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Pitt Public Health will lead data coordination for a trial on a deadly condition common in preterm infants
The $5.5 million NHLBI-supported trial will evaluate treatment options for patent ductus arteriosus.
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Valerie Kinloch co-authored 'Where is the Justice: Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities'
The book focuses on pedagogical practices that advance equity and encourage collaborations among stakeholders who are working to provide quality education within schools across the country.
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Rebecca Reed named 2022 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science
Reed’s work focuses on biopsychosocial factors that contribute to healthy physical and cognitive aging.
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Pitt chemistry professor earns 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards
W. Seth Childers was part of two interdisciplinary teams that received the honor.
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Terry Smith receives 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award
The award is presented to an individual who has been actively engaged in teaching art history for most of their career.
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Nicole Scheff receives 2021 Award in Pain from the Rita Allen Foundation
This year’s Award in Pain Scholars will receive grants of $50,000 annually for up to three years to conduct innovative research on critical topics on the biological mechanisms of pain.
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Appalachian Regional Commission awards School of Computing and Information $500,000
The Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative has awarded Pitt’s School of Computing and Information $500,000 for
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3 Pitt advisors earned the inaugural Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
Awardees include Danielle Andrews-Brown, Karen Ricco and Devin N. Ulm.
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Nursing’s Lora Burke named an expert in obesity
Burke’s studies have included testing various diet approaches to weight loss and learning how people self-monitor their dietary intake.
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Pitt’s Waverly Duck wins Scholarly Achievement Award for book ‘Tacit Racism’
The book lays out the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social interactions of Americans.
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Maureen Pastin named director of compensation in Pitt’s Office of Human Resources
The Pittsburgh native is an experienced compensation and human resources professional with more than 30 years of experience.
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Pitt's Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson present at SXSW 2022
Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson represented the University in Austin.
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Researchers will mimic daycare settings to study flu transmission
Associate Professor Seema Lakdawala is leading a subproject on an $8.8 million grant.
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University of Pittsburgh at Bradford named a Military Friendly School
Pitt-Bradford was designated a silver-level recipient in the small public school category by Viqtory Media.
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Pitt earns Silver Bicycle Friendly University status
The League of American Bicyclists awards institutions that promote and enable safe, accessible bicycling on campus.
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Winners of the Black Excellence Service Award announced
Recipients are students, staff, faculty, businesspeople and alumni who are role models in the community.
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A multidisciplinary research group received a Pitt Momentum Grant
The $60,000 award will support the Pittsburgh Center for Interdisciplinary Bone and Mineral Research.
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Pitt Education’s Kari Kokka receives grant from the National Science Foundation
The grant supports early career faculty with the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.
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Tagbo Niepa receives Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation
The award will enable his lab to further explore how bacteria cope with changes in surface tension and energy, and their adaptation to changing conditions to develop new materials.
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Two Pitt faculty members edit book on local responses to the shale gas industry
“When Fracking Comes to Town: Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the US Shale Boom” from Associate Professors Sabina Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili was released in January.