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Pitt’s Department of Health and Physical Activity, part of the School of Education, is joining with local corporate, medical and community partners to launch the Pittsburgh arm of “America on the Move,” a collaborative initiative to help Pittsburghers get healthy. The community-wide initiative, targeting the greater Pittsburgh region, was launched this week with media messaging […]

A lawsuit filed in federal court against the University by the developer of Oak Hill — an 80-acre residential area adjacent to Pitt’s upper campus — was dismissed last month. But the plaintiff, Beacon/Corcoran Jennison (B/CJ) Partners, LLC, a Boston-based residential real estate development company, has appealed the decision. The federal suit, filed May 1, […]

The hustle and bustle that marks the beginning of each academic year is here again. But schools at Pitt have not slept through the summer months, which saw everything from major renovations to the establishment of new academic programs to the hiring and promotion of employees. The University Times asked deans and other school officials […]

Pitt has been named an American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Advanced Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research, a designation that places it in a group with eight other leading institutions in the United States. J. Timothy Greenamyre, UPMC Endowed Professor of Neurology and chief, movement disorders division at the medical school, will direct the center and […]

Pitt has made sweeping changes in the way it administers continuing education by integrating the College of General Studies (CGS) within the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S). The move, announced Aug. 2, gives A&S Dean John Cooper an additional role as dean of the College of General Studies and moves former CGS dean Susan […]

UPMC Health Plan announced this month that it is partnering with St. Louis-based Express-Scripts, Inc. to provide pharmacy benefits management services, effective Jan. 1. Express-Scripts is one of America’s largest pharmacy benefit managers and provides pharmacy benefits to more than 55 million patients through facilities in 13 states and Canada through employers, managed-care plans, unions […]

Pitt will help counteract an expected freeze in the key federal biomedical research funding stream with short-term “bridge funding.” The funding seeks to keep afloat research projects that likely will not be renewed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is facing a static budget. Under President Bush’s proposed federal budget for fiscal year […]

The committee on accreditation of the American Library Association (ALA) announced recently that Pitt’s Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the School of Information Sciences received continued accreditation which will be in effect until 2013. The ALA, which has been accrediting intuitions of higher education since 1924, accredits 61 programs at 56 […]

Pitt tied for 57th — up one spot from last year — among the nation’s PhD-granting universities in the 2007 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “best colleges” rankings, marking the sixth year in a row the University has risen in this national category. Pitt tied with Boston University and Ohio State University. Pitt […]