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The grant will support the creation of a Digital Storytelling Lab to empower young people to share their life experiences.
The School of Nursing has been recognized as one of just 21 NLN Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for 2025.
Fundraising is underway for a new Forbes Avenue facility that will consolidate programs, favorably locate clinical services and strengthen Duquesne’s role in regional health care
Dr. David J. Dausey, a nationally recognized leader in higher education and public health, has been appointed as the University’s 14th president.
A published paper from researchers at Duquesne and Pitt documents contamination of residential well water in New Freeport, Pa., water wells following a frac out event in June 2022.
When Kacie Garofalo, B’26, removed her shoes after her last high school cheerleading competition, she knew she wasn’t done with sports—she had too much passion. Now a sports marketing, management and business analytics triple major, Kacie’s fulfilling her dreams without ever narrowing her ambitions.
For more than two decades, Dr. Norman Conti has taught lessons that go far beyond the classroom, taking higher education inside prison walls. K-LOVE tells the story about how Duquesne students and incarcerated students learn together.
“I aspire to be a college professor at a small liberal arts school where I can
be very involved and help students inside and outside the classroom. I want to be
very involved in whatever community I’m in.”
Every professor I have is for us and cares about our education. They want to
make sure we're comfortable in class and want to know what they can do to help us.
“Anything I need, I go in the Liberal Arts office and they guide me. They prepare
me for interviews, and when I got my internship, they were some of the first people
I told.”
The STEM-based opportunities at Duquesne offer new and exciting challenges that
will increase my knowledge of medicine and serve me well when I enter medical school.
The faculty made me feel so welcomed. They were all very passionate about health
care and their classes and talked about networking and extracurricular activities,
too. The University really prepares students to excel in their careers and make meaningful
contributions to society.
That was the moment where I thought, 'Oh my gosh, what I'm doing really matters.
I'm giving this young person an opportunity to share what he's thinking and what he's
been through in a safe space through music.
It seems like I've done a lot in a year, but it's been a lot of good stuff in
that time. I feel like I just got here.
What's really great about swimming is you're so busy that you have to be good
at time management, and I am very lucky to have a lot of resources here at Duquesne.
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Duquesne President Ken Gormley has announced that the University has appointed W. Thomas McGough, Jr., recently retired executive vice president and chief legal officer of UPMC, as a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Law and Medicine.
Duquesne University will recognize the Class of 2025 at Winter Commencement on Friday, Dec. 19, at 11 a.m. in the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, celebrating graduates poised to make a meaningful impact in their careers and communities.
Fundraising is underway for new Forbes Avenue facility that will consolidate programs, favorably locate clinical services, and strengthen Duquesne’s role in regional health care.