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Volume 29 Issue 19

Medical school makes salaries consistent for new tenured clinical faculty >

May 29th, 1997

Medical school professors have never been accused of being underpaid, at least compared with other faculty. But until this year, it was unclear how much salary money a fulltime, clinical professor with tenure in Pitt's School of Medicine could expect to earn simply by being: a. Tenured, and b. A fulltime, clinical professor in Pitt's […]

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Reception planned for retired staff, faculty >

May 29th, 1997

Retired Pitt faculty and staff will have a chance to get together again during a retirees' reception June 25 from 2 to 5 p.m. in the William Pitt Union ballroom. The reception has been organized by a group of retirees made up of: Mary Bonach, Jo Fairclough, Myron Garfunkel, Tom Lloyd, Dorothy Lain, Jeannie Martin, […]

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UPB gets earth science grant >

May 29th, 1997

NASA's Mission to Planet Earth Program has awarded Assad Panah, professor of geology and environmental science at Pitt's Bradford campus (UPB), a $60,000 grant to conduct a cross-disciplinary literacy workshop on earth system science. UPB is one of only 12 schools in the nation to receive the grant, the purpose of which is to help […]

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Disability Resources staff expands to meet burgeoning student need >

May 29th, 1997

In 1993, Pitt's Office of Disability Resources and Services employed just one staff member (director Marcie Roberts) and served 86 students. With the hiring June 3 of a learning disabilities specialist, Lynnett Van Slyke, the office will be up to five full-time staff members serving approximately 700 students and 25 faculty and staff members. Only […]

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Staff involvement vital, SAC president stresses at Bradford campus meeting >

May 29th, 1997

BRADFORD-Even though work and family pressures can make participation in Staff Association Council (SAC) difficult, involvement with the organization is important, SAC President Brian Hart told the Council of Campuses at its meeting here May 20. The Council of Campuses was formed by SAC about two years ago to periodically bring together staff on the […]

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Eduardo Lozano Book collector extraordinaire >

May 29th, 1997

This month, Pitt officially named its 340,000-volume treasure trove of Latin American books and documents the "Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection," after the man who almost single-handedly has assembled the collection over the last 30 years. His colleagues admit the naming was largely a formality. "Internationally, it's never been known as the Pitt Latin […]

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SUNY Buffalo business dean appointed to head Katz, CBA >

May 29th, 1997

Frederick W. Winter, dean of the School of Management at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo, has been named dean of Pitt's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration effective July 1. Winter will succeed Andrew Blair, who has been serving as interim dean of the Katz school […]

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