UPMC is having a Career Fair specifically for Veterans and their families Thursday, Nov. 17 from 3 to 7 p.m. at Acrisure Stadium. Register here. You and your family will have opportunities to: Meet with our team and UPMC employee veterans to find a position that aligns with your skills and experience Receive resume
The answer is yes, though what we call a “vaccine” didn’t exist in 1777. Instead, people protected themselves from the deadly smallpox virus by inhaling crushed smallpox scabs (gross!) or having their skin scraped with someone else’s smallpox pus (grosser!). The practice was controversial, as you can imagine, but in 1777, rising
After the landing at Inchon, South Korea, on September 15, 1950, a patrol of ten SeaBees volunteered to go behind enemy lines and commandeer several locomotives located at the Kirin brewery. The Seabees captured eight locomotives and began racing back to American lines . . . but not before they threw aboard
One of our Vietnam Marines, Ren Bergman, sent this moving poem dedicated to Vietnam vets. My 18th birthday, January 31, 1968, was the first day of the Tet Offensive. 246 US service members died that day, making it the deadliest 24 hours of the Vietnam War. It was also the day I
(Daguerrotype of Samuel Morse, 1840. Perhaps taken by Louis Daguerre himself) He was a master portrait artist, a virulent hater of Catholics, and a supporter of slavery. He did NOT invent the telegraph. Nor did he single-handedly create the dot-dash text encoding method that bears his name. Samuel Morse, however,
by Harry Miller, WWII Veteran Harry Miller joined us April 19 and shared the story about how his 740th Tank Battalion captured an elusive and formidable target: a German King Tiger (Tiger Royal Mark VI) tank. Tiger 332 was the only in-tact tank of its kind captured during the war, and
