December 2025
Breakthrough catalyst insight may unlock new possibilities for safer water disinfection
New Pitt research explains how massive canyons formed in Peru
How Pitt is preparing Greater Hazelwood residents for emerging life sciences jobs
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
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
3 Pitt faculty were elected to the National Academy of Medicine
The Surukuchi Lab is helping solve mysteries of the universe with CUORE
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
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
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
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
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
July 2025
- 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
5 health sciences faculty members received 2025 Ascending Star Awards
Tia-Lynn Ashman earned he 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
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