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Pitt has created a web site on the Internet that organizes information on international affairs in a single location for easy access. The International Affairs Network Web Home Pages is the first and only one-stop gateway to international affairs resources on the Internet. In addition to indexing such information, the site also links the user […]

In his first budget address as governor, Tom Ridge on March 7 proposed what he called a "student-based" 3 percent funding increase for higher education in Pennsylvania. But for Pitt and the other state-related and state system universities, increases would be less than 2 percent. And to receive that extra money, schools would have to […]

Granted, the French usually got along better with the American Indians than did the other colonial powers. History is full of stories about French traders and trappers who adopted Indian ways. And consider how well the two peoples worked together in 1755, when General Edward Braddock tried to run the French out of a place […]

More than 300 faculty members have registered for Pitt's first annual Teaching Excellence Conference slated for March 31 and April 1. All sessions will be held in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center conference center on the 11th floor of Scaife Hall. Laurie Richlin, director of the Office of Faculty Development, said her goal is […]

Pitt's School of Medicine and Katz Graduate School of Business rank among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual survey, "America's Best Graduate Schools." Master's degree programs in three other Pitt schools also scored high marks in the survey, which appears in the March 20 issue of U.S. News, […]

Faculty librarians in the University Library System (ULS) have formed their own governance organization. Provost James Maher last month approved creation of the ULS Faculty Assembly to give librarians a formal role in ULS planning and decision-making. Under the new organization's bylaws, the full assembly (which includes all ULS faculty librarians) will meet at least […]

On Feb. 28, we held our annual Honors Convocation celebrating the achievements of faculty and students, and awarding the Rev. Edward Malloy, president of the University of Notre Dame, with an honorary doctoral degree in public service. As the ceremony ended, I was reminded once more of the intellectual and service efforts of our faculty […]

Pitt's jazz seminar and concert is planning to celebrate its 25th anniversary and organizers are searching for archival material. Anyone who has photographs or other memorabilia from Pitt jazz seminars and concerts is asked to donate them, or copies of them, for a special 25th anniversary celebration. Each year the jazz seminars and concert attract […]

Donald L. Cleland, 90, professor emeritus of education and former director of the education school's Reading Laboratory (now Reading Center), died Feb. 18, 1995, at Passavant Health Center, Zelienople. Cleland received his master's of education and Ph.D. degrees from Pitt. He earned his undergraduate degree a Westminster College and later was principal at Etna High […]

An editor's note accompanying a letter from Thomas G. Zullo in the Jan. 19, 1995, issue indicated that 11 other dental school faculty members' signatures had accompanied the letter. Those 11 faculty requested that their names be withheld from publication. However, even if they had not made that request, University Times policy restricts the number […]