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Nick France
A podcast by 2 Pitt professors is among the year’s best, according to the New York Times
“Cement City” is a series documenting the English professor’s experience living in Donora, Pennsylvania, once a manufacturing hub.
Chas Bonasorte, Pitt football’s ‘Kamikaze Kid’ and owner of famed Pitt apparel kiosk, died at 70
After his career on the field, Bonasorte became a fixture on the Pittsburgh campus with his clothing kiosk at Forbes and Bigelow.
Joy Priest won an Advancing Black Arts Award
The Pittsburgh Foundation awarded the Pitt assistant professor $50,000 for her forthcoming poetry anthology, “The Black Outside.”
5 teams took home prizes in Pitt’s Sustainability in Healthcare Challenge
Faculty members in the School of Medicine and Swanson School of Engineering earned $40,000 each to fund their winning projects.
Tony Carey won an American Political Science Association mentor award
He earned this year’s Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for working with Latino junior faculty.
Raed El Rafei’s new film will premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The assistant professor returned to his Lebanon hometown to create “Tripoli/A Tale of Three Cities.”
Tao Han was honored by the American Physical Society
The Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics was recognized with the annual Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award.
Michelle Ward was honored for encouraging women in the chemical sciences
The American Chemical Society Pittsburgh also recognized Pitt’s student chapter with a sustainability award.
2 Pitt historians were featured in an Emmy-winning documentary
You can see Alonna Carter-Donaldson and Laurence Glasco in WQED’s ‘Pittsburgh and the Great Migration.’
2 Pitt graduate students are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition
Patrick Dunn and Alireza Mohammadzadeh, both studying in the Swanson School of Engineering, will compete in the finals with their innovation, AgriNUE.