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Protect yourself from possible scams and fraud with these safety reminders
Whether it’s people promising big payouts during tax season or people impersonating officials, there are bad actors out there. Here are Pitt resources that can help.
Meet the 2025 Chancellor’s Distinguished Award winners
16 faculty members earned the honor, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments in research, teaching and public service.
Pitt ranks among the top worldwide universities for granted patents
The list, published by the National Academy of Inventors, spotlights the role academia plays in U.S. innovation.
3 Pennsylvania leaders will receive the Elsie Hilliard Hillman Lifetime Achievement Award on March 12
Pitt’s Institute of Politics will honor Joanna McClinton, Debra Todd and Kim Ward for exceptional service to the public and the commonwealth.
David Waldeck was honored by the American Chemical Society
The distinguished professor of chemistry earned the Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry for his work researching chiral-induced spin selectivity.
Alum Alex Firestine is Pitt’s first Luce scholar
As part of the program, he will spend a year in Asia learning about language, culture and sustainable food systems.
Pitt was recertified as a HeartSafe Campus
The National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation recognizes schools for offering AED and CPR trainings and other heart-healthy initiatives.
Pitt’s Office of the Provost has appointed 2 new faculty fellows
Shelome Gooden and David Sanchez will contribute to faculty mentoring and humanities research, respectively.
This high school student is sewing a quilt inspired by her research in Pitt’s August Wilson Archive
Maria McDill, an August Wilson Archive Student Research Awardee, received mentorship and a stipend to support her project.
Gary Jackson blends poetry, comics and Afrofuturism to redefine Black narratives
The Dietrich School professor explores speculative storytelling through his scholarship and craft.
Pitt is a Fulbright Top Producer yet again
15 Pitt students and alumni earned the chance to participate in the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program in the past year.
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.
Amir Alavi was named editor-in-chief of a new Nature Portfolio journal
The B.P. America Faculty Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will lead npj Metamaterials.
11,423 donors raised $3.26M for vital University initiatives on Pitt Day of Giving
The daylong fundraising sprint will support scholarships, research, academic programs, student organizations, athletics and more across Pitt’s campuses.
Pitt leaders testified on the University’s role in contributing to PA’s future
On Feb. 19, students and administrators shared the value of a Pitt education with the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s Performance-Based Funding Council.
Pitt is among the top 50 universities at producing research that leads to patents
The University ranked No. 43 on Clarivate’s list of universities powering global innovation.
‘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.
Kamesha Spates was invited to speak at the Association for Addiction Professionals
She joined a panel of experts to discuss addressing suicide among the Black community.
SEA-PHAGES has turned thousands of college students into more confident researchers
A $3 million Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant furthers the program, which is providing hands-on research opportunities at more than 150 schools, including Pitt-Greensburg.
Meet Rory Cooper, a Hall of Fame innovator who’s been harnessing tech to build better wheelchairs for three decades
With inventions benefiting disabled veterans and other wheelchair users, the HERL director is pushing technology and entrepreneurship toward new possibilities.
