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Pitt-Greensburg’s cybersecurity program earned an elite national designation

The BS in Information Technology earned the campus recognition as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Education.

  • Technology & Science
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Cultivate student success
  • It's Possible at Pitt
Aerial view of the Cathedral of Learning

Pitt is teaming up with Anthropic and AWS to create an AI-enabled Campus of the Future

The University is the first to launch institution-wide Claude for Education integrated with Amazon Web Services, empowering a new era of learning and innovation across Pitt’s five campuses.

  • Technology & Science
  • It's Possible at Pitt
Soil judges watch participants gather samples

More than 100 students competed in soil judging at Pitt-Johnstown

Students from more than a dozen schools gained hands-on experience in evaluating and classifying soil properties.

  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Johnstown
  • Cultivate student success
American Chemical Society officers and staff

A Pitt student group earned American Chemical Society honors

The University’s ACS Student Affiliates group was recognized as an outstanding student community and picked up the society’s Green Chemistry Award.

  • Technology & Science
  • Sustainability
  • Cultivate student success
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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How Pitt’s CyberCamp is drawing high schoolers back to the University

As it approaches its 10th year, the lauded Pitt Cyber program is innovating its approach to help grow the national cybersecurity workforce.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
  • Cultivate student success
  • School of Computing and Information
TA Ed Strimlan looks in a microscope while two others watch

Pitt’s School of Education is leading a new life sciences workforce training program

Supported by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the job-creating project will develop new educational credentials and partnerships to transform Pittsburgh into a life sciences powerhouse.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • School of Education
Cathedral of Learning in Summer

A Responsible Data Science project will explore extreme human altruism

The Pitt initiative will collaborate with the Carnegie Hero Fund to make its 121 years of data on heroes available to researchers.

  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Computing and Information
Drew Lafferty dressed in pitching gear and sensors about to throw a baseball

These Pitt researchers are investigating the biomechanics of baseball

The data they gather may help protect the health of players and give the team a competitive edge.

  • Technology & Science
  • Cultivate student success
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Athletics
  • School of Education
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Graphic of living room with five points of interest, including a ceiling light with camera inside, security pole for lifting one's self out of a chair, a trip hazard at the edge of a rug, a low seating surface couch and an air quality monitor.

Step inside this innovative Pitt lab that looks a lot like your grandma’s house

The technology tested and developed in Pitt’s Healthy Home Lab is making it safer for older adults to age in place.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Alumni
  • Supporter
  • Aging and Population Health
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A new study by Jeremy Levy was published in Science Advances

He teamed up with former Pitt researcher Andrew Daley on the research, which developed a programmable platform that could provide new ways to explore electrons in chiral systems.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Rory Cooper speaking in front of an audience

Rory Cooper spoke at the UN about AI-powered assistive technology

The Human Engineering Research Laboratories talk focused on how artificial intelligence is changing the innovation landscape and helping people with disabilities.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
The Cathedral of Learning sits behind blooming flowers.

Tia-Lynn Ashman earned the Botanical Society of America’s highest honor

The Pitt Distinguished Professor was honored for her contributions to plant science, mentoring and global scientific collaboration.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Daniel Hawbaker headshot with American flag in the background

A Pitt engineering education took this US Army pilot from the aircraft to the classroom

After finishing his thesis, in which he developed a solution to minimize in-rush currents in motors, Capt. Daniel Hawbaker is heading to West Point to teach the next generation of military engineers.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Swanson School of Engineering
The exterior of the Information Sciences Building

Pitt joined a multi-institutional team researching the impact of AI on labor markets

The collaboration, led by Carnegie Mellon and MIT, is funded by a $1.6 million Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Computing and Information
Veiw of space with many stars and galaxies

Early pictures from the Rubin Observatory provide a glimpse of what’s to come

The flood of data will be shared with scientists around the world, helping them explore some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Students stand by a buggy-like car in the desert.

Pitt-Bradford’s Baja Racing Club traveled to a Society of Auto Engineers event

Two students and a faculty advisor headed to Arizona to understand the engineering challenges before them. The club plans to enter a car in next year’s competition.

  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Bradford
  • Cultivate student success
Meng Wang sits at a lab desk, with a pipette in hand

A Pitt study has identified a protein that can separate critical metals from electronic waste

Ferritin research by Meng Wang could help bolster the supply chain by recovering and recycling cobalt, nickel and lithium.

  • Technology & Science
  • Sustainability
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Swanson School of Engineering
The exterior of the Rubin Observatory.

See the first photos from the world’s largest astronomical camera on June 23

Pitt and Carnegie Mellon will host a viewing party for the images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Headshots of Kaleab Abebe, Cristina Murray-Krezan and Michelle Lancet

Pitt biostatisticians helped found the UNICORN Network

Kaleab Abebe, Cristina Murray-Krezan and Michelle Lancet have been key players in the founding of the consortium of academic data coordinating centers.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Medicine
Heidi Ward stands in front of a display

How Heidi Ward is helping write the next chapter of Greater Hazelwood

She’s leading Pitt’s engagement efforts close to home, serving her neighbors and promoting the life sciences on behalf of the University.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • It's Possible at Pitt