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Volume 30 Issue 20

Schenley Hotel memorabilia sought >

June 11th, 1998

The William Pitt Union, formerly the Schenley Hotel, is celebrating its centennial anniversary this fall. The Office of Student Activities is planning a variety of events Sept. 27-Oct. 3 to commemorate the history of the Oakland landmark, which once served as the premier hotel in the area and boasted guests such as Babe Ruth, Diamond […]

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American music program started >

June 11th, 1998

Pitt's Center for American Music is launching an educational program that will incorporate historic American music into the curricula of history, language arts and literature throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. Voices Across Time is a curriculum guide that allows music to be used as a classroom tool to teach students in grades 8 through 12 about the […]

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Freshman applications hit all-time high >

June 11th, 1998

Freshman applications to the Pittsburgh campus are at an all-time high. So are the SAT scores and class rank of those students. So far, 13,480 students have applied to enter the University as Pittsburgh campus freshmen next fall — 11 percent more than last year at this time, and 72 percent more than in fall […]

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Senate Council endorses revised policy on employee computer use >

June 11th, 1998

Pitt employees may occasionally use office computers to touch up their resumes or send personal e-mail — assuming it's not obscene, libelous or harassing — without risk of being fired or prosecuted. But aside from incidental use, Pitt-owned computer equipment should be used for University business, teaching and research. Non-academic, commercial activities are prohibited, although […]

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Harris-Schenz named CAS associate dean >

June 11th, 1998

Beverly Harris- Schenz, vice provost for Faculty Affairs, will become associate dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. She will chair the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Council and head the assistant deans and other professionals who provide CAS academic services. Arts and Sciences Dean-elect N. John […]

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New director of UCSUR to be insider, provost says >

June 11th, 1998

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 […]

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Pitt, UPMC get info management grant >

June 11th, 1998

Pitt 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 […]

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Pitt launches search for new dean of CGS >

June 11th, 1998

Pitt 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, […]

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Committee looks though documents on practice plan >

June 11th, 1998

An 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 […]

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