University Times

The Division of Geriatric Medicine at Pitt's School of Medicine has been awarded a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) to help train ophthalmologists in how to better care for older adults. Hollis Day, assistant professor in the geriatric medicine division and geriatric resident education coordinator, said: "The […]

A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, in Heinz Chapel for economics professor emeritus Shun-hsin (S.H.) Chou. He died Oct. 8, 2001, one day before his 86th birthday. Chou joined Pitt's economics faculty in 1957 and served as department chair from 1970 to 1975. He retired from the University in […]

In 1998, Thomas C. Hales, who was recruited to Pitt this fall as Mellon Professor in the mathematics department, astonished his colleagues by proving Kepler's Conjecture, one of the world's great math problems. Named after the German mathematician Johannes Kepler, who postulated it in 1611, Kepler's Conjecture held that the best possible stacking of balls […]

Elizabeth (Libby) Esler Duncan, a long-time employee of the University, died Oct. 11, 2001. Duncan was an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences from 1983 through 1991. She pioneered the teaching of electronic database searching. She also served the University in other capacities. She was coordinator of the On-line Training Center here from […]

By unanimous votes, Faculty Assembly on Nov. 6 recommended two changes in the draft of a revised Pitt Research Integrity Policy: * Research misconduct hearings held by the University should be open if the accused employee wants them to be. Under the current draft policy, hearings would be open only if the accused employee — […]

When Pitt issued new I.D. cards to Pittsburgh campus employees in January, it inadvertently cut off several privileges previously enjoyed by spouses of faculty and staff, including borrowing privileges at Pitt libraries and access to campus shuttle buses and Trees Hall recreation facilities. Recently, the administration took steps to restore those privileges, said Andrew W. […]

Aftershocks of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings, recent anthrax attacks and the war in Afghanistan are being felt in Pitt classrooms and research facilities. Some examples: * More than 30 undergraduates have enrolled so far in Pitt's new certificate program in global studies, more than twice the number that planners of the interdisciplinary program had […]

Pitt appears not to be suffering the exodus of foreign and out-of-state students that some experts feared would follow the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — and the xenophobic violence that ensued in Pittsburgh and other cities. As of Nov. 2, the Pittsburgh campus had processed spring term registrations of 11,356 students, 726 more than last […]