As part of Pitt's current accreditation review, an evaluation team from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools will meet with hundreds of administrators, faculty, staff and students during its visit to the University on Nov. 12 and 13. The evaluation team, chaired by Rochester University President Thomas Jackson, has reviewed a Pitt self-study […]
Open hearing planned for SIS dean search >
September 13th, 2001Provost James V. Maher has asked the committee searching for a new dean of the School of Information Sciences (SIS) to recommend finalists to him by March 1. Pitt's administration hopes to have a new dean in place by July 1 to succeed Toni Carbo, who announced last spring that she was planning to resign […]
Pitt drops 1 place in U.S. News rankings of PhD-granting public universities >
September 13th, 2001Pitt tied for 39th among the nation's Ph.D.-granting public universities in the U.S. News & World Report's annual America's best colleges issue, a drop of one spot from last year's rankings. Tied with Pitt in the 39th slot among public institutions were Clemson, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, the […]
Pharmacology prof is driving force behind Indian performing arts center >
September 13th, 2001Since coming to Pitt in 1962, Balwant N. Dixit has risen from the rank of research fellow to full professor of pharmacology. He has served as a department chairperson, associate dean and (from 1976 to 1978) acting dean of the School of Pharmacy. But among lovers of classical Indian music and dance, Dixit is best […]
Major renovation underway for Pitt theatre's main stage >
September 13th, 2001Pitt theatre arts chairperson Attilio "Buck" Favorini beams when he describes it. "This is a dream I've had for 30 years," he says, referring to the major restoration of the department's mainstage and lobby area in Stephen Foster Memorial. The $2 million project — the most ambitious in the theatre's 64-year history — is expected […]
Dickson Prize in Medicine awarded >
September 13th, 2001Robert G. Roeder, a pioneer in the discovery and characterization of the fundamental molecular mechanisms of gene transcription, received the 2001 Dickson Prize in Medicine yesterday, Sept. 12, in conjunction with his presentation, "Regulation of Transcription in Human Cells: Complexities and Challenges." Roeder's lecture was part of Science2001 — A Research Odyssey, the Sept. 12-14 […]
OBITUARY: Michael Francis Jiménez >
September 13th, 2001Michael Francis Jimenéz, assistant professor of history here since 1993, died Sept. 1, 2001, of kidney cancer. He was 53. Widely known for his interpretations of 19th- and 20th-century Colombian history, Jimenéz also published numerous essays on the history of Latin America. His major work, "Struggles on an Interior Shore," will be published posthumously by […]
Posvar memorial set for Sept. 24 >
September 13th, 2001A memorial service for Wesley Wentz Posvar, who served as Pitt's chancellor for nearly 24 years, will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in Heinz Chapel. A reception in Posvar Hall's 1st floor galleria will follow. Posvar, who retired from his post in 1991, died July 27 of a heart attack. He was […]