Graduate Student Accolades

This alum is making Pittsburgh’s roads more accessible for cyclists and pedestrians

Mateus Martins (ENGR ’19G) is making Pittsburgh more equitable through an uncommon route — by improving the city’s streets. As a staff engineer in the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, his work is about more than ensuring Pittsburghers don’t end up in traffic jams; he wants to make the city’s roads as accommodating to cyclists and pedestrians as they are to cars.

Out of Afghanistan

When their government collapsed, thousands of Afghans were suddenly at risk. A Pitt team stepped in to help those desperate to escape. GSPIA students Jake Detweiler, Tahmina Ahmed and Max Degregorio began helping Afghans with their visa paperwork in early August. They were some of the first people to make up what would become the CGM Afghan Asylum Assistance Task Force.