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Volume 31 Issue 12

Maurice Falk Fund endows chair in honor of outgoing president >

February 18th, 1999

The Maurice Falk Medical Fund has donated $1.5 million to endow the Philip Hallen Chair in Community Health and Social Justice in Pitt's School of Social Work and Graduate School of Pub lic Health. In announcing the grant, Sigo Falk, chairman of the Falk Medical Fund Board, said that the fund was intended to "honor […]

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Pitt tops blood donation efforts >

February 18th, 1999

Pitt and UPMC Health System were honored by Central Blood Bank (CBB) for outstanding efforts in collecting blood donations during 1998. The University collected the largest number of donations — 3,018 — and started a campaign last year to encourage incoming freshmen to donate blood. The hospitals of UPMC Health System collected 1,689 units, 20 […]

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