Thursday, April 15, 2021
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After a two-year process to review its policies regarding intellectual property (IP), the University of Pittsburgh has a new IP policy that modernizes our overall approach to managing IP; strengthens and clarifies faculty ownership of IP; and improves the mechanisms that return revenues to Pitt innovators, departments, schools and other research units when their inventions find commercial success. The process of review existing policies began two years ago, commencing with the naming of a committee of faculty, staff and administrators from across the University. The prior IP policies, which cover patent rights and copyrights, had been approved in 2005 and 2006 respectively, making it the appropriate time for review to ensure they best served the needs of all stakeholders and aligned with current best practices.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
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This year’s Community Engaged Scholarship Forum, titled “Progress through Partnerships: Advancing Community Resilience,” will bring Pitt students, faculty, staff and community members together with leaders in higher education and community development to discuss topics including basic needs, civic participation, digital access and inclusion, education, health equity, criminal justice reform, and relationships and the social fabric.
Registration for the March 2 virtual event is open through Friday, Feb. 26. While programming runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET, participants have the flexibility to choose to attend as many or as few sessions as they’d like and can come and go throughout the day and evening. Sessions are grouped around themes including relationships and our social fabric, critical and liberatory practices in community engagement, health equity and criminal justice reform.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
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When Ervin Dyer arrived in Pittsburgh more than 30 years ago as a reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he realized there were many stories left untold about the city’s Black communities. As he began to tell them, he quickly recognized the “spirit of independence” in communities like Hazelwood, East Liberty and the Hill District that pushed residents to fight for better lives. For example, the Hill District, Pittsburgh’s oldest Black community, was once known as “Little Hayti,” to align itself with the independence of Haiti in 1804. “In the Hill District, you see people fighting for better education and for having a say in what happens in their community. That advocacy is a direct legacy of Haiti’s independence. It’s something Hill residents haven’t given up on,” Dyer said.