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Volume 28 Issue 15

If approved, Bigelow test closing isn't expected until September >

March 28th, 1996

Forget about the test closing of Bigelow Boulevard between Forbes Avenue and Fifth Avenue until probably September. Even if the public hearing on legislation approving the closing set for April 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the Frick International Studies Academy brings a favorable response and City Council approves the action at either its April 9 […]

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UPJ vice president accepts Shepherd College presidency >

March 28th, 1996

David L. Dunlop, vice president for Academic Affairs at Pitt's Johnstown campus (UPJ), will leave UPJ in July to become president of Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W. Va. Dunlop has been a UPJ faculty member since 1973. He served as UPJ's interim president after the retirement of President Frank H. Blackington in December 1993 until […]

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Liver cell growth lays groundwork for development of artificial livers >

March 28th, 1996

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) researchers say they have grown normal liver cells in the laboratory, an accomplishment that lays the groundwork for developing artificial livers to help alleviate a shortage of transplantable livers. The discovery of the liver cell-growing process, reported in the March issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, also could […]

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Pitt pursues commercial outlets for technology developed here >

March 28th, 1996

Pitt's income from licensing agreements on University-owned patents has grown from $320,000 to $1.25 million during the last three fiscal years, with the money being divided about equally among the faculty inventors, their academic departments and the central University. Between fiscal year 1992 and FY 1995, the number of licensing agreements that Pitt signed with […]

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Needleman campaigns for more studies of gasoline additive MMT >

March 28th, 1996

Long known for his efforts to reduce the amount of lead in the environment, Pitt professor Herbert Needleman has joined a new campaign — against another gasoline additive. Responding to a request from the Environmental Defense Fund and 36 other environmental, medical, religious and consumer groups, 15 of the nation's oil companies recently announced that […]

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Education, not retention, is the problem to address, speaker says >

March 28th, 1996

As Pitt and other universities struggle to reduce their drop-out rates, especially among minority students, a national expert on student retention told an audience here last week that "retention is not, and never has been, the real issue. "If the only question you're asking is how you can keep more students, then you're asking the […]

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