Accolades & Honors
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Pitt was ranked a top 50 Best Global University
Pitt landed at No. 47 on the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking.
6 rising African American alumni will be recognized at the Sankofa Homecoming farewell brunch
Read more about the outstanding grads being honored by Pitt’s African American Alumni Council.
Pitt’s African American Alumni Council will honor 5 during Homecoming 2019
Read more about the alumni, who have excelled in their careers and carved a national footprint with outstanding contributions to society and the University community.
Willa Doswell was named a Woman of Excellence by the New Pittsburgh Courier
Doswell will be recognized at a luncheon in downtown Pittsburgh on Dec. 12, 2019.
Michel Gobat was honored for his book by the American Historical Association
Gobat will receive the Friedrich Katz Prize for “Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America.”
Pitt has named 3 new Distinguished Alumni Fellows
Howard W. Hanna Jr. and siblings Simone Myers Karp and Lloyd N. Myers have received the highest alumni honor conferred by the University of Pittsburgh and its Alumni Association.
Carolyn Carlins Keller received a Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 Award
Keller serves as operations manager for the Carnegie Project on the education doctorate program housed within Pitt’s School of Education.
2 Pitt faculty members won a documentary feature award
Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon were recognized for “Making Montgomery Clift.”
Lauren O. Wallace was recognized on Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 Under 40 list
She’s a two-time alumna, director of recruitment for the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, and pursuing her EdD.
Ervin Dyer received a Pulitzer Center international reporting grant
Pitt Magazine’s senior editor will use the grant to report from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on an emerging and innovative urban church and its pastor.
The Pitt Innovation Challenge awarded $460K for novel health care solutions
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute incentivized solutions for problems known to impact rural health disparities by offering an additional bonus award up to $25,000.
A recent forum focused on Pittsburgh as a leader in advancing UN sustainable development goals
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Ann E. Cudd participated in a forum with regional leaders to share accomplishments and commitments to help improve our part of the planet.
Pitt’s newest school is building its expertise with new faculty
Founding Dean Paul Cohen praised the faculty members’ “commitment to furthering SCI’s mission of making the world a better place through polymathic education and the science of interacting systems.”
Cayla Ray will receive Pitt-Greensburg’s Young Alumni Leadership Award
She is currently serving her pediatric dental residency at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Pitt’s Hesselbein Global Academy celebrated its 11th year
The event gathered 42 delegates from 12 countries and 11 U.S. states for an intensive learning and civic engagement experience at the University of Pittsburgh.
Pitt’s Center for Urban Education will house the journal Educational Researcher
Dana Thompson Dorsey will be one of the journal’s five senior editors situated across the country.
14 Pitt students were named Millennium Fellows
This term-long leadership development program takes place on selected campuses worldwide, celebrating student leadership that advances the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
2 Pitt people received grants from National Endowment for the Humanities
David Birnbaum and Kathryn Haines earned funding in digital humanities and American history, respectively.
Maureen Porter received the David Portlock Outstanding International Educator Award
The associate professor was honored by the Pennsylvania Council of International Education.
Professor Emerita Toi Derricotte earned a Modern Language Association award
Derricotte received the award along with the colleague with whom she founded Cave Canem, a national poetry organization that cultivates “the artistic and professional growth of African American poets
