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Staff Council Professional Development and Mentor Awards Open for Submission

Staff Council offers multiple financial awards aimed to foster professional development, support mentorship and drive employee engagement.

• Staff

Carrie Leana Speaks On Financial Precarity At Aspen Institute Ideas Festival

• Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

History Professor Advocates for the Humanities on Capitol Hill

• World History Center
• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of History

Staff Member Gets Crafty to Make Masks for Health Care Workers

Judith Camarda, payroll specialist in Facilities Management, has been a seamstress since her mother taught her the craft when she was 12 years old. Over the years, she has sewn clothes for herself and

Two Seniors Named to P&Q Best & Brightest Business Majors

• Department of Marketing
• Department of Business Information Systems

Vote for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition People’s Choice Award

Alumna Delivers Meals to Essential Health Care Workers

Got Toilet Paper? There’s a Website for That

• School of Computing and Information
• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• School of Public and International Affairs
• Department of Computer Science

University Library System Acquires Daniel Kraus Papers

Research Team Receives Grant to Form AI System to Debunk False COVID Information

• School of Computing and Information
• School of Education

Hayley Germack Leads Blog on Nurse Practitioner Practice During COVID-19 Pandemic

• School of Nursing

Alumnus Brett Murphy (A&S ’14) Wins Prestigious Journalism Award

• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of Studio Arts
• Department of Political Science
• Department of English

Waverly Duck Publishes New Book, ‘Tacit Racism’

• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Department of Sociology

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Awards Five Researchers Grants

• Swanson School of Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Virtual She Innovates Hackathon Runs Feb. 5-7

Undergraduate and graduate students, regardless of experience level, are encouraged to register for a weekend of hacking, technical talks and mentorship from Feb. 5-7.

David Fitz Named Vice President of Institutional Integration and Community Engagement at Pitt–Bradford

• Pitt-Bradford

Call for Proposals for Open Education Resources Project Funding

The funding from the Office of the Provost is for faculty to adapt, adopt and/or create open education resources for an existing course. Proposals are due March 11, 2021.

• Faculty

Industrial Engineering’s Mostafa Bedewy Earns NSF’s EAGER Award

• Department of Industrial Engineering
• Swanson School of Engineering

Senior Capstone Colloquium: Reading Bodies in German Culture

On Intergenerational Queer Kinship and the Frail Body of August von Platen, this talk explores engaging with Platen’s queer life through his diaries.

• Faculty

Seven Pitt Alums Named to Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 List

• Swanson School of Engineering
• School of Law
• Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
• Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
• School of Public Health