Nestled in the rolling hills on University Drive, a gray stone school house with an Old English slate shingle roof will mark its 70th anniversary this September. But on June 16 Falk School, the K-8 laboratory school administered by Pitt's School of Education, was the site of a new event, when 18 of the 24 […]
You can go home (or back to school) again: Class of 1973 holds first Falk School reunion >
June 28th, 2001University Press author named U.S. poet laureate >
June 28th, 2001A University of Pittsburgh Press author has been named the 11th U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. Billy Collins will begin a one-year appointment in October when he opens the Library of Congress's annual literary series with a reading of his work. Two recent poetry collections by Collins, "Picnic, Lightning" (1998) and "The […]
Caregiving helps spouse cope with partner's death, study shows >
June 28th, 2001New Pitt research suggests that people who care for their sick spouses cope better when their partner dies than those who take no role in caregiving, and they have a lesser chance of depression, weight loss and poor health. The study by Richard Schulz, professor of psychiatry, epidemiology and sociology, and his colleagues is the […]