Graduate Student Accolades
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
6 Pitt graduate students win NSF research fellowships
Six University of Pittsburgh graduate students won research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Graduate student Hebah Uddin published a YA novel
Hebah Uddin, a doctoral student in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the author behind the name Karuna Riazi, had her most recent novel published with a HarperCollins imprint.
Two GSPIA students named Critical Language Scholars
Jesse Blitz and Jordyn Kamasa have been named 2023 Critical Language scholars, an immersive summer opportunity for American college students to make rapid language gains and essential intercultural fluency. Each will spend 8-10 weeks abroad.
Alum Todd J. Clark named new dean of Widener Delaware Law School
Widener University named Todd J. Clark, a Pitt Law alumnus, to take over the Delaware Law School at a historic time of change in the state’s legal landscape.
8 doctoral students are finalists in Amazon’s Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
A team of University of Pittsburgh doctoral students in the School of Computing and Information is one of 10 finalists in Amazon’s second Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge. The accessibility-enhancing tech they developed will be available for use in May, and they have a chance to win a grand prize of $500,000 this September.
Alum Jorden King Among 30 Under 30 Honorees
Pitt grad alum and former GPSG board member Jorden King has been named one of the Pittsburgh Business Times' 30 Under 30. These awards recognize young business and community leaders in the region who are already making an impact, all before reaching the age of 30. Jorden is also program coordinator at Pitt's Office of New Student Programs.
Four graduate students receive American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships
Four graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering have received American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowships, which support the next generation of heart health researchers.