6 Pitt people were named Pittsburgh Business Times Women of Influence

The annual honor recognizes the region’s most impactful businesswomen.

Lise Vesterlund will receive an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Business School

Pitt’s Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics will give a lecture on March 21 in celebration of the honor.

Annette Vee will pen a newsletter series on AI and teaching

The associate professor has partnered with publisher W.W. Norton to explore topics around artificial intelligence.

Larry Fitzgerald Jr. is Pitt’s 2025 spring commencement speaker

The former Pitt football star and NFL Man of the Year recipient will address the University’s graduating class at PPG Paints Arena on May 4.

Angie Cruz won 2 recent literary prizes

The associate professor of English received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was named a United States Artists fellow.

‘The Blair Witch Project’ archive has joined Pitt’s Horror Studies Collection

See props, original marketing materials and more on display at the University Library System’s Archives and Special Collections Exhibit Gallery.

Sam Woolley received funding for his Communication Technology Research Lab

The $200,000 award comes from Omidyar Network, and will support Woolley’s work in improving digital literary.

A podcast by 2 Pitt professors is among the year’s best, according to the New York Times

“Cement City” is a series documenting the English professor’s experience living in Donora, Pennsylvania, once a manufacturing hub.

Chas Bonasorte, Pitt football’s ‘Kamikaze Kid’ and owner of famed Pitt apparel kiosk, died at 70

After his career on the field, Bonasorte became a fixture on the Pittsburgh campus with his clothing kiosk at Forbes and Bigelow.

Joy Priest won an Advancing Black Arts Award

The Pittsburgh Foundation awarded the Pitt assistant professor $50,000 for her forthcoming poetry anthology, “The Black Outside.”