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Register for Be a Good Neighbor Day

Staff, students and faculty can choose from over 20 volunteer projects across the region.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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Pitt will name the indoor track at Victory Heights after Panthers legend Herb Douglas

The honor for the trailblazing alumnus and oldest living Olympic medalist was announced at his 100th birthday celebration March 12.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Athletics
  • School of Education
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Pitt’s Waverly Duck wins Scholarly Achievement Award for book ‘Tacit Racism’

The book lays out the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social interactions of Americans.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Notable Pitt women you should know this Women’s History Month

Learn about the lives of just a few of the incredible Pitt women whose path-forging work changed our past — and is shaping our tomorrow.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Athletics
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Education
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Law
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  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Submit your proposal for Pitt’s 2022 Diversity Forum

Proposals are due Friday, May 13, 2022.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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An NBA player taught Pitt students how to be better speech therapists

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist spoke with a speech-language pathology class, part of a panel of speakers who shared how stuttering affected their lives.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Teaching & Learning
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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Researchers will mimic daycare settings to study flu transmission

Associate Professor Seema Lakdawala is leading a subproject on an $8.8 million grant.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine

Show your support at Pitt Day in Harrisburg

Attendees can meet with legislators and advocate for the future of the University.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
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Learn how to get a NASA job in a new presentation series

Webinars offered through a Pitt-Bradford collaboration with NASA will provide students from all campuses and majors with detailed resume tips and other resources.

  • Technology & Science
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Students
  • Pitt-Bradford
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Pitt's Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson present at SXSW 2022

Dan Ding, Lori Delale-O’Connor and Medina Jackson represented the University in Austin.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Don’t miss your chance to nominate someone for the 2022 Staff Mentor Award

The award recognizes staff members who place immense value on mentoring others. Nominations are due March 15.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Staff
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The Pittsburgh Foundation grants $1.3 million to Pitt health sciences researchers

Ten grants will fund studies of addiction prevention, sleep and teen substance use, cranial surgery and rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • School of Medicine
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University of Pittsburgh at Bradford named a Military Friendly School

Pitt-Bradford was designated a silver-level recipient in the small public school category by Viqtory Media.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Pitt-Bradford
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A new Pitt fellowship supports social justice in health

Five health sciences faculty members will get $10,000 and be paired with a community organization to address structural inequities and racism at Pitt and beyond.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
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Pitt earns Silver Bicycle Friendly University status

The League of American Bicyclists awards institutions that promote and enable safe, accessible bicycling on campus.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher asks state lawmakers for continued support of Pennsylvania students

Here are the three things you need to know about his testimony in Harrisburg this month.

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Marina Nikiforova and Yuri Nikiforov posing for photo together in suits

After living near Chernobyl, these Pitt researchers set their eyes on thyroid cancer

Yuri Nikiforov and Marina Nikiforova saw the effects of thyroid cancer on children in Belarus. Now, their test for the disease has eliminated thousands of unneeded surgeries.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty

A new Pitt Cyber report shows how policymakers and the public can address bias in algorithms

Algorithms can reflect existing biases in data and our society and can accelerate and exacerbate harm, especially along racial and gender lines.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Community Engaged Scholarship Forum celebrates collaborations improving the Pittsburgh area

The forum featured 13 sessions, virtual lounges and networking spaces, and announced the winners of the Partnerships of Distinction Awards.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
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For tadpoles, what’s in their gut may be key to enduring climate change

A new Pitt study is the first to show a connection between heat tolerance and the microbiome in animals like amphibians.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences