Alumni
Cayla Ray will receive Pitt-Greensburg’s Young Alumni Leadership Award
She is currently serving her pediatric dental residency at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Nancy Merritt has been named vice chancellor for alumni relations
She brings 17 years of experience to the role, where she plans to develop programs to help alumni engage with students, pursue educational and professional opportunities and enrich their personal and career networks.
Pitt alumna Kakenya Ntaiya was recognized as an emerging leader by the Obama Foundation
With her PhD from the School of Education, Ntaiya founded a nonprofit organization that provides education, mentoring and health and leadership training for girls of her native Kenyan community.
Alumna Bobbi Watt Geer will lead the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania
The GSPIA graduate is the first woman to lead the nonprofit, where she has worked for more than a decade.
An alumnus was named the Thomas Merton Center’s 2019 New Person of the Year
Wasi Mohamed was honored for working toward peace and justice in Pittsburgh.
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the G.I. Bill, drafted by a Pitt Law graduate
June 22 marks the 75th anniversary of the original G.I. Bill, which has benefited 8 million veterans by providing education and training benefits. And it was made possible through the vision of Harry Colmery, a Pittsburgh native and 1916 graduate of Pitt’s School of Law.
Alumna Katelyn Means won a national scholarship to pursue dual Pitt Dental Medicine degrees
The National Health Service Corps Scholarship recipient earned a BS in microbiology in 2018.
Linda Wharton Boyd was named a top woman in public relations
The former president of Pitt’s African American Alumni Council is the director of communications, external affairs and strategic stakeholder engagement for the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority.
A Pitt alumna and sustainability advocate received a visionary award
Patricia DeMarco recently published “Pathways to Our Sustainable Future: A Global Perspective” with the University of Pittsburgh Press.
A Pitt alumna is the first female infantry officer in the PA Army National Guard
Caileigh Carei (A&S ’17) was commissioned into the Army after her December graduation.