Graduate Student Accolades
November 7, 2022
LGBTQIA+ Endowed Research and Outreach Fund
Three PhD students among first awardees of the new LGBTQIA+ Endowed Research and Outreach Fund
November 4, 2022
Dietrich School recognizes 2020-22 winners of graduate mentoring award
The Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences recently held a celebration of the 2020, 2021 and 2022 winner of the school’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring.
November 3, 2022
Six Bioengineering Grad Students Receive NIH F30 and F31 Predoctoral Fellowship Awards
Vince Lee, Sara Trbojevic, Kevin Steiger, Michelle Karabin, Brittany Egnot and Christopher Cover, graduate students in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Bioengineering, have received F30 and F31 Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive fellowships allow graduate students in the health sciences to develop their research in aging and Alzheimer’s disease while earning their doctoral degrees.
October 21, 2022
Going Back to the Well(s)
Pitch competition winner Adi Mittal takes advantage of Pitt innovation ecosystem to sharpen focus and win top prize second time around.
September 29, 2022
OTD Student Shares Asian American History in "Pittsburgh's Lost Chinatown" Documentary
"As I enter into my third year in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy program at Pitt, I hope to continue to serve my city and eventually practice in another country, providing care to local and impoverished communities."
September 14, 2022
PMF Program selects three GSPIA graduates for prestigious federal fellowships
Recent GSPIA alumni Karla Bonilla, Ethan Trott, and Jacob Curry have officially begun their fellowships with the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Class of 2022.
August 24, 2022
Internship highlight: Student provides aid to rural “hidden peoples” in Kenya and Uganda
Kory Winning, an MID student with a concentration in Governance and International Public Management, experienced the sweaty and unglamorous but deeply rewarding work of humanitarian aid.
August 16, 2022
Graduate students receive support from LGBTQIA+ Endowed Research and Outreach Fund
The fund was created by Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program Director Todd Reeser and instructor Julie Beaulieu.
August 12, 2022
Researcher presents work on an autonomous, supercomputing satellite at Small Sat
Evan Gretok, a PhD student at University of Pittsburgh, presented his work on a space computer at the Small Sat conference this week.
July 20, 2022
9 Pitt students and alumni named Fulbright scholars
Two Pitt doctoral students, one undergraduate student and six recent graduates were named Fulbright scholars this year.
May 26, 2022
Health disparities and social justice poster competition winners announced
Five students won this year’s Schools of the Health Sciences Health Disparities and Social Justice Poster Competition.
May 17, 2022
PhD Student Wins Prestigious Award to Research Congenital Heart Defects in Infants
Jessica Davis, a PhD candidate in nursing, won a $24,000 grant to research congenital heart defects in infants.
May 5, 2022
7 Grad Students Win NSF Research Fellowship
Spanning disciplines in science and engineering, five undergraduate and seven graduate students received competitive awards to fund and support their research endeavors. “These awards reward students who have done amazing research and will do amazing research in the future,” said Lesha Greene, Director of National Scholarships in Pitt’s University Honors College.
May 2, 2022
2 Named 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows
University of Pittsburgh doctoral students Silpa Mukherjee and Nelesi Gabriela Rodriguez have been named 2022 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellows.
April 14, 2022
BioE Grad Student Usamma Amjad Receives 2022 NDSEG Fellowship Award
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.