University Times

Cheers, backslaps, hand shakes, applause – and a few tears of pride – greeted five staff employees with 40 years of service to Pitt as well as the five winners of this year's Chancellor's Award for Excellence for Staff, who were individually honored at yesterday's annual staff recognition reception. Each chancellor's award winner receives $2,500. […]

Local and University officials broke ground Dec. 1 for Bouquet Gardens, the three-building, 192-bed apartment complex for undergraduate student housing scheduled to open in time for next fall's classes. From left: David Hohman, Building Trades Council president; Alyson Wallach, Student Government Board president; Executive Vice Chancellor Jerome Cochran; Dan Cohen, city councilman, Bob O'Connor, City […]

Custodians this week are re-selecting job assignments as part of a plan Pitt says will increase the quality of custodial service. But the custodians' union plans to file a formal grievance over the changes. According to Local 29 union secretary-treasurer and business agent Nelson Bryant, "We will be filing a grievance and we've made the […]

In 1996, Pitt's Board of Trustees revoked the voting rights of faculty serving on trustees' committees. Ever since, professors have voiced qualms about their ambiguous role at committee meetings. Should they speak up or just sit in as observers? (Some committee chairpersons encourage faculty participation while others seem to view faculty as interlopers, according to […]

A memorial service for Alvin P. Shapiro, professor emeritus at the School of Medicine and a pioneer in the study of high blood pressure, will be held Dec. 28 at 2 p.m. in Heinz Memorial Chapel. Shapiro, 77, died of kidney failure at his home in Highland Park on Nov. 21, 1998. He led the […]

Howard Britton Hamilton, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, died Nov. 28, 1998, at UPMC St. Margaret of complications following surgery. He was 72. Hamilton joined Pitt in 1966 as chairperson of the electrical engineering department. He held that job until 1973, then served as a professor of engineering until retiring in 1986. Hamilton was acting […]

The Pitt Ridesharing office has established two new vanpool service routes for Oakland-bound commuters. One van leaves from Latrobe Shopping Center, arriving in Oakland at 8:30 a.m. and leaving Oakland at 5 p.m., weekdays. A second van originates at the Leechburg Park πn Ride on Route 56 and makes two stops, at the Freeport Exit […]

When you need the facts on Pitt Institutional Research is the office you should call At Pitt, Jim Ritchie is the keeper of the facts. When people want to know just about anything about the University, they usually turn to the Office of Institutional Research (IR), where Ritchie and his staff of seven have the […]

University mailing services moving to Point Breeze University mailing services currently located at the Melwood Warehouse, 480 Melwood Street, are moving to a location in Point Breeze, the Department of Parking, Transportation and Services announced. First-class mail, bulk mail, central receiving/moving and surplus property components of the Universityπs mailing services are vacating the warehouse during […]