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Pitt will offer on-campus flu shots to I.D. holders through its Student Health Service office. Clinics will be held 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 25 and Nov. 7 in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room. The cost of a flu vaccine shot is $20 (cash or check only), and shots will be offered on a first-come, […]

The University Senate’s fall plenary session, “Fostering Mentoring for Sustaining Organizational Vitality,” will be held 2-5 p.m. Oct. 19 in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room. Jeannette South-Paul, chair of the School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine, will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include Patricia Beeson, vice provost for graduate and undergraduate […]

Pitt biostatistician John Lowrie “Bruno” Bryant II, 58, of Allison Park died Sept. 26, 2006, at UPMC Montefiore Hospital. Bryant earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, then joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati in 1977 before coming to Pitt’s statistics department in 1990. He maintained an […]

A report issued last month by a special national commission described U.S. higher education as “in crisis” and in need of urgent reform to remain competitive in the 21st century. “There are disturbing signs that many students who do earn degrees have not actually mastered the reading, writing and thinking skills we expect of college […]

Pitt’s Department of Athletics operated at a deficit in fiscal year 2006, continuing a long-term tradition. Details of the athletics budget’s $8.2 million deficit were made public last week at a Senate budget policies committee (BPC) meeting. In compliance with National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) bylaws, Pitt hired an outside auditor to prepare an “agreed-upon […]

Visitors recently got a firsthand view of Pitt’s big investment into very small technology. The Sept. 29 opening of Pitt’s Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering (PINSE) NanoScale Fabrication and Characterization Facility was heralded with an afternoon-long nanoscience symposium, followed by the first public peek at the $6.1 million facility. More than 200 people gathered […]

Human Resources will provide the Staff Association Council (SAC) with more detailed information on staff salaries, but with the stipulation that the information remain confidential, according to SAC President Rich Colwell. Colwell reported on the status of SAC’s request at last week’s Senate budget policies committee (BPC) meeting, as a follow-up to discussions at last […]