Pitt Chronicle

Bryan K. Hanks, assistant professor in the Pitt School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology, and Carl D. Bodenschatz, a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics, have been named winners of the 2007 Tina and David Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.

Pitt ranks in the uppermost tier of U.S. public research universities according to The Top American Research Universities, the recently issued 2006 annual report of The Center for Measuring University Performance. The report places Pitt in the company of only six other leading public research universities: the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will fund up to $5 million annually over the next five years in Pitt research, education, or technology transfer projects addressing transportation issues, under an agreement that the University and PennDOT signed effective Jan. 1.