The Pittsburgh campus's United Way campaign has raised $635,000 in gifts and pledges from faculty, staff, students and retirees. That's $40,000 short of the campaign's $675,000 goal, so members of the campaign's steering committee this week are e-mailing and phoning previous donors who have not yet given. "Because of your generous, past support, we ask […]
Med school establishes immunology dept. >
January 10th, 2002Pitt's School of Medicine has announced the formation of a new Department of Immunology for more than 30 of its faculty members currently working in various departments on research projects in immunology, as well as for teaching and training students and fellows. Immunology, the study of the immune system, is a formal academic discipline with […]
The city as classroom: Urban studies program provides students with variety of options >
January 10th, 2002Inquiring minds want to know: What can a student do with an urban studies major? The answer, according to Pitt's Urban Studies Program coordinator, is up to the student. "I work with students to try to get them to understand first of all what it is they want to do, and then what the various […]
GSPIA sets up clinic to aid nonprofits >
January 10th, 2002Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) has launched a clinic whose mission is to assist regional nonprofits in becoming high-performing organizations. "Throughout the United States, and particularly in western Pennsylvania, the nonprofit sector has grown dramatically in the past three decades," said Leon L. Haley, Pitt associate professor of public affairs and […]
Bradford gets $1 million gift >
January 10th, 2002Pitt's Bradford campus has received $1 million from the estate of Bradford resident Dorothy Reed, the largest bequest in the campus's 38-year history and the second largest single gift from an individual. The gift will be used to establish a matching scholarship fund called the Reed-Coit Scholarship Challenge. The challenge is named for Reed and […]
SHRS center wins award >
January 10th, 2002The Center for Assistive Technology (CAT), a joint program of Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and UPMC Health System, has received the Assistive Technology Achievement Award for 2001 from Temple University's Institute on Disabilities. The award was presented in recognition of the center's excellence in providing innovative and consumer-responsive services to persons with […]
New start-up firm focuses on muscle-derived stem cells >
January 10th, 2002Pitt and Cook Group Inc., of Bloomington, Ind., are collaborating on potential uses for adult stem cells in treating disease. Through Pitt's Office of Technology Management (OTM), the Pittsburgh-based company, Cook MyoSite, has licensed technologies related to stem cells derived from adult muscle tissue. These muscle-derived stem cells have the ability to repair diseased or […]
Pitt research helping to develop CAD tools >
January 10th, 2002A new research effort to develop the next generation of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools — incorporating electronic circuitry, photonics and micromechanical components on the same chip — is underway at Pitt. The program is supported by a $2 million grant from the Micro-Systems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a $630,000 […]
SHRS to study wheelchair safety in motor vehicles >
January 10th, 2002Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) last month received a five-year $4.5 million grant from the federal government to study ways to make motor vehicle travel safer for the estimated 1.7 million wheelchair users in the United States. Researchers will develop ways to make traveling by automobile, van, mini-van and most forms of […]