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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
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Pitt will pay tribute to 7 community leaders on Feb. 24

This year’s K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month celebration will recognize unsung champions of the arts.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
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This Pitt junior’s podcast is transforming communities through conversation

“Let’s Talk Social Innovation” spotlights local and University leaders making an impact.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pitt launches a Doctor of Chiropractic program

The evidence-based program will be the first of its kind in Pennsylvania and unique among research-intensive public institutions in the U.S.

  • University News
  • Health and Wellness
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Pitt ranks in top 20 for patents granted to universities worldwide

Pitt innovators earned 114 U.S. patents in 2023. Learn how the Innovation Institute can help your invention make it to market.

  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
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A new satire novel by a Pitt-Bradford writing professor reflects on COVID-19

“The Pamela Papers" by Nancy McCabe is out now.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Pitt-Bradford
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12 things you didn’t know about Pitt’s Heinz Memorial Chapel

It’s (not just) a love story.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
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Pitt has been named a 2023-24 Fulbright Top Producer

Since the 2013-14 cycle, Pitt has earned this prestigious accolade nine times and has produced 114 Fulbrighters.

  • Global
  • Students
  • Alumni
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Pitt researchers discovered a way to prevent hearing loss caused by loud noise

Free-floating zinc molecules in the inner ear may hold the key to why hearing loss occurs, according to a new paper from the School of Medicine.

  • Technology & Science
  • Center for Neuroscience
  • School of Medicine
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High school students are taking their Pitt summer projects to a big science stage

Public Health Science Academy participants Natalia Connor and Julian Whaley Miller will present their research results at an annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Teaching & Learning
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Share your Pitt story and make a gift during PDoG on Feb. 27

Gifts help ensure a brighter future for Pitt students for years to come.

  • University News
A drone shot fades from Pitt's campus on a snowy day to a sunny day

Turn your winter from gray to green with these sustainable activities

Plus, here’s how Pitt reduced emissions and diverted a record number of donations from landfills.

  • University News
  • Sustainability
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Regional high schoolers are getting a head start with this Pitt-Bradford program

More than 1,200 students from 30 high schools are earning college credits before they arrive on campus.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Pitt-Bradford
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Pitt has joined the Keystone Space Collaborative to bolster out-of-this-world research

The move is just the latest effort to connect University researchers to the region’s space science ecosystem.

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
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Here’s who won the University’s annual social justice awards

The students and staff who make Pitt more just, equitable and inclusive will be recognized during a Jan. 26 luncheon.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Nicholas Rescher, a polymath who helped to establish Pitt as a philosophy powerhouse, dies at 95

Renowned for a “sheer range of intellect,” the professor’s career spanned six decades of teaching and researching topics such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science.

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Meet 5 award-winning alumni educators who are transforming classrooms

Their work is shaping the future, which ultimately benefits us all.

  • Community Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
  • School of Education