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Alexander Sundermann and Lee Harrison working in lab

A new way to stop diseases from spreading in hospitals

How clinicians stop infectious disease transmission in hospitals hasn’t changed in more than a century. Pitt researchers are using AI and genome sequencing to change that.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
Roc holding hands and skipping with students outside

For Roc’s birthday, we asked a Pitt ecologist about getting him some panther friends

Pitt’s mascot turns 112 this week, but his species hasn’t been spotted in the commonwealth for more than a century. Could we reintroduce panthers to the region? Should we?

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
a nurse tending to a prone patient in an ambulance

Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?

An interdisciplinary Pitt team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
a rendering of a sleek building with many windows and greenery surrounding it

Pitt’s new recreation and wellness center will champion students’ mental and physical wellness

"The newest, coolest and healthiest place on campus" is coming soon.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
Two police officers talking to students on campus

Pitt Police respond to campus safety concerns

Students are urged to continue staying alert and reporting suspicious activity to police.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
Women sharing their entrepreneurial journeys at roundtable

How Pitt helps women business owners dream big

Five entrepreneurs share how Pitt’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence is setting them up for success.

  • Community Impact
  • Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence
Farm produce under purple light

Get fresh greens all year round at many Pitt dining locations

The University has partnered with local agricultural company Fifth Season to grow lettuce, spinach and other greens using 97% less land and 95% less water than traditional farming methods.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
American flag on Pitt campus

11 Pitt veterans who made a major impact

Learn about how these military greats, from the author of the GI Bill of Rights to a former Army Surgeon General, shaped the world — and how Pitt shaped them.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Alumni
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Law
  • School of Medicine
Yunge Xiao sitting outside in a striped sweater

Meet the Pitt sophomore who won WYEP's 2021 Singer-Songwriter Competition

Listen to two of Yunge Xiao's original songs.

  • University News
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Nurse holding the hand of a patient

A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff

A nurse anesthetist and Pitt alum watched veterans with PTSD “go to sleep in Pittsburgh but wake up in Iraq.” He knew something had to change.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Nursing
Cathedral of Learning behind trees and purple flowers

The Heinz Endowments gives $800,000 to Pitt’s Center for Sustainable Business

The two-year grant will be used to help companies large and small to improve overall business practices, environmental quality and economic equality.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Center for Sustainable Business
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
Thanos Tzounopoulos wearing grey shirt and glasses sitting in a chair

A Pitt scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears

The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
Pitt-Titusville machinists working with machine

A new Pitt-Titusville center is expanding manufacturing training in Northwestern Pennsylvania

Companies in the region are hungry for skilled machinists. Pitt’s Manufacturing Assistance Center is now providing them.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Titusville
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff smiling in front of Cathedral of Learning

Plastic surgery professors step into entrepreneurship

Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
  • Innovation and Research
Eunice Yang speaking with Rich Lunak at the 2019 Wells Lecture

This Pitt-Johnstown engineer wants to keep seniors standing tall

Eunice Yang will soon begin beta testing for OK2StandUP, a Fitbit-like monitor of the autonomic nervous system that predicts and prevents falls.

  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Community Impact
Ken Gormley with Pittsburgh buildings in background

A pro bono past in Pittsburgh’s Orphans’ Court inspired an alum’s new book

With “The Heiress of Pittsburgh,” Duquesne University President Ken Gormley (A&S ’77) has earned himself a new job title: novelist.

  • Alumni
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities
Oil rigs next to a declining graph graphic

In terms of carbon footprint, not all oil is created equal

To predict the climate impact of oil as demand shifts, we need to take into account the many ways it's extracted, according to a new study in Nature by Pitt’s Mohammad Masnadi.

  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Technology & Science
  • Global
SuLo by XYZ portable charger station

You can rent a phone charger at 32 local businesses thanks to Pitt alumni

The portable charger will juice up your phone in just 30 minutes.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Cathedral of Learning towering behind flowerbed and busy sidewalk

New University budget model approved

The new model provides Responsibility Centers with greater authority, enabling them to better work toward Pitt’s strategic goals.

  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus