Pitt Chronicle

Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg has named the winners of the 2008 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research and Distinguished Teaching awards.

Each awardee will receive a $2,000 cash prize and be recognized during Pitt’s 32nd annual Honors Convocation on Friday, Feb. 29, along with winners of the Chancellor’s 2008 Staff Excellence Award. Their names also will be inscribed on plaques in the William Pitt Union.

The University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association has named three Distinguished Alumni Fellows for 2008: Ralph J. Cappy (A&S ’65, LAW ’68), retired chief justice of Pennsylvania; Young Woo Kang (EDUC ’73,’76), president of Education and Rehabilitation Exchange Foundation International; and Roslyn M. Litman (A&S ’49, LAW ’52), president of Litman Law Firm, Downtown.

The three fellows will be honored at the University’s annual Honors Convocation at 2 p.m. Feb. 29 in Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland.

Providing services to Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) inmates while they are incarcerated and after their release dramatically reduces the chance of the inmates returning to jail, according to recent data from a study by University of Pittsburgh’s Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP).

Kaleab Abebe lives and works in parallel worlds where numbers mean everything—and nothing.