The Association of Internet Researcher’s (AoIR) 2024 Nancy Baym Book Annual Award Winner was announced on Friday. Samuel Woolley, the Dietrich School’s Endowed Chair of Disinformation Studies, won for his book, “Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.”
The Associations Committee had this to say about Woolley’s book:
Gabriella Zuccolotto, a PhD Student in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science in the Dietrich School and a member of John Gardner's lab, was recently awarded a 3-year NASA FINESST fellowship. Zuccolotto will use remote sensing data from Landsat and Planet to build models of phycocyanin and chlorophyll to better understand harmful algal bloom dynamics in the Ohio and Illinois River Basins.
The University of Pittsburgh has named Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, the current Chair of the Department of Psychology in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, as the next director of the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), effective Sept. 1.
Dear Colleagues,
One of my goals as Dean has been to create more leadership roles for faculty members at all ranks. Over the spring and summer, we posted, and interviewed candidates for, new Assistant Dean and Dean’s Fellow positions. The pool of candidates was outstanding and the choice was difficult, but we’re confident that these new colleagues will very quickly begin making a positive impact on the lives of our students and faculty.
An innovative University of Pittsburgh program is featured in the latest National Humanities Alliance report, “Expanding Access to Undergraduate Humanities Education: Models and Strategies.”
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is the first Dietrich School department to receive the Mighty Oak designation from the Office of Sustainability’s Green Suite Awards. A celebration of the recognition will take place in the William Pitt Union in the lower lounge on July 10 from 3-4:30.
The 2024 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) Book Prize has been announced. Jasmine Reid received the prize for her manuscript, “Interlocutor Goddess.” The manuscript will be published in 2025 by Autumn House Press.
Reid is also the author of Deus Ex Nigrum (2020) and a recipient of Cave Canem and Poets House fellowships. She has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute.
Cho-yun Hsu, university professor emeritus of history and sociology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the prestigious Tang Prize in Sinology today. In his 30 years on Pitt’s faculty, Hsu produced a wide-ranging and influential body of work on Chinese history and culture.
