Songer won the 2023 Abraham Lilienfeld Award
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Adam Butchy, Utkars Jain and Michael Leasure cofounded HEARTio, which is developing an algorithm called ECGio to help doctors detect coronary artery disease faster.
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.
Assistant Professor Marco Capogrosso has received the Society for Neuroscience’s Young Investigator Award, a first for a University of Pittsburgh faculty.
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.
Jeff Shook and Sara Goodkind, professors in the School of Social Work, will study the implementation and impact of an Allegheny County initiative that aims to reduce referral disparities in the juvenile legal system.
Leah Jacobs, assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, received nearly $1 million in funding to study the impact a law enforcement training program.
Deborah Moon, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, received a Mentored Research Scientist Career Development award to study the effects of a community-based maltreatment prevention program for parents.