Pitt’s Institute for Learning earned a $1M Hewlett Foundation grant

The award will fund the Learning Research and Development Center unit’s study of cross-school networked improvement communities.

Marc Coutanche was elected as board secretary of the Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavior Sciences

The associate professor will help the board oversee the nonprofit’s activities and create an agenda to advance its disciplines.

Khirsten Scott and Angela Stewart won the 2024 Joint LRDC-School of Education Internal Award

The assistant professors will work to advance youth well-being, particularly among Black girls.

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal is the new director of Pitt’s Learning Research and Development Center

The Department of Psychology chair has extensively studied the impact of socioeconomic inequality on human development during her two decades at the University.

Angela Stewart earned $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation

Her project, funded by a Racial Equity in STEM Education award, will work to expand the range of perspectives and voices in AI technology.

Alex Silver earned an award for her doctoral dissertation research

The graduate student in Pitt’s Learning Research and Development Center is one of two to receive the honor from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

PhD candidate Lorraine Blatt won a fellowship from the National Academy of Education

As a Spencer Dissertation fellow, she's been identified one of education's most talented researchers.

One key to success in college? A sense of belonging, according to new research.

A Science study by a team including Pitt’s Omid Fotuhi shows students who go through an intervention to foster feelings of belonging are more likely to finish their first year.

1 in 2 Black adolescents faced online racial discrimination in 2020, a Pitt study found

That’s significantly higher than previously documented, say the Pitt researchers who studied more than 600 youth over an 8-month period.