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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.
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 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.
2 Pitt researchers received Cytokine Society awards
Assistant Professor Victor S. Cortez and PhD student Catherine Phelps were honored for their immunology work.
Olivera Finn will serve as an at-large director of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
The Distinguished Professor of Immunology will start her three-year term in January.
Poushalee Banerjee won an American Fisheries Society student writing award
Her article on eastern hellbenders received an honorable mention.
Graduate student Ryan Lindner earned a Boren Award
The School of Public and International Affairs master’s student is using his fellowship to study Russian at the Novamova Language School in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Pitt-Greensburg students helped a local conservation agency bolster its public outreach
The communication class developed strategies pro bono for the Westmoreland Conservation District.
A Pitt research team won a 2026 Tools Competition prize
Xiang Lorraine Li, Diane Litman and Gayle Rogers will use the $100,000 award to build a dataset that could help AI give students better writing feedback.
Pitt joined a new national effort to strengthen community engagement
The University will spend seven months developing a campus action plan with support from Campus Compact, building on its recent Carnegie classification.
April Belback won the UERU Leadership Award
Pitt’s associate vice provost for student success and advising was honored with the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities’ highest honor.
Pitt improved its rank on the Times Higher Education Sustainability Impact list
It’s the only global ranking that measures institutions based on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
