Robert Schoenberg, the founding director of the Penn LGBT Center, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers at their 2018 Social Work Conference on September 13. The award recognized his advocacy and impact on social policy in his more than 40 years as a member of the chapter. Dr. Schoenberg, the first director of the LGBT Center, was named director of the center at its founding in 1982, serving for 35 years until his retirement in October 2017 at the LGBT Center’s 35th anniversary celebration (Almanac October 3, 2017).