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Music on the Edge, Pitt's new music series, is seeking original scores from local composers interested in having their work performed at a two-day event. The event will feature the New York-based Prism Players. Works should be scored for a subset of flute, clarinet, french horn, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, soprano and […]

Pitt would receive a 2 percent increase in its current $148.56 million state appropriation under Gov. Tom Ridge's proposed budget. In his Feb. 4 budget address, Ridge recommended increasing Pitt's funding by $2.97 million to $151.5 million for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The University has asked for $163.43 million, which would be […]

Four Pitt faculty members have been selected to receive prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development grants. The awardees include Karen Arndt, biological sciences; Marek Druzdzel, School of Information Sciences; Patrick Loughlin, electrical engineering, and Tara Meyer, chemistry. NSF created the awards to help scientists and engineers simultaneously develop their contributions to education […]

It's time for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to get serious about developing a creative, long-range plan for improving itself, Provost James Maher said this week. Any such plan must come from FAS itself; the school shouldn't look to Pitt's central administration for answers, according to Maher, who said he is refusing to […]

University Senate President Keith McDuffie says he will make one last effort to convince Pitt's Board of Trustees to keep faculty, staff and students as voting members of board committees. "Removing faculty, staff and students from those committees would be a step backward in University governance," McDuffie told Faculty Assembly at its Feb. 4 meeting. […]

Pitt's Black Action Society will celebrate Black History month with its annual African American leadership conference and other events. The leadership conference will be Feb. 14-16. The theme, "Bridging the Gaps Between Us," reflects the belief that progress and the effective use of resources requires unity. The keynote address will be given by Ivan Van […]

A memorial service for chemistry professor Paul Dowd will be held at 10 a.m. on Feb. 10 in Heinz Chapel. Dowd, a member of the chemistry faculty since 1970, died Nov. 21, 1996, at the age of 60. A scientific symposium in memory of Dowd also will be held on Feb. 10, beginning at 1:15 […]

The finances of a college sports program aren't any less complex than zone defenses and academic eligibility rules. For example, Pitt's NCAA Division IA athletics program cost the University either $4.87 million or $8 million more than the program generated last year, depending on how you calculate the program's revenues and expenses. Athletics department administrators […]

"I meet with more students at this table in one afternoon than I used to see in a whole semester's worth of office hours," said Fred Gottlieb, sitting back to flex his shoulders and rub his eyes. The biological sciences professor and two of his freshman students, Tasha Canavan and Mary Beth Kinkus, were taking […]

Bell Atlantic will present Pitt with a grant to support "Teaming Up: Pitt and Pennsylvania Schools," a project to develop strategies to improve education through collaboration. Grant money will be used to develop academic and support materials for school districts in Armstrong, McKean, Washington and Fayette counties, as well as the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. Diane […]