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Fine Art Appreciation Day at Pitt: Don’t Brush off the University Art Gallery!
It’s Fine Art Appreciation Day and the Dietrich School has a lot of fine art to offer. No this isn’t a pigment of your imagination, we do have an art museum located on our campus.
Sam Woolley Speaks on Election Misinformation
Sam Woolley, the Dietrich School’s Endowed Chair of Disinformation Studies, was interviewed for an ABC News article about election misinformation, especially concerning Elon Mus
Jackie Smith Interviewed by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jackie Smith, a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Dietrich School was interviewed for a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article highlighting the affordable housing market crisis and how most Pennsylvanians favor making housing more affordable.
Lara Putnam Discusses the Upcoming Election
Professor in the Department of History at the Dietrich School, Lara Putnam, was interviewed for a Pittsburgh Union Process article.
Archaeology Day: Pitt Takes a Trip to Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
The Department of Anthropology took a group of students, faculty, and staff to the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village this past weekend for Archaeology Day.
Did You Know at Dietrich: The Cathedral is Haunted
Boo! Did we scare you? If we didn’t, maybe knowing that the Cathedral of Learning is haunted might spook you.
Peng Liu Part of Research Team Published in Science
Peng Liu, a professor in the Department of Chemistry in the Dietrich School, and a team of nine other researchers were published in Science on October 10.
Sophia Choukas-Bradley Talked to Scientific America About Respecting Your Children's Privacy
Sophia Choukas-Bradley, an associate professor of psychology in the Dietrich School, was interviewed in a Scientific America article about the effect of parents using GPS tracking on their children.
Lara Putnam Interviewed by CNN on Swing States in the Upcoming Election
Lara Putnam, a professor in the Department of History at the Dietrich School, was interviewed by CNN for a story on voters in swing states.
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.