Pitt's jazz seminar and concert is planning to celebrate its 25th anniversary and organizers are searching for archival material. Anyone who has photographs or other memorabilia from Pitt jazz seminars and concerts is asked to donate them, or copies of them, for a special 25th anniversary celebration. Each year the jazz seminars and concert attract […]
Donald L. Cleland >
March 16th, 1995Donald L. Cleland, 90, professor emeritus of education and former director of the education school's Reading Laboratory (now Reading Center), died Feb. 18, 1995, at Passavant Health Center, Zelienople. Cleland received his master's of education and Ph.D. degrees from Pitt. He earned his undergraduate degree a Westminster College and later was principal at Etna High […]
Clarification >
March 16th, 1995An editor's note accompanying a letter from Thomas G. Zullo in the Jan. 19, 1995, issue indicated that 11 other dental school faculty members' signatures had accompanied the letter. Those 11 faculty requested that their names be withheld from publication. However, even if they had not made that request, University Times policy restricts the number […]
Existing faculty review policy must be used uniformly, provost says >
March 16th, 1995Rather than create a system requiring periodic job performance reviews of tenured faculty, it appears the administration will enforce an existing Pitt policy that calls for annual reviews of all faculty. Provost James Maher said this week, "We already have an annual review system in place, and it represents an effective post-tenure review. What we […]
Fisher named scientific director of NSABP >
March 16th, 1995Pitt breast cancer researcher Bernard Fisher has won two victories this month: * At this week's semiannual meeting of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) in San Diego, he was named the group's new scientific director. Fisher still has a lawsuit pending against Pitt and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in […]
Assembly reaffirms research policy >
March 16th, 1995In response to allegations by Pitt cancer researcher Bernard Fisher that University administrators violated his academic freedom, Faculty Assembly on March 14 unanimously approved a resolution reaffirming Pitt's policy on externally sponsored research. The resolution also calls on the administration to work through the American Association of Universities and the political system to support academic […]
Despite the blues, Drue Heinz prize has author-musician smiling >
March 16th, 1995Blues may be the music crying out from the stage at Fat Matt's Rib Shack in Atlanta, but the guitarist playing them should be excused if he does so with a hint of a smile on his face. It's not that he sees anything funny in songs about drunkenness and cruelty, loneliness and despair. Sometimes, […]
UPG gets funds for building addition to computer center >
March 16th, 1995The Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation has pledged $100,000 toward the construction of a 4,000-square-foot addition to McKenna Hall, the computer center at Pitt's Greensburg campus. When combined with existing areas, the three rooms planned for the addition will provide space for computer instruction, a distance-learning classroom and a multi-media instruction laboratory. The projected cost of […]