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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.

Pitt is a Fulbright Top Producer yet again
15 Pitt students and alumni earned the chance to participate in the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program in the past year.

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.

Amir Alavi was named editor-in-chief of a new Nature Portfolio journal
The B.P. America Faculty Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will lead npj Metamaterials.

11,423 donors raised $3.26M for vital University initiatives on Pitt Day of Giving
The daylong fundraising sprint will support scholarships, research, academic programs, student organizations, athletics and more across Pitt’s campuses.

Pitt leaders testified on the University’s role in contributing to PA’s future
On Feb. 19, students and administrators shared the value of a Pitt education with the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s Performance-Based Funding Council.

Pitt is among the top 50 universities at producing research that leads to patents
The University ranked No. 43 on Clarivate’s list of universities powering global innovation.

‘The Blair Witch Project’ archive has joined Pitt’s Horror Studies Collection
See props, original marketing materials and more on display at the University Library System’s Archives and Special Collections Exhibit Gallery.

Meet Rory Cooper, a Hall of Fame innovator who’s been harnessing tech to build better wheelchairs for three decades
With inventions benefiting disabled veterans and other wheelchair users, the HERL director is pushing technology and entrepreneurship toward new possibilities.

Kamesha Spates was invited to speak at the Association for Addiction Professionals
She joined a panel of experts to discuss addressing suicide among the Black community.

SEA-PHAGES has turned thousands of college students into more confident researchers
A $3 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant furthers the program, which is providing hands-on research opportunities at more than 150 schools, including Pitt-Greensburg.

The National Academy of Inventors elected 2 Pitt faculty as new senior members
Yuan Liu and Juan Taboas received the honor for their innovative work in drug discovery and regenerative medicine, respectively.

Evan Schneider has been named a Sloan Research fellow
The assistant professor of physics and astronomy is using supercomputers to understand the processes that shape galaxies.

UCTL leader Michael Bridges will retire from Pitt in June
As executive director of the University Center for Teaching and Learning, he’s kept Pitt on the cutting-edge of best practices in educational information technologies.

Pitt-Bradford honored 18 faculty and staff for their years of service
Among the longest-serving members were Bill Kline, David Soriano, Karen Strotmann, Hashim Yousif and Bob Dilks.

Xing Chen won 3 grants for her research to better understand and restore sight
She’s working on bringing the implant, which could present a new way to restore patients’ sight, to market with startup Phosphoenix.

17 Pitt affiliates were named to the Pittsburgh Business Times Power 100
Chancellor Joan Gabel is an honoree for a second consecutive year.

Nastasia Mauger won the 2024 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award
The award is given to a female scientist who made an outstanding contribution to high-performance computing.

3 ways Pitt researchers are making strides in assistive technology
From smart uses of smart-home technology to driving simulators, these innovators are leveraging tech to improve lives.

Pitt senior Simon Wang won Campus Compact’s Student Leadership Impact Award
He was honored for co-founding the Pittsburgh Policy Initiative, a campus organization for students who want to get involved in public policy and policy analysis.