After joining Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering to pursue her PhD, Priscilla Prem discovered an opportunity to turn an idea into a business. Working with fellow Navy veteran Bobby Karnavas, she developed a technology that converts mechanical energy into electricity. In December 2024, the team won the Department of Energy’s American-Made Challenge grand prize of $300,000.
Jordyn White (MBA/MID ‘27), Faith Crawford (MS/BA ‘27), Kanvi Sharma (MBA ‘28), and Ben Bordenstein (MS ‘27) earned a $15,000 prize for placing second in the National Black MBA Association case competition.
The Association for Consumer Research (ACR) named School of Business Emeritus Professor Jeff Inman ACR Fellow and PhD Graduate Lauren Grewal ACR Early Career Award.
Cole Barré, Hwiseo Choi, Jess Dean, and Aidan York, graduate students in Pitt’s Department of Geology and Environmental Science, have received prestigious research grants from the Geological Society of America (GSA).
Kaye Baron (BS ECE ’25) was one of ten scholars worldwide to receive the prestigious $10,000 2026 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Student Scholarship.
Alishia Stevenson (EMBA ‘26) from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business is among Poets&Quants’ 2026 Best and Brightest Executive MBAs across the globe.
Sarah King (MBA/MPIA ’26), from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business, was named an MBA to Watch by Poets&Quants. This feature highlights some of the outstanding MBA students from schools worldwide.
William McKay, Zachary Spears and Amogh Vellore, students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, are finalists for this year's Collegiate Inventors Competition, an annual contest that has rewarded innovations, discoveries and research by college and university students and their faculty advisors for more than 35 years.
Five students from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering are recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards this fall.
The Pitt Business grad student team consisted of Jordyn White, (MBA/MID ’27), Faith Crawford (MS + BA ’27), Kanvi Sharma, (MBA ‘28) and Ben Bordenstein (MS ‘27).
