Filter By

three people exercising

This School of Education program promoted healthy behaviors among older adults in Homewood

The Healthy Homewood Project brought together Pitt graduate students and the neighborhood YMCA to combat obesity and chronic illness through wellness education and fitness.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • School of Education
four people in Pitt shirts at an ice cream truck

In photos: Sun and fun at the Chancellor’s Annual Staff and Faculty Appreciation Picnic

More than 3,000 Pitt employees gathered for an afternoon of barbecue, cornhole and catching up.

  • University News
  • Chancellor
two people sitting on stairs

Two Pitt psychiatrists are raising money to stem Ukraine’s mental health crisis

A dual emergency of trauma and destroyed infrastructure is emerging in Ukraine. Alexandre Dombrovski and Carmen Andreescu are using their expertise to help.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Ukraine
  • Global
  • School of Medicine
gloves, masks, tubes, plastic and trash

Every knee replacement creates nearly 30 pounds of waste

A new study co-authored by the late Freddie Fu reviews the environmental costs of orthopedic surgeries and explores more sustainable options.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Sustainability
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
a rainbow flag held above a crowd

6 budget-friendly things to do in Pittsburgh this June

Embrace the summer season with Pride festivals, an August Wilson play and jazz performances.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
Stein in a suit on a street

How Pitt’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence helps small businesses succeed

Robert Stein and his team help Western Pennsylvania entrepreneurs create, open and sustain businesses as diverse as the region — from trucking companies to Latin American restaurants.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
a person holding a small falcon

Cathedral peregrine falcon chicks given bands and clean bills of health

For the first time since 2019, biologists, birders and staff from the National Aviary, Pennsylvania Game Commission and Pitt worked together to band the young peregrines.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Cathedral of Learning
a patient on a hospital bed while a doctor examines a monitor

A storied Pitt startup achieved its highest goal: acquisition by a global company

ALung’s acquisition by London-based LivaNova marks the end of the device’s startup phase and the beginning of full-scale commercialization and implementation.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Christine and Brigette Bethea standing in front of store windows

This mother-daughter artistic duo wants to diversify Oakland’s business district

Christine and Brigette Bethea of Argyle Studio and ULEADx are pairing with Pitt people to give artists and leaders a leg up in Pittsburgh.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
Kathleen Blee

Kathleen Blee is stepping down as dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

After five years in the role, Blee has announced that she will return to the faculty in June 2023.

  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
a person in a white coat with her arms crossed

Pitt School of Nursing students and graduates rise up

With a simmering pandemic, an aging population and more than a million expected to retire from the profession in the next decade, the national need for well-trained nurses is as serious as ever.

  • Community Impact
  • School of Nursing
Eugene Anderson in suit

Pitt Business named a new dean

Eugene “Gene” Anderson joins Pitt from Syracuse University. He’ll lead both the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and the College of Business Administration beginning Aug. 1.

  • University News
  • College of Business Administration
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
Man standing with two other men in wheelchairs

The University of Pittsburgh will compete for $10 billion in military health contracts

Pitt will lead a group of universities and small businesses to conduct Defense Health Agency-funded research that benefits the health of the armed services.

  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Pharmacy
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Syringe next to crushed pills in front of black background

A Pitt team forecasted the devastating toll of the opioid epidemic

As Pitt Public Health researchers predicted, more than 100,000 people are now dying from drug overdoses annually in the U.S. It shows we really don't understand the causes of the problem, they say.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Public Health
flags outside The Hague

The war in Ukraine will be fought in court, too. Here’s how Pitt’s School of Law is helping.

This August, the Ukrainian Legal Assistance Project will bring Ukrainian lawyers to Pitt and support them in defending their country.

  • Ukraine
  • Global
  • School of Law
Student kneeling down, planting with gardening gloves

How the Plan for Pitt puts sustainability into practice

Sustainability is one of the University’s six core values. This Q&A explains what that actually means.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Sustainability
Pile of Pitt decorations and merchandise

The bed party, explained

Pitt Panthers are going all out for the latest college commitment season trend.

  • Students
Bria Walker smiling in a pink shirt

This Pitt theater professor is bringing more voices to the stage

Bria Walker’s recent production of “Emilia” featured three women of color playing the main role. It’s the latest example of her work to tell more people’s stories onstage.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Colorful paper artwork of heads pointing towards earth

How do we know what we know?

Pitt’s Edouard Machery is leading a cross-cultural network of scholars to find out — and answer some of philosophy’s toughest questions.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Woman holding Ukraine flag

Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to university leaders about rebuilding Ukraine’s higher education sector

Despite the war, people in Ukraine are yearning for knowledge and skills, he told members of the Association of American Universities in a virtual address Monday.

  • Ukraine
  • University News
  • Global