Congratulations to William Schuck on receiving the Fall 2025 Chancellor's Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship for your proposal on Sustainable Teaching, Innovative Thinking and Environmental Excellence. The David C.
A video on Riversense, a Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory tool working on improving local access to clean rivers, received a bronze Telly Award in the non-broadcast/general sustainability category. The video was produced by Speed, Zetter and media producer Patrick Walsh.
This award from the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology (PLE), University of Pittsburgh, for her research proposal. This grant will help further my ongoing research work on Eastern Hellbenders. This vulnerable amphibian species has been a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) since December 2024.
The Office of the Provost provided Nancy Tannery Grant for Open Educational Resources (OER) funding to 11 projects during the spring 2025 term.
The late K. Leroy Irvis, a 1954 Pitt law school graduate, was the first Black Assistant District Attorney in Allegheny County and a member of the Pennsylvania State House representing Pittsburgh for 31 years. In 1994, the University of Pittsburgh established the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowships to enhance the academic excellence and diversity of the University of Pittsburgh's graduate student body, attract the most outstanding and diverse graduate students to Pitt’s doctoral programs and prepare students for academic and research careers.
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Congratulations to William Schuck (Environmental Science student) and his team (PI: Goeran Fiedler) for being awarded the 2024 Student Award for Sustainability in Healthcare Challenge for their project Eco-Engineering the Future: Sustainable Prosthetics for Sustainable Healthcar
