University Times

For the first time in three years the majority of continuing faculty saw raises that kept up with inflation. A report by Pitt’s Management Information and Analysis office on fiscal year 2008 continuing faculty raises showed 85 percent (1,466) of the 1,725 continuing faculty (excluding medical school faculty in the basic sciences) received increases that […]

The deadline for voter registration for the April 22 Pennsylvania primary is 5 p.m. March 24. 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 of Elections. Voter […]

Pitt neurology faculty member R. Wesley Farris II remains jailed following his arrest in a sex sting in which he is charged with arranging to meet a child for sex through phone calls with an undercover agent posing as the uncle of a 10-year-old girl. According to the complaint filed in federal court in Pittsburgh, […]

Pitt is one of four universities participating in the AspiringDocs.org campaign, a pilot program of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) designed to attract more diverse physicians who can serve the growing health needs of culturally diverse communities. The pilot program is being conducted at Pitt, Rutgers University, California State University-Fresno and the University […]

Five-digit dialing between University and UPMC phone numbers is coming to an end. As of March 31, callers from Pitt will need to dial 9, followed by the 10-digit phone number to reach UPMC lines. Speed dialers and autodial keys will need to be reprogrammed to reflect the changes. Although calls will be dialed as […]

For the second consecutive year, Pitt ranks in the uppermost tier of U.S. public research universities, according to “The Top American Research Universities,” the recently issued 2007 annual report of the Center for Measuring University Performance. The report again places Pitt in the company of six other public research universities: University of California-Berkeley, UCLA, University […]

Pitt has completed its chemical inventory list as required by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Under a mandate from Homeland Security issued Nov. 20, institutions of all kinds nationally were required to inventory their holdings of more than 325 used or stored “chemicals of interest,” that is, chemicals that in sufficient quantities pose a […]

Thanks to spring break, many faculty members and students weren’t on campus last week. But members of the state House of Representatives intergovernmental affairs committee were. Pitt played host March 13 to the third of five public hearings being held statewide to determine how the state will respond to the federal Real ID Act of […]

A University Senate committee plans to respond to an Oakland resident’s complaints about trash and litter control in student-heavy off-campus areas. But the community relations committee (CRC) cautioned that other community groups need to be brought into the discussion. Oakland resident Carlino Giampolo, in an open letter to Pitt faculty and staff (see March 6 […]

The Staff Association Council (SAC) last week voted unanimously to request restoration of a pre-2007 policy covering re-employment after involuntary separation from the University. Prior to the change, a University staff member who was involuntarily separated from Pitt could carry over accrued employee benefits in the event the individual was re-hired within 12 months. In […]