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The commonwealth is providing a $350,000 grant to the Manufacturing Assistance Center (MAC) in the School of Engineering. The grant will fund the center's training programs and shared manufacturing space and expertise for local start-up manufacturers. An initiative of the Department of Industrial Engineering, MAC is a technology transfer center with a professional staff and […]

Pitt's Division of Geriatric Medicine has received a $100,000 grant from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to enhance medical student education in geriatrics. "This grant will ensure that geriatrics is incorporated into every aspect of the curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine," said Neil Resnick, professor of medicine and chief, […]

The journey that brought Hollywood screenwriter Carl Kurlander back to his hometown as a visiting professor in Pitt's English department began one night 17 years ago, in a Volkswagen Rabbit. He and a young actress were parked along Mulholland Drive, gazing down at the lights of Los Angeles. After just a few years in Hollywood, […]

Now those with access to the Internet can benefit from "Take the Bus," an Internet-based public transit mapping service developed by Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA). "Take the Bus" uses geographic information systems technology to help people identify public transportation routes between any two points within Allegheny County. "We believe this […]

Total enrollment at Pitt has increased for the fifth straight year — 33,544 students are enrolled for the fall 2001 term, an increase of 884 (2.7 percent) over last fall. Since fall 1996, Pitt's total enrollment has increased by 2,149 students (6.8 percent). Undergraduates accounted for nearly all of the gain in student numbers since […]

Twenty-nine of western Pennsylvania's most outstanding nurses were honored by the School of Nursing during its third annual Cameos of Caring gala Oct. 6. Nurses were honored for demonstrating excellence in nursing care, serving as effective advocates for patients and their families and acting as role models for the profession. Nursing Dean Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob said […]

The 10-year-old University Planning and Budgeting System (UPBS) is supposed to give Pitt employees and students input into their schools' budgets and long-range planning, through unit-level committees. But is the system working? This year, Provost James Maher will convene a group of faculty, staff, students and administrators seeking answers to that question. It will be […]

Former Pitt law professor Pamela Samuelson and her husband, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Robert J. Glushko, have funded the Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship in Intellectual Property and Technology Law in Pitt's School of Law. A faculty member at Pitt from 1981 to 1996, Samuelson was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation […]

Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) is coordinating a national, multi-site study that will — for the first time — examine differences in how blacks and whites respond to the latest, best treatment for hepatitis C, an infectious disease affecting some 4 million Americans. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases […]