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“There’s a social part to this, that everybody can participate in,” whether in the weight race or not, said Joe Cheadle, an accounting analyst in Student Billing and Accounting. Employees building-wide are exchanging healthy recipes, and joining in Tuesday brown bag lunches and weight race participants’ walks, he said, adding that his office alerts all […]

UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside and UPMC Passavant have been designated “Blue Distinction Centers for Complex and Rare Cancers” by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. This designation indicates that these centers within participating Blue Cross and Blue Shield network service areas are offering comprehensive inpatient cancer care programs for adults, delivered by multidisciplinary teams with subspecialty training […]

A new center at Pitt seeks to increase the University’s role as a source of expertise and information on tobacco and smoking cessation. “I want us to be seen as a resource,” said Graduate School of Public Health Dean Donald S. Burke, adding that Pitt is well equipped to contribute information of local relevance that […]

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 […]