University Times

A strategic piece of property adjoining the Pitt-Titusville campus recently was acquired by UPT for $130,000. The historic Porter-Westgate house at the corner of East Walnut and North Brown streets is just north of UPT’s Bennett Davis Hall and west of the McKinney Student Union. (See X on map.) There are no plans for new […]

Pitt’s 2006 United Way fundraising campaign begins Oct. 12, and will run through Nov. 22. This year’s campaign goal is $500,000. Last year, the University collected $515,427. Faculty and staff pledged $488,563; retirees contributed $24,640, and special events brought in $2,224. There were 2,275 donors who pledged contributions during last year’s campaign. As in past […]

Members of the 2006 Pitt United Way steering committee include: campaign manager Anne Franks, Institutional Advancement; and campaign co-chairs G. Reynolds Clark, community initiatives and chief of staff, Office of the Chancellor, and Daniel Edelstone, obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. Other steering committee members are: Kenyon Bonner, Student Affairs; Jean Ferketish and Kim Honath, Office […]

The Pitt organizations eligible for designated United Way contributions and their donor codes are: Adjuvant Therapy, 1037 Arthritis Institute, 942523 Autism Center, 222684 Breast Cancer Research, 830 Center for Minority Health, 222783 Child Development Center, 1280 Children’s Neurosurgery Fund, 4645 Cleft-Palate Craniofacial Center, 234 Criep Chair Patient Care Program, 951936 Department of Neurology — Epilepsy, […]

In its annual operating budget request, Pitt is asking the commonwealth for $198.54 million for fiscal year 2008. The request for FY08, which begins July 1, 2007, includes nearly $174.8 million in E&G funding, an 8.5 percent increase. Other line item requests include an 8.6 percent increase (to $480,000) in funding for disadvantaged students, an […]

Pitt is facilitating a local transportation survey on behalf of the Allegheny Conference’s Oakland investment committee. The committee, which is composed of the leadership of the University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, UPMC, the Heinz Endowments and the Richard King Mellon Foundation, seeks to develop a comprehensive model of the Oakland transportation […]