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Alumnus Alex-Jaden Peart won a Fulbright Austria US Teaching Assistantship
Peart, an ESC and GSC alumnus, has won a Fulbright Austria U.S. Teaching Assistantship (USTA). Since 1962, the country’s Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research has awarded recent U.S. college and university graduates interested in teaching English in Austria.
4 Pitt-Greensburg faculty received President's Distinguished Awards
Recipients included faculty affiliates Pilar Herr (CLAS) and Bryan S. Adams (ESC).
4 Pitt faculty won the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
ESC and GSC faculty affiliate Burcu Savun is one of the 2025 recipients.
Meet the 2025 Chancellor’s Distinguished Award winners
Four UCIS faculty affiliates have been awarded the 2025 Chancellor's Distinguished Award; Michael Madison (GSC) for the Distinguished Research Award, Olga Klimova (REEES) for the Distinguished Teaching Award, and Harvey Borovetz (ASC) and Mary Rauktis (GSC, ESC) for the Distinguished Public Service Award.
Alison in London: Researching Collective Performances of Disability and Drag
Hello! My name is Alison Mahoney. I’m a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at Pitt, where I’m working on my dissertation, which focuses on the work of disability performance collectives, especially those whose performances have contested or nonnormative relationships to speech and voice.
Collective Agency in Disability Performance: A Conversation with Alison Mahoney
By Abdelrahman Gendy
Stand Tall For The Rule of Law: A Conversation with Professor Ronald Brand
By Abdelrahman Gendy
A Pitt Senior was Named to the German Academic Exchange Service
Sydney Wilhelmy, a European Studies Center certificate student and senior in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the David C. Frederick Honors College, was named to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), translated in English as the German Academic Exchange Service.
Brussels-Luxembourg study tour takes educators abroad
Each summer, the University of Pittsburgh's European Studies Center (ESC) plans a week-long study tour to Brussels, Belgium, for educators across the United States.
