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Your Pitt login comes with a ton of digital tools (not just AI)
Use more than 150 pieces of software, access upward of 24,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning, find online journal and news articles, and more.
Students, follow these essential Pitt Instagram accounts
Keep up with your school, campus events and University resources from your feed.
6 things you should do in your first week, month and year at Pitt
These tips from the Pittwire team will help you have a successful first year — from excelling on campus to exploring all that Pittsburgh has to offer.
Pitt’s newest Community Engagement Center honors the history and supports the future of Pittsburgh’s Hill District
The University is bringing S.T.E.A.M education to the neighborhood’s most iconic and historic building.
As the school year begins, Pitt’s CECs welcome neighbors, students and new partnerships
Pitt is teaming up with local organizations in the Hill District, Homewood and Greater Hazelwood to teach residents new skills and deepen community connections.
These fresh classes, majors and certificates open new possibilities
There are myriad new programs on tap for Pitt students this fall, tackling subjects as varied as space engineering, musical theatre, and Chinese food and culture.
Heart assembloids give researchers a new way to study heart valve disorders
Experts from the Swanson School, Pitt Medicine and Carnegie Mellon combined their skills to engineer these stamp-sized, working models of one of our most complex organs.
Accessibility is baked into Pitt’s Recreation and Wellness Center
From hand cycles to aquatic wheelchairs, here’s what you need to know about booking and using adaptive equipment at the facility.
High schoolers are doing research at Pitt, too
The Gene Team brings Pittsburgh-area teens to the University to do four weeks of biology research each summer, learning undergraduate-level skills and preparing them for college.
6 free ways to have fun this August
It’s the perfect time to take in sights and sounds around Pittsburgh: salsa dancing, roots music rocking and a night market with local wares.
Pitt’s new Summer Concert Band is a community effort
Eighty-eight past and current members of the Pitt Band, faculty and staff, and local Pittsburgh musicians put on an America-inspired performance to close out July.
Introducing Pitt’s latest Fulbright student finalists
Ten students and alumni, including the first-ever winner from Pitt-Greensburg, will teach and conduct research around the world.
Need a laptop for fall? These University resources can help you spend less.
Explore free and low-cost ways to make sure you have the tech you need.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned NSF funding to build a new hybrid quantum-classical computer
The $5 million grant will enable the center, along with partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Rigetti Computing, to construct the TangleLab testbed.
A Pitt-led team plans to automate quantum computing research with a Department of Energy grant
Part of the Genesis Mission, a national effort to harness AI for scientific discovery, the project could enable new chemistry and materials science.
She found her place at Pitt. Now, this undergraduate has created a bridge for others.
Wiktoria Kopacz launched Bridge Ahead to help international students find the belonging she was seeking when she first arrived in the U.S.
Pitt hosted 1,500 international admissions and high school counselors for three days of connection and education
Counselors representing universities, high schools and community organizations from 90 countries gathered for the 2026 International Association for College Admission Counseling Conference.
Why is it so hard to find DNA in bird poop?
Led by Kevin Kohl, a team of dozens of bird microbiome experts published a paper asking a simple question with surprisingly broad repercussions for studying the lives of birds.
Pitt is part of an effort to recharge energy security and resilience with $320M for new technology, infrastructure and jobs
The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium, led by West Virginia University in collaboration with Pitt and Carnegie Mellon, received an NSF Regional Innovation Engines award.
Transparency and collaboration were at the forefront of the second annual PA One Health Consortium meeting
The multiday June event saw more than 30 expert speakers and 200 attendees committed to human, animal, plant and ecosystem health in the commonwealth.
