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Shekhar at a podium with a Pitt shield logo

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.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Hunt and Hatridge in the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute lab

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.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI)
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A panther statue holds a pumpkin in its mouth

7 Halloween-themed events in Pittsburgh

Put these horror movies, haunted trails, rock climbing and more on your list of scary season activities.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
Bratman holds his hands out to a student during a scene

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.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • School of Law
Bethel

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

  • Health and Wellness
  • Pittsburgh Campus
  • School of Medicine
Two nurses in white coats work on an IV stand

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.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • School of Nursing
Volunteers shovel mulch from a truck bed into a wheelbarrow

Pitt staff can receive paid time off to volunteer. Here’s how.

More than 5,000 Pitt people racked up over 100,000 volunteer hours last year. Why not join their ranks during Civic Action Week, Oct. 16-21?

  • Community Impact
  • Staff
Oakley

Marnie Oakley was named dean of Pitt’s School of Dental Medicine

As both an alumna and professor, she’s served the University for nearly three decades.

  • University News
  • School of Dental Medicine
A visualization of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope moving through purple space

Pitt researchers are key to NASA’s next space telescope

Four Pitt astronomers are helping bring the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to life to uncover the secrets of dark matter — and they’re hoping current theories are wrong.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Cestello holds a gavel

Pitt’s Board of Trustees elected Louis Cestello as its chair

The PNC Bank regional president previously served as the vice chair of the Board of Trustees and interim chair.

  • University News
Lafferty jumps on the lawn in front of the Cathedral of Learning

This Pitt senior opened for Jerry Seinfeld. Now he’s part of Pittsburgh’s comedy renaissance.

Meet the self-proclaimed “ugly white man” who wants to be the next John Mulaney.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Undergraduate students
A tray of pretzels

Travel the world this October without leaving Pittsburgh

These five events put international art, voices and perspectives on display.

  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Global
A person wearing a face mask talks to a therapist on a video call

The pandemic wasn’t the blanket mental health disaster that some predicted

Some groups took a big mental-health hit from COVID-19 — but others showed surprising resilience, according to recent research led by a Pitt PhD student.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A radar image of lava flows on the surface of Venus

A new study lays the groundwork for detecting volcanic activity on Venus

Future space probes will travel to the nearby planet to look for signs of flowing lava. Pitt’s Ian Flynn is making sure they’ll be able to find the evidence if it’s there.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Morgan Frank sits at his office desk

The biggest barrier to getting fossil fuel workers green jobs isn’t skills — it’s location

Fossil fuel workers have the right skills to join the green revolution. They’re just not in the right places, according to a new study by Pitt researcher Morgan Frank.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Sustainability
  • School of Computing and Information
The ecotone renewables team poses around their statue and certificate

The Pitt Sustainability Challenge winner has a solution for food waste on campus

Ecotone Renewables will receive $300,000 to install five anaerobic digesters, which divert carbon emissions by turning local food waste into fertilizer.

  • University News
  • Sustainability
A rendering of the BioForge facility

Pitt’s BioForge Manufacturing Center gets approval from Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission

Construction on the life sciences research hub is scheduled to begin this year.

  • Community Impact
  • Technology & Science
Kerrigan holds up a rock. A foggy seaside cliff is behind him.

What mountains in Portugal can tell us about Pennsylvania’s geologic past

Understanding how mountains formed could help us predict future tectonic events and find minerals for electronics, says Fulbright Fellow and Pitt-Johnstown Associate Professor Ryan Kerrigan.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Pitt-Johnstown
several nursing students surrounding a dummy patient head

Pitt nursing, engineering jump in 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best College rankings

The University also ranked highly in two new categories, cracking the top 50 for psychology and economics undergraduate programs.

  • University News
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Gundlach holds a tablet while standing on a racetrack

A career in IndyCar has taken this Pitt alumna for a wild ride

After more than a decade, Kate Gundlach has the experience and clout to hold one of the sport’s top engineering jobs and work for one of its most talented, unpredictable drivers.

  • Alumni