Brett Bankson came to Pittsburgh in 2017 to pursue an advanced degree and a future in academia. Four years later, he’s leaving with designs on being a “Top Chef,” and he’ll have a nationally televised exam Thursday night.
A YouTube channel run by Pitt students, bioZone, has expanded, adding new members and content to the educational effort. Joining the crew are PhD students Marissa Di, Dante Poe, Roshni Bhatt and Mark Ebeid.
Lauren Wheeler, a student in the School of Education’s Doctor of Education program, is a finalist for the 2021 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award. Selected from a field of more than 80,000 teachers statewide, she is vying for the state’s top honor against nine other finalists and is the only physical education teacher up for the award.
Master of Social Work student and Pitt wide receiver Tre Tipton (A&S ’19) has been named a recipient of the Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award, presented annually by the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals.
Alberto Guzman-Alvarez, a PhD student in Learning Sciences and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, has received a 2021 Dissertation Fellowship from the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation (NAEd Spencer).
Sara Baumann, a postdoctoral associate in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health whose specialty is visual research methods, led a project in which cameras were given to young people they were doing research with to have them film aspects of their lives.
Driven by his experiences in a country known for human rights abuses and government infringement on individual freedoms, Koffi Kengbo (GSPIA ’21) hopes his Pitt education will help him fight for the oppressed.
Pitt PhD students Pat Healy and Hannah Standiford have created a new way to listen with music virtually that reinserts the interactivity and spaciality of in-person concerts into the experience.
