3 Dietrich School faculty earned funded professional development leave

Liberty Ferda, Shannon Reed and Evgeni Trofimov are the 2026-27 recipients.

Alumnus Donald Alstadt was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

The chemist invented Chemlok, a system of rubber-to-metal adhesives that’s widely used in cars, planes and more.

AI-generated ‘podcasts’ are useful but prone to errors, says this Pitt researcher

Ian Flynn’s findings on Google’s NotebookLM tool was selected as an American Geophysical Union featured story.

6 Pitt affiliates joined The Advanced Leadership Institute’s 2026 cohort

Senior social scientist Alexus Brown is among the 29 emerging leaders selected for the mentorship and professional development program.

These alumna-led hubs are a home away from home for hundreds

Pitt alumna Kristin Proto directs a two-location Chester County after-school hub —  one a former car repair shop, the other used to be a fire station — that reaches nearly 500 students each year.

This rural Pennsylvania field station is an ecologist’s dream

Pitt’s Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology has hosted a rotating cast of prominent researchers for nearly a century.

A stacked cast of Panthers help new grads find success in showbiz

Hollywood might seem cutthroat, but this growing community of Pitt grads make sure their fellow alums find a soft landing.

Physics isn’t immune to the replication crisis. Sergey Frolov sees a way forward.

A critic of what he says are unjustifiably bold claims in his field, the Pitt physicist advocates for more data sharing in a new paper in Science.  

Sara Morrison earned a Whitehall Foundation grant

The research assistant professor will study goal-directed vs. habitual behavior over the next three years.

Alissa Klots won two prizes for her first book

“Domestic Service in the Soviet Union” picked up honors from the American Historical Association and the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.