By unanimous voice-vote, the Staff Association Council (SAC) Feb. 20 elected Audrey Portis vice president for communications. Portis, of anesthesiology, will serve out the term of Maureen Jenkins, who is retiring from Pitt at the end of March. SAC officers' terms run until June 2003. Also at yesterday's meeting, SAC President Barbara Mowery reported that […]
Proposed curriculum changes to be discussed >
February 21st, 2002Proposed changes in Pitt's undergraduate arts and sciences curriculum are on the agenda of a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Feb. 22, 10-11:30 a.m. in 232 Cathedral of Learning. The open meeting of the arts and sciences curriculum review committee (CRC) will feature discussion of changes in College of Arts and […]
Pitt honors convocation set for Feb. 28 >
February 21st, 2002The 26th annual honors convocation will be held Feb. 28, 3 – 5 p.m., at Carnegie Music Hall. The featured speaker is Pitt alumnus Gerald Stern, a National Book Award winner and poet laureate of New Jersey. An academic procession in full regalia will open the ceremony, and a reception in the Connolly Ballroom in […]
Child development office gets parenting program grant >
February 21st, 2002Pitt's Office of Child Development (OCD) has received a grant of $45,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare to implement the Inclusive Parenting and Visitation Access Program. The new initiative will be part of the Fathers Collaborative, a coordinated, personalized case-management system overseen by OCD that provides a variety of supportive services to noncustodial […]
There are some differences when women are covering the campaign >
February 21st, 2002Does the reporter's gender make a difference in news coverage? Not when it comes to objectivity, ethics, deadlines, responsibilities, the skills and tools of the trade, says veteran Associated Press reporter Beth J. Harpaz. But, some of the anecdotes in her book about covering Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 senatorial campaign suggest that a reporter's gender […]
Tickets offered for stories about 1st Field House game >
February 21st, 2002Pitt athletics director Steve Pederson is offering five sets of two tickets to the final men's basketball game at Fitzgerald Field House for the best stories about the inaugural game played there in 1951. Pitt will hook-up with Big East rival West Virginia March 2 at 7 p.m. (The tip-off time was changed from 2 […]
Pitt mum on what poor state budget outlook means here >
February 21st, 2002Unlike their counterparts in the State System of Higher Education, Pitt administrators aren’t speculating publicly about how much they would hike tuition next fall if Pennsylvania legislators approve Gov. Mark Schweiker’s recommended budget. But the budget numbers aren’t pretty. Schweiker proposes cutting state subsidies of Pennsylvania’s state-related universities (Pitt, Penn State, Temple and Lincoln) by […]
OBITUARY: Robert John Corry >
February 21st, 2002Professor of surgery Robert J. Corry died Feb. 11, 2002, in his Oakland home. He was 67. Corry served as director of the pancreas transplant program at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute. He came to Pitt in 1994 from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics following an 18-year tenure at that institution that […]
Budget year brings some "interesting dynamics" >
February 21st, 2002G. Reynolds Clark, executive director of Pitt's community and governmental relations office, cited what he called "some interesting dynamics" in this year's budget process: * Mark Schweiker is a one-year, one-term governor who's not running for re-election and therefore can take a harder line in defending his budget recommendations. On the other hand, legislators know […]