Celebrate excellence in doctoral mentoring on March 29

Four faculty members from across Pitt will be recognized for supporting students pursuing PhDs and doctoral research degrees.

Adam Shear won a Renaissance Society of America Digital Innovation Award

The Department of Religious Studies chair is the second Pitt faculty to earn an RSA honor in as many years.

Ruth Mostern won a book prize from the Association for Asian Studies

The professor in Pitt’s Department of History earned the 2023 Joseph Levenson Prize for her account of China’s Yellow River that spans 3,000 years.

A Ukrainian Pitt professor on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion

Economist Tymofiy Mylovanov has been documenting daily life in the war zone. Here’s what he has to say about the conflict and the future.

See the new Webb telescope image that left a Pitt astronomer ‘starstruck’

Using galaxies like a magnifying glass allowed astronomers, including Rachel Bezanson, to capture never-before-seen details in a patch of sky known as Pandora’s Cluster. Look back in time with her.

Don’t miss a historic performance of August Wilson’s ‘Seven Guitars’ by Pitt Stages this February

It’s the theater department’s first time featuring work from the celebrated American Century Cycle and the second show featuring an all-Black cast.

Attraction is key to keeping your relationship alive — but not how you think

How secure you feel in your relationship impacts how you view your partner’s attraction to other people, says Pitt psychologist Alexandra Black.

Pitt has been named a top producer of Fulbright U.S. students for 2022-23

Meet the nine Pitt scholars in this year’s cohort.

Undergraduate student Silas Switzer published a chapbook on Pittsburgh’s AIDS crisis

The history major examines the erasure of LGBTQ+ stories through poetry and archival images in ‘Nine Parts Water, One Part Bleach.’

Pitt physicists investigate light vortices in a new paper

Led by graduate student Atreyie Ghosh, the publication in ACS Photonics explores ways to structure optical fields as elements understanding of fundamental physics.