Jinfa Cai (EDUC ’94G) and Drew Gitomer (A&S ’82G, ‘84G), University of Pittsburgh and Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) alumni, have been elected to the 2025 class of the National Academy of Education.
Six faculty members from the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and College of General Studies attended “Most Valuable Professor” events hosted by the University of Pittsburgh wrestling, swimming and diving programs in January.
Student-athletes from each program welcomed their favorite faculty members to be recognized at their respective events as “MVPs.”
Faculty from the Dietrich School and CGS who attended the events include:
· Pat Casey, Legal Studies – nominated by Dayton Pitzer, wrestling
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Bard Ermentrout, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the Dietrich School was just awarded the Jurgen Moser Lecture/Prize at SIAM for 2025. From the SIAM website:
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 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.
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.”
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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.
