University Times

“Can anybody here tell me what’s missing?” Catherine D. DeAngelis asked her fellow Pitt trustees as she scanned the names of 17 people they had just named to the executive committees of Pitt’s Board of Trustees and the UPMC Board of Directors. “Women?” someone suggested, after an awkward pause. “Ah, thank you,” DeAngelis said. “Just […]

Pitt is closing in on the $600 million mark in its $1 billion fund-raising campaign, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg reported at the June 19 trustees meeting. “This year, in the midst of a terribly challenged economy, we expect to have received more cash contributions — about $90 million — than at any year in our […]

Heading out of the country this summer? If so, you need to be aware of safety and security issues, travel regulations and restrictions, health concerns and country-specific laws. But experts say, above all: Use your common sense. “What has been lost in international travel, I think, in recent years and especially post-9/11, is the carefree […]

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Pitt’s signature building may be getting a good scrubbing. With 65-plus years of accumulated Pittsburgh soot coloring its mammoth exterior, the Cathedral of Learning is ripe for a bath, and University officials are looking into creating a special fund-raising project to raise money for its cleaning. According to Albert Novak Jr., interim vice chancellor for […]

Two of Pitt’s more ambitious construction projects — the Biomedical Science Tower 3 (BST 3) to be built on Fifth Avenue between Darragh and Lothrop streets, and the nine-story student housing building planned for the site previously occupied by Pennsylvania Hall — together will create 980 construction jobs and another 365 off-site jobs, Pitt Executive Vice […]

A deadline is looming to continue the ride-for-free service on public transportation for Pittsburgh campus employees and students with valid I.D. cards. The agreement between Pitt and the Port Authority of Allegheny County will expire July 31 if the two sides do not agree on re-negotiated fees, a Port Authority spokesperson said. Two years ago, […]

Approval was granted this week for the construction of a Finnish Nationality Room in the Cathedral of Learning, currently home to 26 completed Nationality Classrooms. The Finnish Nationality Room committee will raise funds for the project, estimated to cost $250,000. The original Nationality Rooms are located on the Cathedral’s first floor, and the more recently […]