Melissa Libertus, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, was named to an inaugural cohort with the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society.
Distinguished Professor of Evolution and Ecology Tia-Lynn Ashman has been named a distinguished fellow of the Botanical Society of America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
