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4 Pitt innovation teams receive Chancellor’s Gap Fund commercialization grants
The funds will accelerate their path from the lab to the market.
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Anish Kumar joins Pitt as vice chancellor for real estate
He will oversee real estate portfolio activities, including property acquisitions, divestments, negotiations and portfolio management.
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Pitt-Bradford receives funding for green building project
The $230,000 grant will support a rooftop solar array and educational dashboard.
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Daren Ellerbee named inaugural director of Pitt’s new University Educational Outreach Center
The center is dedicated to creating equitable pathways for students to gain the potential to enroll at Pitt or other select colleges and universities.
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3 staffers win 2021 Teaching Center awards
The annual awards recognize staff who demonstrate excellence in teaching and a commitment to learning.
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Zippo pledges $2 million to Pitt-Bradford
The gift will be dedicated largely to equipping state-of-the-art engineering labs in the new Engineering and Information Technologies Building.
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5 Pitt faculty members receive the 2021 Provost’s Award for Diversity in the Curriculum
The award is given to faculty who have successfully integrated diversity in the curriculum and inclusion in the classroom.
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Pitt trustee SaLisa Berrien receives Black Founders Fund award from Google for Startups
The award will be used to expand her Tampa-based renewable energy services company, COI Energy.
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Pitt students help launch a Hollywood-based entertainment company
One of One Entertainment launched in November.
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University Center for Teaching and Learning names director for equitable and inclusive teaching
The new director will evaluate teaching initiatives and work with faculty to assess the learning process.
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Pitt’s Boo Kyung Jung received a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies
The grant is in the amount of $21,000.
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A six-year search for a new particle has turned up empty
With help from Pitt researchers, MicrobooNE was looking for a long-theorized “sterile neutrino” that would buck the standard model of physics.
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Three Pitt researchers earned Charles E. Kaufman Foundation grants
The awards support critical research at Pennsylvania universities.
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Pitt researchers receive grant to explore wireless technology for people with disabilities
The team hopes to improve accessibility and promote mainstream wireless inclusion through technology services with a $4.6 million grant.
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Ramona Reeves earns the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
The University of Pittsburgh Press will publish her book, “It Falls Gently All Around,” next fall.
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Scott Morgenstern receives Fulbright Specialist Program award
Morgenstern will complete his project at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.
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Keisha N. Blain’s work named among ‘best history books’ by Smithsonian Magazine
“Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America” was published by Beacon Press in 2021.
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Education's Tom Akiva publishes new book
His book examines how in-school and out-of-school learning systems can be improved to better support young people’s learning and development.
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Chemical engineering students have fun with hot air balloons
Teams in Taryn Bayles’ Foundations of Chemical Engineering class used their problem-solving skills to design and launch their own hot air balloons.
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Pitt junior wins top international photography contest prize
Economics major Devin DePamphilis’ winning entry was titled “Bye Bye COVID.”