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Issue Date: 
June 28, 2010
HONORING KATHERINE M. DETRE: A portrait of the late Katherine M. Detre, one of the nation’s leading epidemiologists, was unveiled during a June 9 reception in the University Club. At the time of her death in January 2006, Detre was a Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health. During her career, she led groundbreaking large-scale studies on the effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs on coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk factors in women, among other topics. From left are Donald S. Burke, GSPH dean; Arthur S. Levine, senior vice chancellor for the schools of the health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine; Lewis H. Kuller, Distinguished University Professor of Public Health; and Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. The portrait, which will be displayed in GSPH’s lobby in Parran Hall, was a gift to the school from two of Detre’s close friends.HONORING KATHERINE M. DETRE: A portrait of the late Katherine M. Detre, one of the nation’s leading epidemiologists, was unveiled during a June 9 reception in the University Club. At the time of her death in January 2006, Detre was a Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health. During her career, she led groundbreaking large-scale studies on the effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs on coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk factors in women, among other topics. From left are Donald S. Burke, GSPH dean; Arthur S. Levine, senior vice chancellor for the schools of the health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine; Lewis H. Kuller, Distinguished University Professor of Public Health; and Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. The portrait, which will be displayed in GSPH’s lobby in Parran Hall, was a gift to the school from two of Detre’s close friends.
EXPLAINING THE LANDSCAPE: Gretchen Bender, a lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in Pitt’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, delivered a June 2 lecture at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Point Breeze. Her presentation, which was part of the Art at Noon lecture series, was titled “Nation and God, Science and Industry: Intersections and Contradictions in American Romantic Landscape Practice in the 19th Century.”EXPLAINING THE LANDSCAPE: Gretchen Bender, a lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in Pitt’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, delivered a June 2 lecture at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Point Breeze. Her presentation, which was part of the Art at Noon lecture series, was titled “Nation and God, Science and Industry: Intersections and Contradictions in American Romantic Landscape Practice in the 19th Century.”
STUDENT DOCS HONOR PITT ALUM: Pitt’s chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) held a May 7 reception in Scaife Hall for Pitt alumnus J. Nadine Gracia (center), the chief medical officer for the assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a 2008-09 White House Fellow. Gracia (MED ’02) stands with Michael Liggon (left), SNMA vice president and a second-year medical student in Pitt’s School of Medicine, and Carolyn Moore, also a second-year medical student at Pitt. Moore was chair and Liggon cochair of SNMA’s May 1 Carolyn Carter Scholarship Banquet, held annually in honor of Carolyn M. Carter (NURS ’58, ‘66G, EDUC ‘81G), who was the second dean of Pitt’s Office of Minority Affairs. STUDENT DOCS HONOR PITT ALUM: Pitt’s chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) held a May 7 reception in Scaife Hall for Pitt alumnus J. Nadine Gracia (center), the chief medical officer for the assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a 2008-09 White House Fellow. Gracia (MED ’02) stands with Michael Liggon (left), SNMA vice president and a second-year medical student in Pitt’s School of Medicine, and Carolyn Moore, also a second-year medical student at Pitt. Moore was chair and Liggon cochair of SNMA’s May 1 Carolyn Carter Scholarship Banquet, held annually in honor of Carolyn M. Carter (NURS ’58, ‘66G, EDUC ‘81G), who was the second dean of Pitt’s Office of Minority Affairs.