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Chengcheng Huang won an NSF CAREER Award
Chengcheng Huang, assistant professor of neuroscience and mathematics in the Dietrich School, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Fossil Day at Pitt: Why You Shouldn't Take Rocks for Granite
Today is National Fossil Day and the Dietrich School has some bone-afied fossil history of our own!
Tao Han Recieves the American Physical Society (APS) 2025 Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award
Tao Han, a Distinguished Professor of High Energy Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Dietrich School is the recipient of the American Physical Society (APS) 2025 Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award.
Pernille Røge Has Recieved a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grant
Pernille Røge, an associate professor and the associate chair of the Department of History has received a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Grant from the Department of Education.
Film and Media Studies Professor To Have His Film Debut at IDFA
Raed (El) Rafei, an assistant professor in the Film and Media Studies Program at the Dietrich School, has a feature documentary film called Tripoli/A Tale of Three Cities, which will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) in Amsterdam this November.
WESA Talks New UAG Exhibit, Joe Magarac Returns, and Pennsylvania's Heavy Industry Collapse
The University Art Gallery, run by Teaching Professor of Art and Architecture, Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, was featured in a WESA article recently published.
Michelle Ward Wins American Chemical Society WCC Award
Michelle Ward, a teaching associate professor and Director of Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry in the Dietrich School just received the ACS Pittsburgh Women’s Chemistry Committee (WCC) Award for Encouraging Women into the Chemical Sciences.
Happy LGBTQIA Disability Month!
It’s LGBTQIA Disability Month and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies has many events for you to enjoy!
Lara Putnam Discusses Falling Voter Registration
Lara Putnam, a professor in the Department of History at the Dietrich School, was interviewed for an article in The Hill.
Sam Woolley Interviewed by ABC News About Hurricane Misinformation
Sam Woolley, the Dietrich School’s Endowed Chair of Disinformation Studies, was interviewed for an ABC News article about the misinformation being spread about Hurricane Helene.
Graham Hatfull Discusses Stubborn Bathroom Germs in Everyday Health
Graham Hatfull, a biotechnology professor in the Dietrich School was interviewed by Everyday Health about how your bathroom routine might be causing germs to stick around.
Studio Arts Faculty Featured in Upcoming "Adaptation - Local Notes" Exhibtion
Teaching Associate Professor Melissa Catanese, Visiting Assistant Professor Sean P. Morrissey, Director of abrication Loring Taoka, and Teaching Professor Barbara Weissberger from the Department of Studio Arts in the Dietrich School are featured in the group exhibition, Adaptation - Local Notes, at the Tomayko Foundation.
Preserving Democracy Forum
Calling all Political Sciences students and faculty! On Tuesday, October 8 the Institute of Politics has a program scheduled featuring Jeffrey Kovar, the U.S. Dept. of State Assistant Legal Advisor for Political-Military Affairs, and the program is titled, NATO at 75 and the Importance of Alliances in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Lawyer's View.
Pitt Women’s Soccer Recognizes 13 Dietrich School Faculty as “Most Valuable Professors”
Dietrich School Faculty Invited by Student-Athletes to Attend Pitt Women’s Soccer Match
Pitt Men’s Soccer Honors 10 Dietrich School Faculty as “Most Valuable Professors”
Dietrich School Faculty Invited by Student-Athletes to Attend Pitt Men’s Soccer Match