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Volume 38 Issue 17

$2.5 million donated to GSPIA Johnson institute >

April 27th, 2006

Pitt has received a $2.5 million gift from Lavonne (CAS ’76, GSPIA ’80) and Glen Johnson to support the Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA). The gift will ensure that the mission of the institute will be a priority for GSPIA in perpetuity. The institute, directed […]

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Prof elected to AAAS >

April 27th, 2006

Anil K. Gupta, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, professor of history and philosophy of science and a fellow of Pitt’s Center for Philosophy of Science, has been elected a 2006 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Of the 175 new fellows and 20 new foreign honorary members, Gupta is being honored along […]

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Detre, Curtiss services planned >

April 27th, 2006

Memorial services will be held for two Pitt faculty members. A memorial service for Katherine Detre, professor of epidemiology, will be held at 2:30 p.m. April 28 in Heinz Chapel. (See April 15 University Times.) A memorial service for Edward I. Curtiss, professor of medicine and senior associate dean for admissions and financial aid in […]

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New Katz dean named >

April 27th, 2006

Pitt has named John T. Delaney of Michigan State University the new dean of the Katz Graduate School of Business and the College of Business Administration, effective Aug. 1. Delaney replaces Frederick Winter, who stepped down last year to return to research and teaching at the University. Lawrence Feick, professor of business administration and director […]

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UPJ faculty committee recommends regionals benchmark group >

April 27th, 2006

Salary benchmarking lists at Pitt’s regional campuses have been a point of contention in the past, but that may be changing. Last year, at the request of faculty presidents at the Bradford, Greensburg and Johnstown campuses, the Provost’s office forwarded as a salary benchmark comparison a list of 270 four-year baccalaureate institutions from three large […]

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Student named Pitt’s first Churchill scholar >

April 27th, 2006

The first Pitt student to be nominated for a Churchill Scholarship has become one of 11 Americans nationwide chosen for the academic honor. Senior Clayton Magill, an Arts and Sciences student majoring in chemistry and geology with a minor in German, has been named a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation. The award offers […]

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Does new technology demand new policies? >

April 27th, 2006

With Pitt’s recently announced commitment to implement wireless network service across the Pittsburgh campus, will the technologies that are used in a wireless environment make it easier for students to cheat? (See March 16 University Times.) That was one of three issues that the University Senate educational policies committee (EPC) tackled at its April 11 […]

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Which medical ‘news’ can you trust? >

April 27th, 2006

Where do you get your medical information? TV? Newspapers? The Internet? Periodicals? Word of mouth? Advertising? In an era of proliferating mass media outlets, which sources should you trust for accurate health and medical information? How do you distinguish reliable news from false or incomplete information propagated by those with hidden agendas? Representatives of local […]

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Making Pitt work: Student Records staff process graduation apps >

April 27th, 2006

Pitt’s senior administration grabs most of the headlines. The faculty get noticed when they bring in research dollars, win teaching awards or publish in their fields. But behind the scenes, University staff, some 6,500 strong across five campuses, often toil in jobs ranging from the mundane to the esoteric. This is one in an occasional […]

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