The John Paul Sevens Foundation selected four University of Pittsburgh School of Law students to receive the prestigious 2023 fellowship.
Pitt Law Students Awarded 2023 Stevens Public Interest Fellowships
Graduate Student Accolades
EdD student named School Nutrition Director of the Year
Carla Escribano, a student in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education Doctor of Education (EdD) program, was named the 2023 Director of the Year by the School Nutrition Association of Pennsylvania.
Pitt Law student earned a grant from the American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation
Laras Susanti, a doctoral student in the School of Law, earned the travel grant to support her return home to Indonesia to complete research on its Constitutional Court.
Graduate student awarded for her doctoral dissertation research
Alex Silver, a graduate student studying cognitive psychology in Pitt’s Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), received one of two 2022-23 Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Awards from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS).
2 from Pitt’s children’s literature program earned a fellowship to work with social justice nonprofits
Brittney Knotts and Christine Case, both recent children's literature and childhood studies PhD students in Pitt’s Department of English, were awarded Leading Edge Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
PhD candidate won a National Academy of Education fellowship
Lorraine Blatt, who is studying developmental psychology in Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), was named a 2023 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation fellow.
Pitt’s Humanities Center named 8 graduate student fellows
Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend to conduct a summer research project, then share their work with the center’s community during the fall and spring semesters.
2 Pitt graduate students earn Boren Scholarships
Joe Acevedo in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs will travel to Tajikistan to study Persian, and Joseph Patrick in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences will study Serbian in Montenegro.
Li named Pitt’s first-ever recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Anna Li is the University’s first-ever recipient of the award, which provides $90,000 over two years to immigrants and first-generation students pursuing graduate education.
6 Pitt graduate students win NSF research fellowships
Six University of Pittsburgh graduate students won research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).