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Proclamation congratulating Jared L. Cohen, President Emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University and Mark A. Nordenberg, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, for receiving the Elsie Hilliard Hillman Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Public Service.
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WHEREAS, in 2012, the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics created the Elsie Hilliard Hillman Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Public Service to recognize Mrs. Hillman’s lifetime of public service to her beloved Pittsburgh and beyond; and
WHEREAS, on April 8, 2014, the Institute of Politics honored Jared L. Cohon, President Emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University, and Mark A. Nordenberg, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, with the Elsie Hilliard Hillman Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Public Service; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Cohon served with distinction as the eighth President of Carnegie Mellon University from 1997 to 2013. He greatly expanded Carnegie Mellon degree programs offered around the world; led a successful $1 billion fundraising campaign; and built up the university’s research and teaching resources in such areas as life sciences, energy, media design, entrepreneurship, and environmental education. An expert in urban water systems, Mr. Cohon is resuming teaching, writing, and research as a member of Carnegie Mellon’s Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Nordenberg became the 17th Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 and will retire this summer. He came to Pitt in 1977 as a faculty member in the School of Law and went on to serve as the School’s Dean and as Interim Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Under his leadership, the University achieved new levels of quality and impact on virtually every front. Undergraduate applications and academic credentials of enrolled students have soared, and faculty and students regularly receive the highest forms of national and international r...
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