Community Impact

The Pennsylvania state representative was recognized at a dinner on Oct. 5.

Future Kings Mentoring, an initiative by University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University students, was recently named one of 30 winning Changemaker Competition projects.

The initiative is the brainchild of Swanson School of Engineering students Terrell Galloway, Isreal Williams, Sean Spencer and a Duquesne University journalism and web design student.

The annual Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh award recognizes significant contributions in the area of historic preservation. 

The founder and director of the Program Evaluation and Research Unit is being honored by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation.

The guidelines advocate that clinicians prescribe non-opioid pain-relievers first whenever possible.

Samir Lakhani (A&S ’15), has been named to the 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 list of top young social entrepreneurs. The Forbes 30 under 30 list features 600 entrepreneurs in 20 industries, selected from among 15,000 nominees in the U.S. and Canada.

There, Founding Director John Jakicic introduced the new Schools on the Move initiative, which will provide grants to support physical education at 43 Pittsburgh K-12 schools.

She is one of fewer than 20 nurses from across the U.S. who were selected for the first cohort of Association of Rehabilitation Nurses fellows.

Brenda Cassidy, Jennifer Lingler and Patricia Tuite each received Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania for excellence in nursing.

A graduate of the School of Computing and Information, he is assistant director of community engagement in the Office of Community and Governmental Relations.