Academic Accolades

Martin Weiss

$25 million grant-funded radio spectrum project includes Pitt professors

A new $25 million NSF grant will fund researchers from 29 organizations developing new approaches and techniques for divvying up the real estate of radio waves that connect many of our devices.

Darris Means

Darris Means selected for Rockefeller Fellowship to study rural education

Darris Means, an associate professor at the School of Education, has been selected as a 2021 Richard P. Nathan Policy Fellow of the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

James Huguley

James Huguley Named Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the School of Social Work

Associate Professor James Huguley has been named the School of Social Work’s inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Ariel Armony

Ariel C. Armony named Leadership Academy/La Academia de Liderazgo fellow

Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Director of UCIS Ariel C. Armony is one of 25 fellows named to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities’ Leadership Academy/La Academia de Liderazgo.

Utibe Essien

Utibe Essien Receives AAMC Award

Utibe Essien, assistant professor of medicine in Pitt’s School of Medicine, is the recipient of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ 2021 Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship Award.

Leigh Patel

Leigh Patel Publishes New Book

Leigh Patel, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations and Policy, has published her new book titled “No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education.”

Rory Cooper

Rory Cooper Receives Science and Society Award

Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society, has honored Pitt’s Rory Cooper with the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award.

Michele Reid-Vazquez

Michele Reid-Vazquez Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

Michele Reid-Vazquez, associate professor of Africana Studies, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Higher Education grant.

40 Under 40 2021

Announcing The 40 Under 40 Honorees for 2021

Each year, Pittsburgh Magazine and PUMP recognize 40 outstanding individuals under the age of 40 whose creativity, vision and passion enrich the Pittsburgh region. We proudly announce the class of 2021, featuring many members of the University of Pittsburgh!

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Researchers Get $100K Grant to Track Aneurysms and Predict Rupture

Engineering’s David Vorp and Timothy Chung are working in collaboration with the School of Medicine’s Nathan Liang to develop a new model to better predict at-risk patients.

Waverly Duck

Waverly Duck Wins Charles Horton Cooley Book Award

Pitt faculty member Waverly Duck has won the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction’s Charles Horton Cooley Book Award for “Tacit Racism.”

Jessica Ghilani

Jessica Ghilani Wins Grant to Create Free Materials for Public Speaking Course

Jessica Ghilani, associate professor of communication at Pitt-Greensburg, is among the inaugural recipients of a PA Grants for Open and Affordable Learning (GOAL) award.