14 Pitt students were named Millennium Fellows

This term-long leadership development program takes place on selected campuses worldwide, celebrating student leadership that advances the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Nancy Merritt has been named vice chancellor for alumni relations

She brings 17 years of experience to the role, where she plans to develop programs to help alumni engage with students, pursue educational and professional opportunities and enrich their personal and career networks.

Pitt Cyber held a successful 3rd annual Cyber Camp

This year, 213 high school students learned about cybersecurity basics as well as advanced skills like networking and operations security.

Pitt faculty members’ Just Discipline Project shows progress in new report

In just two years, the report shows a 28% decrease in the number of students facing out-of-school suspensions at a Pittsburgh-area school.

Pitt alumna Kakenya Ntaiya was recognized as an emerging leader by the Obama Foundation

With her PhD from the School of Education, Ntaiya founded a nonprofit organization that provides education, mentoring and health and leadership training for girls of her native Kenyan community.

Pitt’s Center for Urban Education will host its annual Summer Educator Forum

Scholars, educators and researchers from across the globe will take part in intensive forums to re-imagine policies, practices and politics in education systems July 18-20.

Alumna Bobbi Watt Geer will lead the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania

The GSPIA graduate is the first woman to lead the nonprofit, where she has worked for more than a decade.

An alumnus was named the Thomas Merton Center’s 2019 New Person of the Year

Wasi Mohamed was honored for working toward peace and justice in Pittsburgh.

Pitt-Johnstown is Pennsylvania’s first campus audubon cooperative sanctuary

Supervisor of Campus Grounds Dave Finney, who led the effort to obtain sanctuary designation, was recognized by Audubon for his environmental stewardship.

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.