3 Pitt students were honored by the National Association of African American Honors Programs

Three students from the University of Pittsburgh David C. Frederick Honors College attended the National Association of African American Honors Programs’ (NAAAHP) annual conference in Birmingham, Alabama. The conference honors and celebrates Black honors students’ academic excellence.

Mercy Akanmu, a Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in neuroscience and history and philosophy of science, was awarded the Brown Enterprises Networking Solutions LLC book scholarship. She also won second-place honors for her poster board presentation, “Caregiver Connection to the Language Best Predicts Child Literacy.”

The Frederick Honors College students also participated in a Model African Union, in which students from different honors colleges across the country negotiated different policies and solutions for the continent’s most pressing issues. Ezinne Ejimofor, a Dietrich School junior majoring in biological sciences and psychology; Chelsea Pepprah, a School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior majoring in communication science and global health; and Akanmu represented Kenya and won first place.