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The 11th annual Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure will be held May 11 in Schenley Park starting at 8:45 a.m. The 5K run/walk and one-mile fun walk raise money to promote breast cancer awareness and honor survivors. Pitt is providing space in the Posvar Hall galleria for registration and for race-day materials pick up. […]

May 16 is the nomination deadline for the 2003 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award. The award is presented to the outstanding program area or individual that has made a significant contribution to affirmative action. Affirmative action is defined as “the increase of access to and full participation in all aspects of University functions by minorities and […]

A memorial service for Henry T. Bahnson, who was credited with building the Pitt medical school’s Department of Surgery into one of the top surgery departments in the United States, will be held May 23 at 1 p.m. in Heinz Memorial Chapel. A reception will follow in the Members Lounge of the University Club, 123 […]

Pitt’s Class of 2003 — the first to hold graduation ceremonies at the Petersen Events Center — heard a short list of “universal truths that may be worth sharing” from speaker Paul H. O’Neill, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and former president and CEO of Alcoa. In a commencement address striking for its brevity, […]

Adolf Grünbaum, who led the transformation of Pitt’s Department of Philosophy from an academic backwater into one of North America’s elite philosophy units, severed his affiliation with the department April 26. Grünbaum, one of the University’s most celebrated scholars, called his resignation the culmination of years of “escalating alienation” from the department. He will continue […]

Average salaries of Pittsburgh campus assistant professors ($59,600), associate professors ($68,000) and full professors ($102,400) all have gained ground since last year, compared with salaries at other Association of American Universities (AAU) schools. (AAU average salary charts for assistant, associate and full professors, as well as librarians.) Pitt now ranks at, or above, the median […]

Among the 15 Association of American Universities (AAU) public university branch campuses that focus on baccalaureate-level education, Pitt’s Bradford campus ranked 9th during 2002-2003 for average salary of full professors (Bradford average: $66,000) and 11th for both associate professors ($52,400) and assistant professors ($43,000). Pitt’s Greensburg campus ranked 12th for average salary of full professors […]