Graduate Student Accolades
Michelle Karabin Receives NIH F31 Award to Develop Computational Model of Human Movement
University of Pittsburgh graduate student Michelle Karabin has received Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her work investigating human balance and movement through a new computational model.
Pitt Grad Students Place Second in CLARION Case Competition
Four graduate students representing three Schools of the Health Sciences represented Pitt this weekend at the CLARION National Interprofessional Case Competition hosted virtually by the University of Minnesota.
These Pitt people’s work advocating for affordable health care landed them invitations to the White House
Amy Raslevich, a doctoral candidate in Pitt’s School of Public Health, got the surprise of her life two weeks ago when she received an out of the blue FaceTime call from former President Barack Obama to mark the 12th anniversary of the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. During the call, Obama thanked Raslevich (pictured at left) for her health care advocacy, and they talked about, well, everything.
Katz PhD candidate Theresa Kwon wins global competition for dissertation proposal
Theresa (Tess) Kwon, a PhD candidate in marketing at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, is one of two joint winners worldwide in a Society for Consumer Psychology competition.
Graduate Students Succeed as Catalysts for Change in 2022 Super Analytics Challenge
Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh continued their annual tradition of serving as catalysts for change through the 2022 Super Analytics Challenge, hosted by the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.
Her Dream Is Freedom for Women and Girls
School of Education PhD Alumna Kakenya Ntaiya was featured in Bill Gates' Heroes in the Field series for her work as founder of Kakenya's Dream, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering and educating girls in rural Kenya. Watch the Heroes in the Field video.
Tranquilift Team Deploys Device in Barbershop
Bioengineering graduate student Anna Dzuricky leads the development of Tranquilift, a device that would help individuals with physical disabilities have a more tailored, comfortable, and safe experience at the salon.
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.
Madeline Cramer Receives Termis-AM Outstanding Student Award
Bioengineering PhD student Madeline Cramer received the 2021 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award from TERMIS-AM. The award recognizes Cramer’s research in the lab of Stephen Badylak, professor of surgery at Pitt and deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Dick Thornburgh Forum Disability Service Award Recipients
Anna Marie Clark, a student in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program, and Alison Mahoney, a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, are among the winners of the the 2021 Dick Thornburgh Forum Disability Service Award.
2021 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards
Ariana Brazier, former PhD Student in the Department of English, was one of two outstanding scholars to receive an honorable mention from the Council of Graduate Schools / ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards for the Award in Humanities and Fine Arts. She was nominated by the University of Pittsburgh. [Photo not available]
Iris Marion Young Awards for Political Engagement winners Announced
Nikki Cristobal, a graduate student in Social and Comparative Analysis program in the School of Education, earned the graduate student award. Her work focuses on the resiliency of Indigenous Hawaiian women from Kaua’i island.
Empathetic and Whole Patient Approaches May Improve Women’s Heart Health in Appalachian Communities
Dr. Jessica Thompson, who recently completed her Ph.D. at Pitt Public Health, received an American Public Health Association award for her dissertation research. Her "research among Appalachian women has been recognized for the ways in which it provides a framework for future action-oriented and community-specific strategies to improve cardiovascular disease prevention."
Grad student Sean Sweat presented at a Smithsonian forum on reckoning with our racial past
In August, Sean Sweat, a second-year MD/PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, spoke during a segment at the Smithsonian virtual forum, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.