Pitt and two hospitals that sponsor human clinical research have formed a consortium and agreed to a standardized, common set of information for new protocols that soon can submitted on-line. Pitt, Magee-Womens Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh will use Webridge’s Compliance Extranet software to automate their Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval oversight processes. The […]
UPT adds massage therapy >
July 10th, 2003The Titusville campus will start a one-year massage therapy certificate program this fall. The 24-credit curriculum includes lectures and laboratories in human systems and introductory, intermediate and advanced massage therapy, as well as two electives. Additionally, students will work with licensed massage therapists in the region. Gregory Brink has been hired as instructor for the […]
UPMC offers advice on bug-borne diseases >
July 10th, 2003With the arrival of summer, bug bites and insect stings can be a real nuisance. Drugstore shelves are stocked with various ointments and sprays that protect against the regular cast of summer insects — bees, ticks and mosquitoes. But are these products enough? Donald M. Yealy, professor and vice-chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine […]
OBITUARY: Traci Lee Boles >
July 10th, 2003Graduate School of Public Health staff member Traci Lee Boles died June 27, 2003, following a heart attack. She was 40. On staff at Pitt since 1993 when she was hired as a secretary in the Office of Facilities Management, Boles held several positions at the University, including engineering dispatcher and work control specialist, also […]
OBITUARY: Jan L. Sykora >
July 10th, 2003Jan L. Sykora never failed to impress his colleagues, students and friends (the roles often overlapped) with his encyclopedic knowledge of plants and animals. His fellow Pitt professor emeritus of environmental health, Julian Andelman, recalled: “If you were walking with Jan in the woods and you pointed to any plant at all, he could tell […]
New federal reporting rules create headaches for Pitt’s Office of International Services >
July 10th, 2003Some offices have Casual Fridays. Pitt’s Office of International Services has SEVIS Fridays. Every Friday since May (except for July 4), with the blessing of the Provost’s office, OIS staff members have hunkered down in their William Pitt Union offices, closing their doors to the rest of the University community. Throughout July, the OIS’s doors […]
CGS to close Computer Learning Center, cut jobs >
July 10th, 2003In a move described as a financial decision, Pitt is closing its Downtown Computer Learning Center (CLC), an information technology training organization in the College of General Studies (CGS). The July 31 closing means the elimination of 15 part-time jobs and one full-time position, including that of CLC’s founding director, Carla Depperman. Depperman said that […]