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Pitt’s Titusville campus received an award for its “Kids Night Out” program from the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Mid-Atlantic Region. NACA links the higher education and entertainment communities in a business and learning partnership, creating educational and business opportunities for student and professional members. The “Kids Night Out” program, where each month students […]

Most Pitt employees will pay $6-$24 more a month for their UPMC medical insurance premiums beginning in July, but will save money on preventive care and health screenings. The cost to employees for the prescription drug, vision and dental plans will stay the same. The new health care plan is effective July 1. Details of […]

UPMC will host free head and neck cancer screenings, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., April 15, at the Eye and Ear Institute, third floor, 203 Lothrop St. The event will coincide with Oral and Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week. In 2005, more than 65,000 people are expected to be diagnosed with oral, head or neck cancers […]

This year’s election for the University Senate presidency pits current Senate Vice President Irene Hanson Frieze, professor of psychology, business administration and women’s studies, against the chair of the Senate’s educational policies committee (EPC), Evelyn O. Talbott, professor of epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health. Each candidate has served on Faculty Assembly and […]

Walter P. Cummins, long-time assistant football coach and assistant athletics director here, died April 1, 2005, of congestive heart failure. He was 81. Cummins served as an assistant football coach under three different head coaches from 1951 to 1966, coaching four first-team All-Americans and 32 National Football League draft picks. He then served as an […]

Pitt was included among the nation’s top graduate schools in several disciplines and subspecialties in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings. Each year, the magazine measures graduate programs in five major disciplines (business, education, engineering, law and medicine), using measures such as peer assessments, entering students’ test scores, faculty/student ratios and reputation ratings drawn […]

Former chair of Pitt’s Department of Pediatric Dentistry professor emeritus Robert Rapp died April 6, 2005, from complications of multiple sclerosis. He was 75. A pioneer in pediatric dentistry, Rapp authored the 1978 book, “A Color Atlas of Clinical Conditions in Pedodontics,” which was translated into at least seven languages. “That book presented a reference […]

Can we control how well we live with a life-threatening illness and how well we die? Pitt researchers at the forefront of a relatively new discipline of medicine, palliative care, believe we can live fuller lives during our final years and months. Palliative care focuses both on those at the end of their lives and […]

Retired professor of English William E. Coles Jr. died March 21, 2005. He was 73. A composition teacher here until 1998, Coles’s work touched hundreds of thousands of college and high school writers across the country, according to David Bartholomae, professor and chair of the English department. “He was one of the most brilliant and […]

Helen S. Faison, Pitt alumna and one of the region’s most influential educators, will deliver the 2005 commencement address and receive an honorary doctoral degree from Pitt. Commencement exercises are set for 1 p.m., May 1, at the Petersen Events Center. A 1942 graduate of Westinghouse High School, Faison earned a B.S. in education (1946), […]