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Pitt Students Win Gold Medal in Genetically Engineered Machine Competition

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Department of Biological Sciences

Pitt Faculty Working with U.S. Air Force on Materials Research

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

W. Paul Duprex to Lead Center for Vaccine Research

  • Center for Vaccine Research
  • School of Medicine

Nursing’s Rosemary Hoffman Wins Educator Leader Award

  • School of Nursing

Three Pitt Professors Named to National Academy of Inventors Senior Members Class

  • Innovation Institute
  • Department of Bioengineering
  • Department of Plastic Surgery
  • Department of Surgery
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering

The Pitt News Wins 15 Pennsylvania Media Awards

Ivet Bahar Receives Congratulations from Consul General of the Republic of Turkey on Her Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Bahar is the first female member of the academy from Turkey, and the Turkish official visited Pitt earlier this month to commemorate her achievement.

  • School of Medicine
  • Drug Discovery Institute
  • Department of Computational and Systems Biology

Business and Operations Names Victoria Lancaster and Rebecca Roadman to Leadership Roles

School of Medicine’s Roderick Tan Wins Grant to Research Blood Vessels in Kidney

Roderick Tan, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Renal-Electrolyte at Pitt’s Department of Medicine, has been awarded the 2018 Edith H. Blattner Grant Young Investigator Grant from the

  • School of Medicine

Chad Jurica Recognized for Professional Achievement

Six Pitt Students Finalists for Critical Language Scholarship

Six finalists for the U.S. Department of State’s 2021 Critical Language Scholarship are students at the University of Pittsburgh—five undergraduate and one graduate. The finalists are: Nathan Aaron

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Education
  • School of Medicine

Pitt Is on a Mission to Become Coffee U

School of Pharmacy’s Janice L. Pringle Earns Grant for New Program

Janice L. Pringle, professor in Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, recently received a grant to develop “Online Learning Communities: Mobile Application for Physicians and First Responders from the PA

  • School of Pharmacy

Alyson Stover Receives Occupational Therapy Advocacy Award

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Department of Occupational Therapy

Natalie Leland Receives NIH Grant for Medicare Payment Research

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Department of Occupational Therapy

Pitt Debate Places in National Tournament

Two teams from the Pitt Policy Debate organization qualified for and competed in the National Debate Tournament (NDT) at the end of March. Qualifying for the National Debate Tournament is no easy feat

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Three Pitt Professors Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

  • Department of History and Philosophy of Science
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Fortune Ranks Katz MBA No. 7 for Online Programs

The part-time MBA program at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business has been ranked the No. 7 online MBA program nationwide by Fortune’s first-ever ranking of this category, announced April 26

  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Health Policy Chair is Editor of New JAMA Journal

  • School of Public Health
  • Department of Health Policy and Management

Lawrence R. John Elected President of Pennsylvania Medical Society

  • School of Medicine