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 […]
Benefits open enrollment runs through May 9 >
April 14th, 2005Free head/neck cancer screenings offered >
April 14th, 2005UPMC 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 […]
Senate presidential candidates on the issues >
April 14th, 2005This 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 […]
Obituary: Walter P. Cummins >
April 14th, 2005Walter 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 […]