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Laura Schmid Named Director of Shared Services

Effective July 12, 2021, Laura Schmid will serve as the director of shared services in the Office of Human Resources (OHR). In this role, she will oversee the development and execution of strategic

  • Staff
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Valerie Kinloch was named a trustee of her undergraduate alma mater

Her appointment at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, began July 1.

  • School of Education

Study Lab Wins Website Award

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Tre Tipton won a student-athlete achievement award

The wide receiver and Master of Social Work student earned the annual National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals honor.

  • School of Social Work
  • Athletics
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

GSPIA Students of Color Alliance Wins Inaugural Award

  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

John Wallace Named Interim Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems, New Initiative Announced

  • Center on Race and Social Problems
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Geovette Washington was elected chair of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh board of trustees

The University's senior vice chancellor and chief legal officer joined the board in 2017 and was named vice chair earlier this year.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus

Pitt Leaps Eight Spots in Worldwide Patent Ranking

The University of Pittsburgh made a significant move up the list of the top recipients of U.S. utility patents among worldwide universities in 2020, according to the National Academy of Inventors and

Anette Nance (SOC WK ’20) Named to Governor’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs

Master of Social Work Alumna Anette Nance (SOC WK ’20) has been sworn in as commissioner on Gov. Wolf’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs (GACAAA). The commission was established in 2015

  • School of Social Work
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William Wagner and Savio Woo are inducted to International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering

To date, there are fewer than 250 fellows of the academy throughout the world.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Bioengineering Undergrads Receive Outstanding Chapter Industry Program Award

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Department of Bioengineering

Audrey J. Murrell Appointed Editor of Study Abroad Journal

  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  • Department of Psychology

Public Health's Steven Albert is Next Gerontological Society of America's Innovation in Aging Editor

  • School of Public Health
  • Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences