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According to recently released figures by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year 2004, Pitt ranks No. 7 nationally in NIH funding among educational institutions with affiliates, the same overall ranking as last year. Affiliates consist of a group of associated institutions in the geographical area where university faculty have appointments and direct […]

Pitt has topped the $800 million mark in its $1 billion capital campaign. Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg announced the milestone at the June 24 Board of Trustees meeting, as part of his summary of the University’s accomplishments since 1995, when he was named interim chancellor (and later chancellor). The fundraising effort hopes to raise $1 […]

Pitt’s Board of Trustees re-elected as chair Ralph J. Cappy, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, for a one-year term. The board also elected four new members and re-elected eight members at its June 24 meeting. In addition, Cappy announced the appointment by Gov. Ed Rendell of a new commonwealth trustee. (See other Board of Trustees stories, […]

When Gregory Morris stopped and thought really hard — the kind of thinking a documentary filmmaker encouraged during an 8-hour interview last year — he broke down and cried remembering the days after the death of his uncle, Billy Strayhorn, the famed Pittsburgh jazz musician whose name is synonymous with Duke Ellington’s. Strayhorn, a pianist, […]

From a lively — and frank — discussion last month among staff leaders from Pitt’s five campuses emerged shared frustrations and successes, as well as campus-specific issues and initiatives. Staff association council representatives from Pitt’s five campuses met June 14 at the Bradford campus for the annual Council of Campuses meeting. Staff associations rotate hosting […]

Peter Quinby intently looks at a log. This is not your garden-variety piece of wood, but a fallen willow encrusted with moss and a mass of rust- and yolk-colored fungus. According to Quinby, director of Pitt’s Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, this fallen giant is evidence of mature woods changing into an old-growth forest, something that […]

The Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology is part of Pitt’s Department of Biological Sciences and owns or leases seven sites including labs, classrooms, housing, administrative offices, a northern hardwood forest and fields. “The University has a 80-year history of offering field courses and conducting field research in northwestern Pennsylvania,” said Peter Quinby, director of the lab. […]