Q&A with new UHC dean Brian Primack
By The Pitt News Staff
June 20, 2017
Filed under Administration, News, Top Stories
Brian Primack, a Pitt alumnus and professor in the School of Medicine, gained another title earlier this month when Pitt named him to replace Edward Stricker as dean of the University Honors College. In anticipation of the beginning of his tenure, set to start July 1, The Pitt News asked Primack to discuss his pla...
Editorial: New UHC dean has opportunity to refocus college
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 7, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If it weren’t on the 35th floor of the Cathedral of Learning, you might be able to hear the crickets from outside in the University Honors College lounge. But it wasn’t always this way. Founded in 1987 by Dean Alec Stewart, the UHC once was a place where true intellectualism fostered, a place where students with or without pre-professional majors could come debate, disc...