By the end of World War II, Pittsburgh was a booming industrial city deserving of its nickname, “steel capital of the world.” The city also deserved its moniker as “the smoky city,” which in the 1940s was more a source of pride than concern. Older Pittsburghers remember that the street lights in Downtown were kept […]
SHRS turns 35 >
March 31st, 2005Pitt’s youngest Health Sciences school is a baby no more, as this academic year marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS). Established by then-Chancellor Wesley Posvar on Jan. 1, 1969, the School of Health Related Professions (SHRP) as it was originally known, was launched with the […]
Senate announces election candidates >
March 31st, 2005This year’s candidate slates for Faculty Assembly and for membership on the University Senate’s 15 standing committees are set. Newly elected members to Faculty Assembly serve the first year of their three-year terms on the Assembly; during their second and third years, they serve on both the faculty-only Assembly and on Senate Council, which includes […]
Pitt will reimburse internationals’ fee >
March 31st, 2005Pitt now will reimburse students and researchers from foreign countries who have to pay a new $100 federal fee to work or study here. The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) fee was instituted Sept. 1, 2004, to pay for the increased costs of maintaining information on international students and exchange visitors. SEVIS was […]
Upward Bound faces federal budget ax >
March 31st, 2005Lobbying efforts are underway at Pitt to save the community outreach program Upward Bound, which is targeted for elimination in President George Bush’s 2005 budget. Also on the chopping block is another federally funded community program at the University, the National Youth Sports Program. (See March 17 University Times.) Advocacy efforts such as letter writing […]
Race, gender inequities aren’t the only barriers to success >
March 31st, 2005“I’m sure 99 percent of parents love their children equally. But do they treat them equally? I seriously doubt it,” said a national expert on the influence of family home life on adult success. “We love our kids equally, but sometimes that love blinds us to actual inequalities within the family.” Dalton Conley, professor of […]
Making Pitt work: Library preservationists save books >
March 31st, 2005Pitt’s senior administration grabs most of the headlines. The faculty here get noticed when they bring in research dollars, win teaching awards or publish in their fields. But behind the scenes, University staff, some 6,500 strong across five campuses, often toil in jobs ranging from the mundane to the esoteric. From mailroom workers to data […]
New center to address minority health disparities >
March 31st, 2005In Allegheny County, African Americans have a disproportionately higher death rate from stroke, prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease as compared to Caucasians. Pitt’s Schools of the Health Sciences have created the Center for Primary Care Community-Based Research to address such disparities. The center, led by Janine E. Janosky, executive director, and Jeannette E. South-Paul, medical […]
Report explores rural public health preparedness >
March 31st, 2005Pitt’s Center for Public Health Preparedness, part of the Graduate School of Public Health, and the Center for Rural Health Practice at the Bradford campus, along with other collaborators, this month released an independent report highlighting the challenges and concerns of rural public health preparedness. The report explores rural America’s vulnerability to bioterrorism and other […]