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1. First he built a powerhouse psychiatry department, then this former School of Medicine dean steered the transformation of Pitt’s teaching hospitals into the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, known as UPMC. Who was he?

Thomas Detre

2. Pitt Med has an agreement with Tsinghua University in China that gives many of its medical students the chance to engage in biomedical research in Pittsburgh for two years. Since the program’s beginning in 2012, how many of these students has Pitt hosted?

A. 112
B. 195
C. 229

B. 195

3. Yuan Chang, a Pitt Med pathology professor, and Patrick Moore, a Pitt professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, discovered in 2008 that the Merkel cell polyomavirus causes an aggressive skin cancer. Fourteen years prior, they discovered a herpes virus as the cause of ______________, the leading AIDS malignancy.

Kaposi’s sarcoma

4. Let’s check your knowledge of the communities around campus: The corner of Centre Avenue and Crawford Street in the Hill District has a prominent place in the Civil Rights Era. What’s the intersection known as?

Freedom Corner

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