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Pitt-Bradford plans to break ground next week on a $9.3 million, 109-bed residence hall.

Intercollegiate club hockey is coming to Pitt-Bradford this fall thanks to some fans of the wintry sport.

Pitt-Bradford has welcomed 11 new full-time faculty members for the 2013-14 academic year.

A new agreement between Pitt-Bradford and the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine allows Pitt-Bradford students to enroll in the early acceptance program at LECOM’s dental school.

Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford spent its summer writing, researching, making presentations, teaching abroad and publishing.

Christine Wolski, a 1991 graduate of the broadcast communications program, has won an Emmy Award from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

For the fifth year in a row, the Pitt-Bradford has been named a Military Friendly School by Victory Media.

The headline in The Era the morning of Oct. 16, 1962, was about as big a news story as Bradford had had since Yuri Gagarin circled the earth the year before. "Pitt to Open Up Area Campus Here" stretched across the top of the page in 100-point type.

On Oct. 16, 1962, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward Litchfield announced that Bradford had been selected as a location for a two-year regional campus to meet the education needs of the region. Four months later, on Feb. 4, 1963, Dr. Donald Swarts, then academic dean of the Johnstown Campus of the University of Pittsburgh, was named president of the new Bradford campus. His task was clear: Work with an advisory board and community leaders to open a new campus by September 1963.

Dr. Livingston Alexander, president of the Pitt-Bradford, knew there was one thing we definitely wanted to accomplish as part of the university's 50th anniversary commemoration.