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Pitt law professor and alumna Sandra Jordan is a former assistant U.S. attorney and a former member of the prosecution team in the Iran-Contra trials. She’s taught Pitt law students since 1989 and now Jordan is expanding her reach with a new textbook, “White Collar Crime: Cases, Materials and Problems,” co-authored with J. Kelly Strader […]

What do theatre and fiction have in common? This deceptively simple question switched Pitt theatre arts professor Kathleen George into deep scholarly mode. When she emerged, a preface, four chapters and a conclusion later — 231 pages in all — she had her answer in a newly published book, “Winter’s Tales: Reflections on the Novelistic […]

Want to learn to rhyme, discover how award-winning children’s authors approach their work or gather tips on how to use technology to draw reluctant readers into the library? Pitt-Greensburg’s children’s literature conference, set for May 5, is designed to offer all that and more. The annual literature conference, now in its 10th year, is funded […]

A memorial service for Katherine Detre, who died Jan. 24, has been set for 2:30 p.m. April 28 in Heinz Chapel. A reception will follow in the Hall of Architecture at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. At the time of her death, Detre was Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public […]

Ruben A. Tenicela, a pioneer in pain management and a long-time professor at Pitt’s School of Medicine, died March 27, 2006, of congestive heart failure. He was 76. A native of Huancavalica, Peru, Tenicela earned his medical degree from the University of San Marcos, Peru, in 1957. It was there he met the late Peter […]

The 19th-century English aphorist Charles Caleb Colton is credited with the saying “There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it and to find sensible men to read it." Perhaps no one knows those difficulties more keenly than newly minted scholars seeking publication for the first […]