Chancellor Nordenberg names Professors Little & Wagner recipients of 2012 Distinguished Research Award

PITTSBURGH  (February 20, 2012) ... Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg has announced the winners of the 2012 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching, Research, and Public Service Awards. Among this year's recipients are the following from the Swanson School of Engineering:

• Steven Little , assistant professor and Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow in the Departments of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering and of Bioengineering in the Swanson School; in the School of Medicine's Department of Immunology; and in the Pitt-UPMC McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine;

• William Wagner , interim director of the Pitt-UPMC McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine as well as a professor of surgery in the Pitt School of Medicine and of Bioengineering and Chemical & Petroleum Engineering in the Swanson School.

Dr. Wagner is being honored in the senior scholar category, which recognizes "an outstanding and continuing record of research and scholarly activity."

Read about all the recipients in  The Pitt Chronicle .