University Times

Metalworking companies in the Great Lakes area have a new partner — the Center for Metal Fluids (CMF) at Pitt's School of Engineering — that will work with them to reduce maintenance costs, increase employee productivity and have an impact on both the environment and the quality of finished products. Pitt will work with World-Class […]

The nominating committee of Pitt's Board of Trustees yesterday named three candidates for board membership, including one as an emeritus trustee. Nominated as special trustees for the 2000-2004 class were Michael A. Bryson, executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer of Mellon Bank Corp., and Catherine D. DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of […]

A series of nine three-day training seminars for police officers is being offered by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. One track of six seminars will focus on general issues faced by all law enforcement personnel and the other track of three seminars will center on management concerns. Instructors will include faculty from […]

Pitt has launched the Pitt 4 Life 2002 Blood Drive Program, designed to encourage and recognize faculty and staff who donate blood four or more times this year. Although all faculty and staff members are invited to participate in Pitt 4 Life, the campaign thrust will be to attract those individuals who have in the […]

Chancellor Mark Nordenberg remembers feeling impressed — but also envious — whenever he worked with Don Smith, Carnegie Mellon University's economic development director. Along with Nordenberg and CMU President Jared Cohon, Smith was an architect of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, a state-funded consortium of companies, universities and nonprofits working to make southwestern Pennsylvania a chip-design […]