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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.
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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.
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, an assistant professor in the Department of English at the Dietrich School has been awarded $50,000 from
A former undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Barbara Skinner, received this year’s Heroes of Chemistry Award from the
“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.
Michael Giazzoni, the Director of College in High School, was featured in an Inside Higher Ed article this week.
Justin Kitzes, an associate professor of biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, received $29,000 from Google as part of an effort by the company to support academic research.
A leader in bioacoustics research, Kitzes uses audio recordings to study ecology and conservation. Using large networks of audio recorders, Kitzes and his lab collect vast amounts of data in the wild.
Twenty-four University of Pittsburgh researchers have been named to this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list, an annual compilation of researchers whose work has made a significant impact across a broad range of disciplines.
Last year, 23 Pitt researchers were included.
Adriana Helbig, Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and College of General Studies in the Dietrich School, has won the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for her book “ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid” (Oxford University Press, 2023). The Alan Merriam Prize recognizes the most distinguished English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology, published as the author’s second or later monograph.
