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Awards and Accolades

Pittsburgh campus awarded $489,444 to support first-generation, low-income, and students with disabilities through TRIO Student Support Services

Pittsburgh, PA — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh campus a federal TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) grant totaling $489,444 annually for five years (contingent on continued Congressional approval) to improve college retention and graduation rates among low-income, first-generation students, and students with disabilities.

Senior Ryan Willis earned a Beinecke Scholarship

Ryan Willis, a senior in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Beinecke scholar. He is one of just 20 students selected nationwide for this year’s award, which supports graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences.

Willis — who is majoring in English literature and philosophy with a minor in French — is also pursuing a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in the David C. Frederick Honors College.

The Getty Scholars have been announced

The 2025/2026 Getty Scholars have been announced and include one Dietrich School faculty member. Huey Copeland, the Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, has been named a Guest Scholar. He will be in residence from January until June with his work “Thinking the Unthought: From Continental Philosophy to Black Radical Study.”

Two Dietrich School Students win University top honors

ODK Senior of the Year

Since the 1920s, Pitt’s chapter of the national leadership honor society Omicron Delta Kappa has recognized one recently graduated or graduating senior who exemplifies leadership of exceptional quality and versatility. Additionally, the winner’s name is engraved on a stone in the ODK Leadership Walk between the Cathedral of Learning and Heinz Memorial Chapel.

This year’s recipient is Gabriella Lombardi of Oxford, Pennsylvania. She is graduating with a degree in microbiology from the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.