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
Chancellor's Award for Staff
Community Engagement: Tasha Peacock
Assistant Director of Student Programs and Community Outreach, Institute of Politics
Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Ron Idoko
Associate Director, Center on Race and Social Problems
Founding Director, Racial Equity Consciousness Institute
Research Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Excellent Mentor: Jill Harvey
Director of First Year Advising, Swanson School of Engineering
Exceptional Early Career Achievement: Katie Belardi
Research Administrator, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Innovation in Advancing Administrative and Operational Efficiency: Aurora Sharrard
Executive Director, Office of Sustainability
Outstanding Career Achievement: Lisa Cherok
Director of Admissions, College of Business Administration
Research Support: Katelyn Collinger
Clinical Trial and Recruitment Facilitator, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Student Impact: Andrea Zito
Assistant Dean for Student Engagement, School of Education
University Engagement: Stephanie Hoogendoorn
Director of Academic Affairs, Office of the Provost
UPSIDE Award
Office of Faculty Diversity and Development and Office of Health Sciences Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Chancellor’s Gap Funds
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 PITT-ch
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