University Times

Pitt student health officials are asking faculty for assistance in changing the culture of alcohol abuse on campus. Joe Mull, coordinator of the Office of Health Education and Promotion, part of the Division of Student Affairs, reported to Faculty Assembly last week on his office’s efforts to launch a program that engages faculty support. Prompted […]

Pitt has a lot of big — and far-flung — losers. While competition in the 12-week MyHealth Weight Race was fierce in Pittsburgh, the race among teams to lose weight was just as heated — and successful — at five other Pitt locations, with some races coming down to the final weigh-ins in late April. […]

“Diversity’s not an airborne virus. You don’t catch it because you walk across campus and you see somebody who looks different from you. … It’s about some kind of capacity to actually talk about contentious issues in a civil manner that’s crucial,” a diversity researcher and founder of the University of Michigan’s program on intergroup […]

A federal district court judge has released Pitt neurology professor Roger Wesley Farris from jail, where he had been held since his March 5 arrest in a sex sting. He has been charged with arranging to meet a child for sex via phone calls with an undercover agent posing as the uncle of a 10-year-old […]

The University Senate budget policies committee wants a detailed explanation of the proposed fiscal year 2009 budget before making its annual recommendation on the distribution of the salary pool increase. The committee has asked Vice Chancellor for Budget and Controller Art Ramicone to walk members through Pitt’s proposed budget in a closed session at its […]