University Times

Every parent has encoun- tered it in one form or another: The 3-year-old who calls his mother a "butthead"; the 5-year-old who shouts, "I hate you!" or the 7-year-old who is told to do his homework and answers, "You can't make me." Children have been talking back to parents since the invention of language and […]

Pitt's Cathedral Publishing has joined with the Parent & Child Guidance Center of Pittsburgh to create the new parenting book, "Parenting for a Peaceful Home: Challenges and Solutions For Almost Perfect Parenting." The book is a companion publication to National Public Radio's "Parenting for a Peaceful Home" series. Like the radio series, the book provides […]

In February 1851, a Massachusetts daguerreotypist named James Nelson moved to Pittsburgh and opened a photography studio in Lafayette Hall on Fourth Street. Over the next several years, Nelson's business grew to become one of the largest photography studios west of the Allegheny Mountains. And then, in 1857, it disappeared from city directories. Nobody knows […]

Concerned about the wording of the contract that professors would sign to participate in Pitt's new early retirement plan for tenured faculty, Faculty Assembly has told University Senate President Gordon MacLeod to: * Ask the administration for money to hire a lawyer to review the document on the Senate's behalf. * Tell Chancellor Mark Nordenberg […]

As part of National Diabetes Month, UPMC Health System's Diabetes Prevention Program is offering free blood sugar tests to all Pitt faculty and staff during November. The simple and quick fingerstick blood tests can help determine if a person is at risk of developing diabetes, a disease that can damage the eyes, heart, kidneys and […]

Total giving to Pitt during the fiscal year that ended June 30 was up by 31.4 percent over the previous year — from $41.6 million in FY 1995-96 to $54.7 million last year. Alumni giving increased by 49.2 percent, from $5.4 million to $8 million, while contributions from trustees soared by 98 percent, from $239,654 […]

The Pitt Volunteer Pool and Student Volunteer Outreach have joined a city-wide effort to aid the child of Nicaragua by providing them with shoes. According to Volunteer Pool coordinator Steve Zupcic, the drive is in response to an appeal by the Nicaraguan Minister of Education to improve education in his country. More than 100,000 Nicaraguan […]