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Mark Abbott, a professor in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science in the Dietrich School was interviewed for an article in the Post-Gazette that was published on Friday, June 21.

June 19, or Juneteenth, is a holiday that commemorates the day that Texas, the last Confederate state, learned about the Emancipation Proclamation — marking the end of slavery in the United States in 1865. But as University of Pittsburgh historian Alaina Roberts notes, it’s important to remember that the emancipation of slaves didn’t actually happen in one fell swoop.

Next Pittsburgh interviewed associate history professor in the Dietrich School, Laurence Glasco, for their article Segregated history of Highland Park Pool highlights ‘Pittsburgh’s brand of apartheid’.

For about a decade, Josie Jackson regularly made an arduous journey. She grew up in the mid-1800s in an all-Black town in Chickasaw Nation, a still sovereign Indian territory on land that would later become the state of Oklahoma. As a young mother determined to support her child, she found work as a domestic servant in a Texas town 120 miles from everything she knew. So she traveled back home whenever she could, either by stagecoach or walking.

David Waldeck, a professor in the Department of Chemistry in the Dietrich School and Director of the Petersen Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, has been awarded the 2024 Edward W. Morley Medal from the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society

Forty-four undergraduates earned a 2024 Brackenridge Fellowship, one of the University of Pittsburgh’s most prestigious awards.

Researchers in the Department of Psychology in the Dietrich School recently published their studies on the correlation between exercise and retaining memories in Your Wellness.