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4 ways climate change and population growth combine to threaten public health
As the world’s population approaches 8 billion people, reducing global health risks will require combating climate change, says Pitt Public Health Dean Maureen Lichtveld.
This Pitt-Bradford alum is fighting metal pollution with microbes
A childhood fascination with nature and support from Pitt-Bradford mentors helped Jonathan Josephs-Spaulding build a career that’s taken him around the world.
Pitt’s Global Experiences Office has a new director
Hillary Koller, a two-time Pitt alum, brings 15 years of higher ed experience to the role. Her team is re-imagining what it means to study abroad.
These Pitt faculty use pop songs to teach English
A new podcast from linguists Ece Ulus and Heather McNaught dissects song lyrics to teach pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar to language learners.
Meshesha Make is bringing Amharic to Pitt students
His lectureship is one of a number of efforts to boost African studies at the University.
Pitt’s Center for Governance and Markets won a $2.4 million grant to study how societies overcome deep differences
Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili will co-lead the project, which will foster a global network of scholars to tackle polarization and social divisions.
4 Pitt students earned inaugural Voyager Scholarships
The Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service supports young leaders who can bridge divides and help solve the world’s biggest challenges. Meet our winners.
Celebrate Africa brings together guests from the continent with Pitt community on Sept. 16-17
The first-ever event — part conference and part celebration — will include lectures, roundtables, performances, crafts and a food market.
Pitt’s Humanities Engage program is re-imagining doctoral education
The program’s fellows are putting their research into practice from Pittsburgh to Accra. Learn more about their work at a Sept. 13-14 symposium.
Pitt earned an unprecedented 12 international studies awards from the U.S. Department of Education
All six of the University’s global and area centers won both National Resource Center grants and Foreign Language Area Studies fellowships totaling $11 million.
3 faculty members at Pitt-Greensburg received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Pilar Herr, William Campbell and Elizabeth Contreras are co-PIs on the Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations Planning Grant.
Pitt hosted the first Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Summer Institute
Scholars from across the country gathered to deepen their understanding of blackness in Latin America, the Caribbean and diasporic populations in the U.S.
9 Pitt students and alumni named Fulbright scholars
The study abroad fellowship is among the most prestigious and competitive awards for American scholars.
This alumna is helping Chile usher in a new era
Lucia Dammert (GSPIA ’97) is at the center of the country’s rebirth as chief of advisors to President Gabriel Boric.
Pitt researchers pulled 700,000 years of glacial history from an Andean lakebed
It’s the longest-ever glacier record for the tropics, and it could help scientists better understand modern-day climate change.
A gift from David C. Frederick will benefit students at the University of Pittsburgh and University College at Oxford University
The David C. Frederick Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh is named in honor of the Pitt alumnus (A&S ’83) and Rhodes Scholar.
School of Dental Medicine students, faculty and staff help fight global hunger
They packed 16,000 meal kits at a Rise Against Hunger event in the Petersen Events Center.
Nancy Glazener taught a short course on gender to displaced Ukrainian students
She’s one of 12 U.S. professors working with the Flying University Courses for Ukrainian Students program.
Two Pitt psychiatrists are raising money to stem Ukraine’s mental health crisis
A dual emergency of trauma and destroyed infrastructure is emerging in Ukraine. Alexandre Dombrovski and Carmen Andreescu are using their expertise to help.
