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Some Pitt-Bradford students may be seeing quite a bit of each other even after they graduate on Sunday, having been hired by the same employer or headed to the same graduate school.

Dr. Om Singh, associate professor of biology, will receive the inaugural President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship and Service during commencement exercises Sunday afternoon.

Dr. Ronald Mattis, associate professor of engineering, has received the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford's 2015 Chairs' Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching.

Craig Hartburg, chairman of Pitt-Bradford's Advisory Board since 2005, will receive the Presidential Medal of Distinction, the university's highest honor, at this year's commencement ceremony.

Pitt-Bradford will hold a special preview screening of "The Marquee on Main Street," an independent film written and directed by 1996 broadcast communications graduate Chester Lampman.

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford not only reached its $17.5 million campaign goal -- the most successful fundraising campaign in the university’s 51-year history – but surpassed it by more than $2 million.

Divia Thani Daswani, a Pitt-Bradford alumna who launched India's leading luxury travel magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, and serves as its editor-in-chief, will be the keynote speaker at the 2015 Commencement ceremony in April.

Pitt-Bradford has reached its Fifty and Beyond Capital Campaign goal of $17.5 million and will host a community celebration on March 27 to celebrate the completion of the most successful campaign in its history.

Pitt-Bradford is one of 163 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grant.

Pitt-Bradford will host the 10th 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.