University Times

Over the next five years, Pitt intends to create 1,000 jobs locally through start-up companies and joint ventures that will market technologies and inventions developed at the University. That goal would expand to creating 10,000 jobs during the next 10 years as those companies mature, said Arthur Boni, director of Pitt's Office of Technology Management. […]

Four more trees were recently added to the campus landscape by families wishing to honor deceased relatives with Pitt or Oakland connections. A cluster of three dogwood trees was dedicated in memory of Harry Anthony III, former director of research at Mellon Institute, on the Forbes Avenue side of Heinz Memorial Chapel on Oct. 24. […]

Browsers may have been pleasantly surprised last month when they strolled into The Book Center and found free copies of Book Page, a New York Times Review of Books-size publication containing reports on new books, author interviews and features. The Book Center staff feels it is a better way to advertise books than mass mailings. […]

Research grants of up to $20,000 are available from the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI), a cohesive strategy to promote regional economic growth through the advancement and commercialization of University-developed technology. Projects eligible for grants include biomedical and related technologies associated with engineered tissues, including cell culturing, gene therapy, organ transplant and regeneration, biomaterials, and […]

If you send or receive e-mail and voice-mail on equip- ment owned by your employer, never assume that: * Your employer isn't eavesdropping on those messages. * The law protects the privacy of those messages. * Deleting such messages will permanently erase them. Richard Holmes, Pitt associate general counsel, offered that advice during a lecture […]