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Pitt-Titusville launches rebranded Education and Training Center

Formerly known as the Hub, the school is raising community awareness of its associate degrees and Swanson School of Engineering sponsored courses.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Pitt-Titusville
Synychych wears a VR headset to test her scuba diving application, displayed on a projector screen

An undergrad from Ukraine is exploring how VR might comfort those with PTSD

Moved by her own experiences with trauma, Sofiya Synychych developed a meditative application with help from Pitt-Bradford faculty.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Bradford
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The best way to retain memories may depend on the content

New Pitt and Temple research tests approaches for spacing out and memorizing different types of material.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Neuroscience
A student in a white lab coat looks at a vial full of duckweed

836 Pitt undergraduates contributed data for a new study on plants and pollution

The study originated from a lab course, Duckweed Survivor, that encourages students to see themselves as researchers.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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This Pitt program is leveling up the gene therapy workforce in Pittsburgh

Leah Byrne’s Pittsburgh Gene Therapy Bootcamp teaches lab skills and connects grad students to biotech companies.

  • Technology & Science
Greg Delgoffe and Leah Byrne

2 Pitt faculty were elected Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors

Leah Byrne and Greg Delgoffe of the School of Medicine were honored for their innovations in cell and gene therapy.

  • Technology & Science
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A poignant news story led to dozens of new pledges for the National Sports Brain Bank

Former Pittsburgh weatherman Jon Burnett shared his suspected diagnosis of CTE. An outpouring of support followed.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Medicine
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Cast your votes for Pitt Madness throughout March

Our bracketologists have made their picks, ranking the University’s defining people, places and things. Now it's time to cast your votes.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
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Joseph J. McCarthy named Pitt’s provost and senior vice chancellor

He’s served the University for more than 25 years as both an award-winning faculty member and transformative leader.

  • University News
A heat map shows groups of migrating cells in the brain

New research shows migrating neurons may play important roles in development

Findings from the lab of Shawn Sorrells suggest the movement of immature cells is related to periods of neuroplasticity when the brain is especially receptive to changes and adaptation.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Community members and Pitt partners work together to plan how the field of life sciences can benefit Greater Hazelwood

For more than 25 years, Pitt has partnered with residents and nonprofit leaders to build a brighter future. Here’s what’s next.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
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Pitt experts predict the changes that will shape their field before the next leap day

Leap ahead with leaders in immunology, neuroscience and public health.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
Anzell sits in a lab

He was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease in high school. As a Pitt postdoc, he’s committed to finding answers.

Anthony Anzell came to the School of Public Health to study the mechanisms of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia with Beth Roman, a leading expert and basic research director in Pitt’s HHT Center.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Public Health
  • Graduate and professional students
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Solved at Pitt: What are Saturn’s rings made of?

Pitt researchers have made many leaps in their fields — here's how Professor James Keeler settled the debate about the planet at the University's own Allegheny Observatory.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Allegheny Observatory
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Yellow harlequin tree frog in rainforest

To find rare frogs and birds, Pitt researchers are using machine learning algorithms and hundreds of microphones

A new generation of conservation technologies is allowing researchers like Justin Kitzes to search more broadly and efficiently than ever before.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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15 Pitt faculty members won 2024 Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards

The annual honor recognizes outstanding scholarly accomplishments in research, teaching and public service.

  • Faculty
A group of students in blue Pitt Day of Giving shirts smile

A record-setting 11,400 alumni and donors raised $2.4 million on Pitt Day of Giving

Across the globe, supporters helped fund University scholarships, research, academics, athletics and more.

  • University News
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General Education Task Force aims to transform Pitt’s undergraduate experience

The three-year project will streamline degree planning, reduce financial burdens and foster interdisciplinary exploration.

  • University News
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Undergraduate students
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A Pitt professor is using virtual reality to connect to the Hill District’s past

The Time Traveling Project adds historical context to the photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris, a prolific chronicler of 20th-century Black life.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Alaina Roberts’ book takes a fresh look at freedom in the American West

In researching her family’s past, the Pitt historian found an oft-overlooked narrative of Black emancipation and Native displacement.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion