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