Three views on one strange year

What was it like to choose Pitt sight unseen? To live on campus? Teach a class? Three Pitt people reflect on their first year at the University.

Hometown head start

Madison Kornides, a student in Pitt’s guaranteed pharmacy admissions program, fought COVID-19 in her hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and beyond.

Pulled Away from the Lab

Imagine you’re a graduate student in the biomedical sciences. Your training requires a significant amount of time at the lab bench. Then a pandemic hits. How do you move forward?

She Won’t Stop Until She Hits the C-Suite

See how Panthers Forward, the Smart Women Securities group and faculty mentorship are helping Pitt Business grad Katie Gerber on her way.

Art and engineering collide

Mechanical engineering student Aarti Patel found inspiration in outer space during an artistic internship at NASA this spring.

Guides in the Graduation Year

Interviewing for residency is tough, both mentally and financially. A new Pitt program seeks to lessen the burden.

‘What a Finish!’

Canceled rotations, delayed exams, virtual residency interviews … little transpired as it normally would for the med school’s Class of 2021. Meet seven newly minted Pitt MDs who persevered.

More than a map

Students in Pitt’s Digital Atlas Design Internship program get faculty mentorship, training in an important technology and a new view on historical events.

Student innovation aids mobility

JacketJoy, a device that helps people with mobility issues put on a coat, recently placed second at the Atlantic Coast Conference InVenture Prize Competition. The project had its origins in an engineering classroom.

Pitt Sounds

How two first-year students got their start at WPTS radio.