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 […]
Comprehensive review set for Planning & Budgeting System >
October 11th, 2001Former law prof funds fellowship >
October 11th, 2001Former 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 […]
GSPH to coordinate national hepatitis project >
October 11th, 2001Pitt'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 […]
OBITUARY: Charles McKenna Douglas >
October 11th, 2001Charles McKenna Douglas, who began his career here as a bus driver for Pitt football teams during the 1950s and retired as the University's superintendent of Transportation, died on Sept. 29, 2001. Douglas, 79, died of respiratory failure following surgery. "Charlie would never take a sick day or a vacation day, he was so dedicated […]