University Times

Pitt's Board of Trustees compensation committee Dec. 6 raised Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg's salary by 5.4 percent to $342,500 for fiscal year 2002. Trustees also approved, at Nordenberg's recommendation, raises for seven other Pitt administrative officers. The new salaries are retroactive to July 1, the beginning of Pitt's fiscal year. "The University of Pittsburgh continues […]

The Pittsburgh campus's United Way campaign has raised $635,000 in gifts and pledges from faculty, staff, students and retirees. That's $40,000 short of the campaign's $675,000 goal, so members of the campaign's steering committee this week are e-mailing and phoning previous donors who have not yet given. "Because of your generous, past support, we ask […]

Pitt's School of Medicine has announced the formation of a new Department of Immunology for more than 30 of its faculty members currently working in various departments on research projects in immunology, as well as for teaching and training students and fellows. Immunology, the study of the immune system, is a formal academic discipline with […]

Inquiring minds want to know: What can a student do with an urban studies major? The answer, according to Pitt's Urban Studies Program coordinator, is up to the student. "I work with students to try to get them to understand first of all what it is they want to do, and then what the various […]

Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) has launched a clinic whose mission is to assist regional nonprofits in becoming high-performing organizations. "Throughout the United States, and particularly in western Pennsylvania, the nonprofit sector has grown dramatically in the past three decades," said Leon L. Haley, Pitt associate professor of public affairs and […]

Pitt's Bradford campus has received $1 million from the estate of Bradford resident Dorothy Reed, the largest bequest in the campus's 38-year history and the second largest single gift from an individual. The gift will be used to establish a matching scholarship fund called the Reed-Coit Scholarship Challenge. The challenge is named for Reed and […]

The Center for Assistive Technology (CAT), a joint program of Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and UPMC Health System, has received the Assistive Technology Achievement Award for 2001 from Temple University's Institute on Disabilities. The award was presented in recognition of the center's excellence in providing innovative and consumer-responsive services to persons with […]

Pitt and Cook Group Inc., of Bloomington, Ind., are collaborating on potential uses for adult stem cells in treating disease. Through Pitt's Office of Technology Management (OTM), the Pittsburgh-based company, Cook MyoSite, has licensed technologies related to stem cells derived from adult muscle tissue. These muscle-derived stem cells have the ability to repair diseased or […]

A new research effort to develop the next generation of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools — incorporating electronic circuitry, photonics and micromechanical components on the same chip — is underway at Pitt. The program is supported by a $2 million grant from the Micro-Systems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a $630,000 […]