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The Pitt News' business and ads teams win national awards
The daily student newspaper took home more than a dozen awards at the National Advertising Awards Competition.
Keisha N. Blain receives a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship
The fellowship supports individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement who are committed to a career in teaching and research at the university level.
Pitt establishes a new chair of Indian studies
The position will rotate among scholars from India, who will teach in different Pitt departments, for the next five years.
Rachel Kranson was honored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
The assistant professor earned an honorable mention for her book "Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America."
4 faculty were chosen for the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
The professors in Pitt's Dietrich School were chosen for their commitment to mentoring and working with doctoral students.
Swanson School names 2018 Covestro Distinguished Lecturer
Presented annually by Pitt’s Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, the series recognizes excellence in chemical education, outreach and research.
Todd Reeser was awarded a fellowship to conduct work in France
The highly competitive fellowship will provide him time to write his next book “Transgender France” and conduct archival work.
HIV Prevention and Care Project marks a quarter century of work
The project has helped Pennsylvania set the national standard for integrated HIV planning.
Elaine Mormer received a Pennsylvania Speech-Language Hearing Association award
The audiology clinical education coordinator educates Pitt's health service staff about hearing loss and supervises students.
Dennis Doyle is among 20 Beinecke Scholars nationally
The junior will receive $4,000 now and $30,000 to pursue an MFA after graduating in April 2019.
Four Pitt undergraduates received Goldwater Scholarship honorable mentions
The program encourages thousands of students each year to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
Erika Forbes and Jennifer Silk were named Association for Psychological Science Fellows
Their election places them among the country’s most lauded researchers and teachers with over a decade of postdoctoral contributions.
Philosophy and library management among Pitt highlights in international ranking
The University of Pittsburgh was one of 22 institutions with at least one subject ranked at No. 1 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018.
Department of Energy-backed research aims to boost Rust Belt manufacturers
Professor Götz Veser will lead the projects, with funding totaling nearly $10 million.
Pitt Nursing programs are ranked No. 1 in Pennsylvania and Top 10 in nation
The University's doctorate and master's programs moved up in the U.S. News and World Report list of graduate schools.
A new issue of student-run publication The Pitt Pulse is live
Find pieces about medical care for prison inmates, flu vaccines, what brain scientists have to say about the 2016 election and more.
David Beck was named an American Academy of Physician Assistants Distinguished Fellow
The honor is bestowed upon an elite group of less than 1% of practicing PAs.
2 Pitt teams will compete in the Rice Business Plan Competition
Both teams have been honing their entrepreneurial skills through Innovation Institute programs.
Pitt Med students celebrate Match Day
Ten students matched in orthopaedics and nine matched in psychiatry, the highest ever for those specialties.
17 Pitt students were awarded Personalized Education Grants
The awards fund engagement in tailored educational activities that reflect each student’s unique identities, experiences, interests, abilities and aspirations.
