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Two students lift a poster for the Grafica de Puerto Rico exhibit

These University Art Gallery exhibits spotlight Latinx and Caribbean identities

The series features Puerto Rican silk screen posters and an exploration of water in the Americas. Here’s how two Pitt students helped curate the works.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Pittsburgh Campus
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A new Pitt initiative will help lower-income students get to graduation

The Pitt Finish Line Grant will support financially vulnerable students so they can remain enrolled and complete their degrees.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A gloved hand uses a pipette to add liquid to a test tube

An NIH director’s award will help Pitt researchers study the vast reach of tiny proteins

Their findings could affect our understanding of everything from genetic diversity to autoimmune diseases.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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The most memorable moments from Pitt homecoming 2023

Relive the weekend from the Snake to a Panthers football victory with this photo gallery.

  • University News
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Computing and Information
Anto

An alumna is Pitt's second Erasmus Mundus winner

Maria Anto will study children’s literature at universities around the globe as she earns a master’s degree.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Zuly in a pink dress in front of a black background

Art and advocacy intersect through this soprano opera singer’s performances and scholarship

Zuly Inirio has performed across the United States and Europe. Now, through song and the Afro-Latinx Song and Opera Project, she aims to increase diverse representation in the industry.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Social Work
One student fills a large weather balloon with air while another holds it above her head

These Pitt students are following the eclipse to Texas

The paths of two upcoming eclipses overlap outside of San Antonio. The Shadow Bandits won’t miss the chance to study them.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Three students in Pitt gear hold reusable grocery bags on their shoulders

Get ready for Pittsburgh’s single-use plastic ban

Pitt Sustainability offers advice on adjusting to the citywide change, which begins Oct. 14.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
Shekhar at a podium with a Pitt shield logo

This year’s State of the School reviewed 2 years of successes for Pitt Medicine

Anantha Shekhar detailed how the School of Medicine met or exceeded the key goals he set — in areas from clinical excellence to faculty development — when he joined the University.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Hunt and Hatridge in the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute lab

The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute named a new co-director

Benjamin Hunt will join his longtime Pitt collaborator Michael Hatridge to further establish Pittsburgh as a headquarters for quantum computing.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI)
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A panther statue holds a pumpkin in its mouth

7 Halloween-themed events in Pittsburgh

Put these horror movies, haunted trails, rock climbing and more on your list of scary season activities.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
Two nurses in white coats work on an IV stand

A $2 million gift will help Pitt support nursing students pursuing a second career

The Joanne and William Conway Nursing Scholarship Program will fund 60 students per year through an accelerated bachelor’s degree to address the nation’s nursing shortage.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • School of Nursing
Bratman holds his hands out to a student during a scene

A new Pitt course is using improv to build more confident, empathetic lawyers

It’s no joke: Professor of Legal Writing Ben Bratman designed the class to teach “human skills” to upper-class law students after seeing how the hobby benefited his teaching.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • School of Law
Bethel

Hillandale Farms family donates $25 million to launch Pitt’s Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center

The transformative gift — for which the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine will make an equivalent co-investment — will support labs, fellows, research and clinical work to push orthopaedic

  • Health and Wellness
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • School of Medicine
Volunteers shovel mulch from a truck bed into a wheelbarrow

Pitt staff can receive paid time off to volunteer. Here’s how.

More than 5,000 Pitt people racked up over 100,000 volunteer hours last year. Why not join their ranks during Civic Action Week, Oct. 16-21?

  • Community Impact
  • Staff
Oakley

Marnie Oakley was named dean of Pitt’s School of Dental Medicine

As both an alumna and professor, she’s served the University for nearly three decades.

  • University News
  • School of Dental Medicine
A visualization of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope moving through purple space

Pitt researchers are key to NASA’s next space telescope

Four Pitt astronomers are helping bring the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to life to uncover the secrets of dark matter — and they’re hoping current theories are wrong.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Cestello holds a gavel

Pitt’s Board of Trustees elected Louis Cestello as its chair

The PNC Bank regional president previously served as the vice chair of the Board of Trustees and interim chair.

  • University News
Lafferty jumps on the lawn in front of the Cathedral of Learning

This Pitt senior opened for Jerry Seinfeld. Now he’s part of Pittsburgh’s comedy renaissance.

Meet the self-proclaimed “ugly white man” who wants to be the next John Mulaney.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Undergraduate students
A person wearing a face mask talks to a therapist on a video call

The pandemic wasn’t the blanket mental health disaster that some predicted

Some groups took a big mental-health hit from COVID-19 — but others showed surprising resilience, according to recent research led by a Pitt PhD student.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences