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.
Academic Accolades
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.
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.
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.