University Times

Pitt's Johnstown campus (UPJ) has been granted a Phi Kappa Phi chapter by the board of directors of that national honor society. Admission to Phi Kappa Phi is by invitation only. Over the past century only 277 chapters have been established nationwide. Criteria for a college to receive a chapter includes original faculty research/scholarship, the […]

UPMC Health System's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center is looking for men and women ages 65 and older to participate in its research program. Participants will visit the center for a physical and neurological examination, and to answer questions designed to help researchers better understand how a "normal" person functions on a day-to-day basis. The Alzheimer's […]

Charlotte Bell was a Head Start teacher working in the Minneapolis area in December 1989 when she suffered a stroke and died. In a gesture of love, Bell's family placed a card bearing the photos of her students in her coffin. It was then that the trouble started. As it turned out, 20 of the […]

Results of a new study by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, combined with earlier NSABP findings, indicate that nearly all breast cancer patients could benefit from chemotherapy. The new study, led by Pitt researcher and NSABP founder Bernard Fisher, indicates that chemotherapy plus the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen is more effective than tamoxifen […]

The public can find out about the latest in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment studies by accessing the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) through the Internet and by calling UPCI's toll-free Cancer Information and Referral Service. The local number is (412) 624-1115. The UPCI World Wide Web page address is: http://www.upci.edu The toll-free […]

Pitt custodians, grounds-keepers and food service workers represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 29 voted 203-108 last week to reject a contract that University and union negotiators had tentatively agreed on in October. "At this point, we're going to get input from our members on what they didn't like about the proposed contract […]

The History Channel will air the Pitt video "Homelands Remembered, The Story of the Nationality Rooms" on Dec. 1 at 9 a.m. Narrated by E. Maxine Bruhns, director of the Nationality Rooms Program, the 30-minute documentary traces the history of the rooms program from its conception by Chancellor John Bowman in the 1920s to today.