University Times

This is the last issue of the University Times that will be published in the 1994-95 academic year. Publication will resume on Thursday, Aug. 31, 1995.

The budget committee of the Board of Trustees is expected to approve Pitt's 1995-96 fiscal year budget during a public meeting tomorrow, July 21, at 1 p.m. in 2P56 Forbes Quad. Following the budget committee's action, the budget will be forwarded to the trustees' executive committee. The executive committee, which is empowered to act for […]

Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) has been awarded $6 million from the Pew Charitable Trusts to continue work on a project to develop new methods of assessing students' skills. LRDC is collaborating on the New Standards Project with the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), based in Rochester, N.Y., and Washington, […]

K. Leroy Irvis, 75, former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and a Pitt law alumnus, met last week with Chancellor J. Dennis O'Connor (left) and other University officials and friends to sign an agreement making the University Library System the official repository of more than 200,000 of his personal papers. The collection includes […]

For the first time in 15 years, Pitt's Informal Program (PIP) has turned a profit. How much money the program made in fiscal 1994-95 has not yet been determined, but PIP Director Ellen Caldwell says "we are definitely going to make a profit. I don't know what the final figures will be, but they look […]

While it is not uncommon for men to suffer heart attacks in their 40s and 50s, women generally don't run a significant risk of heart disease until years after menopause, when their bodies stop producing substantial amounts of the hormone estrogen. But a new Pitt study shows that up to 10 percent of American women […]

Applications are being accepted until Sept. 8 by the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) for American Cancer Society (ACS) institutional grants for small cancer research projects. The grants serve as seed money for promising new projects or novel ideas by junior investigators. Awards will be made by Oct. 1. The review committee considers both […]

Alice Marie Lawson, grants manager in the Pulmonary Medicine Division of the School of Medicine for 10 years, died July 16 at her home in Brookline. The cause of death was cardiovascular disease. "She basically was the foundation of all of our work," said Michael Donahue, an associate professor in pulmonary medicine. "She did all […]