Through annual lectures and a University-based archive spanning Thornburgh’s diverse career, the Forum is intended to develop program relationships with schools and departments across the University. Over the past several years, recent program offerings were held in partnership with the David C. Frederick Honors College, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Law, Center for International Legal Education, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, and the Global Studies Center, University Center for International Studies.
The Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law & Public Policy makes Faculty Academic support grants available designed to encourage both undergraduate and graduate faculty to expand relevant utilization of the extensive resources of the Dick Thornburgh Papers housed in the Archive Service Center. For more information and to apply please go to: Faculty Award Application
The Dick Thornburgh Undergraduate Summer Fellowships are available to support undergraduate research into issues of governance addressed in Dick Thornburgh’s long and eminent service in national and international leadership. For more information and to apply please go to: Student Award Application
The Dick Thornburgh Prize for Legal Service and the J. Evans Rose, Jr. Prize for Government Service award are each awarded annually to one law school student whose goal is to pursue a career in public service upon graduation. For more information and to apply please go to: Law School Award Application
The Dick Thornburgh Forum Disability Service Award is available each year to a University of Pittsburgh student from any campus whose service has made a difference in the lives of children and adults with disabilities.
The Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law & Public Policy will continue its mission of fostering public education and civic action on important public policy issues under the stewardship of Chancellor Emeritus Mark Nordenberg and the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics. Nordenberg, who chairs the Institute of Politics (IOP), succeeds Ed McCord, formerly the associate dean of the Honors College, who retired in 2018 after serving as the Forum’s director since 2010.