University Times

Pitt's School of Education has received a $240,000 grant from The Grable Foundation to update a computer lab used in the training of school administrators. Located in the School of Education, the facility has 40 stations, multi-media capability and uses Windows 95 to teach school administrators how to improve the day-to-day management of their schools […]

Pitt's 1996 United Way campaign kicked off Oct. 17 with a goal of $435,000, an increase of about 5 percent over last year's total. In announcing the fund drive, Pitt's United Way steering committee chair and Associate Vice Chancellor for Business John DeVitto said he is confident that the University will meet its goal. "I […]

Tickets for the Heinz Chapel Choir Christmas concerts will go on sale Nov. 4. A total of 400 seats will be available on the main floor and 45 in the balcony for each concert. Concerts will be performed on Dec. 2 at 3 and 7:30 p.m., and on Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. General admission […]

Recipe for predicting how much money Pitt will get from the state next year: First, place one tea leaf in a cup of water… "It's a very uncertain picture. We're trying to read tea leaves, to some extent," Pitt's director of Commonwealth Relations, Ann Dykstra, told the University Senate budget policies committee Oct. 18. Predicting […]

Herbert Barry is a faculty member in pharmaceutical science in the School of Pharmacy. An incorrect department was given in a story in the Oct. 10 issue of the University Times.

Robert Hingson, 83, former professor of public health in Pitt's School of Medicine and chief anesthesiologist at Magee Women's Hospital, died Oct. 9 in Lake City, Fla., from complications of polymyocetis. Hingson also was founder of the Pittsburgh-based The Brother's Brother Foundation, a volunteer, interfaith group dedicated to linking America's resources to global health care […]

Pittsburgh historian Robert C. Alberts, author of the University's bicentennial history, "Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987," died Oct. 8 of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 89 years old. Alberts began writing books in 1965 after taking an early retirement as vice president of the public relations firm of Ketchum MacLeod […]

University Professor and former School of Education Dean Paul H. Masoner, who was credited with helping to "internationalize" the education school and the University as a whole, died Oct. 15. He was 88. With Masoner as dean from 1955 to 1972, the education school grew from 42 to 225 faculty members. He was instrumental in […]

The draft report of the University Capital Planning Committee lists $361 million worth of renovation and construction projects that the committee recommends Pitt undertake over the next decade. The document emphasizes renovating existing facilities, addressing the University's backlog of deferred maintenance projects, and improving student housing, athletics and recreation facilities. But during an Oct. 16 […]

Hundreds of new housing units could become available to Oakland residents, including graduate students and other members of the Pitt community, by the end of the century. The apartments and townhouses will replace the Allequippa Terrace public housing project near Trees Hall. Realtors Beacon/Corcoran Jennison Partners will be the developers, working with the Pittsburgh Housing […]