{"id":118124,"date":"2026-02-19T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118124\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:36:09","slug":"two-swanson-school-alumni-named-pittsburgh-30-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118124\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Swanson School Alumni named Pittsburgh 30 Under 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a class=\"pp_cb_imagegallery_7668031\" data-sharepath=\"https:\/\/news.engineering.pitt.edu\/asset\/fc95002f-2dee-4803-aa5a-c4b8f00ec3b1\/20221118-ao-benjamin-leslie-0060\" data-uuid=\"fc95002f-2dee-4803-aa5a-c4b8f00ec3b1\" data-sourcepath=\"https:\/\/content.presspage.com\/uploads\/2602\/fc95002f-2dee-4803-aa5a-c4b8f00ec3b1\/20221118-ao-benjamin-leslie-0060.jpg?26057\" data-uploadid=\"1512595\" data-filename=\"20221118-ao-benjamin-leslie-0060.jpg\" data-title=\"Benjamin Leslie\" data-description=\"Benjamin Leslie, Frederick Honors College, bioengineering undergraduate student, photographed at Bridgeside Point II, McGowan Institute, for Ones to Watch profile, November, 2022\" data-copyright=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-attr-hash=\"97a427378df2dc1bac8ce393f4c60ca078af527f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1920_20221118-ao-benjamin-leslie-0060.jpg\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 45%;\" class=\"pp-inline-image pp-right pp-ml20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1920_20221118-ao-benjamin-leslie-0060.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Leslie\" title=\"Benjamin Leslie - Benjamin Leslie, Frederick Honors College, bioengineering undergraduate student, photographed at Bridgeside Point II, McGowan Institute, for Ones to Watch profile, November, 2022\"\/>   &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                Benjamin Leslie&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>          &#13;<br \/>\n         <\/a>        <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittwire.pitt.edu\/pittwire\/features-articles\/hockey-player-heart-researcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leslie<\/a> (ENGR \u201824) is currently a student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engineering.pitt.edu\/malleous-wins-25k-grand-prize-at-big-idea-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Malleous,<\/a> a startup developing a patent pending, bendable suction-retractor designed for microsurgery optimization. During his time at SSOE, Leslie was also named the American Society of Engineering Education\u2019s (ASEE) <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engineering.pitt.edu\/ben-leslie-named-2024-asee-ceed-co-op-student-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2024 Student of the Year<\/a> and winner of the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engineering.pitt.edu\/benjamin-leslie-wins-emma-w-locke-memorial-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emma W. Locke<\/a> Memorial Award.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This year&#8217;s class of honorees will be honored in a series of profiles in a special edition of the Pittsburgh Business Times on March 20 and at an awards celebration in April.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Benjamin Leslie&#13; &#13; Leslie (ENGR \u201824) is currently a student at the University of Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[56062,3892,12912,3893,56063,3895,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-118124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-all-ssoe-news","tag-banner","tag-bioengineering","tag-dept-banner","tag-honors-awards","tag-pitt-swanson-school-of-engineering","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}