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Senior Jeremy Olin wanted the work for his computer science major to have a real-life impact, so he joined 412 Connect: a new project with a mission to promote and increase the visibility of Black

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Calling All Volunteers: Class of 2021 Commencement Ceremonies

Many students and families have been looking forward to celebrating their academic achievements at in-person commencement ceremonies this year. You can help make it happen.

  • Covid-19

Beyond Pronouns: Supporting Transgender Members of the Campus Community

Pitt’s Minoritized Orientation and Gender Identities Graduate and Professional Alliance (MOGI) convened a panel of transgender members of the University community to share their own experiences and

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

15 Pitt Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The prestigious fellowships provide stipends and other support for outstanding graduate students in STEM fields. Pitt’s prep programs helped this year’s awardees make their application packages shine

  • Students
  • Department of Bioengineering
  • Department of Psychology

Pitt Law Alumna is Kosovo’s New President

Vjosa Osmani (LAW ’05, ’15), a respected voice in Kosovo’s political circles and around the globe, is the new president of her native land. She’s the second woman to hold the position.

  • Alumni

Hail to Pitt’s Graduate and Professional Students

Celebrate Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week with special events and activities, including a look back at some of our favorite stories about grad students.

  • Students
A person in a mask takes another person's temperature with a hand-held thermometer

Measuring the impact of COVID-19

Pitt is one of 15 sites that will survey area residents to learn who has antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and who is carrying the virus at the time of the test.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19
Sundermann points at a graph on a computer screen

What is genomic surveillance?

And why do we need to do more of it to track coronavirus variants and end the pandemic? Pitt’s Alexander Sundermann, Lee Harison and Vaughn Cooper explain in The Conversation.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Covid-19

Rooted in Success: CHS Sustainability Lab Students Grow in, and for, the Community

A new Pitt College in High School course on sustainability is letting high school students experience a college undergraduate course—and it's becoming more than just a class for the students.

Found in Transition

Book excerpt: Pitt alumna Paria Hassouri’s (A&S ’94, MED ’99) memoir, “Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change,” weaves her story of growing up as an immigrant and

  • Alumni

From Rio to Pittsburgh: Keila Grinberg to Head Center for Latin American Studies

Keila Grinberg will move from Brazil to Pittsburgh this year, as the new director of Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies. She brings with her expertise on that region’s history of enslavement as

  • Center for Latin American Studies

Mourning Larry E. Davis

Larry E. Davis, dean of Pitt’s School of Social Work from 2001-2018 and founding director of its Center on Race and Social Problems, died on March 30. Members of Pitt’s community are sharing

  • Center on Race and Social Problems

Heroes and Healing

On National Doctors' Day, in this year when the fragility of our health has taken on poignant new meaning, honor physicians who are working year-round to protect our health and wellbeing. From Pitt

Shawn Brown Appointed Vice Chancellor for Research Computing

Brown will provide strategic direction on next-generation computing and data resources and guide the University’s research computing mission.

  • Department of Biostatistics

From Superman to Super Research

Pitt bioengineer Kacey Marra is creating new ways to help heal nerve injuries. A speech by Christopher Reeve inspired her into the field.

  • Innovation Institute
  • Department of Plastic Surgery
  • Department of Bioengineering

Grad Students vs. Homelessness

Pitt grad students are using data skills and business analytics to reduce homelessness. Five teams will present their solutions in the Katz school’s Super Analytics Challenge finals on Friday, March

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Students Receive Impactful Mentorship Through New Program

The Innovative Mentoring and Professional Advancement Through Cultural Training (IMPACT) program is a multi-university effort to diversify audiology and speech-language pathology graduate schools—and

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Department of Communication Science and Disorders

A Message from Seniors

Let’s finish strong, Panthers: Don't jeopardize in-person graduation plans with unsafe behaviors.

  • Covid-19