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