Accolades & Honors

Alumnus Brett Murphy Named in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Class of 2021

• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of English

LifeX Labs Enters Alliance for Industry Growth

Ashley Priore Wins Women in Toys Foundation Scholarship Program Grant

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

Paul Ohodnicki Receives $1 Million Grant to ‘Innervate’ Pipelines

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Swanson School of Engineering

Pitt Commons Surpasses 10,000 Users

Teaching Center’s 2020 Advancing Educational Excellence Awardees Announced

Eben Witherspoon (EDUC '19G) Wins Outstanding Doctoral Research Award

• School of Education

Peggy Liu Receives Society of Consumer Psychology Early Career Award

• Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

School of Medicine Awards Cynthia Kenyon Highest Honor

• School of Medicine

2021 Sustainability Champions Named

• Swanson School of Engineering
• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Geology and Environmental Science
• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pitt to Host New Oncology Summer Internship for Medical Students

• School of Medicine

Pitt Cyber Announces New Affiliates

• School of Computing and Information
• Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
• Department of Informatics and Networked Systems

Max Laun Named Director of New Online Graduate Law Program

• School of Law

Rory Cooper was the fastest American handbiker in the Berlin Marathon

He placed 49th out of 111 finishers with a time of 1:26:17.

• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Human Engineering Research Lab (HERL)

Castilleja F. Olmsted Wins Graduate Student Policy Award

• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of Biological Sciences

Pitt Team Reaches Regional Round of Cyber Defense Competition

The University of Pittsburgh Cyber Competitions team competed against collegiate teams across the nation in the regional final of the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The team

• Swanson School of Engineering
• School of Computing and Information

Public Health Researchers Awarded $10.7M for Alzheimer’s Research

• School of Public Health
• Department of Human Genetics
• Department of Epidemiology

Gayle Rogers Elected to Association of Departments of English Leadership

• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of English

Jennifer Russell Receives $1.4 Million Grant to Improve Schools

• School of Education

Bioengineer Moni Datta Receives a $300K DoD Award to Design Biochemical Marker Technology

• Department of Bioengineering
• Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
• Department of Defense
• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Division of Oral Biology
• School of Dental Medicine
• Swanson School of Engineering