university of pittsburgh. in the middle, we've got eddie marsan, who is a three time all-american at harvard. now at the league island marine barracks in philadelphia. and on the right, we've got cupid black, who was an all-american guard at yale. now, at the newport naval training station, camp's vision had teams full of all star military players, and coaches like these playing each other and playing against the top colleges in front of huge crowds. the new york times saw this trend as it was happening and they dubbed it simply war football, which is where i got the name of the book. to walter camp football was going to help america and our allies win the war. and the war in turn, would be a great boost to football. now, college football was bound to suffer due to the draft and due to travel restrictions, but war football was going to pick up the slack and then some. and it did. about a 100 military teams played varsity caliber military football, i.e. that which was on par with the colleges playing outside sc

cooper of university of pittsburgh and veteran affairs for empowering lives of millions of americans.ping cutting edge wheelchair technologies, and mobility devices cultivating next generation of rehabilitation engineers and championing wounded veterans and students with disabilities he moves us closer to being a nation that is accessible to all. [applause] the national medal of technology and innovation have been awarded to ashok of california of berkeley and national laboratory for providing life sustaining resources to communities around the world innovative inexpensive technologies help meet profound needs from drinking water to fuel efficient cook stoves. his work is inspired by a belief in the dignity of all people and in our power to solve the great challenges of our time. [applause] juan gilbert. the national medal of technology innovation has been awarded to juan gilbert of the university of florida for protecting democracy his pioneer designing in election technology aim to make voting more secure and accessible -- [laughter] helping ensure ours remains government of by and

university of pittsburgh. in the middle, we've got eddie marsan, who is a three time all-american at harvard. now at the league island marine barracks in philadelphia. and on the right, we've got cupid black, who was an all-american guard at yale. now, at the newport naval training station, camp's vision had teams full of all star military players, and coaches like these playing each other and playing against the top colleges in front of huge crowds. the new york times saw this trend as it was happening and they dubbed it simply war football, which is where i got the name of the book. to walter camp football was going to help america and our allies win the war. and the war in turn, would be a great boost to football. now, college football was bound to suffer due to the draft and due to travel restrictions, but war football was going to pick up the slack and then some. and it did. about a 100 military teams played varsity caliber military football, i.e. that which was on par with the colleges playing outside sc

university of pittsburgh. in the middle, we've got eddie marsan, who is a three time all-american at harvard. now at the league island marine barracks in philadelphia. and on the right, we've got cupid black, who was an all-american guard at yale. now, at the newport naval training station, camp's vision had teams full of all star military players, and coaches like these playing each other and playing against the top colleges in front of huge crowds. the new york times saw this trend as it was happening and they dubbed it simply war football, which is where i got the name of the book. to walter camp football was going to help america and our allies win the war. and the war in turn, would be a great boost to football. now, college football was bound to suffer due to the draft and due to travel restrictions, but war football was going to pick up the slack and then some. and it did. about a 100 military teams played varsity caliber military football, i.e. that which was on par with the colleges playing outside sc

the national medal of technology and innovation has been awarded to rory cooper of the university of pittsburghu.s. department of veterans affairs for empowering the lives of millions of americans by inventing and developing cutting edge wheelchair technologies and mobility devices, cultivating the next generation of rehabilitation engineers, and championing wounded veterans and students with disabilities. he moves us closer to being a nation that is accessible for all. [applause] the national medal of technology and innovation has been awarded to dash of the university of california berkeley in lawrence berkeley national laboratory for providing life-sustaining resources to communities around the world. his innovative inexpensive technologies helped meet profound needs from drinking water to fuel-efficient cook stoves. his work is inspired by a belief in the dignity of all people and in our power to solve the great challenges of our time. [applause] ron gilbert. the national medal of technology and innovation has been awarded to one of the university of florida for protecting democracy. his pi

he was fired from the university of pittsburgh, when he taught his anti american sentiments the when i was 19, i went to nicaragua and this was during the war when the us was supporting a war against a garage. and i was very upset by this war. and when i went there, i became more upset. i realize we were being lied the purpose of the war there was not to fight communism or to fight to so union. it was to keep nicaragua down in under the control of us. that was what it was about. so yeah, so that was probably one a. i really move. i kind of moved, changed sides in a certain way. you know, the jonesboro is an american journalist, an animal. this is written over $3000.00. it goes both transitions, the new york times, the international herald tribune, bloomberg news, and the odd newspaper going back let's, let's focus on some of the arms of major on complex that the united states has had since 1945. i mean, the worst example, the most notorious examples, vietnam there we killed 4 or 4000000 civilians. both north and south families died that conflict over the course of 15 years, 4000000 c

kent harris is a structural engineering professor at the university of pittsburgh. do you have confidence right now that rail infrastructure is being properly and thoroughly investigated and inspected? on the whole? i have to yes. i'm sure that things are falling through the cracks. there's no question throughout the northeast. in particular, the old part of the nation, pretty much most of the infrastructure is in very poor shape as a result of decades of essentially no, no maintenance. and we don't deal with it until we have catastrophic failures. these are private companies. how do you ensure that that that infrastructure is proper, maintained and safe? we have regulations and we need to provide the resources to meet those mandates. while trains remain among the safest forms of transporting freight, there were more than 1100 derailments across the country last year, averaging about three per day. these derailments are just a cost of doing business for them. that's it. that's the way they view it. and until that's taken back into the control of the regulators and t

doctor emmanuel canale is a renowned radiologist with the university of pittsburgh. he studied hundreds of incidents and says safety training is vitally important and mri personnel should have minimum standards. just like airline pilots and coming from it from an aviation safety point of view, standardization in certification re certification, ensuring that you're on top of your game. to me, these are critical aspects of what we need in magnetic resonance to ensure that we decrease these incidents as much as possible. but we found kaiser's own mri safety policy was not followed. records show some required safety training never happened. the facility also failed to test the door alarm annually as recommended the investigation stating the many safety failures created a culture of unsafe practices. liz kaiser permanente responded to our questions in a statement saying in part, our teams responded quickly and those involved immediately received the care and support they needed. this was a rare occurrence, but we are not satisfied until we understand why an accident occurs

in mid-2018, researchers at the university of pittsburgh school of public health, using cdc data, showed that the overdose crisis has been growing exponentially since at least the late 1970s. the only thing that has changed over the decades is, which particular drugs are dominating . they said that they don't even see any evidence that this trend is slowing down. we can expect it will continue to go up. for example, ted cicero and colleagues at washington university say, a very well known addiction researcher found -- he published in 2017 that heroin addicts or those admitted to rehab in 2015, 33% said that they initiated nonmedical drug use with heroin. heroin was there gateway drug. in my generation, you thought you were really living on the edge smoking pot. >> they call them refers >> been. -- refers back then. for reasons that are obviously beyond my area of expertise, we are seeing a growing number of people who are willing to engage in drug use. either they are self-medicating because they're having mental anguish or they are just recreational engaging or maybe a combination of bo

i have the privilege of hearing a lecture by alex helling at the university of pittsburgh that was eye-opening. i think it helped to change america. it helped us understand the bible because people did not believe in the oral tradition. when he exposed what he learns about his family through the oral tradition, it was quite eye-opening. one of the other books that changed my life and i'm sure changed america was, "the grapes of wrath," concerning the dustbowl and what was going on at that time. another book i had to read in college that i know changed america and our view of native americans was "bury my heart, it wounded me." i still have a long-lasting association or interest in native american culture. i just finished reading "the color of the flower moon." host: thank you for all of this. ruth switches on the list. "the grapes of wrath," which is on the list. carla: you see the theme, the understanding people get from reading it. empathy. books are windows of the world and can also be mirrors. i just heard someone say they can also the sliding doors, which means you go in and out. that was

in early and mid-2018, researchers at the university of pittsburgh school of public health, using cdc data, showed that the overdose rate has been growing exponentially since at least the late 1970s. that is the earliest year they were able to get data. the only thing that has changed over the decades is which particular drugs are predominating, are en vogue at any given time. they say they don't even see evidence that this growth trend is slowing. so we can expected to continue going up. for example, ted cicero and colleagues at washington university st. louis, a very well-known addiction researcher, he found and published in 2017 that heroin addicts were admitted to rehab in 2015, 33% of them said they initiated nonmedical drug use with heroin. in other words, heroin was there a gateway drug in my generation. we thought we were really living on the edge smoking pot, and that was not even on the list. recalled and refer back then. >> a little later, but 10 years earlier, that same survey found 9% initiated with heroin. for reasons that are not my area of expertise, probably multi fac