The committee searching for a new director of the University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) has submitted the names of three finalists to Provost James Maher. Meanwhile, semi-finalists for the College of General Studies (CGS) deanship have begun visiting campus. The following is an update on those and other Pitt administrative searches. UCSUR […]
Administrative searches progress >
January 7th, 1999Mellon gives $1 million to Katz >
January 7th, 1999Mellon Bank Corp. has given Pitt $1 million to create Mellon Bank Hall as part of the Katz Graduate School of Business. The funds will be used to renovate the third floor of the Masonic Temple and create needed space for classrooms, laboratories and informal student gatherings for the Katz School's Center for Executive Education, […]
John B. "Doc" Anderson >
January 7th, 1999John B. "Doc" Anderson, Pitt assistant band director from 1948 to 1970, died Dec. 25, 1998, in St. Clair Hospital, where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 77. Under Anderson's baton – and that of then-director Robert "Ace" Arthur – Pitt's marching band was regarded as one of the country's top three in […]