University Times

The deadline for voter registration for the Nov. 4 general election is Oct. 6. Registration forms must be received in the Allegheny County Board of Elections or postmarked by that date. Those who are eligible to vote but have not registered before, whose name or address has changed, or who wish to change political party […]

Reservations are required for Allegheny Observatory’s Oct. 3 open house, which will be held 7-10 p.m.Visitors can roam the observatory and peer into the night sky through the 30-inch Thaw Refractor telescope, a 47-foot instrument normally reserved for research. In addition, members of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh will set up telescopes on the […]

Road closings may be in the works on Forbes Avenue late next week to allow crews to place steel for the new Boulevard of the Allies bridge. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spokesperson James Struzzi said tentative plans call for the beams to be placed Sept. 5 and 6, requiring some closings on Forbes Avenue. However, […]

Surgery professor Brack G. Hattler died July 31, 2008, while vacationing in New Jersey. He was 73. Hattler was the Kathleen DuRoss Ford chair in cardiothoracic transplantation and executive director of Pitt’s medical devices laboratory. He joined the faculty in 1989 as a surgeon in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. In addition to heart surgery […]