5 Pitt faculty selected for the 2024 ACC Academic Leaders Network cohort
Five faculty from five schools across the University of Pittsburgh were chosen to participate in the 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Academic Leaders Network program.
Academic Accolades
Pitt Law student earned a Peggy Browning Fellowship
Jayme Tocci, a student in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, earned a Peggy Browning Fellowship for the summer of 2024.
Undergraduate student short-listed for the 2023 Harvey Chute Book Awards
Kaden Kashner, a sophomore in the David C. Frederick Honors College, was included on the short list for the 2023 Harvey Chute Book Awards.
Songer won the 2023 Abraham Lilienfeld Award
Thomas J. Songer, assistant professor in the School of Public Health, was awarded the Abraham Lilienfeld Award, the most prestigious award presented by the American College of Epidemiology.
15 undergraduate students received a 2023 Gilman Scholarship
The U.S. State Department has named 15 University of Pittsburgh students as winners of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which supports undergraduate students receiving Federal Pell Grants with up to $5,000 while they pursue study abroad opportunities.
Visweswaran appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee
Shyam Visweswaran, a biomedical informatics professor and vice chair of clinical informatics in the School of Medicine, was recently appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee.
Pitt student entrepreneurs selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list
Adam Butchy, Utkars Jain and Michael Leasure cofounded HEARTio, which is developing an algorithm called ECGio to help doctors detect coronary artery disease faster.
23 Pitt researchers are included on Clarivate’s annual Highly Cited list
Pitt’s recognized researchers include faculty from the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Public Health and Swanson School of Engineering, with research interests ranging from immunology to nanoparticles.
Capogrosso received the Society for Neuroscience's Young Investigator Award
Assistant Professor Marco Capogrosso has received the Society for Neuroscience’s Young Investigator Award, a first for a University of Pittsburgh faculty.
Pitt student won first place at the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Adi Mittal, a third-year student at the School of Medicine, won first place in the graduate student category at the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition for the development of a test to detect a brain aneurysm.