The sixth annual Innovation in Education Awards, coordinated by the Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence, have been announced. Ten faculty projects focusing on innovative teaching approaches that can be adapted to other settings received grants from the Provost’s office totaling $118,000. Winners and the titles of their projects are: • Russell J. Clark, physics […]
UPT adds nursing degree >
April 28th, 2005Beginning this fall, Pitt’s Titusville campus will offer an associate degree in nursing. The new program is designed to be completed in two years of full-time study, with graduates earning an associate of science degree upon completion. Graduates will be prepared to sit for the state licensing exam to become registered nurses. In addition, the […]
Pitt provides support for Race for the Cure >
April 28th, 2005The 13th annual Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure will be held May 8 in Schenley Park. The 5K run starts at 8:35 a.m.; the 5K walk and one-mile fun walk start at 8:45 a.m. The Komen race raises money to promote breast cancer awareness — breast cancer screening, education, research and treatment — and […]
Obituary: Lee Johns >
April 28th, 2005Lee Johns, associate director of predoctoral periodontics in the School of Dental Medicine, died unexpectedly this month at his Moon home. He was 50. Johns, an associate professor in the Department of Periodontics, was popular among his students for his objectivity, fairness, social grace and humor, according to faculty colleague Ali Seyedain. Dental medicine Dean […]
Obituary: Mary P. Edmonds >
April 28th, 2005Noted Pitt biochemist Mary P. Edmonds, professor emerita of biological sciences, died April 16, 2005, of complications related to a heart attack. She was 82. Edmonds’s research on messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) led to the discovery of protein sequences that allow RNA to carry genetic instructions from a cell’s nucleus to the cellular mechanisms that […]
Obituary: Felix “Bebe” Miller >
April 28th, 2005Felix H. “Bebe” Miller, a retired clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine and a volunteer fundraiser for the University, died April 25, 2005, from myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia. He was 76. “He injected humor in day-to-day interactions and this made him an effective educator,” said Steve Caritis, director […]