Academic Accolades
Heffernan won a 2024 POGIL Early Achievement Award
Kayla Heffernan, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, was named the postsecondary winner of the 2024 Early Achievement Award from the POGIL Project.
Rubin elected chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Dynamical Systems.
Jonathan Rubin, professor of mathematics, was elected as chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Dynamical Systems.
Liu honored by the Association for Psychological Science
Peggy Liu, the Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and an associate professor of business administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, has been awarded the 2024 Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science.
Williams will be honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Amy Williams, professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music, is among four composers to receive a 2024 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Pitt undergraduate student earned a Lionel Pearson Fellowship
Alex-Jaden Peart, a student in the Department of Classics, is a recipient of a 2024-25 Lionel Pearson Fellowship, which supports American- and Canadian-trained classicists and will fund a year of Peart’s graduate studies at an English or Scottish university.
Pitt ranks in top 20 for patents granted to universities worldwide
The University of Pittsburgh has ranked No. 19 of the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2023, according to a list published by the National Academy of Inventors.
Pitt has been named a 2023-24 Fulbright Top Producer
The University of Pittsburgh has been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students for the 2023-24 academic year by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Swaminathan named an American Marketing Association Fellow
Vanitha Swaminathan, Thomas Marshall Professor of Marketing and director of the Center for Branding at Pitt Business, has been selected as a 2024 Fellow by the American Marketing Association.
Shlomchik elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the AAI
UPMC Endowed and Distinguished Professor Mark Shlomchik was elected as a 2024 Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI).
Cooper elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Rory Cooper, a distinguished professor in Pitt’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, was among 114 new U.S. members elected to the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2024.
Graduate student honored with the 2023 Bernard D. Goldstein Student Award
Dual master’s student Maria Salazar has been announced as the 2023 winner of the Bernard D. Goldstein Student Award in Environmental Health Disparities and in Public Health Practice.
Berenbrok elected as an American Pharmacists Association Fellow
Lucas Berenbrok, associate professor in the School of Pharmacy, was elected a fellow of the American Pharmacists Association by its Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management.
2 Pitt Law professors elected fellows of the American Bar Foundation
John Linarelli and Christian Powell Sundquist, professors in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, were elected as fellows of the American Bar Association.
Scott received prestigious community engagement award
Khirsten L. Scott, an assistant professor in the School of Education, received the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, which highlights exemplary engaged teaching and research.
Grace awarded a continuation of his National Institutes of Health grant
Anthony Grace, a distinguished professor of neuroscience and professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, received a $634,831 grant as a continuation of his study titled “Gating of Information Flow Within the Nucleus Accumbens.”