Pitt Chronicle

The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown has received a donation of $12 million, the largest gift in the school’s 81-year history. Established through the generosity of a deceased alumnus who wished to remain anonymous, the estate gift endows in perpetuity a commuter scholarship that was established at Pitt-Johnstown in 2000. It is estimated that the gift will provide support for approximately 40 students annually.

Lee Antoinette Darville—a professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Department of Immunology in Pitt’s School of Medicine and a physician at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC—will be one of 12 medical research scientists to receive a 2007 Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation.

Theresa Horner, director of the Office of Disability Services at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ), has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award, given annually to an “outstanding University program area or individual that has made a significant contribution in Affirmative Action.”