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A book chronicling the rich 50-year history of Pitt-Bradford has been published, and current president Dr. Livingston Alexander and former president Dr. Richard E. McDowell will autograph copies at a book signing next week on campus. 

Dr. Fang-Yi “Flora”Wei, associate professor of communications, has received the 2014 Chairs’ Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. 

The Center for Rural Health Practice at Pitt-Bradford is asking community members to go online and vote for a proposed project that is competing against other semi-finalists for a $100,000 grant. 

Pitt-Bradford’s Sustainability Committee is sponsoring a poster and video competition for students in honor of Earth Day. 

The popular annual lecture by Dr. Marvin Thomas, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will examine the events that led to the start of World War I. 

A new program at Pitt-Bradford will offer $1,000 scholarships to qualifying high school students currently enrolled in its College in the High School courses. 

Pitt-Bradford has created a new award for qualifying students from Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties in New York that will reduce their tuition costs, enabling them to pay standard Pennsylvania tuition rather than higher out-of-state rates.  

Pitt-Bradford will hold its ninth Empty Bowls and Baskets Dinner of homemade soup and bread to raise awareness of the fight against hunger and to raise money for The Friendship Table.

Pitt-Bradford has received three awards – one gold and two silver -- from the national Collegiate Advertising Awards Program for 2013-14, which recognizes colleges and universities for excellence in communications, marketing, advertising and promotions. 

Kelcey Schaum, a psychology major, will present research at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association next week in Boston.