Academic Accolades
Pitt junior named a 2024 Newman Civic fellow
Connor Diaz, a junior double majoring in history and law, criminal justice and society, was selected for the 2024-25 Newman Civic Fellowship, a yearlong program designed to help fellows enact positive change on their college campuses and in their communities.
44 Pitt undergraduates received 2024 Brackenridge Fellowships
Recipients earn funding to conduct independent research, scholarship or creative work under the guidance of a Pitt faculty mentor.
16 students will research electrical grid sustainability through SHURE-Grid
16 students will perform research focused on improving electrical grid sustainability, developing verified vignettes and creating new knowledge building on cyber-informed engineering through SHURE-Grid.
14 students and alumni named Fulbright scholars
Fourteen University of Pittsburgh students and alumni have been named award recipients by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program.
Pitt biologists are part of a $12.5M NSF grant to study a widespread genetic phenomenon
Distinguished Professor Tia-Lynn Ashman and Assistant Professor Martin Turcotte, both of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, will use a tiny pond plant duckweed to tackle questions about the phenomenon ranging from the scale of genes to whole communities of organisms.
4 Pitt Business people honored by Pittsburgh’s AMA chapter
Four University of Pittsburgh students and alumni were recognized as “Up and Coming Marketers to Watch” by the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Marketing Association.
Singh received an AAPT award for physics education
Chandralekha Singh, a distinguished professor of physics in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been named the John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Award winner for 2024, the American Association of Physics Teachers announced.
Pitt has three new National Endowment for the Humanities awardees
Adam Cilli, an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Mrinalini Rajagopalan, associate professor and chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and Annette Vee, an associate professor of English, have received new grants for their research from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Grace among ScholarGPS’ Highly Ranked Scholars
Anthony A. Grace, distinguished professor of neuroscience, has been named a ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar, a ranking that recognizes scholars for exceptional performances across fields, disciplines and specialties.
2 Pitt Medicine faculty earn AGA mentor awards
Robert E. Schoen is a professor of medicine and epidemiology, and Dhiraj Yadav is a professor of medicine and vice chair for clinical research within the Department of Medicine, have been honored with American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Council Section Research Mentor Awards.
PhD student Kale Serrato Doyen is a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation fellow
Kale Serrato Doyen, who is pursuing a PhD in history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
Elliott selected as a fellow of the Ecological Society of America
Emily Elliott, a professor of geology and environmental science in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been elected a fellow of the Ecological Society of America.
Wolmark honored by the American Surgical Association
Norman Wolmark, professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, received the Medallion for the Advancement of Surgical Care from the American Surgical Association.
2 Pitt faculty are on the New Pittsburgh Courier’s 40 under 40 list
Brooke Rawls, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, and Lawrence Uradu, assistant professor of radiology in the School of Medicine, are both members of this year’s class of young African American professionals in Greater Pittsburgh.
A team led by Stephen Y. Chan received an American Heart Association award
Stephen Y. Chan, professor of medicine and director of Pitt’s Vascular Medicine Institute, will lead a University of Pittsburgh and Prairie View (Texas) A&M University research team as part of a $15 million award from the American Heart Association’s Strategically Focused Research Network on Inflammation in Cardiac and Neurovascular Disease.