{"id":284698,"date":"2026-09-12T20:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284698\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:48:13","slug":"four-pitt-faculty-part-of-pittsburgh-magazines-40-under-40-university-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284698\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Pitt faculty part of Pittsburgh Magazine\u2019s 40 Under 40 | University Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFour Pitt faculty members and one PhD candidate were named to Pittsburgh Magazine\u2019s 2026 40 Under 40 list.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEach year, the publication selects 40 individuals under the age of 40 who are profiled in the November editions of Pittsburgh Magazine. Judges look for specific examples from the nominee\u2019s professional life and community involvement that demonstrate accomplishment and upward mobility. The honorees will be publicly recognized at a Nov. 6 event.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere are the Pitt people who made this year\u2019s list:<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tDeborah Akanya, clinical assistant professor in the School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Medicine and student in the Katz Graduate School of Business<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMatthew Berwick (SHRS, \u201923G), adjunct instructor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAlisa Omelchenko, PhD candidate in the School of Medicine<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMartin Piazza, assistant professor in the School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Neurological Surgery<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAlexander Sundermann (Public Health, \u201914G, \u201922G), assistant professor in the School of Public Health\u2019s Department of Epidemiology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Pitt faculty members and one PhD candidate were named to Pittsburgh Magazine\u2019s 2026 40 Under 40 list.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1594,10605,497,3398,73,75,74,1164,3315,10604,10603],"class_list":["post-284698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college","tag-graduate","tag-learning","tag-pitt","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-research","tag-students","tag-undergraduate","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284698","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=284698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}