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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH VOLUME 43 • NUMBER 7 NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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The lab planned for the fifth floor of Langley Hall is the first level-3 facility

in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sci-ences, Graham Hatfull, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, told the University Times. It will replace an existing lower-level facility as part of a larger renovation of the Clapp-Langley-Crawford complex.

The study of bacterial and viral pathogens is an important component of the department’s research, Hatfull said.

The lab’s potential to add to the success of the department’s research makes it valuable for that fact alone, but it’s also ground-breaking in its incorporation of design features that facilitate undergraduate learning, he noted. The suite’s observation room and monitoring cameras allow students to “see everything that’s essentially going on in the lab,” Hatfull said. He knows of no other such lab in the nation, acknowledging that others likely will be watching. “There may be a community out there interested in the design of how we use the facilities,” he said. “We need to be very careful about how we establish that.”

He noted that the depart-ment’s missions of education and research long have been closely entwined. “We bring them together as much as possible,” Hatfull said.

Biosafety issues are a con-cern today both in terms of the potential for emergence of new diseases as well as bioterrorism threats, he said. Scientists need training to work with pathogens and students who have the experi-

The American Physical Society has awarded Ezra T. Newman, professor

emeritus of physics and astron-omy, the 2011 Einstein Prize for his part in devising the Newman-Penrose formalism, an extension of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, as well as for composing a variety of solutions to Einstein’s equations, particularly the Kerr-Newman black hole.

The prize also recognizes Newman’s lifetime of work at the forefront of general relativity and commends his ongoing work to explain the significance of far-flung light energy.

The biennial Einstein prize, first awarded in 2003, carries a $10,000 award.

In 1962, six years after Newman joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy, he and University of Oxford professor Roger Pen-rose developed the Newman-Pen-

rose formalism, one of the most-cited sets of equations in relativity. In a nutshell, the formalism is an alternative method for describing Einstein’s equations that replaces Einstein’s own version.

Newman also is credited with reshaping the theory of general relativity by working out one of the most influential reformulations of the original theory, among other lasting solutions and insights to the Einstein equations.

The significance of the New-man-Penrose formalism is that it allows for special conditions to be imposed before one attempts to solve an equation, conditions for which Einstein’s original theory does not allow. Instead of using the four standard space-time coordi-nates, the Newman-Penrose equa-tions use four different vectors to describe the geometric construc-tions of the theory that arise from massive objects in motion. n

Prof namedEinstein winner

Ezra T. Newman

A renovation that will consolidate and expand the School of Medicine’s

Vascular Medicine Institute and Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, and construction of a unique bio-containment lab suite that will facilitate undergraduate training in the Department of Biological Sciences were among $110.52 mil-lion in projects recently approved by the Board of Trustees property and facilities committee.

In a Nov. 15 meeting, the com-mittee approved four projects and two lease extensions.

The projects are:• A $13.99 million renovation

of the 12th floor of the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower (BST) to accommodate the Vascu-lar Medicine Institute (VMI) and the Division of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine in the School of Medicine.

A project description provided to the committee stated that the renovation would consolidate and expand research activities within VMI and the division, whose faculty members currently occupy “inadequate and borrowed” space in five campus buildings. The situ-ation impedes collaboration and recruitment, the summary stated.

The renovation of 44,525 square feet of space at the Starzl BST will include laboratories, infrastructure upgrades and interior renovations, all funded through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.

• A $6 million project to reno-vate 4,400 square feet of laboratory space in Langley and Crawford halls to create a Biosafety Level (BSL) 2 and 3 Laboratory Suite for the Department of Biological Sciences. The project is being funded equally through Provost reserves and School of Arts and Sciences reserves.

The unique aspect of the project is that it will include an instructional viewing room adjoining the BSL-3 lab. Cam-eras in the lab’s biological safety cabinets will enable students to observe the work via closed circuit TV. Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Management Joseph Fink said the proposed lab appears to be among the first in the nation to be equipped with features that are conducive both to research as well as undergraduate train-ing. “We have not found another facility like it to get senior-level undergraduates to continue to be

interested in biological sciences research,” he said.

The lab will be designed for research with a variety of patho-gens, but exactly which ones has not been determined, said Dan Fisher, assistant vice chancellor for research facilities.

Internationally accepted bio-safety standards designate four levels, 1-4, based on the proce-dures and containment needed to protect workers, the community and the environment.

According to Pitt safety guide-lines, most work with biological

agents at the University is done at BSL-2 levels. BSL-2 agents “are moderate-risk, viable micro-organisms associated with human diseases of varying severity in healthy adults. These agents can be hazardous through various exposure routes, but not inhala-tion.” BSL-2 also is necessary when working with human blood, body fluid or tissues.

Approximately 85-90 per-cent of the University’s labs are equipped to conduct BSL-2 research, according to Jay Frerotte,

Trustees okay $110.5 million inconstruction, renovations, leases

ence, understanding and training in this area are expected to find it a marketable skill.

“The experience of working in a BSL-3 lab is unique. It’s an unusual opportunity,” Hatfull said.

“Having this type of facility is an opportunity not just to do research work, but an opportu-nity to train students in at least part of what it takes to work under these conditions,” he said. Even-tually students may advance to the point where they could enter the lab either to observe or to per-form rudimentary manipulations “so they have a full understanding of what it takes to work in that unique environment.”

Faculty likewise will benefit from having the BSL-3 facility close at hand. As an example, Hatfull said his own research with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis — which requires level-3 containment — could be expanded. Other strains of bacteria can be substituted in some studies, but with the BSL-3 lab available, the range could be expanded to include experiments that must use the TB bacterium itself.

Another research area that will become possible with the availability of the lab is one in which samples with suspected but unknown viral pathogens can be examined. “We can’t do those experiments now,” he said.

Hatfull said the department is continuing to expand and recruit. He sees the lab as a potential key to drawing in new faculty. “Having facilities like this could be very, very attractive,” he said. —Kimberly K. Barlow n

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The Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) recog-nized Pitt with a Merit Award in the society’s 2010 Green Star Awards competition. The award was given in the University and College Grounds category for exceptional grounds maintenance.

“This is a great honor to receive,” said Kathryn Trent, manager of grounds services in Facilities Management. “It not only recognizes the efforts put in by our staff, but also the University of Pittsburgh’s commitment toward enriching their students’, staff and visitors’ lives through green spaces.”

The Green Star Awards program brings national recognition to grounds maintained with a high degree of excellence, complementing other national landscape award programs that recognize outstanding landscape design and construction.

Founded in 1911, PGMS is a membership society of grounds pro-fessionals dedicated to advancing the grounds management profession through education and professional development.

Overall, PGMS presented seven Grand Awards, its highest honor, as well as 14 Honor Awards and 12 Merit Awards in 13 categories of competition. n

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The Staff Association Coun-cil (SAC) Nov. 10 affirmed chairs and vice chairs for

its nine standing committees. Appointees serve one-year terms, November through October.

New chairs and vice chairs are:• Benefits: chair, Michael

Semcheski; vice chair, Natalie Blais.

• Elections: chair, Barbara Mowery; vice chair, Yuolanda Murray.

• Governance: chair, Meg Mayer-Costa; vice chair, Carol Hodgkiss.

• Grievance: chair, Angela Coldren; vice chair, Rich Colwell.

• Marketing and communi-cations: chair, J.P. Matychak; vice chair, Kathy Krause.

• Program and planning: chair, Monica Costlow; vice chair, Lynn Kachman.

• Research and information: chair, Carol Neuner; vice chair, Fred Schiffer.

The University Senate community relations com-mittee (CRC) is urging

support for efforts to lobby Har-risburg to solve the county’s loom-ing public transit crisis. Those efforts include emailing legislators through a student-run web site and supporting the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership initiative, which is targeting legislators with information about the effects of transit cuts on the area’s economy.

The Port Authority of Allegh-eny County board meets today, Nov. 24, and is expected to approve a fare increase and a 35 percent reduction in service, including the total elimination of almost 50 routes as well as the elimination of weekend service on 13 others. The fare increase is expected to go into effect Jan. 1 and the service cuts March 13, along with more than 550 employee layoffs. The Port Authority, which by law must balance its budget, faces a $47 million shortfall in the 2010-11 fiscal year.

(For more details on the crisis and the proposed service cuts, go to the transit company’s web site, www.portauthority.org.)

CRC student representative David Givens said the Graduate and Professional Student Asso-ciation (GPSA), in cooperation with other student groups at Pitt and at other area universities, has launched an online petition to urge state legislators to pump enough funding into the cash-strapped transit company to avoid service cuts and other draconian measures.

“When we had discussions last year on the tuition tax [proposed by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl], GPSA was very involved with opposition to that tax,” Givens told the committee at its Nov. 16 meeting.

“When the tuition tax was [being debated], a lot of the student leaders from various col-leges and universities in the city came together to coordinate our efforts to oppose this tax,” he said. That led to the formation of the Pittsburgh Student Government Council to mobilize area students

against the proposed tax, which eventually was withdrawn from consideration by the mayor’s office. (See Jan. 7 University Times.)

“Once that was finished, we asked how can we continue to move forward with the leadership and the connections we have. So the Pittsburgh Student Govern-ment Council ratified its charter last month. They represent every college and university in the city. We have official liaisons to City Council and we have connections to the Pittsburgh Council of Higher Education,” Givens said.

In addition, CRC Governmen-tal Relations liaison John Wilds pointed out, “The city administra-tion was amazed at the amount of volunteerism among the colleges and universities, so much so that they created a new position in the mayor’s office, called the chief service officer, to try to work with colleges and universities.” Rebecca Kottler-Wein has been appointed to the post, he said.

Givens said, “We’re moving that same system, the very effec-tive online registration process for the petition we had created, and using that system to support the Port Authority with their lobbying efforts to Harrisburg. We have had that web site up and running [since mid-October], and we’ve already had about 500 students

writing to try and help our state legislators see the importance of the Port Authority.”

The web site (www.gpsa.pitt.edu/portauthority/) is open to public participation, he noted. “The web site is designed so that you can put in your zip code and the message will go directly to your legislator,” Givens said.

The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership has launched a similar web site, keepPGHmoving.com, CRC members noted. They urged the University community to lend their voices to the transit cause via the web sites.

qIn other CRC business:• CRC co-chair Denise

Chisholm urged Pitt employees, particularly faculty members, to participate in the seventh annual community service database project by completing the online survey at https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/comservice/login.pitt by Dec. 17. The project is designed to identify and document the services and benefits that Pitt provides to the broader commu-nity, Chisholm said.

Committee members noted that the database is searchable and contains more than 1,800 service projects for those looking to partner in community efforts.

• CRC Community Relations

Action urged on Pittsburgh transit crisisliaison Steve Zupcic is seeking vol-unteers and donations for Project Bundle-Up, which, in partnership with the Salvation Army, provides winter clothing for needy children and the elderly. Volunteers also are needed for the annual Christmas Day at Pitt, at which the Univer-sity expects to serve about 1,000 meals to the area’s less-fortunate population.

Ongoing volunteer opportu-nities also are available. Contact Zupcic at stz.pitt.edu or sign up online at www.commrel.pitt.edu/CRO-volunteerpoolform.html.

• The committee heard reports from neighborhood community agencies — the Oakland Planning and Development Corp. (OPDC), Peoples Oakland and Community Human Services (CHS).

Wanda Wilson, OPDC execu-tive director, said her organization has convened a steering commit-tee for the 2011 Oakland Commu-nity Plan, with the aim of creating a shared vision for the future of the neighborhood through a broad-based community engagement effort. Stakeholders will include the universities, residents, agen-cies and businesses.

Wilson said a winter kick-off, a spring action forum and a summer urban design analysis forum are in the planning stages, with the goal of launching the new plan

in fall 2011.Sandy Phillips, executive direc-

tor of Peoples Oakland (www.peoplesoakland.org) thanked the University and the community relations committee for their long-standing support.

Peoples Oakland is a recovery and wellness center that assists those with psychiatric disabilities in living, learning and working in the community. The agency partners with several Pitt schools and departments, including the School of Social Work, the School of Nursing, the Department of Psychology and Western Psychi-atric Institute and Clinic, which provide professional and volunteer services, Phillips said.

Genevieve Barbee, Commu-nity Human Services community organizer, thanked Pitt for its $16,000 donation to build shelves in the Oakland Food Pantry at 370 Lawn Street, which is staffed by Pitt and Carlow students.

CHS executive director Adri-enne Walnoha asked CRC mem-bers to spread the word that, in addition to food, her organization can provide assistance for the homeless to obtain the necessary entitlements, resources, support and life skills needed to achieve and maintain independent living, as well as provide care for individu-als in need of a supervised living arrangement.

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• Safety and security: chair, Rick Fabean; vice chair, Kenny Doty.

• Salary and job classifica-tion: chair, Jonah Yan McAllister-Erickson; vice chair, Monika Losagio.

qIn other business:• The staff group announced

the winners of Endowed Book Fund for Children of Staff, which provides financial assistance toward the purchase of books to an undergraduate student whose parent or guardian is a non-union staff member. The annual award carries a $200 prize. Winners will be recognized at the Dec. 9 long-term staff recognition ceremony.

The winners and their parents are:

— Bridgette Dawson, a junior majoring in elementary education at Pitt-Johnstown; parent, Marga-ret M. Clements-Dawson, School of Dental Medicine.

— Erica Germanoski, a senior majoring in psychology; Joe Ger-manoski, Computing Services and Systems Development.

— Amanda Gilarski, a sopho-more majoring in rehabilitation science; Linda Gilarski, Depart-ment of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health.

— Miles McCoy, a sopho-more focusing on English writ-ing; Warren J. McCoy, Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity and Inclusion.

• Libby Hilf, vice president for marketing and communications, reported that SAC’s revamped web site now is live at www.sac.pitt.edu.

Hilf said she is seeking approval to establish a discussion board on the My Resources link to the My Pitt portal for SAC members to exchange information between the group’s monthly meetings. “We are in the process of working with CSSD to create a community specifically for SAC. The pur-pose of this is to supplement our meetings, to help us continue the conversations from the meetings,” she said. If approval is granted, Hilf will arrange a short tutorial to show members how to use the community to post comments.

Hilf also reported that SAC will attempt to hold its spring officer elections online for the

first time. • Fabean reported that SAC-

sponsored CPR certification workshops tentatively are planned for Feb. 26 and May 14.

The safety and security com-mittee is working with Parking, Transportation and Services on installing “repeaters” in Pitt’s underground garages to ensure cell phone reliability in the case of emergencies, Fabean said.

• Costlow reported that more than 250 people attended the recent SAC-sponsored fall mar-ketplace, which raised $200 for the Oakland Food Pantry.

• Coldren recommended that SAC consider changing the name of the grievance committee to reflect its limitations.

“Grievance might not be the right word. Grievance, in the union sense, is a formal process,” said Coldren, who chairs that committee. “In terms of SAC, we can only do so much. We can’t contact a supervisor and say, ‘You need to do this, you need to do that.’ We don’t want to disband the committee, but we see the committee as more a counseling type of thing, with suggestions we can give.” She asked that ideas for an alternative name be forwarded to her at acoldren@bc.pitt.edu.—Peter Hart n

Staff Assn. Council names committee leaders

The Swanson School of Engineering is partner-ing with Siemens Energy to provide Pitt’s aspiring electric power engineers with the same training and software available to their professional counterparts.

The company will provide the school with the professional version of its Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSSE) software, the industry-standard tool for designing and analyzing power transmission systems. In addition, Siemens will establish a $5,000 annual graduate fellowship at the school, as well as access for faculty and students to attend Siemens’ Power Technologies International courses, which provide up-to-date training in power

system analysis and planning.The five-year agreement with Siemens Energy’s

Transmission and Distribution Service Solutions group marks the first of only a few collaborations the company plans to form with American universities.

Gregory Reed, director of the Swanson School’s Power and Energy Initiative and a faculty member in electrical and computer engineering, said that the partnership presents an important advantage to students entering an engineering field that is in step with the nation’s increasing need for electric power as well as more efficient and expansive deliv-ery networks. n

Engineering to partner with SiemensEnergy

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GSPH conference explores public health impacts of drilling

A wide-ranging daylong conference on the public health impacts of development of the Marcellus shale drew upon lessons learned in other regions

and raised questions for future research. “We all seek an integrated strategy for a sustainable

energy sector of the economy,” said Donald Burke, dean of the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), in his welcoming remarks at the school’s Nov. 19 event. “We must help industry learn best practices for protection of public health and the environment.”

Burke acknowledged that the topic has generated much political discourse. Citing the city’s recently enacted ban on drilling and a city council member’s associated com-ment that the jobs generated by natural gas development would be at funeral homes and hospitals, Burke said, “Our purpose here today is to provide a more measured voice about the health consequences of the Marcellus shale.

“Thus far the era has been characterized by an ad hoc regulatory climate, passionate advocacy, a booming industry and political posturing and too many unsubstan-tiated assertions from all sides,” he said, adding that he hoped to help change the climate “to one of thoughtful scientific investigation and collaboration among academia, industry, government and the public advocacy groups.”

Scientists from Pitt as well as other institutions pre-sented research on impacts of Marcellus shale drilling on air and water quality and discussed aspects in need of additional study.

qIn addition to obvious environmental concerns, psy-

The Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development, a partner-

ship among eight northeastern Pennsylvania academic institu-tions, has undertaken a baseline socioeconomic study of the impact of Marcellus shale drilling.

Teri Ooms, executive direc-tor of the institute, shared initial information from the project that aims to provide data for a future longitudinal study on community changes in the context of Marcel-lus shale drilling. “The purpose of the project was to assess the current social and economic conditions relating to gas well development in the Marcellus formation,” she said.

The study surveyed 1,500 Pennsylvania households in areas with Marcellus drilling activity.

Ooms, co-principal investiga-tor on the study, said the survey aimed to ascertain residents’ knowledge, attitudes and percep-tions concerning the economic, social and environmental out-comes they foresee as a result of the development of the Marcellus shale gas reserves.

It also sought information on their attitudes about their communities and differences in their knowledge and perceptions attributable to demographics such as age, gender or education.

Residents expressed strong positive responses related to school quality, the natural envi-ronment, neighborhood friend-liness and water quality in their communities, she said.

“However, they did not rate the availability of jobs or job training very well. They also believed their existing roads and streets were already in poor condition and that continued development of the [resource] would make it worse, and that traffic congestion was increasing,” Ooms said.

As for the impact of drilling in their community, “Most people believed that most of the aspects of their lives would remain the

W i l l d e v e l o p m e n t of Marcellus shale resources bring a

long-term economic boom to Pennsylvania? Cornell University city and regional planning faculty member Susan Christopherson isn’t so sure.

“I think there’s this idea that we’re going to have this 60-year play. Maybe so, but I think my message is: Don’t count on it. This may be quite a bit more condensed than we’re thinking of,” she cautioned.

“The oil and gas industry isn’t like a long-term slow, measured manufacturing industry. If any-thing, think financial services,” Christopherson said. “This is a very speculative high-risk, short-term industry. They’re not in it for the long term.

“When we think about this, we shouldn’t assume this is going to be some long, steady progress over a period of years,” she said. “If we just assume this is going to be long-term, I think we’re either fooling ourselves or not being good planners.”

Leaders need a better under-standing of how the industry makes decisions and the factors that impact the pace and scale of drilling to better predict the economic impact, she said. “What are they thinking, what are the financial analysts saying?

“We need to adopt the uncer-tainty principle,” she said. “This is a very volatile industry. ... We need to have policy makers who are going to be very savvy about what’s going on in the industry.”

qCiting Pennsylvania’s increase

in gas well permits, which rose from 71 in 2007 to approximately 2,000 two years later, she said, “That doesn’t sound like a slow measured ramp-up to me. That sounds like a boom.” Communi-ties need to prepare for the pos-sibility of a bust, she cautioned. “I’m not saying this is going to

chosocial effects can’t be separated from the public health discussion, said Bernard Goldstein in his presentation on health and safety considerations in fossil fuel extraction.

A summary of the health impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill noted that oil was spilled “into a social as well as a natural environment,” said Goldstein, past dean of GSPH and a professor in Pitt’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. “It’s not just the toxic chemicals.”

Alluding to his work in toxicology in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he said, “I am far less concerned about the toxicology of those chemicals in terms of health effects than I am about the psychosocial impacts of being thrown out of a job, all of the uncertainties, all of the unknowns. Those are major impacts that are happening.”

Toxicology studies can’t evaluate nonspecific impacts. “We know that we very often can’t put a name or diagno-sis to some of the health effects people are complaining about,” he said. Using the definition of health as not merely the absence of disease, but also one’s physical, social and mental well-being, if individuals cannot function because they feel they are being affected, “Those people are not healthy,” Goldstein said. “We need to act in a way that will prevent, as best we can, these effects.”

A common theme among the day’s speakers was that more information is needed and that baselines should be established in order to determine any potential cause-and-effect relationship attributable to Marcellus shale drilling.

“We’re just beginning to scratch the surface in terms of what we know and what we understand,” said moderator

Radisav Vidic of Pitt’s Department of Civil and Environ-mental Engineering. “Clearly there are lots of questions being raised and I think the exchange of information and sharing of information among stakeholders would be one crucial set,” he said. “What’s clear to me is that we don’t have baseline data.”

Without information on the initial conditions before Marcellus shale drilling began, potential impacts attrib-utable to the drilling cannot be determined. “It’s much better to do proactive studies to find out what the situation is right now so you have a baseline for comparison. The retroactive studies are very expensive and very inconclu-sive in the most part,” Vidic said. “I think the challenge to the community — both the research community, the industry and the community that lives in this region — is to perhaps engage in some kind of a dialogue to collect sufficient information that would provide baseline stud-ies in the region where perhaps drilling hasn’t occurred, and then use that information to assess potential impacts from industrial activity,” he said.

“The critical issue really is to start exchanging the information in an unbiased and scientifically valid way to address the issues and ensure that everybody’s questions are answered appropriately. I think both industry and the public have to play an important role in that.”

qOrganizers said the presentations would be posted

on the Marcellus conference page at www.eoh.pitt.edu/marcellus.asp. —Kimberly K. Barlow n

Baseline data gathered for community change study

same,” Ooms said. “They believed that the job

opportunities would get better, however the environment and water quality and quantity issues would get worse.”

Attitudes toward drilling mostly were neutral, with the fol-lowing exceptions, she said:

• 57 percent said that extrac-tion of domestic natural gas resources should be encouraged to decrease reliance on foreign energy.

• 60 percent agreed that the negative impacts of natural gas extraction can be prevented if the process proceeds carefully.

• 48 percent thought that only a few people would benefit from natural gas development.

“It appears there was little consensus among survey partici-pants concerning the safety and desirability of developing the gas industry in the region. Many had no clear opinion about the issues raised and the percentages of those holding positive and nega-

tive positions on most issues were somewhat similar,” Ooms said.

qThe study also included inter-

views with “key informants” in Pennsylvania communities and in areas of Arkansas and Texas (where shale gas drilling has been developed) that yielded some interesting results.

In the Pennsylvania interviews with academic, business and government leaders from five counties, researchers found more commonalities than differences, Ooms said.

The community leaders reported seeing new jobs and companies coming in, but tensions erupting due to concerns about mineral rights ownership and lease and royalty rates. Some reported the beginnings of gentrification, changes in the rural character of their communities and increases in the cost of living.

Road and traffic concerns were expressed across the board, she said.

Despite their concerns, all the interviewees wanted to see the industry move forward.

Some of the issues beginning to be observed in Pennsylvania — such as home prices rising faster than income — already were being seen in the other areas, Ooms said. Interviewees in Texas and Arkansas reported their com-munities had dramatic population growth as well as increases in jobs, home values and household income.

Among the concerns reported by Texas interviewees were emi-nent domain, benzene emissions, problems with gas industry land-men and urban drilling, Ooms said.

In Arkansas, there were con-cerns over possible wastewater disposal issues, but no water con-tamination issues were reported, she said. There, the largest con-cern was road damage.

The study is available at www.institutepa.org.—Kimberly K. Barlow n

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director of Environmental Health and Safety.

The BSL-3 designation applies to labs where work is done with pathogens that may cause serious or deadly disease when inhaled. Pitt has two BSL-3 labs in BST3 and others in Scaife Hall, Hillman Cancer Center and the Starzl BST. (Experiments with certain danger-ous pathogens, such as smallpox and ebola, require a BSL-4 desig-nation and, per University safety guidelines, are not permitted in University facilities.)

• $50.6 million to build an addition to Salk Hall that will add laboratory and administrative space for the School of Dental Medicine’s Center for Craniofa-cial Regeneration and the School of Pharmacy’s Center for Pharma-cogenetics and Center for Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences. The project also includes aesthetic and pedestrian safety improvements to Sutherland Drive and will allow for future renovation of Salk Hall. (See July 22 University Times.)

The project is funded through $50 million in state funding and $622,000 in gifts.

• $39.9 million to begin Phase IIA of renovations to Benedum Hall, which is home to the Swan-son School of Engineering. This phase includes renovation of floors 3, 6, 7 and 8 as well as construction of an 8,000-square-foot mezza-nine level and extensive work in the sub-basement.

The renovated areas will include laboratories, support

facilities, small conference rooms and departmental space for the engineering school.

The project cost is covered through $30 million in state fund-ing and $6.6 million in education and general debt.

qThe property and facili-

ties committee has authority to approve all University construc-tion projects in excess of $1 million and to report its actions to the budget committee so the approved projects can be included in the operating and capital budgets.

John Fedele, Pitt’s associate director of news, said the Salk Hall, Starzl BST and Benedum Hall projects already had gone to the budget committee.

qThe leases approved by the

committee were: • A five-year lease exten-

sion to retain the Department of Biomedical Informatics’ 11,294 square feet of research, teaching and office space in the Parkvale Building at 200 Meyran Ave.

The space includes classroom and research facilities for master’s and PhD students in the depart-ment’s biomedical informatics training program.

According to background provided to the committee, the department has research grant funding through NIH, the National Science Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security, the Penn-

sylvania Department of Public Health, the Agency for Health Research and Quality and others, as well as a training grant from the National Library of Medicine. The department’s fiscal year 2011 direct grant support totals $11.4 million.

The lease extension begins in March 2011 and continues through February 2016, at an annual cost of $304,938, with an option for a five-year extension.

The agreement may be termi-nated by the University should program funding be discontinued.

• A five-year lease for the Department of Neurological Sur-gery’s 4,575 square feet of labora-tory, classroom and administrative space in the Parkvale Annex Build-ing at 3520 Forbes Ave.

According to background information presented to the trustees committee, the depart-ment’s Laboratory for Computa-tional Neuroscience will occupy part of the building’s second floor. NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute provides annual funding of $586,465 for the pro-gram and other grants are pend-ing with future program growth expected.

The lease with Cityview Prop-erties runs February 2011-January 2016 at an annual cost of $123,525, with an option for a five-year extension. The agreement may be terminated by the University should program funding be dis-continued.—Kimberly K. Barlow n

Marcellus shaleWill economic boom be long-term in PA?CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3

happen but I think we need to be prepared,” she said. “We should think about the fact that this may be an accelerated drilling cycle.”

The lack of a severance tax on gas drilling in Pennsylvania may be speeding the pace of extrac-tion, she noted. Companies may be motivated to drill more now to avoid the potential cost should a tax be put into place later.

Commonly cited economic impact estimates portray “a very incredibly rosy picture,” but essentially are only snapshots, Christopherson said. “The job and revenue projections provided a certain kind of information, but I also knew these kinds of studies were limited in what they could tell us,” she said. “They could give us estimates of how mining investment coming into these counties will distribute itself across different sectors of the economy and what kinds and how many jobs might be created,” she said. However, questions remain:

• How will the pace and scale of drilling affect costs to the com-munities and the environment?

• What can be expected regarding long-term economic development?

• What kind of jobs will be created?

• What are the long-term expectations and what will the communities in which drilling occurs look like in 20 years?

Christopherson noted that approximately 50 percent of a shale gas well’s production comes in its first year, with production beyond five years uncertain. Most of the jobs related to that sector arrive early — when exploration and drilling is done. Production jobs that remain after a well is drilled are relatively few in com-parison.

qWhether regions rich in Mar-

cellus shale formations will reap a long-term benefit remains to be seen.

In contrast to western states, where much drilling is on public land, Christopherson said that 70 percent of the money coming into the Marcellus shale counties is going into the pockets of private land owners.

How that money is used is important, because long-term economic development depends in part on capturing that income

to build new business and industry.However, people tend to spend

windfalls differently than they would spend smaller amounts received over time. “If somebody gave you $5,000 a year for some period of years, think about how you’d spend it as opposed to someone giving you $500,000 all at once,” she said.

In the case of Marcellus land-owners, “We all hope they use it to send their children to college. But they may spend it on an Escalade,” she said. “We all hope that they may spend it improving their farms. But they may spend it to move to Florida.”

Extraction of the gas comes at a cost to the communities in the form of road maintenance, traf-fic congestion and public safety needs, to name a few. “Who’s going to pay for this?” she ques-tioned.

“Those costs will be higher if the boom/bust cycle goes in because you’ll get communities with very low capacity having to hire more teachers, more police — very fast, because the demand will come in [rapidly] instead of ramping up slowly.” Most areas can adapt to a 5 percent change, but a 15 percent increase can stress a community, Christopherson noted. “When the bust comes these communities are left with all that excess capacity. They’re left with too many policemen, too many schoolteachers.”

Long-term effects aren’t well known, but some information can be drawn from western regions that experienced resource booms in the 1980s, she said. Impacts in rural areas differ from regions that include cities.

“We’re talking about small communities with very low gov-ernance capacity,” she said — for example, communities in which local leaders are unpaid, or have no staff.

Christopherson noted that Marcellus shale drilling is concen-trated in three counties in Penn-sylvania and parts of four in New York, noting that Pennsylvania’s northern tier and the adjoining southern tier of New York make up a single labor market.

The southern tier commu-nities of Elmira, Corning and Binghamton already are feeling the expansion, she said, in com-parison to the Pennsylvania coun-

ties where there are no such cities.Regions that have become

dependent on natural resource extraction “very frequently have poor development outcomes, particularly if they’re rural and made up of small towns,” Christo-pherson said, noting that positive or negative economic impact is tied to the diversity of the region’s economy.

Evidence from western states shows a pattern of decreased eco-nomic diversity in areas dependent on natural resource extraction. “Natural gas isn’t adding in to the tourism and agricultural economy. It’s displacing it.”

A “crowding out” phenom-enon also may occur. The cost of living — particularly in the form of housing — goes up, impacting workers in non-extraction jobs and the cost of labor increases, which tends to crowd out other investment, she said.

“I’m not saying there aren’t going to be jobs created,” Chris-topherson said. “There are going to be jobs created. The question is what sectors are they going to be in and how many of them are going to be good, well-paying jobs?”

If those jobs are in construc-tion, retail or service sectors, for instance, “Are those going to be good jobs and how long are they going to last? I don’t think we know.”

Christopherson said drilling

jobs initially go to experienced outsiders. Anecdotal information shows that local people also are being hired, “But they will also then have to become transient workers. They will have to go on to work in other shale plays to keep their jobs.”

Some of the good jobs will be in Pennsylvania, “but they’ll be at Southpointe,” she said, which is becoming a sub-hub for the indus-try. “Most of the good jobs are going to go to where the industry’s headquartered, i.e., Texas. That’s where the engineering firms are, that’s where the finance firms are, that’s where the consultants are, that’s where the media people

are and the people who serve the industry,” she said.

“Every time the natural gas industry expands in the United States, Texas will get more jobs,” she quipped.

qChristopherson reiterated that

the long-term economic benefits will depend on figuring out how to capture revenues as they come in, ensuring environmental costs are remediated and taking advantage of the opportunity for tax revenues that can be invested in building up rural counties.

“We don’t want to leave these counties worse off,” she said.—Kimberly K. Barlow n

Teri Ooms, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development, discussed early results of socioeco-nomic data gathered in communities where shale gas extraction is occurring.

Bernard Gold-stein, former dean of GSPH, outlined health and safety considerations of fossil fuel extraction that go beyond environmental issues.

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“Elections, as Barack Obama was so fond of reminding Repub-

licans last year, have consequences. I think the president will soon discover this is the case,” said Judy Woodruff, national news veteran reporter and co-anchor and senior correspondent of “PBS NewsHour,” in a presentation here last week.

Woodruff honed her expe-rienced eye on the recent mid-term elections, analyzing results, breaking down exit polls and making some predictions, in her Nov. 15 University Honors College American Experience Distinguished Lecture titled “After the 2010 Elections: Can They Govern?” — a reference to potential political gridlock.

For the first time, the American Experience Distinguished Lecture series, launched 39 years ago, was co-sponsored by Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy. Former Pennsyl-vania Gov. Thornburgh was in attendance. (See box on page 6.)

“Everybody’s on edge, espe-cially we in the news media, as we wait to see what happens as a result of the mid-term election earthquake,” said Woodruff, who has covered politics for more than three decades, previously serving as news anchor and senior corre-spondent for CNN for 12 years, and as NBC News White House correspondent, 1977-1982.

Unlike the 2008 elections, when 130 million Americans — 61 percent of eligible voters — turned out, only 88 million, or 40 percent, turned out for the Nov. 2 elections.

“That is on par with typical mid-term turnout, but still dis-appointing in our democracy,” said Woodruff, who has garnered numerous awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Broadcast Journalism/Television. “And it’s a reminder that the electorate that turns out in 2012 almost certainly will be different again, and will include many of those voters who we know did not turn out in this election: young people, Latinos, other minorities and others who for a variety of reasons decided to sit this one out.”

The most obvious result of the elections is that the Republicans won across the board. “A few races are still undecided, but out of almost 100 new members of the House of Representatives, at least 84 are Republicans,” Woodruff noted. “Of those new members, at least 63 were flipped from the Democrats. Only nine new mem-bers of the House are Democrats, and only three of them flipped from the Republicans.”

Fewer Republican gains occurred in the U.S. Senate, with the GOP gaining six seats (now that the Alaska race has been decided), to make the breakdown in the upper chamber 53 Demo-crats, including the independents who caucus with them, and 47 Republicans.

Republicans also gained six additional governorships for a total of 29, including, she said, “in states critical in presidential

years, like right here in Pennsyl-vania, in Ohio and in Iowa. Very significantly, the Republicans also picked up at least 19 state house chambers, in this state as well — significant because we know state legislatures are going to be redrawing congressional districts based on the 2010 census. Every advantage counts going into the next election when those lines are being drawn.”

Voter demographics reflected the sharp shift to the Republican Party, Woodruff noted. “Women who turned out to vote divided almost evenly between the two parties, favoring Democrats by just 2 percentage points, accord-ing to exit polls. This was a major blow to Democrats, who have consistently won a majority of the female vote over the past few decades,” she said. “The tiny majority among women was easily overcome by the 12-point margin men gave Republicans.”

The only age group that voted Democratic were the 18-29 year olds, by a lopsided margin, but they made up only one out of every nine voters, she added. Every other age group, and especially those 65 and over, voted heavily for Republicans.

“Probably the most politi-cally important demographic are the independents, people who describe themselves as going back and forth between parties depend-ing on the election, who favored Republican candidates 55 to 40 percent. That is a big swing from 2008, in which they went solidly Democratic and solidly for Barack Obama,” Woodruff pointed out.

What voters were trying to say when they cast their ballots, however, is open to interpretation, she said.

Based on the approximately 15,000 voters nationwide sur-veyed in exit polls, 62 percent said the economy was the main issue that influenced their vote, which indicates a rejection of the White House’s economic agenda, Woodruff said. That rebuff was driven by 9.6 percent unemploy-ment nationally, and the fact that 41 percent of the jobless have been

unemployed for more than half the year — double the percentage in that situation during the recession of 1982-83.

“What I would submit, how-ever, and even some Republican leaders themselves admit this: The election results are not a widespread affirmation or a clear endorsement of the general Republican prescription to slash taxes, drastically cut spending, undo health care reform, undo financial regulation reform and other regulatory changes,” Wood-ruff maintained.

Other results from the exit polls, which tend to be more reliable than pre-election polling, Woodruff said, highlight the sharp divides among voters:

• Regarding the new Con-gress’s top priority, 39 percent said it should be to reduce the federal deficit; a similar percentage, 37 percent, said Congress should spend more to create jobs, and another 18 percent said Congress needs to cut taxes, which would add to the deficit.

• When voters were asked about the new health care law, 48 percent said repeal it, but 47 percent said either expand it or leave it the way it is.

“If all that sounds confusing, it is,” Woodruff said. “The voters are very clear about what they don’t like, but they are far less certain about what they want, other than to say, ‘We want times that are better.’ I see that dichotomy of Nov. 2 playing out in the weeks and months to come. It centers on what are quite different inter-pretations of the results by both political parties.”

Many rank-and-file Repub-licans say this election was a mandate to pursue their agenda: Repeal health care reform, extend the Bush-era tax cuts indefinitely for all, even the very wealthy, and institute large cuts across the board in domestic programs, federal agencies and the number of government employees, she said.

“The White House and the rank-and-file Democrats are saying that would be an enormous over-reach and a misinterpreta-

tion of what voters are saying.”In addition, not only Demo-

crats are unpopular with the electorate. “Both pre- and post-election polls consistently say the Republicans are viewed favorably by only 34 percent and unfavor-ably by 42 percent, just about the reverse of the Republicans who controlled Congress in 1994, when we had the big Republican sweep under Newt Gingrich,” Woodruff noted.

“One other important point: Among the 60-plus incumbent Democratic House members who lost their seats, almost half were moderates, members of the so-called blue-dog caucus, who urged their party to try to adopt a business-friendly, fiscally conser-vative agenda. So the remaining Democrats in the House are, on balance, more liberal,” she said.

In contrast, more Republicans are conservative than before, because many of them were backed by the tea party movement.

“There’s no real official tally of who was supported by the tea party, but the number of winners who claim some tea party backing includes at least five new Republi-can senators and as many as 40 new House members,” Woodruff said.

“The result: It sets up a Con-gress that is even more divided philosophically than the current Congress. And it raises serious questions about what they are going to be able to work together on, what it is they are going to be able to accomplish,” she said.

Woodruff doubts that much of the tea party agenda will be enacted, at least in the short term, due to the Senate’s Democratic majority and the president’s veto power.

“But they will certainly help to frame the agenda in the next few years on spending cuts, taxes, on regulations and on investigations, with subpoena powers” now in the hands of the House majority Republicans, she said.

“The question there is: Will Republicans focus on productive oversight of issues like outsourc-ing, lack of transparency in many agencies, what really happened to

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in terms of the mortgage meltdown, or will they choose to go for the headlines investigating issues like ACORN, the group working for Democratic turnout that used Black Panthers in an attempt to intimidate voters, at least in one instance?”

So the battleground areas — taxes, spending cuts, government efficiency — already are drawn.

“My best guess over the next few weeks is that the Bush-era tax cuts are going to be extended for everyone, including the wealthy, for at least a year or two, and per-haps longer for the middle class,” Woodruff said.

She also predicted some spend-ing cuts will be enacted. “There is movement in both political parties to do something about attacking the deficit, although the plan that came out of the Republican leadership of the House to cut something like $100 billion — a 21 percent cut in discretionary spending — could end up being more political rhetoric than a realistic legislative goal, because it would entail making huge cuts in programs like Pell Grants for middle class college students, and cuts for the National Institutes of Health for things like cancer and Alzheimer’s research. Those cuts are not politically popular,” Woodruff pointed out.

“Curiously to me, one of the great uncertainties and almost completely absent in all of the intense pre-election debate were the issues of national security and the war in Afghanistan. We know there are several hundred thousand brave young Americans risking their lives around the globe and, shamefully, politicians in both parties largely ducked the issue,” she said.

“At some point, important decisions are going to have to be made, and it astonishes me that there was almost no debate about it over the several months of the campaign.”

Regarding the national debt, while there is a broad consensus to tighten monetary policy in the short run because of the poor shape of the economy, she said, “there is in this country a serious, long-term chronic debt problem. When we talk about the debt, the issue of record consumer debt, household debt, is every bit as serious as the public debt, the

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American Experience lecture

After the election: Can they govern?

Judy Woodruff, co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” delivered the American Experience Distinguished Lecture Nov. 15, speaking on “After the 2010 Elections: Can They Govern?”

Joining Woodruff on stage was panelist former Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh. The lecture was co-sponsored by Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy.

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The Nov. 15 American Experience Distinguished Lecture series, long housed in the University Honors College, for the first time was co-sponsored by Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh

Forum for Law and Public Policy. Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania governor and former

U.S. attorney general, introduced Judy Woodruff, who delivered the lecture, and joined Woodruff in the Q&A session that followed.

He led off with a question about the Bush-era tax cuts, and whether they should be extended, for how long and for which segments of society.

“These tax cuts were adopted for a limited time at a time when this country had surpluses as far as the eye could see. Therefore the source of the tax cuts was clearly identified,” Thornburgh said.

“Now, all that’s gone and we have exactly the opposite — we now have a record deficit. It strikes me that the political underpinnings of the tax cuts in the past have gone kaput, and yet nobody seems to make that connection. That may sound heretical coming from a life-long Republican, but I’m puzzled as to why that is.”

Woodruff responded: “You are in the same school, whether you want to be or not, with [former head of the Federal Reserve] Alan Greenspan, who started saying several months ago that the Bush-era tax cuts should all end, the debt crisis is so enormous and so imminently catastrophic. We simply cannot afford the $4 tril-lion over 10 years, but that is, as you say, a very unpopular view in the Republican Party. In an election year, there hasn’t been much courage in either party about deficits, and the Democrats now are wavering about temporarily, as least, extending the cuts for the very wealthy.”

Later, Woodruff was asked if she thought the British parlia-mentary system is superior to the U.S. system.

She replied, “I don’t. I think that the principle of one person, one vote that is at the root of our democracy, our system of gov-ernance, is one of the things that makes us unique and makes us so strong as a country. I still believe that our system of government is a remarkable thing that allows us to have these debates, and the ability to have these mid-course corrections makes us stronger as a country.”

Thornburgh disagreed somewhat, noting that certain features of the British system “would certainly raise the level of debate in our Congress, [where] there is very little debate. What masquerades as debate are prepared statements that are introduced into the record by members of the House and Senate. Those of us who watch the parliamentary debates in the House of Commons can see a marked difference in the kind and quality of the questions that are asked and the answers that are given.”

He continued, “I once had the privilege of debating at the Oxford Union in the U.K. and I barely got through that ordeal. I was debating the then-attorney general [for England and Wales] Patrick Mayhew, who was then-president of the Oxford Union and a very skilled debater, who just made mincemeat out of me. I couldn’t help but reflect on what a healthy situation we would have in our country if Cabinet members like myself and other members of the administration were to appear in Congress and had the opportunity to lay out our thoughts and answer questions from members of either the House or Senate. I think the quality of understanding would be greatly enhanced.

“How you do that, I don’t know. But what we do nowadays is we have hearings, where you appear before a committee of the Congress which has maybe 35 members, one or two or whom are in attendance. You hear something of interest to the chair or the ranking members of the committee and very few other people. The witnesses summarize in five minutes what’s in their 35-page position paper, and enter the rest into the record. That’s what we call a process of discussion. It’s a fraud! I think some way or other we’ve got to have a substitute for what goes on in our legislative bodies, that comes close to, but doesn’t necessarily track, the kind of debate that takes place in the House of Commons.

“I agree with Judy, I don’t think a parliamentary system as a whole would be positive for our country, but we certainly could use a higher-level quality of discourse.”—Peter Hart n

government debt. Both of them in the long run imperil our prosper-ity and the country as a whole.”

She said the recent plan pro-posed to reduce the national debt by the Erskine Bowles-Alan Simp-son bipartisan commission “shows the one thing that is clear in all serious analyses for minimizing the deficit, let alone reducing it, and that is it is impossible to do it without cutting back entitlements like Social Security and Medicare and raising taxes.”

Woodruff urged the American citizenry, as well as the national media, to drive home that point.

“So when politicians engage in these vague statements that we need to ‘cut government,’ make them talk specifics! When they say cut, ask ‘Cut what’? When they say, ‘We need to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse,’ hold their feet to the fire,” she said. “I think

the media do a somewhat better job than normal in covering this tough issue, but you also need to hold our feet to the fire.”

The point is not to embarrass anyone, but to raise the level of the debate by not letting politi-cians get away with misleading statements.

“We allowed that in the cam-paign; now we’re getting to crunch time when everyone on both sides of the aisle agrees that hard deci-sions have to be made and they owe it to the American people to be honest about what the options are,” Woodruff said.

As for her near-term predic-tions, Woodruff expects that the health care reform law will not be repealed, although she said it’s pretty clear there will be tinkering around the edges.

“We’re going to hear a lot about it, and I think it’s a healthy

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debate to have,” with Americans divided equally over its merits, she said.

“Whether much occurs or not, the next year is certainly going to set the agenda for the 2012 presi-dential election. Make no mistake, Barack Obama will have his work cut out for him over the next two years. His coalition has frayed, the best prospect for economic recov-ery is an unemployment rate of 8 percent and uncertainty abounds in Afghanistan,” Woodruff said.

“Moreover, it’s been more than nine years since there’s been any successful terrorist attack in the United States, and yet every single terrorist expert says it would be foolish to assume there will not be a terrorist attempt on this country. There are bad people out there and they’re trying every day to find new ways to attack us,” she said.

Even Pennsylvania, which

Thornburgh on tax cuts, U.S. governance system

Obama carried by a comfortable margin in 2008, he could have trouble carrying in 2012, based on the recent election results, she said.

“He does have one advantage at this stage and that is there is no obvious strong Republican candidate to defeat him, but we know there are a lot of possible names out there,” Woodruff said.

She downplayed the possibility of a third-party candidate getting elected president, based on Ameri-can political history, but noted that third parties have influenced election outcomes in the past.

“There also are a lot of issues

that we cannot predict now for the next two years: How will the economic recovery go? Does the health care law become any more popular? What will happen in Afghanistan? Will there be any terrorist attacks? All that is what makes my job so interesting,” Woodruff said.

She warned Republicans not to underestimate Barack Obama. “On the other hand, four years ago in 2006, no one could antici-pate that the junior senator from Illinois would have won the nomination and gone on to win the White House.”—Peter Hart n

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A memorial service will be held Dec. 10 for Holbert N. Car-roll, professor emeritus of political science, who died March 11, 2010. He was 88.

The memorial service will be held 4-6 p.m. in the University Club’s Fraternity Grill.

Carroll joined the University as an instructor in 1946. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1950, associate professor in 1955 and professor in 1960. He served as acting chair of the department, 1958-59, and chair, 1960-68. He specialized in U.S. government and politics, U.S. civil liberties and U.S. foreign policy.

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Memorial service plannedfor poli sci’s Holbert Carroll

Hisashi Shinozuka, professor emeritus of pathology, died Sept. 20, 2010, while visiting family members in his native Japan. He was 81.

Shinozuka and his colleague Benito Lombardi are credited with playing a pivotal role in laying the foundations for academic pathology at Pitt. Together, they developed the carcinogenesis research section of the Division of Experimental Pathology.

In 2008, the Department of Pathology created the endowed Lombardi-Shinozuka Experimen-tal Pathology Research Chair in their honor. Lombardi, also pro-fessor emeritus of pathology, said, “Dr. Shinozuka was the best col-league one could ever wish to have — he was insightful, perseverant and open to collaboration. He was also a man of dignity. He offered respect to all, irrespective of status, and was in turn respected by those who knew him.

“In retirement, he enjoyed a variety of activities,” Lombardi said. “He played golf regularly with a group of close friends. He and I also found the time to

Hisashi Shinozuka

become good friends, sharing mutual interests in gardening, Pittsburgh’s football teams, a good meal and a nice glass of wine.”

Shinozuka’s career at Pitt began in 1963, when he served as a demonstrator for the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine. In 1966, he was appointed research assistant professor and assis-tant professor of pathology. He served in that capacity until 1970, during which time he developed a strong interest in the biochemical approach to the study of disease processes. Shinozuka became pro-ficient in this area, and extended his studies from skin carcino-genesis to liver carcinogenesis, with particular emphasis on the ultra-structural, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of action

of hepatic carcinogens.His early work demonstrated

that duplicating DNA is more sen-sitive to the carcinogenic action of chemicals than nonduplicating DNA, an important contribution to the field of carcinogenesis. Sub-sequently, his interests in ultra-structural pathology led him into a variety of studies involving acute cell injury, cell-drug interactions and carcinogen-target cell inter-actions. His work on organelle pathology, particularly that of the nucleus and nucleolus, were major contributions to the field.

In 1970, Shinozuka moved to Temple University’s Fels Research Institute. There, he continued to produce work on the analysis of hepatic and pancreatic cell reac-tions to carcinogens.

In 1975, Shinozuka returned to Pitt as associate professor of pathology. He spent the remainder of his career at the University, and was promoted to professor in 1979. He retired as professor emeritus in 1998, but stayed in close contact with departmental faculty and staff up until his death.

During his second stint at Pitt,

Shinozuka developed a research program in experimental car-cinogenesis of the liver and the pancreas. He then extended this research into the characteriza-tion of the pre-neoplastic lesions in the human pancreas utilizing human autopsy material. Later, he investigated problems related to environmental and nutritional pathology and studied the rela-tionship between nutrition and cancer.

Shinozuka also taught pathol-ogy students and lectured on cell growth and neoplasia in biochemi-cal pathology, including various aspects of organelle pathology, cell injury, carcinogenesis and the behavior of malignant cells. He served as director of the electron microscopy service of the department, and supervised the residency training in ultra-structural pathology.

Shinozuka received his medical degree from Keio University in his hometown of Tokyo in 1949, and subsequently served as an intern at Norwalk General Hospital in Connecticut.

By 1960, Shinozuka had completed his residency in both pathology and surgery at St. Louis

City Hospital and Missouri Pacific Hospital, respectively. He enrolled as a graduate student at McGill University School of Medicine in Montreal, and obtained a PhD in experimental pathology in 1963. During his graduate training, he set in motion what would become the major scientific interests of his career, when he began his studies on experimental carcinogenesis while mastering the discipline of electron microscopy.

Shinozuka was a member of the American Society of Experimen-tal Pathology, the International Academy of Pathology, the Ameri-can Society of Cell Biology, the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Associa-tion for the Advancement of Sci-ence, the Japanese Association for Cancer Research, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American Col-lege of Toxicology.

He is survived by his daughter, Terri White, and her husband, John; granddaughter Jennifer, and sisters Motoko Endo and Suiko Ohtsu.

A memorial service for Shino-zuka was held Nov. 20.—Peter Hart n

Renowned moral philosopher Kurt E. M. Baier, Distinguished Service Professor emeritus and former chair of Pitt’s Department of Philosophy, died Oct. 24, 2010, in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was 93.

A native of Vienna, Baier studied law in Austria. His partly Jewish ancestry forced him to cut short his studies and flee in 1938 to England after the Nazi takeover of his homeland. Classified as a “friendly enemy alien” in Britain, he was deported in 1940 to an internment camp in Australia. He earned a BA and an MA at the University of Melbourne and in 1952 earned his D. Phil at Oxford under Stephen Toulmin. He later returned to Australia and taught at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University (ANU). In 1958 he married New Zealand native Annette Stoop, a professor at the University of Sydney.

The couple came to Pittsburgh in 1962 after Baier left his position as head of the philosophy depart-ment at ANU to chair Pitt’s phi-losophy department. He retired from the University in 1995.

Annette Baier, herself a noted philosopher and Hume scholar, first took a faculty position at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later joined Pitt’s philosophy department, from which she retired as Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy emerita.

Among numerous honors and professional activities, Kurt Baier was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as president of the American Philosophical Associa-tion’s Eastern Division in 1977 and chaired the APA board 1983-86.

Baier retained his interest in law, having served as the philoso-phy department’s liaison to the law school. In 2001 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Juris-prudence from the Karl Franzen University in Graz, Austria.

His publications include: “The

Moral Point of View; Values and the Future” (edited with Nicholas Rescher); “The Rational and the Moral Order: The Social Roots of Reason and Morality”; “Reason, Ethics, and Society: Themes from Kurt Baier, With His Responses” (edited by Jerome B. Schneewind), and “Problems of Life & Death: A Humanist Perspective.”

In eulogizing Baier, Alan Musgrave of the University of Otago (New Zealand) philoso-phy department noted a pair of remarkable aspects of the pro-fessor’s work. First, while Baier “relied on ordinary language as the key to understanding moral-ity and law, the ordinary language that he relied upon was not his native German, but his second language, English. He said that he found it very difficult to lecture or discuss philosophy in German,” Musgrave stated.

“The second and more impor-tant thing is that, despite his own early experiences, he remained optimistic about the power of reason and of rational discus-sion to achieve a just society. He opposed the then-fashionable views that moral judgments are merely expressions of personal feelings or disguised commands that other folk do as you wish them to do. Such views, if correct, mean that moral disagreement

can only be resolved by force. No, said Kurt, morality and law are human artefacts designed to achieve harmony and justice, as his favorite philosopher Thomas Hobbes had maintained.”

qBaier’s arrival here in 1962 was

part of the University’s rise to dis-tinction in philosophy that began in 1960 with the appointment of Adolf Grünbaum as Mellon Professor and was magnified by the subsequent recruitment of Wilfred Sellars, Nuel Belnap, Alan Anderson and Schneewind from Yale’s philosophy depart-ment, as well as Rescher’s arrival in 1961 at the newly established Center for Philosophy of Science, among other notable additions to the faculty.

Grünbaum, who said he rec-ommended Baier to then-Provost Charles Peake as the first chair of the “new” department, was among several colleagues who commended Baier’s fine admin-istrative abilities.

Rescher said, “He was a good person to have at the helm when the department was growing and building itself,” citing Baier’s approachability and convivial nature. Baier went out of his way to be helpful, not only extending himself to prospective faculty but also going the extra mile to help those leaving the department find suitable positions elsewhere, Rescher said.

Belnap elaborated, “As chair-man, Kurt was instrumental in generating support for the depart-ment from the provost, Charles Peake, and from the chancellor, Edward Litchfield, support which has been sustained through bad times and good. When Kurt assumed the chairmanship, there remained significant numbers of folks from the existing staff, folks who did not have national or inter-national reputations. Kurt did a magnificent job of managing the two cohorts and, later, of finding fresh positions for the latter group,

making everyone happy.“Kurt and Adolf set a fan-

tastically cooperative tone for the department. When it came to new hires, for instance, each would always defer to the needs and wants of the other, thus bind-ing together those with interests in the philosophy of science and logic and those whose interests were in ethics, epistemology and other traditional areas of philoso-phy. Those were the days. That cooperative tone has lasted down the five decades between then and now, and to my mind is an indel-ible hallmark of Pitt philosophy.”

Philosophy faculty member Robert Brandom said Baier was impressive in his sensitivity and flexibility as a supervisor, adding that the professor likewise had a unique style in directing students’ dissertations. Sought after by many graduate students, Baier tailored his dissertation direction to the individual’s needs. “With some, he was incredibly directive with a lesson plan; others he turned loose onto their own resources,” Brandom recalled.

Stephen Darwall, now a phi-losophy faculty member at Yale and Distinguished University Pro-fessor emeritus of the University of Michigan, studied under Baier at Pitt. “Kurt Baier was my adviser at Pitt, and I can’t imagine having had a better one,” Darwall stated. “He introduced me to the whole field of philosophical ethics, which he had a magisterial knowledge

of and in which he was a major player at the time. He was also a marvelous human being — gentle, yet firm, with a wonderfully dry sense of humor. I remember feel-ing quite intimidated by the idea of graduate study in philosophy, but being reassured that such a major figure could be so kind and humane.”

Phi losophy department administrator Collie Henderson likewise remembered Baier’s warmth as well as his charm and dry wit. “He was the quintessential European gentleman. A gentle-man and a gentle man,” she said. “He introduced me to the world of philosophy” when she came to the department 37 years ago.

Baier’s scholarly interests in ethical issues related to law and medicine were among the more accessible areas of study in philos-ophy, she noted. “We all talk about these at some point, but maybe don’t realize we’re discussing a philosophical topic. His philoso-phy was accessible on that level,” said Henderson, who continued to assist him with manuscripts even after he and his wife returned to New Zealand in 1996.

“He was a wonderful man, delightful to work with,” she said. “It always felt as if I worked with them, not for them.”

The philosophy department is planning a gathering in Baier’s memory next fall. No date has been set.—Kimberly K. Barlow n

Kurt E. M. Baier

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Pitt-Titusville President William A. Shields has been appointed to the Northwest Pennsylvania Workforce Invest-ment Board.

NWPA WIB comprises mem-bers representing business, labor, education, social services and governmental agencies through-out northwest Pennsylvania.

Shields brings wide experience to WIB, having held numerous economic devel-opment posi-tions throughout

the country. He served as chair of the Mon-

tana Board of Natural Resources and Conservation. In Rockford, Ill., he was a member and chair of the Council of One Hundred, a major economic development organization in the region. He currently serves as a member of the board of the Titusville Rede-velopment Authority.

The WIB board focuses its development activities on key industry segments that include electronics, manufacturing, food processing, construction, health care, metal fabrication, plastics technology, lumber and hard-woods, oil and gas, transportation and mining.

NWPA WIB is committed to a quality system that coordinates and customizes services that optimize community workforce resources; simplifies access to education, training and employ-ment opportunities; supports a communications network for the public and private sectors, and leads to workforce job attainment, retention and career advancement.

John Keeler, dean of the Graduate School of Public and Internat ional Affairs (GSPIA) and vice presi-dent of the Asso-ciation of Pro-fessional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), will become president of that association in December.

APSIA comprises 34 member schools in North America, Asia and Europe dedicated to the

promotion of excellence in pro-fessional, international affairs education worldwide by sharing information and ideas among member schools and with other higher education institutions, the international affairs community and the general public.

GSPIA faculty member Nuno Themudo received the 2010 Best Article on Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Research Award for his article “Gender and the Nonprofit Sector.”

Themudo’s research showed that there is a strong relationship between women’s empowerment, volunteerism and the nonprofit sector worldwide.

The award is given by the Association of Researchers on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action, the largest association of scholars interested in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

Themudo’s paper examined whether women’s inclination toward altruistic behavior and participation in the nonprofit sector translates into stronger nonprofit sectors in countries with higher women’s empowerment — defined as women’s relative control over resources and their participation in political and eco-nomic forums.

The paper, which originally appeared in the August 2009 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, used two cross-national datasets: the World Values Survey, a transnational survey of social and political values and behavior, and the Johns Hopkins Compara-tive Nonprofit Sector Project, a cross-country mapping of national statistics on the nonprofit sector.

Themudo’s paper suggested that the nonprofit sector has largely failed to acknowledge the influence of women and that there is a need for a gender theory that offers new insights into the nonprofit sector. Despite being the majority of workers in the U.S. nonprofit sector, women still are much less likely than men to occupy leadership positions.

Cindy Skrzycki, a faculty member in the Department of English and business corre-spondent for GlobalPost.com,

was among 15 women in media honored this month during the Women and Girls Foundation gala awards ceremony, sponsored by UPMC.

The Pittsburgh-area women were recognized for “leading the way in print, radio, PR, TV, film and on the Internet, and those uti-lizing multiple media to promote and amplify the voices of women and girls.”

Skrzycki joined the English department in 2004. Under her guidance, students have landed internships at such outlets as Bloomberg News, Dow Jones News Service, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Washington Post, CBS, CNN, NPR, Congressional Quarterly, The New Republic,

The New Yorker and U.S. News & World Report.

The Pittsburgh affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has named Agnus Berenato, head coach of the women’s basketball team, as honorary chair of the 2011 Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. The race will take place on Mother’s Day, May 8, in Schenley Park.

Berenato’s connection to breast cancer is a personal one.

Her mother died from the disease in the mid-1980s, and the mother of former Pitt player Sophronia Sallard lost her battle with breast cancer in 2007.

To help raise awareness about the disease, Berenato initiated Pink the Petersen, an annual fundraising event that takes place at one home game each season.

This season’s Pink the Petersen event will be on Feb. 19 when the Panthers host Big East rival West Virginia. n

Michael PerloffLong-time philosophy depart-

ment faculty member Michael Perloff died at his home Nov. 19, 2010, following a stroke. He was 72.

A native of New York City, Perloff earned a PhD at Pitt in 1974. He then taught at the Uni-versity of Illinois-Chicago before returning to Pitt as a part-time instructor in 1985. He became a full-time lecturer here in 1989 and at the time of his death was serving in that capacity, as well as being assistant chair and undergradu-ate adviser in the Department of Philosophy.

Co-workers remembered Perloff as a pleasant colleague and a favorite teacher among under-graduates, having found his niche teaching elementary logic and introductory philosophy courses.

Nuel Belnap, A.R. Anderson Distinguished Professor in the

philosophy department and a Perloff collaborator, said, “Mickey was assistant chair for a long time and he was the most un-officious official I’ve ever known. He was just a very sweet man. He seemed to do everything for everybody in the department — faculty, staff and students.”

Perloff was co-author, with Belnap and former Pitt visiting faculty member Ming Xu, of “Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterministic World.”

“We had a wonderful time, a lot of fun working on that book,” Belnap said. “It’s about agents in action, and we looked around for classical novels to use as examples, such as ‘The Three Musketeers’ and ‘Moby Dick.’”

Perloff’s work in the logic of agents adopted a modal approach to agency, with agents represented

Philosophical Quarterly, Studia Logica and the Annals of Math-ematics and Artificial Intelligence.

His most recent article, “Future Contingencies and the Battle Tomorrow,” written with Belnap, is forthcoming in the Review of Metaphysics.

Perloff is survived by a niece

and several cousins. Donations may be made in Per-

loff’s name to Bethlehem Haven, 1410 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh 15219.

The philosophy department is planning a yet-unscheduled memorial service in the spring term.—Peter Hart n

in a branching-tree structure. His theory assumed that actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future replete with real possibilities, some of which are realized by agents making choices. Central to the theory is that choices and the actions they ground are inde-terministic.

Perloff published articles in Theoria, Synthese, the American

Elaine Y. Frampton, a former Pitt employee who worked in Pitt’s Office of Affirmative Action (now the Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity and Inclusion) for 20 years, died Nov. 7, 2010, in John-stown’s Memorial Medical Center.

Frampton joined the Pitt staff in 1985 and shortly thereafter transferred into the Office of Affirmative Action, where she worked with faculty, staff and students on all Pitt campuses. In

Elaine Y. Frampton1999, she was named associate director of Affirmative Action, a position she held until her retirement on Jan. 31, 2006.

Frampton earned an MSW in 1985, an MPA in 1981 and a BA in 1971, all at Pitt.

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Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday ConcertHeinz Chapel, 8 pm (tickets: 412/394-3353; info: 4-4125)

Sunday 5

Nationality Rooms Holiday Open HouseNationality Rms. & Commons Rm., CL, noon-4 pm (4-6150)Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday ConcertHeinz Chapel, 3 pm (tickets: 412/394-3353; info: 4-4125)

Monday 6

Economics Lecture“Career & Family Conundrum,” Claudia Goldin, Harvard; UClub Ballrm. B, 3:30 pm (8-7073)

Tuesday 7

GI Lecture“Enteral Access: Tips on Tubes,” Toby Graham; M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 am

HSLS Workshop“Adobe Photoshop for Begin-ners,” Julia Jankovic; Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am-noonCVR Seminar“HIV Accessory Protein-Host Cell Signaling Complexes as Targets for Antiretroviral Drug Discovery,” Thomas Smithgall; 6014 BST3, noonHSLS Lunch With a Librarian“Medical Humanities on the WWW,” Jonathon Erlen; Falk Library conf. rm. B, noonPhilosophy of Science Lecture“Representing the Theory of Classical Genetics With Special Attention to Causation,” Bert Leuridan, Ghent U; 817R CL, 12:05 pmAcademic Career Develop-ment Postdoc Professionalism Workshop“The Academic Work-Life Jug-gling Act: Taking Care of Busi-ness, Family & Self,” Maureen Murray; 1104 Scaife, 3-5 pm

MMG Seminar“Structural Insights Into the Regulation of Snf1, the AMP-Activated Protein Kinase of Yeast,” Martin Schmidt; 503 Bridgeside Point II, 3:15 pmWomen’s Basketball HooplaReception, 5:30 pm; game vs. DePaul, 7 pm; Petersen

Wednesday 8 Clinical Oncology & Hematol-ogy Grand Rounds“Targeting NF-kB for Treating Inflammatory Diseases, Aging & Cancer,” Paul Robbins; Cooper Conf. Ctr. Hillman Cancer Ctr. ground fl. classrm. C, 8 amHSLS Workshop“EndNote Basics,” Ahlam Saleh; Falk Library classrm. 2, 10 am-noonCRSP Lecture“Columnizing in a Post-Racial World,” Tony Norman, Pgh. Post-Gazette; 2017 CL, noon-1:30 pm (4-7382)

REES Lecture“‘Post-Transition’ Ownership of Corporate Farms: The Hangover of Czech Agriculture’s Economic Development,” Jarmila Curtiss, Inst. of Agricultural Economics & Information, Prague; 4217 Posvar, noonSAC Mtg.532 Alumni, 12:15 pmHSLS Workshop“Literature Informatics,” Carrie Iwema; Falk Library conf. rm. B, 1-3 pmHSLS Workshop“PubMed Basics,” Rebecca Abromitis; Falk Library classrm. 1, 3-4:30 pmPharmacology & Chemical Biology Seminar“Metabolic Fingerprints of Dif-fuse Large B Cell Lymphoma,” Nika Danial, Harvard; 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pmNeurology Grand Rounds“Accelerated Age-Related Neu-rodegeneration in DNA Repair Deficiency,” Laura Niedern-hofer; 1105 Scaife, 4 pmGI Grand Rounds“Intestinal Health & Nutrition Support: Medical Manage-ment of Intestinal Transplant Patients,” Donald Kirby; Scaife 11th fl. conf. ctr., 5 pmMen’s BasketballVs. Delaware St.; Petersen, 7 pmPitt Symphony Orchestra ConcertBellefield aud., 8 pm (4-4125)Greensburg Campus ConcertJoy Ike; Village Coffee House, UPG, 8 pm

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Maggie & Stella’s Holiday Open House209 Oakland Ave., 9 am-6 pmBradford Campus Holiday Vocal ConcertKOA Speer Lobby, Blaisdell, UPB, 11:30 am

EOH Seminar“Nuclear Receptors as Thera-peutic Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease,” Gary Landreth; 540 Bridgeside Point, noonEpidemiology Seminar“Physical Activity: Quantity or Quality?” Andrea Kriska; A115 Crabtree, noonStaff Recognition ReceptionTo honor staff members who have completed 20, 30, 40 & 50 years of service to the University; Connolly Ballrm. Alumni, 3 pm (4-5622)Academic Career Develop-ment Postdoc Professionalism Workshop“Managing the Direction of Your Career: Using an Individual Development Plan,” Steven Wendell; S120 Starzl BST, 3-5 pmProvost’s Inaugural Lecture“Materials That Can With-stand High Temperatures: An Important Aspect of the Energy Picture,” Brian Gleeson, engi-neering; 2500 Posvar, 4 pmGeology & Planetary Science Colloquium“Interaction of Basaltic Dikes & Wet Sediment at Glaciovolcanic Centers: Examples From Iceland & Mars,” Holly Kagy; 11 Thaw, 4 pmLatin American Film“Los Dioses Rotos”; FFA aud., 6:30 pm

PhD Defenses

GSPH/Epidemiology“The Relationship Between Physical Activity & Kidney Func-tion/CKD,” Marquis Hawkins; Nov. 29, A523 Crabtree, 9:30 amNursing“A Multi-Level Study of Nurse Leaders, Safety Climate & Care Outcomes,” Debra Thompson; Nov. 29, 219 Victoria, 10 amA&S/Psychology“Second Language Swedish Morphosyntactic Instruction & Cross-Language Similarity: An ERP Investigation,” Leida Tolentino; Nov. 29, LRDC 2nd fl. aud., 11:30 amSHRS/Rehabilitation Science“Impact of a Multi-Component Exercise & Physical Activ-ity Program for Sedentary, Community-Dwelling, Older Adults,” Pamela Toto; Nov. 30, 4065 Forbes Tower, 9 amA&S/Geology & Planetary Science“Thermal Infrared Remote Sens-ing of Active Basaltic Volcanoes: A Thermal & Spectral Deconvo-lution Approach,” Shellie Rose; Dec. 1, 214 SRCC, 10 amIS/Telecommunications & Networking“Cross-Layer Resilience on Critical Points in Manets,” Tae-Hoon Kim; Dec. 1, 502 IS, noonMedicine/Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics“DNMT3b’s Role in Hemato-poietic Stem Cells,” Matthew Boyer; Dec. 1, Bridgeside Point II 4th fl. conf. rm., 3 pmSHRS/Rehabilitation Science“Musculoskeletal Symptoms & Laptop Computer Use Among College Students,” Hyekyoung Shin; Dec. 2, 4065 Forbes Tower, 9 am

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Medicine/Cellular & Molecu-lar Pathology“Modulation of Bone Marrow-Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells by Vascular Endothelial Growth Inhibitor (VEGI),” Paulina Liang; Dec. 2, Hillman Cancer Ctr. Nimick Conf. Rm., 10 amEducation/Health & Physical Activity“Psychological & Anthropomet-ric Characteristics of Amateur Motorcycle Road Racers & Their Influence on Racing Per-formance,” Alfred Simpson Jr.; Dec. 2, Baierl Student Recreation Ctr. conf. rm., Petersen, noonMedicine/Cellular & Molecu-lar Pathology“The Application of Metabolic Network Analysis in Under-standing & Targeting Metab-olism for Drug Discovery,” Jiangxia Liu; Dec. 3, 1105 Scaife, 10 amA&S/Intelligent Systems“Transfer Rule Learning for Biomarker Discovery & Verifica-tion,” Philip Ganchev; Dec. 3, Parkvale 1st fl. conf. rm., 2:30 pmA&S/Hispanic Languages & Literatures“El acto amoroso de la escritura en la ficción de Clarice Lispec-tor,” Mónica Alejandra Canedo Sánchez de Lozada; Dec. 3, 1528 CL, 3 pmA&S/Chemistry“Fluorous Mixture Synthesis of Sch725674 & Its 15 Stereoiso-mers,” Jared Moretti; Dec. 3, 307 Eberly, 4 pmMedicine/Cell Biology & Molecular Physiology“Role of Phosphatidylinositol; Metabolism in Renal Epithelial Membrane Traffic,” Shanshan Cui; Dec. 7, F1145 Presby, 1:30 pmBusiness“The Hybrid Model of Trust & Distrust: Extending the Nomo-logical Network,” Gregory Moody; Dec. 7, 101 Mervis, 2 pmA&S/Hispanic Languages & Literatures“Héroes y bandidos: íconos populares y figuraciones de la nación en América Latina,” Rafael Ponce-Cordero; Dec. 8, 1528 CL, 11 amIS/Telecommunications & Networking“Security in Wireless Sensor Net-works Employing MACGSP6,” Yuttasart Nitipaichit; Dec. 9, 1A04 IS, 10 amGSPH/Epidemiology“Mortality After Metastatic Breast Cancer: Co-morbidity as a Mediator of Age on Survival & Delays in Treatment for Breast Cancer Metastasis,” Su Yon Jung; Dec. 9, 109 Parran, 11 amMedicine/Molecular Phar-macology“Uncovering the Biological Functions of Phosphatase of Regenerating Liver-2,” Yan Wang; Dec. 9, 1395 Starzl BST, 2 pm

Theatre

Pitt Repertory Theatre Labs“The Last Days of Judas”; Dec. 1-5; Studio Theatre, CL, W-F 8 pm, Sat. 2 & 8 pm, Sun. 2 pm (4-7529)

Pgh. Irish & Classical Theatre“Hobson’s Choice”; Dec. 2-18; Charity Randall Theatre, Ste-phen Foster, W-Sat. 8 pm, Sun. 2 pm, also Dec. 14 at 7 pm & Dec. 18 at 2 pmAfricana Studies Dance & Drum Ensemble Production“Nativity: A Christmas Gift”; Dec. 4-19; Alumni 7th fl. aud., Fri-Sat. at 8 pm & Sun. at 5 pm (8-2276)

Exhibits

University Art Gallery Exhibit“Slag: What’s Left After Indus-try?” HA&A students; through Nov. 29; U Art Gallery, FFA, 10 am-4 pm (8-2400)Bradford Campus Exhibit“Affairs of the Art: 8th Annual Pitt-Bradford Student Art Exhi-bition”; through Dec. 3; KOA Art Gallery, Blaisdell, UPBBarco Law Library Exhibit“Rustique: The Art of Oxida-tion,” Dan Coyle; through Jan. 28; Barco Law Library Gallery, reg. library hours

Deadlines

Engineering Sustainability Conference GrantsFunding available for attendance at April 10-12 conference, David Lawrence Convention Ctr., Downtown. Submit applications to Kim Wisniewski, kaw54@pitt.edu, by Nov. 30.

Faculty European Grant Com-petitionDeadline to submit applications is Dec. 3. Application forms & grant information can be found at www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce/faculty/index.html.EUCE Faculty Grant Com-petitionDeadline to submit applications is Dec. 10. Application forms & grant information can be found at www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce/faculty/index.html.Women’s Studies/GSPIA Iris Marion Young Award Nominations must be received by Dec. 15 at wstudies@pitt.edu or 2208 Posvar. (info: 4-6485)Bradford Campus Literary MagazineSubmissions for “Baily’s Beads” literary magazine due Dec. 17 at 103 Blaisdell, UPB, or mail to 300 Campus Drive, Bradford 16701.

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Pitt-Bradford has received a $350,000 gift from George Duke in honor of his mother, Sarah B. Dorn, for a 17-rank pipe organ in the campus’s new Harriett B. Wick Chapel.

Each of the organ’s 1,020 pipes is an individual instrument that must be voiced and tuned on site. The pipes can produce notes from 32 cycles per second to 16,000 cycles per second, a range of eight octaves, essentially allowing one person to reproduce an orchestra. Different ranks of pipes are created differently to simulate the reeds, flutes and brass.

Flue voicers from Schantz Organ Co. spent several weeks on campus doing the final voicing and tuning for the instrument, which was installed last month.

The organ will be featured in recitals and concerts and at wed-dings held at the chapel. It also can “record” a musical piece such as “Here Comes the Bride” and play it back like a player piano. n

Organ donated for UPB chapel

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Greensburg Campus Open Mic NightVillage Coffee House, UPG, 9 pm

Tuesday 30

Magee Grand Rounds“Paying Women to Donate Eggs for Research: Politics, Ethics & Science,” Robert Klitzman; Magee aud., 7:15 am

GI Lecture: Pathophysiology/Board Review“Anatomy & Physiology of the Colon & Rectum,” Bridger Clarke; M2 conf. rm. Presby, 7:30 amGSPIA Innovation Clinic Wherett Lecture“When Innovation Meets Sus-tainability: Building Better Cities,” George Frederickson, U of KS; UClub Ballrm. A, 9 am (8-2282)UPCI Basic & Translational Research Seminar“Translating Airway Gene Expression Into a Biomarker for Lung Cancer?” Avrum Spira, BU; Hillman Cancer Ctr. Cooper classrm. D, noon (412/623-7771)Health Services Research Seminar“Advances in Health Services Research in Sickle Cell Disease,” Wally Smith; 305 Parkvale, noonMWRI Work-in-Progress Conference/Seminar“Diabesity in Pregnancy,” Pat-rick Catalano; Magee 1st fl. conf. ctr., noonPhilosophy of Science Lecture“Waiting for Landauer,” John Norton; 817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)Pharmacology & Chemical Biology Seminar“Harvesting the Fruits & Avoid-ing the Pits of Academic Drug Discovery for Neglected Dis-eases,” John Lazo, pharmacology & DDI; 1395 Starzl BST, 3:30 pmMedieval & Renaissance Stud-ies/French & Italian Lecture“What Becomes of Tristan & Yseut in the Renaissance?” Jane Taylor, Durham U; 252 CL, 4:30 pm

Greensburg Campus ReadingStacey Waite, women’s studies/English, Oakland campus; Vil-lage Coffee House, UPG, 7 pm

December Wednesday 1

Clinical Oncology & Hematol-ogy Grand Rounds“Genetic Variation & Prediction of Survival in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated With Platinum-based Chemo-therapy,” Marjorie Romkes; UPMC Cancer Pavilion Herber-man Conf. Ctr. 2nd fl aud., 8 amPathology Research Seminar“Trypanosomiasis: Mechanisms of Flagellin Biogenesis & Disease Pathogenesis,” David Engman, Northwestern; 1104 Scaife, noon (8-1040)Fox Ctr. for Vision Restoration Lecture“Can Genetically Engineered Pigs Provide Corneas for Clini-cal Transplantation?” David Cooper & Hidetaka Hara, Starzl Transplantation Inst.; E&EI 5th fl. boardrm., noonHSLS Workshop“MindMapping: Visual Brain-storming & Organization”; Falk Library classrm. 1, noonHSLS Workshop“Gene Regulation Resources,” Ansuman Chattopadhyay; Falk Library conf. rm. B, 1-3 pm

GSPIA Johnson Inst. Philan-thropy Lecture“Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World,” Leslie Crutchfield; UClub Ballrm. B, 3:30-5:30 pmNeurology Grand Rounds“Neurocardiology,” Martin Samuels; 1105 Scaife, 4 pmNeurological Surgery Lecture“The Evidence Basis for Selected Cerebrovascular Conditions: Moyamoya, DAVFs & Large AVMs,” Ralph Dacey; B-400 Presby, 4 pmMen’s BasketballVs. Duquesne; Consol Energy Ctr., Downtown, 9 pm

Thursday 2

EOH Seminar“Novel Insights Into the Patho-biology of Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury,” Rama Mallampalli; 540 Bridgeside Point, noonEpidemiology Seminar“The Often Competing Roles…Does Formaldehyde Cause Leu-kemia? The Roles of Epidemiol-ogy & Toxicology in Chemical Causation,” Bernard Goldstein & Gary Marsh; A115 Crabtree, noonAsian Studies Lecture“The Sino-American Dispute Over the Renminbi Exchange Rate,” Pei Liu, Jinan U; 4130 Posvar, noon (8-7426)Book Ctr. Book Signing“King of the Road: True Tales From a Legendary Ice Road Trucker,” Alex Debogorski; WPU driveway, noon (8-1453)Geology & Planetary Science ColloquiumMatthew Watson, U of Bristol; 11 Thaw, 4 pmHispanic Languages & Litera-tures Lecture“Las abyecciones del ser en Cla-rice Lispector y Ana Lydia Vega,” Mara Negrón, U of Puerto Rico; 139 CL, 6 pm (in Spanish)Latin American Film“Roble de Olor”; FFA aud., 6:30 pm

Friday 3

SBDC Workshop“The 1st Step: Mechanics of Starting a Small Business”; Mervis, 7:30-10 am (8-1542)GSPH Winter SaleTo benefit the Evelyn Wei Schol-arship in Epidemiology; Parran 1st fl. lounge, 10 am-2:30 pmULS ConcertEve Goodman & John Caldwell; Cup & Chaucer, ground fl. Hill-man, noonPhilosophy of Science Lecture“Do Human Beings Have a Nature?” Richard Samuels, Ohio St.; 817R CL, 12:05 pm (4-1052)Renal Electrolyte Lecture“The Collecting Duct Endo-thelin System: Last Word in Salt Excretion,” Donald Kohan; F-1145 Presby, 12:15 pmGreensburg Campus Alumni Assn. Wine TastingLynch, UPG, 7 pm (registration: 724/836-7496)GI Research Rounds“Neural Involvement in Pancre-atitis,” Brian Davis; Presby M2 conf. rm., 7:30 pmGreensburg Campus ConcertRising Regina; Village Coffee House, UPG, 8 pmMen’s Glee Club Holiday Concert1st Baptist Church, 159 N. Bellefield, 8 pm (tickets: 412/394-3353; info: 4-4125)

Saturday 4

World History Workshop“Teaching World History Since 1500,” Thomas Anderson; 5604 Posvar, 9 am-3 pmMen’s BasketballVs. Rider; Petersen, 2 pmFestival of World MusicUniv. Gamelan, African Music & Dance Ensemble, Carpathian Ensemble, Indian classical music; WPU Ballrm., 2-6 pmCarpathian Ensemble Dance PartyWPU Ballrm., 6 pmWomen’s BasketballVs. Mount St. Mary’s; Petersen, 6 pm

ELDER LAW—ESTATE ATTORNEYS Michael H. Marks & Associates. Elder law; nursing home/Medicaid cost-of-care planning; wills; POAs; trusts; probate & estate administra-tion; real estate. Squirrel Hill: 412/421-8944; Monroeville: 412/373-4235; email: michael@marks-law.com. Free initial consultation. Fees quoted in advance. Personal & informative.

BLOOD PRESSURE & THE BRAINResearch study with one MRI and two interview sessions seeks healthy adults ages 35-60. Cannot have hypertension, heart disease or diabetes. $150 compensation. Some invited to repeat study in 2 years with additional compensa-tion. Contact Kim Novak at 412/246-6200 or novakkj@upmc.edu.

POST-MENOPAUSAL WOMENCaucasian, Asian or Hispanic women wanted for a 3-month osteoporosis study. Must qualify by having low bone density on screen-ing DXA Scan. 5 study visits at UPMC Mon-tefiore. Requires daily injections of either an approved or investigational drug for osteopo-rosis. Contact coordinator @ 412/864-3266 or endoresearch@dom.pitt.edu.