Becca Segel, a 2024 ChemE PhD graduate, was just named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Manufacturing & Industry list for 2026. Becca is the founder of FlowCellutions, which makes predictive diagnostics and hardware sensors for grid-scale batteries. Learn more in Becca's Forbes profile.
Maheen Ibrahimi, a third-year student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was determined to make a change upon her arrival to the city. Her efforts over the past few years have led her to be selected as a 2025 recipient of the Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Two Bioengineering PhD students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering—Durwash Badr and Katelin Rahn—received competitive fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) in 2025.
Four Bioengineering PhD students at the Swanson School of Engineering will receive funding toward their studies in 2025, thanks to prestigious awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Two Pitt Public Health graduate students, McKenna Brunick and Maahi Soni, have been selected as This is Public Health (TIPH) ambassadors for the 2025–26 academic year.
Hecheng Jin, PhD candidate in the 7T Bioengineering Research Program (7TBRP), received the first-place poster award at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting this spring for her presentation “Design and implementation of a 1H/31P dual-tuned head coil at 7T.”
Vuković has been selected for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Leading Edge Fellowship. Vuković studies in the Dietrich School’s Department of History of Art and Architecture as well as its Film and Media Studies Program.
Paula Orozco-Espinel, a doctoral candidate in Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship recipient.
Christian Knox, a third-year chemistry PhD student in the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. Knox is a part of Peng Liu’s research group.
Hossein Nakhaei, a PhD student in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
