Distinguished Public Service Award
Leonora Anyango
Teaching Professor, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Thuy D. Bui
Professor, School of Medicine
Christine R. Dahlin
Professor, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Professor and Founding Director, Center for Governance and Markets, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Distinguished Teaching Award
Taryn Bayles
Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education, Swanson School of Engineering
Ljiljana Duraskovic
Teaching Professor and Assistant Dean, Dietrich School
Andrew Lotz
Teaching Professor, Academic Advisor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Dietrich School
Marie Norman
Director, Innovative Design for Education and Assessment Lab, and Professor, School of Medicine
John Whitefoot
Associate Professor, Swanson School
Distinguished Research Award
Senior Scholars
Alexander Deiters
Professor, Dietrich School
Anne B. Newman
UPMC Chair in Geroscience, Director, Center for Aging and Population Health, Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health, and Clinical Director, Aging Institute
Jennifer Whiting
Distinguished Professor, Dietrich School
Junior Scholars
Peggy Liu
Ben. L Fryrear Chair in Marketing and Associate Professor, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration
Mehret Birru Talabi
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Assistant Dean and Co-Director, Pitt/CMU Medical Science Training Program (MD-PhD), Co-Director, Optimizing Reproductive Outcomes Among People with Chronic Diseases (ORCHID), and Director, UPMC Women's and Reproductive Health Rheumatology Clinic
Christopher Wilmer
Wellington C. Carl Faculty Fellow, Swanson School
Award for Staff Excellence
Community Engagement: Kelly Gilliam
Division of Philanthropic and Alumni Engagement
Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Anastasia White
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Excellent Mentor: Laura Kingsley
Office of Sponsored Programs
Exceptional Early Career Achievement: Miranda Acosta
School of Computing and Information
Innovation in Advancing Administrative and Operational Efficiency: Christine Jackson
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Outstanding Career Achievement: Pat Cercone
Communications and Marketing, Pitt-Bradford
Research Support: Jean Barone
Office of Research Protections
Student Impact: Brandon Barber
Swanson School of Engineering
University Engagement: Doreen Hernandez
University Center for International Studies
UPSIDE Award
Sexual Assault Facilitation and Education (SAFE) Peer Educators
Chancellor’s Gap Funds
Aneurisk: AI-Based Clinical Management of Aneurysm Patients
Timothy Chung, faculty | Department of Bioengineering
Full Thickness Human Skin Perfusion Model for Disease Modeling
Asim Ejaz, faculty | Department of Plastic Surgery
VINE AI: Bringing Accurate Generative AIO to Intellectual Property Law
Andrew Bunger, faculty | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Building a Screening Tool for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Jay Chhablani, faculty | Department of Ophthalmology
Cell Type-Specific for Congenital Hearing Loss
Christopher Cunningham, faculty | Department of Otolaryngology
Dicarboxylic Acid Therapy for Congenital Lactic Acidosis
Eric Goetzman, faculty | Department of Pediatrics
Real-time Evaluation for Adverse Events Using Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring
Parthasarathy Thirumala, faculty | Department of Neurology
Polysaccharide-Based Plastic to Help Alleviate Ocean Microplastic Pollution
Susan Fullerton, faculty | Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Eric Beckman, faculty | Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
A Novel Vascular Scaffold for Focal Delivery of Antiplatelet Therapy
John Pacella, faculty | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Pitt Seed Projects
Big PITTch
Sexual Misconduct and Prevention and Survivor Support
Carrie Benson | Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
CUPID: Fostering an Inclusive Community in the Schools of the Health Sciences
Susan Graff | Department of Physician Assistant Studies
2023-24 Cohort
STEM Through Games
Dmitriy Babichenko | School of Computing and Information
CommUniversity Initiative
Keith Caldwell | Office of Engagement and Community Affairs
TC²: True Co-equal x Transformative Collaborations
Melissa Lenos | Dietrich School
Planting SEEDs-Growing Teachers: Creating a Pipeline
Melissa Jo Marks | Behavioral Sciences Division, Pitt-Greensburg
Project SOAR: Fostering Leadership, Resiliency, and Network for Students at Pitt-Johnstown
Manisha Nigam | Natural Sciences Division, Pitt-Johnstown