Pittsburgh’s universities and hospitals are vital “economic engines” helping to power the local economy — but they’re not paying their fair share of taxes for city services, Mayor Tom Murphy told a skeptical audience of about 50 Pitt professors, staff and administrators at the June 3 Faculty Assembly meeting. “It is clear that the University […]
Mayor defends tax proposals >
June 12th, 2003Faculty win Mott Prize >
June 12th, 2003Pitt faculty members Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore have been awarded the Charles S. Mott Prize, bestowed annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (GMCRF) for the most recent outstanding contribution to the cause or prevention of cancer. The husband-and-wife team is from the School of Medicine where Chang is professor of pathology […]
ONE ON ONE: GSPH Dean Bernard Goldstein >
June 12th, 2003Statistics from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveal that in the last two years Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) has more than tripled its rate of increase (40.9 percent) in NIH funding over the other top public health schools. For FY2002, NIH research grant funding totaled $44 million, as compared to $38.32 […]
NIH rankings for Pitt Health Sciences schools >
June 12th, 2003The recently released National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding figures for fiscal year 2002 show Pitt at No. 8 nationally, with 801 total awards for more than $308 million. (Johns Hopkins University is No. 1, with 1,204 NIH awards totaling $510 million.) Of Pitt’s amount, 93 percent is funding for the Schools of the Health […]