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The School of Medicine has received the Paul R. Wright Award for Excellence in Medical Education from the American Medical Student Association. The award recognizes a school whose achievements in medical education foster the development of socially responsive physicians. The winner is chosen by the nation’s medical students. Pitt was selected from a national pool […]

Two faculty members have been named winners of the 2008 Tina and David Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. Melanie Dreyer-Lude, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre Arts, and Jeffrey Oaks, lecturer in the Department of English, are this year’s winners. The Bellet teaching awards were established in 1998 with a $200,000 donation […]

Civil and environmental engineering PhD student and IGERT fellow Bhavna Sharma, at left, collects outdated stationery from EXCEL program staff member Dominique Herring in Benedum Hall. The renaming of Pitt’s School of Engineering last December for University benefactor John A. Swanson made it necessary for the new name to be reflected in print school-wide. Overnight, […]

For the first time in three years the majority of continuing faculty saw raises that kept up with inflation. A report by Pitt’s Management Information and Analysis office on fiscal year 2008 continuing faculty raises showed 85 percent (1,466) of the 1,725 continuing faculty (excluding medical school faculty in the basic sciences) received increases that […]

The deadline for voter registration for the April 22 Pennsylvania primary is 5 p.m. March 24. Those who are eligible to vote but have not registered before, whose name or address has changed or who wish to change political party affiliation must submit the voter registration form to the Allegheny County Board of Elections. Voter […]

Pitt neurology faculty member R. Wesley Farris II remains jailed following his arrest in a sex sting in which he is charged with arranging to meet a child for sex through phone calls with an undercover agent posing as the uncle of a 10-year-old girl. According to the complaint filed in federal court in Pittsburgh, […]

Pitt is one of four universities participating in the AspiringDocs.org campaign, a pilot program of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) designed to attract more diverse physicians who can serve the growing health needs of culturally diverse communities. The pilot program is being conducted at Pitt, Rutgers University, California State University-Fresno and the University […]

Five-digit dialing between University and UPMC phone numbers is coming to an end. As of March 31, callers from Pitt will need to dial 9, followed by the 10-digit phone number to reach UPMC lines. Speed dialers and autodial keys will need to be reprogrammed to reflect the changes. Although calls will be dialed as […]

For the second consecutive year, Pitt ranks in the uppermost tier of U.S. public research universities, according to “The Top American Research Universities,” the recently issued 2007 annual report of the Center for Measuring University Performance. The report again places Pitt in the company of six other public research universities: University of California-Berkeley, UCLA, University […]