Headlines & Highlights
Tournées Festival: New French Films on Campus from February 23 - 25
The Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures and Film Studies Program will present the festival, which is free and open to the public.
Chong Receives Carnegie Science Center's Emerging Female Scientist Award
Lillian Chong has been selected as a recipient of a 2012 Carnegie Science Award.
Star Leads Team of Researchers to Grow Gold Nanowires
Discovery is designed to allow inexpensive detection of poisonous industrial gases by workers wearing small sensor chips filled with gold nanowires.
David Tepper (A&S '78) Among 2012 Distinguished Alumni Fellows
Given to Pitt graduates for outstanding professional achievement and community service, the recognition will be bestowed during the University’s 36th Annual Honors Convocation, at 3 p.m. February 24 in Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland.
Savage Wins 2012 Jackson Prize
Kirk Savage, professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, is among the 2012 winners of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize for MONUMENT WARS.
Free Performance of Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, February 29
Pitt’s Repertory Theatre, Department of Sociology, and Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences present a free one-night-only performance of Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, featuring performer, scholar, and activist E. Patrick Johnson.
Dietrich School Dean Among Featured Speakers at February 25 Honors College Celebration
N. John Cooper (pictured), the Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, will join Chancellor Mark Nordenberg, Provost Patricia Beeson, and other special guests on Saturday, February 25, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the University Honor College.
Benefit Production of The Vagina Monologues, February 16-18
The Pitt Campus Women’s Organization will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to raise funds for and awareness of violence against women and girls.
Saxena and Skrzycki Win 2012 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards
The Bellet Awards were established in 1998 and endowed in 2008 with a $1.5 million gift from Dietrich School alumnus David Bellet (A&S ’67) and his wife, Tina, (pictured) to recognize outstanding and innovative undergraduate teaching in the Dietrich School.
Heinz Chapel Choir Presents Annual Chamber Choir Festival, February 12
The Heinz Chapel Choir presents its free annual Chamber Choir Festival, 3 p.m., Heinz Memorial Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, Oakland.
Hot Metal Bridge Post-Bac Program
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
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