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Human Resources staff member Anita J. Williams died Sept. 25, 2008, following an extended battle with cancer. She was 56. A graduate of Cleveland State University, she came to Pitt’s HR department in 1993, where she was responsible for recruiting and placing temporary employees through All-Temps. In addition to her work duties, Williams represented HR […]

Pitt and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials are investigating a Sept. 24 incident in a University laboratory. John Fedele, Pitt associate director of news, said, “The University is investigating an incident involving a laboratory animal.” Fedele declined to confirm any details of the incident. Stories in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said a […]

Carrie R. Leana was bartending in a Texas country and western bar after earning her BA in English when she realized she’d better get on with her life’s work. It’s just that she didn’t know what that was. “My career path was not linear,” Leana said, in a recent conversation with University Times staff writer […]

While the international effort to eradicate smallpox ranks among the 20th century’s greatest health achievements, the road to success was quite bumpy, according to the global health expert who led the campaign. “This was a program that almost wasn’t launched, it was soundly forecasted to fail, but it miraculously succeeded. It was a remarkable victory […]

Can magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain aid in developing instructional techniques? Can they teach us why adolescents engage in high-risk behavior? What do they reveal about the highly evolved human ability to recognize faces? These were some of the questions that researchers addressed at “Brain Functional Evidence of Normative and Impaired Behavior,” […]