Diana Khoi Nguyen Talks Upcoming Book "Root Fractures"
Diana Khoi Nguyen, an assistant professor in the English Department in the Dietrich School was interviewed for PittWire about her poetry and upcoming book, Root Fractures:
Awards and Accolades
Africana Studies Professor, Tiana Wilson, OAH 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize Recipient
Tiana Wilson, an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies in the Dietrich School is the recipient of the Organization of American Historian’s 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize. The Lerner-Scott Prize recognizes the top PhD dissertation in U.S. Women’s History and was presented at the OAH’s 2024 Conference on American History.
Lina Insana and Team Awarded NEH Grant for Italian American Research
Lina Insana an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian in the Dietrich School along with the Heinz History Center and West Virginia University were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) award. The award is a $50,000 grant to support and grow the Italian Diaspora Archive R
Student Research Teams Published in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance
Two student author teams from the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences in the Dietrich School have been published in the April issue of the Journal of Science Policy & Governance. The teams published their spring 2023 Geology 1312 Environmental Law and Policy class project policy papers.
Dietrich Professor of Physics received an AAPT Award for Physics Education
The University of Pittsburgh’s Chandralekha Singh, a distinguished professor of physics in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has been named the John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Award winner for 2024, the American Association of Physics Teachers announced.
Dietrich Professor Ranked Among Top Neuroscientists in the World
Dr. Anthony Grace, a distinguished professor of Neuroscience and professor of Psychiatry and Psychology in the Dietrich School’s Department of Neuroscience was just ranked among the top neuroscientists on Research.com. According to the site, he was ranked number 320 in the world and number 194 in the United States.
Four Dietrich Students Have Been Annoucned as Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Winners
Eight University of Pittsburgh students were named to the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program. Seven are from the Pittsburgh campus and one is from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.
- Zain Adamo, a sophomore in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences majoring in film and media studies (United Kingdom)
Two Dietrich professors announced as new National Endowment for the Humanities awardees
Three Pitt faculty members have received new grants for their research from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grants are among 238 the federal agency announced last month.
Two Pitt alums are 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners
Two alumni from Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences are among the 2024 winners of U.S. literature and journalism’s foremost award: the Pulitzer Prizes.Brandon Som (A&S ’02G) earned this year’s Pulitzer Prize in poetry for “Tripas,” a collection of poems about his multicultural, multigenerational childhood home.
13 undergraduates from the Dietrich School earn Department of Studio Arts honors
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Studio Arts presented awards for this year’s student exhibition, “Changes with Exposure.” The Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Awards recipients are seniors Jenna Antosh and Charlie Lovett-Dietrich as well as Christofer. The Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Studies awardees are seniors Eickelberg and Zhang and junior Ronan Liu (W.E.N.).