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3 Pitt students earned Boren Awards to study languages abroad
Michael Sipper and John Danvers will study in Turkey while junior Kate McManus will study in Estonia.
James Coleman won a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation award
The Giles Constable Award will support his upcoming book on 15th- to 17th-century Italian literature
The Text and ConText Lab’s Columbian hand press was added to a global database
You can make your own prints with the 2,000-pound piece of history on the third floor of Hillman Library.
Pitt alumnus Elwin Cotman won a Whiting Award for his urban fantasy writing
The Dietrich School alum is among 10 emerging American authors who will receive a $50,000 grant to support furthering their literary work.
Explore 1960s Pittsburgh through a new Pitt photography collection
From civil rights figures and influential artists to everyday citizens, Frank Floyd Hightower captured an evolving city and Black community on film.
Angela Hindes is a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh artist-in-residence
The Center for Creativity staffer will create art and build programming at the library’s Allegheny branch.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte won an early career award from the American Sociological Association
The assistant professor of sociology won for his studies on emergent social forms and behaviors.
This alumna is protecting people from cons, one podcast episode at a time
Laci Mosley pokes fun at grifters in “Scam Goddess,” an award-winning podcast and Hulu documentary series.
Gary Jackson blends poetry, comics and Afrofuturism to redefine Black narratives
The Dietrich School professor explores speculative storytelling through his scholarship and craft.
This high school student is sewing a quilt inspired by her research in Pitt’s August Wilson Archive
Maria McDill, an August Wilson Archive Student Research Awardee, received mentorship and a stipend to support her project.
Angie Cruz won 2 recent literary prizes
The associate professor of English received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was named a United States Artists fellow.
Pitt Stages is bringing this professor’s play to life for the first time
“Morning Reckoning” harkens back to the golden age of boy bands and teen girl fandom that defined Kelly Trumbull’s adolescence. See it through Feb. 23.
Get experience with audio-visual mediums with Jarman Lab at Pitt
The four-day film bootcamp for faculty, staff and graduate and professional students returns in May. Apply by Feb. 21.
Pitt hosted a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
The festival featured Pitt Stages’ production of ‘The Inseparables.’
Caitlin Bruce was awarded a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The $60,000 will help fund her urban art project, which offers free youth workshops hosted by Pittsburgh artists.
Pitt-Bradford’s creative arts magazine will unveil its 2025 issue Jan. 22
Bailey’s Beads will host a celebration, featuring live readings from contributors, an open mic for the public, refreshments and prizes.
How this Pitt professor lent her voice to a hit medical drama
The School of Medicine’s Sylvia Owusu-Ansah shared her story with writers of HBO Max’s “The Pitt.”
For this Pitt alumna, to dance is to dream
At Pittsburgh’s Hill Dance Academy Theatre, Ayisha Morgan-Lee uses Black dance to teach history and possibility.
PhD student Cody Hmelar won a CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award
The Department of English scholar will attend the organization’s annual convention in Baltimore this spring.
This Pitt professor designed a ‘Survivor’-style game to teach social psychology lessons
Jennifer Hirsch’s unique course lets students get in the heads of reality stars — and learn some lessons while they’re in there.
