University Times

A $1 million federal grant was presented Aug. 18 to the Partners Project, enabling collaborating community, housing and health care groups to provide specialized treatment for homeless women recovering from addiction and for their children. The Partners Project is a collaborative effort of the Dolores Howze Treatment Program, the Hill District Community Collaborative, the Housing […]

G. Robert Harkins, director of Pitt's Department of Parking, Transportation and Services, is pushing for an attitude adjustment. "Too often people at Pitt have been focusing on what we don't have: We don't have open spaces, we don't have enough green areas. Well, I think our focus should be on what we do have: We […]

Donald R. Mattison, dean of the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), will leave Pitt Dec. 1 to become medical director of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. He will work at the foundation's national office in White Plains, N.Y. "We were delighted to be able to get Don," said Dick Freeman, chairperson of […]

The Prostate and Urologic Cancer Center of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) has established a program to encourage the development of pilot projects in prostate cancer. This program offers funding and tissue and cell resources as well as guidance in the development of the projects. Support for the pilot projects is available on […]

UPMC Health System has pledged more than $1 billion to the University over the next 10 years, about the same amount UPMC provided to Pitt during the last decade. The UPMC money will support Pitt clinical programs and will include "substantial" discretionary funds for promising areas of Health Sciences education and research, Pitt and UPMC […]

Culminating a decade of planning, Chancellor Mark Nordenberg has authorized the creation of the School of Engineering's seventh department, bioengineering. The department represents a trans-institutional effort with the participation of the schools of medicine and health and rehabilitation sciences. At its core is the Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering. The department's predecessor, the bioengineering program, […]

John David Crawford, 44, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, died Aug. 23, 1998, at UPMC Montefiore of Burkitt's Lymphoma, a form of lymph cancer. Crawford was an internationally recognized researcher in theoretical physics, specializing in plasma physics and nonlinear dynamics. Colleagues described him as an outstanding teacher and popular lecturer […]

Hewlett-Packard has awarded an equipment gift valued at $191,972 to the Department of Chemistry's Center for Combinatorial Chemistry. The center is the first academic establishment in the U.S. devoted solely to combinatorial chemistry and the development of new chemical discovery technologies. Combinatorial chemistry–the rapid synthesis and screening of large "libraries" of organic compounds–is revolutionizing organic […]

Retired associate professor of social work Mattie B. Addis died Aug. 16, 1998, of complications from diabetes and congestive heart failure. She was 75. Addis graduated summa cum laude from Kentucky State College in 1944, earning a bachelor's degree in sociology and history. She completed her master's in social administration at Case Western Reserve in […]