University Times

A UPMC operating room has been designed to accommodate an innovative surgical procedure for removing brain tumors in which the nose and nasal sinuses are used to gain access to the brain. This facility is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States. A collaboration between UPMC and Karl Storz Endoscopy-America […]

Wendell McConnaha’s work in laboratory schools has taken him around the world. He was principal at the historic University of Chicago laboratory school, designed schools in the Middle East and planned and built a lab school campus in Nigeria. As a superintendent of Grey-hills Academy in the Western Navajo Nation, he — with a translator […]

The Staff Association Council (SAC) is sponsoring a Sarris candy sale to help raise funds for the SAC Endowed Book Fund, which benefits children of staff. Assorted candy bars ($1 per bar), pretzel rods ($1 per package) and holiday candy orders (various items and prices) are available for purchase through Nov. 18. Orders may be […]

The chair of the Department of Epidemiology in the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) last week was named interim dean of the school, effective Dec. 1. Roberta Ness, professor of epidemiology at GSPH, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine, who also holds an adjunct appointment in […]

The first public hearing to investigate whether liberal bias exists among professors at Pennsylvania’s State System and state-related universities is set for Nov. 9 and 10 in the William Pitt Union ballroom. The state House select committee on student academic freedom will accept public testimony on both days of the hearing. The Nov. 9 agenda […]

It’s time to take a holiday — a premium holiday, that is. Pitt has launched a new Fitness for Life program, in partnership with UPMC Health Plan, that means a month’s free health care premium for UPMC Health Plan enrollees who undergo a simple health screening. The goal of the program is to encourage individuals […]

As part of Pitt’s Fitness for Life program, faculty and staff (and their spouses or partners) who are enrolled in a UPMC Health Plan are eligible for a month’s waiver of their health insurance premium next July if they undergo a simple blood panel test before March 31. (Dependent children covered by Pitt’s medical insurance […]

Pitt’s capital expansion plans for the sciences did not stop with the opening Oct. 6 of the Biomedical Science Tower 3. (See Oct. 13 University Times.) A new Life Science Annex, the $25.5 million expansion of the Clapp/Langley/Crawford (CLC) halls complex, also officially opened this month. The project, phase I of a multi-phase upgrade of […]

A little data can go a long way. That was the lesson from a Harvard education professor and statistician who spoke here on “How Do Faculty Know When They Are Achieving Good Outcomes With Students?” A decade ago, Richard J. Light, who is the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and director of the Harvard […]