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April 28, 2011

Senate election results announced

Michael R. Pinsky has been re-elected for a third term as president of the University Senate. Pinsky is professor of critical care medicine, bioengineering and anesthesiology in the School of Medicine.

Patricia M. Weiss, reference and information technology librarian, Health Sciences Library System, was re-elected for a second term as vice president.

Pinsky and Weiss ran unopposed.

Linda Frank, associate professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, won election as secretary, defeating incumbent Laura Fonzi.

Officers serve one-year terms beginning July 1.

New Faculty Assembly members also were elected. They are:

School of Arts and Sciences

• Humanities: John Lyon, German; Neepa Majumdar, English.

• Natural Sciences: Don Chiarulli, computer science.

• Social Sciences: David Barker, political science; Daniel Berkowitz, economics.

Professional schools

• Business: Kimberly Gleason.

• Education: Cindy Tananis.

• Law: Sallie Smith.

• Information Sciences: Roger Flynn.

• Public and International Affairs: Clyde Mitchell-Weaver.

Schools of the Health Sciences

• Dental Medicine: John Close.

• Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: David Beck.

• Health Sciences Library System: Liping Song.

• Public Health: Carol Redmond.

• Pharmacy: Susan Skledar.

• Nursing: Michael Neft.

• Medicine: James T. Becker; Gilles Clermont; L. Dade Lunsford.

There were no openings this year for new Assembly members from the Swanson School of Engineering, the School of Social Work or the University Library System.

Pitt’s Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville campuses elect their own representatives to Faculty Assembly.

Newly elected members to Faculty Assembly serve the first year of their three-year terms on the Assembly; during their second and third years, they serve on both the faculty-only Assembly and on Senate Council, which includes faculty, staff, students and administrators. Elections for new members of the Senate’s 15 standing committees continue until midnight May 1. Only Faculty Assembly members are eligible to vote.

For more information, contact the Senate office at 4-6505.

—Peter Hart


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