Thousands of senior athletes — ranging from 50-year-old sprinters to "100-something" shuffleboarders — are competing in the national senior olympics in Baton Rouge, La. Scrutinizing their performances are UPMC Health System sports medicine researchers, who are collecting data for the first large-scale health and injury survey of senior athletes. More than 9,000 senior athletes are […]
Pitt professor initiates major study of senior athletes' health, injuries >
July 26th, 2001SHRS starts disabilities studies program >
July 26th, 2001Despite some progress for Americans with disabilities in recent years, statistics indicate that they continue to be underserved, confronted with attitudinal and physical barriers and excluded from the mainstream. A 2000 Louis Harris poll, for example, indicates that 29 percent of disabled Americans currently have a household income of $15,000 or less, and only 32 […]
UPMC wins national recognition >
July 26th, 2001UPMC Health System has been placed on U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Hospitals honor roll as one of the "best of the best" hospitals in the United States. UPMC Health System hospitals placed 16th out of 1,878 eligible hospitals in the United States. UPMC Presbyterian placed in 11 specialty areas and UPMC's Magee-Womens […]
Athletic training moves to SHRS >
July 26th, 2001Pitt's Sports Medicine/Athletic Training (SM/AT) program has been transferred to the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) from the School of Education. The new SHRS Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, where the SM/AT program will be housed, will build disciplinary links using exercise and nutrition as models for enhancing healthy and physically active […]
OBITUARY: Joseph Pois >
July 26th, 2001Emeritus professor of public administration Joseph Pois died July 12, 2001, from complications of pneumonia. He was 95. Pois served as professor of public administration at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) beginning in 1961, his first year in Pittsburgh. Pois chaired the public administration department from 1961 to 1971 and was […]
Bradford’s president to step down >
July 26th, 2001Richard E. McDowell, president of Pitt's Bradford campus since 1973, announced last week that he will step down from that position next June. Following a sabbatical in 2002, McDowell will teach in the biology department at Bradford and work to expand the programs of Pitt-Bradford's Allegheny Institute of Natural History, which he helped found in […]