University Times

Seventeen Pitt faculty members are recipients of the 1996 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching, Research and Public Service Awards Teaching award winners are: Lester C. Olson, communications; Anthony T. Boldurian, social science-anthropology, Greensburg campus; Paul L. Rogers, anesthesiology; George Reid Andrews, history; Frank H. Beatrous Jr., mathematics and statistics, and Nina Schor, pediatrics, neurology and pharmacology. The […]

Pitt faculty and staff may have three new fringe benefits options, effective July 1: * A dental insurance plan. * Vision insurance. * The ability to borrow money from basic TIAA retirement accounts. Also, retired faculty and staff may gain a new medical insurance option — SecurityBlue, a managed care plan that retirees could choose […]

Over 45 years after former Chancellor John Bowman's wife was struck and killed by a car while crossing Bigelow Boulevard in front of the Cathedral of Learning, the city has agreed to a test closing of Bigelow Boulevard to vehicular traffic. The purpose of the closing, which will last 60 days and was announced yesterday, […]

Pitt would receive virtually no increase next year in its current state appropriation of $147,265,000, under Gov. Tom Ridge's proposed budget. "It's almost a totally, totally flat budget," Pitt Governmental Relations director Ann Dykstra told the University Senate budget policies committee on Feb. 9, three days after Ridge outlined his proposed budget for the fiscal […]

Contrary to the way it may seem from the endless reports of shootings and assaults that appear nightly on the 6 o'clock news, violent and serious crimes reported to both Pittsburgh and Pitt police plummeted in 1995. According to statistics released by the Pittsburgh Public Safety Department, the city saw a 17.5 percent drop in […]