University Times

Tuition increases would not exceed 3.5 per cent next fall, under a fiscal year 1999 funding request that Pitt submitted to the state Department of Education this week. The document also proposes a 3.5 percent net increase in the budget for faculty and staff compensation (salaries plus benefits). That would be achieved through a 1 […]

More than 300 Pitt faculty and staff took part in this year's United Way Day of Caring on Sept. 10, according to Day of Caring coordinator Steve Zupcic. In the belief that Pitt benefits when its neighbors prosper, the focus of this year's event was on areas adjacent to the University. Volunteers worked on projects […]

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center System has a new name: UPMC Health System. The system's board of directors approved the change Sept. 18. The new name will be used as an umbrella term to refer to the system's network of hospitals as well as its growing number of subsidiaries, including physician practices, insurance products, […]

The Department of Parking, Transportation and Services has changed several shuttle bus routes and stops, and added a new van pool group for employees who live west of the city. Schedules with the bus changes are available at the information desk in the William Pitt Union, the Parking Office in Brackenridge Hall and the Department […]

Officials from Pitt, the UPMC Health System and the soon-to-be-unified faculty practice plan of the School of Medicine are gathering information for use in restructuring the way the three organizations do business with one another, Chancellor Mark Nordenberg told Senate Council Sept. 15. But contrary to a report at this month's Faculty Assembly meeting, there […]

In July 1995, Bernard Hibbitts, associate dean for communications and information technology in Pitt's School of Law, received a new computer and began thinking about ways to use it. Six months later, in January 1996, Hibbitts created a homepage and the following month posted an article that one day might stand with Thomas Paine's publication […]

Margaret Mary "Peg" Corbett, secretary in the Department of Library and Information Science, died suddenly Sept. 14, 1997, while on vacation in Nags Head, N.C. Corbett, 54, had served as secretary to the department chairperson and to the doctoral program since 1990. Except for a stint at Honeywell, Inc. from 1981 to 1986, Corbett spent […]

Judith Vollmer, director of the creative writing program at Pitt's Greensburg campus (UPG), has won two national poetry prizes. Vollmer's limited edition collection, "Black Butterfly," was named the 1997 winner of The Center for the Book Arts Prize. It was chosen over about 1,000 other submissions in the national contest by final judge Mark Doty, […]