Kaylene Stocking and Madeline Guido won top undergraduate student awards at Honors Convocation
Nearly 3,700 students and 478 faculty members were recognized at the 43rd annual ceremony.
Jonathan Woon was named associate editor of the American Journal of Political Science
The Pitt chair’s research focuses on political behavior, American politics, game theory and political economy.
Oscar Swan translated a Holocaust-era diary written by a Warsaw ghetto survivor
Leokadia Schmidt’s son recently contacted the Pitt professor about publishing his translation from 1972.
Urban Studies advisor Carolyn Carson was recognized for outstanding work
This year's Ampco-Pittsburgh Prize for Excellence in Advising has served at Pitt for more than two decades.
Justin Kitzes received a grant from Microsoft and National Geographic to study bird songs
The assistant professor will develop a free, open source model to identify the sounds in acoustic field recordings.
Hrvoje Petek was honored by the American Chemical Society
The R.K. Mellon Professor has received the Ahmed Zewali Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology.
Brent Doiron joined the NIH BRAIN Initiative as a theoretical neuroscience investigator
The professor of mathematics will work with a team from Columbia University to develop mathematical models of the brain’s primary visual cortex.
A Pitt alumna and sustainability advocate received a visionary award
Patricia DeMarco recently published “Pathways to Our Sustainable Future: A Global Perspective” with the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Tao Han was elected as an American Physical Society vice chair
Han will begin his duties in January 2019 and will assume as chair in 2021.
Viktoria Harms was honored by the American Association of Teachers of German
She serves as the Department of German’s director of language studies and director of undergraduate studies within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences