The University of Pittsburgh’s Chandralekha Singh, a distinguished professor of physics in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been named the John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Award winner for 2024, the American Association of Physics Teachers announced.
Dr. Anthony Grace, a distinguished professor of Neuroscience and professor of Psychiatry and Psychology in the Dietrich School’s Department of Neuroscience was just ranked among the top neuroscientists on Research.com. According to the site, he was ranked number 320 in the world and number 194 in the United States.
Three Pitt faculty members have received new grants for their research from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grants are among 238 the federal agency announced last month.
Two alumni from Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences are among the 2024 winners of U.S. literature and journalism’s foremost award: the Pulitzer Prizes.Brandon Som (A&S ’02G) earned this year’s Pulitzer Prize in poetry for “Tripas,” a collection of poems about his multicultural, multigenerational childhood home.
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Studio Arts presented awards for this year’s student exhibition, “Changes with Exposure.” The Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Awards recipients are seniors Jenna Antosh and Charlie Lovett-Dietrich as well as Christofer. The Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Studies awardees are seniors Eickelberg and Zhang and junior Ronan Liu (W.E.N.).
Kale Serrato Doyen, who is pursuing a PhD in history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. The program supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they pursue bold and innovative approaches to dissertation research.
