University Times

It's a safe bet that the next University Senate president will be (for the fourth consecutive year) a Graduate School of Public Health professor. But will it be incumbent Nathan Hershey, who has presided over the Senate for the last two years? Or his predecessor, Gordon MacLeod? In the following columns, the candidates outline their […]

Nathan Hershey When I began my service as Senate vice president nearly five years ago, I was well aware of the apparent hostility between the faculty, and the administration and the Board of Trustees. I felt that finding ways to improve the relationship would be a very desirable and useful undertaking. After I was elected […]

MacLeod isn't running for re-election this spring. He's been named academic dean of the fall 1999 Semester at Sea voyage and will spend much of his extracurricular time recruiting faculty and otherwise preparing for the around-the-world trip. "I wouldn't have time to do that and be Senate president," MacLeod said. –University Times March 15,1998 Now, […]

John M. Burkoff has been named associate dean of the School of Law effective July 2000. He replaces Rhonda Wasserman, who will return to the law faculty. Pitt professor of law since 1976, Burkoff is an author, teacher, public speaker, lawyer and expert witness. He has published eight books and over 50 articles in the […]

Pitt's Katz Graduate School of Business ranked in the top 10 in two recent surveys of business schools' information technology (IT) programs. The Financial Times survey covered 106 schools worldwide and was based on more than 5,000 questionnaire responses. In the category of IT, Katz ranked among the top 10 such programs in the nation. […]

Pitt's School of Law has received $1 million from Yolanda G. Barco to endow support for the George J. Barco and Yolanda G. Barco Law Library. "The endowment funds provided by this wonderful gift ensure that the Barco Law Library has one of the world's best collections of legal materials," said Dean David Herring. "The […]

The University and the RAND Corp. have formed a partnership to establish a joint health care research institute in Pittsburgh. The RAND/University of Pittsburgh Health Research Institute will focus on implementing and evaluating health care interventions in real world environments, linking clinical innovations with health care policy to create and sustain improvements in health care […]

Pitt special education professor June Bonner Mullins was a strong advocate for the disabled, but she also believed that people have the right to die with dignity. That's why her family and friends were not surprised when Mullins, after being diagnosed with cancer and given a poor prognosis, chose to live out her days at […]

Harbaugh Miller, a trustee emeritus who was honored three years ago as Pitt's most enduring football fan, died March 18, 2000, of complications from anemia. The Oakland resident was 97. Miller earned Pitt degrees in business administration and law in 1922 and 1925, respectively. A strong supporter of his alma mater, Miller was president of […]