University Times

Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell has proposed a 1.3 percent increase in Pitt’s appropriation for fiscal year 2009. The governor recommended $170.33 million in state support for Pitt as part of the budget proposal he presented Feb. 5 to the General Assembly. Pitt is receiving $168.17 million in state support in the current fiscal year. […]

Pitt’s Institute for Clinical Research Education and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute has established a PhD program in clinical and translational science. The advanced training program is designed primarily for clinicians and aims to enhance the capabilities of scientists to conduct high-quality clinical and translational research. Clinical and translational science aims to close the […]

A recent report on the value of the endowments of colleges and universities has prompted U.S. Senate finance committee leaders to request information on endowment growth and student aid spending from Pitt and 135 other colleges with endowments of $500 million or more. Pitt, with an endowment worth $2.25 billion as of June 30, 2007, […]

Anthony Varallo has been named the 28th winner of the annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize, which recognizes writers of short fiction. Manuscripts are judged anonymously by nationally known writers. Varallo’s manuscript, “Out Loud,” was selected by author Scott Turow from nearly 300 entries. The collection will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press this […]

Maxwell King, recently retired president of The Heinz Endowments, will be the keynote speaker at the 32nd annual honors convocation, set for 2 p.m. Feb. 29 in Carnegie Music Hall. The convocation recognizes faculty and staff accomplishments; undergraduate, graduate and professional student academic achievement; student leadership, and outstanding alumni. King will speak on “Hard Times […]

The School of Information Sciences (SIS) has received a five-year, $782,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of a graduate research program. The program is designed to understand and influence the emergence of digital communication and research in academia, known as cyber scholarship. The grant provides resources to hire a […]

A number of years ago, University Honors College (UHC) Dean G. Alec Stewart had an epiphany of sorts. Stewart was attending an on-campus recruiting event sponsored by Pitt’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for prospective students and their parents. One mother was aggravated because she saw little difference between the recruiting materials and rah-rah […]

The United States Steel Foundation has awarded Pitt grants totaling $605,000 to support a number of student-based initiatives. The major portion of these funds — $500,000 — will be used to establish five endowed scholarships: two each in the Swanson School of Engineering and the College of Business Administration and one for a student majoring […]

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a landmark document endorsed by the United Nations that lays out human rights standards for people worldwide. But some world governments, including the U.S. government, apparently didn’t get the memo, especially as the declaration applies to women, according to three local experts. […]

Pitt has received a $1 million grant to develop a groundbreaking method to advance nanoscale science and technology by allowing scientists to observe, probe and control molecules. Funding came from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The technique involves probing molecular structure with femtosecond — a billionth of a millionth of a second — temporal and atomic […]