The Department of Defense has selected University of Pittsburgh Bioengineering PhD Candidate Usamma Amjad out of over 3100 applicants to receive the 2022 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award. The program supports graduate students in science and engineering whose work is important to the mission of the DoD.
University of Pittsburgh graduate student Michelle Karabin has received Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her work investigating human balance and movement through a new computational model.
Four graduate students representing three Schools of the Health Sciences represented Pitt this weekend at the CLARION National Interprofessional Case Competition hosted virtually by the University of Minnesota.
Amy Raslevich, a doctoral candidate in Pitt’s School of Public Health, got the surprise of her life two weeks ago when she received an out of the blue FaceTime call from former President Barack Obama to mark the 12th anniversary of the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. During the call, Obama thanked Raslevich (pictured at left) for her health care advocacy, and they talked about, well, everything.
Theresa (Tess) Kwon, a PhD candidate in marketing at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, is one of two joint winners worldwide in a Society for Consumer Psychology competition.
Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh continued their annual tradition of serving as catalysts for change through the 2022 Super Analytics Challenge, hosted by the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.
School of Education PhD Alumna Kakenya Ntaiya was featured in Bill Gates' Heroes in the Field series for her work as founder of Kakenya's Dream, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering and educating girls in rural Kenya. Watch the Heroes in the Field video.
Bioengineering graduate student Anna Dzuricky leads the development of Tranquilift, a device that would help individuals with physical disabilities have a more tailored, comfortable, and safe experience at the salon.
Mateus Martins (ENGR ’19G) is making Pittsburgh more equitable through an uncommon route — by improving the city’s streets. As a staff engineer in the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, his work is about more than ensuring Pittsburghers don’t end up in traffic jams; he wants to make the city’s roads as accommodating to cyclists and pedestrians as they are to cars.
When their government collapsed, thousands of Afghans were suddenly at risk. A Pitt team stepped in to help those desperate to escape. GSPIA students Jake Detweiler, Tahmina Ahmed and Max Degregorio began helping Afghans with their visa paperwork in early August. They were some of the first people to make up what would become the CGM Afghan Asylum Assistance Task Force.
