University Times

A memorial service will be held April 2 for Carl F. Poke, one of the “founding fathers” of Pitt’s Greensburg campus, who died Feb. 23, 2009. He was 75. The service is scheduled for 4 p.m in UPG’s Mary Lou Campana Chapel and Lecture Center. Poke was named assistant to the president, dean for Academic […]

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs professor Sabina Deitrick, who was struck by a Port Authority bus Feb. 27, plans to return to the classroom after next week’s spring break, a GSPIA spokesperson said. Her Wednesday evening economic development strategies and practices class was canceled this week. Deitrick, who also co-directs the University Center […]

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. March 26 in Heinz Chapel for Francis Byrne Colavita, associate professor emeritus of psychology, who died Feb. 16, 2009, in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., as the result of a traffic accident. He was 69. Colavita’s wife, Harriet Phillips, 67, died at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, […]

The Senate budget policies committee won’t receive anytime soon the athletics funding information it expected to receive in a University report last June. The report, prepared by the Office of Budget and Controller for the University Planning and Budgeting Committee (UPBC), shows the revenues and expenses attributable to each Pitt unit. BPC, which reviewed a […]

Former English faculty member Montgomery (Monty) Culver died Feb. 23, 2009. He was 80. Culver earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Pitt and a PhD from the University of Illinois. A fiction writer, he joined Pitt’s English department in 1953 and attained the rank of professor in 1971. He was a former editor of […]

The recent impeachment and ouster of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is only one in a long series of political corruption cases that have dogged that state’s reputation. A key player from an earlier case against Blagojevich’s predecessor offered his story as “a cautionary tale” to all those who are tempted by corruption. Richard Juliano, former […]

At right: Raymond W. Smith, chair of investment banking firm Rothschild, Inc., and a Katz Graduate School of Business alumnus, was the keynote speaker at the 33rd annual honors convocation, which recognizes student achievement, outstanding alumni and faculty and staff accomplishments, and doubles as a celebration of Pitt’s founding on Feb. 28, 1787. Smith, who […]

The explosion of new information technologies has brought with it an explosion of information — in print or audio forms to be stored and retrieved in novel ways. Jason R. Baron, director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, discussed his role in improving the retrieval of relevant electronically stored information (ESI) in […]