{"id":290185,"date":"2026-09-20T08:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:58:15","slug":"duquesne-university-faculty-member-killed-in-flooding-that-devastated-nepal-china-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290185\/","title":{"rendered":"Duquesne University faculty member killed in flooding that devastated Nepal-China border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Duquesne University faculty member was killed in the devastating floods and mudslides along the Nepal-China border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In a letter shared with Channel 11 on Saturday, Duquesne University President David Dausey announced the death of Mark Cantrell of the John G. Rangos Sr. School of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Cantrell\u2019s career reportedly brought him around the globe, working to improve health care access for various populations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cHis work in diplomacy, with USAID, with the United Nations and numerous other agencies not only was admirable but also provided our students context and insights that will continue to inform and inspire how they think about their own work serving others,\u201d Dausey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">As of Friday, the Aug. 26 floods had killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet, with around 5,000 people still reported missing, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Duquesne University faculty member was killed in the devastating floods and mudslides along the Nepal-China&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6201,120456,10152,17841,120449,120451,120453,120452,21682,120450,115239,115152,49547,73,75,74,33271,120454,120455],"class_list":["post-290185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-china","tag-china-floods","tag-duquesne","tag-duquesne-university","tag-duquesne-university-faculty-member","tag-duquesne-university-professor","tag-duquesne-university-professor-dies","tag-duquesne-university-professor-killed","tag-flooding","tag-mark-cantrell","tag-nepal","tag-nepal-floods","tag-nurse","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-professor","tag-professor-killed","tag-professor-killed-in-flooding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}