Mellon Bank is challenging corporations and institutions to take part in the relay team race during the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/City of Pittsburgh Marathon on May 4. Mellon is sponsoring a trophy for the fastest relay team in the corporate category. A $1,000 donation will be made to the Special Olympics in the name […]
Historic nomination of 2 buildings withdrawn >
April 3rd, 1997The quest to designate Pennsylvania Hall and the Mineral Industries Building as historic structures has ended. In the wake of last month's vote by the Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission denying historic status for the two buildings, Pittsburgh residents John Murdock and J. R. Daniel have withdrawn their nomination of the buildings. The City Planning Commission […]
FAS plans to reduce number of faculty, increase enrollment >
April 3rd, 1997In an effort to improve its academic programs and get its finances in order, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is proposing to make the following changes, among others, during the next five years: * Reduce the school's number of full-time, tenured and tenure-stream faculty from the current 542 to 505. According to the […]
$3 million Whitaker grant funds bioengineering dept. >
April 3rd, 1997Pitt's School of Engineering has received a $3 million Whitaker Foundation Development Award for "Innovation in Bioengineering Education." The award will be used mainly to support the establishment of a bioengineering department that will offer the first undergraduate bioengineering degree of any public university in Pennsylvania. A portion of the award also will fund ongoing […]
Supercomputing Center to continue despite NSF funding cut, Pitt and CMU leaders say >
April 3rd, 1997Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University leaders say they intend to keep the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center up and running — although they don't know yet how they will replace $15 million in annual funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The executive committee of the National Science Board, the NSF's governing body, voted March 28 to […]
FAS search committee to be charged >
April 3rd, 1997Members of the search committee for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) were scheduled to meet for the first time today, April 3, to receive their charge from Provost James Maher. Committee chairperson Edward Stricker said he expects that the committee will be asked to recommend three-to-five candidates by next […]
Robert G. Colodny >
April 3rd, 1997A memorial service for long-time Pitt history professor Robert G. Colodny will be held today, April 3, at 2 p.m. at the Heinz Memorial Chapel. Colodny was a Pitt faculty member from 1959 until his retirement in 1985, specializing in the history of science and European history. He died at his Pleasant Hills residence March […]
Asteroid named for Cassidy >
April 3rd, 1997On behalf of the International Astronomical Union, Harvard's Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science has named an asteroid after Pitt professor of geology and planetary science William Cassidy. Discovered on Sept. 7, 1948, by Henry L. Giclas at the Lowell Observatory, the asteroid was named in honor of Cassidy following a suggestion by Bruce Hapke, […]
Foster biographer to lecture here >
April 3rd, 1997Journalist and music critic Ken Emerson, author of the soon-to-be-released "Doo-dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture" will lecture on April 11 at noon in the Stephen Foster Memorial auditorium. "Doo-dah!" is the first full biography of Foster to appear in more than 60 years. Emerson's appearance at Pitt will launch his […]