Nine projects earned funding through the Dietrich Innovation Initiative (DI2), a new program for faculty and staff in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and College of General Studies.
Jenn Lee, a doctoral student at the School of Social Work, presented her research at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Minneapolis.
Susan Lucas, assistant teaching professor in Pitt’s Urban Studies Program, and colleague Dawna Cerney, a professor at Youngstown State University, were awarded for their work on the SEED for Swissvale project.
Huey Copeland, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, will serve as a juror for the Smithsonian’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Raed El Rafei, assistant professor of film and media studies in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, will premiere his new film at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November.
Tao Han, distinguished professor of high energy physics in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, won the American Physical Society’s 2025 Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award.
Michelle Ward, teaching associate professor and director of undergraduate analytical chemistry laboratories, received the Encouraging Women into the Chemical Sciences award.
Pitt faculty Alonna Carter-Donaldson and Laurence Glasco explain the movement’s impact in WQED’s digital short-form documentary, “Pittsburgh and the Great Migration,” which recently won a Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy Award.
Chengcheng Huang, assistant professor of neuroscience and mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Kathryn Schmitz, an exercise oncology researcher in the Medical Center’s Hillman Cancer Center, has won the Lifetime Impact Award from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
