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The Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance (PCA), a group of six cancer institutes in the state, has been awarded $5.5 million by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to create a bioinformatics consortium for cancer research. The consortium is expected to help establish Pennsylvania as a leader in translational cancer research and technology and foster new understanding of […]

Members of the University community placed 3,041 flags on the Cathedral of Learning lawn yesterday morning, each bearing the name and age of a victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as well as the flight number on which (or the location at which) that person died. Three of the flags were adorned in […]

Responses in Serbia, Uruguay and the United Kingdom to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks all followed the same pattern, according to Pitt professors who lived in those countries at some point during the last year. In each nation, government officials condemned the attacks and offered condolences. Private citizens mourned and sympathized with Americans they […]

Although faculty and staff can take classes at a fraction of the cost for traditional students, Pitt employees still are feeling the sting of higher prices this fall. Due largely to escalating fees, the cost for a staff or faculty member taking a 3-credit class at Pitt is almost 2 1/2 times what it was […]

Unfair was how Chancellor Mark Nordenberg described recent news coverage that Pitt has misrepresented student test scores. Nordenberg told Senate Council yesterday that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was "unfair to a number of people who do their work effectively and ethically and do it honestly." In a Sept. 8 front page story and a follow-up editorial […]

Sept. 20 is the deadline for returning ballots in the runoff election for vice president of the University Senate. Voting in last spring's election for Senate officers resulted in an unprecedented tie in the vice presidential race between incumbent Thomas A. Metzger, of mathematics, and the medical school's Nicholas G. Bircher. Ballots for the runoff […]

As Pitt prepares its state appropriation request for the next fiscal year, a University Senate committee is once again calling on the administration to close the gap between professors' salaries here and the average faculty pay among Pitt's fellow members of the Association of American Universities (AAU). In a Sept. 6 letter to Chancellor Mark […]

Imagine being hired as dean of a new college where the curriculum focuses on Europe and the Mediterranean. You have one year to recruit a faculty. Before you can even begin recruiting, however, your bosses tell you the curriculum has undergone a sea change. Now, your assignment is to recruit Pacific Rim specialists. No problem. […]