Sabina Deitrick Appointed to Urban Affairs Association Distinguished Service Honor Roll
Sabina Deitrick, associate dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, was inducted to the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Distinguished Service Honor Roll. She is among eight honorees recognized this year for the award, which honors the organization’s most impactful service leaders.
Lina Dostilio leads study on hyperlocal community engagement
The benchmarking report examined the hyperlocal practices of 22 CUMU institutions with a total of 26 engagements across 33 sites — including Pitt’s Community Engagement Center in Homewood.
Alumna Bobbi Watt Geer will lead the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania
The GSPIA graduate is the first woman to lead the nonprofit, where she has worked for more than a decade.
Michael Kenney will contribute to a report on countering extremism
The GSPIA associate professor has been commissioned by the British government.
2 Pitt researchers are awarded Provost’s Integrative Social-Science Research Initiative
Melanie Hughes and Müge Finkel co-direct Pitt's Gender Inequality Research Lab.
A GSPIA alumna was named a nonprofit leader in social work
Sharon L. McDaniel is the president and CEO of A Second Chance, Inc., a licensed foster care agency that meets the unique needs of kinship families in Allegheny and Philadelphia counties.
Lindsay Hilton Retchless received the Gloria Fitzgibbons Memorial Award
The recent master's graduate and Pitt-Bradford's director of alumni relations earned the prestigious Graduate School of Public and International Affairs honor.