Graduate Student Accolades
Madeline Cramer Receives Termis-AM Outstanding Student Award
Bioengineering PhD student Madeline Cramer received the 2021 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award from TERMIS-AM. The award recognizes Cramer’s research in the lab of Stephen Badylak, professor of surgery at Pitt and deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Dick Thornburgh Forum Disability Service Award Recipients
Anna Marie Clark, a student in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program, and Alison Mahoney, a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, are among the winners of the the 2021 Dick Thornburgh Forum Disability Service Award.
2021 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards
Ariana Brazier, former PhD Student in the Department of English, was one of two outstanding scholars to receive an honorable mention from the Council of Graduate Schools / ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards for the Award in Humanities and Fine Arts. She was nominated by the University of Pittsburgh. [Photo not available]
Iris Marion Young Awards for Political Engagement winners Announced
Nikki Cristobal, a graduate student in Social and Comparative Analysis program in the School of Education, earned the graduate student award. Her work focuses on the resiliency of Indigenous Hawaiian women from Kaua’i island.
Empathetic and Whole Patient Approaches May Improve Women’s Heart Health in Appalachian Communities
Dr. Jessica Thompson, who recently completed her Ph.D. at Pitt Public Health, received an American Public Health Association award for her dissertation research. Her "research among Appalachian women has been recognized for the ways in which it provides a framework for future action-oriented and community-specific strategies to improve cardiovascular disease prevention."
Grad student Sean Sweat presented at a Smithsonian forum on reckoning with our racial past
In August, Sean Sweat, a second-year MD/PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, spoke during a segment at the Smithsonian virtual forum, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.
Sabrina Helbig receives Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Scholarship
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Educational Activities Board has selected Sabrina Helbig, a first-year graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, to receive the Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Scholarship.
Yunxing Lu receives Geothermal Rising Marcelo Lippmann Graduate Award
Yunxing Lu, a PhD student in civil engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, has been named a winner of the Geothermal Rising Marcelo Lippmann Graduate Award. The $2,500 scholarship is given to five graduate students based on academic record, student activities, geothermal industry experience and career goals.
Postdoc Newman-Griffis Wins Dissertation Award
Denis Newman-Griffis, a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Informatics, has received the American Medical Informatics Association's 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Capturing Domain Semantics with Representation Learning: Applications to Health and Function.”
PhD Student Wins ‘Top Chef Amateurs’
If psychology graduate student Brett Bankson were to create a dish inspired by the University of Pittsburgh and the city at large, it would be a dish with undeniable character.
Top student to ‘Top Chef’: Pitt Ph.D. candidate to appear on cooking show
Brett Bankson came to Pittsburgh in 2017 to pursue an advanced degree and a future in academia. Four years later, he’s leaving with designs on being a “Top Chef,” and he’ll have a nationally televised exam Thursday night.
Student SciComm YouTube Channel Expands
A YouTube channel run by Pitt students, bioZone, has expanded, adding new members and content to the educational effort. Joining the crew are PhD students Marissa Di, Dante Poe, Roshni Bhatt and Mark Ebeid.
Education Grad Student Is Finalist for Minnesota Teacher of the Year
Lauren Wheeler, a student in the School of Education’s Doctor of Education program, is a finalist for the 2021 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award. Selected from a field of more than 80,000 teachers statewide, she is vying for the state’s top honor against nine other finalists and is the only physical education teacher up for the award.
Social Work Student Tre Tipton Wins Student-Athlete Achievement Award
Master of Social Work student and Pitt wide receiver Tre Tipton (A&S ’19) has been named a recipient of the Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award, presented annually by the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals.
PhD Student Alberto Guzman-Alvarez Receives National Dissertation Fellowship
Alberto Guzman-Alvarez, a PhD student in Learning Sciences and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, has received a 2021 Dissertation Fellowship from the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation (NAEd Spencer).