Six projects earned funding through the Dietrich Innovation Initiative (DI2), a program in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and College of General Studies designed to empower faculty and staff to enrich research, student learning and community engagement at the University.
Three different awards are given: Launch Support, for short-term projects with budgets of $5,000 or less; Major Development, with budgets up to $20,000; and Moon Shot, for major innovative efforts with budgets up to $100,000.
The winning projects and faculty are:
Launch Support
Cement City (Season 2): A Documentary Podcast About “One Forgotten Town”
Erin Anderson
Major Development
Infrastructure of Innovation in “Left Behind” Regions — Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and County Durham, UK
Michael Glass
Uncovering the Legacy of Slavery in Pittsburgh’s Religious Institutions and Build Environment
Brock Bahler
Community-Engaged Outreach, Research and Teaching in the Churchill Valley Greenway
Sarah Moore and Patrick Shirey
Pitt Summer Chemistry Academy
Susan Maleckar
Moon Shot
Illuminating Student Innovation Pathways Through a Chemical Biology Research-Teaching Ecosystem
Seth Childers and Liu Lingfeng