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Retired instructional designer Barbara Frey receives award for contributions to online learning

Online education organization Quality Matters gave her its Directors' Award for Exceptional Service.

  • Teaching & Learning

Pitt Challenge winners announced

The teams tackled issues such as burnout, virtual learning and simulation.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Health and Wellness
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Richard Garland receives $1.5 million grant for Reimagine Reentry project

The program aims to reduce recidivism in Allegheny County.

  • Faculty
  • Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
  • School of Public Health
  • Community Impact
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Brad Nindl assumes command of 139th Medical Brigade

In this role, Nindl continues his 25-plus years' work in the U.S. Army that focuses on human performance optimization and injury prevention.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Neuromuscular Research Laboratory/Warrior Human Performance Research Center
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Public Health’s Tiffany Gary-Webb named special assistant to the provost

She will lead the Race & Health Collaboratory and work with John Wallace, vice provost for diversity and development.

  • University News
  • Faculty
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Two Pitt physicists win American Physics Society awards

Vittorio Paolone and Andrew Mugler were recognized for their work detecting elusive particles and studying how cells behave.

  • Technology & Science
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Alumnus Johannes John-Langba appointed regional VP for Africa at the World Federation for Mental Health

John-Langba’s research area is on the psychosocial dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic among university students and its impact on carers of persons with mental and neurological disorders.

  • University News
  • Global
  • Alumni
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Jessica Jarvis awarded funding for work to assess racial equity in children’s rehabilitation therapy

The interdepartmental project focuses specifically on critical care among children with traumatic brain injury.

  • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • School of Medicine
  • Innovation and Research
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Valerie Kinloch will chair the National Council of Teachers of English's annual convention this November

Kinloch selected “Equity, Justice and Antiracist Teaching” as the conference’s theme.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Education
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Say ‘HI’ to the updated Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics

While the curricula in the HIM Department is under constant evaluation and evolution to best prepare students to enter the field, it is now time for the name of the program to reflect industry changes

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Department of Health Information Management
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Ruth Mostern publishes new book

Mostern traces China’s history from the Neolithic times to the present day, illustrating the long-term effects of interactions between humans and the natural landscape.

  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities
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Pitt team finishes third in NASA challenge

Pitt's VULCAN prototype received recognition for the Most Innovative Concept and Lightest System Mass.

  • Technology & Science
  • Students
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Space

Mathematician Piotr Hajłasz wins Poland’s Sierpiński Medal

The international award recognizes the research of outstanding contributors to the field.

  • Faculty
  • Department of Mathematics
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P.R.I.D.E reaches Philadelphia region

The program is designed to help Black children develop a positive racial identity.

  • Office of Child Development (OCD)
  • School of Education

Adam Alvarez (EDUC ’18G) receives research award

He received the 2021 Review of Research Award for his article, “Seeing Race in the Research on Youth Trauma and Education.”

  • Alumni
  • School of Education
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Engineering team studies new architecture for customized space computing

Students at Pitt’s NSF Center for Space, High-performance and Resilient Computing received the Best Paper Award for Research in Space Computing at the 2021 IEEE Space Computing Conference.

  • Technology & Science
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Space
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University media honored at the Golden Quill Awards

Pitt communicators work hard to give you award-winning content: See the winning content from the offices of Pittwire, Pitt Magazine and Pitt Med magazine.

  • University News
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Grad student Sean Sweat presented at a Smithsonian forum on reckoning with our racial past

Sweat, an MD/PhD student, spoke with other medical professionals on the topic of race, health and wealth.

  • Community Impact
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Kevin Kearns receives teaching excellence award

The Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes long-term excellence in teaching public policy and public affairs.

  • Global
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  • Faculty
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Randi Congleton is Pitt’s new assistant vice chancellor for equity and inclusion

Congleton will join Pitt in November from Chatham University.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion