University Times

In an effort to meet the challenges presented by potential bioterror attacks in western Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has created a Terrorism Response and Information Center to provide information related to bioterrorism to doctors and local emergency agencies. In addition, the center can deploy medical personnel and resources quickly in the […]

Key elements of Pitt’s inclement weather policy include the following: • Only the chancellor (or campus presidents for the regional campuses) may close the University officially. • Employees may use discretion regarding their own safety in getting to work, but 1) must phone their supervisors within the first hour of the workday, and 2) are […]

The University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) is seeking applicants for the third annual Steven D. Manners Faculty Development Awards. Two awards of up to $10,000 each relating to work in the social, behavioral and policy sciences will be given in honor of Manners, who worked at UCSUR for 26 years and was […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s director told a U.S. Senate committee last week that Al Queda terrorists are looking at universities “and other poorly defended locations” as possible targets. University of Pittsburgh authorities on terrorism agree that American universities are soft targets — but that Pitt is a highly unlikely one. “My theory is […]

Temple University will become Pennsylvania’s first state-related university to offer access to health benefits to its employees’ same-sex domestic partners, under an agreement that applies to unions representing about 2,100 staff, faculty and graduate students. The agreement, effective April 1, covers about 40 percent of the Philadelphia school’s workforce. Temple President David Adamany said inequities […]

At last week’s members-only Staff Association Council (SAC) meeting, representatives agreed to table a resolution calling for changes in staff compensation policies. “The resolution is not dead,” Rich Colwell, SAC vice president for steering, told the University Times this week. “It was just tabled for now, pending the outcome of our meeting early next week” […]

Paul O’Neill, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and retired Alcoa board chairman, is expected to be elected today as a University director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Board of Directors and a member of the UPMC board’s executive committee. A resolution nominating O’Neill was scheduled to be presented to the Pitt Board […]

The 2003 UPMC/City of Pittsburgh Marathon has increased its prize money for the top marathon finishers. The marathon will be run May 4. The first-place male and female prizes have been increased from $10,000 to $15,000 each. The $15,000 prizes include a $2,500 bonus for the winning male if he runs the marathon in 2:12 […]

Two contemporary American race-related “dragons” — so-called rational discrimination and unconscious discrimination — have yet to be slain, according to a former Pitt law professor. Jody D. Armour, the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, spoke on the state of race relations in post-civil rights era America, “Black Hearts […]