Graduate Student Accolades
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michelle Karabin Receives NIH F31 Award to Develop Computational Model of Human Movement
University of Pittsburgh graduate student Michelle Karabin has received Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her work investigating human balance and movement through a new computational model.
Pitt Grad Students Place Second in CLARION Case Competition
Four graduate students representing three Schools of the Health Sciences represented Pitt this weekend at the CLARION National Interprofessional Case Competition hosted virtually by the University of Minnesota.
These Pitt people’s work advocating for affordable health care landed them invitations to the White House
Amy Raslevich, a doctoral candidate in Pitt’s School of Public Health, got the surprise of her life two weeks ago when she received an out of the blue FaceTime call from former President Barack Obama to mark the 12th anniversary of the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. During the call, Obama thanked Raslevich (pictured at left) for her health care advocacy, and they talked about, well, everything.
Katz PhD candidate Theresa Kwon wins global competition for dissertation proposal
Theresa (Tess) Kwon, a PhD candidate in marketing at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, is one of two joint winners worldwide in a Society for Consumer Psychology competition.
Graduate Students Succeed as Catalysts for Change in 2022 Super Analytics Challenge
Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh continued their annual tradition of serving as catalysts for change through the 2022 Super Analytics Challenge, hosted by the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.
Her Dream Is Freedom for Women and Girls
School of Education PhD Alumna Kakenya Ntaiya was featured in Bill Gates' Heroes in the Field series for her work as founder of Kakenya's Dream, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering and educating girls in rural Kenya. Watch the Heroes in the Field video.
Tranquilift Team Deploys Device in Barbershop
Bioengineering graduate student Anna Dzuricky leads the development of Tranquilift, a device that would help individuals with physical disabilities have a more tailored, comfortable, and safe experience at the salon.
This alum is making Pittsburgh’s roads more accessible for cyclists and pedestrians
Mateus Martins (ENGR ’19G) is making Pittsburgh more equitable through an uncommon route — by improving the city’s streets. As a staff engineer in the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, his work is about more than ensuring Pittsburghers don’t end up in traffic jams; he wants to make the city’s roads as accommodating to cyclists and pedestrians as they are to cars.
Out of Afghanistan
When their government collapsed, thousands of Afghans were suddenly at risk. A Pitt team stepped in to help those desperate to escape. GSPIA students Jake Detweiler, Tahmina Ahmed and Max Degregorio began helping Afghans with their visa paperwork in early August. They were some of the first people to make up what would become the CGM Afghan Asylum Assistance Task Force.