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Issue Date: 
September 26, 2011
FORMER POLISH PM ADDRESSES KATZ GRADS: Former Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka addressed a July 30 graduation ceremony for Pitt’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business’s MBA students. Sixty-two of the graduates earned their degrees from Katz’s Executive MBA Worldwide program, which has centers in Prague, Czech Republic, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, in addition to Pittsburgh. Belka is currently president of the National Bank of Poland and a member of the Katz Executive MBA Worldwide’s European Board of Advisors. He urged the graduates to remain flexible in the face of an uncertain global economy. FORMER POLISH PM ADDRESSES KATZ GRADS: Former Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka addressed a July 30 graduation ceremony for Pitt’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business’s MBA students. Sixty-two of the graduates earned their degrees from Katz’s Executive MBA Worldwide program, which has centers in Prague, Czech Republic, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, in addition to Pittsburgh. Belka is currently president of the National Bank of Poland and a member of the Katz Executive MBA Worldwide’s European Board of Advisors. He urged the graduates to remain flexible in the face of an uncertain global economy.
Pitt’s Department of History hosted a Sept. 15 symposium on Professor Rob Ruck’s recent book, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (Beacon Press, 2011). Addressing a standing-room-only audience in the William Pitt Union’s Lower Lounge were (from left) Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France; Sean Gibson, the great-grandson of Baseball Hall of Fame legend Josh Gibson and executive director of the Josh Gibson Foundation, a Pittsburgh nonprofit organization; Lara Putnam, a Pitt history professor; and Ruck.RACE AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Pitt’s Department of History hosted a Sept. 15 symposium on Professor Rob Ruck’s recent book, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (Beacon Press, 2011). Addressing a standing-room-only audience in the William Pitt Union’s Lower Lounge were (from left) Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France; Sean Gibson, the great-grandson of Baseball Hall of Fame legend Josh Gibson and executive director of the Josh Gibson Foundation, a Pittsburgh nonprofit organization; Lara Putnam, a Pitt history professor; and Ruck.
EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMY: Pitt Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia E. Beeson (left) and Charles Perfetti (right), Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director of Pitt’s Learning Research & Development Center, joined U.S. Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus Sept. 7. Kanter spoke about education and the economy, and her remarks were followed by two panel discussions. Perfetti participated in the first panel on cognitive and learning sciences, while Beeson delivered the panels’ closing remarks. EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMY: Pitt Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia E. Beeson (left) and Charles Perfetti (right), Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director of Pitt’s Learning Research & Development Center, joined U.S. Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus Sept. 7. Kanter spoke about education and the economy, and her remarks were followed by two panel discussions. Perfetti participated in the first panel on cognitive and learning sciences, while Beeson delivered the panels’ closing remarks.