The 2024 Provost’s Awards for Diversity in the Curriculum Have Been Announced

Associate Professor and Writing Program Director Angie Cruz has been named the 43rd Dos Passos Prize winner. Longwood University gives this award annually to an American writer who explores both form and range of voice. Cruz will be honored this spring at Longwood in a ceremony that will be open to the public.
Sixteen University of Pittsburgh faculty members earned the 2025 Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards across three categories. The awards honor outstanding individuals whose scholarly commitments and contributions in research, teaching or public service have advanced the Pitt community or their respective fields.
The Dietrich School would like to congratulate our inaugural Dean’s Achievement Awardees, thank you for all of your hard work!
Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award
Recognizes staff members who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance, productivity, and excellence in the execution of their job responsibilities and who have made a significant impact on the achievement of departmental or school-wide goals and objectives.
Jinfa Cai (EDUC ’94G) and Drew Gitomer (A&S ’82G, ‘84G), University of Pittsburgh and Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) alumni, have been elected to the 2025 class of the National Academy of Education.
Six faculty members from the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and College of General Studies attended “Most Valuable Professor” events hosted by the University of Pittsburgh wrestling, swimming and diving programs in January.
Student-athletes from each program welcomed their favorite faculty members to be recognized at their respective events as “MVPs.”
Faculty from the Dietrich School and CGS who attended the events include:
· Pat Casey, Legal Studies – nominated by Dayton Pitzer, wrestling
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Bard Ermentrout, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the Dietrich School was just awarded the Jurgen Moser Lecture/Prize at SIAM for 2025. From the SIAM website: