Kwon wins global competition for dissertation proposal
Theresa (Tess) Kwon, a PhD candidate in marketing at the Katz Graduate School of Business, is one of two joint winners worldwide in a Society for Consumer Psychology competition.
Academic Accolades
Leigh Patel elected to National Academy of Education
School of Education professor Leigh Patel was elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd), an honorific society of scholars and educators who make outstanding contributions to the education field.
Chemistry professor earns 2021 Scialog Award
W. Seth Childers, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, was part of two interdisciplinary teams that received 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards.
Smith receives 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award
Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, received the 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association, the premier professional body for art historians, artists and museum people.
Pitt's Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson present at SXSW 2022
Pitt's Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson present at SXSW 2022.
Scott Morgenstern receives Fulbright Specialist Program award
Pitt professor of political science Scott Morgenstern has earned a Fulbright Specialist Program award, the U.S. Department of State and Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has announced.
Alaina E. Roberts is a finalist for Los Angeles Times book prize
Alaina E. Roberts, assistant professor of history in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, is a finalist for this year’s Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the history category for her book “I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land.”
Tagbo Niepa receives Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation
Tagbo Niepa, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. The $663,372, five-year funding will enable his lab to further explore how bacteria cope with changes in surface tension and energy, and their adaptation to changing conditions to develop new materials.
Pitt Education’s Kari Kokka receives grant from the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program awarded Kari Kokka a $996,249 grant. Kokka is an assistant professor of mathematics education in Pitt’s School of Education and the primary investigator for the five-year grant-funded project titled "Partnering with Teachers and Students to Engage in Mathematical Inquiry about Relevant Social Issues."
Researchers will mimic daycare settings to study flu transmission
Seema Lakdawala, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, is leading a subproject on an $8.8 million grant called MITIGATE FLU.