Furman alumna Lambert ’80 named Chatham U. president

Lisa Lambert, a 1980 Furman University biology alumna and longtime professor and administrator at Pittsburgh’s Chatham University, has been named the university’s 21st president. Lambert, who graduated Furman magna cum laude, was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in genetics at Indiana University-Bloomington in 1985, the same year she joined Chatham as a biology faculty member.

At Chatham, Lambert held several roles including chair of the science department, founding program director for the master’s biology program, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant vice president of undergraduate learning. She also served as provost and vice president of academic affairs and has filled the role of interim president since June.

Several media outlets covered the news including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, TribLIVE, WPXI Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Business Times.