The University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) is seeking applicants for the annual Steven D. Manners Faculty Development Awards. Two awards of up to $10,000 each relating to work in the social, behavioral and policy sciences will be given in honor of Manners, who worked at UCSUR for 26 years and was assistant […]
University Press awards Starrett poetry prize >
January 5th, 2006Rick Hilles, a Nashville, TN, author, is the 2005 winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, awarded by the University of Pittsburgh Press for an outstanding first full-length book of poetry. His manuscript, “Brother Savage,” was selected from several hundred entries and will be published by the Press in fall 2006. Established in 1981, […]
OBITUARY: Welsh S. White >
January 5th, 2006Welsh S. White, Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed Chair and professor in the School of Law, died Dec. 31, 2005, of lung cancer. He was 65. A national authority on the death penalty, White began teaching at Pitt in 1968. His teaching specialties were criminal procedure and evidence. Author of three books on capital punishment — […]
OBITUARY: Peter W. Land >
January 5th, 2006Peter W. Land, associate professor of neurobiology who served on the training faculty of the Center for Neuroscience, died of a heart attack Dec. 13, 2005, while in a meeting on campus. He was 56. The Chicago native, who earned a Ph.D. in anatomy in 1977 at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, came […]
OBITUARY: Sarah Margaret (Peggy) Hodges >
January 5th, 2006A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside for School of Information Sciences (SIS) professor emeritus Sarah Margaret Hodges. She died Dec. 13, 2005, in Oakmont at the age of 94. A prolific children’s author, storyteller and scholar, Peggy Hodges was known for her love […]
Pitt targets recycling >
January 5th, 2006The new year is just a few days old. Have you kept your resolutions? If your vows to quit smoking or to avoid those leftover holiday cookies have already fallen by the wayside, perhaps there’s a simpler resolution to consider, one that will please Mother Nature and Pitt’s Office of Facilities Management, too: Recycle more. […]