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Pitt’s newest school is building its expertise with new faculty
Founding Dean Paul Cohen praised the faculty members’ “commitment to furthering SCI’s mission of making the world a better place through polymathic education and the science of interacting systems.”
Pitt’s Hesselbein Global Academy celebrated its 11th year
The event gathered 42 delegates from 12 countries and 11 U.S. states for an intensive learning and civic engagement experience at the University of Pittsburgh.
Pitt’s Center for Urban Education will house the journal Educational Researcher
Dana Thompson Dorsey will be one of the journal’s five senior editors situated across the country.
Professor Emerita Toi Derricotte earned a Modern Language Association award
Derricotte received the award along with the colleague with whom she founded Cave Canem, a national poetry organization that cultivates “the artistic and professional growth of African American poets
14 Pitt students were named Millennium Fellows
This term-long leadership development program takes place on selected campuses worldwide, celebrating student leadership that advances the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
2 Pitt people received grants from National Endowment for the Humanities
David Birnbaum and Kathryn Haines earned funding in digital humanities and American history, respectively.
Maureen Porter received the David Portlock Outstanding International Educator Award
The associate professor was honored by the Pennsylvania Council of International Education.
Pitt’s online Master of Science in Nursing program is among the top-rated nationally
Best Health Degrees ranked Pitt third for “cutting-edge” research in STEM fields like nursing, which increases the prestige of such programs.
A new partnership will bring free bike share rides to Pitt students
All Pitt first-year undergraduate students and resident assistants will receive unlimited 30-minute rides with Healthy Ride during the 2019-20 academic year.
Nancy Merritt has been named vice chancellor for alumni relations
She brings 17 years of experience to the role, where she plans to develop programs to help alumni engage with students, pursue educational and professional opportunities and enrich their personal and
Pitt Education will serve as home to the Comparative and International Education Society
The society organizes and provides conferences, publications, professional networking and research support for members from members 1,000 universities, research institutes and other organizations.
Valerie Kinloch was elected vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English
The Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the School of Education has been an NCTE member for more than 20 years.
Katrina Loutzenhiser was honored by Blackboard Inc.
The technology and media services director in the School of Education earned the Exemplary Course Program Award.
These Pitt researchers will create a vision system mimicking human sight
The project by Ryad Benosman and Feng Xiong earned $500,000 from the National Science Foundation.
Pitt Cyber held a successful 3rd annual Cyber Camp
This year, 213 high school students learned about cybersecurity basics as well as advanced skills like networking and operations security.
Sylvia Rhor Samaniego was selected for a Getty Leadership Institute program
The University Art Gallery director was among 35 museum leaders selected for the Executive Education for Museum Professionals cohort this year.
Jason Rosenstock was named interim associate dean for Pitt’s School of Medicine
The associate professor of psychiatry will ensure high-quality teaching in courses and clerkships for each year of medical school.
William Kramer will lead the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Kramer has held leadership roles at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at NASA Ames Research Center.
Rory Cooper completed the Heidelberg Hand-Bike Marathon
The director of Pitt's Human Engineering Research Laboratories finished with a time of 1 hour, 27 minutes.
LifeX Labs received an Economic Development Administration entrepreneurship grant
The Pitt startup is among 44 organizations nationwide — and the only one in Pennsylvania — to share a total of $23 million awarded under the EDA’s i6 Challenge grant program.
