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Fourteen of the region's leading oncologists have joined together to form a community network in association with the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). Called Hematology-Oncology Associates, the network currently serves hospitals throughout Allegheny County, as well as Latrobe, Greensburg, Jeannette, Uniontown and Weirton, W. Va. As more oncologists join the network, it will expand […]

Eight university presidents and one provost are still in the running for the Pitt chancellor's job, chancellor search committee chairperson James C. Roddey said this week. "More than one" of the nine candidates are women, Roddey acknowledged. Another search committee member said the list includes three women. The committee is on schedule to complete interviews […]

Sheldon Hackney, chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will deliver Pitt's 1996 commencement address on April 28 at 1 p.m. in the Civic Arena, Downtown. Approximately 2,000 of the University's 6,800 graduating students are expected to attend the ceremony, which is open to the public. Pitt Interim Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg will present […]

One in four children in the City of Pittsburgh and one in seven children in Allegheny County are hungry or in serious danger of being hungry. To counter those dismal statistics, more than 400 businesses, institutions, unions and government agencies have joined with United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania to collect canned goods and other non-perishable […]

A memorial service for Pittsburgher Jack Wilson and six other people who died in a recent bus accident in India will be held today, April 11, at 10:30 a.m. in Heinz Memorial Chapel. Five of the victims, including Wilson, were passengers on the current around-the-world voyage of the Pitt-sponsored Semester at Sea (SAS) program. Wilson, […]

Editor's note: The following obituaries were submitted to the University Times this week by the School of Library and Information Science. Jack Belzer Jack Belzer, professor emeritus in the School of Library and Information Science, died June 22, 1995, at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 85. Belzer was born Jan. 16, 1910, […]

A proposed policy that would restrict romantic relationships between Pitt faculty and students is not a done deal, senior administrators said this week. Interim Chancellor Mark Nordenberg told Senate Council April 8 that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was premature in reporting recently that he was about to sign the policy and that "classroom romance between faculty […]

Pitt does not run the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) hospitals. They are owned and operated by the UPMC System, Inc., which is a separate corporation. But many people outside the University, as well as inside, apparently don’t know that. During the April 8 Senate Council meeting, faculty and administrators debated whether debated whether […]

Winners of the University Senate's first Community Service Recognition Awards include a children's health advocate, a community organization leader, a mental health nurse who helps abused women and grieving widows and widowers, and a church volunteer who is active in projects ranging from delivering hot meals to the elderly to organizing a gang-peace summit. The […]

A faculty member in the School of Law who filed a discrimination complaint against Pitt for refusing to extend health care benefits to her same-sex partner will leave the University at the end of the academic term. Deborah Henson said her departure on April 27 will have no effect on the complaint she filed in […]