July 2025
June 2025
A Pitt study has identified a protein that can separate critical metals from electronic waste
A new Pitt study has upended decades-old assumptions about brain plasticity
2 RK Mellon grants will advance Pitt life sciences and cyber training opportunities
Early pictures from the Rubin Observatory provide a glimpse of what’s to come
A new Pitt center will weave history and place to build a comprehensive global atlas
How Heidi Ward is helping to write the next chapter of Greater Hazelwood
OLLI marked 20 years of promoting lifelong learning, thanks to instructors like Tom Allen
May 2025
- Pitt will host health and tech visionaries for a global forum in October
- Graham Hatfull has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society
- Pitt’s life sciences prowess was on display during PA Gov. Josh Shapiro’s recent Pittsburgh visit
- This new Pitt service helps investigators do research that’s ethically sound
- 16 Pitt undergraduates were named Gilman scholars
- 6 seniors who overcame great challenges to walk at Pitt’s spring commencement
- 5 incoming Pitt first-years from across PA received Stamps Scholarships
- Meet the Class of 2025 grads who won top University honors
- Pitt celebrated its largest graduating class yet at commencement
- After her own detour, this senior is teaching fellow students valuable financial lessons
- Pitt students are mentoring high schoolers into health care careers
- How Pitt keeps hand cyclists on the road to success in the Pittsburgh Marathon
- Pitt-Greensburg is getting more K-12 teachers into rural schools
April 2025
- This Pitt junior won a Goldwater Scholarship for his brain imaging research
- A Pitt junior was awarded a Truman Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in public service
- 6 Pitt specialty programs rank in the top 10 of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools list
- Pitt ranked No. 20 for granted patents among US universities in 2024
- Pitt researchers took the most detailed images ever of bacteria-killing viruses
- A Pitt course gave students the chance to learn firsthand from Iceland’s sustainable engineering practices
- A Pitt professor is bringing her global perspective to this African medical research partnership
- Explore 1960s Pittsburgh through a new Pitt photography collection
- Pitt announced an interim PAE leader and plan to integrate the division under external relations
- Pitt Engineering alumna Kate Gundlach is still racing toward her dreams
- Pitt alumnus Elwin Cotman won a Whiting Award for his urban fantasy writing
- Meet the 2025 Pitt Sustainability Awardees
- How 3 student-led initiatives changed sustainability at Pitt
- Here’s who’s speaking at Pitt’s 2025 graduate and professional commencement ceremonies
- See inside the newly renovated student union at the ETC at Pitt-Titusville
March 2025
- Pitt ranks among the top worldwide universities for granted patents
- Forbes has named Pitt a ‘New Ivy’
- Larry Fitzgerald Jr. is Pitt’s 2025 spring commencement speaker
- This Pitt researcher is using his own experience to help autistic students thrive on campus
- Kris Davitt is stepping down as Pitt’s senior vice chancellor for philanthropic and alumni engagement
- 3 Pennsylvania leaders will receive the Elsie Hilliard Hillman Lifetime Achievement Award
- Pitt honored 6 outstanding community champions and partnerships at March forum
- Meet the 2025 Chancellor’s Distinguished Award winners
- Pitt's School of Public and International Affairs takes a new name and an expanded mission
- Burton M. Tansky, trustee emeritus and luxury retail leader, dies at 87
February 2025
- Fang Peng was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- The National Academy of Inventors elected 2 Pitt faculty as new senior members
- Pitt is a Fulbright Top Producer yet again
- 11,423 donors raised $3.26M for vital University initiatives on Pitt Day of Giving
- 2 Pitt alumni have been elected to the National Academy of Education
- 3 ways Pitt researchers are making strides in assistive technology
- Meet Rory Cooper, a Hall of Fame innovator who’s been harnessing tech to build better wheelchairs for three decades
- Gary Jackson blends poetry, comics and Afrofuturism to redefine Black narratives
- ‘The Blair Witch Project’ archive has joined Pitt’s Horror Studies Collection
- SEA-PHAGES has turned thousands of college students into more confident researchers
- This newly expanded Pitt program is building a community-engaged campus police department
- Pitt Stages is bringing a Pitt professor’s play to life for the first time
- Pitt leaders testified on the University’s role in contributing to PA’s future
- Pitt senior Simon Wang won Campus Compact’s Student Leadership Impact Award
- This high school student is sewing a quilt inspired by her research in Pitt’s August Wilson Archive
January 2025
- Jerry Dickinson is the new dean for Pitt’s School of Law
- 4 Pitt projects making life healthier — not just longer
- 3 ways Pitt researchers are getting health care to those who need it
- How this Pitt professor lent her voice to a hit medical drama
- This researcher is building a better teacher
- A Pitt community partnership was honored for advancing sustainable growth solutions in Fayette County
- Pitt and the Smithsonian have teamed up to teach life science skills to local middle schoolers
- In ‘community classrooms’ across Pittsburgh, Pitt med students are learning to be engaged physicians
- Pitt’s growing research impact is on full display in the 2023-24 annual research report
December 2024
- 40 years later, the Pitt Men’s Study is still breaking ground in the fight against AIDS
- A NASA-funded Pitt team is exploring the benefits of sleeping in space
- How this Pitt duo’s startup plans to attack the ‘tricky beast’ that is cancer
- Panthers Forward, which has helped more than 1,000 Pitt students address their debt, welcomes its seventh class
- ICYMI: Pitt contributed $6.6 billion to Pennsylvania in FY23
- This Pitt professor designed a ‘Survivor’-style game to teach social psychology lessons
- Chronic pain treatments can be dangerous and ineffective. These Pitt researchers are working on a solution
- Nearly half of new moms in STEM leave their full-time positions. This Pitt program wants to change that.
- Nonprofits are scaling up their regional impact with support from Pitt
- Pitt’s new building at Fifth and Halket will support health sciences, medicine and online learning
- A new Pitt center will use AI to accelerate women’s health research globally
- Pitt-Greensburg held its first winter commencement ceremony
- Pitt celebrated its newest Class of 2024 graduates at winter commencement
- 4 Pitt students received Gilman Scholarships
November 2024
- Audrey Murrell is helping to develop emerging Black leaders at Pitt and beyond
- With 2 Nature papers in a month, Peng Liu is unraveling new reactions — and new ways of working together
- Tray Crayton III is staying on the game
- Pitt’s first signing day for startups celebrated a milestone for researcher-entrepreneurs
- This Pitt medical student wants to make tests for cerebral aneurysms simpler and more effective
- This social scientist turned entrepreneur supports Black parents with an innovative program
- How a fish could lead to new hope for treating persistent wounds
- Pitt’s third Community Engagement Center has found its home in Greater Hazelwood
- Marlin Nabors has been named associate vice provist and dean of students
- James Maher, a provost emeritus who drove progress at Pitt for 16 years, died at 82
October 2024
- Pitt scientists validated a new panel for blood biomarkers of Alzheimer’s
- A recent Pitt study sheds light on the correlation between cholesterol and Alzheimer’s disease in women
- Pitt-Bradford is partnering with SHRS to offer an emergency medicine degree
- How Pitt is helping the commonwealth thrive in an increasingly digital world
- Pitt and Carnegie Mellon are collaborating with NVIDIA to launch its inaugural AI Tech Community
- Pitt-Johnstown will regain the former Met Life building, thanks to a gift from alumnus John R. Musulin
- 5 ways Pitt is reaching its sustainability goals
- Look to the western skies this month to see a once-in-a-lifetime comet
- Work on the Panther Overlook hillside development will begin soon
- How Pitt helped August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ make its debut in Italy
- Pitt is a top employer for people with disabilities, according to the National Organization on Disability
- Science editor Holden Thorp is Pitt’s 2024 winter commencement speaker
September 2024
- Pitt’s undergraduate nursing program is No. 4 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report
- Hillandale Farms family giving tops $45M with the creation of the Orland Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center Biobank
- Schools of medicine and social work researchers received a $5M NIH Grant
- When words won’t suffice, artist-in-residence Morgan Overton communicates through art
- A Spanish-speaking lab: ¿Pero por qué?
- Pitt Space is bringing researchers together at the start of a new space race
- A new Pitt class is taking engineering to greater heights
- A moon tree is taking root near Pitt’s historic Allegheny Observatory
- Researchers built an autonomous system to help to detect the most urgent victims in mass casualty events
- Experts are worried about cyber threats to infrastructure. This Pitt program is raising awareness
- This author found an incomplete George Romero novel in Pitt’s archive. Here’s how he finished it.
- Anthony Delitto will lead Pitt’s new Center for Excellence in Digital Education
- This alumna is building a bike-friendly campus
- After 6 years of helping Pitt students secure competitive scholarships, Lesha Greene has won her own
- Pitt teamed up with Penn State and Temple to award a joint office-supplies contract
- Check out Pitt’s newest academic offerings
- This Pitt program equips students with the skills to be impactful disability advocates
- Students, faculty and leadership welcomed the Frederick Honors College to Pitt-Greensburg
- A beam from the World Trade Center is at the heart of Pitt-Johnstown’s Heroes Memorial
- A construction milestone for BioForge, Pitt’s biomanufacturing innovation facility
August 2024
- The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned an NIH grant to fund a third-generation Anton supercomputer
- Pharmacists play a vital role in improving health care, says Lucas Berenbrok
- People eating beef are less likely to live near the industry’s pollution, Pitt researchers found
- Pitt archaeologists helped to uncover the earliest evidence of farming in East Africa
- This professors insect collection will help to measure ecosystem health across the continent
- A new Pitt program pairs biblical messages with the science of cognitive behavioral therapy
- A Pitt English class called Secret Pittsburgh
- Pitt will host the JCC Maccabi Games in summer 2025
- Pitt’s people-first approach to boosting small business in rural Pennsylvania
- How Pitt contributes to regional economic and community growth
- Here’s the latest in campus construction at Pitt
- Get a sneak preview of Pitt’s upcoming Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
July 2024
- A rare stellar explosion will soon reveal a ‘new’ star. Here’s how to see it.
- A Pitt partnership established this Kazakhstan medical school, which just earned its first MD accreditation
- Bobby Grier, a Pitt trailblazer who broke a college football color barrier, died at 91
- If it’s glass, Ryan Tate can make it
- How Pitt is taking on the next phase of the opioid epidemic
- Pitt’s CyberCamp is diversifying the tech professional pipeline in Pittsburgh and beyond
- These former Pitt Med students designed a lab plastic recycling system
- These Pitt students took to the world stage to share a database project designed to combat systemic racism
- Former Pitt Olympians look back at their Games and what they’ll be watching this year
- A new book by Pitt professors showcases the life of a pioneering Black journalist
June 2024
- Panthers Forward can now help graduates find loan forgiveness and repayment options
- Introducing Pitt's 2024-25 Fulbright winners (14 students and alums)
- Pitt junior Connor Diaz was named a 2024 Newman Civic Fellow
- 44 Pitt undergraduates received 2024 Brackenridge Fellowships
- Cho-yun Hsu is 2024 laureate of the prestigious Tang Prize
- Pitt research studies adolescent mental health, social media use and body image
- See U.S. pharmacy closures over the last decade on an interactive Pitt map
- Prevention at Pitt was recognized as a community champion against sexual violence
- The Pittsburgh Study was honored for its child health equity programming
- How Pitt is paving the way for transfer students
May 2024
- Eboni Zamani-Gallaher is the new dean of Pitt’s School of Education
- Michele V. Manuel is the first woman U.S. Steel Dean of the Swanson School of Engineering
- Dwayne Pinkney is Pitt’s new executive senior vice chancellor for administration and finance and CFO
- Carla Panzella is named Pitt’s vice provost for student affairs
- Graham Hatfull is among the latest National Academy of Sciences electees
- How nanotubes, nanoparticles and antibodies are used to detect tiny amounts of fentanyl
- Making batteries takes a lot of lithium. Some of it could come from Pennsylvania wastewater.
- Here’s how a Pitt project is addressing skin cancer disparities in Black communities
- Oakland will be home to a new affordable housing community for LGBTQ+ older adults
- The David C. Frederick Honors College is expanding to Pitt-Greensburg
- How Pitt is taking steps to make life sciences jobs more accessible for all
- A Pitt program is connecting people through storytelling to build a more inclusive campus
- A Brookings Institution event highlighted Pittsburgh’s growth as a life sciences leader
- The newest Cathedral of Learning falcons were banded and given a clean bill of health
- A Pitt program earned a first-of-its-kind Middle States Association accreditation
- Pitt has three new National Endowment for the Humanities awardees
- These students were published in the Journal of Science Policy and Governance
- 8 Pitt students were named Gilman scholars
- 2 Pitt alums are 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners
April 2024
- Joan Gabel installed as Pitt’s 19th chancellor
- A new home for Pitt’s School of the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences will unite its program and foster interdisciplinary opportunities
- Pitt is launching an Office of Sustainability in the Health Sciences
- New rooftop solar installations are springing up across campus
- The University Pharmacy has switched to biodegradable prescription bottles
- Pitt’s Sustainable Design Lab is developing novel materials to combat global water pollution issues
- The Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory and Women for a Healthy Environment join forces to investigate local water systems
- PFAS, the ‘forever chemicals,’ explained by Pitt engineer Carla Ng
- Some of Earth’s estuaries are warming, consistent with climate change
- Pitt researchers are solving a mini mystery of cell division
- This new hub will leverage smart technology to improve independence for people with paralysis
March 2024
- New research shows migrating neurons may play important roles in development
- The best way to retain memories may depend on the content
- Endometriosis research is the focus of a new hub at Pitt
- 836 Pitt undergraduates contributed data for a new study on plants and pollution
- A Dell Technologies gift will provide Pittsburgh medical researchers with expanded computational power
- Community members and Pitt partners work together to plan how the field of life sciences can benefit Greater Hazelwood
- 2 Pitt faculty were elected Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors
- Joseph J. McCarthy named Pitt’s provost and senior vice chancellor
- Phil Bakken named Pitt’s vice chancellor and secretary to the Board of Trustees
- A poignant news story led to dozens of new pledges for the National Sports Brain Bank
February 2024
- Pitt ranks in Top 20 for patents granted to universities worldwide
- Pitt has been named a 2023-24 Fulbright Top Producer
- Pitt has joined the Keystone Space Collaborative to bolster out-of-this-world research
- Pitt launches a Doctor of Chiropractic Program
- General Education Task Force aims to transform Pitt’s undergraduate experience
- 15 Pitt faculty members won 2024 Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards
- A record-setting 11,400 alumni and donors raised $2.4 million on Pitt Day of Giving
- High school students are taking their Pitt summer projects to a big science stage
- Pitt researchers discovered a way to prevent hearing loss caused by loud noise
- A Pitt professor is using virtual reality to connect to the Hill District’s past
- Pitt will pay tribute to 7 community leaders on Feb. 24
- Solved at Pitt: What are Saturn’s rings made of?
- To find rare frogs and birds, Pitt researchers are using machine learning algorithms and hundreds of microphones
January 2024
- Pitt BioForge appointed its inaugural CEO
- How Pitt’s Small Business Development Center supports Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs
- What if… we could remove roadblocks for rural students?
- An R.K. Mellon Foundation award will help Pitt train Pennsylvania workers in responsible data science
- The School of Education is tackling the teacher shortage with an innovative, multifaceted approach
- Here’s who won the University’s annual social justice awards
- Nicholas Rescher, a polymath who helped to establish Pitt as a philosophy powerhouse, dies at 95
December 2023
- Here’s who will deliver the address at Pitt’s first University-wide Winter Commencement ceremony
- Pitt is making data science accessible worldwide with a new online master’s degree
- Pitt’s Panther Forward debt-relief program welcomed 150 seniors to its Class of 2024
- This summer research program is smoothing the rocky transition to graduate school
- This South Oakland house is actually an innovative lab for aging in place
- University of Pittsburgh Police Department Chief James Loftus retires
November 2023
- Pitt earned the 2023 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award
- LifeX won a $2 million economic development grant
- In-person teams are more innovative than remote ones
- Childhood trauma could lead to worse COVID-19 outcomes decades later
- The same motor task can make different groups of brain cells light up
- A new fund aims to spark innovations in diabetes research at Pitt
- Marginalized neighborhoods recover slowly from disasters. This Pitt professor wants to help.
- These Pitt students brought their passion for public service to the White House
- Chancellor Gabel highlights higher education’s role in keeping America competitive
- Pitt’s OLLI program inspires lifelong learning
October 2023
- These Pitt students are following the eclipse to Texas
- Pitt researchers are key to NASA’s next space telescope
- The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute named a new co-director
- A new Pitt initiative will help lower-income students get to graduation
- A new Pitt course is using improv to build more confident, emphathetic lawyers
- Hillandale Farms family donates $25 million to launch Pitt’s Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center
- A $2 million gift will help Pitt support nursing students pursuing a second career
- The Gismondi Foundation has committed to more than $1 million to support Pitt’s community engagement efforts
- A Pitt community partnership is transforming the Jupiter Building into a training hub
- The Race &… Conference showed how Pitt is addressing disparities
- New University Art Gallery exhibits spotlight Latinx and Caribbean identities
- President Biden gave the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Pitt’s Rory Cooper
- Marnie Oakley was named dean of Pitt’s School of Dental Medicine
- Pitt’s Board of Trustees elected Louis Cestello as its chair
September 2023
- Pitt is a top 20 leader in patents in the U.S.
- Pitt’s latest affordability initiative welcomes its inaugural class
- Panthers Forward debt relief program, which has saved students $3.75 million, is seeking applications
- Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets was recognized for its work supporting threatened scholars
- A new study lays the groundwork for detecting volcanic activity on Venus
- What mountains in Portugal can tell us about Pennsylvania’s geologic past
- The pandemic wasn’t the blanket mental health disaster that some predicted
- The Pitt Sustainability Challenge winner has a solution for food waste on campus
- Leadership changes in the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion will help advance its work
- Pitt’s BioForge Manufacturing Center gets approval from Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission
August 2023
- In this program, Pitt students are working to protect the electric power grid
- We should investigate Saturn’s moon Enceladus for life beyond Earth, this Pitt volcanologist says
- Survival of the fittest, AI style
- As the Center for Creativity has expanded, so have opportunities for experimental research
- 3 Pitt alumni competed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
- There’s a dire shortage of Black K-12 teachers. This Pitt program is drawing students to the field
- The Pittsburgh Study won the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award
- New accreditation will help BE STEM create more paths to college
- 18% of Pitt’s energy will now come from the sun
- An exhibit near the Lincoln Memorial rethinks national monuments
- These projects won $500,000 from the Pitt Seed program
- This program can help Pitt faculty and staff achieve student loan forgiveness
- Pitt Arrival 2023 in pictures
- Keep up with campus construction at Pitt
- What’s new at The Eatery
July 2023
- Pitt welcomes Joan T.A. Gabel as its 19th chancellor
- New Perseverance rover research provides more signs of possible organic molecules on Mars
- A $1 million grant will fund aging research at Pitt
- 3 Pitt Med researchers were named AAAS policy fellows
- Pitt-Bradford is among the nation’s best for transfer students
- The Pitt Sustainability Challenge is down to 5 finalists
- The Innovation Institute is rolling out a new portal for disclosing inventions
- Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research is already preparing for the next pandemic
- A new chemical process makes it easier to craft amino acids that don’t exist in nature
June 2023
- Black Americans need culturally relevant suicide suicide prevention programs, a new study found
- Pitt’s Sandra Murray joined dozens of scientists in a call for racial equity
- Mark hip-hop’s 50th anniversary with Pitt and 1Hood Media on June 15
- A Pitt history professor’s play debuted in London
- Hockey led this Pitt student-research to study heart valves
- ‘Astonishing’ number of first-year applications to Pitt
- One key to success in college? A sense of belonging, according to new research
- You can now play a rare, unreleased video game from the ‘70s, thanks to a Pitt lab
- Most high schools don’t teach cybersecurity. This Pitt program aims to change that.
- Pitt-Bradford and Pitt-Johnstown honored for their programs in high-demand fields and career development
May 2023
- NFL Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis, others pledge donations to Pitt’s new National Sports Brain Bank
- Western Pa. is set to ‘level up’ its quantum capabilities with an $11.6 million investment from Pitt
- Pitt professors bring hands-on scientific research into Pittsburgh Public Schools
- Regional campuses name new vice president and dean of academic affairs
- A new peregrine falcon moved into the Cathedral of Learning
- Meet Pitt’s first Berlin Prize recipient
- Introducing the new director of the Hill District Community Engagement Center
- What’s new in campus construction at Pitt
- Construction and renovation begin at the New Granada Theater
- Highlights from the 2018-22 Pitt Sustainability Plan progress report
- 9 Pitt projects won $210,000 to support sustainable innovation
- Why everyone at Pitt should care about the state budget
- Pitt’s latest Newman Civic Fellow is using data to fight food insecurity
- 10 Pitt students and alums are 2023-24 Fulbright winners
- Students took a leading role in creating Pitt’s new Jonas Salk exhibit
- 4 Pitt students earned Boren Awards to study language abroad
- 4 incoming Pitt students are 2023 Stamps scholars
- The graduates who received Pitt’s top honors in 2023
April 2023
- Joan T.A. Gabel named 19th University of Pittsburgh chancellor
- Panthers Forward — and Pitt — changed this senior’s life
- She’s Pitt’s first-ever recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
- Oldest living U.S. Olympic medalist, Herb Douglas, a University of Pittsburgh alumnus, has died at 101
- The Pitt Success program supported more than 1,000 students in the Class of 2023
- Rachel Decker Richelieu named Pitt’s vice chancellor for University Communications and Marketing
- Graduating Pittsburgh Public Scholars want to help the city and beyond
- Meet Pitt’s newest Goldwater Scholar
- Pitt Police Chief James Loftus answers campus safety questions after malicious calls
- Pittsburgh universities join forces to raise awareness of sexual assault
- Pitt’s Adam Lowenstein is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
- Katy Nesbitt is Pitt’s 2023 undergraduate commencement speaker
- Pitt’s 2023 honorary degree recipients
March 2023
- A Pitt lab shows phage attacks in new light
- 14 Pitt faculty members won 2023 Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards
- Provost and senior vice chancellor steps down
- This Pitt program is helping small, minority-owned businesses succeed
- See a new portrait honoring the first Black woman to graduate from Pitt’s School of Pharmacy
- Pitt helped bring a gospel pioneer’s music back to life
- This Pitt-Johnstown professor boosted COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural Pa.
February 2023
- Pitt’s pandemic practices could serve as an example for other institutions
- Two Pitt School of Pharmacy faculty named 2022 AAAS Fellows
- Pitt has been named a top producer of Fulbright U.S. students for 2022-23
- Pitt lands $14.3 million for research linking dementia and cardiovascular disease
- Worried about students using AI chatbots? This professor isn’t.
- See the new Webb telescope image that left a Pitt astronomer ‘starstruck’
- A Ukrainian Pitt professor on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion
- The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center named a new director
- More than 9,400 alumni and donors raised $2.4 million during this year’s Pitt Day of Giving
- Alexa, congratulate these Pitt graduate students
- 29 faculty projects earned 2022-23 Pitt Momentum Funds awards
January 2023
- Alcohol may make you more sociable person, but not online, this Pitt study suggests
- How a Pitt program in the Hill District is closing the digital divide in Pittsburgh
- Rory Cooper has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- The benefits of alcohol have been exaggerated, says this Pitt professor
December 2022
- Pitt-owned life science incubator LifeX received $1 million from Pennsylvania
- This Pitt student won big during Wheel of Fortune’s College Week
- Meet Pitt’s first Mitchell Scholar
- These are the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Staff winners
November 2022
- Panthers Forward debt-relief program welcomes 150 new members
- We’re asking the wrong questions about AI
- A Pitt clinician is helping trans people match their voice to their gender
- Go behind the scenes as Pitt’s Nationality Rooms are decorated for the holidays
- How we should teach kids about Thanksgiving?
- Pitt scientists discovered a key genetic step in melanoma’s race to live forever
- A multidisciplinary team of Pitt students will compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge
October 2022
- Pitt mathematicians explain how some fireflies flash in sync
- This Pitt-Bradford alum is fighting metal pollution with microbes
- Pitt physicists break down how cells communicate
- This new report details the educational barriers Black students face in Greater Pittsburgh
- Pitt’s Global Experiences Office has a new director
- These Pitt faculty use pop songs to teach English
- Pitt’s Evan Schneider has earned a Packard Fellowship for galaxy modeling
- Pitt’s new $2.5 million partnership with the Pennsylvania Turnpike aims to improve the state’s roads
- Pitt’s Just Discipline Project expands to more schools this fall
- This professor uses scholar-activism to change common perceptions of what research at Pitt looks like
- Pitt Alumni Association celebrates remarkable grads with annual awards during homecoming
- Pitt celebrated the groundbreaking of the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
- A new Pitt apprenticeship program will address the dental assistant shortage
- Pitt is extending its test-optional program through fall 2025
September 2022
- Looking at smiling faces extends the antidepressant effects of ketamine
- And the 2022 Spirit of Pitt Awards go to…
- How Pitt biologists are making fieldwork more equitable
- Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets won a $2.4 million grant to study how societies overcome deep differences
- A home for scholars studying Latin America has opened in Pittsburgh
- 4 Pitt students earned inaugural Voyager Scholarships
- Pitt geologists mapped how metal pollutants have traveled across the city
- The Big Idea Center is opening in the heart of Oakland
- Pitt researchers are leading the way toward a Google Maps of cells
- Pitt and UPMC Enterprises partner to accelerate research commercialization and build Pittsburgh’s life sciences economy
- Pitt awarded $2.2 million to expand jobs and business opportunities in robotics and AI
- Why do galaxies stop making stars? A huge collision in space provides new clues.
- Pittsburgh’s ‘neighborly playground’ for neuroscience has new leadership
- Pitt’s search for its next chancellor begins
August 2022
- Pitt and ElevateBio are partnering to bring cell and gene therapy manufacturing to Pittsburgh
- Pitt earned an unprecedented 12 international studies awards from the U.S. Department of Education
- These free block parties will bring Oakland residents and students together
- Christine Kasper named the new dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
- This new chip could lead to faster, more secure AI
- This Pitt project supports economic development in Fayette County and beyond
- Pitt’s University Library System received its largest-ever grant in support of the August Wilson Archive
- Pitt health sciences volunteers provided free dental, eye and hearing care at a recent clinic
- How not to use brain scans in neuroscience
- The School of Engineering’s dean takes on new role with Pitt Research
- Pitt is the only university in the U.S. with this giant 3D printer for metal
- The Community Engagement Center in Homewood has a new director
- Pitt brings cybersecurity concepts to local high school students during 6th annual CyberCamp
- Memorable moments from the 2022 Diversity Forum
July 2022
- Spousal caregivers with disabilities face a wide range of adversities
- This Pitt-led program will help underrepresented minorities in science and medicine move into leadership roles
- MLB, USA Softball and kids alike use a Pitt inventor’s smart bats and balls
- 1 in 2 Black adolescents faced online racial discrimination in 2020, a Pitt study found
- 9 Pitt students and alumni named Fulbright scholars
- Pitt researchers pulled 700,000 years of glacial history from an Andean lakebed
- Stimulating the spinal cord helps improve arm control in paralyzed macaques, a Pitt study found
- Pittsburgh’s Neighborhood 91 will be home to futuristic manufacturing
- Student Fund Honors Hofkosh
- Robots are driving their US co-workers to substance abuse, a Pitt study found
- State lawmakers voted to fund Pitt and save the in-state tuition rate
- Rick Esch has been appointed president of Pitt’s Bradford and Titusville campuses
- A gift from David C. Frederick will benefit students at the University of Pittsburgh and University College at Oxford University
June 2022
- Pitt’s first Black provost , Donald M. Henderson, dies at 91
- The Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory at Pitt will host a regional network to improve water quality
- The University of Pittsburgh named a new dean of the School of Pharmacy
- Pitt’s Board of Trustees named first Black chair and added five members
- This Pitt researcher is using data to fight the opioid epidemic
- A Board of Trustees committee approved funding for ongoing wellness activities
- Group living means safety from predators but nastier diseases for guppies
- Pitt researchers led the largest-ever series of phage therapy case studies
- Two psychiatrists are raising money to stem Ukraine’s mental health crisis
- Cathedral peregrine falcon chicks given bands and clean bills of health
- Kathleen Blee is stepping down as dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts
May 2022
- Pitt Business named a new dean
- A Pitt team forecasted the devastating toll of the opioid epidemic
- The war in Ukraine will be fought in court, too. Here’s how Pitt’s School of Law is helping.
- 5 Stamps Scholars from Pennsylvania earned full tuition to Pitt
- Pitt opens a cutting-edge biomedical research hub at The Assembly
- Pitt College Democrats and Republicans tell Harrisburg: Support Pennsylvania students
- Targeted outreach is bringing more students from rural Pennsylvania to Pitt
- Their professor is in Ukraine. These students said it changed their lives.
- ‘The No Club’ empowers women to take control of their professional lives
April 2022
- Pitt research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention
- A recent broadband symposium highlighted the growing digital divide
- This first-generation student is on her way to becoming a philosophical counselor, thanks to TRIO
- Remembering Sen. Orrin Hatch
- A new partnership will help support the Afghanistan Project at Pitt
- Meet the undergraduate ‘rock star scientist’ named a 2022 Goldwater scholar
- Got food cravings? What’s living in your gut may be responsible
- The Pitt Success Pell Match Program has invested more than $95 million in low-income students
- How reflective writing and a nudge from an app increased college prospects for low-income students
- The University of Pittsburgh named a dean for the School of Computing and Information
- David Brown is Pitt’s new vice chancellor for government relations and advocacy
- University Center for Teaching and Learning leader will step down in June
- Pitt’s Keisha N. Blain and Yona Harvey are 2022 Guggenheim Fellows
- Patrick Gallagher announces his intent to step down as Pitt’s chancellor, effective summer 2023
- Meet Pitt’s undergraduate commencement speakers
- Pitt students to lawmakers: Preserve our state-funded tuition discount
- Pop artist Burton Morris said he owes his life to the Cathedral of Learning. You can now see his painting of it in Hillman Library
March 2022
- Pitt provides greater clarity regarding how environmental, social and governance factors are applied in the investment decision-making process
- Pitt’s annual health sciences symposium is getting a new name
- How a circular economy could fix the supply chain
- A month into the war on Ukraine, ‘We fight. We resist the conflict’
- All Angles series returns March 24 with focus on economic equality and mobility
- Basketball’s ‘hot hand’ phenomenon is real, says this Pitt computer scientist
- Could your neighborhood influence the health of your brain?
- See photos from Match Day 2022
- All about Pitt’s plan to go carbon neutral by 2037
- Pitt will name the indoor track at Victory Heights after Panthers legend Herb Douglas
- Decoy proteins could protect people from a deadly mosquito-borne virus
- The Pittsburgh Foundation grants $1.3 million to Pitt health sciences researchers
- Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher asks state lawmakers for continued support of Pennsylvania students
- A new Pitt Cyber report shows how policymakers and the public can address bias in algorithms
- For tadpoles, what’s in their gut may be key to enduring climate change
- Pitt announces $5 million gift to Men’s Basketball from Thomas E. and Mary Beth Richards
- Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards recognize exceptional Pitt faculty
- Learn about Ukraine’s resilience and its history with Russia through these 4 songs
February 2022
- Meet the Pitt-trained chemist shattering global glass ceilings as a soccer referee
- This Pitt junior made hockey history
- Scenes in Ukraine, from a Pitt economics professor
- The University of Pittsburgh issues a statement of support for Ukraine
- 3 Pitt professors were honored by the National Academy of Inventors
- 4 stories about Pitt’s vaccine legacy, 68 years after the first public polio shots
- More than 11,000 people gave $3 million on Pitt Day of Giving 2022
- See the new digital archive that puts Black history front and center
- New name and new era for Pitt Public Health
- Exercise can help older adults retain memories, a Pitt study shows
- This Pitt anthropologist studies race, class and sports. Here’s what he thinks about the 2022 Olympics
- A new global study will address disparities in access to insulin
- All Angles, a new Pitt speaker series, will help students explore differing viewpoints
- Meet one of Pitt’s ‘hidden figures’
- A new Pitt-UPMC residency program is bringing better health care to patients in rural Pennsylvania
- The International Space Station got new Pitt-designed computers and sensors
- Meet the Pitt alumnus giving a voice to NFL China
- Pitt professor named to the National Academy of Engineers
- 4 new hydroponic micro-farms are feeding Pitt students
- The University of Pittsburgh adds Juneteenth as an observed holiday
- Street Medicine at Pitt serves Pittsburghers without homes — and educates future medical professionals
- Pitt physicists built their very own quantum computer
January 2022
- Mental health professionals will now respond to crises on campus, thanks to a new partnership
- Pitt and UPMC researchers improve heart-disease monitoring after pregnancy
- New Pitt School of Education program supports future Black educators
- Latest greenhouse gas inventory shows Pitt’s progress toward carbon neutrality
- A Pitt hiring initiative aims to reduce racial disparities in the region
- Pitt biologists found hundreds of plant viruses hitchhiking on pollen
- 4 Pitt faculty members named 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows
- Pitt received a $245,000 innovation grant to improve students’ careers and lives
- When grief doesn’t go away
- Pitt recognizes community members creating a more just, equitable and inclusive University
- Pitt names a new chief investment officer
- A Pitt astronomer is helping assemble the biggest-ever 3D map of the universe
- The University of Pittsburgh is launching an undergraduate public health program
- These windows will outsmart the elements
- Pitt dermatologists expand access to uninsured and underserved
- How emotions fuel fake news on social media