Three faculty members in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine were recently honored by the American Association of Immunologists (AAI).
Two faculty members in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences — Paula Kupfer and Michelle Granshaw — were awarded 2026 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowships.
Sanghamitra Das, assistant professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology, won the 2026 Bluestone Rising Scholar Prize from CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion.
Karen Arndt, professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Molly Warsh, associate professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, earned the Leopold-Hidy Award from the editors of the journal Environmental History.
Four Pitt students have earned scholarships to study at leading German universities and scientific institutes through the DAAD Research Internships in Science and Engineering program.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named its 2026 class of Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) scholars, and several Pitt students are among the awardees and honorable mentions.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, assistant professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Sociology, earned a $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study energy resilience in Puerto Rico.
The Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) recognized Karen Bursic, professor in the Swanson School of Engineering, with a Fellow Award.
Two Pitt students, Sahiti Kulkarni and Abbigayle Garvin, have been selected as 2026 Roosevelt Network Fellows.
