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By Julian Routh | Asst. News Editor

Professor receives faculty fellowship

Norm Conti, assistant professor in the sociology department and the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy, will be recognized as the University’s 2013 Gaultier Faculty Fellow during a reception on Tuesday.

With the fellowship, Conti will work with faculty peers to develop a service-learning think-tank around incarceration.

New chair of IRB announced

Linda Goodfellow, associate professor of nursing, will replace Joseph Kush as the new chair of the Institutional Review Board, which corporates all activities surrounding student and faculty research, in August.

Goodfellow served as interim director of Duquesne’s Center for Nursing Research from 2006-2010.