RMU in the News: Robert Morris University

A monthly selection of media coverage of Robert Morris University during the previous month.

FEBRUARY 2015

The RMU School of Business Building was featured in University Business magazine with other high-tech business school facilities:

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/3abcd269#/3abcd269/30

The nursing trip to Nicaragua was front and center in this Beaver County Times article about life-changing study abroad experiences:
http://tinyurl.com/oru8cc5

Men's Health magazine quoted Jill Maher, university professor of marketing, an expert on food marketing and labeling:
http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/is-juice-healthy

WESA-FM featured the work and expertise of its go-to economist, Brian O'Roark:
http://wesa.fm/post/rmu-professor-uses-music-videos-teach-economics

http://wesa.fm/post/what-do-unemployment-numbers-really-mean

Cyber security expert Karen Paullet answered the call when KDKA-TV needed an expert to talk about Anthem's data breach:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/02/05/health-insurers-hospitals-vulnerable-to-cyber-attack-say-experts/

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shined a light that the RMU Island Sports Center has played in the growing popularity of youth ice hockey:
http://tinyurl.com/lobbbzm

And speaking of the ISC, it hosted the Israel Canada Hockey School, trying to bring peace to the Middle East one power play at a time:
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/penguins/2015/02/24/Canada-Israel-Hockey-School-feature/stories/201502240073

RMU was featured in several stories in the Post-Gazette about making a college degree affordable:

http://tinyurl.com/qe5wyjl

http://tinyurl.com/ooqh7pr

http://tinyurl.com/oc6gtt2

The Post-Gazette called on health care economist Steve Foreman for an article about the West Penn Allegheny Health System's first recent operating profit:
http://tinyurl.com/m78ewq9

John Clark, university professor of sport management, talked to the Post-Gazette for this story about professional caddies' lawsuit against the PGA:
http://tinyurl.com/kndlhbd

Marketing Professor Gayle Marco talked to the Pittsburgh Business Times about the declining appeal of shopping malls in light of violence at Monroeville Mall:
http://tinyurl.com/p9py8zx

Kirstyn Kameg, who overess the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program, talked to the Post-Gazette about genetic medicine:
http://tinyurl.com/o8ngub6

And Michael Quigley, program director of the Black Male Leadership Development Institute, spoke to the New Pittsburgh Quarterly about high rates of incarceration among people not yet convicted of a crime:
http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2015/02/26/report-60-percent-of-jail-inmates-unconvicted/

RMU got some attention for its early plans to build a convocation center:
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2015/02/26/rmu-seeking-15m-in-state-assistance-to-build.html

http://tinyurl.com/kepc7nh

The Beaver County Times covered RMU's Black History Month panel on pro sports:
http://tinyurl.com/pmv972m

Adjunct professor Matthew Conboy got some press for his project to give artwork to newborns:
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourcarlynton/yourcarlyntonmore/7628556-74/hospital-clair-art#axzz3QmgrWIkQ

http://tinyurl.com/ntvabxe

http://www.popcitymedia.com/features/startwithartfeature_020415.aspx

RMU Sentry Media gave readers an update on the presidential search:
http://www.rmusentrymedia.com/news/2015/02/24/presidential-search-committee-teams-with-wittkieffer/

Athletics

Men's Basketball

The Floor General (2/5/15): https://robertmorris.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1733924&PT=4&PR=2

RMU Lucky To Have Jones Back So Soon (2/12/15): http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/rmu/2015/02/12/Robert-Morris-lucky-to-have-Jones-back-so-soon/stories/201502120251

Robert Morris Searching For Defensive Consistency (2/12/15): http://www.timesonline.com/your_school/college/robert_morris/robert-morris-searching-for-defensive-consistency/article_3a0a313e-b22c-11e4-807d-a3e41f4fc23e.html

Stating His Case (2/12/15): https://robertmorris.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1736388&PT=4&PR=2

Late Run Dooms Robert Morris (2/12/15): http://triblive.com/sports/college/collegegalleries/7732949-74/half-brooklyn-liu#axzz3TFncnWcz

Another Second-Half Collapse Leads to RMU Loss (2/12/15): http://www.timesonline.com/sports/college/basketball/another-second-half-collapse-leads-to-rmu-loss/article_884c663c-b335-11e4-9ac1-4379dc2e6d36.html