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Sean Morrissey won a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments

The visiting assistant professor will use the $20,000 to establish an experimental printmaking studio.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Ronald Roth was honored with a proclamation by the City of Pittsburgh

Mayor Ed Gainey named Oct. 10 in Roth’s honor for his decades of serving community health as an emergency medicine instructor.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Medicine
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Tony Novosel was appointed as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

It’s one in a long line of recognitions for the longtime Pitt history professor’s work in Northern Ireland’s peace process.

  • Global
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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R.A. Judy earned the 2023 Truman Capote Literary Trust Award

The professor of critical and cultural studies was selected by an Iowa Writers’ Workshop panel.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Alexander Deiters won the American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Award

The Pitt professor was recognized for distinguished service to the field of chemistry.

  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Hooman Henry Rashidi is Pitt’s new associate dean for AI in medicine

He will develop curricula for to better prepare Pitt Med students to understand, evaluate, use and develop technologies that will advance their research and improve patient care.

  • University News
  • School of Medicine
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Omid Shekari earned a Sculpture Space residency

The assistant professor is spending October and November at the studio in Utica, New York.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Jill Stemple was selected for the Medicaid Pathways Program

The Master of Public Policy and Management candidate will participate in the Center for Health Care Strategies’ executive training initiative.

  • Community Impact
  • Graduate and professional students
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
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11 Pitt researchers earned support from the Competitive Medical Research Fund

Grants will help the cohort of junior scientists develop preliminary data, hypotheses and methods for competitive national grant applications.

  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
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Shyam Visweswaran was appointed to a National Institutes of Health study section

As a charter member, the School of Medicine professor will review investigator-initiated research applications related to clinical informatics and digital health.

  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Jamelle Price became an Appalachian Leadership Institute fellow

The external relations manager for the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine will participate in the Appalachian Regional Commission’s extensive training program.

  • Community Impact
  • Staff
  • McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
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2 Pitt people were recognized as among the best in Pittsburgh tech

Paola Buitrago and Katrina Knight were on Technical.ly's RealLIST Engineers 2023 list.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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2 Pitt gastroenterology professors earned a research mentor award

Rocky Schoen and Dhiraj Yadav were among 11 recognized by the American Gastroenterological Association nationwide.

  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Alumnus Yasir Aljohani won an abstract award at the 2023 American Orthotics and Prosthetics Association National Assembly

His research on child abandonment in Saudi Arabia was part of his Pitt capstone coursework.

  • Graduate and professional students
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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A team of Pitt researchers earned a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging

The interdisciplinary team from Pitt’s School of Medicine and Department of Biological Sciences will investigate a mitochondrial target for Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt’s Dietrich School and College of General Studies honored longtime staff

Dean Adam Leibovich recognized those with 5, 10, 20, 25, 30, 40 and 50 years of service to the University.

  • Staff
  • College of General Studies
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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4 Pitt physicians will be honored by the National Pancreas Foundation

The School of Medicine faculty will receive their awards at an Oct. 6 gala at PNC Park.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Ahmad Tafti won the 2023 Oracle Eureka Award

The director of Pitt’s Health + Explainable AI Research Laboratory was honored for his groundbreaking research on total joint arthroplasty.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Rakesh Sindhi uncovered the genetic basis of a liver disease that occurs in newborns

A new Pitt Medicine study, published in the Journal of Hepatology, performed the largest-ever genetic analysis for biliary atresia, the leading reason for liver transplant in children.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • Faculty
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Angela Stewart earned $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation

Her project, funded by a Racial Equity in STEM Education award, will work to expand the range of perspectives and voices in AI technology.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC)
  • School of Computing and Information