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Summit Highlights Advising’s Ripple Effect

The University’s fourth annual Mentoring and Advising Summit featured keynotes, multiple tracks and a focus on advising in the time of COVID-19. It attracted 1,000 participants nationwide.

Joining forces against hate

Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University will use their wealth of scholarly expertise in a new Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center. Its goals: to study extreme hate and its impact and

  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research

Ew, COVID: A Chat with Dan Levy

“Schitt’s Creek” star Dan Levy chatted with the Pitt community on Tuesday about writing, the pandemic, identity and taking care of your mental health.

Get Serious

Vice Provost Kenyon Bonner has a message for you: We’re still in the middle of a pandemic, so act like it. Keep your distance, wear your mask and avoid large gatherings this week.

  • Covid-19
A person in glasses and a blue face mask holds a syringe in a gloved hand

County opens temporary vaccination clinic at Pitt

Students from the schools of the health sciences will administer vaccines at upcoming clinics at the Petersen Events Center serving individuals 65 and older.

  • Covid-19

Partnership Boosts Pitt Commons

Pitt joins the multi-institute Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunities that aims to ensure student success, partner with local communities and reimagine education. The mentoring and networking

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Understanding Variants on ‘60 Minutes’

CBS chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook traveled to Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research to better understand coronavirus variants.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Vaccine Research
  • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
  • Covid-19

Two Historic Firsts Collide

As the first Black woman on the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, Doris Smith-Ribner (CGS ’70, LAW ’72) ordered a series of reforms that created a roadmap for equity in K-12 education. Another Pitt

  • Alumni

Crypto Art’s Grand Entrance

Artists and musicians are creating one-of-a-kind, digital-only work, some selling for record-setting millions. Pitt experts weigh in on the economic, technological, artistic and environmental

  • Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Johnson Institute Names 2021 Exemplary Leader Awardees

Gisele Barreto Fetterman and Leah Lizarondo, who have made their mark on the Pittsburgh community by working to address neighbors’ basic needs in sustainable ways, will be recognized in a virtual

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership

Watch: Maggie and Stella’s Legacy

Sisters Margaret and Stella Stein were the first women to attend the University of Pittsburgh, then known as Western University of Pennsylvania. They blazed a trail for all future Pitt women to follow

  • Alumni

Updates From Wuhan

Former Pitt fellow and critical care doctor Zhiyong Peng spent nearly all his time at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University last year. Pittwire checked in to see how he’s doing today.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Department of Critical Care Medicine
  • Covid-19

The Thrill of Being Published

In addition to learning the foundations of journalism, students in Brian Broome’s nonfiction course recently tried their hand at the art of the op-ed for the Pittsburgh Current.

  • Department of English

Nearly a Year

One year in, a look back at the Pitt people who sprang to action in the early days of the pandemic.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Covid-19

Fighting for Women and Democracy

Activist Wangari Muta Maathai (A&S ’65G) was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Department of Biology
  • Alumni

The Price of Bees

The economic value of insect pollinators such as honeybees and butterflies is a whopping $34 billion, a recent Pitt study found.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pitt Hosts EU Leader for Student Q&A on Climate Plans

“My hope resides in you,” European Green Deal leader Frans Timmermans told students during the March 2 event.

  • European Studies Center

Chemist’s tech makes it to Mars

Sanford Asher has spent his career studying UV Raman spectroscopy, which uses ultraviolet light to excite molecules and determine the basic components of matter. Now, he’s using it to look for life on

  • Department of Chemistry
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Forum Highlights Scholarship and Partnership

Attendees of the Community Engaged Scholarship Forum gathered to elevate, celebrate and reflect on resilience in the face of obstacles and overcoming challenges.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
NASA perseverance rover taking a photo on Mars

6 Questions for an Alumna at NASA

In 2018, Pitt student Emily Klonicki was an intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory trying to make sure “freeloader” bacteria didn’t make it to Mars. Today, she’s a full-time NASA planetary

  • Alumni
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics