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Awards and Accolades
Tao Han Wins Humboldt Research Award
Tao Han, Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics in the Dietrich School at the University of Pittsburgh, won the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes international academic cooperation between scholars from Germany and other countries.
The Department of History and Philosophy of Science Earned Top Honors From The Philosophical Gourmet Report
The Dietrich School has some exciting news to share! The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at has been named a top program at Pitt for multiple categories in the 2024-2025 Philosophical Gourmet Report. The report ranked HAP at the top of the programs for General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Biology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Brain Sciences. These are the Department’s biggest areas, making it a clean sweep for the school.
Innovation in Education Awards Proposals Now Open
The request for proposals for the 2025-2026 Innovation in Education Awards is now open. The Provost’s Office is looking for proposals that support the Plan for Pitt and its continued goal of advancing academic excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. They invited proposals “for projects to enhance teaching by fostering new instructional approaches, techniques, or activities that represent advances over existing methods to promote and support student learning.”
Three Dietrich School Affiliates Earned Philosophy of Science Association Awards
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Three University of Pittsburgh affiliates were recently honored by the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA).
Jim Woodward, emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science and former PSA president, won the association’s Hempel Award, which recognizes lifetime scholarly achievement in the philosophy of science.
Pitt Faculty Members Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
This story was written by Karen Woolstrum.
University of Pittsburgh faculty members Peter Wipf and Joel Greenberger have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Wipf, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Dietrich School, is one of Pitt’s most prolific and collaborative inventors. His 77 patents, and counting, are far and away the most of any active Pitt faculty member.
Dietrich School Student Awarded the 2024 Student Award for Sustainability in Healthcare Challenge
William Schuck (A&S ’26), an Environmental Science student in the Dietrich School, is part of a team that has been awarded the 2024 Student Award for Sustainability in Healthcare Challenge for their project “Eco-Engineering the Future: Sustainable Prosthetics for Sustainable Healthcare.” William and the resear
Joy Priest Awarded Funding from The Pittsburgh Foundation
Joy Priest, an assistant professor in the Department of English at the Dietrich School has been awarded $50,000 from
Former Dietrich School Graduate Student Awarded Heroes of Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society
A former undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Barbara Skinner, received this year’s Heroes of Chemistry Award from the
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poetry collection was named a must-read by Time magazine
“Root Fractures” by Diana Khoi Nguyen, has been named to Time magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 list. Nguyen is an assistant professor in the Dietrich School's Department of English.