University Times

Borrowing the car soon could have a new meaning in Pittsburgh and it doesn’t involve asking Dad for the keys. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) is taking the lead in bringing car-sharing to town. Seattle-based Flexcar anticipates a spring launch of its service as part of its plan to expand its business in the eastern […]

BOOKS ARTS and SCIENCES The Architecture of Aftermath by Terry Smith, history of art and architecture. The University of Chicago Press. Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 by Edward Muller, history, and John F. Bauman, University of Southern Maine. University of Pittsburgh Press. This book examines a half-century during which progressive planners, public officials and […]

An unnamed narrator is mucking horse manure on a farm in the Everglades. “We all have to start somewhere,” she’s told by her companion and mentor, Beau. This is how readers are introduced into a disconcerting, but enticing world of flora and fauna, ‘gators and iguanas, dogs and ibises, by Pitt staff member Dana Killmeyer […]

“Any director worth his or her salt knows putting together a production of Shakespeare is not telling a story, not even the story, but it’s looking for what are the stories, the possibilities of interpretation, the multiple voices, the decisions, which lead to how we are to engage an audience,” said Kevin Ewert. Ewert’s new […]

“We all have stories to tell. It’s just a matter of whether you sit down and get the discipline to tell it,” says George Shames. The Pitt professor emeritus’s first work of fiction, “The Company of Truth,” was published in 2006 by Pittsburgh-based Towers Maguire Publishing. Shames, 80, retired in 1990 from a 40-year career […]

Two Pitt students are among the new 2007-2008 Goldwater Scholars named nationwide. Stanley F. Steers, a physics and music major, and Benjamin O. Gordon, a mechanical engineering major, are among the 317 awardees named by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. They bring to 36 the total number of Goldwater scholarships […]