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United Way Campaign Sets New Records
The generosity and enthusiasm of the University of Pittsburgh faculty and staff sent the 2017 Pitt United Way campaign soaring — raising $673,962, the annual initiative’s highest total ever.
Margaret McDonald to receive service award from Association of American Medical Colleges
Pitt health sciences' associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and international programs will receive the award for her contributions to the profession.
Video Game for Emergency Doctors Battles for Top Prize in Bracket-style Innovation Contest
As reigning champions of STAT Madness — a bracket-style, national innovation contest — Pitt and UPMC hope this year’s entry, the emergency doctor video game Night Shift, can hold the crown.
Pitt Innovation Challenge launches
The challenge is designed to generate innovative solutions to difficult health problems. Applications are due April 23 at 5 p.m.
Faculty, Students Recognized at University of Pittsburgh Honors Convocation
Dina Fradkin and Jahvon Dockery took home this year’s top undergraduate student awards at Pitt’s Honors Convocation, which celebrates the achievements of faculty members and students.
Pitt Day of Giving Tops $9 Million in Donations to University Programs and Scholarships
The community of University of Pittsburgh alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends responded to this year’s Pitt Day of Giving by donating a record-setting $9,029,828.
A Pitt surgeon was named president of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery
Associate Professor Suzan Obagi also directs the UPMC Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Health Center.
Valerie Kinloch won the Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award
The National Council of Teachers of English award recognizes a person of color who has made a significant contribution to NCTE and to the development of their professional community.
Raymond M. Davis and several Pitt Alumni are among Pittsburgh's philanthropy up-and-comers
The Incline's list recognized 17 individuals under age 40 who are making a difference in Pittsburgh.
Winning Rowing Club Builds on Its Legacy
Second-year math major Laurel Alpern didn't expect to follow in her family's footsteps to the Pitt Rowing Club, but once she met the team, she was hooked. As the new season approaches, the rowers look
Cynthia Sweet joins Pitt as associate vice chancellor for economic partnerships
In this newly created role, she will work to advance University initiatives that aim to foster economic growth on campus and across the region.
Russell Clark wins Dietrich School prize for excellence in advising
The senior lecturer advises all undergraduate physics and astronomy majors and is responsible for training graduate teaching assistants for lab courses.
Dietrich Stephan was named Life Sciences Pennsylvania's Thought Leader of the Year
He's a renowned human geneticist and entrepreneur, a Pitt professor and CEO of LifeX.
Information Science, Law School Alumna Marks Supreme Achievement in New York State
After attending Pitt, Shawndya Simpson (SCI ’87, LAW ’90) made her way from assistant New York attorney general to bureau chief to civil court judge — then all the way to the Supreme Court of New York
Project Aims to Recycle the Unrecyclable
One solution to the crisis of plastic pollution in oceans is to prevent plastic from becoming waste to begin with — and researchers from the Swanson School of Engineering aim to do just that.
Military Career Leads to Success in the Lab and Beyond for Sports Medicine Researcher
In addition to directing Pitt’s Neuromuscular Research Laboratory and working on a NASA-funded project, Professor Bradley Nindl recently took command of the Southeast Medical Area Readiness Support
2 Dietrich School faculty were honored with a teaching award
Geoffrey Hutchison and Amy Murray Twyning are the 2018 recipients of Pitt's Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards.
Studying Migration, Refugee Issues at Oxford University, Alumna Draws on Personal History
Bhavini Patel (A&S ’16) is combining her deep personal knowledge of immigrant communities with her research at the University of Oxford on extended refugee displacement.
Chief Financial Officer Arthur G. Ramicone to retire
The senior vice chancellor, who has worked at Pitt since 1988, will retire in August.
Inaugural Kanders Churchill Scholarship honoree to study health care policy in UK
Pitt senior and economics and neuroscience major Joseph Kannarkat is headed to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom on a new version of the prestigious Churchill Scholarship, which
