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3 staffers win 2021 Teaching Center awards

The annual awards recognize staff who demonstrate excellence in teaching and a commitment to learning.

  • Community Impact
  • Staff
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Zippo pledges $2 million to Pitt-Bradford

The gift will be dedicated largely to equipping state-of-the-art engineering labs in the new Engineering and Information Technologies Building.

  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Bradford
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Pitt students help launch a Hollywood-based entertainment company

One of One Entertainment launched in November.

  • Alumni
  • Students
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5 Pitt faculty members receive the 2021 Provost’s Award for Diversity in the Curriculum

The award is given to faculty who have successfully integrated diversity in the curriculum and inclusion in the classroom.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
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Pitt trustee SaLisa Berrien receives Black Founders Fund award from Google for Startups

The award will be used to expand her Tampa-based renewable energy services company, COI Energy.

  • Technology & Science
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University Center for Teaching and Learning names director for equitable and inclusive teaching

The new director will evaluate teaching initiatives and work with faculty to assess the learning process.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
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Pitt’s Boo Kyung Jung received a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies

The grant is in the amount of $21,000.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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A six-year search for a new particle has turned up empty

With help from Pitt researchers, MicrobooNE was looking for a long-theorized “sterile neutrino” that would buck the standard model of physics.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Three Pitt researchers earned Charles E. Kaufman Foundation grants

The awards support critical research at Pennsylvania universities.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
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Scott Morgenstern receives Fulbright Specialist Program award

Morgenstern will complete his project at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Global
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Pitt researchers receive grant to explore wireless technology for people with disabilities

The team hopes to improve accessibility and promote mainstream wireless inclusion through technology services with a $4.6 million grant.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Ramona Reeves earns the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

The University of Pittsburgh Press will publish her book, “It Falls Gently All Around,” next fall.

  • University News
  • Arts and Humanities
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Keisha N. Blain’s work named among ‘best history books’ by Smithsonian Magazine

“Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America” was published by Beacon Press in 2021.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Education's Tom Akiva publishes new book

His book examines how in-school and out-of-school learning systems can be improved to better support young people’s learning and development.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Education
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Jennifer E. Woodward joins Society of Research Administrators International board of directors

Woodward is serving as one of six At Large Board members with full voting rights and significant responsibility for the stewardship of the organization.

  • Staff
  • Innovation and Research
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Chemical engineering students have fun with hot air balloons

Teams in Taryn Bayles’ Foundations of Chemical Engineering class used their problem-solving skills to design and launch their own hot air balloons.

  • Technology & Science
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pitt junior wins top international photography contest prize

Economics major Devin DePamphilis’ winning entry was titled “Bye Bye COVID.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center recognized with international honor

This is the 12th year PSC has been recognized by HPCwire.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
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William ‘Buddy’ Clark and Steven R. Little are Pitt’s newest members of the National Academy of Inventors

It’s the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Beth McGrew promoted to vice chancellor for planning, design and real estate

McGrew has forged new relationships with the City of Pittsburgh that will benefit the Pitt community for decades to come.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus