Global
The Nationality Rooms Scholarships awarded record funding this year
The scholarships will support the study abroad research endeavors of 54 students.
Daniel Balderson received a literary award
The Society for Textual Scholarship honored the Mellon Professor of Modern Languages for his book, “How Borges Wrote.”
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.
Jean Nachega was recognized by 2 African science institutions
He is an associate professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases and microbiology in the Graduate School of Public Health.
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.
A new documentary based on a ULS initiative puts China’s cultural revolution in context
The film will highlight the CR/10 Project, which records, preserves and publishes interviews with Chinese citizens sharing their memories of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
Pitt’s Nationality Rooms were featured on a National Geographic ‘cool list’
The 30 rooms inside the Cathedral of Learning represent different cultures from the world. Most also function as classrooms, and the public is welcome to tour the rooms yearround.
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
A Pitt PhD student will debut a new opera
On Dec. 14 and 15, Jazz Studies scholar Benjamin Barson will present “Mirror Butterfly: the Migrant Liberation Movement Suite” at the Kelly Strayhorn Theatre.
3 PittGlobal centers earned a funding boost
Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, European Studies Center, and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies received a more than $7 million from the U.S. Department of Education and others.