The new director of the University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) will be hired from inside Pitt. Provost James Maher has announced an internal search for a new, permanent UCSUR director, to begin work Sept. 1. Richard Schulz has been interim director since 1995, when former director Vijai Singh accepted Chancellor Mark Nordenberg's […]
Pitt, UPMC get info management grant >
June 11th, 1998Pitt and UPMC Health System have received a $2.7 million Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) implementation grant from the National Library of Medicine. The amount of the grant extends over five years. The primary focus of IAIMS is to integrate electronic information from a wide array of sources and place this information at the […]
Pitt launches search for new dean of CGS >
June 11th, 1998Pitt has launched a new, national search for a permanent dean of the College of General Studies (CGS). The college's last permanent dean, Robert L. Carter, resigned last August after one year on the job. Carter had failed to draft a CGS strategic plan that was acceptable to his boss, Provost James Maher. Since then, […]
Committee looks though documents on practice plan >
June 11th, 1998An elected committee of medical school professors has begun sifting through hundreds of pages of documents related to the University of Pittsburgh Physicians (UPP) unified practice plan. UPP and Pitt officials forwarded the documents after professors complained — during a series of sometimes-stormy faculty meetings last winter — that they were being kept in the […]
A very special tour: Siblings get 1st look at stonemason father's work–the Cathedral of Learning >
June 11th, 1998No one was eager to lay the capstone on the Cathedral of Learning. Even on days when a gentle breeze caresses the Cathedral lawn, winds atop the 42-story skyscraper tend to be blustery. Downright scary for someone balancing on a ladder, handling stone and mortar. When none of his fellow stonemasons volunteered for the job, […]
A glimpse into Pitt history — through the eyes of one who was there >
June 11th, 1998When her leg was bothering her and doctors were feeding her pain pills and she wasn't getting better, where do you suppose 86-year-old retired Pitt professor Margaret E. Covert, living in Arizona, would come? To Pittsburgh, of course, where she spent most of her professional life. Covert came to town in May and stayed with […]
New medical, dental plans pose problems at Bradford, Titusville >
June 11th, 1998Pitt's new health care and dental benefits options, which go into effect July 1, are posing problems for some employees at the Titusville and Bradford campuses. Bradford employees are upset by what they perceive as restrictive health care choices, due to their proximity to New York State, where some employees' primary care physicians are not […]
Football ticket offer extended to Pitt staff & faculty, UMPC staff >
June 11th, 1998The Department of Athletics is offering a special ticket package for the 1998 football season for faculty, staff and UPMC employees. With the purchase of two adult season tickets, children and grandchildren's tickets are free. Reserved adult sideline tickets for University employees are discounted at $108 each and reserved endzone adult tickets are $76 each. […]
Katz alumni group winners named >
June 11th, 1998Robert S. Rosati, president and chief executive officer of Transtar, Inc., has been selected the 1998 Katz Graduate School of Business Distinguished Alumnus. Rosati has served on the board of directors of Katz's Business Alumni Association and is a member of the school's Partners in Progress steering committee. He has also been a volunteer for […]