The Staff Association Council (SAC) fall assembly will be held Nov. 4, noon-2 p.m., in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room. Titled "A Step Into the Future: A University Initiative," the meeting will have two featured speakers. Ron Frisch, associate vice chancellor for Human Resources, said he will discuss his office's plans to improve relations […]
Pitt asks for dismissal of UPJ suit >
October 29th, 1998Pitt has filed a motion asking the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh to dismiss a race and sex discrimination lawsuit by the Johnstown campus's affirmative action director. Lawyers for UPJ Affirmative Action Director Clea Hollis responded last week by filing their own motion, reiterating that her case has merit. A U.S. District Court judge will […]
ADOLF GRUNBAUM >
October 29th, 1998The long-awaited exhibition, "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," finally opened at the Library of Congress on Oct. 15. The exhibit, the largest ever assembled on the life and work of the father of psychoanalysis, features personal papers, rare books, photos and silent movies of Freud and his circle, plus such totemistic objects as Freud's spectacles, […]
Travel, running, woodworking provide diversions for law prof >
October 29th, 1998Nearly a million frequent-flyer miles over five continents, not counting scores of light-plane excursions over the Alaskan tundra. Three marathons run. For a hobby, he builds houses. This is a law professor? Douglas M. Branson is in fact the inaugural W. Edward Sell Professor of Business Law, the first endowed faculty position at Pitt's law […]
Faculty, staff leaders react to increases for administrators >
October 29th, 1998University Senate President Nathan Hershey said of this year's raises for senior administrators: "I think the total amount of compensation the chancellor will get is not out of line with his range of responsibilities and the effort he puts in, and I would say the same is true for the provost." Hershey said he felt […]
Experts in environmental policy, development to lecture >
October 29th, 1998Two of the world's foremost scientists in environmental policy and development will discuss what Europe and America can do to better manage resources and control further degradation of the environment at a lecture here Nov. 2. Sponsored by the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) and the World Federalist Association of Pittsburgh, the second annual […]
Pitt experiment to be conducted on board space shuttle >
October 29th, 1998When John Glenn and the space shuttle Discovery reach orbit following today's scheduled launch from Kennedy Space Center, one of the first operations to take place will be a Pitt biological sciences experiment. Mission specialist Pedro Duque will begin a protein crystallization experiment. The research is designed to provide scientists with a variety of crystals […]
Board sets senior administrators' salaries >
October 29th, 1998Arthur S. Levine will be Pitt's highest- paid administrator when he becomes senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the medical school on Nov. 1. Levine will earn $498,000, nearly twice Chancellor Mark Nordenberg's salary and $60,000 more than what outgoing Senior Vice Chancellor Thomas Detre was making. Detre, however, did not serve […]