University of Pittsburgh graduate student Elaina Hopkins has been awarded a 2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the American Councils for International Education, promotes language learning and cultural exchange in regions critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity.
These Pitt graduate students were among the 11 Pitt people named to the Pittsburgh Business Times' 2025 30 Under 30 list.
Patrick Dunn and Alireza Mohammadzadeh, both graduate researchers in the Swanson School of Engineering, have been named finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC) for their invention, AgriNUE.
Michael DeAngelo, Ryan Druffner, Angela Le, and Kristina Rajakovich were named winners of Boren Awards, which provides funding for U.S. students to study abroad in critical world regions, learning languages and cultures.
Chloë Glover, a PhD candidate in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Geology and Environmental Science, was awarded a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mendenhall Research Fellowship. Only a handful of applicants are awarded the postdoctoral fellowship each year.
Christina White, a graduate student in the School of Medicine, has been named a 2024 Critical Language scholar.
Adi Mittal, a third-year student at the School of Medicine, won first place in the graduate student category at the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition for the development of a test to detect a brain aneurysm.
Shanae Butler, a pre-doctoral fellow in bioengineering, won the 2023 Michael G. Wells Student Healthcare Competition. She was among several Pitt graduate students who competed in this year's competition.
Adi Mittal, a research assistant in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine, is a finalist for the National Inventors Hall of Fame’s 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Yue Tang, PhD student at the Swanson School of Engineering, received the ACM TODAES Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) for her paper that assists in on-device learning.
