The scientists who conduct medical research in this country are overwhelmingly white, male, heterosexual and middle-to-upper class. So are the politicians who set America's health care agenda. And as long as that's the case, women and minorities will continue to suffer discrimination in health care services and research — as well as in science classrooms […]
Discrimination in research affects health care of women, minorities >
November 23rd, 1994OPINION / Jim Cunningham and Tracy Soska >
November 23rd, 1994The results of the recent elections threaten programs vital to small-community survival, and struggling Pittsburgh-region communities like Swissvale, Braddock, South Side, Aliquippa, and hundreds of others are preparing to fight back. Three days after the Nov. 8 election signaled radical changes in government funding, more than 125 community organizers, assisted by Pitt School of Social […]
CDC director preaches about the importance of preventive health care >
November 23rd, 1994The United States will spend nearly $1 trillion on health care this year, but only 1 percent of that will go toward preventive measures such as immunization and AIDS education. "This relationship is severely out of balance, when we commit so little to prevention and so much to treating often terminal illnesses with very sophisticated […]
Pitt, WQED collaborate on special >
November 23rd, 1994Chancellor J. Dennis O'Connor will host a one-hour television special, "Baseball: Payoff for Pittsburgh?," at 9 p.m. Nov. 29 on WQED Channel 13. The program will focus on the economics of keeping the Pirates in Pittsburgh. Mayor Tom Murphy recently announced that an agreement to sell the team has been struck with John J. Rigas, […]
Free PittNet port installation available >
November 23rd, 1994The Executive Committee on Academic Computing is again sponsoring free installation of PittNet ports for faculty. The deadline for application is Jan. 9, 1995. PittNet is the University's campus-wide high-speed data network that connects offices, computing labs, timesharing services and personal computers, and enables access to other local, national and international networks. Through PittNet, users […]
Writer's roots in Bradford lead to book, UPB faculty appointment >
November 23rd, 1994Ernest Hemingway frequently spoke of the need to "get it right," to capture something of the fullness and basic truths of life, when writing a story. Perhaps the surest indication that David McKain got it right when he wrote "Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country," a memoir of his childhood and youth in Bradford during […]
How to access PittInfo >
November 23rd, 1994To access PittInfo, staff, faculty and students need access to either World Wide Web or the Internet Gopher client program. Access to these clients fall into two categories: LAN access and terminal access. Individuals with a Windows, Macintosh or UNIX personal computer with an Ethernet connection to PittNet can use the LAN access method. Individuals […]