Pitt's highest paid administrators and professors during the 1995-96 fiscal year were — once again — from the Health Sciences, according to an Internal Revenue Service form that the University filed last month. The IRS requires tax-exempt, private corporations like Pitt to file a Form 990 annually. In some years, Pitt's form has revealed previously […]
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June 12th, 1997Pitt to invest in technology transfer projects based on faculty research >
June 12th, 1997Acting for the full Board of Trustees, the board's investment committee has approved the borrowing by the University of up to $5 million to help support technology transfer projects based on the research of Pitt faculty. According to the loan resolution, passed June 9, projects for which the money will be used are designed to […]
Symposium celebrates national designation of Parkinson's center >
June 12th, 1997In 1817, British physician James Parkinson published a paper describing what he called "the shaking palsy" and what later became known as Parkinson's disease — a slow-developing but irreversible degeneration of nerve cells in the part of the brain that controls muscle movements. In the early 1960s, researchers finally identified the fundamental defect behind the […]
Alzheimer's & Parkinson's: A link? >
June 12th, 1997Parkinson's disease is a neurological disor- der that progressively robs people of control over their movements. In the majority of cases, it doesn't affect thinking or memory. Alzheimer's disease is likewise a progressive neurological disorder. But normally it takes away its victims' memories and thinking powers without impairing their motor skills. And yet… "It turns […]
Bradford campus names VP for Business >
June 12th, 1997Linda Hendy, executive director of auxiliary operations at Utah State University, has been named vice president of Business Affairs at Pitt's Bradford campus (UPB). She will assume her post July 10. At UPB, Hendy will be responsible for managing the bookstore, food services, housing, student center financial operations, the University Inn, and UPB's licensing and […]
UPT physical therapy assistant program accredited >
June 12th, 1997The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) hasgranted accreditation to the physical therapist assistant (PTA) program at Pitt's Titusville campus (UPT). APTA ccreditation is required before a school's graduates can sit for the state licensing examination. UPT admitted its first PTA class in 1995 and recently graduated […]
UPG administrator helps to revive the story of his war-torn Italian hometown >
June 12th, 1997The first house to go was that of the miller, Vincenzo Martinelli. As the villagers watched from the opposite side of the Aventino River, the house shook for the briefest of instants, and then disappeared in a deafening roar of dust and smoke. Vincenzo, a prisoner of war in some distant land, did not witness […]