The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a five-year, $750,000 grant to the University of Pittsburgh for a book publishing initiative in the history of science to be pursued by the University of Pittsburgh Press in a close partnership with Pitt’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Department of History’s World History Center. Read more…

Congratulations to Ronald Wallace, who has earned a second prize for his recent collection For a Limited Time Only. The Wisconsin Library Association selected the book for an "Outstanding Achievement in Poetry" award.  The awards are given annually for books by Wisconsin authors, and selection is based on "the quality of the writing, editing, printing, and publishing."

Congratulations to Michael Aronson, a finalist for the 2009 Theatre Library Association Book Award, for Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929.

Congratulations to Anne Sanow of Provincetown, Massachusetts, winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, for her manuscript Triple Time. Sanow's collection was chosen by best-selling author Ann Patchett, this year's final judge. Read the press release

Congratulations to Cheryl Dumesnil, winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for her collection In Praise of Falling. Read the press release