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Pitt will host the JCC Maccabi Games in summer 2025
More than 6,000 young athletes, coaches and family members are expected to attend the world’s largest in-person Jewish youth sporting event.
This popular Pitt class reveals the city's secrets
A Pitt English class called Secret Pittsburgh invites students to explore the city's most interesting, unusual or historic sites — and discover some things about themselves along the way.
A new Pitt program pairs biblical messages with the science of cognitive behavioral therapy
The CHURCH program aims to improve mental health outcomes in Black communities in Pittsburgh and beyond.
She’s built a welcoming place for Latino immigrants in Pittsburgh
GSPIA alum Rosamaria Cristello created the Latino Community Center to help the city's immigrant community thrive.
These Pitt students took to the world stage to share a database project designed to combat systemic racism
The Frederick Honors College scholars presented their research to international leaders at the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
Rural students took a mental health hit during the pandemic, a Pitt-Bradford professor found
Shailendra Gajanan is now helping several Pennsylvania counties make a plan to lower stress levels among youth.
These grazing goats helped the Pitt grounds crew clear a hillside
The herd provides a fossil fuel free solution to combating invasive vines and underbrush.
Former Pitt Olympians look back at their Games and what they’ll be watching this year
Here’s who hurdler Roger Kingdom, swimmer Susan Heon-Preston and Judoka Marisa Pedulla are keeping an eye on in 2024.
How Pitt is taking on the next phase of the opioid epidemic
Those tracking fatal overdoses in Pennsylvania have seen increasing rates of the adulterant xylazine, or tranq. Pitt people are on the forefront of establishing best practices for treatment.
Pitt’s CyberCamp is diversifying the tech professional pipeline in Pittsburgh and beyond
The program, now in its eighth year, was spotlighted in a recent White House report for helping to develop the national cybersecurity workforce.
A new book by Pitt professors showcases the life of a pioneering Black journalist
Alumnus Mal Goode was the first Black broadcast reporter on national television. Learn about his career.
The birth of Benny Blindspots
When an autoimmune disease came for his sight, Pitt alum Benny Schwartz picked up a paintbrush. The rest is (art) history.
If it’s glass, Ryan Tate can make it
Pitt’s scientific glassblower crafts and repairs the flasks, pipes and apparatuses that make University research labs function.
These former Pitt Med students designed a lab plastic recycling system
Now, Polycarbin founders James O’Brien and Noah Pyles are back to help University researchers reduce their environmental impact.
How a Pitt alum moved from chess board to board room
Ashley Lynn Priore uses chess to teach life and leadership lessons.
Bobby Grier, a Pitt trailblazer who broke a college football color barrier, died at 91
He made national headlines as a senior when he became the first Black player in the Sugar Bowl.
A rare stellar explosion will soon reveal a ‘new’ star. Here’s how to see it.
Visible with the naked eye, the nova will be the brightest one most people ever see, says Pitt astronomer Carlos Badenes.
A Pitt partnership established this Kazakhstan medical school, which just earned its first MD accreditation
Nazarbayev University School of Medicine is home to the only graduate-level MD program in Central Asia.
