University Times

A series of nine three-day training seminars for police officers is being offered by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. One track of six seminars will focus on general issues faced by all law enforcement personnel and the other track of three seminars will center on management concerns. Instructors will include faculty from […]

Pitt has launched the Pitt 4 Life 2002 Blood Drive Program, designed to encourage and recognize faculty and staff who donate blood four or more times this year. Although all faculty and staff members are invited to participate in Pitt 4 Life, the campaign thrust will be to attract those individuals who have in the […]

Chancellor Mark Nordenberg remembers feeling impressed — but also envious — whenever he worked with Don Smith, Carnegie Mellon University's economic development director. Along with Nordenberg and CMU President Jared Cohon, Smith was an architect of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, a state-funded consortium of companies, universities and nonprofits working to make southwestern Pennsylvania a chip-design […]

In his newly renovated lab in Old Engineering Hall, David W. Snoke of Pitt's physics department is running a "time arrival" experiment. He's measuring how long it takes photons (electromagnetic particles having zero mass, no electrical charge and indefinitely long lifetimes) from a laser pulse to reach an assigned destination. The wait isn't long. "The […]

One of the things that James Kimbrell, chief technologist at Brashear L.P., likes about Pitt's undergraduate certificate program in photonics is that students don't have to complete all of the courses required for the certificate before graduating with their bachelor's degrees. "Through this program, it's possible for students to graduate, get a job, and then […]

Magee-Womens Hospital has introduced computer aided detection, or CAD, that offers an added benefit to mammography in the detection of early breast cancer. CAD analyzes films from screening mammography to identify areas that contain the slightest abnormal or suspicious features and marks them for a radiologist to review. Magee is the first facility in western […]

In a benchmark collaboration between an academic medical center and a branch of the U.S. military, UPMC Health System and the U.S. Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) will work to develop sophisticated telemedicine technology that ultimately will link specialists in pathology, radiology and dermatology with outposts at distant locations around the globe. Over the next […]

Pitt's Asian studies program has received a four-year, $1.7 million grant from the Freeman Foundation to fund an undergraduate initiative. Bell Yung, director of the program, said that the funding will strengthen and expand the study of Asia at Pitt, increase access to Asian study courses and increase the number of students in the Pittsburgh […]