University Times

Faculty and staff covered by Pitt health insurance won't pay higher premiums next year, although they will be charged $2-$7 more for each drug prescription. See table on this page. Another change is that subscribers to the University's two HMO plans, Keystone and Tri-State, will be charged a $5 co-payment for each office visit. Currently, […]

A University of Pittsburgh faculty member is among the 1,000 most important people of the millennium, according to a new book. Organ transplantation pioneer Thomas E. Starzl — professor of surgery and director of a Pitt transplantation institute named after him — was ranked No. 213 by the authors of "1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking […]

The Howard Heinz and Vera I. Heinz Endowments have pledged $12 million to Pitt to support programs in environmental studies, international studies and educational research. Among the programs benefiting will be the University Center for International Studies (UCIS), the Learning Research and Development Center's Institute for Advanced Study in Education (IASE), and several environmental studies […]

A University of Pittsburgh faculty member is among the 1,000 most important people of the millennium, according to a new book. Organ transplantation pioneer Thomas E. Starzl — professor of surgery and director of a Pitt transplantation institute named after him — was ranked No. 213 by the authors of "1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking […]

Winners of the 1999 Chancellor's Awards for Distinguished Research and Public Service were announced yesterday. Public service award recipients include: Douglas W. Chew, of biological sciences; Karen Engro, law; Phillip E. Smith, English, and Tracy M. Soska, social work. Research award winners in the senior scholar category are: Dennis P. Curran, chemistry; J. Thomas Rimer, […]

An off-campus wing of the University's Office of Child Development (OCD) was dedicated at an open house Feb. 10. OCD-East, located at the Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty, houses the office's training center and family and community service projects such as Early Head Start, Partnerships for Family Support and Family Service Systems Reform. Pictured […]

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 19 in Heinz Chapel for Maria J. Chrys-soverghi, a faculty member in the School of Social Work, who died suddenly at her home in Gibsonia on Jan. 19, 1999. She was 64. Funeral and internment services were conducted in her native Greece. Chryssoverghi had been […]

ONE ON ONE: STEVE PEDERSON With the University in the largest expansion phase in its history, Pitt's AD faces some difficult decisions. Steve Pederson was named Pitt's 10th athletics director Oct. 28, 1996, after serving for two years as the associate athletics director at the University of Nebraska. At Nebraska, Pederson oversaw one of the […]

ONE ON ONE: STEVE PEDERSON With the University in the largest expansion phase in its history, Pitt's AD faces some difficult decisions. Steve Pederson was named Pitt's 10th athletics director Oct. 28, 1996, after serving for two years as the associate athletics director at the University of Nebraska. At Nebraska, Pederson oversaw one of the […]

Minority students' graduation rates and grade point averages are among the factors that Pitt considers in its annual planning and budgeting process — but they're ju st some of the factors, Provost James Maher emphasized recently. And while schools with plans deemed inadequate by the Provost's office stand to lose as much as 5 percent […]