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Pitt alumnus Dan Marino will address Pitt’s 2008 commencement convocation April 27 at the Petersen Events Center. The ceremony begins at 1 p.m. Marino, a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, is an in-studio host of CBS-TV’s “The NFL Today.” He and his wife, Claire, […]

According to the Oakland Traffic and Management Association, local events will close some streets and restrict metered parking on or near campus through May 3. • Bigelow Boulevard will be closed between Fifth and Forbes avenues April 19 to accommodate student transportation to Heinz Field for the annual Blue/Gold football game and concert. • Metered […]

And down the home stretch they come! This week will see the final weigh-in for teams in Pitt’s MyHealth Weight Race, a 12-week competition launched in January to see which teams best achieve weight loss and weight management goals. More than 1,300 Pitt staff and faculty across the University have been participating. As of week […]

Pitt law school’s JURIST, which bills itself as the world’s only web-based, student-powered legal news source, has been nominated for a Webby Award. The New York Times dubbed the Webby Award “the online equivalent of an Oscar.” JURIST (www.jurist.law.pitt.edu) is run by professor Bernard Hibbitts, executive director Jeannie Shawl and a staff of some 40 […]

Bucking a national trend, Pitt employees will see only small premium increases for the health plan year that begins July 1. According to John Kozar, director of Benefits, the overall cost increase of Pitt’s medical plans, which are administered by UPMC Health Plan, is 1.5 percent. “That marks the third consecutive year that the University’s […]

Alumnus David Bellet and his wife, Tina, have donated $1.5 million to endow in perpetuity the Tina and David Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. Established by the Bellets in 1998, the award program, which had been funded annually, recognizes outstanding and innovative undergraduate teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences. Each award […]

“Regarding career advancement, you have to have patience. Nothing happens fast at the University of Pittsburgh. We don’t do anything quickly,” advised Sherry Miller Brown, director of the McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success at the College of General Studies. That was just one bit of advice from Miller Brown, who was one of five […]

Pitt faculty, staff and retirees raised more than $601,525 for the 2007 United Way Campaign, surpassing the previous year’s total by 8 percent. Faculty and staff donated $565,112 and retirees $28,355; $8,058 was garnered from various special events. Anne Franks, manager of Pitt’s campaign and manager of human resources administration in Pitt’s Office of Institutional […]

When runners at the 112th annual Boston Marathon take their marks on Monday, the University community will be represented. More than a dozen registrants included in the field of some 25,000 marathoners have connections as Pitt or UPMC employees or Pitt students. Among them are a pair of Pitt economics professors who have been training […]

May 5 is the nomination deadline for the 2008 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award. The award is presented to the outstanding Pitt program area that, or individual who, has made a significant contribution in affirmative action. Program areas are preferred strongly over individuals. For purposes of the award, affirmative action has been defined as “increase of […]