Angie Cruz won 2 recent literary prizes

The associate professor of English received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was named a United States Artists fellow.

‘The Blair Witch Project’ archive has joined Pitt’s Horror Studies Collection

See props, original marketing materials and more on display at the University Library System’s Archives and Special Collections Exhibit Gallery.

Sam Woolley received funding for his Communication Technology Research Lab

The $200,000 award comes from Omidyar Network, and will support Woolley’s work in improving digital literary.

A podcast by 2 Pitt professors is among the year’s best, according to the New York Times

“Cement City” is a series documenting the English professor’s experience living in Donora, Pennsylvania, once a manufacturing hub.

Chas Bonasorte, Pitt football’s ‘Kamikaze Kid’ and owner of famed Pitt apparel kiosk, died at 70

After his career on the field, Bonasorte became a fixture on the Pittsburgh campus with his clothing kiosk at Forbes and Bigelow.

Joy Priest won an Advancing Black Arts Award

The Pittsburgh Foundation awarded the Pitt assistant professor $50,000 for her forthcoming poetry anthology, “The Black Outside.”

5 teams took home prizes in Pitt’s Sustainability in Healthcare Challenge

Faculty members in the School of Medicine and Swanson School of Engineering earned $40,000 each to fund their winning projects.

Tony Carey won an American Political Science Association mentor award

He earned this year’s Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for working with Latino junior faculty.

Raed El Rafei’s new film will premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

The assistant professor returned to his Lebanon hometown to create “Tripoli/A Tale of Three Cities.”

Tao Han was honored by the American Physical Society

The Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics was recognized with the annual Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award.