University Times

Pitt once again has a faculty and staff club. Following months of restoration, the renovated University Club opened its doors April 1. The demise of two clubs in Oakland spurred a call for a new club for faculty and staff. The University’s Pitt Club, housed in the Gardner Steel Conference Center, closed in 2003. The […]

UPDATE: The start of this work has been postponed from April 6 to April 13. A pedestrian safety project will force single lane closures and other restrictions on Forbes Avenue beginning on Monday night, April 6. The single lane closures will occur between McKee Place and South Bouquet Street from 7:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. […]

May 1 is the nomination deadline for the 2009 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, defined as “increase of access to and full participation in all aspects of University functions by minorities and women and […]

Pitt-Johnstown is embarking on the most extensive community service initiative in the campus’s history. Through April 4, Pitt-Johnstown faculty, staff and students will participate in more than a dozen service projects throughout the greater Johnstown area. The projects include assisting area nonprofits in spring clean-up; hospital and soup kitchen visits; a blanket and canned food […]

James O’Mara and Kimberly Young O’Mara have donated $25,000 to Pitt-Bradford for an interfaith chapel to be built this year on the campus’s west end. The gift helps UPB close in on its $2.5 million fundraising goal for the chapel, which is being funded exclusively through private donations. In appreciation of the gift, a wooden […]

To further disseminate the contents of Supercourse (www.pitt.edu/~super1/), an online repository of lectures on global health and prevention, a DVD has been developed and is being offered free to medical and public health schools and libraries. The DVD contains most of the 3,600 Supercourse lectures, which were contributed by more than 64,000 scientists in 174 […]

Hillman Library will extend its hours for the spring term reading and exam period, and will be open continuously from 10 a.m. Sunday, April 12, until 6 p.m. Saturday, April 25. Free coffee and tea will be provided each night in the Cup and Chaucer cafe after it closes. During the 24-hour schedule, a University ID […]