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10 Pitt people made Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 Under 40 list
Ten University of Pittsburgh affiliates were named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s 2026 40 Under 40 list
DeLoge co-authored two chapters on Quechua language instruction
Alana DeLoge, teaching assistant professor in University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Science’s Department of Linguistics, has co-authored two chapters on the instruction of Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas today.
Hinterleitner won the Society for Mucosal Immunology Young Investigator Award
Reinhard Hinterleitner, associate professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Immunology, has been selected to receive the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Mucosal Immunology.
2 Pitt researchers received Cytokine Society awards
Victor S. Cortez, an assistant professor last year in the Department of Immunology, and Catherine Phelps, a graduate student, received awards from The Cytokine Society.
Meet Pitt’s 2026-27 Fulbright scholars
Eight University of Pittsburgh faculty members — more than double last year’s total — were awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Awards by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Bajaj received an NSF CAREER Award
Nikhil Bajaj, assistant professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, has spent much of his career on nonlinear systems — the kind whose behavior shifts sharply once a threshold is crossed.
Fuller was named a 2029 Greenwall Faculty Scholar
The Greenwall Foundation has named Jonathan Fuller, associate professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of History and Philosophy of Science, one of its 2029 Greenwall Faculty Scholars for his work to improve diagnoses for diseases like Alzheimer’s.
3 Pitt faculty elected to the National Academy of Medicine
John Byrd, Terence Dermody, and Kate Rubins, faculty in the School of Medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.