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David Pettersen was inducted into French Order of the Academic Palms
The honor recognizes his efforts in establishing a faculty exchange between Pitt and the Université Lumière Lyon 2.
This Pitt duo won an award to research prosthetic improvements
Doug Weber and Lee Fisher are one of four Pitt teams to earn the National Institutes of Health award.
Pitt's Department of Occupational Therapy welcomes a new faculty member
Natalie Leland will serve as associate professor.
Peter Gianaros helped to create a new American Psychological Association health disparities report
The Pitt professor of psychology and psychiatry studies how the human brain influences and is influenced by physical health.
Announcing Pitt's 2018 Honors Convocation speaker
Dean Brian Primack will address students, faculty and guests at the Feb. 23 ceremony.
2 Pitt psychologists were awarded for early career achievement
Tristen Inagaki and Jamie Hanson have been named 2017 Rising Stars by the Association for Psychological Science.
Melanoma research gets a financial boost
The Woiner Foundation of Pittsburgh recently donated $50,000 to the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center’s Melanoma and Skin Cancer Treatment Program.
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski was named an officer of the Medieval Academy of America
The Pitt distinguished professor studies French medieval literature and culture.
Marlene Cohen received a National Academy of Sciences award
The associate professor of neuroscience earned the $75,000 grant for her research into how the brain encodes and processes visual information to make quick decisions.
Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
The co-director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics is one of 36 literary professionals to earn the 2018 Creative Writing Fellowship.
Associate Dean Minking Chyu was presented with a distinguished service professor medallion
University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and Provost Patricia E. Beeson recently presented the Swanson School of Engineering's Minking Chyu with a medallion recognizing his appointment as
Mervat Abdelhak was named to an information management organization's board
The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences department chair will serve the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education.
University of Pittsburgh Press book receives a flutter of praise
“Butterflies of Pennsylvania: A Field Guide” was recognized with a 2017 National Outdoor Book Award.
Pitt computer engineers won the Best Paper Award at an international big data conference
The paper describes how automated machine reading can be used to pore over volumes of research and use that information to create models for understanding biological processes.
Diane Litman was named an Association for Computational Linguistics Fellow
The director of Pitt's Intelligent Systems Program is one of six recognized for contributions to the field.
The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine was honored for 25 years of accomplishments
The Pitt institute received a citation from the commonwealth and an Innovation Award from the Pittsburgh Business Times.
Gerald Holder will receive a Distinguished Service Award
Pitt's U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering and Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering is being honored by the Pittsburgh chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers.
Here's who won the student pitch competitions at Blast Furnace Demo Day
Seventeen teams of student entrepreneurs vied for $4,000 in cash awards at the December competition.
H. Richard Milner IV was named to Education Week's annual scholar ranking
The Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education was included in the 2018 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.
2 Pitt physical therapy professors won state association awards
David Wert received the Neurological Special Interest Group’s Award of Excellence, and Debora Miller earned the Carlin-Michels Achievement Award.
