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Researchers led by University of Pittsburgh Chemistry Professor Alexander Deiters have developed a technology that allows a small-molecule phosphine to act as an “off-to-on switch” to control protein activity, giving scientists more control over studies involving the molecular details of biological processes. The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

 “I think the huge challenge, at least for me, when trying to write about the texture of poverty in America is the temptation to reduce people to the problem,” says Desmond, who appears Aug. 4 at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland as a guest of Pittsburgh Arts& Lectures New & Noted series. The Pittsburgh Foundation sponsored this talk.

The goal is to generate long-lasting resources that will benefit students, improve the overall quality of education and enhance the school and community in general as attractive places to learn and live,” Grata said. This committee will serve as a fundraising entity under the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County, which has accumulated over 200 individual funds and assets in excess of $22 million since its establishment in 1995.

At the “Poetry and Race in America,” three generations of African-American poets gathered to discuss the relationship between race and poetry in America. Pittsburgh Foundation President and CEO Maxwell King announced the inauguration of The Ed Ochester Lectureship on African American Poetry and Poetics.

Bern Werner and Rebecca Whitlinger stop by to talk about the upcoming Light The Way 5K.

Artist John Kane, who died at 74 in 1934, has a champion in former music impresario Pat McArdle, himself an art lover and a one-time ironworker, who is campaigning to have the new Greenfield Bridge named the John Kane Bridge. “It behooves the city to raise up a hero like him,” he said. “Everyone should know about him.” “A brilliant idea,” said Maxwell King, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation. 

Larry’s Legacy Fund [of The Pittsburgh Foundation] for needy chemotherapy patients came out of that meeting. It works through the Cancer Caring Center in Bloomfield, a quiet little charity that’s been around 28 years and is chronically underfunded. Its provision of even a supermarket gift card can bring a client to tears.

“It is a great way to give back to the community by helping the Historical Society raise funds for their ‘Save our Stagecoach’ project . . . keeping history alive in our community,” said Michael Reese, one of the Visionaries of The Community Foundation of Westmoreland County. The Visionaries are future philanthropic leaders with the desire to make a lasting impact on Westmoreland County.

The McKeesport Trail Commission renovated the building into the McKeesport hostel with funds from the McKeesport Hospital Foundation, Mon Yough Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Blanche and Dewayne Wivagg Foundation, volunteer fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation and former Duquesne-West Mifflin Rotary Club, among other donors.

Support for “Seven Guitars” is provided by The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative, Regional Asset District, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Richard King Mellon Foundation and Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Fund.