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• Christine Ann Dollaghan.(NAMED)(appointed at Callier Center for Communication Disorders at The University of Texas at Dallas)(Brief article)

  - 2006-11-07

  Christine Ann Dollaghan, formerly a professor in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh, has joined the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at The University of Texas at Dallas UTD. A professor in the UTD School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences,...

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• Study: Mindless reading is bad

  - 2006-07-04

  By Ben Feller THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a blur. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the ill effects of mindless reading - a phenomenon in which people take in sentence after sentence without...

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• Study: Mindless reading is bad

  - 2006-07-04

  By Ben Feller THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a blur. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the ill effects of mindless reading - a phenomenon in which people take in sentence after sentence without...

  Tags: computer, PRODUCTIVITY, professor, researcher, University of Pittsburgh

• Malcom McNeil.(AWARDED)

  - 2006-01-17

  Malcolm McNeil, professor and chair, Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, the university's 2005 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award, Senior Scholar

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• AAUP Leaders Testify in Public Hearings

  - 2006-01-01

  In November, AAUP leaders testified in public hearings of the Pennsylvania House Select Committee on Student Academic Freedom on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The committee was charged by the state legislature with examining the academic atmosphere in Pennsylvania and the degree to which faculty have the opportunity to instruct...

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• University of Pittsburgh School of Law.(On the Move)

  - 2005-06-01

  Mary Crossley, professor at Florida State University College of Law, has be come dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

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• Percentage of Sex-Related Web Searches Down by About Half Since 1997, While Business Searches Up by 86 Percent; New Book by Pitt Professor 'Is About the Only Book That Says What People Are Really Doing' on Web.

  - 2004-10-21

  Byline: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21 AScribe Newswire -- In the last seven years, the percentage of Web searches on sex has declined, while that of business-related searches has gone up, according to a new book on Web searching coauthored by a University...

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• Curran Lecture annoints Queen's new Chemistry building. (News Briefs Nouvelles en Bref).(University of Pittsburgh professor, Dennis Curran; lecture on fluorous techniques)

  - 2003-03-01

  On November 18, 2002, The Department of Chemistry, Queen's University hosted the 2002 Brantford Chemicals Inc. Distinguished Lecture that was delivered by Dennis Curran, Distinguished Service Professor, University of Pittsburgh. The lecture presented was titled 'An Introduction to Fluorous Techniques in Organic Synthesis.' ...

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• The University of Pittsburgh. (People & Places).

  - 2002-09-01

  The University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences SIS has named Ronald L. Larsen as its new dean. Most recently, Larsen was executive director of the Maryland Applied Information Technology Initiative where he directed the activities of a consortium of 10 Maryland universities. He...

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• Richard W. Cottam. (University Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh)(Obituary)

  - 1998-03-01

  University of Pittsburgh professor emeritus Richard W. Cottam died at the age of 72 on Aug 29, 1997 due to cancer. Cottam is one of the primary experts on the Middle East and on Iranian politics. His main contribution to the theoretical foundation of understanding international relations was introduced in...

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