University Times

Pitt’s 2005 Partnership for Food Drive will be held throughout April to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Nonperishable food and household items will be accepted. The most needed food items include baby formula and food, stews, chunky soups, peanut butter, packaged meals, tuna, canned meats and cereals. Items such as paper products, soaps […]

Former long-time associate dean of student affairs at Pitt’s School of Medicine Rebecca Frances Drew Taylor died of pneumonia March 22, 2005, at Canterbury Place in Lawrenceville. She was 87 and had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years. Taylor, a Pittsburgh native who used the name Dr. Frances Drew for most of her […]

April 18 at 5 p.m. is the deadline for voter registration for the Pennsylvania primary. The primary election will be held May 17. Eligible voters not registered, whose legal name or address has changed, or who want to change their party affiliation must submit a voter registration form to the Board of Elections in the […]

This week’s earthquake in Indonesia was a sharp reminder of the December earthquake that spawned the tsunami in the same region, leaving as many as 300,000 dead or missing. One Pitt professor is determined that Pittsburgh and its people will remember the tsunami victims by forging a sister city relationship with communities in Aceh, the […]

Pitt is planning a big expansion into one of the tiniest realms of science — nanotechnology. The University plans to invest $6.1 million to build a nanotechnology facility in the sub-basement of Benedum Hall and to hire nine more faculty to study the cutting-edge technology. Nanoscience is the study of things smaller than 100 nanometers […]

Two English department faculty members have been named winners of the 2005 Tina and David Bellet A&S Teaching Excellence Awards. The annual teaching awards were established in 1998 with a $200,000 donation from the Bellet family to recognize outstanding and innovative teaching in undergraduate Arts and Sciences (A&S). This year, the Bellet family donated an […]