Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory Recieves Grant from Heinz Endowment and Pittsburgh Foundation
Awards and Accolades
DNID Major Highlighted by the National Humanities Alliance
An innovative University of Pittsburgh program is featured in the latest National Humanities Alliance report, “Expanding Access to Undergraduate Humanities Education: Models and Strategies.”
The Deparment of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Recives the Mighty Oak Designation
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is the first Dietrich School department to receive the Mighty Oak designation from the Office of Sustainability’s Green Suite Awards. A celebration of the recognition will take place in the William Pitt Union in the lower lounge on July 10 from 3-4:30.
CAAPP 2024 Book Prize Recipient Announced
The 2024 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) Book Prize has been announced. Jasmine Reid received the prize for her manuscript, “Interlocutor Goddess.” The manuscript will be published in 2025 by Autumn House Press.
Reid is also the author of Deus Ex Nigrum (2020) and a recipient of Cave Canem and Poets House fellowships. She has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute.
Cho-yun Hsu is a 2024 Laureate of the Prestigious Tang Prize
Cho-yun Hsu, university professor emeritus of history and sociology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the prestigious Tang Prize in Sinology today. In his 30 years on Pitt’s faculty, Hsu produced a wide-ranging and influential body of work on Chinese history and culture.
David Waldeck Awarded Edward W. Morley Medal
David Waldeck, a professor in the Department of Chemistry in the Dietrich School and Director of the Petersen Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, has been awarded the 2024
40 Dietrich Students Earned Prestigous Brackenridge Fellowship
Forty-four undergraduates earned a 2024 Brackenridge Fellowship, one of the University of Pittsburgh’s most prestigious awards. Recipients earn funding to conduct independent research, scholarship or creative work under the guidance of a Pitt faculty mentor.
- Zain Adamo, a film and media studies major in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences — “Samira's Choice”
Ten Dietrich School Students and Alumni Named Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award Recipients
Fourteen University of Pittsburgh students and alumni have been named award recipients by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program.
Morgan Chen (A&S ’24), of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, graduated with majors in German and psychology and minors in LGBT and critical sexuality studies. Inspired by her time spent studying abroad in Heidelberg, Chen will serve as an English teaching assistant in Germany before pursuing graduate school for mental health counseling.
JC Barzdil Announced as 2024 Orosz Award for Excellence in Emerging Leadership Recipient
JC Bardzil, a technical director in the Department of Theatre Arts in the Dietrich School has been announced as the recipient of the 2024 Orosz Award for Excellence in Emerging Leadership.
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Diana Khoi Nguyen Talks Upcoming Book "Root Fractures"
Diana Khoi Nguyen, an assistant professor in the English Department in the Dietrich School was interviewed for PittWire about her poetry and upcoming book, Root Fractures: