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.
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.
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.
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.
Jerome Taylor, associate professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Africana Studies, was recognized for his significant and lasting contributions to the University and the impact of his service throughout his academic career.
R.A. Judy, a professor of critical and cultural studies in the Dietrich School's Department of English, has been chosen as the 2023 recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Literary Criticism.
Yomna Badawi, research assistant professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Neuroscience, is among 11 University of Pittsburgh biomedical researchers to receive a grant from the Competitive Medical Research Fund.
Alexander Deiters, professor in the Dietrich School's Department of Chemistry, is the 2023 recipient of the Pittsburgh Award from the local branch of the American Chemical Society. Created in 1932, the honor recognizes outstanding local leadership and distinguished service to the field of chemistry.
Tony Novosel, a senior lecturer and advisor in the Dietrich School, has been appointed as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his contributions to peace in Northern Ireland.
A team of researchers from the Dietrich School and Pitt's School of Medicine received a five-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. The three principal investigators — Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Amantha Thathiah and Associate Professors from the Department of Biological Sciences Kirill Kiselyov and Andrew VanDemark — will investigate a mitochondrial target and whether it protects cells from the neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
