University Times

Faculty, staff and students now have one more way of keeping informed in case of an emergency at Pitt. The University has contracted with Verizon Notification Services to provide free mass emergency messaging for University community members who choose to subscribe. The emergency notification service is free, although subscribers are responsible for any per-call charges […]

UPMC again has received national recognition for its clinical programs, coming in No. 13 in the U.S. News & World Report magazine’s annual “America’s Best Hospitals” ranking. The 2007 results place UPMC one notch higher than last year and mark its eighth appearance on the honor roll, which includes only 18 hospitals nationwide. In addition, […]

Pitt tied for 59th — down two spots from last year — among the nation’s PhD-granting universities in the 2008 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “best colleges” rankings, the first time in seven years that the University dropped in this national ranking. Pitt tied with Rutgers and the University of Georgia. Pitt, Rutgers […]

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the School of Medicine a $16 million, five-year grant to establish the Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions. Research at the center will give scientists detailed new insights into the life of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and have important implications for developing new drug targets. The […]

Following are highlights from a comparison of select Pennsylvania institutions from data in U.S. News and World Report’s 2008 “best colleges” edition: • Acceptance rate: Pitt accepted 56 percent (up from 53 percent in last year’s U.S. News data) of its applicants for fall 2006’s entering class (of 18,195 total applicants); Penn State, 58 percent […]

The deadline for voter registration for the Nov. 6 municipal and judicial general election is 5 p.m. Oct. 9. Those who are eligible to vote but have not registered before, whose name or address has changed or who wish to change political party affiliation, must submit the voter registration form to the Allegheny County Board […]

U.S. News and World Report’s 2008 “best colleges” edition also features “your school at a glance” quick facts, including a breakdown of the undergraduate student body. Among the 17,246 undergraduates enrolled at the Pittsburgh campus in fall 2006, 85 percent of students, exclusive of international students, came from Pennsylvania; 89 percent of students were full […]

William Ragan Stanton, emeritus professor of history, died July 29, 2007. He was 82. Stanton, a native of Belton, Texas, was a Navy veteran and a graduate of Baylor University, where he earned a degree in history. He earned his master’s and PhD degrees in American civilization at Brown University, publishing his thesis, “The Leopard’s […]

Like swallows flying to Capistrano each March, every August officials at higher education institutions scramble to trumpet — or to downplay — their standing in the annual U.S. News & World Report’s “best colleges” rankings. University administrators recognize the inevitable popularity of the annual rankings among college-shopping students and their parents — the college guide […]

Behind the scenes at Pitt, University staff, some 6,500 strong across five campuses, often toil in jobs ranging from the mundane to the esoteric. From mailroom workers to data entry specialists, costume designers to biosafety officers, photographers to accountants, staff at Pitt perform tasks great and small, year-in and year-out, for the greater good of […]