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MAY 2025 - GES Pape Endowment Award

Congratulations to Poushalee Banerjee on being awarded the Arthur & Barbara Pape Endowment Award!

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.

MAY 2025 - GES K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship Recipient

K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship

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.

NOV 2024 - Congratulations to our 2024 NASA FINESST Fellowship Awardee

Gabriella Zuccolotto

Congratulations to Gabriella Zuccolotto on being awarded a 3 year NASA FINESST fellowship! 

In this project, Gabi will be using remote sensing data from Landsat and Planet to build models of phycocyanin and chlorophyll to better understand harmful algal bloom dynamics in the Ohio and Illinois River Basins.