April 2026
- NASA recruited Pitt to track the Artemis II mission
- Who’s losing their jobs to AI?
- Graduate programs in health sciences and engineering rose in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- Pitt launches an affordable online graduate Certificate in Infant Mental Health
- Behind the Pitt network that’s helping rural students adjust to urban life
- Pitt’s National Society of Black Engineers chapter won big at a recent conference
- The next generation of wheelchairs can navigate curbs and hold beverages
- Pitt has joined a new network to drive innovation, jobs and growth across PA
March 2026
- Introducing Pitt’s newest American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows
- Pitt has 2 new Goldwater Scholars
- Pitt rose to No. 17 in the National Academy of Inventors national patent ranking
- Pitt ranked No. 7 for NIH research funding in 2025
- 16 Pitt faculty were honored with 2026 Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards
- Mark Nordenberg to step down from his leadership roles
- Nev Jones wants people with lived experience at the center of mental health research
- James T. Johnson, Pitt alum and co-founder of Pittsburgh’s Afro American Music Institute, died at age 76
- Pitt has partnered with Google to offer a real-time glimpse of our dynamic cosmos
- Pitt Nationality Rooms are turning 100. Here’s how to celebrate
- These students are producing local indie films using skills they picked up at Pitt
- A new Pitt collection showcases the stories of local author Sharon G. Flake
- A Pitt alumni couple committed $1.5M to the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
- Pitt commits $5M in new investments to city parks, neighborhood business corridors and public safety
February 2026
- 11,431 donors raised more than $3M for Pitt Day of Giving
- AI-generated podcasts are useful but prone to errors
- Pitt climbed in National Academy of Inventors global patent ranking
- Pennsylvania is in a rural dental crisis. Pitt is helping
- A Pitt-Johnstown professor found syntax in parrot duets
- 10 Pitt staffers earned Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Awards
- How a rural recruiter pitches Pitt across Pennsylvania
- This rural Pennsylvania field station is an ecologist’s dream
- A stacked cast of Panthers help new grads find success in showbiz
- Pitt’s new Trivedi Institute will translate space science into human health breakthroughs
- Pitt researchers received $2.2M to combat blindness caused by NF1
- Behind the $30 million Rees-Chancellor’s Scholars Program gift
- A new art display highlights Pittsburgh’s electric power history
January 2026
- Pitt will expand musculoskeletal care with $53.5M investment
- Pitt business and education programs rank among Best Online Programs
- Physics isn’t immune to the replication crisis
- A newly discovered 11.5-billion-year-old galaxy shares features with ours
- Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets received a $2.7M grant
- Family raises funds for pulmonary hypertension research in honor of Pitt patient
- Pitt professor added context to Pittsburgh International Airport artwork
December 2025
- Breakthrough catalyst insight may unlock new possibilities for safer water disinfection
- New Pitt research explains how massive canyons formed in Peru
- 8 Pitt undergraduates earn Gilman Scholarships
- How Pitt is preparing Greater Hazelwood residents for emerging life sciences jobs
- Panthers Forward, which has helped 1,200 Pitt seniors address their student loans, welcomes its eighth class
- Michael Colaresi will lead Pitt’s new Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership
- John Kellum was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
- After 20 years, Christmas Day at Pitt is still bringing joy and connection to the community
- Pitt celebrated its newest graduates at winter commencement
- 70 years later, Pitt honored Bobby Grier’s Sugar Bowl legacy in Atlanta
- AI literacy is in focus across Pitt’s new course offerings for spring
November 2025
- HERL researchers will lead a $41M ARPA-H grant, a first for Pitt
- Betsy Farmer will step down as Pitt Social Work dean
- Pitt is launching a premier scholars program with $30M gift from alumnus Michael Rees
- A Pitt internship will give students valuable business experience — and community groups a helping hand
- A new way to make phage DNA lays groundwork for better infection treatments
- This new antibody test takes only 10 minutes, no blood draw necessary
- From data to display, Pitt is giving the EKG an upgrade
- What really led to the decline of Maya kingdoms?
- Pitt-Greensburg’s cybersecurity program earned an elite national designation
October 2025
- Pitt is launching its first online undergraduate degree in health informatics and artificial intelligence
- Pitt has launched a first-of-its-kind Horror Studies Center
- 3 Pitt faculty were elected to the National Academy of Medicine
- The Surukuchi Lab is helping solve mysteries of the universe with CUORE
- How SHREC went to the moon – without even knowing
- These Pitt researchers are making steady progress toward a confident gait
- Pitt regional campuses are among the best in the North, per U.S. News & World Report
- Remembering Betty and ‘Jimmy Joe’ Robinson, who transformed parts of Pittsburgh through education and service
- Bobby Grier’s Sugar Bowl stand: How one Pitt player changed the game
- Pitt was named a Leading Disability Employer for a second year
- Pitt is teaming up with Anthropic and AWS to create an AI-enabled Campus of the Future
- AI’s transformative impact is already here — and other takeaways from this week’s ‘Forging the Future’ summit
September 2025
- A new Pitt study helps identify where train derailments pose the greatest risk
- Pitt’s state-of-the-art Recreation and Wellness Center is now open for students
- They’re free and can reduce stress by nearly 70%
- Step into a new Hillman Library this fall
- Pitt honored the Tansky family’s dedication to the University with a space in Hillman Library
- How Pitt’s CyberCamp is drawing high schoolers back to the University
- A Pitt mentorship program is giving small businesses a leg up
- Championing student mental health earned this Pitt junior a Newman Civic Fellowship
- Pitt is among the top public universities in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report
August 2025
- What’s the difference between a mountain pika and a rabbit? Their noses
- Most people turn inward to make tough decisions, a new Pitt study found
- Pitt findings point to lava as a source of Venus’ CO2-rich atmosphere
- New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders
- How a local nonprofit is helping parenting students earn college degrees
- Pitt’s School of Education is leading a new life sciences workforce training program
- This Pitt team is modeling a love of sports to the next generation of women athletes
- These new Pitt classes and programs launch in fall 2025
July 2025
- Pavlov’s dogs were conditioned to go to their treat. Why do some animals learn to interact with the bell instead?
- If ChatGPT wrote this poem, would you like it more?
- Pitt researchers are investigating the biomechanics of baseball
- Pitt researchers earned Gates Foundation funding to develop an HIV sensor
- Pitt engineers are leading the charge to improve the US power grid
- Pitt students published their research with the US Army Corps of Engineers
- Pitt students are learning how to bake reuse into the things we make
- Meet Pitt’s 2025-26 Fulbright US Student finalists
- 5 health sciences faculty members received 2025 Ascending Star Awards
- Tia-Lynn Ashman earned the Botanical Society of America’s highest honor
- A Pitt engineering education took this U.S. Army pilot from the aircraft to the classroom
- As ‘The Points Guy,’ this Pitt alumnus helps travelers leverage loyalty
- WVU, Pitt, and CMU lead regional consortium selected as NSF semifinalist for Transformative Energy Initiative
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
- 3 Pitt faculty have been named Fulbright scholars
- Meet Pitt’s incoming class of Chancellor’s scholars
- 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
- Pitt will continue bolstering Pennsylvania’s dental workforce with a new Regional Training Center at Titusville
- 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