Graduate Student Accolades
A graduate student is Pitt’s newest Critical Language Scholar
University of Pittsburgh graduate student Elaina Hopkins has been awarded a 2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the American Councils for International Education, promotes language learning and cultural exchange in regions critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity.
3 grad students among PBT's 30 Under 30
These Pitt graduate students were among the 11 Pitt people named to the Pittsburgh Business Times' 2025 30 Under 30 list.
2 Pitt graduate students are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition
Patrick Dunn and Alireza Mohammadzadeh, both graduate researchers in the Swanson School of Engineering, have been named finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC) for their invention, AgriNUE.
4 Pitt graduate students earned Boren Awards to study language abroad
Michael DeAngelo, Ryan Druffner, Angela Le, and Kristina Rajakovich were named winners of Boren Awards, which provides funding for U.S. students to study abroad in critical world regions, learning languages and cultures.
A Pitt PhD candidate earned a Mendenhall Research Fellowship
Chloë Glover, a PhD candidate in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Geology and Environmental Science, was awarded a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mendenhall Research Fellowship. Only a handful of applicants are awarded the postdoctoral fellowship each year.
Pitt graduate student received 2024 Critical Language Scholarship
Christina White, a graduate student in the School of Medicine, has been named a 2024 Critical Language scholar.
Mittal won first place at the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition
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.
Pitt Students Flex Their Entrepreneurial Muscle at Wells Healthcare Competition
Shanae Butler, a pre-doctoral fellow in bioengineering, won the 2023 Michael G. Wells Student Healthcare Competition. She was among several Pitt graduate students who competed in this year's competition.
Pitt Med student is a Collegiate Inventors Competition finalist
Adi Mittal, a research assistant in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine, is a finalist for the National Inventors Hall of Fame’s 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition.
ECE PhD Student wins prestigious award for recent paper
Yue Tang, PhD student at the Swanson School of Engineering, received the ACM TODAES Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) for her paper that assists in on-device learning.
Pitt Law Students Awarded 2023 Stevens Public Interest Fellowships
The John Paul Sevens Foundation selected four University of Pittsburgh School of Law students to receive the prestigious 2023 fellowship.
EdD student named School Nutrition Director of the Year
Carla Escribano, a student in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education Doctor of Education (EdD) program, was named the 2023 Director of the Year by the School Nutrition Association of Pennsylvania.
Pitt Law student earned a grant from the American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation
Laras Susanti, a doctoral student in the School of Law, earned the travel grant to support her return home to Indonesia to complete research on its Constitutional Court.
Graduate student awarded for her doctoral dissertation research
Alex Silver, a graduate student studying cognitive psychology in Pitt’s Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), received one of two 2022-23 Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS).
2 from Pitt’s children’s literature program earned a fellowship to work with social justice nonprofits
Brittney Knotts and Christine Case, both recent children's literature and childhood studies PhD students in Pitt’s Department of English, were awarded Leading Edge Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).