University Times

Pitt’s School of Dental Medicine recently received Excellence in Organization Activity recognition from Achieva. Achieva is a non-profit group within a family of organizations that collectively comprises western Pennsylvania’s largest provider of comprehensive services and support for persons with disabilities and their families. The School of Dental Medicine was chosen for the honor specifically for […]

The Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation has awarded Pitt-Greensburg $2 million, the largest gift in the regional campus’s history. The money will help fund an addition to McKenna Hall, the campus computer center. The Richard King Mellon Foundation and the Timken Foundation of Canton also have contributed to this project. The Mellon Foundation has given $500,000, […]

Marianne F. Maegle, a 40-year staff member in the Office of the Registrar, died Dec. 26, 2006, of complications following surgery. She was 61. Maegle came to Pitt in 1966 as a clerk in the Registrar’s office. Over the years, she progressed to senior clerk, senior secretary, administrative aide, administrative assistant and supervisor prior to […]

Pitt is considering a number of new options to help city officials crack down on landlord abuses in student-laden south and central Oakland. The University continues to work with city officials to improve conditions in neighboring residential areas, which long have suffered from landlord abuses, building code violations and other problems including two fatalities from […]

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs emeritus professor Frederick C. Thayer died Dec. 23, 2006, following a stroke. He was 82. Thayer graduated in 1945 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and during his 24-year military career in the Army and Air Force completed a master’s degree in political science at Ohio […]

Pitt has provided “bridge funding” of $375,000 for five research projects affected by National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding cutbacks. The special funding program, launched last fall, seeks to keep afloat ongoing biomedical research projects that were not renewed by the NIH despite receiving favorable reviews. Michelle S. Broido, associate vice chancellor for basic biomedical […]

Margaret E. “Peg” Covert, professor emerita and a pioneer in women’s physical education at Pitt, died of pneumonia Dec. 27, 2006. She was 95. In a career that spanned seven Pitt chancellors’ terms, Covert held several teaching and administrative positions, including director of physical education for women in the School of Liberal Arts, forerunner of […]