Accolades & Honors
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PhD student Hossein Nakhaei won a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
The history of art and architecture scholar is the second from Pitt to win the award for emerging researchers.
Alumna Jasmine Al Rasheed won a German Academic Exchange Service graduate fellowship
The award will fund her master’s degree in public health, a joint program between two universities in Berlin.
A new Pitt Public Health partnership will focus on connections between people and the environment
Pitt and UNIC Health in Cyprus will develop a joint online master’s degree program in One Health.
Alumnus Alex-Jaden Peart won a Fulbright Austria US Teaching Assistantship
The 2024 Frederick Honors College graduate and Lionel Peason Fellowship recipient will teach English in an Austrian school.
Pitt’s partnership with a Puerto Rican university was awarded a Sloan Foundation grant
The partnership with University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez will facilitate collaborative energy systems research.
3 Pitt students earned Boren Awards to study languages abroad
Michael Sipper and John Danvers will study in Turkey while junior Kate McManus will study in Estonia.
7 Pitt students won a nationally competitive research fellowship
The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program provides five years of funding for the country’s top student researchers.
Dara Méndez was honored by Pittsburgh’s Professional Women’s Network
The School of Public Health associate professor received the Ladies Who Lead Award in a celebration on April 17.
Chancellor Emeritus Mark Nordenberg was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Institute of Politics chair joins nearly 250 esteemed members elected to this year’s class.
Pitt researchers presented several ongoing projects and their impact on PA
State Secretary Akbar Hossain met with University leaders, faculty and students during a campus visit on March 20.
James Coleman won a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation award
The Giles Constable Award will support his upcoming book on 15th- to 17th-century Italian literature
Meet the 2025 Pitt Sustainability Awardees
The recognitions celebrate leadership and innovation in sustainability on the University’s campus.
19 people were honored at Pitt’s Postdoctoral Research Symposium
Overall, Pitt researchers presented 115 posters at the April 14 event.
Pitt-Bradford honored several student leaders at the Blue and Gold Gala
Seven undergrads received individual awards for their co-curricular contributions to the campus and community.
Pitt students rappelled down a skyscraper to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters
Peyton Music and Suniska Prathipati rappelled down 21 stories of downtown Pittsburgh’s EQT Plaza building.
Pitt senior Connor Diaz won a Newman Civic Fellowship Mini-Grant
He will use the funding from The Allstate Foundation to conduct a playtest for CivWiz, a student-led civic education app, in March.
Beth Piraino will retire as associate dean of admissions and financial aid in Pitt’s School of Medicine
The alumna and professor of medicine has served the University for 43 years.
The Text and ConText Lab’s Columbian hand press was added to a global database
You can make your own prints with the 2,000-pound piece of history on the third floor of Hillman Library.
Cristina Murray-Krezan lent her statistical expertise to a new JAMA Internal Medicine study
The associate professor of medicine led data coordination for the research, which links a hospital-based addiction treatment to improved outcomes for patients.
2 Pitt people were honored by the Northeast Regional Honors Council
Lauren Delsignore was named Honors Professional of the Year, and Simon Wang was named Student of the Year.
