Staff Council named 5 award winners

Each year, the organization acknowledges excellence in mentoring and provides support for Pitt staff and their students.

Pitt names 2023 Nordenberg Leadership Scholars

5 exceptional high school seniors in Pennsylvania will receive the full-tuition scholarship.

Hockey led this Pitt student-researcher to study heart valves

Forward Benjamin Leslie wants to make sure kids with congenital heart defects can play sports.

Pitt is supporting these 35 undergrads in their summer research

Brackenridge fellows get $4,000 stipends and weekly interdisciplinary networking to back their scholarly projects. 2023 winners hail from the Greensburg and Pittsburgh campuses.

Alison Sanders received a grant to support an undergraduate student’s research

Pitt Public Health student Annika Spencer is studying climate change-related kidney toxicology in Sanders’ lab.

15 Pitt students were named Gilman scholars

The scholarship supports undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants with up to $5,000 as they study abroad.

Ryan Steinly

A Frederick Honors College student fluent in language and justice.

The graduates who received Pitt’s top honors in 2023

A political poet, the student behind Roc himself and a nurse in training earned the ODK Senior of the Year Awards and the Emma Locke award.

4 Pitt students earned Boren Awards to study language abroad

The recipients will travel to Croatia, Latvia, Montenegro and Tajikistan.

Anaya Joynes

A Pitt engineering student who leads by example.