Accolades & Honors

Winners of Political Engagement Award Announced

• David C. Frederick Honors College
• School of Social Work
• School of Education
• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
• School of Public Health
• Department of Psychology

Zongqi Xia Named Fellow for Research Initiative

• School of Medicine
• Department of Neurology
• Department of Biomedical Informatics

Nursing’s Rosemary Hoffman Wins Educator Leader Award

• School of Nursing

Three Pitt Professors Named to National Academy of Inventors Senior Members Class

• Innovation Institute
• Department of Bioengineering
• Department of Plastic Surgery
• Department of Surgery
• School of Medicine
• Swanson School of Engineering

The Pitt News Wins 15 Pennsylvania Media Awards

Kar-Hai Chu Awarded NIH Grant to Study Technology and Substance Use

• School of Medicine
• Department of Pediatrics

Ivet Bahar Receives Congratulations from Consul General of the Republic of Turkey on Her Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Bahar is the first female member of the academy from Turkey, and the Turkish official visited Pitt earlier this month to commemorate her achievement.

• School of Medicine
• Drug Discovery Institute
• Department of Computational and Systems Biology

Joseph Glorioso Awarded $500,000 to Advance Melanoma Vaccine

• Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
• School of Medicine

Business and Operations Names Victoria Lancaster and Rebecca Roadman to Leadership Roles

Swanson School Pair Receives Gilliam Fellowship

• Swanson School of Engineering
• Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Chad Jurica Recognized for Professional Achievement

Law Alumnus Appointed Staff Judge Advocate to Commandant of Marine Corps

• School of Law

Six Pitt Students Finalists for Critical Language Scholarship

Six finalists for the U.S. Department of State’s 2021 Critical Language Scholarship are students at the University of Pittsburgh—five undergraduate and one graduate. The finalists are: Nathan Aaron

• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• School of Education
• School of Medicine

Physical Therapy Alumni Inducted to American Physical Therapy Association Fellowship

• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Department of Physical Therapy

Pitt Is on a Mission to Become Coffee U

Three Pitt Researchers Win NIH Director’s Awards

• Department of Bioengineering
• Department of Biomedical Informatics
• Department of Neurobiology
• Department of Neuroscience
• School of Medicine
• Swanson School of Engineering

Alyson Stover Receives Occupational Therapy Advocacy Award

• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Department of Occupational Therapy

3 Pitt Researchers Named to National Academy of Medicine

• School of Medicine

Natalie Leland Receives NIH Grant for Medicare Payment Research

• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Department of Occupational Therapy

Pitt Alumna is First Female Infantry Officer in PA Army National Guard

• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Linguistics