University Times

Pitt's Greensburg campus (UPG) will sponsor a children's literature conference on May 2 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The conference will consist of several workshop sessions, lunch and lectures by children's book author Louis Sachar. Among his works are "There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom," "Dogs Don't Tell Jokes" and "Wayside School Gets […]

As Pitt plans its first major capital campaign in six years, the University's Institutional Advancement office has identified some 1,500 prospective major donors — with documented wealth totaling over $5 billion — from among Pittsburgh campus alumni who graduated in 1965 or before. "These are people who, based on their net worth, have the ability […]

Pitt's Titusville campus (UPT) will join the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference (WPCC) for the 1997-98 athletic season, Peter Jerebko, UPT athletics director, announced. UPT restored its intercollegiate sports program last year after an eight-year hiatus. It fielded a men's basketball team and a women's volleyball team. WPCC currently sponsors league competition in seven sports. UPT […]

Four programs in Pitt's University Center for International Studies (UCIS) have been redesignated as National Resource Centers (NRC) by the U.S. Department of Education. The programs, which have held the NRC designation for 25 years, include the Asian Studies Program, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, and […]

Troubled teenagers who need intense treatment to help them recover from emotional or behavioral problems can turn to a new program offered by Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. The Adolescent Acute Partial Hospitalization Program (AAPHP) allows teenagers to live at home, but gives them the same level of treatment they would get if they were […]

The committee searching for a new president of Pitt's Greensburg campus has narrowed the list of candidates to three unranked finalists whose names will be presented to Provost James Maher on May 13. According to Joan Cutone, who is providing staff support for the search, the names will not be released until they have been […]

If you can offer insights into the relationship between Pitt and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center System (UPMCS), a new University Senate committee wants to talk with you — confidentially, if you'd prefer. The committee is studying whether the University's academic mission is compatible with the business goals of UPMCS, which is a separate […]

The relationships between Pitt, its University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Division (UPMCD) and the separate corporation called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center System (UPMCS) are so complex that even Pitt's Board of Trustees was fuzzy about them. So last year, the board's health sciences committee undertook a special project to trace the histories of […]

The Pittsburgh Human Relations Commission late last month found probable cause that Pitt discriminated against a former law school faculty member by refusing to extend health care benefits to her same-sex partner. Deborah Henson, who left Pitt in April 1996 to become a judicial clerk with the Louisiana Supreme Court, filed the discrimination suit against […]