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Leasa Maley earned the President’s Award for Staff Excellence

The assistant director of auxiliary services has worked at Pitt-Bradford for 37 years.

  • University News
  • Staff
  • Pitt-Bradford
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Sirry Alang earned a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The School of Education researcher, in partnership with Drexel University, will lead project designed to dismantle structural racism in health care.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • School of Education
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Meet the recipients of the 2024 Provost’s Award for Excellence Undergraduate Advising

The annual award recognizes Pitt faculty for outstanding advising of undergraduate students.

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
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NSF funding will help Pitt researchers track real-time water quality with satellites

The new award to the Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory will give agencies and community organizations more insight into local water quality.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education, and Outreach
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A Pitt senior was named to the German Academic Exchange Service

Sydney Wilhelmy looks to pursue graduate studies in international relations at the at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Pitt is well-represented on the 2024 Women of Influence list

Samantha Balbier, director of the Institute of Politics, and adjunct instructor Vera Krekanova will be recognized along with seven alumnae in the annual Pittsburgh Business Times edition.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Raman Venkataramanan received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Distinguished Investigator Award

The annual awarded recognizes superior scientific expertise and accomplishments by a senior investigator.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Pharmacy
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2 Pitt teams will present their winning Hacking4Humanity projects to Gov. Josh Shapiro

A collaboration among Pittsburgh universities, the multidisciplinary hackathon aims to identify new tech and policy solutions to mitigate online hate and create safer communities.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
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2 Pitt Medicine professors were elected to the Association of American Physicians

Douglas B. White and Paul Palevsky will be honored at an April ceremony.

  • Health and Wellness
  • School of Medicine
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Chancellor Gabel and Evan Facher named to Pittsburgh Business Times Power 100

The annual list highlights Pittsburgh’s most influential leaders.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Staff
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Introducing the new embedded clinician for the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Adriana Cox will serve the overall well-being and mental health of the graduate student community.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Graduate and professional students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt Law won the National Tax Moot Court Competition

The three students, coached by alumni and faculty, went undefeated throughout the tournament.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Students
  • School of Law
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A Pitt junior will compete on 'The Amazing Race'

Biological sciences major Maya Mody will compete alongside her brother on Season 36 of the reality adventure show.

  • Global
  • Undergraduate students
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A Pitt PhD candidate earned a Mendenhall Research Fellowship

Chloë Glover will work with the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a 3D tectonic framework of the northeastern area of Washington State

  • Innovation and Research
  • Graduate and professional students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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2 Pitt students received 2024 Critical Language Scholarships

Dannial Cardillo and Christine White will both study Persian in Tajikistan.

  • Global
  • Students
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2 Pitt seniors competed at an ethics in engineering competition

Alison Linares Mendoza and Anvi Viji-Anand are the first to represent the University in the challenge.

  • Technology & Science
  • Undergraduate students
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Anthony Grace was elected to the Schizophrenia International Research Society board

The distinguished professor’s term will start April 5 and run through 2028.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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2 faculty won Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards

This annual award recognizes outstanding and innovative teaching in undergraduate studies in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Rachel Bezanson was on a team of astronomers that detected a black hole in the early universe

Their findings on the supermassive red mass, which combined James Webb Space Telescope observations with gravitational lensing, were published in Nature.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt research on small galaxies was published in Nature

Their findings from James Webb Space Telescope observations show they may be responsible for opening the universe to light.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Space