When Bugs Bunny walked into the William Pitt Union recently, there were no apparent PhDs around for him to ask the enduring question: “What’s up, doc?” That didn’t stop him from going down his own University of Pittsburgh rabbit hole. Jeff Bergman (A&S ’83) is a man of many animation voices whose career was launched four decades ago in this very student union, at WPTS-AM radio.
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Full-time faculty and staff at the Dietrich School and CGS are invited to submit proposals for the Dietrich Innovation Initiative. The proposals should offer opportunities in the areas of Curricular Development, Outreach, Research, and Student Services. Teams and individuals can apply for awards from $5,000 to $100,000. The deadline to submit is September 27th by 5 p.m. Awardees will be announced on October 18th.
Department chairs and staff leaders at the Dietrich School have been creating new events to draw their personnel to campus, and those in charge of this new program think it is building a better sense of belonging after the long separation caused by the pandemic.
Departments have provided lunches, held trainings, discussed how to implement webinars and had doughnuts for new employees, among other events so far, she said. Grants for staff events (at $25 per staff employee in a department) are available under Dietrich’s new Community Team Building fund.
Michelle Furmansky, a Fulbright scholar and Dietrich School alumna traveled to Brussels to connect with leaders from across the globe for the EU-US Young Leaders Seminar. She was among 40 young leaders invited to participate. The seminar engages in candid discussions on the evolving dynamics of transatlantic relations, global security concerns, and the effects of climate change. Furmansky graduated from the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences in April 2023 and has studied in Portugal since September.
University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School Professors Angie Cruz and Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Williams College professor Laylah Ali are hosting an event on April 10 for the upcoming issue of
Join the Dietrich School's Department of Economics for the next part of their McKay Lecture series sponsored by the McKay Fund. The lecture is on March 29 from 2-3:30 p.m in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium and is open to the public. This year’s lecturer is John A. List who will be speaking on the topic “Leveraging Private Sector Data to Help Inform Major Social Challenges.”
Daniel Williams, Ph.D., an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Dietrich School’s Department of Geology and Environmental Science was featured in ESRI's ArcUser magazine’s Fall 2023 issue.
The Article focuses on William’s use of Deep Learning in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) classes. The article also highlights Pitt’s GIS certificate and how it can make students more competitive in that field.
The Dietrich School's Department of Studio Arts has a new exhibit opening on March 21 and running through April 20. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 21 from 6 – 8 p.m.
The Exhibition, Neither Here nor There, is an exhibition of the Studio Arts Faculty curated by Ellen Larson.
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Jonathan Callard, part-time instructor in the Dietrich School’s Department of English, was recently published in PublicSource. Callard’s article, ‘Family together’: What Clairton’s football coach and his city taught me about love, chronicles how some of his Pitt students helped inspire a new non-fiction book he is writing about family and football.
Candace Burgess, a doctoral student in the Dietrich School's Department of Music, sat down with NBC's Harry Smith to talk about her graduate work focusing on the lives and legacies of Black classical composers, singers historical Black Classical music communities as seen in Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
