University Times

The Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) has established a center dedicated to occupational biostatistics and epidemiology. The mission of the center, based on an approach that is collaborative and multidisciplinary, is to build on the school’s success in developing and applying biostatistical methods to the study of workplace exposures. Directed by Gary M. Marsh, […]

Notice something missing at Pitt? More than three tons’ worth of excess faculty and staff weight has disappeared thanks to the MyHealth Weight Race that concluded last week. Across the University community, baggy clothing that’s not intended as a fashion statement and belt-tightening unrelated to state funding have become apparent as the weight race drew […]

Nuel D. Belnap, Alan Ross Anderson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, professor of history and philosophy of science, and fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science, is among 212 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Belnap was named to the philosophy and religious studies section of the humanities and arts […]

Last year’s student shooting at Virginia Tech has focused renewed attention at college campuses on a federal law that protects students’ privacy rights, two Pitt officials said. “And that’s a good thing. We’re glad to be able to talk about student privacy to avoid any trouble beforehand” and to clear up ambiguity, said Ted Fritz, […]

“Our leaders like to say we have the best health care system in the world,” said national health policy expert and economist Karen Davis. But that view is not shared by the American public, she said. “It’s hard to look at what has happened in the health care system over the recent past and not […]

Open access publishing has been in the limelight as recent developments have encouraged more free publication of scholarly literature. This is the second in an occasional series on the impact of the digital age on academic publishing. Among the digital publishing partnerships on the rise in scholarly circles are those between libraries and university presses. […]

Deborah J. Aaron, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Health and Physical Activity, died April 23, 2008. Aaron, who was 51, had been battling cancer. Aaron earned a master’s degree in public health at Pitt in 1991 and added a PhD in epidemiology in 1994. She then served a post-doctoral fellowship […]

Richard Bjerke, an associate professor in the medical school’s Department of Anesthesiology and chief anesthesiologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, died April 12, 2008. He was 53. Bjerke, of Mt. Lebanon, was found with a gunshot wound after his car crashed on the Beaver Valley Expressway. The Beaver County coroner’s investigation determined that the […]