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Chancellor Patrick Gallagher CHANCELLOR PATRICK GALLAGHER Patrick Gallagher has served as the University of Pittsburgh’s 18th chancellor since August 2014. In this position, he works to advance the University’s legacy of academic excellence, collaboration and research innovation. Prior to his installation at Pitt, Gallagher spent more than two decades in public service. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed him to direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology. While in this role, Gallagher also acted as deputy secretary of commerce until leaving for Pitt in the summer of 2014. In addition to performing his duties as chancellor, Gallagher is one of 12 inaugural members appointed by the president to serve on the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. He also is active on a number of community boards, including the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Internet2 and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Gallagher holds a PhD in physics from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor’s degree in physics and philosophy from Benedictine College. He and his wife, Karen, are the proud parents of three sons. The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related university and a world leader in education, research and innovation. Pitt has an annual enrollment of nearly 35,000 undergraduate and graduate students as well as more than 300,000 alumni around the world. Founded as the Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, the University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the nation and has a campus in Pittsburgh, Pa., as well as four regional campuses located throughout Western Pennsylvania. • The University’s more than 13,000 employees, including more than 5,200 faculty members, serve nearly 35,000 students drawn from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, two U.S. territories and 103 foreign countries through the programs of 16 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. • In a reaccreditation report issued in September 2012, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education praised Pitt as a “world class research university” with an “unwavering commitment to excellence” and an “extraordinarily talented and beloved leadership team.” • Pitt students consistently win a significant number of prestigious national awards for academic achievement. Since 1995, Pitt undergraduates have claimed one Gates Cambridge Scholarship, two Churchill Scholarships, four Rhodes Scholarships, six Truman Scholarships, six Marshall Scholarships, nine Udall Scholarships and an astounding 48 Goldwater Scholarships. • Pitt is among the nation’s leading producers of student Fulbright grant winners, with more than 150 undergraduate Fulbright winners since 1995. Pitt also is among the nation’s leading producers of Boren scholars, Whitaker International fellows, A landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Critical Language scholars and Humanity in Action fellows. 535-foot-tall Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh is the tallest academic building in the Western Hemisphere. 184 PITT FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE PITT FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE 185 THIS IS THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH • Senior faculty members have been elected to such prestigious groups as the Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts MEDIA INFORMATION & Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Clinical Investigation, National Academy of Education, American Academy of Nursing and National Academy of Sciences. And they have claimed some of the country’s most prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Science, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius award,” Charles S. Mott Prize in cancer research and Andrew 2016 PREVIEW W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award for exemplary contributions to humanistic studies. • In the 2015-16 academic year, faculty members won the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities’ Helmholtz Medal, the National Cancer Institute’s Outstanding Investigator Award and the Polymer Physics Prize from the American COACHING STAFF Physical Society. Faculty members also have been named “Rising Stars” of the Association for Psychological Science, fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of • The Panthers rank fourth among all schools with eight Science, members of the Association of American Physicians, inductees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Pitt’s gridiron legacy members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and also includes 24 College Hall of Famers, 90 first-team All- to Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” list of the brightest young America citations and nine national championships. minds in science. • Dominic Giordano became the first Pitt swimmer or diver to earn PLAYER PROFILES PLAYER • Since the beginning of this century, Pitt alumni have received a national title as he placed first on the 3-meter board at the the Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2016 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships with Pulitzer Prize for fiction, National Medal of Science, National a score of 460.30. Giordano and head diving coach Julian Krug Book Award, John Fritz Medal in engineering, Shaw Prize in Life were named the ACC Men’s Diver of the Year and ACC Men’s Science and Medicine, Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine Diving Coach of the Year, respectively, for their outstanding and Biomedical Research and many other high honors. efforts during the 2015-16 season. • In the most recent QS World University Rankings (2015-16), • Pitt is one of only eight programs to advance to the NCAA Men’s a ranking of the world’s top 800 universities, the University Basketball Tournament in 13 of the past 15 seasons (2002-16). 2015 SEASON IN REVIEW of Pittsburgh was ranked among the 40 best in the United States and 133rd in the world. QS World University Rankings • Pitt became the first team in ACC football history to have both by Subject 2016 also gave the top spot in the world to Pitt’s the ACC Offensive and Defensive Rookies of the Year in the philosophy department. same season. Jordan Whitehead was named the ACC Overall and Defensive Rookie of the Year by the league’s media, while • In the last decade, Pitt has drawn more than $6 billion in Qadree Ollison was voted the Offensive Rookie of the Year. The sponsored research dollars to the Pittsburgh region, with 2015- duo shared the league’s Overall Rookie of the Year honor as 16’s half-billion-dollar mark signifying a 20 percent increase voted on by the ACC coaches. in sponsored research from 2006. This is a clear sign that Pitt is building on its proud past, a legacy that includes developing • The Pitt gymnastics team made program history as the Panthers RECORD BOOK the vaccine that won this nation’s war against polio. scored a season-high 195.675 to win the EAGL Championship for the first time on March 19, 2016, at Fitzgerald Field House. • In 2012, Pitt surpassed its goal to raise $2 billion during its Lindsay Offutt led the team, winning titles on beam and in the historic capital campaign. Thanks to generous gifts received all-around. from more than 189,000 donors, the University was able to create more than 1,600 new endowments, including more than • Lindsay Offutt qualified for the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics 600 student scholarships and fellowships and more than 150 Championships on floor becoming the sixth Pitt gymnast to do PITT HISTORY new faculty chairs and professorships. so and the first since 2007 when Andrea Arlotta qualified in the all-around. Offutt, a two-time regional qualifier, tied for • Pitt ranks in the top 10 percent in teaching, the top 20 first overall at the 2016 Ann Arbor regional with a 9.900 on the percent in research and the top 10 percent in citations in the event and was named Northeast Regional Gymnast of the Year. 2016 edition of the Times Higher Education World University She became the fifth Panther to earn a regional title and the Rankings of the world’s top 800 universities. first since 2005 when Leila Tait took home the title on beam. PRO FOOTBALL • Pitt’s intercollegiate athletics history dates back to 1869, • Three Pitt student-athletes—Artie Rowell (football), Lindsay when the University began to field a baseball team. Today, Offutt (gymnastics) and Amanda Orchard (volleyball)—were Pitt sponsors 19 varsity sports with more than 450 student- selected as 2016 ACC Postgraduate Scholarship recipients. athletes vying for conference, regional and national honors. They were honored for having performed with distinction in both • Pitt boasts a rich Olympic history that includes gold-medal the classroom and their respective sport while demonstrating THIS IS PITT winning performances in track, and silver and bronze medals exemplary conduct in the community. in diving and basketball. 184 PITT FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE PITT FOOTBALL MEDIA GUIDE 185 ESPN.com and CBSSports.com, in fact, both recently named Pitt’s football uniforms the best in the ACC, with the former ranking the Panthers as one of the five best-looking teams in the “Power 5” conferences along with Michigan, Oregon, Baylor and LSU. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR SCOTT BARNES Entering his second year as the University of Pittsburgh’s Athletic Director, Scott Barnes continues to drive an ambitious vision for the Panthers. Built on the stated goals of “inspiring pride and building champions,” this vision has mobilized Pitt people nationwide and has the Panthers poised for a new era of athletic and academic excellence. Barnes invested a significant amount of his initial 12 months at Pitt engaging and listening to student-athletes, staff, alumni and supporters. Within days of arriving in Pittsburgh, he launched the inaugural Panthers Fans Experience Committee, a group that has served as the pulse of the Pitt fan. Midway through his first year, Barnes hosted a Pitt Town Hall Meeting, during which he outlined the current state of the athletic department, discussed future goals and answered any and all questions from the nearly 500 people in attendance.
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