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Following are 10 signs that constitute pathological Internet use or addiction, according to UPB's Kimberly Young. Individuals who meet four or more of the criteria over a 12-month period could be classified as dependent. * Do you feel preoccupied by the Internet and do such things as think about it while off-line? * Do you […]

Two professors accused the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center System (UPMCS) of dictating policy and interfering in the academic affairs of their schools, during a Sept. 9 Faculty Assembly discussion of the Pitt-UPMCS relationship. Dental medicine professor Robert Mundell said his school's teaching programs have suffered from the loss of faculty who resigned rather than […]

Some people are attracted to trains because of the adventure they symbolize. Other train-lovers are fascinated by the raw power evident in a churning, smoke-belching locomotive. Still others like trains because they are part of their family heritage: their father or grandfather may have spent his life laying track or shoveling coal for some now- […]

Pitt engineering alum nus Mitchell Kozikowski, head of the public relations consulting firm Kozikowski & Co. and an affiliate of the public relations firm The Softness Group, both based in New York City, has been named Pitt's executive director of Public Affairs. Kozikowski's appointment brings to an end a nearly year-long search by the University […]

On Jan. 23, 1980, White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan boarded a military jet in Washington and flew to Pittsburgh. He came to the city, he explains in his book "Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency," hoping to gain new perspective on the Iranian Revolution, and with it to possibly find a […]

George J. Wischner, professor of psychology at Pitt from 1955 to 1972, died Aug. 21, 1997, at his home in Sagamore Hills, Ohio. He was 83. He received his B.A. from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1938; his M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1941, and his Ph.D. from […]

James W. Smudski, emeritus professor and dean of Pitt's School of Dental Medicine, died July 25, 1997. Smudski, 71, had suffered from pulmonary fibrosis. A Greensburg native, Smudski served in the U.S. Navy before graduating from Pitt's dental school in 1952. He practiced in Greensburg and was a volunteer instructor at the University until 1959, […]

Sept. 26 is the official deadline to apply for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship. And already, the chairperson of the FAS dean search committee says he feels "very satisfied" with the applications and nominations that have come in so far– although he emphasized that the committee is eager for more of both. […]

Change occurs so rapidly on the Internet that 1995 to users of the World Wide Web is about equivalent to the age of dinosaurs to a geologist. Despite that fact, 1995 was the last time that the University's website was substantially altered. But that changed this week when new Pitt homepages went on-line at www.pitt.edu. […]

Two national magazines have named Pitt among the best values in higher education in the nation. The University was ranked 44th on U.S. News & World Report's list of the 50 "best values" among national universities. Schools on the list are those the magazine has determined "offer a high quality education at a reasonable price." […]