As part of a breast cancer teaching/advocacy project, approximately 12 sophomore nursing majors from Duquesne University will participate in The Pink Ribbon Walk with female inmates at the Allegheny County Jail. Read more »
Archive for October 2008
City Music Center Celebrates 20th Anniversary at ‘Friendraiser’
Oct. 30, 2008
Duquesne University’s City Music Center (CMC) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at its annual “Friendraiser” event on campus. Read more »
Project SEED Wins National Award for High School Chemistry Program
Oct. 28, 2008
The American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Section Project SEED Committee, which includes a summer chemistry program at Duquesne University that involves high-achieving, low-income high school students in hands-on research projects, has received the national ChemLuminary Award for the Most Outstanding Project SEED Program in 2007. Read more »
NLN Designates Duquesne a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education
Oct. 27, 2008
One of the nation’s foremost organizations for promoting nursing education, the National League for Nursing (NLN), has designated the Duquesne University School of Nursing a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education, making it one of only three nursing schools in Pennsylvania with the title. Read more »
City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence Horacio Castellanos Moya Lectures at DU
Oct. 24, 2008
Horacio Castellanos Moya, the current City of Asylum/Pittsburgh writer-in-residence, will present a free lecture about his most recent novel Senselessness, at Duquesne University. A book signing will follow his address, which is open to the public. Read more »
Is There a Way Forward for Stem Cell Research?
Oct. 24, 2008
Finding morally acceptable means to procure human stem cells will be the focus of a presentation by William B. Hurlbut, a physician and consulting professor at the Stanford University Medical Center’s Neuroscience Institute. Read more »
Duquesne University Hosts Annual Homecoming Festivities
Oct. 23, 2008
Duquesne University alumni, friends and members of the campus community will gather for the annual Homecoming Weekend. Read more »
NLI Hits 600th Non-Profit Board Match Milestone
Oct. 22, 2008
Duquesne’s nonprofit board-matching program, Boards-by-Design, recently marked more than 600 matches between individual volunteers and nonprofit organizations since its inception in September 2002. Housed in the University’s Nonprofit Leadership Institute, the program has drawn more than 1,600 individual and 300 nonprofits applicants. Read more »
Pittsburgh Penguins, DU Sports Marketing Association Form Partnership
Oct. 22, 2008
The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Duquesne University Sports Marketing Association have developed a cooperative apprenticeship program which provides management training for sports marketing students. This ongoing partnership provides each student the opportunity to develop skill sets in different facets of the sports industry including customer service, sales, marketing and special events. Read more »
DU Law Students Score Second-Highest on Bar Exam in Pennsylvania
Oct. 22, 2008
Duquesne University’s School of Law announced a 97 percent passage rate among first-time takers of the July 2008 Pennsylvania Bar Examination. Read more »
Lincoln-Lemington Resident Selected for Prestigious Minority Fellowship Program
Oct. 20, 2008
Cheon Graham, a graduate student in Duquesne University’s school psychology program, has been selected for the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), one of the nation’s most successful, competitive training programs for ethnic and racial minority researchers. Read more »
Nursing Students Raise Breast Cancer Awareness Among Female Inmates
Oct. 16, 2008
A group of Duquesne University School of Nursing students will visit the Allegheny County Jail to raise breast cancer awareness among its female population. Read more »
Student Lands National Speech-Language Award to Study Autism
Oct. 13, 2008
Katherine Belardi, a student in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Duquesne University, has been selected as one of 10 students nationwide to receive a 2008 Students Preparing for Academic-Research Careers Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Read more »
Board Extends President’s Contract through 2016
Oct. 10, 2008
The Duquesne University Board of Directors unanimously voted to extend President Charles Dougherty’s contract through 2016 at the annual October meeting today. The decision comes on the heels of the successful completion of the University’s first strategic plan, a five-year initiative that Dougherty spearheaded shortly after his appointment, and the public announcement of a $150 million capital campaign—the largest in Duquesne’s history. Read more »
Need-Based Aid Identified as a Top Priority of $150 Million Campaign
Oct. 10, 2008
Duquesne’s ‘Advancing Our Legacy’ Passes $84 Million
Today, officials announced that Duquesne University has raised more than $84 million in a $150 million campaign that will focus on growing endowment funds for need-based aid, as well as improving academic programs and enhancing student life. Read more »
Language Professor Selected as Columbus Day Parade Grand Marshal
Oct. 9, 2008
Dr. Carla Lucente, professor of modern languages at Duquesne University and director of the University’s Center for International Relations, has been selected as grand marshal for the city’s annual Columbus Day Parade. Read more »
Making Sense of the Sixties Focuses on Martin Luther King Jr.
Oct. 2, 2008
On the cusp of another historic presidential election, voters and historians alike continue to ponder the deaths of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy—what they might have become and what their political legacies are today. To achieve a better understanding of not only these cases but also their historical contexts, the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law will kick off Making Sense of the Sixties: A National Symposium on the Assassinations and Political Legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy tomorrow on Duquesne’s campus. Read more »
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