Mark Nootbaar

The Orland Bethel Family Foundation, a powerful supporter of the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has committed an additional $53.5 million to expand the Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC). The gift, which brings giving from the Bethel family to nearly $100 million in the last five years, will grow the center’s research, innovation and training efforts.

For more than five decades, the Tansky name has been a fixture on the University’s Pittsburgh campus, and in honor of the family’s most recent $750,000 gift to the University Library System, it will forever be part of the Hillman Library. Pitt will celebrate the naming of the Tansky Family Commons on the main floor of the newly renovated library. It echoes the space on the first floor of the William Pitt Union that also carries the Tansky name. The University officially dedicated the space on Sept.

Imagine a woman sipping a Pepsi as she drives her Cadillac to the Victoria’s Secret Angels fashion show, sporting Ralph Lauren clothes and perfect Estée Lauder makeup. That woman just might be the personification of Tracey Travis’ career. “I’ve enjoyed every place that I’ve worked, and they’ve all been very different experiences,” says Travis.