Stories by
Donovan Harrell
A summer of recruitment for Pitt’s English Language Institute
Program manager Ryan Golder travelled this summer building on partnerships across Japan, Vietnam and South Korea.
Undergraduate Alexandre Massip earned a national environmental fellowship
He is one of 39 students selected for the Rachel Carson Council’s 2026-27 National Environmental Leadership Fellowship.
6 Pitt alumni and leaders earned 2026 C-Suite Awards
This year’s Pittsburgh Business Times awardees include Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations Nancy Merritt and Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine Donald Yealy.
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Pitt joined a new national effort to strengthen community engagement
The University will spend seven months developing a campus action plan with support from Campus Compact, building on its recent Carnegie classification.
A Pitt research team won a 2026 Tools Competition prize
Xiang Lorraine Li, Diane Litman and Gayle Rogers will use the $100,000 award to build a dataset that could help AI give students better writing feedback.
Pitt-Greensburg students helped a local conservation agency bolster its public outreach
The communication class developed strategies pro bono for the Westmoreland Conservation District.
There are now 100 EV charging ports on the Pittsburgh campus
The milestone moves Pitt closer to its goal of installing 50 new charging plugs by 2030.
Pitt rose among its public AAU peers in the 2027 QS World University Rankings
Along with maintaining its top faculty-student ratio, the University was recognized for the breadth and depth of its global research partnerships.
5 ways Pitt people helped shape America
As the U.S. marks 250 years, look back at moments when Pitt people helped shape the country it became, from voice radio to organ transplantation.

