Graduate Student Accolades
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).
Pitt Project Addresses Teen Mental Health through Lens of High School Students
Sara Baumann, a postdoctoral associate in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health whose specialty is visual research methods, led a project in which cameras were given to young people they were doing research with to have them film aspects of their lives.
From Togo to Pittsburgh and Beyond: He Focuses on Human Rights
Driven by his experiences in a country known for human rights abuses and government infringement on individual freedoms, Koffi Kengbo (GSPIA ’21) hopes his Pitt education will help him fight for the oppressed.
Soundscape.social merges video games and concerts for an interactive virtual music experience
Pitt PhD students Pat Healy and Hannah Standiford have created a new way to listen with music virtually that reinserts the interactivity and spaciality of in-person concerts into the experience.