Usually it’s the retiree who gets the gifts. But when Pat Warnick, director of Pitt’s Student Payment Center retired last month after 39 years at Pitt, she was the one giving the gifts. Three years ago, in anticipation of her retirement, Warnick took up oil painting. “I had made up my mind that if I […]
Books, Journals & More – A Closer Look: Marcus Rediker >
April 14th, 2005Lashings, torture and killings were common on the ships that lapped up riches on trade routes traversing the high seas of the Atlantic in the 18th century. A favorite discipline tool of ship officers was the cat-o’-nine-tails or simply “the cat”: a whip with nine leather lashes designed to tear a man’s flesh. After a […]
Books, Journals & More – A Closer Look: Pirate myths and legends >
April 14th, 2005From “Treasure Island’s” menacing Long John Silver to Errol Flynn’s swashbuckling “Captain Blood” to Johnny Depp’s twisted charm in “Pirates of the Caribbean,” pirates always have intrigued us. But the novels and the movies don’t always live up to the real legends, according to author Marcus Rediker. Here is the history behind some of the […]
Books, Journals & More – A Closer Look: Laurel Bridges Roberts & James Bobick >
April 14th, 2005Everything you’ve always wanted to know about biology (and probably much more) has been asked and answered in an informative, engrossing and entertaining 2004 reference book. From the basic (What is a cell? What is respiration? What is a seed?), to the advanced (What is the meaning of the phrase “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”? What is […]
Books, Journals & More – A Closer Look: Chuck Kinder >
April 14th, 2005Drive 79 South until you’re well into West Virginia, then let Chuck Kinder take the wheel; that is, if you’re not afraid of beer joints, cussing, hillbillies and extraordinary story telling. Whether he’s complimenting an old friend on his tattoos or taking you back to his youth when he was a “testiclely-challenged boy,” Kinder’s escapades […]
Books, Journals & More – A Closer Look: Donald Gibson >
April 14th, 2005In the 1930s, social critic Ferdinand Lundberg, in a book titled “America’s Sixty Families,” maintained that American journalism served only the wealthiest families — the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Hearsts, the DuPonts and a handful of others — owners of the media outlets who controlled the messages. As a result, “truth is always secondary, very […]
Undergrads win major awards >
April 14th, 2005For the second consecutive year, Pitt students are winners in all three of the prestigious national congressional commemorative undergraduate scholarship competitions — the Harry S. Truman, Barry M. Goldwater and Morris K. Udall scholarships — joining Yale and Cornell as the only universities with student winners of all three scholarships in both 2004 and 2005. […]
Books, Journals & More supplement >
April 14th, 2005This annual University Times supplement recognizes faculty and staff who have written and edited books, as well as those whose efforts have extended into other areas, such as CDs, electronic publications, art exhibitions, plays and musical compositions. We regret that space constraints prohibit including other kinds of publications/creative endeavors. At the suggestion of a faculty […]