University Times

The seventh annual winter jazz festival at the Johnstown campus raised $31,000 for the Blackington Endowment for the Performing Arts. Winter Jazz 2000, featuring jazz trumpeter Terence Blan-chard and his sextet, brought the total endowment money raised by the festival to $160,000. The endowment furnishes operating support for the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center on the […]

Pitt's Department of Philosophy will hold the first Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture April 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Ballroom. Horowitz, who died in January, was the first woman to chair Pitt's philosophy department. Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy and […]

For people who want to test their hearing, a free screening is a phone call away. The UPMC Eye and Ear Institute's Department of Audiology and Hearing Aids has established a two-minute hearing screening via recorded message that can be accessed anytime by dialing 647-2400. When individuals dial this number, a series of four tones […]

At a time when most hospitals in western Pennsylvania are bleeding red ink, UPMC Health System's revenues exceeded its expenses by $230 million over the last three years, the system's president reported recently. A "disproportionate share" of UPMC revenues came from the system's $1.8 billion in investments, Jeffrey Romoff said. "Virtually all [non-UPMC] hospitals in […]

Books and Journals In this 29th annual edition of Books and Journals, we recognize Pitt staff and faculty who write or edit books as well as those who edit journals. Book submissions have been arranged according to school, and listed alphabetically by title. In instances of co-authored and co-edited books, the Pitt faculty or staff […]

Francesca Savoia has been a faculty member here since 1985. But before last month, she had never met a Pitt trustee. It's "not healthy" for a university when its board of trustees and faculty rarely mingle, said Savoia, an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures. "It leads to misconceptions […]

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the "St. Matthew Passion," his musical treatment of the story of Christ's crucifixion, for two choirs, vocal soloists and instruments popular at the time (1727) — wooden flutes, baroque oboes, and violins and violas with gut strings. This weekend in Heinz Memorial Chapel, to mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, […]

Fifteen proposals have been funded through Pitt's first Innovation in Teaching Awards, the provost's office announced. The annual awards program funds faculty proposals for the development of innovative teaching techniques and materials, according to Andrew R. Blair, vice provost for faculty affairs. Project proposals were reviewed by the Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence, a group […]

For a female faculty member, success often means compromise in one's personal life, but it's a career choice that a group of Pitt faculty members wholeheartedly endorse. Last month's panel discussion, "Women and Academics," focused on the role of women in higher education. It was sponsored by Pitt's Office of Residence Life, with support from […]