Summer 2012 - Robert Morris University
Summer 2012 - Robert Morris University
Summer 2012 - Robert Morris University
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Another<br />
Year of<br />
Changing<br />
Lives<br />
The Corporation for National and<br />
Community Service has named<br />
RMU to the President’s Higher<br />
Education Community Service<br />
Honor Roll, the highest federal<br />
recognition a college or<br />
university can receive for its<br />
commitment to volunteering, service<br />
learning, and civic engagement. This is<br />
the fourth time the university has earned<br />
this distinction.<br />
> Sharing their Wisdom<br />
RMU has launched the CEO Lecture Series in partnership with Pittsburgh<br />
Quarterly magazine. In March J. Christopher Donahue, president and<br />
CEO of Federated Investors, addressed a full house at Massey Theater,<br />
explaining how Federated weathered the recent financial crisis without<br />
laying off any employees, and sharing wisdom he has gained as a business<br />
leader as well as a parent. Richard P. Simmons, retired president and CEO<br />
of Allegheny Technologies Inc., inaugurated the CEO Lecture Series with a<br />
talk in November.<br />
Next up on September 25 is Kim Tillotson Fleming, chairman and<br />
CEO of Hefren-Tillotson. (To see both talks, go to rmu.edu/ceolectures.)<br />
> Skating Off<br />
with the Trophy<br />
Senior finance major Chad Fritz<br />
won the Jamison Roth<br />
Student-Athlete of the Year<br />
award, presented by College<br />
Hockey East. Fritz, who has a<br />
3.48 GPA, was captain of the<br />
club men's ice hockey team. He is<br />
also a member of the National Society for<br />
Leadership and Success and National<br />
Society of Collegiate Scholars.<br />
> Building Boom Continues<br />
An initiative to give each of the university's five schools its own clearly identifiable<br />
home will be one step closer to completion this fall. Construction is almost finished<br />
on the latest addition to campus, a new School of Communications and Information<br />
Systems building. The three-story, 53,000-square-foot complex, on the site of the former<br />
Wayne Center, provides classrooms, faculty offices, and studio and lab space for the<br />
departments of computer information systems, communication, English, organizational<br />
leadership, and media arts. A large exterior video screen, visible to much of campus,<br />
will display student work and messages.<br />
recycle this magazine<br />
Give it to a neighbor who’s in high school<br />
and help spread the word about RMU.<br />
ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONS • 5