University Times

Blue Cross's proposal to become Pitt's sole provider of employee health insurance is raising the blood pressure of some faculty and staff members in Oakland (see story on page 1 and letters on page 2). But it's a non-issue at the University's four regional campuses. That's because the HealthAmerica health maintenance organization (HMO), which Pitt […]

Ronald Evans, a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will receive the 1994-95 Dickson Prize in Medicine on Dec. 15 at 4 p.m. in lecture room six, Scaife Hall. Evans, who will speak on the "Retinoid Receptors in Development and Disease" at the award […]

If election turnout is any indication, the new University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Staff Association (UPBSA) is a big hit. Out of a possible 68 staff members on Pitt's Bradford campus eligible to vote in the staff association election on Oct. 28, 52 of them cast ballots. "It was stunning. We did not expect that […]

A preliminary draft of a new severe weather policy for the University has been completed by the policy committee of the Department of Human Resources and could be released to the University community within the next two weeks. The draft is being circulated for input from various committees, deans and administrators on the Pittsburgh campus, […]

An extensive assortment of documents, photographs, films, architectural drawings and maps chronicling eight decades of operations at U.S. Steel's Homestead Works has been donated to the Pitt libraries. The collection was assembled and donated by William J. Gaughan, a 36-year plant veteran. It includes more than 22,000 photographic prints and negatives of the Homestead plant […]

"Single women over 40 have less chance to marry than to be taken hostage by a terrorist." Shock waves of anger, despair and disillusionment swept through the ranks of women beyond the age of 40 in June 1986 when those words appeared in Newsweek magazine as part of a cover story on women and marriage. […]

The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania's current headquarters building at 4338 Bigelow Boulevard will be closed to society members and the general public beginning today, Dec. 8. Historical Society collections will be moved to the new Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center being constructed in the Strip District. The center is scheduled to open […]

Countless times over the years poet Jan Beatty has fantasized about winning the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize annually offered by the University Press to poets who have not published a full-length manuscript. Instead of screaming and jumping for joy as she always imagined she would if she won, however, the Wilkinsburg poet opted for […]