Academic Accolades

Shekari earned a Sculpture Space residency

Omid Shekari, assistant professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a two-month residency at the Sculpture Space studio.

Graduate student selected for the Medicaid Pathways Program

Jill Stemple, a Master of Public Policy and Management candidate in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, was one of 20 selected for the center’s executive training initiative.

11 Pitt researchers earned support from the Competitive Medical Research Fund

Supported by UPMC, CMRF primarily provides funding for junior independent scientists at Pitt to develop preliminary data, hypotheses and methods for competitive national grant applications.

Visweswaran appointed to a National Institutes of Health study section

Shyam Visweswaran, a biomedical informatics professor and vice chair of clinical informatics in the School of Medicine, began a four-year term as a charter member of the Clinical Informatics and Digital Health (CIDH) Study Section on July 1.

Keown named 2023 Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecturer by International Society For First World War Studies

Bridget Keown, teaching assistant professor in the Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Program, will present her lecture, "'She Was Sure She Was In Hell,' Women's Experiences of War Trauma, 1914-1930."

2 Pitt gastroenterology professors earned a research mentor award

Robert “Rocky” Schoen and Dhiraj Yadav, professors in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, received 2024 Research Mentor Awards from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA).

A team of Pitt researchers earned a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging

The three principal investigators — Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Amantha Thathiah and Associate Professors of Biological Sciences Kirill Kiselyov and Andrew VanDemark — will investigate a mitochondrial target and whether it protects cells from the neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease.