$4 Million Gift Transforms Nursing Education Facility

1 April 2026

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Duquesne University has opened a new nursing training facility funded by a $4 million donation from Bill Conway Jr., founder of private equity firm The Carlyle Group. The facility is named in memory of his late wife, Joanne Barkett Conway.

Conway, also the benefactor behind the Bedford Falls Foundation, said the growing demand for nurses and the meaningful impact they have on patients motivated his support for nursing education. He noted that witnessing nurses at work over the past 15 years has been personally rewarding, and that the donation felt like a fitting tribute to his wife.

Read the full story from the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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