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Alumna Lia Winter was a finalist in an innovation competition
Her trademarked patent, the EasyWhip, created a new whip stitching method that improves graft accuracy and overall patient outcomes.
PittServes’ Erika Ninos won a national student support award
The sustainability program coordinator received the Post-Landfill Action Network Supportive Staff Member Award.
The University of Pittsburgh Police Department won a corporate citizenship award
Pitt Police won for a program that collects unwanted food from students’ dormitories when they leave campus at the end of the semester and uses it to stock The Pitt Pantry.
Alumna Rachel Ann Brickner received the Miller Audio Prize
The MFA graduate is also a part-time instructor in Pitt’s Department of English.
Alumnus Robert F. Lambert was named to the York Traditions Bank Board of Directors
Lambert has served as president of York County Libraries in Pennsylvania since 2016. His history of community leadership includes serving as Controller for the City of York from 2008-2016.
Pitt Law boasts highest first-time passing rate for the Pennsylvania Bar Exam
Eighty-one Pitt Law graduates sat for the test for the first time this past July, and 74 of them passed.
2 Pitt scientists won NIH High-Risk High-Reward Grants
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis and Caroline Runyan have won NIH Director’s Awards for pursuing major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that require trans-NIH collaboration to succeed.
Pitt was ranked a top 50 Best Global University
Pitt landed at No. 47 on the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking.
Pitt’s African American Alumni Council will honor 5 during Homecoming 2019
Read more about the alumni, who have excelled in their careers and carved a national footprint with outstanding contributions to society and the University community.
6 rising African American alumni will be recognized at the Sankofa Homecoming farewell brunch
Read more about the outstanding grads being honored by Pitt’s African American Alumni Council.
Carolyn Carlins Keller received a Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 Award
Keller serves as operations manager for the Carnegie Project on the education doctorate program housed within Pitt’s School of Education.
Willa Doswell was named a Woman of Excellence by the New Pittsburgh Courier
Doswell will be recognized at a luncheon in downtown Pittsburgh on Dec. 12, 2019.
Michel Gobat was honored for his book by the American Historical Association
Gobat will receive the Friedrich Katz Prize for “Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America.”
Pitt has named 3 new Distinguished Alumni Fellows
Howard W. Hanna Jr. and siblings Simone Myers Karp and Lloyd N. Myers have received the highest alumni honor conferred by the University of Pittsburgh and its Alumni Association.
Lauren O. Wallace was recognized on Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 Under 40 list
She’s a two-time alumna, director of recruitment for the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, and pursuing her EdD.
Ervin Dyer received a Pulitzer Center international reporting grant
Pitt Magazine’s senior editor will use the grant to report from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on an emerging and innovative urban church and its pastor.
2 Pitt faculty members won a documentary feature award
Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon were recognized for “Making Montgomery Clift.”
The Pitt Innovation Challenge awarded $460K for novel health care solutions
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute incentivized solutions for problems known to impact rural health disparities by offering an additional bonus award up to $25,000.
Cayla Ray will receive Pitt-Greensburg’s Young Alumni Leadership Award
She is currently serving her pediatric dental residency at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A recent forum focused on Pittsburgh as a leader in advancing UN sustainable development goals
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Ann E. Cudd participated in a forum with regional leaders to share accomplishments and commitments to help improve our part of the planet.
