Kokka receives National Science Foundation grant
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program awarded School of Education's Kari Kokka a $996,249 grant for a five-year project.
Academic Accolades
Three Selected as Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors
The NAI has selected three University of Pittsburgh professors among 83 academic inventors for the 2022 class of NAI Senior Members.
Amber Johnson earns 2022 Escalator Award for Research
Johnson, a Pitt assistant professor of medicine, is one of four recipients of a $50,000 grant from Women as One.
National Academy of Engineering Names Anna C. Balazs as New Member
The Academy accepted Balazs’ membership “in recognition of distinguished contributions to engineering" and more.
4 Pitt faculty members were named 2021 AAAS fellows
They join W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Edison and Margaret Mead in having received one of science's highest honors.
Three Earn Charles E. Kaufman Foundation Grants
Pitt researchers have been awarded a portion of a $2.1 million grant for Pennsylvania universities.
Researchers receive grant to explore wireless technology
A six-year, $4.6 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and the Administration for Community Living will help to create a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center.
Morgenstern receives Fulbright Specialist Program award
Pitt professor of political science Scott Morgenstern earned a Fulbright Specialist Program award, as announced by the U.S. Department of State and Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Nationally lauded scholar Cavanaugh is "One to Watch"
Catherine Cavanaugh is one of 161 students in the 57th class of Presidential Scholars—and one of two Presidential Scholars currently attending Pitt—and was also chosen as a National Honor Society finalist out of 10,000 applicants.
Presidential Scholar Richard Su Fang is "One to Watch"
The University Honors College student is a member of the 57th class of scholars, joining a group of 161 students of the nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors.