determining where
Hemmes’s brain processed signals
for moving his right arm, the grid
was placed over that area of motor
cortex. Connecting wires were
hooked up to computer cables
enabling the researchers to test
the technology. With practice,
Hemmes learned to guide the
image of a ball from the middle
of a large television screen either
up, down, left or right to a target,
within a time limit. He then performed a similar task with the arm,
reaching out to touch a target on a
large, desk-mounted panel.
Co-principal investigator Wei
Wang of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
said, “He mentally associated specific motor imageries with desired
movement direction. It required
concentration and patience, but
this process seemed to get easier
for him with practice.”
Hemmes later tackled more
complicated tasks. While wearing
special goggles to view a threedimensional TV screen, he moved
the ball in the previous directions,
and also to the front or back.
Hemmes’s participation in the
trial can be viewed at www.upmc.
com/bci.
The researchers now are analyzing the data and are seeking at
least five more adults with spinal
cord injuries or brainstem strokes
who have very little or no use of
their hands and arms for additional
studies.
They also are looking for participants for a year-long trial of
a BCI made up of tiny electrode
points that penetrate the brain
tissue and pick up signals from
100 individual neurons.
Co-principal investigator
Andrew Schwartz of the Department of Neurobiology said, “We
anticipate that these penetrating
grids can pick up very clear signals
from the brain to reveal what
motion is intended by the participant,” adding that this approach
could enable finer movement of
the fingers and hand.
In his other experiments,
a monkey implanted with the
penetrating grid has been able
to use a robotic arm to reach out
and hold a doorknob-like object,
building on earlier work in which
a monkey was able to grasp and eat
a marshmallow, using a gripper
device on a less-sophisticated arm.
The team plans to make
the technology wireless, and to
include sensors in the prosthesis
that can send signals back to the
brain to simulate sensation.
Funding comes from the
National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, the U.S.
Department of Defense’s Defense
Advanced Research Projects
Agency, the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs, UPMC and the
Clinical and Translational Science
Institute.
Proteins
predict IPF
mortality
Blood proteins can predict
which patients with idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are likely
to live at least five years or to die
within two years, say researchers
from the Department of Medicine and Radnor-based Centocor
R&D.
The findings, published online
in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,
could help doctors determine
which patients are in imminent
need of a lung transplant.
With IPF, breathing becomes
increasingly impaired as the lungs
progressively scar. Half of IPF
patients die within three years
of diagnosis, but others will do
well for long periods of time, said
investigator Naftali Kaminski,
professor of medicine, pathology,
human genetics and computa-
tional biology and director of the
Simmons Center for Interstitial
Lung Disease at UPMC.
Researchers measured the
levels of 92 candidate proteins in
blood samples from IPF patients
and found that higher concentrations of five particular proteins
that are produced by the breakdown of lung tissue predicted poor
survival, transplant-free survival
and progression-free survival
regardless of age, sex and baseline
lung function. They then developed an index that incorporates
gender, lung function and blood
levels of the protein MMP7.
Patients with a low score were
more likely to live more than five
years while the median survival
for patients with high scores was
1.5 years.
Lead author was Thomas
Richards, head of the Simmons
Center biostatistics team.
Other members of the Pitt
research team included Jiin Choi,
Louis J. Vuga, Kathleen O.
Lindell, Melinda Klesen, Yingze
Zhang and Kevin F. Gibson, all
of the Division of Pulmonary,
Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
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School of Social Work Professor Emeritus Edward Sites
recently was
named one of 16
new Pitt Legacy
Laureates. The
Legacy Laureate
program recognizes alumni for
their personal and
professional accomplishments.
Sites holds the record as the
longest-serving faculty member
in the history of the School of
Social Work and is known as one
of its most successful principal
investigators. He developed a
comprehensive child-welfare
training program — one of the
nation’s largest child-welfare
training systems — that now is
used in every Pennsylvania county.
Sites earned his Master of
Social Work degree, summa cum
laude, from the School of Social
Work and his PhD from the
School of Education.
Throughout his career, Sites
has promoted ecumenical understanding and cooperation, most
notably through his 38-year
leadership of the joint Master of
Divinity/Master of Social Work
degree offered by the University
in conjunction with Pittsburgh
Theological Seminary.
He is the only social worker
who was appointed to the Pennsylvania Board of Psychologist
Examiners, and he has served on
other governing bodies that hear
charges of unethical conduct
brought against social workers.
Sites has been honored as
the Social Worker of the Year
in Pennsylvania by the National
Association of Social Workers, and
he has received the Bertha Paulssen Award from the Lutheran
Theological Seminary in Gettysburg and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Award, as
well as the School of Social Work
Distinguished Alumni Award.
Marlin Mickle, the Nickolas
A. DeCecco Professor in the
Swanson School of Engineering, is
the 2011 recipient of the Ted Williams Award in Electrical Engineering. The award is presented
annually to a professor or student
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in recognition of innovative and
exceptional contributions that
further the growth of the industry
through work as an educator and
entrepreneur.
Mickle, who also is executive
director of the Swanson Center
for Product Innovation, has held
engineering positions with IBM
and Westinghouse Electric
Corp. and has
served as program
director of the systems theory
and applications program of the
National Science Foundation.
One of the longest serving
engineering professors in Pitt history, Mickle is renowned for harnessing the power of radio waves in
convenient, low-cost applications
such as power harvesting.
The U.S. Department of
Defense established a standard
radio frequency identification for
all UHF RFID applications based
on Mickle’s research.
Ellen Frank, Distinguished
Professor of Psychiatry and
professor of psychology at the
School of Medicine, is one of
two researchers to receive the
2011 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat
International Prize in Mental
Health from the IOM. The prize,
consisting of a medal and $20,000,
recognizes Frank’s decades-long
efforts to enhance the treatment
and understanding of mood disorders.
Her conceptualization and
testing of novel psychotherapeutic
approaches to mood disorders has
led to far-reaching improvements
in knowledge about and treatment
of depression, and has changed
the nature of clinical practice
throughout the world. Her work
has demonstrated the psychosocial
components of mood disorders
and their effects on circadian
rhythms and other biological
processes that contribute to such
disorders.
Frank developed interpersonal and social rhythm therapy
(IPSRT), which blends interpersonal psychotherapy with behavioral intervention and is effective
in teaching patients how to order
their lives and stabilize their social
routines to avoid new episodes of
depression or mania.
In response to other professionals’ interest in receiving training in IPSRT, Frank established
a training institute to disseminate
this intervention both nationally
and abroad.
Kara Bernstein, a School
of Medicine faculty member in
molecular biology and genetics,
has been awarded the first PNC/
University of Pittsburgh Cancer
Institute Director’s Distinguished
Scholar Award.
Bernstein received her PhD
from Yale and conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia.
She seeks a better understanding
of the biological processes related
to cancer, with a focus on DNA.
Bernstein’s lab studies how
double-strand breaks in DNA
are repaired. Understanding this
process will advance understanding of tumor formation and could
lead to the development of new
cancer treatments.
David Anderson, a faculty member and
director of diversity and inclusion
at the School of
Dental Medicine,
was selected as
the recipient of
the 2011 National
Dental Association Foundation/
Colgate-Palmolive Faculty Recognition Award in the category
of administration/service.
Anderson also recently was
awarded a $10,000 scholarship
from the ethics program of the
American College of Dentists
Foundation. The scholarship
will be used to complete a graduate degree in ethics. Anderson’s
research interests include bioethics and health policy.
A lieutenant colonel in the
United States Air Force Reserve,
Anderson also has served as
president of the Dental Society
of Western Pennsylvania, the
Prosthodontic Society of Western
Pennsylvania and the Rotary Club
of Lawrenceville, as well as chair of
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the Pennsylvania dental political
action committee.
School of Nursing faculty
recently were honored:
• Michael Beach was selected
to serve on the
mobile acute
care strike team
for the disaster
medical assistance team,
part of the U.S.
Department
of Health and
Human Services.
Beach, who has worked in
search and rescue and disaster
management for the past 15 years,
leads the trauma and emergency
preparedness sub-specialty within
the acute care nurse practitioner
area of concentration.
• Rose Constantino of the
Department
of Health and
Community Systems received
the 2011 Most
Distinguished
Alumni award
from Adventist
University of the
Philippines.
Constantino’s research focuses
on health outcomes of abused
women who experience domestic violence and enter a women’s
shelter, and women whose spouse
committed suicide.
• Mary Beth Happ of the
Department of Acute/Tertiary
Care received the 2011 Distinguished Alumna Award from the
Frances Payne Bolton School of
Nursing at Case Western Reserve
University.
H a p p ’ s
research focuses
on understanding and improving communication with
nonspeaking
patients in acute
and critical care
settings. She has studied the processes of care and communication
among patients with prolonged
mechanical ventilation and has
explored the feasibility of using
electronic communication aids
with nonspeaking ICU and
postoperative head/neck cancer
patients.
Happ holds a secondary
appointment at the Center for
Bioethics and Health Law and is
a participating faculty member
at the Institute to Enhance Palliative Care.
• Paula Sherwood of the
Department of
Acute/Tertiary
Care was selected
as a fellow in the
American Academy of Nursing.
S h e r w o o d ’s
research examines behavioral
and biological markers of distress
in caregivers and patients with
neurologic disorders.
• Janet Stewart of the Department of Health Promotion and
Development was
presented with
the 2011 Research
Article Award
from the journal
Research in Nursing and Health,
for her article,
“Test of a Conceptual Model of Uncertainty in
Children and Adolescents with
Cancer.”
Stewart’s research is focused on
pediatric cancer, specifically children and their families’ adjustment
to the diagnosis and treatment
trajectory.
Ronald A. Brand, the Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Professor and founding
director of the Center for International Legal Education in School
of Law, this month received the
Leonard J. Theberge Award for
Private International Law at a
meeting of the American Bar Association section on international
law. The award honors individuals who have made long-standing
contributions to the development
of private international law.
The award honors Leonard
J. Theberge, chair of the section
1970-80, who had been president
of the Media Institute, a business
news study group, and past president of the National Legal Center
for the Public Interest.
In November Brand will
be awarded the
degree of Doctor
Iuris Honoris
Causa by the
University of
Augsburg, Germany, Faculty
of Law to commemorate cooperation between Pitt’s law school
and Augsburg.
Brand has led more than two
decades of collaboration with the
Augsburg school, beginning with
a U.S. Department of State grant
to celebrate the bicentennial of
the U.S. Constitution. The two
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Pitt opens office in Beijing
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of its goals for reforming and
developing higher education over
the course of the next decade.
“For Pitt, this means an environment of major support by the
Chinese national government for
more profound and substantive
cooperation with international
institutions to their mutual benefit,” he said. “We are poised,
along with a pretty select group
of U.S. universities now operating in China — the University of
Michigan, University of Chicago,
Notre Dame, Purdue, NYU and
others — to take advantage of this
unique moment in developing
a variety of levels of formal and
informal links to the benefit of our
students, faculty and University as
a whole,” he said.
Ming said that in addition to
building programmatic connections, his office will support and
develop study abroad programs
and facilitate visits by Pitt faculty
and staff.
He also will concentrate on
cultivating alumni relationships,
which he said are important as the
number of Chinese Pitt graduates
rises. “Our China alums have a
strong sense of connection with
Pitt and are a source of enormous
potential strength for the University. They are future leaders in
China,” Ming said.
“I hope many of the things
we do now will have long-term
positive effects, for Pitt and for
China as well.”
q
As an indication of Pitt’s Chinese ties and interests, Feick noted
that six members of the Council
of Deans were in the country for
various purposes during October
alone. Multiple schools have
relationships in China: business
has connections in Shanghai; the
Confucius Institute in Wuhan and
Beijing, and the Graduate School
of Public and International Affairs
(GSPIA) in Nanjing, to name a
few. In addition, the University
Library System (ULS) has partnerships with a number of Chinese libraries and universities to
facilitate the delivery of scholarly
materials as well as for gift and
exchange programs.
Although no individual unit
will “own” Pitt’s Beijing office,
GSPIA, the Katz Graduate School
of Business, the Swanson School
of Engineering, the School of Arts
and Sciences and ULS are contributing financial support for the
office, each with slightly different
objectives, Feick said, noting that
Ming will work with the units to
support Pitt’s efforts not only in
China, but in Asia more broadly.
“As the deans get more comfortable over the next months with
what the office can and can’t do,
the aspirations will be clearer,” said
Feick, adding that Ming already
has been helpful in navigating
changing Chinese government
regulations.
For some perspective on the
benefits of a remote office, Feick
pointed to Pitt’s Washington,
D.C., center. Launched in 2008
by GSPIA, the law school, Student
Affairs and federal Governmental
Relations, the office has enhanced
students’ opportunities for placement in government, nonprofit
and corporate positions. It also
serves as a home base in the capi-
tol for Pitt’s federal Government
Relations staff and provides a
setting from which Washingtonbased alumni can participate in
videoconference career briefings
for students in Pittsburgh.
GSPIA Dean John T.S. Keeler
said his school’s involvement in the
Washington center has enhanced
its understanding of what it hopes
to accomplish through the new
office in China, adding that having
a presence there “is disproportionately important to us.”
He sees potential in aiding
recruitment, guidance and career
placement for GSPIA. He said he
hopes Ming eventually will be able
to arrange similar career briefings with the growing numbers
of Pitt alumni in China, and sees
the office as helpful in connecting
students and alumni with jobs in
China.
Keeler also sees potential
for the office to facilitate short
courses for Pitt students who are
not specialists in China — perhaps
study abroad opportunities or certificates that would differentiate
their resume with some specialized
international experience. In addition, he said, Ming can promote
the ever-growing number of
research collaborations and connections being developed between
Pitt and Asian institutions.
q
Several factors are combining to make China an especially
high priority for GSPIA. Keeler
said that growing wealth among
Chinese families, government
encouragement of study abroad
and an increasing number of Chinese college graduates — many of
whom want jobs in public service
— have resulted in an influx of
Chinese students to the United
States.
Asia has become the top source
of international applicants to
GSPIA, with China at the top of
the list, Keeler said. In 2011, 147 of
GSPIA’s international applicants
were from China, 24 from Korea,
12 from Taiwan and 10 from Japan,
with 15 other countries rounding
out its 43 other applications.
Keeler said the school added a
Kevin Ming, director of Pitt’s
new office in Beijing
fourth category of students in its
most recent annual plan, delineating beyond in-state, out-of-state
and international categories to
break Chinese and non-Chinese
international applicants into separate subcategories.
“We want to welcome Chinese
students,” he said, pointing to
Chinese-language materials on
the prospective students section of
GSPIA’s web site that he said has
earned positive feedback. Photos,
testimonials and interview videos
serve as a “cultural handshake”
to make Chinese students feel
welcome. And some information
is oriented toward students’ families who, although they may have
English language skills, can better
understand nuances expressed in
their native language.
Keeler noted that being userfriendly and welcoming is important in recruitment, particularly
with regard to international
students who are considering —
perhaps with some trepidation
— study abroad.
In addition, being in Pittsburgh, a city less well-known in
China than places like New York,
Washington, D.C., or San Francisco, “we have to work harder”
to familiarize prospective international students with the amenities
of western Pennsylvania.
q
“China is where the action
is,” agreed Larry Shuman, senior
associate dean for academic affairs
in the Swanson School of Engineering. He said he hopes to utilize
the Beijing office both to support
existing programs as well as to
expand the engineering school’s
presence in China.
Shuman teaches a course on
globalization of technology that
takes Pitt students to China for
a 10-day intensive symposium
each spring. The course, now in
its seventh year, last year took
students to visit two universities,
Alcoa’s Beijing office and a Chinese company whose CEO holds
a Pitt MBA. “Having somebody
on the ground makes it a lot easier
to do things,” he said, anticipating
assistance from the Beijing office
in making future arrangements as
one benefit. “Having help so you
don’t have to do them all from
7,000 miles away is very helpful,”
he said.
“We are trying to do more
and more with China,” Shuman
said, noting there already are both
graduate and undergraduate programs that allow students here to
travel to China. He said the school
wants to partner with a Chinese
university on a joint-degree program, describing a 3-2 program
in which Chinese students would
study three years in China, then
come to Pitt to complete their
bachelor’s degree and, if they do
well, stay an additional year to
earn their master’s. He said the
Beijing office could help screen
prospective students and test their
language skills.
q
Business Dean John T. Delaney said, “It’s critical for us to
be in Asia,” envisioning the new
office as a tool for leveraging the
many contacts Pitt already has
developed in Asia.
“It’s good for us to be located
over there. It says to the Chinese
government and the people in
China that we are serious about
our connections,” he said. “And
it will help us attract a greater
number of students from China
who want to come to Pitt,” an
important consideration as the
University seeks to attract students from beyond its traditional
recruitment area.
“For us to be a strong university, we have to continue to build
our global presence. We have
a strong brand; we should let
everyone realize it,” Delaney said.
“This is a signal that the whole
University is recognizing the fact
that not only is business global,
the educational system is a global
system too.”
—Kimberly K. Barlow
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Budget committee recommends
more funds for capital projects
P
itt trustees this week recommended increasing funding
by $8,656,965 in the fiscal year 2012 capital budget to
cover projected costs for four capital projects previously
approved by the trustees property and facilities committee. (See
Oct. 13 University Times.)
According to press materials distributed at the Oct. 25 trustees
budget committee meeting, the four projects are expected to total
$72,356,965, of which $63,700,000 previously was allocated by
trustees.
The budget committee recommended that the full board
approve the following:
• An additional $4 million for freshman student housing, under
construction at Fifth Avenue and University Place;
• $3,380,765 for an expansion project in Thomas Detre Hall;
• $776,200 for basement laboratory renovations in Old Engineering Hall, and
• $500,000 for the Greensburg campus sustainable office and
classroom building.
The Board of Trustees is expected to act on the budget committee recommendations at its meeting tomorrow, Oct. 28.
—Peter Hart
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ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT and
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT present
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What Every Scientist Needs to Know
For scientists and physicians who want to translate
basic research discoveries for the benefit of the patient
Starts January 2012
Tuesdays from 5-8 p.m. University Club
Space is limited. Scholarships available for those who qualify.
This course is also offered as a for-credit course in the Schools of
Health Sciences.
Apply online at: www.oed.pitt.edu/course.html
10-Week Course Highlights
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• Analyze the market potential of your discovery
• Maximize the full value of your intellectual property
University of Pittsburgh
For more information, contact the
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The Offices of Enterprise Development & Technology Management
facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed
by University of Pittsburgh health sciences faculty, so that the
public may benefit from University discoveries and inventions.
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Chemistry Seminar
“Metal Binding Clusters in Replicative DNA Polymerases: What
Are Iron & Zinc Doing?” Peter
Burgers, WA U at St. Louis; 12B
Chevron, 2:30 pm (chemrcpt@
pitt.edu)
Chemistry Seminar
“Polymeric Fluorous Phases:
From the Ultimate Limits of
Low Polarity to Electrochemical
Sensors With Exceptional Selectivities & Detection Limits,”
Phillipe Buhlmann, U of MN;
12B Chevron, 4 pm (chemrcpt@
pitt.edu)
Jazz Week Lecture
“The Business of Jazz,” Michael
Cuscuna; WPU Assembly Rm.,
7 pm (4-4364)
Dance Ensemble Concert
“Kinetix”; Trees Dance Studio, 7
pm (also Nov. 4; gillis@pitt.edu)
Music on the Edge Concert
Morton Feldman Mini-Festival;
Wood St. Galleries, Downtown,
8 pm (also Nov. 4; 412/394-3353)
Contemporary Writers Lecture
Wells Tower; G24 CL, 8:30 pm
(www.english.pitt.edu)
ASWAD Conference
“African Liberation & Black
Power: The Challenges of
Diasporic Encounters Across
Time, Space & Imagination”;
PAA & U Club, through Nov.
6 (www.aswadiaspora.org/
ASWAD_2011_CFP_01.html)
Friday 4
• Family Weekend activities
on the Pittsburgh campus
through Nov. 6.
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Conference
“Role of KNDy Neurons in
GnRH Pulse Generation &
Puberty Onset,” Tony Plant;
1195 Starzl BST, 8:30 am
(rmn4@pitt.edu)
Dental Medicine Lecture
“Potpourri,” Robert Obradovich, Kurt Summersgill, James
Tauberg & Alan Timko; 2148
Salk, 8:30 am-3:30 pm (llb4@
pitt.edu)
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Patient Care Conference
Ronald Codario; 1195 Starzl
BST, 9:30 am (rmn4@pitt.edu)
Jazz Week Lecture
Curtis Fuller, trombone; FFA
aud., 10 am (4-4364)
GI Research Rounds
“A Small Animal Model of
Nausea: High-Density Behavioral Data Associated With
Chemotherapy-Induced Vomiting,” Charles Horn; conf. rm.
M2 Presby, noon (gibsonh@
upmc.edu)
Emerging Legends Concert
Brenda Jean Trio; Cup & Chaucer, gr. fl. Hillman, noon
CRSP Lecture
“Equity Is NOT an Office,”
Linda Lane, Pgh. Public Schools
superintendent; 2017 CL, noon
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Integrative Pluralism: The Case
of Protein-Folding,” Sandra
Mitchell; 817R CL, 12:05 pm
(4-1052)
ULS Workshop
“RefWorks Basics”; Hillman gr.
fl., 2 pm
Jazz Week Lecture
Larry Coryell, guitar; FFA aud.,
2 pm (4-4364)
ACIE Grant Lecture
“Small World: Emotional Intelligence & the Library Patron,”
Kathryn James, Oxford; PAA PA
rm., 6 pm (8-7001)
Women’s Basketball
vs. Seton Hill; Petersen, 7 pm
Saturday 5
Dental Medicine Lecture
“Dental Radiography: Dental
Assisting National Board
(DANB) Exam Prep Course,”
Victoria Green; 2148 Salk, 8:30
am-12:30 pm (llb4@.pitt.edu)
Jazz Week Lecture
Billy Cobham, drums; FFA aud.
10 am (4-4364)
Jazz Week Lecture
Randy Brecker & Maurice
Brown, trumpets; FFA aud.,
11:30 am (4-4364)
Bradford Campus Open House
UPB, 12:30-4 pm (www.upb.pitt.
edu/fallopenhouse.aspx)
Every 5 seconds one person
in the world goes blind.
"INNOVATIONS IN
VISION RESTORATION"
Wednesday, November 2
Eye & Ear Boardroom
5th Floor, Eye & Ear Institute
11:45 am-1 pm (Lunch served at 11:30 am)
Please RSVP at munschl@upmc.edu
www.foxcenter.pitt.edu
“Stemming
Vision Loss with
Stem Cells”
Martin Friedlander, MD, PhD
Scripps Research Institute
Jazz Week Lecture
Donald Harrison, alto saxophone, & Quamon Fowler,
tenor saxophone; FFA aud., 1
pm (4-4364)
Jazz Week Lecture
Geri Allen, piano; FFA aud., 2
pm (4-4187)
Football
vs. Cincinnati; Heinz Field, 7 pm
Jazz Seminar Concert
Carnegie Music Hall, 8 pm
(4-4364)
Sunday 6
Slovak Studies Heritage Festival
Commons Rm. CL, 1-5 pm
(Slavic@pitt.edu)
Monday 7
Int’l Studies Model UN Session
WPU, 8:30 am-5 pm (lavst12@
pitt.edu)
Men’s Basketball
vs. KY Wesleyan; Petersen, 7 pm
Tuesday 8
Flu Shot Clinic
Falk Pharmacy, 2nd fl. Falk
Medical Bldg., 9 am-3 pm
(412/623-6222)
Office of Research/NCURA
Workshop
“International Collaborations:
Negotiations & Compliance”;
S120 Starzl BST, 11:30 am-3:30
pm (4-7405)
Pharmaceutical Science Seminar
“NPC1L1 & Cholesterol Transport in the Small Intestine &
Liver,” Liqing Yu; 456 Salk, noon
(hornick@pitt.edu)
MMR Seminar
“Connecting the Disease-associated Lyp Tyrosine Phosphatase Variant to Immune Cell
Dysfunction & Autoimmunity,”
Katherine Siminovitch; 3rd fl.
conf. ctr. Rangos Research Ctr.,
noon (linda.cherok@chp.edu)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Approximation & Idealization:
Why the Difference Matters,”
John Norton; 817R CL, 12:05
pm (4-1052)
Global Health Film
“Dangerous Living: Coming Out
in the Developing World”; LR3
Scaife, 3:30-5:30 pm (bam76@
pitt.edu)
Pharmacology & Chemical
Biology Seminar
“Role of EgIN2 Prolyl Hydroxylase in Breast Cancer,” Qing
Zhang; 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30
pm (mmcclain@pitt.edu)
Provost’s Inaugural Lecture
“Latin America After 9/11: Some
Reflections on Cultural Politics
& Geopolitics,” John Beverley,
Hispanic languages & literatures;
2500 Posvar, 4:30 pm (4-5750)
Bradford Campus Workshop
“Basic Digital SLR Photography”; 200 Seneca, Downtown
Bradford, 6-8 pm (contined@
pitt.edu)
Wednesday 9
GI Pathology Meeting
“GI Pathology: Stomach,” Timothy Pal; Presby 6th fl. multiheaded microscope rm., 7:30 am
(gibsonh@upmc.edu)
Social Work Sidney Teller
Lecture
“Educating for Community
Change,” Robert Fisher, UConn;
2017 CL, noon (4-6304)
Pathology Robert S. Totten
Lecture
“Molecular Features of Pancreatic Cancer Progression,”
Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue,
Johns Hopkins Hospital; 1104
Scaife, noon
Asia Over Lunch Lecture
“Mental Illness & Substance
Abuse in Indian & Maharashtrian
Immigrants in North America,”
Balwant Dixit, pharmacology;
4130 Posvar, noon (asia@pitt.
edu)
SAC Mtg.
630 WPU, 12:15 pm
HSLS Workshop
“Sequence Similarity Searching,” Ansuman Chattopadhyay;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm
(ansuman@pitt.edu)
Senate Council Mtg.
2700 Posvar, 3 pm
Albert C. Muse Prize Academic Discussion
Nancy Snyderman; Scaife aud.
6, 4 pm
GI Grand Rounds
“Neurogastroenterology &
Motility Center of Excellence
Presentation,” Klaus Bielefeldt;
1104 Scaife, 5 pm (gibsonh@
upmc.edu)
Veterans Services Talk
“A Brother’s Tale,” Col. Edward
Shames; O’Hara Student Ctr., 6
pm (RSVP: djr64@pitt.edu)
Thursday 10
Flu Shot Clinic
Falk Pharmacy, 2nd fl. Falk
Medical Bldg., 9 am-3 pm
(412/623-6222)
Senate Plenary Session
“Community & Campus Partnerships for Health & Wellness,”
keynote Kevin Jenkins, Pgh.
Foundation; WPU Assembly
Rm., noon-3 pm (4-6505)
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Research Conference
“Targeting Endoplasmic Reticulum for Preventing Beta Cell
Death,” Fumihiko Urano; 1195
Starzl BST, noon (rmn4@pitt.
edu)
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Epidemiology Seminar
“Using the Right Measuring
Stick, Analyzing So You Don’t
Miss the Point,” Heather Allore;
A115 Crabtree, noon (flinnl@
edc.pitt.edu)
ADRC Conference
“Physical Activity as a Prevention
of Cognitive Impairment,” Kirk
Erickson, psychology; Montefiore ADRC conf. rm. S439, noon
HSLS Lunch With a Librarian
“Search Clinic,” Michele KleinFedyshin; Falk Library classrm.
B, noon (klein@pitt.edu)
ULS Workshop
“RefWorks Advanced”; Hillman
gr. fl., 2 pm
Chemistry Seminar
“Structural & Biophysical
Insights Into the Olfactomedin
Domain of Myocilin: Implications for Glaucoma,” Raquel
Lieberman, GA Tech; 12B
Chevron, 2:30 pm (chemrcpt@
pitt.edu)
Chemistry Seminar
“Chemical Tools for Studying
Cell Surface Glycans,” Peng
Wu, Albert Einstein College;
12B Chevron, 4 pm (chemrcpt@
pitt.edu)
Provost’s Inaugural Lecture
“Virus Capsids, Virus Genomes
& How They Got That Way,”
Roger Hendrix, biological sciences; 2500 Posvar, 4 pm (4-5750)
Bradford Campus Workshop
“Basic Digital SLR Photography”; 200 Seneca, Downtown
Bradford, 6-8 pm (contined@
pitt.edu)
PhD Defenses
A&S/History of Art & Architecture
“Bibles en Images: Narrative
& Translation in New York
Public Library Spencer Ms. 22
& Related Manuscripts,” Julia
Finch; Oct. 27, 104 FFA, 5:30 pm
A&S/History of Art & Architecture
“Sacred Image, Civic Spectacle &
Ritual Space: Tivoli’s ‘Inchinata’
Procession & Icons in Urban
Liturgical Theater in Late Medieval Italy,” Rebekah Perry; Oct.
28, 104 FFA, 4 pm
A&S/Communication
“‘Because We Are Alone’ Arguments for Humans as the Universe’s Only Intelligent Life
Form From Ancient Philosophers to Today’s Scientists,”
Joseph Packer; Oct. 31, 1128
CL, 9 am
Medicine/Computational
Biology
“On the Evolution of Microbes:
The Evolution of Genomes
With Respect to RNA Folding,”
Rachel Brower Sinning; Oct. 31,
3073 BST3, 10 am
A&S/Chemistry
“Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol
Equivalents for an Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Apoptolidin C,” Thomas Vargo; Oct. 31,
307 Eberly, 12:30 pm
Medicine/Molecular Pharmacology
“TGFB-Dependent Production
of ROS Influences Paracrine
Communications Between Stromal & Epithelial Cells in the
Prostate,” Melanie Grubisha;
Nov. 1, 1395 Starzl BST, 12:30
pm
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical
Sciences
“Discovery of Small Molecule
Inhibitors of Protein-Protein
Interactions,” Yijun Huang; Nov.
3, 456 Salk, noon
SHRS/Communication Science & Disorders
“Phonological Processing Abilities of Adults Who Stutter,”
Kristin Pelczarski; Nov. 4, 4065
Forbes Twr., 9:30 am
Medicine/Cell Biology &
Molecular Physiology
“Endogenous DNA Damage
Drives Cellular Senescence
& Promotes Aging,” Siobhan
Gregg; Nov. 4, S100A BST, 2 pm
Medicine/Immunology
“Development of a Broadly
Reactive Vaccine for Highly
Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza,”
Brendan Giles; Nov. 8, 1095
Starzl BST, 11 am
A&S/Chemistry
“Miniaturization & Optimization of Electrochemical Detection Following Capillary Liquid
Chromatographic Separation of
Neurochemicals,” Xiaomi Xu;
Nov. 10, 307 Eberly, 2 pm
Theatre
Pitt Repertory/Symphony
Orchestra Production
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street”; Nov.
3-13; Randall Theatre, Foster
Mem., Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm
(www.play.pitt.edu)
Exhibits
Museum Studies Seminar
Exhibit
“The Imprint of War: Responses
in Print,” Jacques Callot, Nicholas Naughton & Sandow Birk;
Oct. 31-Dec. 5; FFA Gallery,
M-F 10 am-4 pm (610/357-4599)
I am inspired
Bradford Campus Spectrum
Visual Arts Exhibit
“Collective Living: Architectural Thesis,” Dominic Yik;
Oct. 28-Dec. 2; KOA Gallery,
Blaisdell, UPB
Barco Law Library Exhibit
“Journey Without Maps,” Daniel
Lovering; through Nov. 11;
M-Th 7:30 am-11:45 pm, F 7:30
am-8 pm, Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun
10 am-11:45 pm
Audubon Exhibit
“Esquimaux Curlew,” through
Nov. 8; “Wilson’s Plover,” Nov.
8-22; Hillman gr. fl. exhibit case,
reg. library hours (8-7715)
Deadlines
Provost’s Award for Excellence
in Mentoring
Nomination deadline is Oct.
28. (www.pitt.edu/~graduate/
maguidelines.pdf)
Chancellor’s Distinguished
Public Service Award
Submit nomination letters to
Andrew Blair, 826 CL, by Oct.
31.
A&S Ampco-Pittsburgh Prize
Submit nominations to 140
Thackeray by Oct. 31. (taylor@
as.pitt.edu)
A&S Bellet Teaching Excellence Award
Submit nominations to 140
Thackeray by Oct. 31. (clynch@
pitt.edu)
Whitaker International Award
for Bioengineers & Biomedical Engineers
Contact Judith Zang by Nov. 1.
(jaz36@pitt.edu)
Absentee Ballot Application
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Alumni, 4-6011, or Allegheny
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October
Thursday 27
Law/Health Sciences Conference
“Conflicts of Interest in the
Practice of Medicine”; U Club
Ballrm. B, 8:15 am-6 pm (also
Oct. 28, 9 am-12:30 pm; kjohnson@aslme.org)
Flu Shot Clinic
Falk Pharmacy, 2nd fl. Falk
Medical Bldg., 9 am-3 pm
(412/623-6222)
HSLS Workshop
“EndNote Basics,” Ahlam Saleh;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 10:30
am-12:30 pm (saleha@pitt.edu)
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
“Kinetic & Thermodynamic
Implications of Multiple Oligomeric DNA Polymerases in
Cells,” Michael Trakselis; 6014
BST3, 11 am (zambotti@pitt.
edu)
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Research Conference
“Leptin Modulates Cardiac
Metabolism in Myocardial
Ischemia,” Kenneth McGaffin;
1195 Starzl BST, noon (rmn4@
pitt.edu)
Epidemiology Seminar
“Is a Life-Course Approach to
Late-Onset Dementias a Chimerical Challenge?” Emiliano
Albanese; A115 Crabtree, noon
(flinnl@edc.pitt.edu)
GSPH Visiting Professor
Lecture
“Accountability for Preventable
Maternal Death,” Rebecca Cook;
G12 Barco, noon (pischke@
pitt.edu)
Chemistry Seminar
“Single Fluorescent Molecules as
Nano-Illuminators for Biological
Structure & Function,” W.E.
Moerner, Stanford; 12B Chevron, 4 pm (chemrcpt@pitt.edu)
Geology & Planetary Science
Colloquium
“The Dynamic Marine Calcium
Cycle: An Isotopic Approach,”
Elizabeth Griffith; 11 Thaw,
4 pm (www.geology.pitt.edu/
about/colloquia.html)
Medieval & Renaissance
Lecture
“Holy Anatomy, Animate Substance: The Shrine Madonna
as a Performing Object,” Elina
Gertsman; 501G CL, 4 pm
(4-5220)
Greensburg Campus Student
Diversity Coalition Panel
“Feminism From a Global
Perspective”; Campana Chapel,
UPG, 7 pm (upgmedia@pitt.edu)
Friday 28
• Deadline for students to
submit monitored withdrawal
forms to dean’s office for fall
term.
International Lung Conference
Holiday Inn-U Ctr., 8 am-5:30
pm (dobranskyta@upmc.edu)
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Conference
“Impact of Obesity & WeightLoss Surgery on Female Reproduction,” Heather Brooks; 1195
Starzl BST, 8:30 am (rmn4@
pitt.edu)
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Patient Care Conference
Mansoor Tanwir; 1195 Starzl
BST, 9:30 am (rmn4@pitt.edu)
Metropolitan Studies Lecture
“Reflections on Civic Engagement: The Case for Climate
Change Policy at the City/
Metropolitan Level,” Daniel
Mazmanian; 20th Century Club,
10 am (apollack@pitt.edu)
Trustees Mtg.
WPU Assembly Rm., 11 am
Emerging Legends Concert
Benjamin Saalbach-Walsh; Cup
& Chaucer, gr. fl. Hillman, noon
Bradford Campus Gallery
Reception
“Collective Living: Architectural
Thesis,” Dominic Yik; KOA Gallery Blaisdell, UPB, noon
Bradford Campus Workshop
“PowerPoint Pizzazz: Adding
Style to Your PowerPoint Presentation”; 200 Seneca, Downtown Bradford, 2-4 pm (contined@pitt.edu)
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Saturday 29
Men’s Basketball
vs. La Roche; Petersen, 4 pm
Monday 31
• Spring term enrollment
appointments begin.
MMG Seminar
“Tegument Proteins That Stabilize Herpesvirus Capsids During
Maturation: The CMV Story,”
Edward Mocarski; 503 Bridgeside Pt. 2, 3:15 pm (kmd78@
pitt.edu)
UNIVERSITY
Nov. 10-23 (Wed.)
Chemistry Seminar
“Single-Molecule Studies of Biomolecular Dynamics in Solution
& Fluorescence Enhancements
by Metallic Nanoantennas,”
W.E. Moerner, Stanford; 12B
Chevron, 2:30 pm (chemrcpt@
pitt.edu)
Anthropology Lecture
“Political Strategies & Domestic
Economy of the Lote B Rural
Elite in the Prehispanic Lurín
Valley, Peru,” Giancarlo Flores;
3106 Posvar, 3 pm
GSPH Dynamics Seminar
“Sex, Drugs & Race: How Risk
Behaviors Differentially Contribute to Population STI-Risk,”
Jimi Adams, AZ St.; A115 Crabtree, 3-5 pm (griffin@pitt.edu)
Philosophy of Science Lecture
“Some Varieties of Mental
Causation,” John Campbell,
UC-Berkeley; 817R CL, 3:30 pm
(www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr)
Greensburg Campus Performing Arts Society Benefit
Concert
“Broadway Battles Breast
Cancer”; Campana Chapel,
UPG, 7:30 pm (upgmedia@
pitt.edu)
November
Tuesday 1
Flu Shot Clinic
Falk Pharmacy, 2nd fl. Falk
Medical Bldg., 9 am-3 pm
(412/623-6222)
Flu Shot Clinic
342 Craig, noon-2 pm (412/6236222)
MMR Seminar
“Transcriptional Networks &
Master Regulators of the Acinar
Phenotype,” Ray MacDonald;
3rd fl. conf. ctr. Rangos Research
Ctr., noon (linda.cherok@chp.
edu)
Philosophy of Science Talk
“Frequencies, Chances &
Undefinable Sets,” Jan-Willem
Romeijn, CMU; 1228 CL, 12:05
pm (4-1052)
Bradford Campus Workshop
“Create a Tri-Fold Brochure:
Topics in Microsoft Publisher”;
200 Seneca, Downtown Bradford, 1-3 pm (contined@pitt.edu)
Faculty Assembly Mtg.
2700 Posvar, 3 pm
Pharmacology & Chemical
Biology Seminar
“Drug Design From Enzymatic Transition States,” Vern
Schramm; 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30
pm (mmcclain@pitt.edu)
Archaeology Lecture
“Triumphal New York: The
‘Roman’ Arches of New York
City,” Elizabeth MacaulayLewis, CUNY; 306 CL, 4:30 pm
(elc3@pitt.edu)
C.F. Reynolds Medical History
Society Lecture
“Gut Feelings & Technical Precision: Thinking About the History of Cystic Fibrosis,” Susan
Lindee, Penn; Scaife lecture rm.
5, 6 pm (erlen@pitt.edu)
Jazz Week Film
“International Sweethearts of
Jazz”; WPU Assembly Rm., 7
pm (4-4364)
Wednesday 2
Family Medicine Grand
Rounds
“Accountable Care Organizations,” Harold Miller; Scaife
lecture rm. 1, 8 am (3-2248)
Clinical Oncology & Hematology Grand Rounds
“Cytomegalovirus in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients,” Minh Hong Nguyen; west
wing aud., UPMC Shadyside, 8
am (millerc5@msx.upmc.edu)
Eye & Ear Lecture
“Stemming Vision Loss With
Stem Cells,” Martin Friedlander, Scripps Research Inst.;
E&EI boardrm. 5th fl., 11:45
am (RSVP: munschl@upmc.edu)
Asia Over Lunch Lecture
“After Midnight: Form, A New
Balance & the Politics of Realism,” Susan Andrade, English;
4130 Posvar, noon (asia@pitt.
edu)
Pathology Lecture
“Nonneoplastic Renal Diseases
in Tumor Nephrectomy Specimens: Clinically Significant but
Often Overlooked,” Kammi
Henriksen, U of Chicago; 1104
Scaife, noon
International Studies Presentations
“Bridging Islands in Indonesian
Higher Education Through
Instructional Design,” Asfah
Rahman & “Strategic Teaching
Delivery Models in Indonesia,”
Fathor Rasyid; 5604 Posvar,
noon-1 pm (chs99@pitt.edu)
HSLS Workshop
“Lasergene,” Carrie Iwema;
Falk Library classrm. 2, 1-3 pm
(iwema@pitt.edu)
GI Grand Rounds
“Gastroenterology & Hepatology,” John Nasr & Rawad
Mounzer; 1104 Scaife, 5 pm
(gibsonh@upmc.edu)
Latin American Film
“El Bolero de Raquel / Raquel’s
Bolero”; FFA aud., 6:30-9 pm
Thursday 3
Flu Shot Clinic
Falk Pharmacy, 2nd fl. Falk
Medical Bldg., 9 am-3 pm
(412/623-6222)
Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology Seminar
“Molecular Switches in Signaling
& Disease,” Linda Nicholson;
6014 BST3, 11 am (zambotti@
pitt.edu)
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Research Conference
“Linking Mitochondrial Bioenergetics to the Etiology of Insulin
Resistance,” P. Darrell Neufer;
1195 Starzl BST, noon (rmn4@
pitt.edu)
Epidemiology Seminar
“Connected: Saved or Doomed.
Networks for Public Health,”
Hasan Guclu; A115 Crabtree,
noon (flinnl@edc.pitt.edu)
Special Collections Open
House
363 Hillman, 1-3 pm
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