University Times

Pitt computer network users soon will have the option of paying a monthly fee to subscribe to an Internet service provider (ISP) for improved remote network access. Provost James V. Maher told Senate Council Monday that a preferred partnership contract had been signed this week with Stargate, a local ISP company. For a monthly fee […]

A gift of $10,000 – representing proceeds from the sale of a book on the history of UPMC Montefiore — has been donated to Pitt's genetic education and counseling program by the book's co-author and publisher, Samuel Granowitz. Granowitz, an orthopaedic surgeon who spent his career practicing medicine at Monte-fiore and other Pittsburgh hospitals, and […]

Pitt officials voiced disappointment with Gov. Tom Ridge's proposed appropriation to the University for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, 2001 — $173.3 million, or $4.1 million less than Pitt is receiving this year. But Chancellor Mark Nordenberg noted that the governor's proposal was only the first stage in the budget process. "Obviously, […]

A new product is expected to make taking prescription medication easier and safer for those with visual impairments. The Aloud audio label is available regionally at Rx Partners pharmacies and nationally through Rx Partners Specialty pharmacy, an affiliate of UPMC Health System. The reusable Aloud audio label is a digital recording chip housed in a […]

The number of students who have applied to be freshmen at the Pittsburgh campus in fall 2001 already has exceeded the total who applied for last fall. And compared with the applicants to whom Pitt had offered admission at this time last year, slightly more of this year's accepted applicants graduated in the top 10 […]

The research grant, "Early Head Start Evaluation Local Research Project" from the Administration of Children, Youth and Families, is being administered by the Graduate School of Public Health. Incorrect information on the administrative unit was provided to the University Times and published in the Jan. 25 issue.  

A survey for faculty evaluations of de partment chairpersons was unveiled by a University Senate task force at the Jan. 30 Faculty Assembly meeting. Assembly members praised the survey, but concerns about how it will be administered prevented the group from recommending that the evaluations be done University-wide. The two-page survey forms — tested last […]

The School of Nursing is better than 70 percent of the way toward meeting its $3.1 million goal in the University's capital campaign, Pitt trustee Roger Glunt reported at a Feb. 1 hearing sponsored by the committee searching for a new nursing dean. To continue progress made under outgoing Dean Ellen Rudy, the school's next […]

Lothrop Hall's water supply poses no health threat, according to recently completed testing by the county health department. The health department had conducted tests for the Legionella bacterium after a Pitt custodial employee assigned to Lothrop Hall was diagnosed with Legionnaire's Disease. Legionnaire's Disease is a pneumonia-like illness caused by Legionella, a non-contagious common bacterium. […]

Should Senate Council be restructured, or even scrapped? University Senate President Nathan Hershey has asked the Senate's bylaws and procedures committee to study the issue. Hershey told Faculty Assembly on Jan. 30 that he has sensed "a fair amount of dissatisfaction," particularly among faculty, with the current Senate Council format. Many Council meetings consist of […]