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Local events set to honor the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims
Five years later, all are invited to reflect, volunteer and create messages of hope.
A new Frederick Honors program brings national experts to Pitt
Experts in residence will help the Pitt community expand their views on the world. Meet Morgan Overton, Sherry Sykes and Damon Young.
A Pitt community partnership is transforming the Jupiter Building into a training hub
With support from the Richard King Mellon Foundation and local schools and businesses, Future Works is the outcome of a yearslong effort to revitalize downtown Johnstown.
Park Lawrence Rankin, an architect who oversaw $1 billion in improvements to Pitt’s campuses, died at 73
During his 14 years at the University, the devoted architect led hundreds of construction and renovation projects, including the Cathedral of Learning cleaning in 2007.
What if we could talk to cells?
Nathan Lord earned an NIH New Innovator Award for his research on the chemical language of the body’s building blocks. It’s work that could transform regenerative medicine.
President Biden gave the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Pitt’s Rory Cooper
The honor — the nation’s highest for technological achievement — is the latest and most significant recognition of Cooper’s decades of innovations in wheelchair technology.
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.
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.
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.
The most memorable moments from Pitt homecoming 2023
Relive the weekend from the Snake to a Panthers football victory with this photo gallery.
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.
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.
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.
Get ready for Pittsburgh’s single-use plastic ban
Pitt Sustainability offers advice on adjusting to the citywide change, which begins Oct. 14.
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.
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.
7 Halloween-themed events in Pittsburgh
Put these horror movies, haunted trails, rock climbing and more on your list of scary season activities.
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.
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.
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
