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5 Pitt students were named Community Research fellows
The Frederick Honors College will fund their summer work on a long-term sustainable project.
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Pitt biologists are part of a $12.5M NSF grant to study a widespread genetic phenomenon
Tia-Lynn Ashman and Martin Turcotte will use the pond plant duckweed to learn about organisms with more than two copies of their chromosomes.
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5 Pitt honors students earned summer Creative Arts Fellowships
The undergraduates will produce a piece of creative work under the mentorship of a faculty member or subject-matter expert.
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15 Pitt students were named Health Science Research fellows
The Frederick Honors College program supports students as they conduct full-time independent research over the summer.
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Tera Levin will study pathogenesis through a Burroughs Wellcome Fund program
The PATH program funds assistant professors studying points where human and infectious agent systems connect.
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15 Pitt students completed the Physician Assistants Advancing Diversity program
The free weeklong program is open to current students on any campus.
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Pitt improved in a number of Center for World University Rankings
Nationally, the University rose to No. 41 overall and to No. 20 among public schools.
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Pitt-Greensburg students were honored at a Student Pennsylvania State Education Association conference
The campus chapter earned its fifth consecutive APEX award for holding activities that align with SPSEA pillars.
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Clutter for a Cause diverted a record 22K pounds of material from landfills
The event saved tons of electronics, food products and more from residence halls during move-out week.
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Pitt-Greensburg student researchers won top prizes at the Tri-Beta district convention
Their chapter was also honored with the Northeast 3 Outstanding District Chapter Award.
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9 PhD students were named 2024 Humanities Engage fellows
They will receive funding for immersive summer projects and innovative dissertation research.
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Laura Levitt received the inaugural Fine Fellowship
Through a partnership with Pitt’s Jewish Studies Program and the Heinz History Center, the Temple University professor will work with materials from the Tree of Life attack and its aftermath.
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Louis Deemer won a NAFSA Rising Star Young Leader Award
He is an immigration specialist in the Office of International Services, a Pitt Commons mentor, and an instructor to students, faculty and staff.
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5 faculty won Pitt’s Health Sciences Ascending Star award
The honor was established in 2022 to recognize highly productive and creative midcareer faculty members in the six schools of the health sciences.
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David Waldeck and Brian Bloom published a ‘spintronics’ paper in Science Advances
The research shows how certain materials could serve as gateways to control currents that harness an electron’s spin rather than its charge.
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Pitt-Greensburg held its first pinning ceremony for nursing graduates
The event, held April 26, welcomed 28 graduates into the nursing profession.
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4 Pitt Business people were named up-and-coming marketers by Pittsburgh’s AMA chapter
The local American Marketing Association award is presented to recent or soon-to-be college graduates.
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Chandralekha Singh received an AAPT award for physics education
The distinguished professor of physics was recognized for her pioneering advances in the field of physics education research.
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Pitt has three new National Endowment for the Humanities awardees
Adam Cilli, Mrinalini Rajagopalan and Annette Vee will each receive funding from the federal agency for their research.
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A Pitt program earned a first-of-its-kind Middle States Association accreditation
It’s a major milestone toward the STEM PUSH Network’s goal of increasing equity and opportunity for Black, Latino and Indigenous students in postsecondary STEM.