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School of Nursing launches Equity Design Thinking Educational Series

The new series will building knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure design justice.

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Alejandro Hoberman earns the 2022 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award

Hoberman is the first person ever to receive this award from the Clinical Research Forum on two separate occasions.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Leigh Patel elected to National Academy of Education

Patel will serve on expert study panels and will be a mentor for professional development fellowship programs.

  • Community Impact
  • Faculty
  • School of Education
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Pitt Public Health will lead data coordination for a trial on a deadly condition common in preterm infants

The $5.5 million NHLBI-supported trial will evaluate treatment options for patent ductus arteriosus.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Public Health
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Valerie Kinloch co-authored 'Where is the Justice: Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities'

The book focuses on pedagogical practices that advance equity and encourage collaborations among stakeholders who are working to provide quality education within schools across the country.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Education
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Rebecca Reed named 2022 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science

Reed’s work focuses on biopsychosocial factors that contribute to healthy physical and cognitive aging.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt chemistry professor earns 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards

W. Seth Childers was part of two interdisciplinary teams that received the honor.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Terry Smith receives 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award

The award is presented to an individual who has been actively engaged in teaching art history for most of their career.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Nicole Scheff receives 2021 Award in Pain from the Rita Allen Foundation

This year’s Award in Pain Scholars will receive grants of $50,000 annually for up to three years to conduct innovative research on critical topics on the biological mechanisms of pain.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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Appalachian Regional Commission awards School of Computing and Information $500,000

The Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative has awarded Pitt’s School of Computing and Information $500,000 for

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • School of Computing and Information
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3 Pitt advisors earned the inaugural Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

Awardees include Danielle Andrews-Brown, Karen Ricco and Devin N. Ulm.

  • University News
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Nursing’s Lora Burke named an expert in obesity

Burke’s studies have included testing various diet approaches to weight loss and learning how people self-monitor their dietary intake.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Nursing
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Pitt’s Waverly Duck wins Scholarly Achievement Award for book ‘Tacit Racism’

The book lays out the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social interactions of Americans.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Maureen Pastin named director of compensation in Pitt’s Office of Human Resources

The Pittsburgh native is an experienced compensation and human resources professional with more than 30 years of experience.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt's Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson present at SXSW 2022

Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson represented the University in Austin.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Researchers will mimic daycare settings to study flu transmission

Associate Professor Seema Lakdawala is leading a subproject on an $8.8 million grant.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
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University of Pittsburgh at Bradford named a Military Friendly School

Pitt-Bradford was designated a silver-level recipient in the small public school category by Viqtory Media.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Bradford
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Pitt earns Silver Bicycle Friendly University status

The League of American Bicyclists awards institutions that promote and enable safe, accessible bicycling on campus.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Winners of the Black Excellence Service Award announced

Recipients are students, staff, faculty, businesspeople and alumni who are role models in the community.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • Students

A multidisciplinary research group received a Pitt Momentum Grant

The $60,000 award will support the Pittsburgh Center for Interdisciplinary Bone and Mineral Research.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty