4 Pitt students earned 2019 Goldwater Scholarships
All of the winners are seniors in the Dietrich School and residents of Pennsylvania.
Mohammed A. Bamyeh was elected board chair of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences
The Pitt sociology professor will guide the council, which has supported hundreds of researchers in 22 Arab countries.
4 Pitt projects will be showcased at the ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival
Meet the feature researchers from the World History Center, HERL, the Office of the Provost and the Department of Theatre Arts.
Michel Gobat was named a finalist for the PROSE Award
The associate professor of history is being honored for his book, “Empire by Invitation.”
Justin Phillip Reed was named a Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellow
A South Carolina native, the “Indecency” author won the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Undergraduate John R. Starr won a Beinecke Scholarship
The $34,000 award will fund graduate studies for the Bachelor of Philosophy student.
3 Dietrich School faculty members were recognized for teaching excellence
Julie Beaulieu, Geoffrey Glover and Jeffrey Wheeler won the 2019 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award.
A team of Pitt undergrads captured a silver medal for their ‘molecular movie camera’
More than 300 teams competed at the International Genetically Engineering Machine competition to solve an open research or societal problem.
Dawn Lundy Martin won the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
She is a professor in the Writing Program and the co-founder of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
Marcus Rediker examined the historical context of a Spielberg film in a new essay
The distinguished professor compared “Amistad” to his own extensive research on the 19th-century rebellion.