University Times

UPMC and dbMotion, a provider of web-based data-sharing and integration technology, have announced an $84 million initiative to create one of the largest models of true interoperability in health care. dbMotion will receive at least $35 million of this amount, including an investment by UPMC. The company’s technology will provide a flexible platform for UPMC’s […]

Pitt students are continuing to distinguish themselves with national academic honors. Since 1980, Pitt honors students have won more Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships than any other college or university in Pennsylvania, private or public. The most recent to be added to the roll is senior Anna Quider. An Honors College student majoring in physics and […]

Hillman Library will be open continuously from 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 9 until 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15. Free coffee and tea will be provided in the Cup & Chaucer Saturday-Thursday nights. During the 24-hour schedule, a University ID is required to enter after midnight.

Following the national trend, electronic voting is coming to the University Senate. Faculty will vote for their representatives on Faculty Assembly and for officers of the Senate via electronic ballots for the first time next spring. Faculty Assembly voted Nov. 28 to amend the Senate’s bylaws to convert to paperless balloting through the my.pitt.edu portal. […]

The University Senate community relations committee (CRC) wants community service to be considered in faculty tenure and promotion decisions. The committee is recommending that the Provost’s office approve guidelines that would permit individual departments to incorporate public service and service-learning into faculty tenure and promotion decisions. The guidelines also are designed to assist academic units […]

The University’s Pittsburgh campus is a big place with lots of people who carry with them lots of stuff. Occasionally, some of that stuff gets lost. Some gets found. When that happens, some gets into the hands of Pitt’s police department. “Tell them to come get their stuff,” said Pitt police sergeant Joe Patterson with […]

For rural wheelchair users, a perfect storm is brewing. The aging population in rural areas is creating growing health care needs complicated by access issues based both on physical limitations and geographic isolation. And now health insurers including Medicare are tightening their policies on who qualifies for mobility devices, said Mark Schmeler, an assistive technology […]

As the saying goes, first impressions are lasting. With that in mind, Pitt-Bradford business management professor Brian Vander Schee is studying how his way of welcoming students on the first day of his introductory marketing class may make a difference in their perception of the class and perhaps in their overall performance. Vander Schee said […]

Mentoring is not just for faculty and students anymore. Although mentoring relationships between senior and junior faculty, and between faculty and students are commonplace in an academic institution, units also benefit greatly by the improved staff social cohesion and social integration that mentoring can provide, said Jane Thompson, who last month led the workshop “How […]