University Times

James V. Maher, Pitt provost and senior vice chancellor, will be the keynote speaker at the 34th annual honors convocation, to be held at 3 p.m. Feb. 26 in Carnegie Music Hall.

The convocation recognizes faculty accomplishments; staff service; undergraduate, graduate and professional student academic achievement, and student leadership.

Maher, who plans to step down from his current position when a successor is named and return to the Pitt faculty, has been Pitt’s chief academic officer since 1994.

Prior to becoming provost, Maher was chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He came to Pitt in 1970 as an assistant professor of physics.

He served as director of Pitt’s Scaife Nuclear Physics Laboratory and has been a longstanding resident fellow of the University’s Center for Philosophy of Science.