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Volume 41 Issue 16

Weight race participants record final weigh-ins >

April 16th, 2009

Final weigh-ins for Pitt’s second annual MyHealth Weight Race continue through April 20 (April 24 at Pitt-Greensburg). Right: Steve Verba, a graduate student in exercise physiology, records Nanju Besagarahalli’s weight Wednesday in Bellefield Hall. Besagarahalli, of Computing Services and Systems Development, works out in the Bellefield fitness facilities and walks at lunchtime to manage his […]

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A final salute: Fallen Pittsburgh police officers remembered >

April 16th, 2009

ROTC cadets were among community members who lined Fifth Avenue April 9 to pay their respects as the funeral cortege for Pittsburgh Police officers Stephen J. Mayhle, Eric G. Kelly and Paul J. Sciullo II made its way to a memorial service at the Petersen Events Center.

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Engineering, Westinghouse sign research pact >

April 16th, 2009

The Swanson School of Engineering has entered a master research agreement with Westinghouse Electric Co. that will allow for easier collaboration between researchers at the two entities. Pitt is the first university to sign a master research agreement with Westinghouse that covers all legal issues between the two institutions. Instead of addressing these issues for […]

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CLAS gets Brazil seminar grant >

April 16th, 2009

Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) has received an $83,968 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays group project abroad program. The grant will allow 13 social studies and art teachers from public and private secondary schools in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to participate in a five-week seminar project in Brazil that […]

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What we earn: Annual report details salaries >

April 16th, 2009

Among the nine executives, administrators and managers in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, the average salary was $204,195 as of Oct. 31, 2007. During the same period, the 27 lecturers/others in the School of Medicine earned average salaries of $17,075. Those highs and lows — and everything in between — […]

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UPJ to offer principal's certificate >

April 16th, 2009

Johnstown area educators soon will be able to expand their credentials through a new master’s-level program at Pitt-Johnstown. Beginning this summer, UPJ will offer a Leadership Initiative for Transforming Schools (LIFTS) K-12 principal certificate program. The program will be offered in cooperation with the School of Education. This 15-month program will include course combinations of […]

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