University Times

Pitt's highest paid officers and professors during the 1994-95 fiscal year were all from the health sciences. That fact was confirmed in an Internal Revenue Service form that Pitt filed last week. According to reporting criteria of the IRS Form 990, Pitt's highest paid employee during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1995, was […]

Interim Chancellor Mark Nordenberg has approved a policy that restricts consensual sexual relationships between Pitt faculty and students. Senate Council members approved the policy May 13. Also at the May meeting, Council approved a revised conflict of interest policy for research and teaching. Senate Council tabled two other proposals: * A proposed policy for managing […]

The search committee for the dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) has narrowed the search to four. GSPIA has been without a permanent director since Davis Bobrow resigned in January 1995. GSPIA professor Martin Staniland has been serving as interim dean. The finalists are: *Joel D. Aberbach, a political science […]

Pitt faculty member John T. Yates Jr. has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer. Yates holds a joint appointment in chemistry and Physics and Astronomy. He also is founder and director of Pitt's Surface Science Center. "Membership in the National Academy is […]

Pitt and Allegheny County Port Author ity Transit (PAT) have entered into a four-year agreement that extends and expands the "Pitt Zone" in which faculty, staff and students with valid University IDs can ride PAT buses for free. The agreement also allows faculty, staff and students with a valid Pitt ID to ride PAT buses […]

Family values is becoming a buzzword across the country as the 1996 presidential election heats up. But there's a unit at Pitt that goes beyond the political rhetoric. Pitt's Office of Child Development, which helps to run six Allegheny County Family Support Centers, is co-sponsoring a family support conference next week, helping families deal with […]

From a stagnant Pitt budget point of view, you could never have too many students. But from a packed University Library System (ULS) point of view, you could definitely have too many books. Both were major topics of discussion at the May 17 Board of Trustees' academic affairs committee meeting. First, the academic affairs committee […]