Joy Priest won an Advancing Black Arts Award
The Pittsburgh Foundation awarded the Pitt assistant professor $50,000 for her forthcoming poetry anthology, “The Black Outside.”
This Pitt alum got a humanitarian award from Farmworker Justice
Amy Liebman ensures the nation's immigrants are protected and supported.
Live from New York, it’s Ben Asciutto
This Pitt alum’s childhood aspirations of working in the entertainment industry are coming true on the set of ‘Saturday Night Live.’
3 Pitt people earned Philosophy of Science Association awards
Emeritus Professor Jim Woodward was honored with the Hempel Award for his years of service as PSA president.
How this Pitt duo’s startup plans to attack the ‘tricky beast’ that is cancer
A platform developed by Jason Lohmueller and Alex Dieters could allow immunotherapies to be delivered to tumors with more flexibility and precision.
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poetry collection was named a must-read by Time magazine
In “Root Fractures,” the assistant professor of English examines points of inflection within a Vietnamese-American family.
Justin Kitzes received funding from Google for his high-tech approach to ecology and conservation
The assistant professor of biological sciences uses audio recorders and AI methods to scale up how scientists track patterns in nature.
Peng Liu is unraveling new reactions — and new ways of working together
With a pair of Nature papers among a flurry of recent studies, the computational chemist is on a hot streak that shows no sign of stopping.
Tony Carey won an American Political Science Association mentor award
He earned this year’s Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for working with Latino junior faculty.
Susan Lucas was named a Mon Valley Initiative Community Partner of the Year
The Urban Studies faculty member and Dawna Cerney of Youngstown State won for their work on the SEED for Swissvale project.