This week a group of regional organizations, including Pitt and Carnegie Mellon, endorsed a $600 million, 10-year blueprint to boost the region's bioscience industry. Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), the plan maintains that full funding for the project would create at least 5,000 jobs in the bioscience area, along with more than 10,000 […]
Pitt, CMU part of plan for $600 million expansion of local bioscience industry >
November 21st, 2001AFTER SEPT. 11: Panelists explore the links between Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism >
November 21st, 2001It is "very possible" that Osama bin Laden was telling the truth when he bragged that his al-Qaida terrorist network possesses nuclear weapons, Pitt professor Phil Williams said last week. But those weapons almost surely would not be atomic bombs or missiles, he said, but crude explosive devices that could temporarily contaminate sections of cities […]
National commission warned of country's vulnerability to attacks, lecturer here says >
November 21st, 2001Forewarned does not always mean forearmed. A bi-partisan commission studying national security had warned the federal government and Congress as early as 1999 that the United States was vulnerable to attacks on American soil, according to the commission's chief of staff. Henry S. Scharpenberg, who served for the past three years on the recently disbanded […]
Hillman extends hours during finals >
November 21st, 2001Hillman Library will extend its hours for the fall term reading/exam period, and will be open continuously from 9 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8, until 10 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14. During the 24-hour schedule, admittance from midnight to 7 a.m. will be by Pitt ID only. Services available during all hours of operation: Current […]