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Announcing Pitt’s newest Critical Language Scholar
Elaina Hopkins in the School of Public and International Affairs will spend time in Turkey during the immersive language program.
2 Pitt English faculty won a Spencer Foundation grant
Jialei Jiang and Xiqiao Wang received $60,000 to conduct translingual research.
Forbes has named Pitt a ‘New Ivy’
The University made the magazine’s list of 10 public universities graduating students that business leaders want to hire.
4 Pitt-Greensburg faculty received President's Distinguished Awards
Celebrate the winners’ accomplishments in teaching, service and professional development at Honors Convocation on April 11.
4 Pitt faculty won the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
This year’s recipients will be honored at 3 p.m. March 26.
6 Pitt people were named Pittsburgh Business Times Women of Influence
The annual honor recognizes the region’s most impactful businesswomen.
Lise Vesterlund will receive an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Business School
Pitt’s Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics will give a lecture on March 21 in celebration of the honor.
Alumna Susan Silvestri will receive Pitt-Bradford’s Presidential Medal of Distinction
The founding member of the Pitt-Bradford Alumni Association will be honored at the campus’ commencement ceremony on May 4.
Alumnus Yvon Woappi will speak at Pitt-Bradford’s commencement on May 4
The Columbia University professor researching wound healing and regeneration will also receive an Alumni Award of Distinction.
Annette Vee will pen a newsletter series on AI and teaching
The associate professor has partnered with publisher W.W. Norton to explore topics around artificial intelligence.
Pitt was recertified as a HeartSafe Campus
The National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation recognizes schools for offering AED and CPR trainings and other heart-healthy initiatives.
Alum Alex Firestine is Pitt’s first Luce scholar
As part of the program, he will spend a year in Asia learning about language, culture and sustainable food systems.
David Waldeck was honored by the American Chemical Society
The distinguished professor of chemistry earned the Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry for his work researching chiral-induced spin selectivity.
Pitt’s Office of the Provost has appointed 2 new faculty fellows
Shelome Gooden and David Sanchez will contribute to faculty mentoring and humanities research, respectively.
Amir Alavi was named editor-in-chief of a new Nature Portfolio journal
The B.P. America Faculty Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will lead npj Metamaterials.
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.
Pitt is among the top 50 universities at producing research that leads to patents
The University ranked No. 43 on Clarivate’s list of universities powering global innovation.
Kamesha Spates was invited to speak at the Association for Addiction Professionals
She joined a panel of experts to discuss addressing suicide among the Black community.
Evan Schneider has been named a Sloan Research fellow
The assistant professor of physics and astronomy is using supercomputers to understand the processes that shape galaxies.
UCTL leader Michael Bridges will retire from Pitt in June
As executive director of the University Center for Teaching and Learning, he’s kept Pitt on the cutting-edge of best practices in educational information technologies.
