2 Pitt scientists won NIH High-Risk High-Reward Grants
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis and Caroline Runyan have won NIH Director’s Awards for pursuing major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that require trans-NIH collaboration to succeed.
Michel Gobat was honored for his book by the American Historical Association
Gobat will receive the Friedrich Katz Prize for “Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America.”
2 Pitt faculty members won a documentary feature award
Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon were recognized for “Making Montgomery Clift.”
2 Pitt people received grants from National Endowment for the Humanities
David Birnbaum and Kathryn Haines earned funding in digital humanities and American history, respectively.
Professor Emerita Toi Derricotte earned a Modern Language Association award
Derricotte received the award along with the colleague with whom she founded Cave Canem, a national poetry organization that cultivates “the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.”
Sylvia Rhor Samaniego was selected for a Getty Leadership Institute program
The University Art Gallery director was among 35 museum leaders selected for the Executive Education for Museum Professionals cohort this year.
Jill Millstone won a career excellence award
The associate professor has been awarded the 2019 Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Chemists Committee Award for Career Excellence in the Chemical Sciences.
A Pitt pre-med student hosts a medical humanities podcast
You can hear Emma Wolinsky bring conversations on medicine, anatomy and culture to life in “Remains to be Seen.”
Pitt’s new Jazz Studies Director topped recent jazz polls
Downbeat and the Jazz Journalists Association recognized flutist Nicole Mitchell