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ICYMI: A conversation on class, gender and fiction
Hear from Africana Studies’ Robin Brooks on her new book, “Class Interruptions.”
3 Pitt professors were honored by the National Academy of Inventors
They were recently named senior members for their work on tissue engineering and therapies for fibrosis and heart diseases.
New student CEOs take charge of campus coffee shops
The business students who run Pitt's Saxbys locations get real-world leadership experience and keep the coffee flowing.
Go behind the scenes at Pitt's teaching greenhouse, where it's never winter
Perched atop Langley Hall, this space for biologists and botanists boasts all sorts of living treasures.
More than 11,000 people gave $3 million on Pitt Day of Giving 2022
Donations from 50 states and six continents will benefit dozens of areas and funds representing every University of Pittsburgh school, college and campus.
4 stories about Pitt’s vaccine legacy, 68 years after the first public polio shots
Arsenal Elementary School students in Pittsburgh rolled up their sleeves for Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on Feb. 23, 1954.
On Pitt Day of Giving, give today so we can transform tomorrow
Learn how your donation on Pitt Day of Giving can unlock extra funding for groups such as Men’s Rugby and the Hillel Jewish Student Union.
See the new digital archive that puts Black history front and center
The Blue, Gold and Black Archive, debuting Feb. 21, will provide a permanent home for the stories and photos of Pitt’s Black community. Register now.
Pitt's Black History Month Program is named after the first Black speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Alumnus K. Leroy Irvis was instrumental in reshaping education in the commonwealth.
Have you seen the giant gumball machine in Litchfield Towers?
Proceeds from the normal-sized gumballs benefit the Pitt Pantry and families facing cancer through the GRACE Giving Foundation.
A new global study will address disparities in access to insulin
Pitt has been awarded a grant to determine whether long-acting analogue insulin is better than other treatments for Type 1 diabetes.
New name and new era for Pitt Public Health
The School of Public Health is dropping “graduate” from its name to reflect its expanding offerings.
Exercise can help older adults retain memories, a Pitt study shows
PhD student Sarah Aghjayan and colleagues pooled data from dozens of studies to discover whose brains benefit the most from exercise.
This Pitt anthropologist studies race, class and sports. Here’s what he thinks about the 2022 Olympics.
Gabby M.H. Yearwood turned his experience as the only Black kid on the ice rink into a career of thinking critically about the cultural importance of sports.
All Angles, a new Pitt speaker series, will help students explore differing viewpoints
The series kicks off with national political reporter Salena Zito and BridgeUSA CEO Manu Meel.
Pennsylvania's next budget has high stakes for Pitt's in-state students and families
Legislators are starting to work on the state’s budget, and Pennsylvania students’ tuition discount is at risk. Here’s what you need to know.
Meet one of Pitt's ‘hidden figures’
After becoming the first Black woman to graduate from the Swanson School of Engineering, Elayne Arrington made aerospace history, too.
A new Pitt-UPMC residency program is bringing better health care to patients in rural Pennsylvania
Second- and third-year residents will work in Tioga and Potter counties as part of the only such program in north-central Pennsylvania.
There's more to health inequities than income
Modern medicine promises bountiful health, so why have Black Americans been left behind? The risk factor is not race, but racism and its legacy.
The International Space Station got new Pitt-designed computers and sensors
The toaster oven-sized system can see cars, roads and trees from space.
