The Allegheny County Health Department last month reached a consent agreement to settle air pollution violations at the Bellefield Boiler Plant. Pitt is a member of the nonprofit consortium that owns and operates the plant. Under the agreement, the consortium will pay a $175,000 fine and will use a cleaner fuel mixture in its No. […]
JURIST wins Webby >
May 25th, 2006JURIST (www.jurist.law.pitt.edu), the Pitt School of Law’s legal news and research service, won The Webby People’s Voice Award competition. Winners of the Webby awards, which honor excellence in web site design, creativity, usability and functionality, were released last week by the International Academy of the Digital Arts and Sciences. Called “the on-line equivalent of an […]
Ushers give $1 million to fight melanoma >
May 25th, 2006Retired United States Steel Corp. CEO and chairman Thomas Usher and his wife Sandra have donated $1 million to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)’s melanoma program. The donation has established the Sandra and Thomas Usher Endowed Fund for Melanoma to promote clinical strategies to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat melanoma, the deadliest form […]
Endowed chair in infectious diseases and microbiology funded >
May 25th, 2006A world-renowned infectious disease specialist who is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), Monto Ho, and his wife, Carol Ho, have pledged $2 million to GSPH to establish an endowed chair in infectious diseases and microbiology. Roberta Ness, interim dean […]
Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research established >
May 25th, 2006The School of Medicine has established the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research (PCPR) and has recruited an internationally recognized pain researcher, Gerald Gebhart, to head it. PCPR is a collaboration of the School of Medicine’s departments of anesthesiology and neurobiology and the Department of Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. The school envisions that […]
Obituary: Carolynn Ann Morse Wilson >
May 25th, 2006Long-time staff member in the School of Engineering Carolynn Ann Morse Wilson died May 4, 2006, following a heart attack. She was 66. A Pittsburgh native, Wilson attended Homewood Elementary School and graduated from Westinghouse High School. She also attended classes at Pitt, and accepted a staff position here in 1980 as an administrative secretary […]