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Dietrich School Faculty Member Receives Funding from Four Major Foundations
Gurudev Dutt, associate professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Physics and Astronomy, is among 11 physics researchers whose innovative projects were selected for funding by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation.
Tribute to Award-Winning Dietrich School Professor, Poet and Artist, Jeff Oaks
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Fred Shaw pays tribute to Jeff Oaks.
Dietrich School English Chair Weighs in on Book Bans
“School libraries, they’re really valuable, they are, but they’re also not the central place that students are learning information about the world,” Gayle Rogers, chair of the Dietrich School's Department of English.
Dietrich School Undergraduates Among Gilman Scholarship Winners
The U.S. State Department has named 15 University of Pittsburgh students as winners of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which supports undergraduate students receiving Federal Pell Grants with up to $5,000 while they pursue study abroad opportunities.
Dietrich School Faculty and Dean Leibovich Share Message of Compassion
As colleges across the country remain hotbeds for anger, protests and safety concerns during the Israel-Hamas war, two Dietrich School professors — one Jewish, the other Muslim — want to foster dialogue and compassion on Pitt’s campus.
Dietrich School Faculty Member Helps Marginalized Communities Recover From Disasters
In 2017, when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Dietrich School faculty member Fernando Tormos-Aponte’s first impulse was to return to his homeland to help rebuild. Recognizing that his presence would have meant one more person dependent on the archipelago’s already strained resources, Tormos-Aponte instead turned to his training as a social scientist to support his loved ones.
Dietrich School Faculty Member Publishes Editorial on Organic Syntheses’ Century of Service
Kay Brummond, a professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Chemistry, reflected on the impact of the publication Organic Syntheses in an editorial that was co-published by nine chemistry journals.
Dietrich School Faculty, Staff, and Students Among Iris Marion Young Awardees
On November 30, the annual Iris Marion Young Award ceremony honored several members of the Dietrich School community who work to promote justice in the University, at the local or national level, or across the globe.
Dietrich School Faculty Among 2023 Highly Cited Researchers
Dietrich School faculty members are among the 23 researchers from the University of Pittsburgh included on the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate.
Faculty Member Receives Harvard’s Derek Bok Public Service Award
Leonora Anyango, a faculty member in the Dietrich School's Department of English and a faculty fellow in the University's Frederick Honors College, received the Derek Bok Public Service Award from Harvard University, where she graduated with a Master of Liberal Arts in May.
Postdoctoral Associate Awarded Prize from Society for Ethnomusicology
Ian Copeland, a postdoctoral associate in the Dietrich School's Department of Music, was recently awarded the Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) for his article “Pop Goes the Postcolony: Britain Remixes Hugh Tracey’s Malawi” (Ethnomusicology Forum, 2022). The award, presented by the SEM Popular Music Section at the SEM Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, recognizes the best article in the ethnomusicological study of popular music written by a junior scholar.
Professor Emerita Toi Derricotte on How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets
In 1996, Dietrich School Professor Emerita Toi Derricotte and colleague Cornelius Eady founded Cave Canem, which holds weeklong annual retreats, prizes and fellowships to help foster the growth of Black poets. Since then they have played a role in developing the voices and careers of some of the greatest poets of the 21st century.
Associate Dean Named Co-Chair of Pitt LGBTQIA+ Steering Committee
During an event Oct. 25, Clyde Wilson Pickett, vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion, announced that Todd Reeser, the Dietrich School's associate dean for faculty affairs and a professor in the Department of French and Italian, has been asked to serve as co-chair of the University's new LGBTQIA+ Steering Committee, which will provide advice and counsel to Pitt Chancellor Joan Gabel and senior administrators.
Dietrich School Faculty Member Says Black Westerns Are Emblematic of a Large Shift in Black Representation
This November, the "Yellowstone" universe expanded to include a miniseries called "Lawmen", and the first lawman featured is Bass Reeves, a Black larger-than-life 19th-century U.S. deputy marshal. Dietrich School historian Alaina Robers says this is emblematic of a larger shift in Black representation that, if we’re lucky, may be here to stay.
Dietrich School Alum Creates Scholarship for Students in Need
Says Dietrich School alumnus Jim Zurcher (A&S ’56), "All I’m doing is paying back to somebody else what the University did for me. I want to help someone who couldn’t go to Pitt without some financial assistance, just like I could never have afforded an education."