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5 Pitt health sciences faculty members received 2025 Ascending Star Awards

Each honoree receives $25,000 and will give a lecture during the fall semester. Here’s the full schedule.

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Olivera Finn was awarded the PNC Elsie Hillman Distinguished Scholar Award

The distinguished professor was recognized for her decades of research in immunology and groundbreaking work on developing a vaccine to prevent several human cancers.

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Alumnus Urvish Jain won the coveted Kanders Churchill Scholarship

He will use the award to continue his studies in health care delivery, economics and policy at the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

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Pitt will continue bolstering Pennsylvania’s dental workforce with a new Regional Training Center

The School of Dental Medicine is partnering with the ETC at Pitt-Titusville and Titusville Area Hospital to offer hybrid training programs for dental hygienists and assistants.

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Ray Engel was honored by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Partnership for Aging

The associate professor in the School of Social Work received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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A new Pitt study has upended decades-old assumptions about brain plasticity

The findings by Oliver Schlüter, Yue Yang and team may have implications for learning, memory and mental health.

Hand cyclists line up in a row at the marathon starting line.

How Pitt keeps hand cyclists on the road to success in the Pittsburgh Marathon

The Hand Cycle Assistance Team, powered by volunteers from the University and community, provides support to racers with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities.

Outside of Pitt’s School of Public Health

A new Pitt Public Health partnership will focus on connections between people and the environment

Pitt and UNIC Health in Cyprus will develop a joint online master’s degree program in One Health.

An instructor and students watch as a student practices CPR on a dummy.

Pitt students are mentoring high schoolers into health care careers

NextGen Healthcare, a new student group, is offering friendship, advice and even money for college.

Rohit Mantena sits at a lab bench

This senior and cerebral aneurysm researcher is staying at Pitt to earn his MD

Halfway through his studies, Robit Mantena has already received accolades for his innovative lab work.