GSPIA Offers Award for Ethics Papers

The Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership, a new program in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, will be offering the Johnson Award for Best Papers in Ethics and Accountability in Public Service. A total of six cash prizes will be awarded—two $2,500 Established Scholar prizes to University faculty, scholars, and researchers and four $1,000 Emerging Scholar prizes to master’s and Ph.D. degree candidates—for papers that stimulate disciplined reflection and address issues of ethics and accountability in the public, international, and nonprofit sectors.

Acceptable submissions include papers delivered at conferences or published in journals, professional reports, student theses, and/or chapters of a book. For more information, visit www.ethics.pitt.edu or call 412-648-1336. Deadline for submissions is Sept 17.

—Tracie Yorke

Pitt Voice Center Offers Training Course

The University of Pittsburgh Voice Center will present a weeklong course in the Estill voice model Aug. 1-5 at the Eye & Ear Institute. The Estill voice model is a research-based approach to voice training and rehabilitation for singers, actors, teachers, sales people, clergy, and others who use their voices in their professions.

The Estill model, developed by singer and voice researcher Jo Estill, teaches techniques for isolating and controlling 13 individual moveable structures in the vocal tract. Students study the physiology behind singing and acting styles and other voice applications.

“By combining science and technology with the art of voice, students trained in the Estill method are able to use their voices for a variety of singing styles in a healthy manner,” said Kimberly M. Steinhauer, course director and singing voice specialist in the Pitt Voice Center. “If performers don’t manage and care for their voices, they may actually be doing damage to their voices.”

—Jocelyn Uhl