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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has received two achievement awards from the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) for its efforts to protect patients, hospital staff and the general community against bioterrorism. The HAP achievement awards program recognizes health care professionals who have developed innovative, adaptable projects that enhance patient satisfaction and […]

Robert Lee “Rob” Penny, playwright-in-residence of the Kuntu Repertory Theatre and a founder with August Wilson of the Kuntu Writers Workshop, died March 17, 2003, following a heart attack at his home in the Hill District. He was 62. An associate professor of Africana studies who served as department chair from 1978 to 1984, Penny […]

Pitt will re-open its newly restored Charity Randall Theatre, formerly known as the Foster Auditorium in the Stephen Foster Memorial, with festivities April 4 and 5. The $2 million reconstruction and upgrade of the auditorium is the first since the historic building (original construction cost: $550,000) opened in 1937 to honor composer and Pittsburgh native […]

The rates that staff and faculty will have to pay for Pitt health insurance after June 30 still have not been set, Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Ronald W. Frisch said yesterday. “There are some things we’re asking the vendors for that we don’t have acceptance on yet. There are some things that the vendors […]

If history is any guide, eventually the U.S. stock market will bounce back and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s coffers will be more flush than they are today, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg observed at the beginning of yesterday’s University Senate plenary session on University health benefits. “But there is no such encouraging pattern when it comes […]

Pitt’s endowment increased in value by 4.3 percent during fall 2002, the last quarter for which numbers have been tabulated. But even with the fourth-quarter upsurge, the endowment’s value fell by 8.43 percent during calendar year 2002, to $1.07 billion. That was down from a market value of $1.15 billion as of last June 30, […]

The Pennsylvania House and Senate have approved Gov. Ed Rendell’s state budget, which proposes cutting Pitt’s state appropriation by 5 percent for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Nonetheless, the 5 percent reduction isn’t a done deal yet, Pitt’s assistant director of Commonwealth, City and County Relations told the University Senate budget policies committee […]

In what a University official called “restructuring,” eight College of General Studies (CGS) staff members are out of jobs and three vacant positions are being eliminated. Affected staff were notified March 6 that their positions had been eliminated, effective that day. Six of the eight staff members worked on campus and two worked Downtown at […]

The Bradford campus has eliminated seven full-time and three part-time staff and faculty positions. The move came in response to a 4 percent ($470,000) reduction in Bradford’s operating budget, according to Williams A. Shields, Bradford campus interim president. “These reductions are part of a University-wide response to reduced appropriations from the Commonwealth,” Shields said. Since […]