Newsmakers

The Homer S. Brown Law Association honored Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg with the 2009 Spirit Award during a Feb. 26 dinner at the Rivers Club, Downtown. Presenting the glass award is Nicole King (A&S ‘02, LAW ‘05), association president and a staff attorney and assistant corporate secretary for EQT Corporation. The Homer S. Brown Law Association, an affiliate of the National Bar Association, is a professional organization with 200 African American attorneys and jurists.

Jonathan Morduch was the keynote speaker for a Feb. 13 Microfinance and the Law conference in the Barco Law Building that was sponsored by Pitt’s School of Law, Journal of Law and Commerce, and Law and Entrepreneurship Program. Morduch is a professor of public policy and economics in New York University’s (NYU) Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He also is managing director of the Financial Access Initiative, a consortium of researchers at NYU, Harvard University, Yale University, and Innovations for Poverty Action that focuses on expanding access to quality financial services for low-income individuals.

A picture of Rory Cooper, director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories—a partnership among the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC, and the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System—is featured on a special edition Cheerios box and “sports hero cards,” produced by General Mills. The box and cards are part of a national campaign organized by the U.S. Veterans Administration, VA Canteen Services, and General Mills to honor 12 gold medal winners of the 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games. Cooper, who won four gold medals for swimming during those games, is the FISA/PVA Endowed Chair and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, Pitt’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Science. The special-edition Cheerios box and sports hero cards are sold exclusively in military markets and VA Canteen Services retail stores.