UPG’s Wilson wins Senate presidency
Frank Wilson
A regional campus faculty member will preside over the University Senate for the first time in the organization’s history.
Frank Wilson, faculty member in administration of justice at Pitt-Greensburg, won the Senate presidency in the recently concluded election.
Irene Frieze, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, was re-elected as vice president, while Susan Skledar, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics who ran unopposed, was re-elected as secretary.
Frieze also served as Senate vice president 2003-05 and as president 2005-06.
The officers’ one-year terms begin July 1.
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Newly elected members serve the first year of their three-year terms on the Assembly. After that, they work on both the faculty-only Assembly and on Senate Council.
The following members were elected to Faculty Assembly:
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Humanities: Clark Muenzer, German.
Natural Sciences: Russell Clark and Eric Swanson, both of physics and astronomy.
Social sciences: Kristin Kanthak, political science; Luca Rigotti, economics.
Professional schools
Business: Jay Sukits.
Education: W. James Jacob.
Engineering: Patrick Loughlin.
Information sciences: Paul Munro.
Law: Ben Bratman.
Public and international affairs: Lisa Nelson.
Social work: Elizabeth (Beth) Mulvaney.
University Library System: Clare Withers.
Schools of the Health Sciences
Public health: Wes Rohrer.
Medicine: Kelly Stefano Cole; Jim Dewar; Karen Norris.
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Electronic voting for members of the Senate’s standing committees continues through 11:59 p.m. May 11 on my.pitt.edu.