{"id":128925,"date":"2026-03-04T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128925\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:00:08","slug":"three-swanson-school-faculty-receive-chancellors-distinguished-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128925\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Swanson School Faculty Receive Chancellor&#8217;s Distinguished Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittwire.pitt.edu\/features-articles\/2026\/03\/03\/chancellors-distinguished-awards-faculty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Originally published in Pittwire.<\/a> Reposted with permission.<\/p>\n<p>Three Swanson School of Engineering are among 16 Pitt faculty members who have earned the 2026 Chancellor\u2019s Distinguished Awards for exemplifying excellence in public service, research and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Each honoree will receive a $2,000 cash prize and a $3,000 grant to support their work and will be recognized at the Faculty Honors Convocation on March 31 in Alumni Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Grainger<br \/>Chancellor\u2019s Distinguished Award for Teaching<br \/>Recognized for his \u201ccommitment to surveying the top electric\u2011power engineering programs globally\u201d to improve the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering\u2019s curriculum and service as director of the Electric Power Technologies Laboratory, associate director of the Energy GRID Institute and co\u2011director of the Advanced Magnetics for Power and Energy Development Consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Kerestes<br \/>Chancellor\u2019s Distinguished Award for Teaching<br \/>Recognized for co-leading a modernization of the Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program and advancing \u201cgenerative artificial intelligence literacy and pedagogy across the Swanson School.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sylvanus Wosu<br \/>Chancellor\u2019s Distinguished Award for Public Service<br \/>Recognized for founding PITT STRIVE, a National Science Foundation-funded program supporting underrepresented engineering students, and co\u2011founding Kanmas Educational Support Center Inc., which has led to an average of 65% improvement in state proficiency in math and reading among more than 1,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally published in Pittwire. Reposted with permission. Three Swanson School of Engineering are among 16 Pitt faculty members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25759,3895,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-128925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-accolades","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\/128925","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=128925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}