Prestigious Awards
Pitt Faculty Honors and Awards
248
AAAS Fellows
39
Sloan Fellows
10
NAI Fellows
52
National Academy Members (Medicine, Science and Engineering)
22
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Members
100
NSF CAREER Awards
45
Guggenheim Fellows
3
National Book Award Finalists/Winners
2
MacArthur Fellows
2
National Medals of Science/Technology and Innovation
Initialisms:
AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science
NSF: National Science Foundation
NAI: National Academy of Inventors
Timeframe includes all years prior. Some organizations have not announced their 2022 winners. Source: Official websites of organizations giving out each award
Lillian Chong, associate professor of chemistry, and her graduate student, Anthony Bogetti, were part of a team that received highly prestigious recognition from the Association for Computing Machinery with its Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research. The Gordon Bell Prize is commonly known in the scientific community as the “Nobel Prize of supercomputing.” They generated atomically detailed views of how the spike protein of the coronavirus opens up before latching onto cells during infection with a resolution that is impossible to achieve experimentally.
Of the 45 Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to Pitt faculty members, two were awarded in 2022: to Yona Harvey (top), associate professor of English, and Keisha N. Blain (bottom), then associate professor of history.
Xu Qin, assistant professor of research methodology in the School of Education, was named a Spencer fellow by the National Academy of Education with support from The Spencer Foundation. Qin has developed statistical methods and software for investigating the total impact of changes to any part of the student experience.
During her 50-year career, poet Toi Derricotte has won many awards, including being named a finalist for the National Book Award for her 2019 collection “‘I’: New and Selected Poems.” But Derricotte, at Pitt since 1996 and now professor emerita in the Department of English, is in the pantheon of American poetry. She received the 2020 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, an award previously won by notables such as Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich and John Ashbery.
Christopher J. Nygren, associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, won the 2022 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for the best book in Renaissance studies from the Renaissance Society of America for his book, “Titian’s Icons: Charisma, Tradition, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy,” about Titian, one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance, focusing on his status as the creator of a miracle-working icon.
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