University Times

Pitt faculty, staff and retirees raised more than $601,525 for the 2007 United Way Campaign, surpassing the previous year’s total by 8 percent. Faculty and staff donated $565,112 and retirees $28,355; $8,058 was garnered from various special events. Anne Franks, manager of Pitt’s campaign and manager of human resources administration in Pitt’s Office of Institutional […]

When runners at the 112th annual Boston Marathon take their marks on Monday, the University community will be represented. More than a dozen registrants included in the field of some 25,000 marathoners have connections as Pitt or UPMC employees or Pitt students. Among them are a pair of Pitt economics professors who have been training […]

May 5 is the nomination deadline for the 2008 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award. The award is presented to the outstanding Pitt program area that, or individual who, has made a significant contribution in affirmative action. Program areas are preferred strongly over individuals. For purposes of the award, affirmative action has been defined as “increase of […]

Open access publishing has been in the limelight as recent developments have encouraged more free publication of scholarly literature. This is the first in an occasional series on the impact of the digital age on academic publishing. The National Institutes of Health’s policy requiring NIH-funded researchers to submit their work to its PubMedCentral archive upon […]

Pitt this week announced the creation of a new Center for Energy. Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg said the center is a response to “the increasing need to address the complex energy challenges of our time, which call for more reliable, efficient and environmentally friendly energy sources.” The Center for Energy, housed in the Swanson School […]

A proposed city-county merger likely could benefit Pitt and the area’s other colleges and universities, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg believes. Nordenberg chaired the citizens advisory committee on the efficiency and effectiveness of city-county government — formed by Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato and City of Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl — that recently recommended that […]

Rising seniors James A. Ostendorf, Theresa L. Romanosky and Ashley V. Schmid have won honorable mentions in the national Morris K. Udall Scholarship competition. Ostendorf is majoring in geology, history and political science and pursuing certificates in Latin American studies, Russian and East European studies and public and professional writing. Romanosky is an environmental studies […]

Senate Council last week unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for Pitt to commit to energy-efficient and other “green” initiatives. The resolution proposed by the ad hoc sustainability subcommittee previously was passed unanimously at this month’s Faculty Assembly meeting. (See April 3 University Times.) The subcommittee was formed by the Senate plant utilization and planning committee […]

This year’s slate of candidates for seats on the 15 University Senate standing committees has been set. There are three openings on each committee. Voting will take place April 28-May 9. • Admissions and student aid: Rakie Cham, engineering; Consuella Lewis, education; Vicky Hoffman, business; Julius Kitutu, nursing; Robin Kear, University Library System (ULS); Tony […]