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May 2, 2019 - 12:00am
Sociology Department Chair Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Suzanne Staggenborg, chair of the Department of Sociology at Pitt, has been honored with the John D. McCarthy Award for...
May 1, 2019 - 1:07pm
Six Proposals Receive Provost's Innovation in Education Awards
Ideas ranging from over-the-counter hearing aid certification to instructional design in flipped classrooms are among the six faculty proposals that will receive funding from the Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence.
April 30, 2019 - 12:00am
Daniel Balderson Receives Literary Award
Daniel Balderson has been named co-winner of the 2019 Richard Finneran Award for his book about an Argentine author...
April 30, 2019 - 12:00am
Keisha N. Blain Awarded Best Book in African American Women’s and Gender History
Keisha N. Blain, assistant professor in the Department of History, received the 2019 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the...
April 24, 2019 - 12:00am
Feng Xiong Receives NSF Grant to Develop Conversion Method for Heat Energy
Feng Xiong, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering, and...
April 24, 2019 - 12:00am
Lina Dostilio Named First Research Fellow for Coalition for Urban and Metropolitan Universities
The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) has named Lina Dostilio CUMU’s first research fellow. During...
April 23, 2019 - 12:00am
Researchers Earn NSF Grant for Autism Therapy Development
A University of Pittsburgh research team recently received a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to...
April 22, 2019 - 12:00am
Leanne Gilbertson Receives Early Engineering Educator Grant
Leanne Gilbertson, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, was...
April 19, 2019 - 12:00am
Mohammed A. Bamyeh Elected President of Arab Council for the Social Sciences
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, professor of sociology, was elected chairperson of the board of trustees of the Arab Council for the...
April 17, 2019 - 12:00am
Michael Kenney to Contribute to Report on Countering Extremism
Michael Kenney, an associate professor and program director of international affairs at the Graduate School of Public and...