University Times

Members of the University community are invited to nominate staff members for the two annual chancellor’s excellence in service awards. The Chancellor’s Award for Staff for Excellence in Service to the University and the Chancellor’s Award for Staff for Excellence in Service to the Community are the highest awards that Pitt grants to staff members. […]

Pitt could be forced to give back more than $7 million of its current state appropriation next June if the state’s financial picture fails to improve. Gov. Edward G. Rendell, citing sluggish revenue collections and rising unemployment among the factors behind his actions, last week directed his cabinet secretaries to identify 4.25 percent of their […]

UPMC Cancer Centers last week announced a formal affiliation with the Regional Cancer Center (RCC) in Erie, one of the largest free-standing cancer centers in the country. Under the agreement, UPMC Cancer Centers will provide management and operations expertise on a day-to-day basis to RCC and its satellite centers in Meadville, Pa., and Ashtabula, Ohio. […]

In its annual budget request to the state, the University has asked for an 8.5 percent increase in next year’s appropriation. The request, submitted Sept. 22 to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, seeks a total of $205.34 million in state support including $180.95 million for educational and general (E&G) expenses. At that level of state […]

UPMC’s environmentally friendly technology practices have earned it recognition as one of this year’s InformationWeek 500 honorees. UPMC ranked No. 49 on the list, up from No. 105 last year. For two decades, InformationWeek magazine has identified the nation’s most innovative users of information technology across all industries with its annual listing. The 500 companies […]

Pitt has doubled to four weeks the amount of paid time off faculty may take for the birth or adoption of a child. The University has updated its faculty medical and family leave policy to reflect recommendations approved last fall by Faculty Assembly. (See University Times Oct. 7, 2007.) Policy 02-11-01, last revised in 2003, […]

Are you caring for an aging parent? Do you think Medicare will be your primary funding source for long-term care? If so, you might want to attend an Oct. 8 elder care workshop on the myths and realities of Medicare and Medicaid. Sponsored by Pitt’s Institute on Aging, APPRISE (Pennsylvania’s health insurance assistance program/SHIP) and […]

Pitt recorded its best fundraising year ever in fiscal year 2008, raising $183 million in gifts and pledges, $64 million more than in FY 2007, according to a Sept. 15 press release. Included in that overall total were record-setting gifts and pledges of $84.9 million from individuals and $72.1 million from foundations. This brought total […]

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Oct. 1 in Heinz Memorial Chapel for long-time faculty member Keiko I. McDonald, who died Sept. 14, 2008, at the Indiana Regional Medical Center, following an accident. She was 68. An avid angler, McDonald apparently slipped into a stream while fishing and was knocked unconscious. The […]

Pitt continues to develop contingency plans in the event of a strike by Port Authority of Allegheny County workers or a work stoppage triggered by lack of transit funding. Plans are posted on a link on Pitt’s home page (www.pitt.edu). Negotiations between the Port Authority and representatives of its largest union were taking place yesterday, […]