News
October 26, 2016
CUE Selected for 2016 University UPSIDE Award
The Center for Urban Education has been chosen as one of two recipients of the 2016 University Prize for Strategic, Inclusive, and Diverse Excellence (UPSIDE) Awards for its efforts to further the University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The award recognizes programs that increase the access to and full participation of minorities, women, and other protected classes in all aspects of the University.
February 29, 2016
CUE's Rich Milner Named 2016 AERA Fellow
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced today that CUE Director Dr. Rich Milner is included in its new class of fellows for 2016. Dr. Milner is one of 22 scholars to receive the honor this year.
“I am extremely pleased to be recognized among researchers engaged in some of the most important research in the field of education," Milner said. "I am hopeful that my work continues to make a difference for students and teachers in urban communities."
January 11, 2016
CUE Student Ira Murray Garners CRSP Award
It’s with immense pride that we congratulate CUE doctoral student and K. Leroy Irvis Fellow Ira Murray, whose recent paper was awarded this year’s Doctoral Student Paper Award from the Center on Race and Social Problems. Murray’s paper, "Not as Much as It Should Be”: How Community-Based Outside of School Time Programs Attend to Black Male Sociopolitical Development,” started as a project for Dr. Amber Pabon’s qualitative methods class.
April 20, 2015
Joshua Childs Earns AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Fellowship Selection Committee has selected Learning Sciences and Policy doctoral student Joshua Childs for the 2015-2016 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research. The committee noted that it was "very impressed with Childs' scholarly achievements, the quality of his proposed research, and his potential to contribute to education research."
This fellowship awards Childs a one-year stipend and funding for travel support so he can attend the AERA 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
April 20, 2015
Kerr Wins Innovation in Education Award
Administrative and Policy Studies Department Chair and Professor Mary Margaret Kerr has been approved for funding from the Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) as part of the Innovation in Education Awards 2015 program. Kerr's proposal, “Developing a ‘Best Practices’ App for Research for Pitt Undergrads,” will receive funding for the period beginning May 1, 2015 through April 30, 2016.
February 26, 2015
Prof. Anne Carlson Joins Department as Assistant Professor
Prof. Carlson will teach educational courses at Pitt. She received her Ph.D. in 2006 with Bertil Hille and performed postdoctoral studies with William Zagotta at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on understanding the events that occur within the first minutes of fertilization, beginning with sperm immediately before binding the egg, through events in the egg shortly after sperm have entered. Prof. Carlson's laboratory is in 201 Life Science Annex.