Pitt

Also as University of Pittsburgh
* Wikipedia:University of Pittsburgh
==Background ==
* University of Pittsburgh
* UPMC, Univeristy of Pittsburgh Medical Center
* Pitt News
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* Platform Planks about Pitt from Mark Rauterkus
* Pitt-planks-Wozniak Play the football game, Pitt vs. Penn State
===Pitt Expansion Plans===
* Pitt is slated to spend $55 million for new facilities, including a police station, biocontainment lab and heating plant. Article Trib, November, 2005, 
====Pitt's police station====
Move from Posvar Hall to a $6 million building to be constructed on a parking lot next to the Eureka Building at the corner of Forbes Avenue and Halket Street. The 26,000-square-foot, three-story building will have a basement and parking deck with spaces for 54 vehicles.
Pitt officials say the new station is needed because its police force has grown from 98 to 133 employees since 1998. 
Forty percent of the calls to which the police respond are from outside the university.
Eighty percent of the people arrested by Pitt police are not affiliated with the university.
====Regional Biocontainment Laboratory ====
Biosafety level 3 facility, meaning it will meet strict federal standards for potentially lethal microbes such as anthrax. To be built in the new Biomedical Science Tower III, the lab will cost $28.8 million. The National Institutes of Health will pay about $21.6 million of that cost.
====Heating====
Add three more energy-efficient boilers at its Carrillo Street Steam Plant. The university now gets most of its steam heat from the Bellefield Boiler Plant, a 100-year-old coal-fired facility. The expansion is expected to be complete by fall 2007.
====Petersen Events Center====
Roof repairs cost $600,000. Pitt hopes to get that money back through a lawsuit against architect Apostolou/Rosser, the roofing manufacturer and contractor, and their insurance companies.
==Links==
* URA Network at GSPIA
* Pitt's Institute of Politics
==People==
* Francesmary Modugno