Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence

Cara J. Hayden (center), associate editor of Pitt Magazine, received the Carnegie Science Center’s 2007 Award for Excellence in the Journalism category. Pictured, from left, at the awards ceremony are Karen Hoffmann, a communications manager in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences; Gary A. Cravener, art director in the Pitt Office of Public Affairs’ Department of News and Magazines; Hayden; Pitt Magazine Editor Cindy Gill; and Robert Hill, Pitt vice chancellor for Public Affairs.

Other recipients of Carnegie Science Center 2007 Awards for Excellence from Pitt were Sanjeev Shroff, Professor and Gerald McGinnis Chair in Bioengineering and a professor of medicine (the awardee in the University/Post-Secondary Educator category); Eric J. Beckman and Gena M. Kovalcik, codirectors of the Pitt School of Engineering’s Mascaro Sustainability Institute (Environmental category); Harvey S. Borovetz, professor and chair of Pitt’s Department of Bioengineering, Robert L. Hardesty Professor in the surgery department, and professor of chemical and petroleum engineering (Life Sciences category); and Pitt chemistry professor Kay M. Brummond (Emerging Female Scientists category).