Arts and Humanities
Ruth Mostern advocated for the humanities on Capitol Hill
She had the opportunity to talk to congressional staffers from both sides of the aisle about humanities research at Pitt.
Pitt Business MBAs won a global supply chain case competition
Sarthak Arora, Anthony Perry, Faizan Saadullah, Shubham Kishore and Rohit Dubey made up this year’s winning team.
Jon-Philip Imbrenda won a national literacy research award
The Arthur Applebee Award is known as one of the highest honors in the field of literacy education.
University of Pittsburgh Press awarded the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Caroline Kim won the fiction award for her recent work, “The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories.”
Raja Adal received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Adal will use this grant to support his project “The Typewriter and the History of Writing Technologies in Japan.”
Pitt’s Dietrich School is launching a new writing institute
The William S. Dietrich II Institute for Writing Excellence will help create a “more vibrant writing culture” on campus.
Toi Derricotte won a lifetime achievement award in poetry
The professor emerita is the 2020 recipient of the Frost Medal, named to honor the late poet Robert Frost.
Study Lab won a silver CASE award for marketing and communications
The winning team included staffers Rebecca Farabaugh, Marygrace Reder and Jane Dudley.
Anjali Sachdeva was named a National Endowment for the Arts fellow
Chosen from nearly 1,700 eligible applicants, Sachdeva is one of 36 creative writing fellows who received a grant of $25,000.
WPTS Radio is hosting a 24-hour Winter Marathon
Catch the Totally ’20s Winter Marathon on Feb. 7-8.