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Pitt Researchers Helping Study Bone Health in Space

  • School of Dental Medicine
  • Department of Periodontics and Preventive Dentistry
Holbrook on a city street

Kirk Holbrook to lead Pitt’s Hill District Community Engagement Center

Kirk Holbrook has been named director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Hill District Community Engagement Center (CEC). Pitt’s first CEC, directed by Daren Ellerbee, is set to open in Homewood in

  • Community Impact

Jeremy Levy Leads Research Group to Create One-Dimensional Lattice for Electrons

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy

Jonathan Rubin Elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Department of Mathematics

Helen Cochrane Recognized by Women Who Advance Associations

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

W. Vincent Liu Elected to Physics and Astronomy Organization Leadership

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Student Plogging Project Raises Funds, Mental Health Awareness

Classmates Raeanne Heuler, Beth King and Samson Love have revived plogging at Pitt as part of their work in Geology and Environmental Science instructor Ward Allebach’s sustainability course this

  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Two Named to German Academic Exchange Service

Pitt undergraduate student Brooke Riscoe (left) and graduate student Emi Finkelstein have been named to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), translated in English as the German Academic

  • Department of Geology and Environmental Science
  • Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • Department of History of Art and Architecture
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

SHRS’s Emily Murphy Earns ‘Educator of the Year’ Honor

  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Feng Xiong Receives NSF Grant to Develop Conversion Method for Heat Energy

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Justin Carter

This journalist alum brought home an Emmy

When Justin Carter (A&S ’12) started his journey to become a TV journalist, he promised his parents his first Emmy. It now sits on their mantle.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Pink blossoms beside the Cathedral of Learning

Valerie Kinloch and Eleanor Feingold were selected as American Council on Education Fellows

The Pitt leaders are among 52 in the longest-running cohort-based higher education leadership development program in the U.S.

  • School of Education
  • School of Public Health
Keisha Blain smiling, wearing glasses with earrings and black shirt

Keisha Blain is awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study

She will be writing a new book on the history of Black women and the struggle for human rights.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A figure of a man on the side of a building

Pitt Public Health's Anne Newman wins 2020 American Heart Association Clinical Research Prize

The award recognizes a current head of a clinical research program who is making outstanding contributions to the advancement of clinical science.

  • School of Public Health
  • Innovation and Research
  • Aging and Population Health
Valerie Kinloch smiling with yellow shirt and necklace

Valerie Kinloch spoke in a Library of Congress webinar on Rosa Parks' legacy

The Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the School of Education discusses how the activist's life could help them better understand the Black Lives Matter movement.

  • School of Education
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion