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The United Faculty (UF) has suspended its latest campaign to unionize Pitt faculty. UF leaders announced this week that they are calling off indefinitely the campaign that they launched a year ago to get faculty to sign cards authorizing UF to represent them in collective bargaining. United Faculty President Mark Ginsburg said the group has […]

A provost-appointed committee has recommended overhauling Pitt's arts and sciences administration. In its April 19 final report to Provost James Maher, the Ad Hoc Committee on Restructuring the Arts and Sciences recommends that: * Lines of authority should be changed so that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean has clear, overall responsiblity for […]

Get ready for another public hearing in the continuing saga that has become the test closing of Bigelow Boulevard between the Cathedral of Learning and the William Pitt Union. Pittsburgh City Council on April 22 unanimously voted to conduct a hearing on a bill to study ways of modifying Bigelow to provide Pitt with more […]

In its own small way, Pitt may have helped to topple South Africa's white-minority government. In March 1987, the Board of Trustees voted to purge Pitt's endowment of holdings in companies doing business in the then-racially segregated nation. The ban remained in effect until June 1994, when the trustees rescinded the policy in response to […]

Mary E. Connor, assistant to the director of the Center for Philosophy of Science, died April 15 in Allegheny General Hospital after a 16-month battle with esophageal cancer. Through "sheer grit," Connor, 61, continued working until March 6, according to center director Gerald Massey. Connor brought "not only exceptional ability but uncommon personal warmth and […]

Robert Levine Robert Levine, emeritus professor of chemistry, died on April 1, 1996. He received both his B.A. and M.A. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in 1945 from Duke University. A professor of organic and medicinal chemistry, he joined Pitt's faculty in 1946 as an assistant professor, retiring in 1982. Levine made his mark […]

Search committees for a new business dean and a new dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) will select finalists soon. Each committee has narrowed its list of candidates to six and will meet on the morning of April 29 to pick three finalists. Later in the day, the committees will […]

Average salaries of Pittsburgh campus professors and faculty librarians have lost ground since last year, compared with the median of salaries at other American Association of Universities (AAU) schools. The decline was hardly unexpected, considering that the only Pitt employees to receive pay raises this year were those earning $35,000 or less. Their raises ranged […]

In this 25th annual edition of Books and Journals by the Faculty, we recognize Pitt faculty members who write or edit books as well as edit or co-edit journals. Book submissions have been arranged according to school, and listed alphabetically by title for easier reference. In instances of co-authored and co-edited books, the Pitt faculty […]