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Rory Cooper joined the board of the Army Heritage Center Foundation
The organization supports the US Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

10 Pitt-Titusville employees celebrated milestone anniversaries
The Education and Training Center recognized Lawrence Prenatt and Colleen Motter for 40 and 30 years of service, respectively.

Henry Cantu was elected to the NDDSWA Board of Directors
He will serve as program chair for the National Deans and Directors of Social Work Admissions for 2024-26.

Susan Lucas was named a Mon Valley Initiative Community Partner of the Year
The Urban Studies faculty member and Dawna Cerney of Youngstown State won for their work on the SEED for Swissvale project.

Huey Copeland will serve as a juror for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
The Pitt professor will help decide featured artworks for the annual Smithsonian contest.

21 Pitt-Bradford employees were honored for milestone anniversaries
Among the longest-serving staff members are Kathy Moonan, Bill Kline and Diane Null.

Kevin Washo won a Pittsburgh Business Times C-Suite Award
The senior vice chancellor for university relations was recognized for collaborating with colleagues at Pitt and across the region.

6 Pitt faculty presented at this year’s Behavioral Economic Design Initiative workshop
The Department of Economics unit seeks to advance economic design within the areas of women's advancement, health economics, market design and more.

Raed El Rafei’s new film will premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The assistant professor returned to his Lebanon hometown to create “Tripoli/A Tale of Three Cities.”

Leigh Culley is Pitt’s interim assistant vice chancellor for accessibility
An alumna of the School of Education, she has served as director of Disability Recourses and Services since 2015.

Shatara Murphy was selected as an AITF Anchor Fellow
The assistant vice chancellor for Anchor Initiatives is among four higher education and nonprofit leaders in the 2025 cohort.

Pitt Medicine researchers will study ableism with a $3.2M NIH grant
Lynn Worobey and team will investigate how ableism contributes to health disparities over the next five years.

Chancellor Joan Gabel has been named chair of the Fulbright Scholar Advisory Board
A Fulbright alumna herself, Gabel has served as a member of the board for three years.

Tao Han was honored by the American Physical Society
The Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics was recognized with the annual Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award.

Michelle Ward was honored for encouraging women in the chemical sciences
The American Chemical Society Pittsburgh also recognized Pitt’s student chapter with a sustainability award.

Introducing the University Center for International Studies’ interim co-directors
Longtime staff members Allyson Delnore and Jeff Whitehead will lead UCIS and Pitt Global, respectively.

Angela Wolfe won the 2024 Pitt-Bradford Staff Recognition Award
The associate dean of student affairs was praised for helping students advocate for themselves.

A Pitt postdoc won a US Department of Agriculture grant
Grete Gansauer received $188K from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study rural communities.

Alumnus Chris Papst won a national Emmy Award
The investigative reporter was recognized for his reporting on Baltimore City Schools’ treatment of students with disabilities.

2 Pitt historians were featured in an Emmy-winning documentary
You can see Alonna Carter-Donaldson and Laurence Glasco in WQED’s ‘Pittsburgh and the Great Migration.’