News

• RMU DNP student Christine Kavanaugh received the doctoral scholarship award from the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania. She's among seven recipients chosen out of over 150 applicants. Kavanaugh will be honored at the 30th Anniversary Awards Gala on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, at the Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey Hotel.
• Phi Mu Delta Fraternity received three national awards at their Sapphire Leadership Institute. Dylan Gaydos received the Robert C. Lomison Outstanding Undergraduate Award, while the chapter won the Perce R. Appleyard Award for Outstanding Community Service and 2019 Chapter of Excellence, given to the top four chapters.
• RMU in the News has been updated wth May's news media coverage of the university, including a heaping helping of stories about the UPMC Events Center.
• RMU student-athletes received recent academic honors, including the 2019 NEC Institutional Academic Award, owing to the fact that RMU student-athletes who compete in Northeast Conference sports combined to post a 3.432 GPA in 2018-2019. In addition, 23 members of the men's ice hockey team were named to the Atlantic Hockey Association's Academic All-American team, and five Colonials earned Student-Athlete of Year Honors.
• The university mourns the loss of Roger Gillan, associate professor emeritus of English, who passed away Tuesday from complications related to brain cancer. Roger was the longest-serving faculty member in the history of Robert Morris University, starting in 1966 and retiring in 2016. He was a founding member of the Faculty Federation and also served as its president. Roger attended numerous campus events, and even after his retirement, he remained a fixture at RMU, volunteering in the Writing Center up until this past spring. We are grateful for the thousands of lives Roger touched at Robert Morris, and we will miss his love of teaching and his devotion to this university. Read his obituary here.

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