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Faculty representatives appointed to Pitt Board of Trustees committees for 2005-2006 were announced at the Oct. 5 Faculty Assembly. Representatives are: Heidi M. Feldman (medicine) and Michael Vanyukov (pharmacy), academic affairs/libraries committee; Thomas C. Buchele (law) and Randi Koeske (Greensburg/psychology), affirmative action committee; William C. Zamboni (pharmacy) and Claudia Pagliaro (education), athletics committee; Vicky Hoffman […]

In the wake of Katrina and Rita, recent hurricanes that wrought havoc on the U.S. Gulf Coast, disaster preparedness and response has leaped to the forefront of American consciousness. But according to an international expert on disaster response, the problems exposed by the failings of recent disaster response efforts were not news to public health […]

This month’s Senate Council meeting, scheduled for Oct. 17, has been canceled. University Senate President Irene Frieze announced the cancellation at last week’s Faculty Assembly meeting. The meeting had already been re-scheduled from Oct. 10, due to Chancellor Mark Nordenberg’s schedule, Frieze said. “The chancellor would also have to leave early on Oct. 17. There […]

More than the estimated 300 people in the auditorium in the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) witnessed the second annual Cutler lecture delivered by Eric K. Noji, chief of the Epidemiology Surveillance and Emergency Response Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A lot more. Using live Internet web stream, Noji’s lecture […]

The Pitt Annual Fund kicks off its internal campaign today with a goal of raising more than $1.557 million in donations from faculty and staff. University employees can expect a mailed solicitation the week of Oct. 17 and, starting in November, a follow-up phone call seeking support. Fiscal year 2004 saw 2,900 employees give $1.528 […]

The School of Social Work has become a leader when it comes to internal giving to the Pitt Annual Fund. The percentage of donors in the school rose from 23.3 percent in fiscal year 2003 to 57 percent in FY 2004. Last year the school posted a 78 percent participation rate, including 100 percent participation […]

It wasn’t merely the building that was new at the Oct. 6 opening of the Biomedical Science Tower (BST) 3. Members of two new units were among the first of 50 groups of researchers who will eventually be housed in the $250 million building at Fifth Avenue and Darragh Street: Employees of the Department of […]

Err on the side of caution, was the main message Faculty Assembly heard last week from the director of Pitt’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB, which is the administrative body established to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects, including patients, who are recruited to participate in research activities, governs everything from questionnaires […]

The Senate budget policies committee (BPC) has carved out a full agenda for this academic year, including both short- and long-term budget-related issues. Two issues have been held over from last year, BPC chair Stephen Carr reminded committee members Oct. 7: identifying peer comparison salary groups for faculty at the regional campuses, and considering the […]

Armed with whimsical line drawings of greybeard cartoon worms leaning on canes and with a gift for expressing complex ideas in simple terms, molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon wrapped up the University’s annual science and technology showcase with a discussion of the effect of hormones on aging. Kenyon, a biochemistry and biophysics professor at the University […]