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