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.
Academic Accolades
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.
Blain’s Work Named among ‘Best History Books’
Smithsonian Magazine named history Associate Professor Keisha N. Blain’s new book as one of the 10 best history books published in 2021.
SSOE Professors Named NAI Fellows
William “Buddy” Clark and Steven R. Little have been selected as members of the 2021 Fellow class of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors.
Rory Cooper receives the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award
Rory Cooper, assistant vice chancellor for research for health sciences and STEM collaboration, received the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award from the Sigma Xi Research Society. Recipients of this award represent individuals who have supported research, the communication of science and the impact of science on society.
Robert K. Cunningham appointed interim executive director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
The CNBC is a collaboration between Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University that advances research into the cognitive and neural mechanisms that give rise to behavior.