Pitt Chronicle

Pitt is honoring four senior faculty members as Distinguished Professors: Ellen Frank has been named Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, effective June 1; Randy Juhl, Distinguished Service Professor of Pharmacy, effective July 1; and, effective Sept. 1, George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History, and Naomi P. Zigmond, Distinguished Professor of Education. Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg made the appointments based on the recommendation of Pitt Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor James V. Maher.

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will name its new residence hall in honor of Howard Fesenmyer, a retired Zippo Manufacturing Co. executive who is executive secretary of the Blaisdell Foundation, a Zippo board member, and a member of the advisory board of Pitt-Bradford, where he is a leader in the school’s fundraising efforts.

Teachers Robert Tam (left) from Honolulu and Mark Dillon from Asheboro, N.C., participated in the 2006 Voices Across Time Institute. Here, they played a song at the grave of a Civil War soldier during a field trip to Gettysburg.