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Pitt-Greensburg students were honored at a Student Pennsylvania State Education Association conference
The campus chapter earned its fifth consecutive APEX award for holding activities that align with SPSEA pillars.
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Clutter for a Cause diverted a record 22K pounds of material from landfills
The event saved tons of electronics, food products and more from residence halls during move-out week.
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Pitt-Greensburg student researchers won top prizes at the Tri-Beta district convention
Their chapter was also honored with the Northeast 3 Outstanding District Chapter Award.
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9 PhD students were named 2024 Humanities Engage fellows
They will receive funding for immersive summer projects and innovative dissertation research.
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Laura Levitt received the inaugural Fine Fellowship
Through a partnership with Pitt’s Jewish Studies Program and the Heinz History Center, the Temple University professor will work with materials from the Tree of Life attack and its aftermath.
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Louis Deemer won a NAFSA Rising Star Young Leader Award
He is an immigration specialist in the Office of International Services, a Pitt Commons mentor, and an instructor to students, faculty and staff.
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5 faculty won Pitt’s Health Sciences Ascending Star award
The honor was established in 2022 to recognize highly productive and creative midcareer faculty members in the six schools of the health sciences.
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David Waldeck and Brian Bloom published a ‘spintronics’ paper in Science Advances
The research shows how certain materials could serve as gateways to control currents that harness an electron’s spin rather than its charge.
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Pitt-Greensburg held its first pinning ceremony for nursing graduates
The event, held April 26, welcomed 28 graduates into the nursing profession.
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4 Pitt Business people were named up-and-coming marketers by Pittsburgh’s AMA chapter
The local American Marketing Association award is presented to recent or soon-to-be college graduates.
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Chandralekha Singh received an AAPT award for physics education
The distinguished professor of physics was recognized for her pioneering advances in the field of physics education research.
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Pitt has three new National Endowment for the Humanities awardees
Adam Cilli, Mrinalini Rajagopalan and Annette Vee will each receive funding from the federal agency for their research.
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A Pitt program earned a first-of-its-kind Middle States Association accreditation
It’s a major milestone toward the STEM PUSH Network’s goal of increasing equity and opportunity for Black, Latino and Indigenous students in postsecondary STEM.
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These students were published in the Journal of Science Policy and Governance
The two teams from Pitt’s Environmental Law and Policy class tackled policy problems in their papers.
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2 Pitt alums are 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners
Brandon Som and Brett Murphy took home the nation’s most prestigious award for poetry and public-service journalism, respectively.
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Anthony Grace is among ScholarGPS’ Highly Ranked Scholars
The distinguished professor of neuroscience was ranked No. 1 in the field of dopaminergic pathways.
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Pitt undergraduates came in second place in the 2024 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition
The six juniors had a week to prepare a proposal for a comprehensive intervention to end tuberculosis in India.
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PhD student Kale Serrato Doyen is a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation fellow
The award will support the Dietrich School scholar as she maps the Teenie Harris archive.
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2 Pitt Medicine faculty earn AGA mentor awards
Robert E. Schoen won in the clinical practice section, and Dhiraj Yadav won in the pancreatic diseases section.
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Emily Elliott was selected as a fellow of the Ecological Society of America
The recognition is awarded to ESA members who make “outstanding contributions” to advancing or applying ecological knowledge.