NAWRS 2017 in Pittsburgh!
We are excited to announce that Pittsburgh has been chosen as the location for the 2017 NAWRS Workshop!
Tentative dates are July 30-August 2, 2017. Pencil us in! A confirmation of the dates with hotel information will be released in the next month or so.
What’s great about Pittsburgh?
- The Economist and Money magazine named Pittsburgh the most livable city in the U.S.
- Home of Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh,Duquesne University, and 37 other institutions of higher learning as well as 14 hospital systems, Pittsburgh embodies the new “eds and meds” economy.
- The tech sector is also bursting, with offices for Google, IBM, Amazon, Duolingo, Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, and more…
- Visitors can get gorgeous views of this city on three rivers from one of Pittsburgh’s 446 bridges or from the top of Mount Washington!
- Pittsburgh is home to professional football, baseball, hockey teams, with arenas a stadiums walkable from downtown.
- Arts and culture are alive and well, with professional opera, theater, dance, and 32 museums. Don’t miss the Andy Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory, and the Carnegie museums.
- And the food! Pittsburgh not only offers authentic pierogies and the Primanti Brothers’ sandwich, which famously features french fries in it, the city also has a growing foodie culture; it was ranked by Zagat at the #1 best food city of 2015.
- We are pleased that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services is an enthusiastic NAWRS partner.
We hope you are looking forward to NAWRS 2017 as much as we are!
