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Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

The co-director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics is one of 36 literary professionals to earn the 2018 Creative Writing Fellowship.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Marlene Cohen received a National Academy of Sciences award

The associate professor of neuroscience earned the $75,000 grant for her research into how the brain encodes and processes visual information to make quick decisions.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Mervat Abdelhak was named to an information management organization's board

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences department chair will serve the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education.

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Innovation and Research
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Associate Dean Minking Chyu was presented with a distinguished service professor medallion

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and Provost Patricia E. Beeson recently presented the Swanson School of Engineering's Minking Chyu with a medallion recognizing his appointment as

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Community Impact
  • Global
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Pitt computer engineers won the Best Paper Award at an international big data conference

The paper describes how automated machine reading can be used to pore over volumes of research and use that information to create models for understanding biological processes.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Innovation and Research
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University of Pittsburgh Press book receives a flutter of praise

“Butterflies of Pennsylvania: A Field Guide” was recognized with a 2017 National Outdoor Book Award.

  • Arts and Humanities
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The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine was honored for 25 years of accomplishments

The Pitt institute received a citation from the commonwealth and an Innovation Award from the Pittsburgh Business Times.

  • McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  • Health and Wellness
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Gerald Holder will receive a Distinguished Service Award

Pitt's U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering and Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering is being honored by the Pittsburgh chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Diane Litman was named an Association for Computational Linguistics Fellow

The director of Pitt's Intelligent Systems Program is one of six recognized for contributions to the field.

  • Technology & Science
  • School of Computing and Information
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2 Pitt Engineering faculty members were honored for early career research

James McKone and Christopher Wilmer are among 58 recognized for their nascent research in energy storage.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Here's who won the student pitch competitions at Blast Furnace Demo Day

Seventeen teams of student entrepreneurs vied for $4,000 in cash awards at the December competition.

  • Innovation and Research
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H. Richard Milner IV was named to Education Week's annual scholar ranking

The Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education was included in the 2018 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Community Impact
  • Center for Urban Education
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2 Pitt physical therapy professors won state association awards

David Wert received the Neurological Special Interest Group’s Award of Excellence, and Debora Miller earned the Carlin-Michels Achievement Award.

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Health and Wellness
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The School of Pharmacy recognized distinguished and early career alumni

The awards were presented at its annual RxTravaganza on Nov. 4.

  • School of Pharmacy
  • Alumni
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Professor Emeritus Edward Gerjuoy published a paper on Julian Schwinger

Schwinger, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of quantum electrodynamics, was a classmate of Gerjuoy's at City College of New York in the 1930s.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Melissa Ibañez was honored by a state financial aid organization

The director of financial aid at Pitt-Bradford earned the association's Distinguished Service Award.

  • Pitt-Bradford
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Andrew Feranchack was named division chief of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Andrew Feranchak, an internationally recognized expert in liver disease, has been appointed chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Children’s Hospital of

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Medicine
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Alumnus Samir Lakhani was named a CNN Hero

His nonprofit project in Cambodia, called Eco-Soap Bank, recycles discarded bars of soap from hotels and distributes it to people in need.

  • Alumni
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Mary Kay Stein and collaborators received a grant to study teacher learning

The $2.5 million award will fund research to expand our understanding of teachers as learners.

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Education
  • Teaching & Learning
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Pitt hosted a gathering of national and international macroeconomics experts

The Department of Economics welcomed 190 participants to the biannual Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings.

  • Global
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business