Wilfried Daehnick, associate provost for Research since 1989, will resign the job in January to return to being a full-time professor of physics. Daehnick, 65, said that after five years of being an administrator and having only a day or two each week for his physics research, the time had come for him to choose: […]
Daehnick plans to step down as administrator in January >
October 27th, 1994Provost appoints search committee >
October 27th, 1994Provost James Maher has appointed a search committee to nominate a new associate provost for Research from within Pitt. Donald Mattison, dean of the Graduate School of Public Health, chairs the committee. Other members include Andrew Blair, Katz Graduate School of Business; Tony Duncan, physics department; Joel Falk, electrical engineering department; Linda Jacobson, biological sciences […]
University kicks off United Way campaign >
October 27th, 1994Pitt's 1994 United Way giving campaign kicked off on Oct. 24 with a goal of $450,000, an increase of 20 percent over last year's total. To help encourage participation in the campaign, Chancellor J. Dennis O'Connor will host a reception today (Oct. 27) at which he will appeal to the University's leadership to set an […]
Wolmark nominated as NSABP chairperson >
October 27th, 1994Norman Wolmark, who left Pitt last year after a bitter dispute with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center administrators, has been named by the executive committee of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) to replace Bernard Fisher as NSABP chairperson. Wolmark, 48, currently is director of the Allegheny Cancer Center and director of […]
Committee searching for Health Science administrator seeks input >
October 27th, 1994Search committee members outnumbered the audience by at least 3:1 at the first of two public meetings conducted in the search for a new senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences. Attendance at the Oct. 20 meeting in Scaife Hall was so bad, in fact, that at its peak the audience never numbered more than four […]
2nd public forum scheduled in Health Science search >
October 27th, 1994A second public meeting on the search for a new senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences has been set for Oct. 27 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Ballroom.
Cancer grant application deadline is Dec. 16 >
October 27th, 1994Applications are now being accepted by the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute for the American Cancer Society's (ACS) George Heckman Memorial Institutional Grants for Cancer Research. The primary purpose of the grants is to serve as seed money for promising new projects or novel ideas by junior investigators in cancer research. The deadline for applications is Dec. […]
Employee Assistance Program offers help to staff, faculty and, eventually, savings to University >
October 27th, 1994Darlene felt like a fat, ugly loser. Recently divorced, she had moved back to Pittsburgh with her children and was again living with her parents — a strained arrangement for everyone involved. Darlene had a demanding new job at Presbyterian University Hospital, made even more stressful by the harassing phone calls she was getting at […]