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March 30, 2017

People of the Times

Mike Drazdzinski, a digital image specialist/photographer in the University Center for Teaching and Learning, was a winner for the second year in a row in the annual International Color Awards.  His Pitt basketball image, “Jumpmen,” received an honorable mention in the sport category. Winners were selected from 6,178 entries from 75 countries. Entries are posted at www.colorawards.com/10thphotoshow/.

Mike Drazdzinski, a digital image specialist/photographer in the University Center for Teaching and Learning, was a winner for the second year in a row in the annual International Color Awards. 
His Pitt basketball image, “Jumpmen,” received an honorable mention in the sport category.
Winners were selected from 6,178 entries from 75 countries.
Entries are posted at www.colorawards.com/10thphotoshow/.

School of Medicine faculty members and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) researchers Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of medical science in the United States.

The two will be presented with the 2017 Passano Foundation Laureate Award for their groundbreaking discoveries in human virology and oncology.

The Chang-Moore Laboratory at Pitt and UPMC CancerCenter is credited with discovering two of the seven known human viruses that directly cause cancer. The researchers first discovered the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpes virus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8) in 1994. The virus causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common AIDS-related malignancy and one of the most frequently occurring cancers in Africa. In 2008, the pair identified Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV) as the cause of Merkel cell carcinoma, one of the world’s most clinically aggressive skin cancers.

Chang and Moore work together and share a laboratory. Their current research centers on viral oncogenesis with efforts specifically focused on KSHV, MCV and new pathogen discovery. They seek to use information from viral cancers to understand molecular causes for non-infectious cancers. Their pioneering work has garnered some of the highest national and international honors in medicine, infectious disease and cancer.

Chang is an American Cancer Society Research Professor and a Distinguished Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine. Moore, director of the UPCI cancer virology program, also is an American Cancer Society Research Professor, a Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and the Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Innovative Cancer Research in the School of Medicine.

The Passano Foundation’s award was presented on March 27 in Baltimore.

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Kenyon Bonner photo 2016Kenyon Bonner
, vice provost and dean of students, is being honored by his alma mater, Washington & Jefferson College, with the 2017 Maurice Cleveland Waltersdorf Award for Innovative Leadership.

The award recognizes outstanding alumni and students of Washington & Jefferson College who attain a high level of achievement and exemplify the spirit and leadership qualities manifested by Maurice C. Waltersdorf, who was a professor and chairman of the Department of Economics at W&J,1924-56.

Bonner earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy from W&J in 1994.

He came to Pitt in 2004 as the associate director of residence life. He served as associate dean of students for seven years and as the director of student life for 11 years.

He was appointed interim vice provost and dean of students in 2015 before gaining permanent appointment to the position in March 2016.

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The Katz Graduate School of Business ranks No. 17 on the American Marketing Association Doctoral Student Special Interest Group (DocSIG)’s recently released University Research Productivity in the Premier Marketing Journals list. Business schools worldwide were ranked based on the number of research articles their faculties published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science.

Katz faculty members authored a total of 62 publications in those journals, 2007-16.

J. Jeffrey Inman contributed 17 publications, to rank No. 12, and Cait Lamberton contributed 13 publications, to rank No. 28, among scholars worldwide on the companion Author Productivity in the Premier Marketing Journals list.

Inman is an associate dean for research and faculty, the Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing and a faculty member in business administration. His research largely focuses on consumer decision making, shopper marketing and eating behaviors. Lamberton is the Ben L. Fryrear Chair of Marketing and a faculty member in marketing. Her research focuses on consumer behavior, from both an individual and social perspective.

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Education faculty member Sean Kelly has been chosen as a 2016 Outstanding Reviewer by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Kelly will be honored at the AERA journal publications committee reception April 28, during AERA’s annual meeting.

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Pharmacy faculty member Donna Huryn has been awarded a senior visiting fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna. She will be spending July in residence at the university in order to  collaborate with researchers in pharmacy and biotechnology.

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Pharmacy faculty member Kim Coley was appointed as chair of the editorial board for the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association’s Pennsylvania Pharmacist publication.

The Pennsylvania Pharmacist is a peer-reviewed publication that includes feature articles; legislative, legal and regulatory information; industry trends; association information; and peer-reviewed articles on pertinent pharmacy subjects.

Coley is a faculty member in the pharmacy and therapeutics department.

 

—Compiled by K. Barlow

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