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Due to an editing error, incorrect information appeared in the March 20 University Times story on the Real ID Act of 2005. Although May 2008 was an initial deadline for compliance, all but four states had received extensions for Real ID Act implementation. As of March 20, only Maine, Montana, New Hampshire and South Carolina […]

Proper grammar be damned! The use of the suffix -man, as in chairman and congressman, and masculine pronouns such as he and his to indicate people of both genders is sexist, whether or not they are grammatically correct. That was the main thesis of Pitt law professor Pat K. Chew in summarizing her research on […]

Beatrice E. (B.J.) Grier of Homewood, an administrator in the Department of Africana Studies, died March 26, 2008, of complications from lung cancer. She was 54. Grier had been employed at the University since 1971. She initially worked in the College of General Studies then joined the staff of Africana studies in 1981. Known for […]

Unease in the nation’s credit markets has impacted colleges and universities on several fronts. Some student borrowers are concerned about the availability of loans. University administrators have had their own worries as schools whose debt is in variable-rate instruments found rates rapidly rising. A report in the March 6 Chronicle of Higher Education noted that […]

Long-time graphic artist in the Office of Public Affairs Leslie Dawn Guthrie died March 31, 2008, following a prolonged acute illness. She was 50. A 1976 graduate of Montour High School and a 1979 graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Guthrie was hired at Pitt as a graphic designer in 1983. She was art […]

This annual University Times supplement recognizes faculty and staff who have written, edited and translated books, as well as those whose efforts have extended into other areas, such as journals, electronic publications, plays and musical compositions. We regret that space constraints prohibit including other kinds of publications/creative endeavors. At the suggestion of a faculty advisory […]

Retired English professor Harry J. Mooney Jr. died March 18, 2008. He was 80. Mooney joined the faculty in 1962 as an assistant professor after completing his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Pitt. He became an associate professor in 1967 and was promoted to professor in 1970. He was the department’s director of graduate […]

The annual Provost’s Faculty Diversity Seminar offers Pitt professors the chance to redesign a course syllabus with an eye toward increasing the racial and gender diversity of classroom content. A recent seminar yielded more than anticipated: A trio of professors who met during their two weeks as seminar fellows in 2005 didn’t stop at redesigning […]