Faculty & Staff Spotlight

Based on a study completed last fall by Dr. Antony Davies, associate professor of economics, and John Pulito, Duquesne student and Commonwealth Foundation Research Fellow, State Rep. Mike Turzai has introduced legislation to privatize wine and spirits sales in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Mary Mihalyo, assistant professor of pharmacy, recently was named Medical Honoree of the Year by the Jefferson County Fourth Street Clinic in Steubenville, Ohio. For the past four years, Mihalyo and a team of students from the Mylan School of Pharmacy have worked in collaboration with the clinic medical staff, providing medication management services to uninsured and underserved residents of Jefferson County. She also operates a monthly pharmaceutical care clinic at the health center that provides drug information services to clinic staff and health screenings, diabetes and hypertension monitoring to patients, along with other information and education services.

David Allen Wehr, Jack Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair, served as the chairman of a four-person competition jury in the second annual King Award for Young Artists music competition held by the Salina Symphony in Salina, Kansas, on April 16 and 17.