The deadline for voter registration and for changing names and addresses for registered voters is Oct. 10. This deadline applies to individuals who wish to vote in the fall general election on Nov. 7. Voter registration forms can be obtained from the University's Office of Federal Government Relations, 624-6015. The deadline for requesting an absentee […]
UPMC's computer technology use recognized >
September 28th, 2000UPMC Health System's initiatives in using computer technology to improve health care access have been recognized by InformationWeek magazine. UPMC is ranked 8th among health care and medical industries and ranked 224th overall in the magazine's 12th annual Top 500 listing of the most innovative users of information technology. According to Information-Week, to make the […]
Pitt starts photonics technology program >
September 28th, 2000Photonics technology can be found in the grocery store, the operating room, the office and now the classroom. A new Pitt photonics certificate program teaches students the technology behind items such as supermarket scanners, surgical lasers and CD-ROMs. With grant support from the National Science Foundation and the Research Corporation, David Snoke, assistant professor, Department […]
Professor donates Russian collection to ULS >
September 28th, 2000A collection of rare print materials reflecting Russian culture and literature over the first half of the 20th century has been donated to Pitt's University Library System (ULS) by Mark Altshuller (pictured at left), professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University. "This is a valuable and significant contribution to our Slavic collection," said […]
Monitoring device for diabetics invented >
September 28th, 2000A Pitt professor plans to make life less painful for diabetics with the help of an implanted biotechnological device the size of a half-inch piece of thread. In a paper published in the Sept. 15 issue of Analytical Chemistry, Jerome Schultz, director of Pitt's Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering and chairperson of the Department of […]
Epperson to step down as dean of social work >
September 28th, 2000David E. Epperson, dean of Pitt's School of Social Work for the past 28 years, will step down at the end of the current academic year. Named social work dean in 1972, Epperson is the longest-serving Pitt dean. His tenure also is the longest of any current dean of social work in the country. Founded […]
Discovery could produce new way of fighting harmful bacteria >
September 28th, 2000Pitt researchers announced that they have discovered an entirely new type of catenane in a virus that infects bacteria. Catenanes are rare molecular structures that link molecules in interlocking rings. The findings, which could open the door to a new way of fighting harmful bacteria through "phage therapy," are detailed in the Sept. 22 edition […]
Outside Internet service provider may be available for a fee by November >
September 28th, 2000Improved off-campus access to Pitt computing services may be available to faculty, staff and students — for a price — by early November, a University administrator said last week. Under a deal being finalized between Pitt and an as-yet-unnamed, outside Internet service provider (ISP), members of the University community would be given the option of […]