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Researchers, your voice matters. Take the Interdisciplinary Science Research Survey by May 31.

Responses will contribute to Times Higher Education’s second annual Interdisciplinary Science Rankings, which will be released in the fall.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
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16 Pitt undergraduates were named Gilman scholars

The U.S. Department of State program enables students with limited financial means to study or complete an internship abroad.

  • University News
  • Global
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Headshot of Mark Nordenberg

Mark Nordenberg received the first Jim Roddey Leadership Award

The award honors those who share the values of Roddey, a businessman, civic leader and Pitt trustee emeritus. Alumna and lawyer Laura Ellsworth was also recognized.

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  • School of Law
Graham Hatfull, the Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology in the University of Pittsburgh’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. (Aimee Obidzinski/University of Pittsburgh)

Graham Hatfull has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society

The renowned phages expert has been recognized by the UK academy for his work in the biological sciences.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt-Greensburg is getting more K-12 teachers into rural schools

Director Melissa Marks has built a program that gets student-teachers into classrooms sooner and keeps them there after graduation.

  • Community Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Pitt-Greensburg
  • Cultivate student success
Melissa Bilec on a bridge with Pittsburgh in the distance

Melissa Bilec will speak on a May 21 sustainability panel

The panel, held by Pittsburgh Earth Day and Duquesne Light Company, will feature women who are shaping environmental progress in the city.

  • Technology & Science
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Afshin Beheshti sitting at a table with his name displayed

Afshin Beheshti represented Pitt Space in Harrisburg

He joined government officials, representatives from NASA and industry leaders in the state capital to discuss Pennsylvania’s future as a national aerospace leader.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
Dean Nicola Foote holds accolade

Dean Nicola Foote was named an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa

She was honored by the honor society for her contributions to Pitt’s David C. Frederick Honors College.

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  • Teaching & Learning
  • Cultivate student success
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Pitt will host health and tech visionaries for a global forum in October

Experts and visionaries from around the world will spend three days exchanging ideas on competitiveness, resilience and innovation in Pittsburgh.

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  • Global
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
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Pitt Athletics announced its 2025 Hall of Fame inductees

The eight former student athletes will be honored on Sept. 27, as Pitt football takes on Louisville at Acrisure Stadium.

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  • Athletics
Jonathan Fuller sits on a couch and speaks to two people

This new Pitt service helps investigators do research that’s ethically sound

The interdisciplinary RECS team consults with researchers on ethical questions and connects them with philosophers and historians elsewhere in the University.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Hand cyclists line up in a row at the marathon starting line.

How Pitt keeps hand cyclists on the road to success in the Pittsburgh Marathon

The Hand Cycle Assistance Team, powered by volunteers from the University and community, provides support to racers with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  • School of Medicine
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5 incoming Pitt first-years from across PA received Stamps Scholarships

The 2025 cohort plans to pursue studies in business, engineering, psychology and more.

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  • Community Impact
  • Cultivate student success
  • Be welcoming and engaged
Summer foliage in front of the Cathedral of Learning

Calling all volunteers: Your help is needed at the JCC Maccabi Campus Games

In August, Pitt will host thousands of athletes and their families for the world’s largest in-person Jewish youth sporting event.

  • Community Impact
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Pittsburgh Campus
Headshot of Hossein Nakhaei

PhD student Hossein Nakhaei won a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

The history of art and architecture scholar is the second from Pitt to win the award for emerging researchers.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Magnolia blooms in front of the Cathedral of Learning

Alumna Jasmine Al Rasheed won a German Academic Exchange Service graduate fellowship

The award will fund her master’s degree in public health, a joint program between two universities in Berlin.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
Outside of Pitt’s School of Public Health

A new Pitt Public Health partnership will focus on connections between people and the environment

Pitt and UNIC Health in Cyprus will develop a joint online master’s degree program in One Health.

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  • Health and Wellness
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Public Health
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Don’t miss Pitt Stages’ 2025-26 season

The productions, centered on the theme of transformation, will include “Iphigenia and Other Daughters,” “The Brown Overcoat” and “Head Over Heels.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Register for Pitt’s second Transfer Pathways Summit on June 6

The event, which will feature a student panel and a colloquium with local community college leaders, aims to bolster support for transfer students at four-year institutions.

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  • Teaching & Learning
  • Be welcoming and engaged
  • Provost
  • School of Education
Peart

Alumnus Alex-Jaden Peart won a Fulbright Austria US Teaching Assistantship

The 2024 Frederick Honors College graduate and Lionel Peason Fellowship recipient will teach English in an Austrian school.

  • Community Impact
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • David C. Frederick Honors College