Unease in the nation’s credit markets has impacted colleges and universities on several fronts. Some student borrowers are concerned about the availability of loans. University administrators have had their own worries as schools whose debt is in variable-rate instruments found rates rapidly rising. A report in the March 6 Chronicle of Higher Education noted that […]
Obituary: Leslie Dawn Guthrie >
April 3rd, 2008Long-time graphic artist in the Office of Public Affairs Leslie Dawn Guthrie died March 31, 2008, following a prolonged acute illness. She was 50. A 1976 graduate of Montour High School and a 1979 graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Guthrie was hired at Pitt as a graphic designer in 1983. She was art […]
Books, Journals & More >
April 3rd, 2008This annual University Times supplement recognizes faculty and staff who have written, edited and translated books, as well as those whose efforts have extended into other areas, such as journals, electronic publications, plays and musical compositions. We regret that space constraints prohibit including other kinds of publications/creative endeavors. At the suggestion of a faculty advisory […]
Obituary: Harry J. Mooney Jr. >
April 3rd, 2008Retired English professor Harry J. Mooney Jr. died March 18, 2008. He was 80. Mooney joined the faculty in 1962 as an assistant professor after completing his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Pitt. He became an associate professor in 1967 and was promoted to professor in 1970. He was the department’s director of graduate […]
Books, Journals & More: A Closer Look: Jerome Branche, Ellen Cohn and John W. Mullenix >
April 3rd, 2008The annual Provost’s Faculty Diversity Seminar offers Pitt professors the chance to redesign a course syllabus with an eye toward increasing the racial and gender diversity of classroom content. A recent seminar yielded more than anticipated: A trio of professors who met during their two weeks as seminar fellows in 2005 didn’t stop at redesigning […]
Books, Journals & More: A Closer Look: Douglas M. Branson >
April 3rd, 2008The number of women seeking high-powered careers in the past several decades has grown — women fill a significant number of seats in law school and MBA classrooms — but when it comes to finding a seat in the CEO suite or on the boards of America’s largest companies, their numbers are few. In his […]
Books, Journals & More: A Closer Look: Lynne Conner >
April 3rd, 2008In standard texts on the history of the American theatre, Pittsburgh is barely an afterthought, according to theatre arts associate professor Lynne Conner, who recently discussed the treasure trove of findings in her third book, “Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater.” “Even though I was a trained theatre historian, I knew nothing about […]