University Times

Have a best-seller from the turn of the century or an Abbie Hoffman tome from the '60s that you would love to use in a class, but can't because it's out of print? Or maybe it's a collection of your own articles or those of colleagues that you would like to use in your teaching, […]

Pitt is recruiting 1,500 participants for an eight-year multi-center study of the impact of strength, weight and health on daily living activities of older people. The observational study Health and Body Changes (Health ABC) will be one of the largest National Institute of Aging (NIA) studies in 20 years. It also will be the first […]

X-ray machines appeared on the medical scene in 1895. By the turn of the century, they could be found in every hospital of consequence in the world. But they had a serious problem, one that had nothing to do with radiation. Nobody was using them. Rather than ordering X-rays as part of the treatment for […]

By mid-June, after all the confetti and silly string have been swept away, Pitt will have conferred about 6,750 degrees and certificates this year to students at the University's five campuses. An estimated 2,000 students attended and received their undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees at Pitt's 1997 commencement, April 27 at the Civic Arena. Allan […]

The Board of Trustees' property and facilities committee has endorsed four renovation projects expected to cost about $22 million. The projects are included in a 10-year facilities improvement plan, which the committee also approved at its April 25 meeting. The resolutions will next go to the trustees' budget committee for the purpose of including the […]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, has awarded Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) a grant of up to $1 million over five years to study how learning occurs in museums. Known as the […]

Tradition is important to a school, says Carol Baker, vice president and dean of academic affairs at Pitt's Bradford campus (UPB). She believes it is the glue that binds a loose collection of individuals into an institution. When Baker speaks of tradition, she means more than just excellence in the classroom. She thinks such things […]