Psychiatry professor Herbert Needleman last week became the first Pittsburgh resident to win a $250,000 Heinz Award. He received the 1995 Heinz Award in Environment for his research showing that even low-level exposure to lead can affect children's IQ and behavior, and for his efforts to eliminate lead products from the environment. Needleman's research and […]
Japanese Information Center opens >
December 7th, 1995The Japan Information Center is ready for business. Located in 206 Hillman Library, the center is a collaboration between Pitt and the Japan Center for Intercultural Communications (JCIC) in Tokyo. The center is designed to be an information gateway between the U.S. and Japan. It is staffed by a full-time Japan information specialist with direct […]
Proposed policy would forbid consensual sexual relationships between faculty & their students >
December 7th, 1995Pitt officially forbids faculty from harassing students, sexually or otherwise. But unlike many other universities, Pitt has no policy regarding sexual relationships between consenting students and faculty. According to a task force appointed this fall by Provost James Maher, the University should adopt a policy to: * Forbid sexual relationships between faculty and students they […]
Draft policy on "Consensual Relationships Between Faculty Members and Students" >
December 7th, 1995The University of Pittsburgh's education mission is promoted by professionalism in faculty-student relationships. Professionalism is fostered by an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. Trust and respect are diminished when those in positions of authority abuse, or appear to abuse, their power. Those who abuse, or appear to abuse, their power in such a context […]
Therapeutic abortions are covered in all Pitt health plans, Senate committee told >
December 7th, 1995Therapeutic abortions are covered under all four of the Blue Cross plans offered to Pitt employees, according to the University's Office of Human Resources. Some faculty members recently questioned whether abortion was covered by all of the plans because it is mentioned only in the current contract between Pitt and Blue Cross's Comprehensive Deductible plan. […]
Pitt professor honored for his contributions to meteorite studies >
December 7th, 1995When Argentine geologist Juan Nagera first visited Campo del Cielo, "Field of the Sky," in northern Argentina in 1926, he concluded that the four shallow pits he explored in the region had been dug by ancient Indians. He also believed that the fragments of meteorites he uncovered in the pits had been placed there by […]
Immunologist awarded Dickson Prize >
December 7th, 1995Philippa Marrack has been awarded the University of Pittsburgh 1995-96 Dickson Prize in Medicine for her seminal contributions to immunology. She is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver, and a professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Marrack has studied T […]