University Times

Pitt’s annual Health, Safety and Security Day, sponsored by the Department of Environmental Health and Safety and the Staff Association Council, brought faculty, staff and students to the William Pitt Union Sept. 30 for demonstrations and information on issues ranging from computer safety to healthful lifestyles. Top: SAC safety and security committee chair Fred Schiffer, […]

Department of Studio Arts faculty members welcomed guests at an Oct. 1 reception celebrating the opening of the department’s annual Faculty Exhibition. Top: Faculty member Sean Derry operates a bellows to inflate a soft sculpture that is part of his work titled, “An Interlude to Stillness.” (A larger installation of the work that includes 35 […]

Pitt’s European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) has been re-designated as a European Union Center of Excellence. In recognition of the award, the Delegation of the European Commission recently presented grants totaling 3.42 million euros (about $4.7 million) to 11 EU centers at U.S. universities. The grants will fund center activities from 2008 to 2011. […]

UPMC has received the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for ventricular assist device (VAD) support for destination therapy, which is heart support for patients with end-stage heart disease who are not candidates for heart transplantation. Previously, VADs primarily were used as a bridge to heart transplant, but as clinical experience has demonstrated, they have […]

People with severe, chronic heartburn that does not respond to medication have a new surgical treatment option at UPMC that does not require any incisions. Heartburn, which also is known as acid reflux disease, is a condition in which acid from the stomach creeps up into the esophagus and causes a burning sensation in the […]