University Times

U.S. News and World Report has ranked Pitt's main campus as one of the runners-up in its "best value" list of colleges and universities. The newsweekly said its rankings "are an effort to provide families with a realistic measure of value by relating the cost of attending a school to the quality of the education. […]

A proposal by Blue Cross to become Pitt's sole provider of employee health insurance has provoked a war of words among the following antagonists: * Faculty and staff, including leaders of the University Senate and Staff Association Council (SAC), who oppose the Blue Cross plan's requirement that Pitt drop HealthAmerica — and who resent what […]

A transitional outpatient program for kidney transplant recipients at Presbyterian University Hospital has reduced hospital lengths of stay while garnering positive response from patients, according to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center officials. Clinical services that customarily had been provided on an inpatient basis are provided in the Kidney Transplant Outpatient Unit for patients who now […]

The University Senate's benefits and welfare committee plans to draft, by September, a "phased-in" retirement plan through which faculty could incrementally reduce their workloads over a specific number of years — with no reduction in salary or benefits — in exchange for agreeing to retire at the end of that period. Doing less work for […]

Ruth Hume Lutz, a retired faculty member in political science, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 24, 1994. She joined Pitt's political science department faculty in 1947 and, as an instructor and lecturer, taught a number of different courses, specializing in the politics of international organizations. For many years she served as the department's principal […]

Families with diabetic children will receive emotional and psychological support through a project sponsored by Pitt's Generations Together program, the Children's Hospital Diabetes Center and the Allegheny County Department of Aging. The project, Family Friends, matches adults 55 years of age and older with families who have a child with diabetes. Volunteers spend time with […]

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, […]