Graduate Student Accolades
March 8, 2024
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.
March 7, 2024
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.
November 16, 2023
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.
November 16, 2023
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.
September 26, 2023
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.
August 7, 2023
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.
August 3, 2023
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.
August 3, 2023
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.
July 13, 2023
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.
June 29, 2023
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).
June 27, 2023
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).
June 26, 2023
PhD candidate won a National Academy of Education fellowship
Lorraine Blatt, who is studying developmental psychology in Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), was named a 2023 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation fellow.
June 1, 2023
Pitt’s Humanities Center named 8 graduate student fellows
Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend to conduct a summer research project, then share their work with the center’s community during the fall and spring semesters.
May 2, 2023
2 Pitt graduate students earn Boren Scholarships
Joe Acevedo in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs will travel to Tajikistan to study Persian, and Joseph Patrick in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences will study Serbian in Montenegro.
April 26, 2023
Li named Pitt’s first-ever recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Anna Li is the University’s first-ever recipient of the award, which provides $90,000 over two years to immigrants and first-generation students pursuing graduate education.