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6 Pitt alumni and leaders earned 2026 C-Suite Awards
This year’s Pittsburgh Business Times awardees include Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations Nancy Merritt and Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine Donald Yealy.
Undergraduate Alexandre Massip earned a national environmental fellowship
He is one of 39 students selected for the Rachel Carson Council’s 2026-27 National Environmental Leadership Fellowship.
Ashlee Wolfgang will lead the University Counseling Center
Wolfgang, who has served in various UCC leadership roles since 2019, was selected as executive director after a national search.
Chancellor Joan Gabel was named to Forbes’ 50 Over 50 list
Gabel was recognized for her outstanding leadership and vision on the sixth annual list celebrating notable women doing impactful work in their fields.
Pitt announced 3 leadership appointments
April Belback, Don Elliott and Enku Gelaye will work to continue strengthening the University’s commitment to student success and financial sustainability in their new roles.
Pitt picked up 6 awards at the Suitable Pathways to Student Success Conference
The annual event recognizes people and programs for their impact on student success and co-curricular learning.
Lara Putnam was elected vice president of research for the American Historical Association
The professor of history will serve a three-year term beginning January 2027.
Marla Ripoll was named interim dean of the School of Public and International Affairs
The professor of economics is a recognized leader in her field and a core faculty member in Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies and Global Studies program.
Janina López won a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts
The two-year Wyeth Fellowship will support the graduate student’s dissertation on art and education in Northern California in the 1970s.
Alissa Clark won a professional society’s Marketing and Communications Award
Granted by the Alumni Career Services Network, the award honors Clark for developing an innovative alumni career resource.
Alana DeLoge co-authored two chapters on Quechua language instruction
The teaching assistant professor wrote about the Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative and authenticity vs. standardization in learning materials on the Indigenous language.
Pitt’s Graduate Studies team received a $1M Sloan Centers for Systemic Change grant
The implementation award, which follows a 2023 seed grant, will fund scholarships for 36 exceptional PhD students in STEM fields.
2 new vice presidents joined Pitt-Bradford’s leadership team
Jessica Kubiak will serve as dean of academic affairs, and Andrew Peterson will serve as dean of student affairs.
International military and civilian leaders visited Pitt to learn from Swanson School experts
Visitors from the National Defense University’s International Fellows program heard talks on nuclear power, bioengineering and Pitt’s Center for Military Medicine Research.
Reinhard Hinterleitner won the Society for Mucosal Immunology Young Investigator Award
The associate professor’s research focuses on how gut microbiota shape immune responses.
Pitt’s School of Pharmacy received a national community service award
The school was honored at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy for its commitment to addressing unmet community needs through education, practice and research.
The University Library System is helping to digitize a rare East African archive
Pitt experts are training two librarians from Kenya’s St. Paul’s University, which is home to centuries-old records documenting slavery and emancipation.
The Institute for Learning earned another $1M from the Hewlett Foundation
The Learning Research and Development Center’s practice arm will continue its work strengthening middle school literacy in two Pennsylvania school districts.
2 Pitt researchers received Cytokine Society awards
Assistant Professor Victor S. Cortez and PhD student Catherine Phelps were honored for their immunology work.
Poushalee Banerjee won an American Fisheries Society student writing award
Her article on eastern hellbenders received an honorable mention.
