Pitt’s Office of Public Affairs Wins Five Awards At 49th Annual Golden Quill Awards Ceremony

The University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Public Affairs won five Golden Quill Awards and was a finalist for three additional awards during The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania’s 49th annual Golden Quill Awards Ceremony, held May 13 at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel.

The Golden Quill Awards honor professional excellence in written, photographic, broadcast, and online journalism in Western Pennsylvania.

Pitt Magazine Senior Editor Ervin Dyer won a Golden Quill Award for his article “Still We Rise” in the History/Culture, Magazines category. Another of Dyer’s Pitt Magazine stories, “The Helper,” also won a Golden Quill in the Profile Feature, Magazines category.

Pitt Senior News Representative B. Rose Huber won a Golden Quill in the History/Culture, Nondaily Newspapers category for her Pitt Chronicle article “YRBFYR OTHN: Nicholas Rescher Resurrects History’s First Sophisticated Wartime Coding Machine.” Huber was a finalist in the Health/Science/Environment, Nondaily Newspapers category for her Pitt Chronicle article “Like a Noisy Political Campaign, Grassroots Neurons Wire and Fire Together for Dominance in the Brain.”

University News and Magazines Art Director Gary Kohr-Cravener and freelance photographer Harry Giglio won a Golden Quill in the Best Cover Design/Magazines category for Pitt Magazine’s Winter 2012 edition.

Pitt Med magazine Senior Editor Joe Miksch won a Golden Quill in the Health/Science/Environment Feature, Magazines category for the Pitt Med article “The Meaning of Life, Told With 13 Polypeptides: Mighty Mitochondria Energize the Cell, and Much More.”

Also in the Health/Science/Environment Feature, Magazines category, Pitt Director of University News Cara Masset was a finalist for her Pitt Magazine article “Perfect Fit.”

In the Health/Science/Environment, Online category, Pitt Med Associate Editor Elaine Vitone was a finalist for the Pitt Med podcast “Tinnitus: A Pitt Medcast.”

During the ceremony, Pitt alumnus Nancy C. Jones (A&S ’56) was honored with the Press Club’s prestigious Service to Journalism Award in recognition of her nearly 40-year career as a practicing journalist and journalism educator. Fellow Pitt alumnus Susan Brozek Scott (A&S ’80) served as the event’s mistress of ceremonies.

The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization of journalists and other communications professionals from a 29-county area of Western Pennsylvania.