University Times

Temple University will become Pennsylvania’s first state-related university to offer access to health benefits to its employees’ same-sex domestic partners, under an agreement that applies to unions representing about 2,100 staff, faculty and graduate students. The agreement, effective April 1, covers about 40 percent of the Philadelphia school’s workforce. Temple President David Adamany said inequities […]

At last week’s members-only Staff Association Council (SAC) meeting, representatives agreed to table a resolution calling for changes in staff compensation policies. “The resolution is not dead,” Rich Colwell, SAC vice president for steering, told the University Times this week. “It was just tabled for now, pending the outcome of our meeting early next week” […]

Paul O’Neill, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and retired Alcoa board chairman, is expected to be elected today as a University director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Board of Directors and a member of the UPMC board’s executive committee. A resolution nominating O’Neill was scheduled to be presented to the Pitt Board […]

The 2003 UPMC/City of Pittsburgh Marathon has increased its prize money for the top marathon finishers. The marathon will be run May 4. The first-place male and female prizes have been increased from $10,000 to $15,000 each. The $15,000 prizes include a $2,500 bonus for the winning male if he runs the marathon in 2:12 […]

Two contemporary American race-related “dragons” — so-called rational discrimination and unconscious discrimination — have yet to be slain, according to a former Pitt law professor. Jody D. Armour, the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, spoke on the state of race relations in post-civil rights era America, “Black Hearts […]

With commonwealth-funded capital projects like the Petersen Events Center and Sennott Square recently completed, next in Pitt’s growth plans are construction of the Bioscience Tower 3 and the expansion and upgrade of the facilities at Langley-Crawford-Clapp halls, projects that now have state backing. To learn more about how commonwealth-funded capital projects come to fruition, the […]

The incidence of cleft lips and palates varies among races and countries. But it is unusually high in Guatemala, where abnormal openings in the upper lip — with or without accompanying clefts in the roof of the mouth — appear in approximately 2 of every 1,000 births. These birth defects run in certain families. Poor […]