According to a Pitt legal expert, the United States’ March 19 strike against Iraq clearly violated international law. “The principles that have defined world order since World War II are contained in Section 2 of Article 4 and Article 51 of the United Nations charter: A country cannot go to war, cannot use force against […]
“Teach-in” argues against U.S. war in Iraq >
April 3rd, 2003ULS sets up European integration archive >
April 3rd, 2003Pitt’s University Library System (ULS) has established the Archive of European Integration (AEI), an e-print repository for literature related to integration in Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. An e-print is the digital text of an unpublished research document that is placed in an archive as an electronic file. The AEI (http://aei.pitt.edu) makes available […]
Gift establishes UPT scholarship >
April 3rd, 2003Pitt’s Titusville campus has received $228,000 from the estate of Ruth R. Gilson to establish a special scholarship fund. The Ruth R. Gilson Scholarship Fund will provide scholarships to graduates of the Titusville Area School District who wish to attend UPT, who demonstrate a financial need and who meet the established admissions criteria. “We are […]
GSPIA, UCIS open public policy center in Macedonia >
April 3rd, 2003Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) has opened a Graduate Center for Public Policy and Management in Skopje, Macedonia, culminating nearly a decade of joint planning with university, governmental and business leaders from both the United States and Macedonia. This relationship, unique to Pitt, is one that GSPIA hopes to model in […]
ON TEACHING: Mariolina Salvatori and James Seitz >
April 3rd, 2003Two Pitt award-winning English professors, Mariolina Salvatori and James Seitz, have spent their careers thinking and writing about the art and profession of teaching, or pedagogy, in addition to performing their teaching duties. Both professors have been named Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Program Scholars, winning a national competition for the awards, which […]
Pitt research may lead to smaller, faster, more powerful computers >
April 3rd, 2003The race for smaller, faster and more powerful computers and consumer electronics took a new spin as researchers at Pitt and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) became the first to control electrons using electrical, rather than magnetic, fields. In a recent edition of Science Express, the on-line portal of the magazine Science, […]