Our City/Our Campus
Pitt’s Water Collaboratory released a new paper
Researchers recommended coordinated regional efforts to test waterways for a broader range of pollutants and increased public awareness surrounding water quality issues.
SAFE Peer Educators were honored for work in preventing sexual misconduct
During fall 2019, SAFE peer educators facilitated 30 workshops and educated 60% of the University’s Greek community on bystander intervention.
2 Pitt alumni won literary achievement awards
Dietrich School grads Cameron Barnett and Adriana E. Ramírez received the annual Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award as an Emerging Artist and Established Artist, respectively.
Alex Toner was recognized as a Western Pennsylvania Rising Star
A graduate of the School of Computing and Information, he is assistant director of community engagement in the Office of Community and Governmental Relations.
PittServes’ Erika Ninos won a national student support award
The sustainability program coordinator received the Post-Landfill Action Network Supportive Staff Member Award.
The University of Pittsburgh Police Department won a corporate citizenship award
Pitt Police won for a program that collects unwanted food from students’ dormitories when they leave campus at the end of the semester and uses it to stock The Pitt Pantry.
A new partnership will bring free bike share rides to Pitt students
All Pitt first-year undergraduate students and resident assistants will receive unlimited 30-minute rides with Healthy Ride during the 2019-20 academic year.
William Kramer will lead the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Kramer has held leadership roles at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at NASA Ames Research Center.
Pitt unveiled the new Aaron Donald Football Performance Center, supported by a historic gift
The two-time reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year pledged a seven-figure donation to the program.
Pitt researchers push for a regional green infrastructure database
The Water Collaboratory paper proposes methods to comprehensively study stormwater management and green infrastructure projects underway throughout Allegheny County.

