University Times

A flexible attitude combined with a touch of creativity, a little movement and a little laughter are the keys to a healthy and happy holiday season. And there is no need to count calories or forego any of the goodies that make their appearance around Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year's. "Change the way you think," […]

Pitt's 1996 United Way campaign has collected approximately $280,000 to date. The amount is about equal to last year's total at the same point in the campaign. This year's goal for the United Way campaign is $435,000, an increase of about 5 percent over 1995's final total. Campaign coordinator Dolores Vojta, a staff member in […]

Paul Dowd, professor of chemistry, died of cancer Nov. 21, 1996, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He was 60. Dowd joined the Pitt chemistry faculty in 1970. He was named a full professor in 1977. He regularly taught undergraduate organic chemistry and honors organic chemistry. During his Pitt tenure, Dowd was adviser to […]

A memorial service for John B. Nicklas Jr. will be held in Heinz Chapel at 3 p.m. on Dec. 10. Nicklas, who died Nov. 25 at the age of 97, was a former Pitt trustee and the first president of the Pitt Golden Panthers. Immediately following the memorial service, family members will receive friends at […]

Stan Heckathorn, vice president for Business Affairs at Pitt's Bradford campus (UPB), has resigned his post effective Dec. 31. Heckathorn is leaving UPB for a management position with a new software company with offices in New Hampshire and California. "Stan has shepherded the college through tremendous growth and development," said UPB President Richard McDowell. "His […]

By the fall 1999 term, students here will be able to register for classes by telephone or via their computers, Pitt officials say. Students also will be able to electronically view their grades, apply for financial aid and monitor their progress toward graduation — all without leaving their dorms or homes (although flesh-and-blood advisers still […]

Many computer applications will fail in the year 2000 because since the early stages of automation the date format used by software and computer manufacturers has been MM/DD/YY, which ascribes two digits for month/day/year. Under the system currently in use, for example, 1996 is stored as the two digits "96." As a result, the year […]

The Johnstown campus Faculty Senate has condemned Chancellor Mark Nordenberg's possible performance-based salary bonus. At its Nov. 20 meeting, the UPJ Senate voted 21-8 to approve the following motion: "It is the sense of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown that the Board of Trustees showed poor judgment and a lack of […]

A Dec. 3 Faculty Assembly discussion of summer unemployment compensation for Pitt part-time faculty turned into a forum on the status of part-timers here and the University's commitment to undergraduate education. The main antagonists in the discussion were Pitt General Counsel Lewis M. Popper and Pat Harrington Wysor, a part-time instructor in the English department. […]

The Instructional Technology Work- ing Group of the Executive Committee on Academic Computing (ECAC) has grant money available for five demonstration projects to increase the use of computers for instructional purposes at Pitt. Funds for the projects have been allocated by the Office of the Provost. Details on all of the projects and how to […]