Academic Accolades

August 21, 2025

Deiters earned an American Chemical Society award

Alexander Deiters, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was awarded a 2026 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS).

August 21, 2025

Newman won the Pushcart Prize for his short story

Dave Newman, assistant professor of creative and professional writing, was awarded a Pushcart Prize for his story, “The Last Thing That Happened Before I Became A Med Tech.”

August 18, 2025

Novy won an International Impact Award for Biography

Marianne Novy, Professor Emerita of English and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, received an International Impact Award for Biography--Unsung Heroes and Everyday Lives and Family--Adoption and Foster Care for her recent book, Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories.

August 14, 2025

Rubin will lead a new Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics journal

Jonathan Rubin, a professor in the Department of Mathematics, is the founding editor-in-chief for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ newest applied mathematics journal.

The Education & Training Center at Pitt-Titusville.

August 7, 2025

Pitt-Titusville student received a Nightingale Scholarship

Spencer Riley, a second-year nursing student at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, was selected to receive the associate degree in nursing scholarship from the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania.

July 15, 2025

Libertus selected for a Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society fellowship

Melissa Libertus, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, was named to an inaugural cohort with the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society.

Summer plants in front of the Cathedral of Learning.

July 10, 2025

Ashman earned the Botanical Society of America’s highest honor

Distinguished Professor of Evolution and Ecology Tia-Lynn Ashman has been named a distinguished fellow of the Botanical Society of America.

June 24, 2025

Finn awarded the PNC Elsie Hillman Distinguished Scholar Award

Olivera J. Finn, Distinguished Professor of Immunology and Surgery at the School of Medicine, was presented with the 2025 PNC Elsie Hillman Distinguished Scholar Award for her decades of research in immunology and groundbreaking work on developing a vaccine to prevent several human cancers, including breast cancer.

June 10, 2025

Meet Pitt’s incoming class of Chancellor’s scholars

Pitt has awarded the Chancellor’s Scholarship, one of the University’s most prestigious undergraduate awards, to 12 incoming first-year students. The awardees, who hail from Wisconsin, Georgia, Maryland and beyond, will begin their studies in fall 2025.

June 10, 2025

3 Pitt faculty named Fulbright scholars

Three University of Pittsburgh faculty members have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Awards from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Fountain in front of the Cathedral of Learning

June 3, 2025

Engel was honored by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Partnership for Aging

Ray Engel, an associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwestern Pennsylvania Partnership for Aging.

May 29, 2025

PhD candidate received a Newcombe Fellowship

Paula Orozco-Espinel, a doctoral candidate in Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship recipient.

May 22, 2025

PhD student received a Department of Energy research award

Christian Knox, a third-year chemistry PhD student in the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program.

May 22, 2025

16 Pitt undergraduates were named Gilman scholars

This competitive national honor enables undergraduates with limited financial means to study or intern abroad, providing them with skills critical to the United States’ national security and economic prosperity.

May 20, 2025

Hatfull elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society

Graham Hatfull, Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology and HHMI Professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences and an organization of international scholars.

May 20, 2025

Dean Foote named an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa

Nicola Foote, dean of the University of Pittsburgh David C. Frederick Honors College, was named an honorary member of the prestigious academic honors society Phi Beta Kappa for her contributions since being named dean in 2021.

May 13, 2025

PhD student won a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Hossein Nakhaei, a PhD student in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.

May 6, 2025

3 Pitt students earned Boren Awards

Three University of Pittsburgh students have earned 2025 Boren Awards for International Study, which will fund their study of critical languages abroad in support of their academic and career goals.

April 29, 2025

7 Pitt students won a nationally competitive research fellowship

Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to perform graduate research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

April 24, 2025

Coleman won a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation award

James Coleman, assistant professor of Italian in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts, has won the Giles Constable Award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Only one U.S. applicant to the foundation’s Venetian Research Program is selected for the year each year.