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Pitt’s annual Partnership for Food will collect non-perishable food items throughout April to help restock the shelves of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. For more than a decade, the University has ranked among the 10 most successful Pittsburgh-area employers in the annual spring food drives. Over the years, contributions from the University have totaled […]

Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and first secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security, will deliver Pitt’s 2007 commencement address April 29 at the Petersen Events Center. Ridge, 61, graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1967. After his first year at The Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. […]

A report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reveals that academic medical centers in Pennsylvania continue to play a significant role in the state’s economy. The report found that Pennsylvania ranks second in the nation when calculating the total economic impact of its academic health centers. The study found that medical schools and […]

The passage in 1980 of the Bayh-Dole Act, which allowed universities and researchers to benefit from the commercialization of publicly funded research, plunged academia into a new world of forging partnerships with industry, forming startup companies and other aspects of technology transfer. In a follow-up to last year’s University Senate spring plenary event, which looked […]

The conference center on the Johnstown campus has been designated as a certified “One-Stop-Shop” by the Association of Collegiate Conference Events Directors-International (ACCED-I). With 1,500 members representing more than 600 institutions of higher education, ACCED-I is the largest association of colleges and universities with conference and event services. The ACCED-I designation recognizes the ability of […]

Although Pitt law professor Arthur Hellman and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor both are concerned about threats to judicial independence in the United States, they disagree about what poses a threat. While her 25 years’ experience on the Supreme Court and her retired status make the issue of threats to judicial independence an […]

“I didn’t come here today to tell you I told you so. I came here to say it’s crucial to learn from our mistakes and cut our losses now if we possibly can,” William W. Keller said in a March 23 address to the Honors College in which he called for a withdrawal of American […]

Pitt’s law school held a day-long birthday party last week to celebrate 10 years of the JURIST web site (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu), the brainchild of law professor Bernard Hibbitts, who is the site’s publisher and editor-in-chief. Launched as an academic clearinghouse of online legal materials for law professors, the site has evolved into a real-time, dynamic news […]

How has the introduction of new media — the Internet, online publications, blogging — affected the way the law is decided, disseminated and reported? That was the main theme of a panel discussion, “Law and Media in the Age of the Internet,” that was part of the day-long conference celebrating 10 years of JURIST, Pitt’s […]