A seminar for faculty who want to incorporate new scholarship on gender and race into their courses has been approved by Chancellor J. Dennis O'Connor and the Diversity Working Group. The seminar, scheduled for May 15-26, is a pilot session for a new five-year summer program being developed to assist faculty in making their courses […]
Seminar on incorporating new gender/race scholarship is funded >
January 5th, 1995For information on closings >
January 5th, 1995Full-day closings, partial-day closings and other modifications to the normal operations of the University will be announced as early as possible through the following media: Pittsburgh campus Television: KDKA, WTAE and WPXI. Radio: KDKA 1020-AM, WTAE 1250-AM, Variety 96-FM, B-94-FM and The Point 100.7-FM. In addition, employees on the Pittsburgh campus may call the University's […]
Medical center has own severe weather policy >
January 5th, 1995According to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) severe weather policy, a severe weather condition is one that causes extreme difficulty in commuting to and from UPMC. The policy places responsibility on UPMC administrators who are on call to declare a severe weather condition. Severe weather conditions will be announced by AUDIX, the University's […]
Health Sciences search committee expects to meet March deadline >
January 5th, 1995As of Jan. 1, approximately 130 nominations and applications have been received for the position of senior vice chancellor for Health Sciences. Close to 70 members of that group have expressed serious interest in being considered for the position, according to search committee chairperson Mark Nordenberg. The total number of applications and nominations is "very, […]
No decision yet on Pitt policy regarding access to pornography via Internet computer network >
January 5th, 1995No decision has been made on a Univer- sity-wide policy governing access to pornographic materials on the worldwide computer network Internet. According to Norman Hummon, chairperson of the executive committee for academic computing, a draft policy on the issue has been developed by an ad hoc panel of students, faculty and staff, but it is […]
Drug may aid gene therapy >
January 5th, 1995Cisplatin, a commonly employed chemotherapy drug, greatly increases the expression of liposome-delivered genes in tumor cells of laboratory animals, according to a report by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) researchers in the Dec. 15 issue of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." Liposomes are small spheres of fat molecules that may be […]
WPIC opens residential home facility for psychiatric patients >
January 5th, 1995Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic has for the first time opened a residential home for psychiatric patients who have recently been released from state mental institutions or inpatient psychiatric units. The program, called Pathways, is housed in a dormitory setting in the east wing of the Vocational Rehabilitation Center at 1323 Forbes Ave. While residents […]
Technology Transfer office helps turn faculty research into reality >
January 5th, 1995What do a new coating for plastics, which can make football helmets, surfboards and industrial polymers stronger, and a new tuberculosis diagnostic, which can possibly help stem the return of the disease, have in common? They were both invented by members of the Pitt faculty. But that is not all. They also have been patented […]