Pitt Chronicle

Angela M. Gronenborn, the Rosalind Franklin Professor and chair in the Pitt School of Medicine’s Department of Structural Biology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Pitt has received a major gift from alumnus James B. Tafel—owner of Street Sense, the horse that won the Kentucky Derby on May 5, and the retired chair and chief executive officer for Dun & Bradstreet Technical Publishing Company—to establish two student-focused funds.

The University of Pittsburgh will commit more than $1 billion in modernization, construction, renovation, and infrastructure upgrades to meet the University’s teaching, research, and programmatic needs through the year 2018, under a 12-year Pitt facilities plan released today.