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Tre Tipton in his football uniform

Tre Tipton won a student-athlete achievement award

The wide receiver and Master of Social Work student earned the annual National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals honor.

  • School of Social Work
  • Athletics
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

GSPIA Students of Color Alliance Wins Inaugural Award

  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

John Wallace Named Interim Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems, New Initiative Announced

  • Center on Race and Social Problems
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A portrait of Geovette Washington

Geovette Washington was elected chair of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh board of trustees

The University's senior vice chancellor and chief legal officer joined the board in 2017 and was named vice chair earlier this year.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus

Pitt Leaps Eight Spots in Worldwide Patent Ranking

The University of Pittsburgh made a significant move up the list of the top recipients of U.S. utility patents among worldwide universities in 2020, according to the National Academy of Inventors and

Anette Nance (SOC WK ’20) Named to Governor’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs

Master of Social Work Alumna Anette Nance (SOC WK ’20) has been sworn in as commissioner on Gov. Wolf’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs (GACAAA). The commission was established in 2015

  • School of Social Work
a building with large windows reflecting blue sky

William Wagner and Savio Woo are inducted to International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering

To date, there are fewer than 250 fellows of the academy throughout the world.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Ivet Bahar Receives Congratulations from Consul General of the Republic of Turkey on Her Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Bahar is the first female member of the academy from Turkey, and the Turkish official visited Pitt earlier this month to commemorate her achievement.

  • School of Medicine
  • Drug Discovery Institute
  • Department of Computational and Systems Biology

Joseph Glorioso Awarded $500,000 to Advance Melanoma Vaccine

  • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
  • School of Medicine

Swanson School Pair Receives Gilliam Fellowship

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Six Pitt Students Finalists for Critical Language Scholarship

Six finalists for the U.S. Department of State’s 2021 Critical Language Scholarship are students at the University of Pittsburgh—five undergraduate and one graduate. The finalists are: Nathan Aaron

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Education
  • School of Medicine

Physical Therapy Alumni Inducted to American Physical Therapy Association Fellowship

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Department of Physical Therapy

Three Pitt Researchers Win NIH Director’s Awards

  • Department of Bioengineering
  • Department of Biomedical Informatics
  • Department of Neurobiology
  • Department of Neuroscience
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering

Alyson Stover Receives Occupational Therapy Advocacy Award

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Department of Occupational Therapy