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Janice Pringle will receive an Excellence in Patient Care Award
The founder and director of the Program Evaluation and Research Unit is being honored by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation.
A new Pitt institute will improve pediatric health and research
The Institute of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity in Children will be led by Pitt Pediatrics Professor John Williams.
2 Pitt alumni won literary achievement awards
Dietrich School grads Cameron Barnett and Adriana E. Ramírez received the annual Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award as an Emerging Artist and Established Artist, respectively.
Pitt’s School of Dental Medicine became the first in the nation to create opioid guidelines
The guidelines advocate that clinicians prescribe non-opioid pain-relievers first whenever possible.
Alumna Julie Sokolow was recognized for her documentary
“Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story” won Best Premiere Documentary Feature at the Heartland International Film Festival.
Alumnus Samir Lakhani made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list
Samir Lakhani (A&S ’15), has been named to the 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 list of top young social entrepreneurs. The Forbes 30 under 30 list features 600 entrepreneurs in 20 industries, selected from
A PERU group won an American Public Health Association abstract award
The abstract was written in collaboration with Heather Santa, senior research specialist at Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, and project partners at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
2 Pitt researchers were named National Academy of Inventors fellows
Rob Rutenbar and William Federspiel joined the 2019 class, obtaining the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Pitt’s Healthy Lifestyle Institute hosted its second annual summit
There, Founding Director John Jakicic introduced the new Schools on the Move initiative, which will provide grants to support physical education at 43 Pittsburgh K-12 schools.
Pitt Nursing faculty stood out in statewide awards
Brenda Cassidy, Jennifer Lingler and Patricia Tuite each received Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania for excellence in nursing.
Grace Campbell was selected for an inaugural national recognition
She is one of fewer than 20 nurses from across the U.S. who were selected for the first cohort of Association of Rehabilitation Nurses fellows.
Inmaculada Hernandez earned an emerging leader award
Inmaculada Hernandez, assistant professor of pharmacy and therapeutics in Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, was recently presented the 2019 Seema S. Sonnad Emerging Leader in Managed Care Research Award by
8 Pitt people received Mascaro Faculty Program in Sustainability Awards
The one-year awards go to faculty members from all disciplines.
3 Pitt researchers were named to American Association for the Advancement of Science
Three University of Pittsburgh researchers have been named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019 fellowship cohort. Kathryn Albers, a professor in the Department of
A musical collaboration by Mathew Rosenblum was performed in Poland and Boston
“Lament/Witches’ Sabbath” tells the story of Rosenblum’s grandmother, whose family fled Proskurov, Ukraine, in 1919 during that town’s massacre.
Jeanne Marie Laskas penned an essay on Mr. Rogers in The New York Times Magazine
“Fred believed that the creative process was a fundamental function at the core of every human being,” the Distinguished Professor of English wrote.
A Pitt study on hearing loss and social participation received a PCORI award
Catherine Palmer and her SHRS team will use the funding to find out if satisfaction with social participation improves with availability of hearing support.
Peter Strick was honored for brain research
Peter Strick, founding scientific director of the University of Pittsburgh's Brain Institute, was selected for a 2019 Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award in recognition of his contributions to the
Alex Toner was recognized as a Western Pennsylvania Rising Star
A graduate of the School of Computing and Information, he is assistant director of community engagement in the Office of Community and Governmental Relations.
