Accolades & Honors
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Pitt people facilitated and presented at a UN side event
More than 130 delegates, scholars, community leaders and activists attended the session on reparations.
Charles Guthrie was named executive director of Student Health Services
He comes to Pitt off a 23-year nursing career at UPMC.
Rory Cooper won a Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
The Human Engineering Research Laboratories director earned highest honor presented to people who reached the rank of Eagle Scout.
5 health science faculty members won 2023 Ascending Star Awards
Each of the highly productive and creative midcareer Pitt researchers will receive $25,000 in support and give a highly publicized lecture during the year.
Research from Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets was shortlisted for the Elinor Ostrom Prize
The investigation into community policing on American Indian reservations was recognized as one of the year’s top articles in the Journal of Institutional Economics.
Alison Linares Mendoza earned a Vertical Flight Foundation scholarship
She’s the first female engineer from Pitt to receive the honor.
Michael Hatridge earned $5.7 million in research funding from the U.S. Army
The associate professor in the Dietrich School will work with interdisciplinary experts to overcome challenges in quantum computing.
Alison Sanders received a grant to support an undergraduate student’s research
Pitt Public Health student Annika Spencer is studying climate change-related kidney toxicology in Sanders’ lab.
Patrick McKelvey won a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The theatre arts assistant professor will write a book about the history of social services for disabled actors in the United States.
Pitt-Bradford alumnus Nikolas Erickson was commissioned as a second lieutenant
The spring 2023 graduate has accepted a position as patrolman with the Allentown City Police.
Pitt’s Humanities Center named 8 graduate student fellows
The scholars in rhetoric, musicology, theatre arts and more will receive $10,000 for their summer research projects.
Pitt's Humanities Center named its 2023-24 faculty and co-teaching fellows
Eight faculty members from across Pitt will lead colloquiums and develop courses while participating in the center’s activities.
Marci Lee Nilsen earned a Betty Irene Moore Fellowship
The assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Nursing is one of 16 innovators chosen for the University of California, Davis program.
Pitt was named a Best Value College by the Princeton Review
The University is among 15 Pennsylvania institutions to make the list.
15 Pitt students were named Gilman scholars
The scholarship supports undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants with up to $5,000 as they study abroad.
Michael Giazzoni was elected to the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships board of directors
Michael Giazzoni, director of Pitt’s College in High School program, was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP), as the organization’s
Pitt’s School of Medicine awarded its highest honor to a Princeton bioengineer
Clifford P. Brangwynne will receive the 2023 Dickson Prize in Medicine.
7 Pitt-Titusville students earned their nursing degrees
Seven nursing graduates from the region were recognized April 30 during the annual nursing pinning ceremony and commencement exercises at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville. “It takes a very
2 Pitt people earned a History Makers Award
Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center will honor James Adovasio and Loren Roth on June 8.
8 faculty won Pitt’s 2023 Innovation in Education Awards
The Office of the Provost recognizes projects that enhance teaching at the University and foster new instructional approaches.
